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the PLAGUE.
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to the 5th September 1264
to the 12th 1056
to the 10th 1132
to the 26th 927

Now it was not doubted, but the greateſt part of theſe, or a great part of them, were dead of the Plague, but the Officers were prevail’d with to return them as above, and the Numbers of ſome particular Articles of Diſtempers diſcover’d is, as follows;

From the 1ſt to the 8th of Aug. to the 15th. to the 22. to the 29.
Fever 314 353 348 383
Spotted Fever 174 190 166 165
Surfeit 85 87 74 99
Teeth 90 113 111 133
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663 743 699 780
From Auguſt 2gth to the 5th Sept. to the 12. to the 19. to the 26.
Fever 364 332 309 268
Spotted Fever 157 97 101 65
Surfeit 68 45 49 36
Teeth 138 128 121 112
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728 602 580 481

There were ſeveral other Articles which bare a Proportion to theſe, and which it is eaſy to perceive, were increaſed on the ſame Account, as Aged, Conſumptions, Vomitings, Impoſthumes, Gripes, and the like, many of which were not doubted to be infected People; but as it was of the utmoſt Conſequence to Families not to be known to be infected, if it was poſſible to avoid it, ſo they took all the meaſures they could to have it not believ’d; and if any died in their Houſes to get them return’d to the Examin-