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the PLAGUE.

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From the 12^th of September to the 19^th.

St. Giles’s Cripplegate	456
St. Giles in the Fields	140
Clarkenwell	77
St. Sepulchers	214
St. Leonard Shoreditch	183
Stepney Pariſh	716
Aldgate	623
White-Chapel	732
In the 97 Pariſhes within the Walls	1493
In the 8 Pariſhes on Southwark Side	1636
	6060

Here is a ſtrange change of Things indeed, and a ſad Change it was, and had it held for two Months more than it did, very few People would have been left alive: But then ſuch, I ſay, was the merciful Diſpoſition of God, that when it was thus the Weſt and North part which had been ſo dreadfully viſited at firſt, grew as you ſee, much better; and as the People diſappear’d here, they began to look abroad again there; and the next Week or two altered it ſtill more, that is, more to the Encouragement of the other Part of the Town. For Example:

From the 19^th of September to the 26^th;

St. Giles’s Cripplegate	277
St. Giles in the Fields	119
Clarkenwell	76
St. Sepulchers	193
St. Leonard Shoreditch	146
Stepney Pariſh	616
Aldgate	496
White-Chapel	346
In the 97 Pariſhes within the Walls	268
In the 8 Pariſhes on Southwark Side	1390
	4900