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Wellcome Collection. (CC BY 4.0)https://billsofmortality.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/bofm-parishes-2-may-65.jpgBofM parishes 2 may 65Bill of Mortality for Week Commencing 2 May 1665 - London’s Dreadful Visitation: or, a Collection of all the Bills of Mortality for this Present Year [London: Printed by E[leanor] Cotes (for the Company of Parish Clerks), 1665]. Wellcome Collection. (CC BY 4.0).https://billsofmortality.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/searchers.jpgsearchersTwo panels from a contemporary broadsheet (1665/6) showing the work of the Searchers who collected the cause of death data for the Bills of Mortality: in the lefthand panel they are present in a house afflicted by plague, while in the righthand panel the women walk the streets of London carrying their ‘wands of office’. [Nine images of the plague in London, 17th century]. 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