[These words occur in a conversation between Eurybiades and
Themistocles, and will be found in Plutarch's _Life of Themistocles_,
cap. xi.]
_Fever at Croydon._--In Camden's _Britannia_ before me, with date on
(written) title-page 1610, {238} Londini, Georgii Bishop, Joannes Norton,
p. 320., under county Svthrey, and against the marginal "Croidon," it is
thus stated:
"As for that sudden swelling water or bourne, which the common people
reports to breake foorth heere out of the ground, presaging, I wote not
how, either dearth of corne or the pestilence, may seeme not worthy
once the naming, and yet the euentes sometime ensuing hath procured it
credit."
I have heard it stated, without reference to the above, that the aforesaid
stream had risen during the last few months, and, if such be the case, the
fever that has been so prevalent in the town seems to bear out the above
statement.
Can any of your correspondents inform me whether the above fact is
mentioned in any other account of the place, and if so, where?