ways but a very little at a time;
then it stopped till May, and even the last week in May there was but
seventeen, and all at that end of the town; and all this while, even
so long as till there died above 3000 a week, yet had the people in
Redriff, and in Wapping and Ratcliff, on both sides of the river,
and almost all Southwark side, a mighty fancy that they should not be
visited, or at least that it would not be so violent among them. Some
people fancied the smell of the pitch and tar, and such other things
as oil and rosin and brimstone, which is so much used by all trades
relating to shipping, would preserve them. Others argued it, because it
was in its extreamest violence in Westminster and the parish of St
Giles and St Andrew, &c., and began to abate again before it came among
them--which was true indeed, in part. For example--

From the 8th to the 15th August--
- St Giles-in-the-Fields 242
- Cripplegate 886
- Stepney 197
- St Margaret, Bermondsey 24
- Rotherhith 3
- Total this week 4030

From the 15th to the 22nd August--
- St Giles-in-the-Fields 175
- Cripplegate 847
- Stepney 273
- St Margaret, Bermondsey 36
- Rotherhith 2
- Total this week 5319

N.B.--That it was observed the numbers mentioned in Stepney parish at
that time were generally all on that side where Stepney parish joined to
Shoreditch, which we now call Spittlefields, where the parish of Stepney
comes up to the very wall of Shoreditch Churchyard, and the plague at
this time was abated at St Giles-in-the-Fields, and raged most violently
in Cripplegate, Bishopsgate, and Shoreditch parishes; but there was not
ten people a week that died of it in all that part of Stepney parish
which takes in Limehouse, Ratdiff Highway, and which are now the
parishes of Shadwell and Wapping, even to St Katherine's by the Tower,
till after the whole month of August was expired. But they paid for it
afterwards, as I shall observe by-and-by.

This, I say, made the people of Redriff and Wapping, Ratcliff and
Limehouse, so secure, and flatter themselves so much with the plague's
going off without reaching t