The chambers stand on the site of St. Mary's Close, an old tenement abandoned in the mid-17th century after the entire population had been wiped out by bubonic plague.
The bubonic plague only hit people living in tenements.
mnli hypothesis: The bubonic plague only hit people living in tenements. premise: The chambers stand on the site of St. Mary's Close, an old tenement abandoned in the mid-17th century after the entire population had been wiped out by bubonic plague.