morning, about eight o'clock
-LSB- 95 -RSB- 213 increased , as -LCB- 431 thus : -LCB- 554 -- -- -- 342 620 780 This shutting up of houses was at first counted a very cruel and unchristian method , and the poor people so confined made bitter lamentations . Complaints of the severity of it were also daily brought to my lord mayor , of houses causelessly , and some maliciously , shut up . I can not say but upon inquiry many that complained so loudly were found in a condition to be continued ; and others again , inspection being made upon the sick person , and the sickness not appearing infectious , or , if uncertain , yet , on his being content to be carried to the pesthouse , was -LSB- 96 -RSB- released . As I went along Houndsditch one morning , about eight o'clock , there was a great noise . It is true , indeed , there was not much crowd , because the people were not very free to gather together , or to stay long together when they were there , nor did I stay long there ; but the outcry was loud enough to prompt my curiosity , and I called to one , who looked out of a window , and asked what was the matter . A watchman , it seems , had been employed to keep his post at the door of a house which was infected , or said to be infected , and was shut up . He had been there all night , for two nights together , as he told his story , and the day watchman had been there one day , and was now come to relieve him .