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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: ships into their ports for a great while. As for the Dutch, the
misunderstandings between our court and them had broken out into a
war the year before, so that our trade that way was wholly interrupted;
but Spain and Portugal, Italy and Barbary, as also Hamburg and all the
ports in the Baltic, these were all shy of us a great while, and would
not restore trade with us for many months.
The distemper sweeping away such multitudes, as I have observed,
many if not all the out-parishes were obliged to make new burying-
grounds, besides that I have mentioned in Bunhill Fields, some of
which were continued, and remain in use to this day. But others were
left off, and (which I confess I mention with some reflection) being
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