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Following the death of King James, Anna Ley composed a poem on the plague outbreak of 1625. The verse, collected with her and her husband’s writing in the ‘William Andrews Clark Memorial Library MS L6815 M3 C734’, weaves a complex tale of causality between the chaos brought on by pestilence and the death of a king. Describing the grim state of the plague epidemic and the national hardship of a lost monarch, Ley writes:
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Miller, K. (2016). Katherine Austen’s Reckoning with Plague in Book M. In Early Modern Literature in History (pp. 131–159). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51057-0_5
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