History of his life and times, from the year 1602 to 1681 / Written by himself in the 66th year of his age.

  • William Lilly
Date:
1715
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Credit: History of his life and times, from the year 1602 to 1681 / Written by himself in the 66th year of his age. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    silage I hope you will pardon this Digref- 10n. * After my Miftrefs was dead I lived moft. com- fortably, my Mafter having a great Affection for e: _ The Year 1625 now comes on, and the Plague exceeding. violent, I will relate what I obferved the Spring before it broke forth; againft our cor- ner Houfe every Night there would come down a- ‘bout five or fix of the Clock, fometime One hun- dred or more Boys, fome playing, others as if in ferious Difcourfe, and juft as it grew dark would ‘all be gone home ; many fucceeding Years there | was no fuch, or any Concourfe ufually, no more ‘than four or five ina Company: In the Spring of 1625, the Boys and Youths of fevera] Parifhes in shke Number appeared again, which I beholding, Called Thomes Sanders, my Landlord, and told him, that the Youth and young Boys of feveral Parifhes | did in-that Nature afflemble and play, in the be- inning of the Year r625: God blefs us, quoth I, from a Plague this Year ; but rhen there fucceeded One, and the greareft that ever was in London. In 1625, the Vification éncreafing, and my Mafter having a great Charge of Money and Plate, fome of his own, fome other Men’s, left me anda Fels ow-Servant to keep the Houfe, and himfelf in une Went into Lescefferflire. He was in that Year Beoffee Colleftor for twelve poor Alms-people lis — Wing in Clement-Danes Church-yard ; whofe Pens fions Lin his Abfence paid weekly, to his and the Parith’s great Satisfaction. My Matter was no fooner gone down, but I bought a Bafé-viol, and. got a Mafter to inftru& me ; the Intervals of Time I fpent in Bowling in Lincoln’s-Inn- Fields, with | atl é Cobler, Dick the Blackfmith, and tuch like Companions: We have fometimes been at our Work at fix inthe Morning, and fo continued till three or four ia the Afternoon, many times with- Bee dea” ' out