 I say they had dug several pits in another ground, when the distemper began to spread in our parish, and especially when the dead-carts began to go about, which was not, in our parish, till the beginning of August. Into these pits they had put perhaps...  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 375by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Defoe - Fiction - 2004 - 284 pages
...not, in our parish, till the beginning of August. Into these pits they had put perhaps fifty or sixty bodies each; then they made larger holes, wherein...which, by the middle to the end of August, came to from 2oo to 4oo a week; and they could not well dig them larger, because of the order of the magistrates... | |
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