, yet
the distress of the poor was more now a great deal than it was then,
because all the sluices of general charity were shut. People supposed
the main occasion to be over, and so stopped their hands; whereas
particular objects were still very moving, and the distress of those
that were poor was very great indeed.

Though the health of the city was now very much restored, yet foreign
trade did not begin to stir; neither would foreigners admit our ships
into their ports for a great while. As for the Dutch, the
misunderstandings between our court and them had broken out into a war
the year before, so that our trade that way was wholly interrupted; but
Spain and Portugal, Italy and Barbary,[315] as also Hamburg, and all the
ports in the Baltic,--these were all shy of us a great while, and would
not restore trade with us for many months.

The distemper sweeping away such multitudes, as I have observed, many if
not all of the outparishes were obliged to make new burying grounds,
besides that I have mentioned in Bunhill 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,[316] being converted
into other uses, or built upon afterwards, the dead bodies were
disturbed, abused, dug up again, some even before the flesh of them was
perished from the bones, and removed like dung or rubbish to other
places. Some of those which came within the reach of my observations are
as follows:--

First, A piece of ground beyond Goswell Street, near Mountmill, 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[317] made a physic garden,[318] and, after[319] that,
has been built upon.

Second, A piece of ground just over the Black Ditch, as it was then
called, 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.

Third, The upper end of Hand Alley, in Bishopsgate Street, which was then
a green field, and was taken in particularly for Bishopsgate Parish,
though many of the carts out of the city brought their dead thither also,
particularly out of the parish of St. Allhallows-on-the-Wall. This place
I cannot mention without much regret. It was, as I remember,