The Great Plague of 1665, the Enthusiast Denouncing London. A Maniac preaching to the dead and dying in the street during the Great Plague of London

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Illustration by Arthur Burdett Frost (1851–1928) from Cassell's illustrated history of England published circa 1896.

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