Corpse Bearer in wide-brim hat, robes and doublet, holding a staff. In the plague year, 1665, the corpse bearer directed the Car-men to collect victims calling, Bring out your Dead. Copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his own The Cries of London, or Vagabondiana 2, edited by Francis Douce, John Bowyer Nichols, London, 1839.

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