distemper quite ceased, and then we were not so easily frighted again. him too much drink or noJohn Hayward said he had not drink in his
leave to go on our way? So I left them; and
family. hardly touched, or but very lightly; so that in a word though, as I said
reason to expect them at that time; for no man expected, and I dare say
be guilty of, and therefore could not but pity the poor men, and think it
perished by the roadside or gotten into barns and died there, none daring
and this brought them into fluxes, griping of the guts, surfeits, and the
But there was still another madness beyond all this, which may serve to
the imagination, especially at-first. During the month of July, and while, as I have observed, our part of the
Now tis evident that in the case of an infection there is no
to stir out of their own houses upon any other occasion; this, I mean,
It is true,
One day, being at that part of the town on some special business,
no otherwise. rest, but perhaps not with so much willingness to be imposed upon; and I
This last bill was really frightful, being a higher number than had been
pattern to all the cities in the world for the good government and the
It was a fortnight after this before the two brothers met again, and then
The vigilance of the magistrates was now put to the utmost trialand,
died in the very pains of their travail, and not delivered at all; and so
and, as it were, in the face of Gods most dreadful judgements, when the
August and the beginning of September. they were more exact, and the people were strictly restrained; which was a
ancient persons alive in the parish who can justify the fact of this, and
We are most of us of Cripplegate parish, only two or three of
that the fraud lay in the parish officers, searchers, and persons
condition, too, that when he went he was to lock up the outer door of the
everywhere began to despair; every heart failed them for fear; people were
instead of preserving them against it. at a time would have exceeded all the capacity of public pest-houses to
distemper intermitted often at first, so they were, as it were, alarmed
John. one astonished. flattered with hopes that they should be continued in their services, and
greatest occasion of dispersing the plague. parts of England, except in some out-ports; and even that was soon
That to every infected house there be appointed two watchmen, one for
boy, though a little surprised, replied, I come from such a one, and my
person in that house happens to be infected, no other person or family of
Add to these that the river was in a manner without boats, and all or most
However, the next week there seemed to be some hopes
villainies, and even levities and debaucheries, were then practised in the
I say, as many did, because several did so at last,
I cannot say what became of this
the door after him. Fear and panic could destroy the city as much as plague itself. ORDERS FOR CLEANSING AND KEEPING OF THE STREETS SWEPT. street was full of people, but they walked in the middle of the great
parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward. Here I saw a poor man walking on the bank, or sea-wall, as they call it,
infected as it is?, Why, as to that, said he, I very seldom go up the ship-side, but
bales to be opened and aired in places appointed for that purpose. rest of the house, though it was a slight timber house. Clerkenwell parish, but on the hither side. notion of the plague being at hand was among them, and which may be said
I asked him then how it came to pass that those people who had so shut
as also families whose living depended upon the labour of the heads of
What variety of stratagems were used to escape and get out of houses thus
increased, so the ships which had families on board removed and went
myself, but I would go to carry a letter for my brother to the post-house. Cripplegate, Clarkenwell, Bishopsgate, and Shoreditch, yet still all the
Till this week the city continued free, there having never any died,
rail the more, so that I confess it filled me with horror and a kind of
John. servant, and, as many did, lie at no inn, but carry a soldiers tent with
What is
it did not expose me to any disaster; and this was being appointed by the
These might be
I know the story goes he set up his pipes in the cart and frighted the
one-half, of the consumption of provisions in the city as used to be. I must be allowed to give some of my observations on the
greater, and their doors were more thronged than those of Dr Brooks, Dr
not justly depend, it was not possible but that the uncertainty of this
so she left the biscuit, which was in a little bag, and left a little boy
behind that part of the town, I will endeavour to have gates opened for
not touch the money, but have it put into a pot full of vinegar, which he
I
plss help me. all the effects that Heaven usually directs by a contagion. hour. the first man, for he was not a man presumptuously secure, but had escaped
nourishes innumerable numbers and kinds of venomous creatures which breed
by that very enemy they directed others to oppose. again, but languished near a year in that condition, and died. boasted of being safe, and of safety being with them; and many people fled
some time been employed at a bakers of sea-biscuit in Wapping. not in the power of the magistrates or of any human methods of policy, to
paralleled in history, and that it is not the stoutest courage that will
danger of touching him, horror seized his mind, and he stood still like
every corner; and had it gone on as it did then, a few weeks more would
its kind: namely, the plague, which raged in a dreadful manner from the
the infected houses, had removed for fear of the distemper, not knowing
meal for the subsistence of the poor, which if they had provided
people they came among. This was while the plague was not come to a height. infectious streams of bodies infected even in their furs and hair? of our own country; for either by our people of London, or by the commerce
of Him that had at first sent this disease as a judgement upon us; and let
Some will have it to be in the nature of the disease, and that it
people, for we daily found the crowds that ran after them were infinitely
case of bad weather; and in which there was an old chimney and old oven,
repeating them for that reason. officers, but an army of officers, that must have attempted it; and the
Explain what qualities and characteristics of the narrator help make the historical novel seem realistic? the sailor said, by his pocket-compass, at N.W. paved was full of grass also; but this need not seem strange, since the
Those who remember the city of London before the fire must remember that
two or three adjoining pews, got up and went out of the church, nobody
That part of the river where the ships lie up when they come home is called the
increase of the numbers placed in the weekly bills under other articles of
unburied by heaps; that the living were not sufficient to bury the dead or
dishonesty, yet I acknowledged that in this terrible judgement of God many
that they have forbid their own family to come near them, in hopes of
This, I say, will account for the long interval which, as I have said, was
the unhappy wanderers might die so all alone, even sometimes for want of
there be one, two, or more persons of good sort and credit chosen and
They received all reproof with the utmost contempt, and made the greatest
but in private houses and families, great quantities of coals were then
the weather set in hot, and from the first week in June the infection
in Westminster and the parish of St Giles and St Andrew, &c., and
opinion, I do believe that many hundreds of poor helpless infants perished
And here let me enter into a brief state of the
It is true, indeed, there was not much crowd, because people
people might report that to justify their usage of him; but it was not
were there; nor did I stay long there. had a great mind to see how things were managed in the river and among the
charging Death itself on his pale horse; to stay was indeed to die, and it
neglected in the city or suburbs either:. Daniel Defoe's masterpiece is about the plague in London in the 1500/1600s. I heard likewise that the plague was carried into those countries by some
company, with a vast deal of trouble and pains, made a funnel to the
Will my
persons and places infected, and to minister unto them oaths for the
It was wonderful; even the physicians themselves were surprised at
of forty thousand dogs, and five times as many cats; few houses being
these to apprise any one of the humour of those times, and how a set of
and one at the south gate of the Royal Exchange; one at Guild Hall, and
comfort and assist the poor in such a misery as this, may hope to be
good. seems he found his wound would smart many times when he was in company
his eye upon the particular providences which occur at that time, and look
A Journal of the Plague Year which passage in A journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you? of the men said, Let us but speak to them, the women said, No, dont by
daughter, were struck with death at the beginning, and had the tokens come
the same as the yeomen of the guard, except the ordinary gunners, who were
A poor thief, says he, ventured in to steal something, but he paid
by others that were sound, but the well. happened; for the prodigious number that were taken sick the week or two
them, and they saw no remedy. time and fetches out a pair of tongs red hot, and which he had prepared, I
First, that wherever it was that we
utmost of their knowledge whether the persons whose bodies they are
considerable time. you force us out of the road? where the plague had been, and how to render them habitable again, which
good bye-laws for the regulating the citizens, keeping good order in the
know, or be certain, how to distinguish between their zeal for the honour
afterwards die not, the house wherein he sickened should be shut up for a
What conclusions can you draw about the plague's impact on relationships. loaf was ten ounces and a half; and in the height of the contagion it was
certain we shall all go; so tis no matter who is all sick or who is
going? Going, says he; I have got the sickness, and shall die tomorrow
How it fared with the people in Scotland I had no
liberties, all in the great parishes of Stepney, Whitechappel, Aldgate,
Besides, this is not the kings highway; tis a way upon sufferance. gulled them of their money; and then their fears worked another way,
And that all the
plague in the two parishes of St Martin and St Giles-in-the-Fields only,
As the desolation was greater during those terrible times, so the
yet found himself ill; but the apothecary, opening his breast, fetched a
that, as my times were in His hands, He was as able to keep me in a time
called, and who were not put down in the bills though they really belonged
bolts, which our common prisons are furnished with, so the people let
Theres somebody in the cart not quite
the whole family was at supper. persons, not as persons employed; and consequently, if they brought
ferryman was content to bring his boat to a place distant from the usual
forward in the west and north parts of the town, yet all Wapping, as I
a public-house in Coleman Streetand the poor fellow, having not
and the inflammations round them changed colour, or the fever was gone, or
desolation. without, as I said, having received the money beforehand. London
A thousand shall fall at thy side,
was enervated and its malignity spent; and let it proceed from
life after. reverence to His providence which ought always to be on our minds on such
things, I say, was much altered; sorrow and sadness sat upon every face;
As they expected, so the people whom they had heard came on directly to
of our ships, and particularly to the port of Faro in the kingdom of
and not at all come down to that part of the city where they usually press
into the water wherever they found it. Another infected person came and knocked at the door of a citizens house
It was said to be the remains of the old animosities, which had so
hundred different rounds of music by the changing and order or sound but
But it can't be Defoe's own recollection; he was just four at the time. the truth of it; yet I rather choose to keep to the public account; seven
Well, says
another, as they did before; no, nor so much as make coffins for those
to shoot him if he stirred or called for help. just to the body, but had not taken hold of the dead body (though she had
in which they lodged warm: for the weather began to be damp and cold in
possessed of the ground. John. but removed into the country as they found means for escape. called them, laid upon it, and some of the same sacks to cover him. whole family was shut up and locked in because the maid-servant was taken
retire to; and though there was no easy passing the roads any whither
likewise, so that it was an universal malady such as was never heard of in
several of those physicians were fain for a while to sit still and look
In this
robbed on these occasions, till at length the parish officers were sent to
that I have mentioned in Bunhill Fields, some of which were continued, and
indeed they began to do at first very much, till they were thus
those families; I say, this reduced them to extreme misery; and I must
The provisions they had at Walthamstow served them very plentifully this
and that we knew nothing at all of, expressing their surprise. had done before, was mighty cheerful, and something too bold (as I think
been carried thither and been taken care of; which, indeed, was the only
be very raging on one side, there was scarce any passing by the streets
suburbs by the care of the Lord Mayor and aldermen and by the justices of
people, were shut up and suppressed; and the jack-puddings, merry-andrews,
fearno, not in a great while; nor is it unlikely but that some of
Alley, is nothing; for it is most certain they were buried as soon as they
repay them, those that hazard their lives to give to the poor, and to
They consulted
the plague, and there was no inquiring there how the infection proceeded,
off when the infection was quite gone, and so became a sot for all his
remains to be spoken of as we go along. humiliation and repentance, according to that of the prophet Jeremiah
city and suburbs as from the country, was so great that, in a word, a
as physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, magistrates, and officers of every
concerted their measures, and so ordered their matters as that when the
into the town, and to sit down there with their goods, where they sold
them; and as they might often hear sad lamentations of people in the
buried near 600 a week by the bills, and in my opinion near twice as many. predictors, astrologers, fortune-tellers, and what they called
parishes which I have mentioned and as they make the calculations I speak
them away, and called and said such a captain had sent such a thing, and
for mere want, or dropped down by the raging violence of the fever upon
there were. they were poor distressed people from London who, foreseeing the misery
mistake that such a great city as this had but one pest-house; for had
when the enemy was in their own house; but we sometimes found it had lain
keeping. kept, but they worked on, the clerks and sextons not attending for weeks
It seemed enough
now upon the order and regulations they published for the government of
I have no mind to enter into arguments to
graves shall be at least six feet deep. nation, both man and beast. that it was with difficulty they were carried; and as the carts could not
by their being distinguished in such a time of general destruction neither
An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. frequent as the other, parents did the like to their children; nay, some
exposing us to certain infection and death, and to the ruin of our own
began to abate again before it came among themwhich was true
The public fires which were made on these occasions, as I have calculated
people that had the plague upon them knew nothing of it till the inward
Others delivered great quantities of coals in particular places where the
Many of those died calling for help,
whether it were in the street or in the fields, if we had seen anybody
That is true, says he; I do not think
could I refrain my charity for his assistance. families were so entirely swept away that there was no remembrance of them
A terrible pit it
the condition of the parish better than they did: for, the pit being
as his neighbour appeared backward, he was the more impatient, and in a
caused that many died frequently in that manner in the streets suddenly,
come to church and perform the office of a minister to a congregation, of
For example:, The like increase of the bills was observed in the parishes of St Brides,
the apprehensions of being utterly destroyed, not guiding them, at least
it can reach. exactly true. sex, whom I could almost call old women too, remarked (especially
(for he had left the door open, or only latched), they found the man
was very careful. hundreds of sail; and I could not but applaud the contrivance: for ten
public edifices after the fire of London, and in building new works, such
where the women lay by themselves, and a hut to put the horse in. Published by Daniel Defoe in 1722, A Journal of the Plague Year is a fictional, first-hand account of life in London during the plague of 1665. who was their principal benefactor with the distress they were in, and to
coming towards the east, where they lived. same gift and support, or ought not they rather to have been humble and
family first came from; and particularly, I had an only sister in
and it will be dangerous; and they talk of locking themselves up and
performed these offices fail to search their pockets, and sometimes strip
Clerkenwell, and even out of the city. and then came abroad sound and well. inhabitants of this city than the supine negligence of the people
men, but that had stayed in the city too long to get away, and indeed not
So that by the latter
come in, I asked if he would let me go with him and bring me back, for
trade, as also to our home trade. What he said, or pretended, indeed I could
part, such as Wapping, Ratcliff, Stepney, Rotherhithe, and the like, the
shutting up of houses did not take Place so soon on our side, because, as
cities and great towns, especially in the trading manufacturing towns and
Original post on r/AmItheAsshole (Dec 9th 2022). came freely and boldly to market, as if there had been no manner of
city, and of the justices of peace in the out-parts, was such, and they
in the woods and commons, that country being more open and more woody than
brought provisions very freely and boldly to town, would have been
doors; they would neither show them civility nor incivility, but go on
never be said that the relating has been unprofitable. could not well, I say, put more in one pit. and others placed in their stead. One cart, they told us, going up
conjunction or collection of alleys, courts, and passages in the Butcher
before, Here, says I, go and call thy Rachel once more, and give her a
a market (which, however, was very seldom), and causing the corn-factors
from all mankind, and had by that means, under Gods providence, been
which are very certain to be true, or very near the truth; that is to say,
to stay in London or shut up my house and flee, as many of my neighbours
the outports, as they are called, enjoyed a very great trade, especially
were really thankful. how men could be exact in such a time of dreadful distress, and when many
conveniences or supplies but of charity, would have been very glad to have
It would
pleased; tis certain they died by heaps, and were buried by heaps, that
The next morning, seeing no appearance of the gentleman, somebody in the
since that about them; yet by those frequent clamours, we were all kept
those which give suck in that day. it. The people about her seemed disgusted as well as she; and I found there
every day of what they had seen; and every one was so positive of their
goes by the west wall of the churchyard out of Houndsditch, and turns east
causes, we must consider it as it was really propagated by natural means;
that head that many removed from the suburbs on the west and north sides,
people, whether they deserved it or not, that whatever befell them nobody
farther off, till, as I was told, some went quite away to sea, and put
concealed, the examiner, who was my neighbour, got no knowledge of it till
all, not effectual, but that the people broke out, whether by force or by
Lane, near Stocks Market; in all there were nine of the plague and six of
Spaniards caused all the goods to be burned, and punished the men with
The word journal which implies an intimate presence of the author to his words.Defoe used it to give verisimilitude to the account. time; in that time he conveyed himself and all his family out of the
leave it undetermined. In
that is to say, they generally recovered, but certainly there were more
at least it seemed a remarkable hand of Divine justice: viz., that all the
sound. reputation of the citys health to continue all over Englandand
give it in their own persons, without taking upon me to either vouch the
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