8 The Caufes and Cure healthful than heretofore,, to be the Enlarge- ment of the City, whereby the Inhabitants, who are not proportionably increafed, and not fo clofe crowded together : and the Care of the Magiflrates in keeping the Streets clear from Fi i.-.:h: For formerly (he lays) they ufed to kill all Manner of Cattle within the Walls, and fuffer the r Dung and Offals to lie in the Streets. Moreover^ a- bout thofe Times the Ifis and Gherwelt, t: :6* the Careleinels of the Townfmen, being filled with Mud, and the Common-Shores by fuch Means ftopped, did caufe the Aicent of Malignant Vapours whenever there hap- pened to be a Flood. But fince that, by the Care and at the Charge of Richard Fgx 7 Biihop of Winchefter, in the Year 1 5 1 7, thole Rivers were cleanied, and more Trenches cut for the Water's free Tallage, the Town has continued in a very healthful Condi- tion j and in a particular Manner fo free from Peftilential Difeafes, that the Sicknefs m 1665, which raged in moft Parts of the Kingdom, never vifited any Perlbn there, although the Terms were there kept, and the Court and both Houfes of Parliament did there refide. TO
