[34] Rather St. Martin's-in-the-Fields and St. Giles's.
[35] Was.
[36] Charles II. and his courtiers. The immunity of Oxford was doubtless due to good drainage and general cleanliness.
[37] Eccl. xii. 5.
[38] Have seen.
[39] Nor. This misuse of "or" for "nor" is frequent with Defoe.
[40] The four inns of court in London which have the exclusive right of calling to the bar, are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn. The Temple is so called because it was once the home of the Knights Templars.
[41] The city proper, i.e., the part within the walls, as distinguished from that without.
[42] Were.
[43] The population of London at this time was probably about half a million. It is now about six millions. (See Macaulay's History, chap. iii.)