ishes at that time, but
were belonging to Stepney parish.

I could name many more, but these coming within my particular knowledge,
the circumstance, I thought, made it of use to record them. From
the whole, it may be observed that they were obliged in this time of
distress to take in new burying-grounds in most of the out-parishes for
laying the prodigious numbers of people which died in so short a space
of time; but why care was not taken to keep those places separate from
ordinary uses, that so the bodies might rest undisturbed, that I cannot
answer for, and must confess I think it was wrong. Who were to blame I
know not.

I should have mentioned that the Quakers had at that time also a
burying-ground set apart to their use, and which they still make use of;
and they had also a particular dead-cart to fetch their dead from their
houses; and the famous Solomon Eagle, who, as I mentioned before, had
predicted the plague as a judgement, and ran naked through the streets,
telling the people that it was come upon them to punish them for their
sins, had his own wife died the very next day of the plague, and was
carried, one of the first in the Quakers' dead-cart, to their new
burying-ground.

I might have thronged this account with many more remarkable things
which occurred in the time of the infection, and particularly what
passed between the Lord Mayor and the Court, which was then at Oxford,
and what directions were from time to time received from the Government
for their conduct on this critical occasion. But really the Court
concerned themselves so little, and that little they did was of so small
import, that I do not see it of much moment to mention any part of
it here: except that of appointing a monthly fast in the city and the
sending the royal charity to the relief of the poor, both which I have
mentioned before.

Great was the reproach thrown on those physicians who left their
patients during the sickness, and now they came to town again nobody
cared to employ them. They were called deserters, and frequently bills
were set up upon their doors and written, 'Here is a doctor to be let',
so that several of those physicians were fain for a while to sit still
and look about them, or at least remove their dwellings, and set up in
new places and among new acquaintance. The like was the case with the
clergy, whom the people were indeed very abusive to, writing verses and
scandalous reflections upon them, setting up