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publifhed by Order of our Magiftrates, as you will fee 
in the following Difcourfe. 
We were now arrived at the Time when the Plague 
raged with greateft Violence, which was in the Months 
of Augnfi and September , in which many Eminent Men, 
to the great detriment of the Publick, loft their Lives. 
But, Thanks to God, of our chief Magiftrates we loft 
but two, and as many of our Judges : Of our Divines 
there died about a third Part : Of the Phyficians and 
Apothecaries none at all .* Of the Surgeons in Ordinary 
only two 5 but of their Affiftants or Subordinates, efpe- 
daily fuch as belonged to Pefi-houfes, a vaft Number. 
The principal Citizens fuffer’d very little, but the Gar- 
rifon a great deal, though the Officers efcap’d pretty 
well $ bur the Handycraft and common Tradefmen, as 
well Mafters as Journey-men, Apprentices, Porters and 
Labourers were very much diminifhed, and died in the 
Year 1709. to the Number of 24533. * n wbicb are like- 
wife included all fuch as were buried without the Town, 
and fome of another Jurifdidion, of which we have not 
been able to get a true und exad Account : But as much 
as we have been able to colled, ha 3 lately been publilhed 
by Dr. Samuel Shelmg. 
There were two Things remarkable, which I muft not 
omit to take Notice of. The firft is, what Dr; Shelrvig 
obferved, That the Plague decreafed in the fame pro- 
portion as it had increafed. For in June the Number of 
the Dead was 319 5 in Julj it rofe to 1313 5 in Augnfi 
106139^ and in September to 8303 : This was thehigheft 
degree of Mortality. After this the Numbers again de- 
creafed } fo that in Ofteber they were 49323 in 
her 196 1 3 in December 5843 and fo on gradually leflening. 
The other Thing remarkable is. That but few of the 
People of Condition and Quality died of the Contagion 
in comparifon with thofe of the common and ordinary 
Sort 3 which may be attributed ( next to Divine Provi- 
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