and it often happened, that those who attended the Funerals of their Friends one Evening, were carried the next to their own long Home." ------_Quis talia fundo temperet a lacrymis?_---- About the Beginning of _September_ the Disease was at the Height, in the Course of which Month more than Twelve thousand died in a Week[4] but from this Time its Force began to relax; and about the Close of the Year, that is, at the Beginning of _November_, People grew more healthful, and such a different Face was put upon the Publick, that although the Funerals were yet frequent, yet many who had made most haste in retiring, made the most to return, and came into the City without Fear; insomuch that in _December_ they crowded back as thick as they fled; and although the Contagion had carried off, as some computed, about One hundred thousand People; after a few Months this Loss was hardly discernable. The Doctor himself comes to no determinate Number of those that died of this Distemper, but in the Table that he has writ of the Funerals in the several Parishes within the Bills of Mortality of the Cities of _London_ and _Westminster_ for the Year 1665, he tells you, 68596 died of the Plague. Dr. _Mead_ in the same Year 1665, that it continued in this City about ten Months, and swept away 97306 Persons. Dr. _Bradley_, in his Table from the 27th of _December_, 1664/5, takes no notice of any buried of that Distemper, but of one on the 14th of _February_ following, and two on _April_ the 25th, and in all, to the 7th of _June_, 89. The next following Months, to _October_ the 3d, there were buried 49932, in all 50021. Why he should here break up from giving any further Account may be from the Weakness of his Intelligence, which so widely differs from all other Accounts; and in this one, with Dr. _Hodges_, who tells you, that about the Beginning of _September_, at which Time the Disease was at the Height, in the Course of which Month, more than 12000 Persons died in a Week: Whereas in _Bradley_, the most that were buried in one Week, _i. e._ from the 12th of _September_ to the 19th, amounted to no more than 7165. But computing after the Manner of Dr. _Hodges_, we find (taking one Week with another, from _August_ the 29th to the 27th of _September_, the Time of its greatest Fury) the exact Number of 6555; which falls short very near to one half of the Number accounted to be buried of that Distemper by Dr. _Hodges_; and we have abundant Reason to believe, that the greatest Account hitherto mentioned, may be short of the Number dying of that Distemper. If we do but observe the strict Order then published to shut up all infected Houses, to keep a Guard upon them Day and Night, to withhold from them all Manner of Correspondence from without; and that after their Recovery, to perform a Quarentine of 40 Days, in which Space if anyone else of the Family should be taken with that Distemper, the Work to be