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 particularly remarkable, who kept their Houſes like little Garriſons beſieged, ſuffering none to go in or out, or come near them; particularly one in a Court in Throckmorton Street, whoſe Houſe looked into Drapers Garden.

But I come back to the Caſe of Families infected, and ſhut up by the Magiſtrates, the Miſery of thoſe Families is not to be expreſs'd, and it was generally in ſuch Houſes that we heard the moſt diſmal Shrieks and Out-cries of the poor People terrified, and even frighted to Death, by the Sight of the Condition of their deareſt Relations,and by the Terror of being impriſoned as they were.

I remember, and while I am writing this Story, I think I hear the very Sound of it, a certain Lady had an only Daughter, a young Maiden about 19 Years old, and who was poſſeſſed of a very Conſiderable Fortune, they were only Lodgers in the Houſe where they were: The young Woman, her Mother, and the Maid, had been abroad on ſome Occaſion, I do not remember what, for the Houſe was not ſhut up; but about two Hours after they came home, the young Lady complain'd ſhe was not well; in a quarter of an Hour more, ſhe vomited, and had a violent Pain in her Head. Pray God, ſays her Mother in a terrible Fright, my Child has not the Diſtemper! The Pain in her Head increaſing, her Mother ordered the Bed to be warm'd, and reſolved to put her to Bed, and prepared to give her things to ſweat, which was the ordinary Remedy to be taken, which was the firſt Apprehenſions of the Diſtemper began.

While the Bed was airing, the Mother undreſſed the young Woman, and juſt as ſhe was laid, down in the Bed, ſhe looking upon her Body with a Candle, immediately diſcovered the fatal Tokens on the Inſide of her Thighs. Her Mother not