should wrong them very much, if I should not acknowledge, that I believe many of them were really thankful; but I must own, that for the generality of the people it might too justly be said of them, as was said of the children of Israel, after their being delivered from the host of Pharaoh, when they passed the Red Sea, and looked back, and saw the Egyptians overwhelmed in the water, viz., that "They sang his praise, but they soon forgot his works." I can go no further here :-I should be counted censorious, and perhaps unjust, if I should enter into the unpleasing work of reflecting, whatever cause there was for it, upon the unthankfulness and return of all manner of wickedness among us, which I was so much an eyewitness of myself. I shall conclude the account of this calamitous year, therefore, with a coarse but sincere stanza of my own, which I placed at the end of my ordinary memorandums, the same year they were written : A dreadful Plague in London was Which swept an hundred thousand souls : H. F. APPENDIX. ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT PLAGUE OF 1665, FROM A MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN BY MR. WILLIAM BOGHURST. No. 1. AMONG THE MANUSCRIPTS formerly in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, but now preserved in the British Museum, is a Treatise on the Plague, as it appeared in London in 1665. It was drawn up by Mr. WILLIAM BOGHURST, a medical practitioner, who resided in the metropolis during the whole period of the prevalence of the disease, and contains the result of his personal observations, for making which he appears to have had abundant opportunities. That he was a man of some learning and ability may be concluded from his work, which is a thin quarto (containing 170 pages, and divided into chapters), fairly written as if prepared for the press; although no part of it has hitherto been published, except a few extracts in a monthly journal in 1831. The greater portion of the work, relating to the medical treatment of the disease, is now become obsolete, and no longer interesting even to professional readers; but the facts and remarks which it contains are still deserving of notice;— and the more so, perhaps, on account of their immediate connexion with the events recorded in the preceding “Journal of the Plague Year." These are chiefly, if not entirely, comprised in the ensuing passages; the arrangement of which has been somewhat altered from the order in which they appear in the manuscript, for the purpose of better connecting the subjects. The work is thus intituled: "Aamoypapia: or an Experimental Relation of the Plague, of what hath happened Remarqueable in the last Plague in the City of London: demonstrating its Generation, Progresse, fore-running and subsequent Diseases and Accidents, Common Signes, good and evill, Meanes of Preservation, Method of Cure, generall and particular, with a Collection of choice and tried Medicines for Preservation and Cure, by the practicall Experience and Observation of William Boghurst, Apothecary in St. Giles's in the Fields. London, 1666." In an address To the Reader. Mr. Boghurst says the Plague continued "eighteen months, viz. ffrom the ijd of November, 1664, to the latter end of this May last past, 1666:" and he remarks, that he was the only person who had then written on the late Plague, from experience and observation. Among the "Signes fore-shewing a Plague coming," he enumerates that of "Birds, wild-fowl, and wild beasts, leaving their accustomed places: few swallowes were scene in the yeares 1664 and 65." "In the summer before the Plague, (in 1664,) there was such a multitude of flies that they lined the insides of houses: and if any threads or strings did hang down in any place, they were presently thick set with flies like ropes of onions; and swarms of ants covered the highways, that you might have taken up a handful at a time, both winged and creeping ants; and such a multitude of croaking frogs in ditches, that you might have heard them before you saw them. Also, the same summer, the small-pox was so rife in our parish, that betwixt the Church and the Pound in St. Giles's, which is not above six score paces, about forty families had the small-pox." "The Plague hath put itselfe forth in St. Gyles, St. Clements, St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and St. Martin's, this 3 or 4 years, as I have been certainly informed by the people themselves that had it in their houses in these Parishes." Speaking of the "Evil Signs or Presages of the Plague," the writer notices the general symptoms of the disease at some length :-" Among these were spots of different colours, hiccough, vomiting, carbuncles or buboes, shortness of breath, and stoppage of urine, drowsiness and thirstiness, contraction of the jaws, and large and extended tumours." "This Plague was ushered in with seven months dry weather and westerly winds. It fell first upon the highest grounds; for our parish (viz. St. Giles's) is the highest ground about London, and the best air, yet was first infected. Highgate, Hampstead, and Acton, also, all shared in it." "The wind blowing westward so long together, (from before Christmas until July,) was the cause the Plague began first at the west end of the City, as at St. Giles's, and St. Martin's, Westminster. Afterwards, it gradually insinuated and crept down Holborn and the Strand, and then into the City, and at last to the east end of the suburbs: so that it was half a year at the west end of the City before the east end and Stepney were infected, which was about the middle of July. Southwark, being the south suburb, was infected almost as soon as the west end." "The disease spread not altogether by contagion at first, nor began only at one place, and spread farther and farther, as an eating and spreading sore doth all over the body; but fell upon several places of the City and suburbs like rain, even at the first,-as St. Giles's, St. Martin's, Chancery Lane, Southwark, Houndsditch, and some places within the City, as at Proctors' Houses." "Almost all that caught the disease with fear, died with tokens in two or three days. About the beginning, most men got the disease with fuddling, surfeiting, over-heating themselves, and by disorderly living." "The Plague is a most acute disease, for though some dyed 8, 10, 12, or 20 dayes after they had been sicke, yet the greatest part dyed before 5 or 6 dayes, and in the summer about half that were sicke dyed, but towards winter, 3 parts in 4 lived; but none dyed suddenly, as tho' stricken with lightning, or an apoplexy, as authors write in several |