As those Gentlemen have forfeited their Infallibility by what I have proved hitherto against them, we have further Reason to suspect, whether or not the late Plague in 1665 was occasioned by that Bale of Cotton imported from _Turkey_ to _Holland_, and thence to _England_, as Dr. _Hodges_ makes irrefregable, and Dr. _Mead_'s Authority indisputable; which is no less a Subject of Wonder and Admiration how many Years we have escaped from the Plagues that have happened and are frequent in so many Parts of _Turkey_; as at _Grand Cairo_, which is seldome or never free from that Distemper, at _Alexandria_, _Rosetta_, _Constantinople_, _Smyrna_, _Scanderoon_, and _Aleppo_, from which Places we have the most considerable Import of any of our Neighbours, and of such Goods as are most receptive of those infectious Seeds, such as Cotton, Raw Silk, Mohair, _&c._ And though Coffee may seem less dangerous, from its Quality of being more able to resist its pestilential Effluvia, yet from the many Coverings the Bales are wrapped in, it is not hard to conceive the contagious Power might be latent in some Part of the Packidge; which Escape is the more surprising and to be wondred at from the great Encrease of our Trade and Shipping which yearly arrive from those Countries; and yet to be preserved from the like Misfortune near to this 60 Years. _Gockelius_ informs us, [5]"That the Contagion in the same Year 1665 was brought into _Germany_ by a Body of Soldiers returning from the Wars in _Hungary_ against the _Turks_, spread the Infection about _Ulm_ and _Ausburgh_, where he then lived, and besides the Plague, they brought along with them the _Hungarian_ and other malignant Fevers, which diffused themselves about the Neighbourhood, whereof many died.[6] And with Submission to the wise Judgment and Opinion of these learned _Triumviri_, who have cited no fuller Authority for this Assertion than a bare Relation of it from _Hodges de Peste_; it may be no unreasonable Conjecture to have its first Progress from _Hungary_, _Germany_, and to _Holland_, from which last Place they all have agreed we certainly received the Contagion; and that we have had the Plague convey'd to us by the like Means may be found in the _Bibliotheca Anotomica_, being brought to us by some Troops from _Hungary_ sent thither against the _Turks_ by _Henry_ VI. King of _England_.