942
- " 25th July " 1st August 1004
- " 1st August " 8th 1213
- " 8th " 15th 1439
- " 15th " 22nd 1331
- " 22nd " 29th 1394
- " 29th " 5th September 1264
- " 5th September to the 12th 1056
- " 12th " 19th 1132
- " 19th " 26th 927

Now it was not doubted but the greatest part of these, or a great part
of them, were dead of the plague, but the officers were prevailed with
to return them as above, and the numbers of some particular articles of
distempers discovered is as follows:--

- Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. Sept. Sept.
- 1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19
- to 8 to 15 to 22 to 29 to Sept.5 to 12 to 19 to 26

Fever 314 353 348 383 364 332 309 268
Spotted 174 190 166 165 157 97 101 65
Fever
Surfeit 85 87 74 99 68 45 49 36
Teeth 90 113 111 133 138 128 121 112
- --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
- 663 743 699 780 727 602 580 481

There were several other articles which bore a proportion to these, and
which, it is easy to perceive, were increased on the same account, as
aged, consumptions, vomitings, imposthumes, gripes, and the like, many
of which were not doubted to be infected people; but as it was of the
utmost consequence to families not to be known to be infected, if it was
possible to avoid it, so they took all the measures they could to have
it not believed, and if any died in their houses, to get them returned
to the examiners, and by the searchers, as having died of other
distempers.

This, I say, will account for the long interval which, as I have said,
was between the dying of the first persons that were returned in the
bill to be dead of the plague and the time when the distemper spread
openly and could not be concealed.

Besides, the weekly bills themselves at that time evidently discove