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OBSERVATIONS, OR MEMORIALS, OF THE MOST REMARKABLE
OCCURRENCES, AS WELL. PUBLIC AS PRIVATE, WHICH
HAPPENED IN LONDON DURING THE LAST

GREAT VISITATION IN 1665.

WRITTEN BY A CITIZEN

WHO CONTINUED ALL THE WHILE IN LONDON.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

Some Account of the Great Fire in 1666

(EXTRACTED FROM "EVELYN'S MEMOIRS").

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION,

APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING

CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

LONDON:

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORIES:

77, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS; 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE;
48, PICCADILLY; AND by All Booksellers.

PREFACE.

"THE History of the Great Plague in London is one of that particular class of compositions which hovers between romance and history. Undoubtedly De Foe embodied a number of tralitions on this subject with what he might actually have read, ›r of which he might otherwise have received direct evidence. This dreadful disease, which, in the language of Scripture, might be described as the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the lestruction that wasteth at noon-day, was indeed a fit subject for a pencil so veracious as that of De Foe. Had he not been the author of Robinson Crusoe, De Foe would have deserved immortality for the genius which he has displayed in this work."—Sir Walter Scott's Note to "The Memoirs of the Plague," in his edition of De Foe's Works.

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