which happened at _Digne_ in _Provence_, where he lived, in
the Year 1629. This was so terrible, that in one _Summer_, out of _ten
thousand_ Inhabitants, it left but _fifteen hundred_, and of them all
but _five_ or _six_ had gone through the _Disease_. And he assigns
_this_, as the principal Cause of the great Destruction, that the
Citizens were too closely confined, and not suffered so much as to go to
their Country-Houses. Whereas in another _Pestilence_, which broke out
in the same Place a Year and an half after, more Liberty being allowed,
there did not die above _one hundred_ Persons.

FOR these Reasons, I think, to allow People with proper _Cautions_ to
remove from an infected Place, is the best Means to suppress the
_Contagion_, as well as the most humane Treatment of the present
Sufferers: and, under these Limitations, the Method of _investing_
Towns infected, which is certainly the most proper, that can be advised,
to keep the Disease from spreading, will be no Inconvenience to the
Places _surrounded_. On the contrary, it will rather be useful to them;
since the Guard may establish such _Regulations_ for the Safety of
those, who shall bring Provisions, as shall remove the Fears, which
might otherwise discourage them.

THE securing against all Apprehensions of this Kind, is of so great
Importance, that in _Cities_ too large to be invested, as, for Example,
this City of _London_, the _Magistrates_ must use all possible Diligence
to supply this Defect, not only by setting up _Barriers_ without their
City, but by making it in the most particular manner their Care to
appoint such _Orders_ to be observed at them, as they shall judge will
be most satisfactory to the Country about.

THOUGH Liberty ought to be given to the _People_, yet no sort of _Goods_
must by any means be suffered to be carried over the _Line_, which are
made of _Materials_ retentive of _Infection_. For in the present Case,
when _Infection_ has seized any Part of a Country, much greater Care
ought to be taken, that no _Seeds_ of the _Contagion_ be conveyed about,
than when the Distemper is at a great Distance: because a _Bale of
Goods_, which shall have imbibed the _Contagious Aura_ when pack'd up in
_Turky_, or any remote Parts, when unpack'd here, may chance to meet
with so healthful a Temperament of our Air, that it shall not do much
hurt. But when the Air of any one of our Towns shall be so corrupted,
as to maintain and spread the _Pestilence_