g.
* This account, I had from Mr. Thomas Ax.
Small-pox in Sherborne + during the year 1626.
And during the year 1634.
>From Michaelmas 1642, to Mich. 1643.
>From Michaelmas 1649, to Mich. 1650.
>From Michaelmas 1657, to Midi. 1658.
In the year 1667, from Jan. to Sept. 1667.
Mr. Ax promised me to enquire the years it happened there after
1670, and 1680; but death prevented him.
+ Extracted out of the register-book.
Small-pox in Taunton all the year 1658.*
Likewise in the year 1670.
Again in the year 1677.
Again very mortal in the year 1684.
* Out of the register-book.
Mr. Ax also promised me to enquire at Taunton the years it happened
there after 1660.
It were to be wished that more such observations were made in other great towns.
Platerus makes the like observations in the second book of his
Practice, p. 323. He practised at Basil, fifty six years, and did
observe, that every tenth year they died of the plague there.
See Captain J. Graunt's observations on the bills of mortality at
London, (indeed written by Sir William Petty, which in a late
transaction he confessed) for the periodical plagues at London, which
(as I remember) are every twenty-fifth year.
OSTENTA; OR, PORTENTS.
"HOW it comes to pass, I know not;* but by ancient and modern example
it is evident, that no great accident befalls a city or province, but
it is presaged by divination, or prodigy, or astrology, or some way or
other.
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