All Families retrench’d their living as much as possible, as well those that fled, as those that stay’d; so that an innumerable Multitude of Footmen, serving Men, Shop-keepers, Journey-men, Merchants-Book-keepers, and such Sort of People, and especially poor Maid Servants were turn’d off, and left Friendless and Helpless without Employment, and without Habitation; and this was really a dismal Article.
