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Here we have the London Bills of Mortality,
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in 1664 to 1665;
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years that you know and are coming to love.
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And this is the illustration that introduced the bills.
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It helps us to make the direct connection between plague
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and the iconography I've just been talking about.
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You'll notice that the symbols
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are the classic vanitas symbols of the seventeenth century.
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You see the skeleton,
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the crossbones, the shovel
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and all the rest of it,
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all around the edges.