Such vigor was exerted in the common cause, that, in order to man the fleet, all merchant ships were prohibited to sail, and even the fisheries were suspended.[*] * Tromp's Life.

D'Estrades February 5, 1665.
The English likewise continued in the same disposition, though another more grievous calamity had joined itself to that of war.

The plague had broken out in London; and that with such violence as to cut off, in a year, near ninety thousand inhabitants.

The king was obliged to summon the Parliament at Oxford.
A good agreement still subsisted between the king and parliament.

They, on their part, unanimously voted him the supply demanded, twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds, to be levied in two years by monthly assessments.