Note 159 — Chapter VI · PROGRESS OF THE DISEASE IN LONDON AND THE SOUTH.
Reading edition
Dr. Creighton, History of Epidemics in Britain, p. 128, quotes Rickman, Abstract of the Population Returns of 1831, as estimating the total deaths in London at 100,000, and considers even the 50,000 as altogether impossible. In fact, he is inclined to think that in 1349 the population of London "was probably not far from" 44,770 only.