Dec. 27 to Jan. 3,  St. Giles’s      16
St. Andrew’s     17
Jan. 3 to Jan. 10,  St. Giles’s      12
St. Andrew’s     25
Jan. 10 to Jan. 17, St. Giles’s      18
St. Andrew’s     18
Jan. 17 to Jan. 24, St. Giles’s      23
St. Andrew’s     16
Jan. 24 to Jan. 31, St. Giles’s      24
St. Andrew’s     15
Jan. 31 to Feb. 7,  St. Giles’s      21
St. Andrew’s     23
Feb. 7 to Feb. 14,  St. Giles’s      24
Whereof one of the plague.

The like increase of the bills was observed in the parishes of St. Bride’s, adjoining on one side of Holborn Parish, and in the parish of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, adjoining on the other side of Holborn; in both which parishes the usual numbers that died weekly were from four to six or eight, whereas at that time they were increased as follows:—­

Dec. 20 to Dec. 27, St. Bride’s       0
St. James’s       8
Dec. 27 to Jan. 3,  St. Bride’s       6
St. James’s       9
Jan. 3 to Jan. 10,  St. Bride’s      11
St. James’s       7
Jan. 10 to Jan. 17, St. Bride’s      12
St. James’s       9
Jan. 17 to Jan. 24, St. Bride’s       9
St. James’s      15
Jan. 24 to Jan. 31, St. Bride’s       8
St. James’s      12
Jan. 31 to Feb. 7,  St. Bride’s      13
St. James’s       5
Feb. 7 to Feb. 14,  St. Bride’s      12
St. James’s       6

Besides this, it was observed, with great uneasiness by the people, that the weekly bills in general increased very much during these weeks, although it was at a time of the year when usually the bills are very moderate.

The usual number of burials within the bills of mortality for a week was from about two hundred and forty, or thereabouts, to three hundred.  The last was esteemed a pretty high bill; but after this we found the bills successively increasing, as follows:—­

Buried.    Increased. 
Dec. 20 to Dec. 27      291         0
Dec. 27 to Jan. 3       349        58
Jan. 3 to Jan. 10       394        45
Jan. 10 to Jan. 17      415        21
Jan. 17 to Jan. 24      474        59

This last bill was really frightful, being a higher number than had been known to have been buried in one week since the preceding visitation of 1656.

However, all this went off again; and the weather proving cold, and the frost, which began in December, still continuing very severe, even till near the end of February, attended with sharp though moderate winds, the bills decreased again, and the city grew healthy; and everybody began to look upon the danger as good as over, only that still the burials in St. Giles’s continued high.  From the beginning of April, especially, they stood at twenty-five each week, till the week from the 18th to the 25th, when there was[13] buried in St. Giles’s Parish thirty, whereof two of the plague, and eight of the spotted fever (which was looked upon as the same thing); likewise the number that died of the spotted fever in the whole increased, being eight the week before, and twelve the week above named.

This alarmed us all again; and terrible apprehensions were among the people, especially the weather being now changed and growing warm, and the summer being at hand.  However, the next week there seemed to be some hopes again:  the bills were low; the number of the dead in all was but 388; there was none of the plague, and but four of the spotted fever.