ſuch a Calamity, as to rob and ſteal; yet certain it is, that all Sorts of Villanies, and even Levities and Debaucheries were then practisd in the Town, as openly as ever, I will not ſay quite as frequently, becauſe the Numbers of People were many ways leſſen'd.
But the City it ſelf began now to be viſited too, I mean within the Walls; but the Number of People there were indeed extreamly leſſen'd by ſo great a Multitude having been gone into the Country; and even all this Month of July they continu'd to flee, tho' not in ſuch Multitudes as formerly. In Auguſt indeed, they fled in ſuch a manner, that I began to think, there would be really none but Magiſtrates and Servants left in the City.
As they fled how out of the City, ſo I ſhould obſerve, that the Court removed early, (viz.) in the Month of June, and went to Oxford, where it pleas'd God to preſerve them; and the Diſtemper did not, as I heard of, ſo much as touch them; for which I cannot ſay, that I ever ſaw they ſhew'd any great Token of Thankfulneſs, and hardly any thing of Reformation, tho' they did not want being told that their crying Vices might, without Breach of Charity, be ſaid to have gone far, in bringing that terrible Judgment upon the whole Nation.
The Face of London was now indeed ſtrangely alter'd, I mean the whole Maſs of Buildings, City, Liberties, Suburbs, Weſtminſter, Southwark and altogether; for as to the particular Part called the City, or within the Walls, that was not yet much infected; but in the whole, the Face of Things, I ſay, was much alter'd; Sorrow and Sadneſs ſat upon every Face; and tho' ſome Part were not yet overwhelm'd, yet all look'd deeply concern'd; and as we ſaw it apparently coming onſo
