📔 A Journal of the Plague Year

This [suspicion of plague] possess'd the Heads of the People very much, and few car'd to go thro' Drury-Lane, or the other Streets suspected, unless they had extraordinary Business, that obliged them to it.

[…] a Family was infected there, in so terrible a Manner that every one of the House died; the last Person lay dead on the Floor, and as it is supposed, had laid her self all along to die just before the Fire; the Fire, it seems had fallen from its Place, being of Wood, and had taken hold of the Boards and the Joists they lay on, and burnt as far as just to the Body, but had not taken hold of the dead Body […]

[…] the Mortality was so great in the Yard or Alley, that there was no Body left to give Notice to the Buriers or Sextons, that there were any dead Bodies there to be bury’d.