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 uch a Calamity, as to rob and teal; yet certain it is, that all Sorts of Villanies, and even Levities and Debaucheries were then practisd in the Town, as openly as ever, I will not ay quite as frequently, becaue the Numbers of People were many ways leen'd.

But the City it elf began now to be viited too, I mean within the Walls; but the Number of People there were indeed extreamly leen'd by o great a Multitude having been gone into the Country; and even all this Month of July they continu'd to flee, tho' not in uch Multitudes as formerly. In Augut indeed, they fled in uch a manner, that I began to think, there would be really none but Magitrates and Servants left in the City.

As they fled how out of the City, o I hould oberve, that the Court removed early, (viz.) in the Month of June, and went to Oxford, where it pleas'd God to preerve them; and the Ditemper did not, as I heard of, o much as touch them; for which I cannot ay, that I ever aw they hew'd any great Token of Thankfulnes, and hardly any thing of Reformation, tho' they did not want being told that their crying Vices might, without Breach of Charity, be aid to have gone far, in bringing that terrible Judgment upon the whole Nation.

The Face of London was now indeed ſtrangely alter'd, I mean the whole Mas of Buildings, City, Liberties, Suburbs, Wetminter, Southwark and altogether; for as to the particular Part called the City, or within the Walls, that was not yet much infected; but in the whole, the Face of Things, I ay, was much alter'd; Sorrow and Sadnes at upon every Face; and tho' ome Part were not yet overwhelm'd, yet all look'd deeply concern'd; and as we aw it apparently coming on