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The impact of the construction work was considerable for local residents, in ways both positive and negative. In his diaries, local man John
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to seek his fortune in London. On arriving there, he found it in the grip of the great plague of 1603–4. Robinson took to looting the houses of the dead and amassed a great fortune with which he returned home, purchased the
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