Volume 3

The city remembrancer: being historical narratives of the Great Plague at London, 1665; Great Fire, 1666; and Great Storm, 1703. To which are added, observations and reflections on the plague in general; considered in a religous, philosophical, and physical view: with historical accounts of the most memorable plagues, fires, and hurricanes / Collected from curious and authentic papers, originally compiled by the late learned Dr. Harvey ... and enlarged with authorities of a more recent date.

  • Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?
Date:
1769
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Credit: The city remembrancer: being historical narratives of the Great Plague at London, 1665; Great Fire, 1666; and Great Storm, 1703. To which are added, observations and reflections on the plague in general; considered in a religous, philosophical, and physical view: with historical accounts of the most memorable plagues, fires, and hurricanes / Collected from curious and authentic papers, originally compiled by the late learned Dr. Harvey ... and enlarged with authorities of a more recent date. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The accounts of things in the remoter ages, confounding genealogies and achievements, originals, and fuceeflions, have made deities of thofe who led the moft diffolute and in¬ human lives: the tranfadions of infamous men and the revolutions of ages, are fo mixed with rhodomontades; that nothing is fafely to be depended upon; the loofenefs of the pen, having jumbled fad and fable from the beginning. Heathen hiftory is full of impoftures, as well as uncertainty, and ehriftian hiftory is but too liable to the fame cehfure. To avoid thefe imputations fome pains have been taken, in the following narratives, to colled, and tranfmit to memory, authen¬ tic accounts of the moft dreadful, and univer-r fal judgments that the Almighty ever brought upon this part. of his creation, by plague, fire, and hurricane; and although many matters therein have much of what may be efteemed marvellous, yet the reader ihall not have occafion to diftruft the authenticity of the relation. The compiler has endeavoured to fe!ed thofe fads only which are fupported by the moft ‘ legitimate