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 and was carried one of the firſt in the Quakers dead Cart, to their new burying Ground.

I might have throng’d this Account with many more remarkable Things, which occur’d in the Time of the Infection, and particularly what paſs’d between the Lord Mayor and the Court, which was then at Oxford, and what Directions were from time to time receiv’d from the Government for their Conduct on this critical Occaſion. But really the Court concern’d themſelves ſo little, and that little they did was of ſo ſmall Import, that I do not ſee it of much Moment to mention any Part of it here, except that of appointing a Monthly Faſt in the City, and the ſending the Royal Charity to the Relief of the Poor, both which I have mention’d before.

Great was the Reproach thrown on thoſe Phyſicians who left their Patients during the Sickneſs, and now they came to Town again, no Body car’d to employ them; they were call’d Deſerters, and frequently Bills were ſet up upon their Doors, and written, Here is a Doctor to be let! So that ſeveral of thoſe Phyſicians were fain for a while to ſit ſtill and look about them, or at leaſt remove their Dwellings, and ſet up in new Places, and among new Acquaintance; the like was the Caſe with the Clergy, who the People were indeed very abuſive to, writing Verſes and ſcandalous Reflections upon them, ſetting upon the Church Door, here is a Pulpit to be let, or ſometimes to be ſold, which was worſe. It was not the leaſt of our Misfortunes, that with our Infection, when it ceaſed, there did not ceaſe the Spirit of Strife and Contention, Slander and Reproach, which was really the great Troubler of the Nation’s Peace before: It was ſaid to be the Remains of the old Animoſities, which had ſo lately involv’d us all in Blood and Diſorder. But as the late Act of Indemnity had laid aſleep the Quarrel it ſelf, ſo the