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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.
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 ⟨p. 10⟩running into the streets; strange things have others spoken and done when the Disease was upon them: but it was very sad to hear of one, who being sick alone, and it is like frantic, burnt himself in his bed. Now the Plague had broken in much amongst my acquaintance; and of about sixteen or more those faces I used to see every day in our house, within a little while I could find but four or six of them alive; scarcely a day past over my head for I think a month or more together, but I should hear of the death of some one or more that I knew. The first day that they were smitten, the next some hopes of recovery, and the third day that they were dead.
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 ⟨p. 10⟩running into the streets; strange things have others spoken and done when the Disease was upon them: but it was very sad to hear of one, who being sick alone, and it is like frantick, burnt himself in his bed. Now the Plague had broken in much amongst my acquaintance; and of about sixteen or more those faces I used to see every day in our house, within a little while I could finde but four or six of them alive; scarcely a day past over my head for I think a moneth or more together, but I should hear of the death of some one or more that I knew. The first day that they were smitten, the next some hopes of recovery, and the third day that they were dead.
The September, when we hoped for a decrease, because of the season, because of the number gone, and the number already dead; yet it was not come to its height, but from 6102, which died by the Plague the last week of August, the number is augmented to 6988 the first week in September; and when we conceived some little hopes in the next weeks abatement to 6544, our hopes were quite dashed again, when the next week it did rise to 7165, which was the highest Bill; and a dreadful Bill it was! and of the 130 Parishes in and about the City, there were but four Parishes which were not infected; and in those, few people remaining that were not gone into the Country.