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 But the weather was unseasonably hot and the plague bacillus throve.
People fell sick across St Giles; then cases broke out within the City walls
and spread across the districts of Whitechapel, Westminster and Southwark.
An exodus began. The rich left the city and most of the physicians went with
them. Many clergy left too. The king and his court decamped to Salisbury.
The poor, on the other hand, were forbidden to leave London. Seen as
carriers of the disease, they were turned back at the boundaries
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