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I might be more particular as to this Part: But it may ſuffice to mention in general; all Trades being ſtopt, Employment ceaſed; the Labour, and by that, the Bread of the Poor were cut off; and at firſt indeed, the Cries of the poor were moſt lamentable to hear; tho’ by the Diſtribution of Charity, their Miſery that way was greatly abated: Many indeed fled into the Countries; but thouſands of them having ſtay’d in London, till nothing but Deſperation ſent them away; Death overtook them on the Road, and they ſerv’d for no better than the Meſſengers of Death, indeed, others carrying the Infection along with them; ſpreading it very unhappily into the remoteſt Parts of the Kingdom.

Many of theſe were the miſerable Objects of Diſpair which I have mention’d before, and were remov’d by the Deſtruction which followed; theſe might be ſaid to periſh, not by the Infection it ſelf, but by the Conſequence of it; indeed, namely, by Hunger and Diſtreſs, and the Want of all Things; being without Lodging, without Money, without