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24 four who carried the corpſe of young woman a mile of way; and when we came to the grave, an honeſt poor man came and ſaid, You muſt go and help me to bury my ſon, he has lien dead this two days; otherwiſe I will be obliged to bury him in my own yard. We went, and there were eight of us had two miles to carry the corpſe of that young man, many neighbours looking on us, but none to help us. I was credibly informed, that in the north, two ſiſters on a Monday's morning were found carrying the corpſe of their brother on a barrow with bearing ropes, reſting themſelves many times and none offering to help them.

I have ſeen ſome walking about ſun-ſetting, and to-morrow about ſix o'clock in the ſummer morning found dead in their houſes without making any ſtir at their death, their head lying upon their hand, with as great ſmell as if they had been four days dead, the mice or rats, having eaten a great part off their hands and arms.

Many had cleanneſs of teeth in our cities, and want of bread in our borders: and to come the ſtaff of bread was ſo utterly broken (which makes complete famine) that they did eat, and were neither ſatisfied nor nouriſhed: And ſome of them ſaid to me, that they could mind nothing but meat, and were nothing bettered by it; and that they were utterly unconcerned about their ſouls, whether they went to heaven or hell.

The nearer and forer theſe plagues ſeized, the ſadder were there effects, that took away all natural and relative affections, ſo that huſbands had no ſympathy with their wives, nor wives with their huſbands, parents with their children, nor children with their parents. Theſe and other things have made me to doubt if ever any of Adam's race were in a more deplorable condition, their bodies and ſpirits more low, than many were in theſe years.

The crowsing plague of all theſe great and manifold