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第55章 Part 5(1)

The good,charitable gentleman encouraged them to quit the Place for fear they should be cut off from any retreat at all by the violence of the distemper;but whither they should go,that he found very hard to direct them to.At last John asked of him whether he,being a justice of the peace,would give them certificates of health to other justices whom they might come before;that so whatever might be their lot,they might not be repulsed now they had been also so long from London.This his worship immediately granted,and gave them proper letters of health,and from thence they were at liberty to travel whither they pleased.

Accordingly they had a full certificate of health,intimating that they had resided in a village in the county of Essex so long that,being examined and scrutinised sufficiently,and having been retired from all conversation for above forty days,without any appearance of sickness,they were therefore certainly concluded to be sound men,and might be safely entertained anywhere,having at last removed rather for fear of the plague which was come into such a town,rather than for having any signal of infection upon them,or upon any belonging to them.

With this certificate they removed,though with great reluctance;and John inclining not to go far from home,they moved towards the marshes on the side of Waltham.But here they found a man who,it seems,kept a weir or stop upon the river,made to raise the water for the barges which go up and down the river,and he terrified them with dismal stories of the sickness having been spread into all the towns on the river and near the river,on the side of Middlesex and Hertfordshire;that is to say,into Waltham,Waltham Cross,Enfield,and Ware,and all the towns on the road,that they were afraid to go that way;though it seems the man imposed upon them,for that the thing was not really true.

However,it terrified them,and they resolved to move across the forest towards Rumford and Brentwood;but they heard that there were numbers of people fled out of London that way,who lay up and down in the forest called Henalt Forest,reaching near Rumford,and who,having no subsistence or habitation,not only lived oddly and suffered great extremities in the woods and fields for want of relief,but were said to be made so desperate by those extremities as that they offered many violences to the county robbed and plundered,and killed cattle,and the like;that others,building huts and hovels by the roadside,begged,and that with an importunity next door to demanding relief;so that the county was very uneasy,and had been obliged to take some of them up.

This in the first place intimated to them,that they would be sure to find the charity and kindness of the county,which they had found here where they were before,hardened and shut up against them;and that,on the other hand,they would be questioned wherever they came,and would be in danger of violence from others in like cases as themselves.

Upon all these considerations John,their captain,in all their names,went back to their good friend and benefactor,who had relieved them before,and laying their case truly before him,humbly asked his advice;and he as kindly advised them to take up their old quarters again,or if not,to remove but a little farther out of the road,and directed them to a proper place for them;and as they really wanted some house rather than huts to shelter them at that time of the year,it growing on towards Michaelmas,they found an old decayed house which had been formerly some cottage or little habitation but was so out of repair as scarce habitable;and by the consent of a farmer to whose farm it belonged,they got leave to make what use of it they could.

The ingenious joiner,and all the rest,by his directions went to work with it,and in a very few days made it capable to shelter them all in case of bad weather;and in which there was an old chimney and old oven,though both lying in ruins;yet they made them both fit for use,and,raising additions,sheds,and leantos on every side,they soon made the house capable to hold them all.

They chiefly wanted boards to make window-shutters,floors,doors,and several other things;but as the gentlemen above favoured them,and the country was by that means made easy with them,and above all,that they were known to be all sound and in good health,everybody helped them with what they could spare.

Here they encamped for good and all,and resolved to remove no more.They saw plainly how terribly alarmed that county was everywhere at anybody that came from London,and that they should have no admittance anywhere but with the utmost difficulty;at least no friendly reception and assistance as they had received here.

Now,although they received great assistance and encouragement from the country gentlemen and from the people round about them,yet they were put to great straits:for the weather grew cold and wet in October and November,and they had not been used to so much hardship;so that they got colds in their limbs,and distempers,but never had the infection;and thus about December they came home to the city again.

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