“The town grows very sickly and people to be afraid of it: there dying this last week of the plague 112 from 43 the week before.”
June 20th.
“There died four or five at Westminster of the plague.”
June 21st.
“I find all the town almost going out of town, the coaches and waggons being full of people going into the country.”
June 29th.
“The Mortality Bill is come to 267.”
July 1st.
“To Westminster, where I hear the sickness increases greatly. Sad at the news that seven or eight houses in Basinghall Street are shut up of the plague.”
July 3rd.