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 them; and they would in Time have been even driven to the Neceſſity of plundering either the City it ſelf, or the Country adjacent, to have ſubſiſted them ſelves, which would firſt or laſt, have put the whole Nation, a well as the City, into the utmoſt Terror and Confuſion.

It was obſervable then, that this Calamity of the People made them very humble; for now, for about nine Weeks together, there died near a thouſand a-Day, one Day with another, even by the Account of the weekly Bills, which yet I have Reaſon to be aſſur’d never gave a full Account, by many thouſands; the Confuſion being ſuch, and the Carts working in the Dark, when they carried the Dead, that in ſome Places no Account at all was kept, but they work’d on; the Clerks and Sextons not attending for Weeks together, and not knowing what Number they carried. This Account is verified by the following Bills of Mortality.

So that the Groſs of the People were carried off in theſe two Months; for as the whole Number which was brought in, to die of the Plague, was but 68590 here, is fifty thouſand of them, within a Trifle, in two Months; I ſay 50000, becauſe, as there wants 295 in the Number above, ſo there wants two Days of two Months, in the Account of Time.

Now when, I ſay, that the Pariſh Officers did not give in a full Account, or were not to be depended upon for their Account, let any one but confider how