...the time a few years later. On the Good Friday of 1684, at Whitehall, there was, says Evelyn, " such a concourse of people with their children to be touched...by pressing at the chirurgeon's door for tickets." On the Easter Sunday of the above year, Evelyn received the Sacrament early at Whitehall, with the...

...In his diary for March 28, 1684, John Evelyn records, that " there was so great a concourse of the people with their children to be touched for the evil, that six or seven were crushed to death by the pressing at the chirurgeon's door for tickets; " and Pettigrew in his " Medical Superstitions "...

...Evelyn's Diary, March 28, 1684, it is written: "There was so great a concourse of people, men, women and children to be touched for the evil, that six or seven were crushed to death at the door." Yet, according to statistics, more people died of scrofula during this year than In any...