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 were oblig’d to make new burying Grounds, beſides that I have mention’d in Bunhil-Fields, ſome of which were continued, and remain in Uſe to this Day; but others were left off, and which, I confeſs, I mention with ſome Reflection, being converted into other Uſes, or built upon afterwards, the dead Bodies were diſturb’d, abus’d, dug up again, ſome even before the Fleſh of them was periſhed from the Bones, and remov’d like Dung or Rubbiſh to other Places; ſome of thoſe which came within the Reach of my Obſervation, are as follow.

1. A piece of Ground beyond Goſwel Street, near Mount-Mill, being ſome of the Remains of the old Lines or Fortifications of the City, where Abundance were buried promiſcuouſly from the Pariſhes of Alderſgate, Clerkenwell, and even out of the City. This Ground, as I take it, was ſince made a Phyſick Garden, and after that has been built upon.

2. A piece of Ground juſt over the Black Ditch, as it was then call’d, at the end of Holloway Lane, in Shoreditch Pariſh; it has been ſince made a Yard for keeping Hogs, and for other ordinary Uſes, but is quite out of Uſe as a burying Ground.

3. The upper End of Hand-Alley in Biſhopſgate Street, which was then a green Field, and was taken in particularly for Biſhopſgate Pariſh, tho’ many of the Carts out of the City brought their dead thither alſo, particularly out of the Parith of St. All-hallows on the Wall; this Place I cannot mention without much Regret, it was, as I remember, about two or three Year after the Plague was ceas’d that Sir Robert Clayton came to be poſſeſt of the Ground; it was reported, how true I know not, that it fell to the King for want of Heirs, all thoſe who had any Right to it being carried off by the Peſtilence, and that Sir Robert Clayton obtain’d a Grant of it