4th. This evening, Sir W. Pen come into the garden, and walked
with me, and told me that he had certain notice that at Flushing
they are in great distraction. De Ruyter dares not come on shore
for fear of the people: nor any body open their houses or shops
for fear of the tumult: which is a very good hearing.
6th. In Fenchurch-street met with Mr. Battersby; says he, "Do
you see Dan Rawlinson's door shut up?" (which I did, and
wondered.) "Why," says he, "after all this sickness, and himself
spending all the last year in the country, one of his men is now
dead of the plague, and his wife and one of his maids sick, and
himself shut up;" which troubles me mightily. So home; and there
do hear also from Mrs. Sarah Daniel, that Greenwich is at this
time much worse than ever it was, and Deptford too: and she told
us that they believed all the town would leave the town, and come
to London; which is now the receptacle of all the people from all
infected places. God preserve us!
7th. I receive fresh intelligence that Deptford and Greenwich
are now afresh exceedingly afflicted with the sickness more than
ever.
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