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Beſides this, it was obſerv'd with great Uneaſineſs by the People, that the weekly Bills in general encreas'd very much during theſe Weeks, altho' it was at a Time of the Year, when uſually the Bills are very moderate.

The uſual Number of Burials within the Bills of Mortality for a Week, was from about 240 or thereabouts, to 300. The laſt was eſteem'd a pretty high Bill; but after this we found the Bills ſucceſſively encreaſing, as follows,

This laſt Bill was really frightful, being a higher Number than had been known to have been buried in one Week, ſince the preceeding Viſitation of 1656.

However, all this went off again, and the Weather proving cold, and the Froſt which began in December, ſtill continuing very ſevere, even till near the End of February, attended with ſharp tho' moderate Winds, the Bills decreas'd again, and the City grew healthy, and every body began to look upon the Danger as good as over; only that ſtill the Burials in St. Giless continu'd high: From the Beginning of April eſpecially they ſtood at 25 each Week, till the Week from the 18th to the 25th, when there was buried in St. Giless