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Ida Chamness letters, 1910-1922
1912-09-02 Page 39
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-39- of persecution there. In this city the cholera broke out in the time of persecution; and nearly depopulated the city: few people were seen by the way. And grass grew up in the streets that used to be so thickly populated. Sewel's History says that seven and eight thousands of people died of this plague in one day; while this great city suffered with the cholera. It was asailed by another calamity (namely: fire). Ninty thousand people died of that plague. On the 2nd. day of the ninth month, 1666 Thomas Abbits of Hunningtonshire left his home hastily on horse back, and rode on Cheapside street; and as he passed along cried Fire! Fire! saying, "This city will be destroyed by fire!" And before he left the city he saw it on fire; and beheld the fulfillment of his prediction. His friends questioned him that evening concerning his message and call to pronounce such a judgment against that city. He said he had had the message or vision to come and declare it til he felt the fire in his own bosom. During this conflagration thirteen thousand houses were burnt down; and eighty-four (churches, so called places for worship). When I was in London I went along on Cheapside street; and was shown where the fire started; and where it burned to
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-39- of persecution there. In this city the cholera broke out in the time of persecution; and nearly depopulated the city: few people were seen by the way. And grass grew up in the streets that used to be so thickly populated. Sewel's History says that seven and eight thousands of people died of this plague in one day; while this great city suffered with the cholera. It was asailed by another calamity (namely: fire). Ninty thousand people died of that plague. On the 2nd. day of the ninth month, 1666 Thomas Abbits of Hunningtonshire left his home hastily on horse back, and rode on Cheapside street; and as he passed along cried Fire! Fire! saying, "This city will be destroyed by fire!" And before he left the city he saw it on fire; and beheld the fulfillment of his prediction. His friends questioned him that evening concerning his message and call to pronounce such a judgment against that city. He said he had had the message or vision to come and declare it til he felt the fire in his own bosom. During this conflagration thirteen thousand houses were burnt down; and eighty-four (churches, so called places for worship). When I was in London I went along on Cheapside street; and was shown where the fire started; and where it burned to
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