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  CHAPTER V. THE SWEATING SICKNESS, 1485-1551. The First invasion of the Sweat in 1485 237 The Second outbreak in 1508 243 The Third Sweat in 1517 245 The Fourth Sweat in 1528 250 Extension of the Fourth Sweat to the Continent in 1529 256 The Fifth Sweat in 1551 259 Antecedents of the English Sweat 265 Endemic Sweat of Normandy 271 Theory of the English Sweat 273 Extinction of the Sweat in England 279   CHAPTER VI. PLAGUE IN THE TUDOR PERIOD. Chronology of the outbreaks of Plague in London, provincial towns, and the country generally, from 1485 to 1556 282 The London Plague of 1563 304 Preventive practice in Plague-time under the Tudors 309 Sanitation in Plantagenet and Tudor times 322 The disposal of the dead 332 Chronology of Plague 1564-1592—Vital statistics of London 1578-1583 337 The London Plague of 1592-1593 351 Plague in the Provinces, 1592-1598 356 Plague in Scotland, 1495-1603—Skene on the Plague (1568) 360 Plague in Ireland in the Tudor period 371   CHAPTER VII. GAOL FEVERS, INFLUENZAS, AND OTHER FEVERS IN THE TUDOR PERIOD. The Black Assizes of Cambridge, 1522 375 Oxford Black Assizes, 1577 376 Exeter Black Assizes, 1586 383 Increase of Pauperism, Vagrancy, &c. in the Tudor period 387 Influenzas and other “strange fevers” and fluxes, 1540-1597 397   CHAPTER VIII. THE FRENCH POX. Meagreness of English records 414 Evidence of its invasion of Scotland and England, in 1497 and subsequent years