This is ſo lively a Caſe, and contains in it ſo much of the real Condition of the People; that I think, I cannot be too particular in it; and therefore I deſcend to the ſeveral Arrangements or Claſſes of People, who fell into immediate Diſtreſs upon this Occaſion: For Example,
1. All Maſter Work-men in Manufactures, eſpecially ſuch as belong’d to Ornament, and the leſs neceſſary Parts of the People dreſs Cloths and Furniture for Houſes; ſuch as Riband Weavers, and other Weavers, Gold and Silverlace-makers, and Gold and Silverwyer-drawers, Seemſtreſſes, Milleners, Shoe-makers, Hat-makers and Glove-makers: Alſo Upholdſterers, Joyners, Cabinet-makers, Looking-glaſs-makers; and innumerable Trades which depend upon ſuch as theſe, I ſay the Maſter Workmen in ſuch, ſlopt ther Work, diſmiſt their Journeymen, and Workmen, and all their Dependants.
2. As Merchandizing was at a full ſtop, for very few Ships ventur’d to come up the River, and none at all went out; ſo all the extraordinary Officers of the Cuſtomes, likewiſe the Watermen, Carmen, Porters, and all the Poor, whoſe Labour depended upon the Merchants, were at once diſmiſt, and put out of Buſineſs.
3. All the Tradeſmen uſually employ’d in building or repareing of Houſes, were at a full Stop, for the People were far from wanting to build Houſes, when ſo many thouſand Houſes were at once ſtript of their Inhabitants; ſo that this one Article turn’d all the ordinary Work-men of that Kind out of Buſineſs; ſuch as Brick-layers, Maſons, Carpenters, Joyners, Plaſterers, Painters, Glaziers, Smiths, Plumbers; and all the Labourers depending on ſuch.
4. As Navigation was at a Stop; our Ships neither coming in, or going out as before; ſo the Seamen were all out of Employment, and many of them in the laſt and loweſt Degree of Diſtreſs, and with the Seamen, were all the ſeveral Tradeſmen, and Workmen belonging to and depending upon the building, and fitting out of Ships; ſuch as Ship Carpenters, Caulkers, Rope-makers, Dry-Coopers,
