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 had been ſet down of the Spotted-Feaver or other Diſtempers, beſides others concealed.

But thoſe were trifling Things to what followed immediately after; for now the Weather ſet in hot, and from the firſt Week in June, the Infection ſpread in a dreadful Manner, and the Bills riſe high, the Articles of the Feaver, Spotted-Feaver, and Teeth, began to ſwell: For all that could conceal their Diſtempers, did it to prevent their Neighbours ſhunning and refuſing to converſe with them; and alſo to prevent Authority ſhutting up their Houſes, which though it was not yet practiſed, yet was threatned, and People were extremely terrify'd at the Thoughts of it.

The Second Week in June, the Pariſh of St. Giles's, where ſtill the Weight of the Infection lay, buried 120, whereof though the Bills ſaid but 68 of the Plague; every Body ſaid there had been 100 at leaſt, calculating it from the uſual Number of Funerals in that Pariſh as above.

Till this Week the City continued free, there having never any died except that one Frenchman, who I mention'd before, within the whole 97 Pariſhes. Now there died four within the City, one in Wood-ſtreet, one in Fenchurch ſtreet, and two in Crooked-lane: Southwark was entirely free, having not one yet died on that Side of the Water.

I liv'd without Aldgate about mid-way between Aldgate Church and White-Chappel-Bars, on the left Hand or North-ſide of the Street; and as the Diſtemper had not reach'd to that Side of the City, our Neighbourhood continued very eaſy: But at the other End of the Town, their Conſternation was very great; and the richer ſort of People, eſpecially the Nobility and Gentry, from the Weſt-part of the City throng'd out of Town, with their Families and Servants in an unuſual Manner; and this was more particularly ſeen in White-Chapel;