:--

Aug. 8 to Aug. 15, St. Giles-in-the-Fields 242
" " Cripplegate 886
" " Stepney 197
" " St. Mag.[178] Bermondsey 24
" " Rotherhithe 3
Total this week 4,030

Aug. 15 to Aug. 22, St. Giles-in-the-Fields 175
" " Cripplegate 847
" " Stepney 273
" " St. Mag. Bermondsey 36
" " Rotherhithe 2
Total this week 5,319

N.B.[179]--That it was observed that the numbers mentioned in Stepney
Parish at that time were generally all on that side where Stepney
Parish joined to Shoreditch, which we now call Spittlefields, where
the parish of Stepney comes up to the very wall of Shoreditch
churchyard. And the plague at this time was abated at St.
Giles-in-the-Fields, and raged most violently in Cripplegate,
Bishopsgate, and Shoreditch Parishes, but there were not ten people a
week that died of it in all that part of Stepney Parish which takes in
Limehouse, Ratcliff Highway, and which are now the parishes of
Shadwell and Wapping, even to St. Katherine's-by-the-Tower, till after
the whole month of August was expired; but they paid for it
afterwards, as I shall observe by and by.

This, I say, made the people of Redriff and Wapping, Ratcliff and
Limehouse, so secure, and flatter themselves so much with the plague's
going off without reaching them, that they took no care either to fly
into the country or shut themselves up: nay, so far were they from
stirring, that they rather received their friends and relations from the
city into their houses; and several from other places really took
sanctuary in that part of the town as a place of safety, and as a place
which they thought God would pass over, and not visit as the rest was
visited.

And this was the reason, that, when it came upon them, they were more
surprised, more unprovided, and more at a loss what to do, than they
were in other places; for when it came among them really and with
violence, as it did indeed in September and October, there was then no
stirring out into the country. Nobody would suffer a stranger to come
near them, no, nor near the towns where they dwelt; and, as I have been
told, several tha