Abstract
Abstract Unfortunately, few parish registers are as informative as this about the origins of an epidemic and its local impact. Few parish clerks, perhaps, had so memorable a story to tell. If we wish to investigate the local incidence of plague in any detail, therefore, we need to look beyond such exceptional records, evocative as they are. We must take into account those registers which simply listed an increasing number of burials in plague-time, and also the negative evidence of registers which recorded no increase in mortality at all. In fact, in order to see which kinds of community were most affected by plague in the course of our period, we need to obtain as complete a coverage of parishes over as wide an area as possible. One way of attempting this is through an examination of two counties in different parts of England, whose experience of the disease might be expected to be dissimilar.
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