Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1769 edition. Excerpt: ... Of the last Great Plague at London. The Lord smote the people with a very great plague--there was a very great deftruBion throughout ail the city, --the hand of God 'was very heavy there;--he gave their life ever unto the pejlilence. Numb, xi. 33. 1 Sam. v. 11. PsAL.lxxviii. 51. Vincent's / OP was pleased in the year 1665, in the Voicele V3 seventeenth year of the reign of King Echard'a Charles the Second, the sixth year after the Hiii.o restoration, to punish England, with a public '"" calamity, which, in that degree, hadnotbeenin. the kingdom some centuries past. This was a dreadful pestilence, which appeared in the vitals of the three kingdoms, the city of Lon-don, after a warning by a great plague in Holland, and a beginning of it in some re-mote parts of our own landj where it gra-dually swelled and raged, insomuch that in the city and suburbs it swept away an hun-dred thousand persons in less than the com- pass of one year. In 1663, the plague raged so extremely at dam. Amsterdam, that scarcely any person of qua Annals Jity staid in town; Hamburgh was also much LTniv?Sq lnfccted; which cut off all communication with thole states, as to public affair?, and from Hist, of havine any thing to do with their European & neighbours. The government had a true account of it, and several councils were held to prevent its coming over, but all was kept very private. In 1664, King Charles excused his prohi-Dutch bition of importation of merchandize from hibited" Holland, on account of the plague, which Smollet's had been introduced into that country, J: of f About the close of the year 1664, two or viii. p.s! three persons died suddenly at Westminster, wcstminattended with symptoms which manifested ster. their original: hereupon some timorous...
