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Gods terrible voice in the city of London wherein you have the narration of…
Gods terrible voice in the city of London wherein you have the narration of the two late dreadful judgements of plague and fire, inflicted by the Lord upon that city; the former in the year 1665. the latter in the year 1666. / By T.V. ; To which is added, the general bill of mortality, showing the number of persons which died in every parish of all diseases, and of the plague, in the year abovesaid. ; [Two lines from Micah]Gods terrible voice in the city of London wherein you have the narration of the two late dreadful judgements of plague and fire, inflicted by the Lord upon that city; the former in the year 1665. the latter in the year 1666. / By T.V. ; To which is added, the generall bill of mortality, shewing the number of persons which died in every parish of all diseases, and of the plague, in the year abovesaid. ; [Two lines from Micah]
printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now we could hardly go forth, but we should meet with many Coffins, and see many with sores, and limping in the streets: amongst other fa•• spectacles, me-thought two were very affecting; one, of a woman coming alone, and weeping by the door where I lived (which was in the midst of the Infection) with a little Coffin under her arm, carrying it to the new Church-yard: I did judge that it was the Mother of the Child, and that all the Family besides was dead, and she was forced to Coffin up, and bury with her own hands this her last dead Child. Another, was of a man at the corner of the Artillery-wall, that as I judge through the dizziness of his Head with the Disease, which seized upon him there, had dashed his face against the wall; and when I came by, he lay hanging with his bloody face over the rails, and bleeding upon the ground; and as I came back, he was removed under a Tree in More-fields, and lay upon his back, I went and spake to him, he could give me no answer, but rattled in the throat, and as I was informed, within half an hour died in the place.
Now we could hardly go forth, but we should meet with many Coffins, and see many with sores, and limping in the streets: amongst other fa•• spectacles, me-thought two were very affecting; one, of a woman coming alone, and weeping by the door where I lived (which was in the midst of the Infection) with a little Coffin under her arm, carrying it to the new Church-yard: I did judge that it was the Mother of the Childe, and that all the Family besides was dead, and she was forced to Coffin up, and bury with her own hands this her last dead Childe. Another, was of a man at the corner of the Artillery-wall, that as I judge through the diziness of his Head with the Disease, which seized upon him there, had dasht his face against the wall; and when I came by, he lay hanging with his bloody face over the rails, and bleeding upon the ground; and as I came back, he was removed under a Tree in More-fields, and lay upon his back, I went and spake to him, he could give me no answer, but ratled in the throat, and as I was informed, within half an hour died in the place.
It would be endless to speak what we have seen and heard of some in their frenzy, rising out of their beds, and leaping about their rooms; others crying and roaring at their windows; some coming forth almost naked, and