erefore I descend to the several arrangements or classes of people
who fell into immediate distress upon this occasion. For example:

1. All master-workmen in manufactures, especially such as belonged to
ornament and the less necessary parts of the people's dress, clothes,
and furniture for houses, such as riband-weavers and other weavers, gold
and silver lace makers, and gold and silver wire drawers, sempstresses,
milliners, shoemakers, hatmakers, and glovemakers; also upholsterers,
joiners, cabinet-makers, looking-glass makers, and innumerable trades
which depend upon such as these;--I say, the master-workmen in such
stopped their work, dismissed their journeymen and workmen, and all
their dependents.

2. As merchandising was at a full stop, for very few ships ventured to
come up the river and none at all went out, so all the extraordinary
officers of the customs, likewise the watermen, carmen, porters, and
all the poor whose labour depended upon the merchants, were at once
dismissed and put out of business.

3. All the tradesmen usually employed in building or repairing of houses
were at a full stop, for the people were far from wanting to build
houses when so many thousand houses were at once stripped of their
inhabitants; so that this one article turned all the ordinary workmen
of that kind out of business, such as bricklayers, masons, carpenters,
joiners, plasterers, painters, glaziers, smiths, plumbers, and all the
labourers depending on such.

4. As navigation was at a stop, our ships neither coming in or going out
as before, so the seamen were all out of employment, and many of them in
the last and lowest degree of distress; and with the seamen were all
the several tradesmen and workmen belonging to and depending upon the
building and fitting out of ships, such as ship-carpenters, caulkers,
ropemakers, dry coopers, sailmakers, anchorsmiths, and other smiths;
blockmakers, carvers, gunsmiths, ship-chandlers, ship-carvers, and the
like. The masters of those perhaps might live upon their substance,
but the traders were universally at a stop, and consequently all their
workmen discharged. Add to these that the river was in a manner without
boats, and all or most part of the watermen, lightermen, boat-builders,
and lighter-builders in like manner idle and laid by.

5. All families retrenched their living as much as possible, as well
those that fled as those that stayed; so that an innumerable
multitude of footme