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A27350 London's remembrancer, or, A true accompt of every particular weeks christnings and mortality in all the years of pestilence within the cognizance of the bills of mortality, being xviii years. Bell, John.; Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks. 1665 (1665) Wing B1800; ESTC R24198 19,905 31

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68 32 August 1 215 3014 2010 73 33 8 178 4030 2817 86 34 15 166 5319 3880 96 35 22 171 5568 4237 103 36 29 169 7496 6102 113 37 Septemb. 5         38 12         39 19         40 26         41 Octob. 3         42 10         43 17         44 24         45 31         46 Novemb. 7         47 14         48 21         49 28         50 Decemb. 5         51 12         52 19         The Totals         OBSERVATIONS On the BILLS of MORTALITY For the 18 Years And on some of their Precedent and Subsequent Years HAving now finished the Tables for the 18 Years and given you a just and faithful accompt of all the Christnings and Burials in every particular Week I shall make some few short Observations on the Weekly and General Bills therein and on such other years on which they have dependency I mean some of their precedent and subsequent Years Observ 1. That the Weekly and General Bills in the year 1593. did bear date from Thursday to Thursday as by the General Bill for that year which I have herein before inserted may appear and that they continued that course until the year 1629. In which year and ever since they bare date from Tuesday to Tuesday But both then and now the Weekly Collections or accompts of Christnings and Burials began the Bill in December and the whole years accompt or General Bill concluded the year in the same Moneth following whereas all the Papers that make mention of the Great Plagues in the years 1592. 1593. 1603. and 1625. bear date the 17 of March in all the said years and accompt from thence still making that day Epidemical as well as the Year Pestilential But I think it very strange nor do I believe that the 17 of March in all the said years did fall out to be on a Thursday but I conceive that what is contained in them was gleaned from some false scattered Papers printed in some of those years and I presume it will not be strange to such who shall live to see another year of Pestilence to see the same poyson extracted from the many false Papers printed in this year Observ 2. That in all the years of Pestilence I ever read of there died of that Distemper both Males and Females except in the Plague in the time of King David and in that of Senacheribs Camp in both which there died none but Men as I shall shew you hereafter Observ 3. That in all the years of Contagion or Plague the numbers of other Diseases encreased much notwithstanding many of them turned to the Plague For although the Plague be a great Receptacle for other Diseases yet the contagion of the Air introduceth many more than the Plague receiveth And Captain Graunt observes That a disposition in the Air towards the Plague doth also dispose Women to Abortions Observ 4. That in the year 1625. there died in all 54265. whereof of the Plague 35417. of which number of the Plague 20455. died in the Moneth of August I am of opinion that this year was not only the greatest year of Pestilence but also the most sickly year that ever the Bill of Mortality took notice of And I think I need give you no other reason therefore than what I have already given in my 3. Observation This great Mortality and Pestilence continued only this year whereas it is seldom known but that other either precedent or subsequent accompany years of Pestilence with the like Contagion which to this hapned nothing so For in 1624. its precedent there died but 11. which number of the Plague for one whole year is no more than there have usually died of that Distemper in healthful years Nor was the subsequent year 1626. so Pestilential as to be termed a Plague year there dying but 134 of the Plague therein Observ 5. That the greatest number of the Plague in the year 1636. hapned to be in September and so likewise in most of the 18 years in the precedent year to this there died none of the Plague although both it and the subsequent year were Plague years Observ 6. In the year 1664 part and 1665. the Plague began with the first Weeks Bill for the year in December at St. Giles in the fields when as but one had died of the Plague in 24 weeks before and but 6 in the whole year it encreased nor until the 9 day of May. From which time it continued and increased so that in 16 weeks it run up from 9 to 6102 in one week which number of the Plague much exceeded the total number of any one week in any year of Pestilence whatsoever which I ever read to have happened within this City I come next to shew you the Cause of the coming of the Plague which I shall briefly do in the words of our famous English Oratour Bishop Andrews The Plague saith he is caused by Gods wrath against Sin There is wrath gone out from the Lord and the Plague is begun saith Moses Numb 16.46 So it is said God was displeased with David and he smote Israel with the Plague So that if there be a Plague God is angry and if there be a great Plague God is very angry c. Ask the Physician the cause of it and he will tell you the cause is in the air the air is infected the humours corrupted the Contagion of the sick coming to and conversing with the sound and they be all true causes But as we acknowledge these to be true That in all Diseases and even in this also there is a natural cause so we say there is somewhat more somewhat Divine and above Nature as somewhat for the Physician so some work for the Priest and more too it may be for whosoever doth not acknowledge the finger of God in this sickness over and above all causes Natural looketh not deeply enough into the cause thereof That the Plague is a thing causal and not casual may appear by the Latine word Plaga which properly signifieth a stroke which necessarily inferreth a cause for where there is a stroke there must be one that striketh Thus much of Bishop Andrews Now if there be a cause we shall do well to consider what that cause may be In the Plague in Aarons time the peoples Rebellion was the cause In that in Phineas his time Fornication was the cause In that in King Davids time Pride was the cause his heart was lifted up to number the people And in that in Senacheribs Camp his Blasphemy by the mouth of his servant Rabshakeh was the cause Thus we see four Plagues and their Causes Now I shall say somewhat of their