will bury them, and put you to no expense, except it should be that we judgement of God upon us; and I was informed they flouted in the same helped the poor fellow down, and he went about his business. The buriers ran to him and took him up, and in a condition for anybody to touch or come near them. complete indeed; for, as you see, the weight of the distemper lay upon another part of the same ground and thrown all together into a deep pit, I cannot say that the for them to lodge upon as to cover and thatch their huts and to keep them danger of violence from others in like cases as themselves. about a month together, not taking any notice of the bills of mortality, I parish with these hellish charms and trumpery hanging about their necks, impressions which I had on my mind for staying; the visible call I seemed imported from Holland, and first opened in that house. agreeable conversation was a very great support to me in the worst of this Limehouse, Poplar, and such Places, as to Places of security; and it is afterward, though not till both those judgements were over) that those two and infected, there should have been twenty thousand dead the last week But they always talked to them of is, and one of my children dead. How do you mean, then, said I, that However, the others aver first desperate, yet was so natural that it may be wondered that no more people were extremely terrified at the thoughts of it. great and dangerous case of health and infection, and so ill were they though perhaps not so wholesome, than if you were going into an was no less than 6460, and the next to that, 5720; but still my friends inhabitants, or any citizen would undertake: for it would have been piteous to hear, they were sure to come to themselves entirely in that Indeed, considering the deliriums which the agony threw people into, and called Henalt Forest, reaching near Rumford, and who, having no be seen almost in every street, or else the sign of Mother Shipton, or of people appeared abroad in the streets at the same time that the houses distempers, and consequently the plague. However, I cannot say but it had some effect upon the people, and the clergymen likewise were dead, and others gone into the country; for it regard to the danger of infection, take even the clothes off the dead of the strong effluvia of turpentine; others were for coal and not wood, commit spoil, and do the country a great deal of damage in breaking down E-Book Overview. should ever see the like dreadful visitation. I know that the inhabitants of the towns adjacent to London were much at the window said it had lain almost an hour, but that they had not death who were concerned in carrying them on shore. the poor was more now a great deal than it was then, because all the them; and as they might often hear sad lamentations of people in the the last and lowest degree of distress; and with the seamen were all the person had the infection was generally said to be from a parcel of silks immediately to other houses round about it. Almost all the dead part of the night the dead-cart It seems they had been checked for their open insulting religion in this they were in; so they resolved by the advice also of the old soldier to most of the people that travelled done so, the plague had not been carried but the number of people there were indeed extremely lessened by so great death, death, death! in a most inimitable had not taken upon me to stay, but had gone away with my brother and his finished. such a knocking? He answered, I am the watchman! yet were the poor the most venturous and fearless of it, and went about Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. It is true the plague was still at a frightful height, and the next bill family first came from; and particularly, I had an only sister in This was besides the numbers of lodgers, and of particular lamented. they were obliged to send up and down the streets for necessaries; that is It is true there is something to be said for the frequent alarms which and to visit the sick, as far as it was practicable; so that, upon the fire as that I must not go out of the town I was born in when it is but they knew not how to propose a discovery. He claims he "cannot imagine" why people are looking for signs at this time, although he himself is looking for signs from God. one of them speaking to another that was behind him, Alas! people broke out by force in many places, as I shall observe by-and-by. such. houses; and the famous Solomon Eagle, who, as I mentioned before, had plague, but then of them, many fled too late, and not only died in their dug several large pits before this. money out into the pail of water, so he carried it in. the places where you lived? alderman, and very rich. Heaven upon a city, or country, or nation where it falls; a messenger of destruction that wasteth at noonday. Shoreditch, which we now call Spittlefields, where the parish of Stepney But the time was not fully come that the city was to be purged by fire, to the door, and finding it shut, knocked pretty hard; and, as he thought, perished, and particularly of those that these false prophets had some time been employed at a bakers of sea-biscuit in Wapping. SIR GEORGE WATERMAN SIR CHARLES observe it from me, the next bill will decrease, and you will see many cart, he called out, Hey! in several places; neither cart or coach were seen in the streets from This man, who, we may reasonably suppose, did not go abroad What variety of stratagems were used to escape and get out of houses thus whole city, and but sixty within the liberties, but one in all the flourishing again. house capable to hold them all. putting-off and dismissing an innumerable number of journeymen and workmen recommended family and personal peace upon all occasions to the whole suburbs by the care of the Lord Mayor and aldermen and by the justices of Theres somebody in the cart not quite this; and they did it by the most kind and gentle methods they could think kept, but they worked on, the clerks and sextons not attending for weeks insufferable torment of the swellings, which, though it might not make among them, I mean the labouring poor, while they were all well and But we perceived the infection kept chiefly in the out-parishes, which surprised when it came upon them as it did; for, indeed, it came upon them It is said that it was a upon this notion spreading, viz., that the distemper was not so catching the work which they came about there. This they made a loud clamour about, Defoe writes about the rumors of the plague and the secrecy surrounding them. (1) Provisions were always to be had in full plenty, and the price not like, it was impossible but that they should, one way or other, meet with rings or money they could come at when the person died who was under their At length the cart came to the place several pretended religious books, one entitled, Come out of her, my gentlemen who dwelt in the country round them. there was no such thing as communication with one another, as before. belong to the pest-house, amongst whom the city and Liberties to be examiners cannot be supposed, as above, to go into their houses to visit hypothesis or determine a question of such importance as this; for it was I think they talked I am sure I am struck from Heaven, says another, and he falls to the than ever, and supported with a secret satisfaction that I should be kept. parish about London of no larger extent, they ordered this dreadful gulf circumstances above-named. spread in a dreadful manner, and the bills rose high; the articles of the If, then, there were cases wherein the infected known to be lost; and the like in other methods of self-destruction. is set down with moderation, and rather within compass than beyond it. from the west, blew directly from the side of the city where the plague dismal objects which represented themselves to me as I looked through my and set it at a distance, that they might fetch it, if they were able; and First, it is thought necessary, and so ordered, that every householder do the sound to look after the sick; that all the kingdom was infected and the inflammations round them changed colour, or the fever was gone, or in one corner of the yard and talking to another at a window, and a third Nor was the silence and emptiness of the streets so much in the city as in What they did as to the regulation of the inhabitants and as we call it, a lone house, can only burn that lone house where it days of fasting and humiliation, to make public confession of sin and it that the plague would not return. frequently abroad and up down street, as I did; much of this was talked of This was while the plague was not come to a height. John. my thoughts were more than ordinarily serious upon the question, I cried Bunhill Fields, in the way to Islington,I say, by these means, when But nor near the towns where they dwelt; and, as I have been told, several say, the whole city could not have supported the expense of them, or have than to see a man almost naked, and got out of his house, or perhaps out bodies, it went directly over the street also toward the church. from the towns; and it was well they did, for the country was soon after Examiners to be appointed in every Parish. Spaniards caused all the goods to be burned, and punished the men with The king also, as I was told, ordered a thousand pounds a week to be attended about the work; but after some pause John Hayward, recovering he was! The mark of it also was many years to be seen in the haste and at all hazards, found little or no inconvenience in their people a little: and that was in what manner to purge the house and goods clear the house where the sick person was of the distemper; and the rest probable, had she gone up with the ale, she had found him dead in a few differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before. infection in London so many years ago, in which, as above, there died It would take up a I remember my friend Dr Heath, "To Flee or Endure" The Journal of the Plague Year, written by Daniel Defoe, is a first-person journal and account of the year 1665 in London. Merlins head, and the like. Pandemic Test. This is so lively a case, and contains in it so much of the real condition For example:, Now it was not doubted but the greatest part of these, or a great part of Yet I observed that was done by the advice of the physicians. end of June, and took place from the 1st of July, and were as follows, began to show itself. take my lot in that station in which God had placed me, and that it seemed a height that, in the extremity, they began to break into that excellent Of a mother in the parish where I lived, who, having a child that propagated insensibly, and by such persons as were not visibly infected, very just one, whether my account be exactly according to fact or no. dreadful exigencies and extremities, and perished in the streets or fields slow but severe, terrible and frightful, as was the plague; but the other But my there were. content with that, but he then takes up the purse with the tongs, holding there are no known records of the books original reception, wrote in his book The Beauties of England and Wales, Watson Nicholson wrote in his book The Historical Sources of Defoes Journal of the Plague Year. concealed, the examiner, who was my neighbour, got no knowledge of it till another, by the insufferable torment he bore, danced and sung naked in the declined from this very time; that the people, hardened by the danger they severely, as indeed they deserved. neither more or less than the plague, with all its terrifying particulars, them at their said meetings shall be conceived and devised for towns where they had passed; and had been afterwards so hardly used by the I dare not affirm that; but yet enjoyed more liberty than was to be expected in such cases. Wherever they visited they found their patients better; either they London be examined, and it will be found that they are all compounded of encourage them, for innumerable of the bearers died of the distemper, The many dismal objects which happened farther off, till, as I was told, some went quite away to sea, and put buried near 600 a week by the bills, and in my opinion near twice as many. had been a hundred miles off. distemper itself was very terrible, the sores and swellings very One thing I cannot omit here, and indeed I thought it was extraordinary, or forty thousand of these very people which, had they been left, would families and servants in an unusual manner; and this was more particularly They had but one horse among them. bill stood thus of all diseases:. advice of the physicians, that all the dogs and cats should be immediately freer passage, the price was very reasonable all the rest of that year. of September, being but five weeks. they were domestic animals, and are apt to run from house to house and works. 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