...affection than to "About the year 1652 and 1653 the plague and famine had so swept away whole countrys, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles, and not see a liveing creature, either man, beast, or bird;" they being all dead, or haveing quited these desolate...

...Richard Lawrence, a colonel in Cromwell's army, 'the plague and famine had so swept away whole countries that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature . . . [except] very aged men with women and children . . . [whose] skin was black like an oven because...

...1652 and 1653 l^e pl%S®e* following the desolating wars, had swept away whole counties, so that one might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature. Man, beast and bird were all dead, or had quit those desolate places. The troops would tell stories...