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 falſe; at leaſt, if it had been any where ſo, it muſt ha’ been in Houſes where the Living were gone from the Dead, having found means, as I have obſerved, to Eſcape, and where no Notice was given to the Officers: All which amounts to nothing at all in the Caſe in Hand; for this I am poſitive in, having myſelf been employ’d a little in the Direction of that part in the Pariſh in which I liv’d, and where as great a Deſolation was made in proportion to the Number of Inhabitants as was any where. I ſay, I am ſure that there were no dead Bodies remain’d unburied; that is to ſay, none that the proper Officers knew of; none for want of People to carry them off, and Buriers to put them into the Ground and cover them; and this is ſufficient to the Argument; for what might lie in Houſes and Holes as in Moſes and Aaron Ally is nothing; for it is moſt certain, they were buried as ſoon as they were found. As to the firſt Article, namely, of Proviſions, the ſcarcity or dearneſs, tho’ have mention’d it before, and ſhall ſpeak of it again; yet I muſt obſerve here, (1.) The Price of Bread in particular was not much raiſed; for in the beginning of the Year (viz.) In the firſt Week in March, the Penny Wheaten Loaf was ten Ounces and a half; and in the height of the Contagion, it was to be had at nine Ounces and an half, and never dearer, no not all that Seaſon: And about the beginning of November it was ſold ten Ounces and a half again; the like of which, I believe, was never heard of in any City, under ſo dreadful a Viſitation before.