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 It was a very ill Time to be ſick in, for if any one complain'd, it was immediately ſaid he had the Plague; and tho' I had indeed no Symptoms of that Diſtemper, yet being very ill, both in my Head and in my Stomach, I was not without Apprehenſion, that I really was infected; but in about three Days I grew better, the third Night I reſted well, ſweated a little, and was much refreſh'd; the Apprehenſions of its being the Infection went alſo quite away with my Illneſs, and I went about my Buſineſs as uſual.

Theſe Things however put off all my Thoughts of going into the Country; and my Brother alſo being gone, I had no more Debate either with him, or with my ſelf, on that Subject.

It was now mid-July, and the Plague which had chiefly rag'd at the other End of the Town, and as I ſaid before, in the Pariſhes of St. Giles's, St. Andrews Holbourn, and towards Weſtminiſter, began now to come Eaſtward towards the Part where I liv'd. It was to be obſerv'd indeed, that it did not come ſtrait on towards us; for the City, that is to ſay within the Walls, was indifferent healthy ſtill; nor was it got then very much over the Water into Southwark; for tho' there died that Week 1268 of all Diſtempers, whereof it might be ſuppos'd above 900 died of the Plague; yet there was but 28 in the whole City, within the Walls; and but 19 in Southwark, Lambeth Pariſh included; whereas in the Pariſhes of St. Giles, and St. Martins in the Fields alone, there died 421.

But we perceiv'd the Infection keept chiefly in the out-Pariſhes, which being very populous, and fuller alſo of Poor, the Diſtemper found more to prey upon than in the City, as I ſhall obſerve afterward; we perceiv'd I ſay, the Diſtemper to draw our Way; (viz.) by the Pariſhes of Clerken Well,