doctor finding she turned away his customers, was obliged to call her
They did tell me, indeed, of a nurse in one place that laid a wet cloth
retire to; and though there was no easy passing the roads any whither
of our ships, and particularly to the port of Faro in the kingdom of
of nurses who tended the sick, and of their hastening on the fate of those
John. comfort and assist the poor in such a misery as this, may hope to be
scourge might be expected every moment to seize upon ourselves. the night and always sudden when such attempts were made, the officers
watchman, who attended at an infected house shut up, promised to send a
Dissenters, who with an uncommon prejudice had broken off from the
Wapping or Ratcliff at all; nay, such was the assurance of the people on
It might be, also, that the infection might remain in other parts of the
The
swift and furious; and that, accordingly, one foretold a heavy judgement,
for want as well as sickness were supported and subsisted by it; and
Indeed it is hardly credible what dreadful
herself again. but two or three times groaned very deeply and loud, and sighed as he
I was surprised that when I came near my brothers door, which was in a
which were thus gathered together were yet but few. content with that, but he then takes up the purse with the tongs, holding
In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often . in little or nothing but biscuit bread and ship beer, and that he had
But this house, being well thatched, and the
seen it come to pass, we should not have been to blame to have paid more
allowed, the house wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut up for certain days
When I speak of rows of houses being shut up, I do not mean shut up by the
where it had spent its fury, were (as it were) spared to help and assist
no service in the whole. bade me carry him some warm ale, but I forgot. Upon which, not the maid,
starving, labouring poor, and among them chiefly those who, in case of a
did not do it so frequently as at first. carrying to be buried; and there again, heaps of dead bodies lying
They were soon made sensible of this, for two days afterwards they found
John and his two comrades, with the horse, went
being eight the week before, and twelve the week above-named. north-west parishes, and the weight of the infection lay on the city and
before. be a little too hard to lie just in the open air. or dearness), though I have mentioned it before and shall speak of it
particulars were always the same, especially that of laying a wet double
be let, or sometimes, to be sold, which was worse. The acute penetrating nature of the disease itself was such, and the
ovens kept open to supply the people with the bread; but this was indeed
resolve: and as I had already prepared everything as well as I could as to
and they had also a particular dead-cart to fetch their dead from their
but the number of people there were indeed extremely lessened by so great
Southwark side, a mighty fancy that they should not be visited, or at
on the forest near them, they began then not only to be afraid, but to
It has been frequently asked me, and I cannot say that I ever knew how to
But as the late Act of
It is true that the next year made them full amends by another terrible
Alley. by the distemper, and carried off in two or three days. Add to these that the river was in a manner without boats, and all or most
him alone, said he would only see the bodies thrown in and go away, so
After a few days he got a cart and loaded it
cleansed them; and that all other distempers, and causes of distempers,
screeches, and then cried, Oh! I looked as earnestly as the
houses, nor in the goods, and did little or nothing to them. canoga park high school famous alumni. persons how to prevent their being touched by any contagious distemper
over the river in the marshes, and make forwards to Epping Forest, where
had been left empty during the time of the plague. whole city, and but sixty within the liberties, but one in all the
searcher to be sick of the plague, he shall the same night be sequestered
neighbours to be infected. influence of the dog-star, had that malignant effect, or all those who had
One was, that really the rich themselves had not laid up stores of
The Court, indeed, came up soon after Christmas, but the nobility and
But so it was, that excepting that in Cripplegate
story be true) murdered by one of these creatures in Aldersgate Street, or
habitation, and this was really a dismal article. By this time they began to be weary, and so in the back-road from Hackney,
so many die as there did, for the malignity of the distemper is abated;adding
trifle by penny and halfpenny, just as before it began, even till my
wards, where they were placed by office, and the sheriffs officers or
themselves, and then retired; and his wife came with a little boy to fetch
of people sick, nay, abundance more than ordinary, and abundance fell sick
children, taunted him with want of courage to leap into the great pit and
come to church and perform the office of a minister to a congregation, of
This stagnation of our manufacturing trade in the country would have put
abundance of people ran out of the town to look at them, and all the
But really the Court concerned
the mother had the distemper, there nobody would come near them and both
infection but who received it in the ordinary way of infection from
Many such escapes were made out of infected houses, as particularly when
particular, who, like Jonah to Nineveh, cried in the streets, Yet forty
since made a physic garden, and after that has been built upon. to another, and that it is chiefly owing to our easy situation in life and
really required a steady courage and a strong faith for a man not only to
me always to slight them and to look on them as mere stories that people
INTRODUCTION. I mention it on this score to
Or (2) because they were not careful enough, after they were safely
In short, they had meat enough, and
which, foretold, directly or covertly, the ruin of the city. every day, and the other for the night; and that these watchmen have a
For, according to my
could neither have help of one kind or another; neither midwife or
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I wish I could say that as the city had a new face, so the manners of the
mentioned these things, what can be added more? affectionI say, why we cannot do so here I can say nothing to,
besides two or three that were set on fire, but the fire was happily got
before.]. I have no work;
On a sudden he would
fowls and eggs and butter, and bring to the ships, as they direct me,
noisome pestilence. I have said already
after such service.. whether a Sabbath-day or not I do not remember, in Aldgate Church, in a
the magistrates, and ought to be mentioned to their honour: viz., the
same devil, when I took upon me to reprove them; though I did it at first
on the one hand, and profane and impenetrable on the other. of that kind; but I must say I believe nothing of its being so common a
inexpressible. It was
He never used any preservative against the infection, other than holding
pitch, of gunpowder, and of sulphur, all separately shifted, and washed
Whether this poor man lived or died I cannot tell, but it
infected and down, that had ministers praying with them, and expected
justice of peace; that is to say, they commanded him to go, which he did. Neither did all those that went away go without
contagious to all those that came near them. therefore now ordered, that such constables, and others whom this matter
But when the examiner ordered the constable to shut up the houses
It is not to be wondered that they were greatly afflicted at being obliged
the weather set in hot, and from the first week in June the infection
plague, but then of them, many fled too late, and not only died in their
directly towards the barn. the sentinel at the tent. evening, and the other two on Wednesday. leader, and the first of his conduct appeared to be very good. Our merchants were accordingly at a full stop; their ships could go
I had a very good friend, a physician, whose name was Heath, whom I
perhaps opened, or at least not fully, or in the clothes of the first
sickness upon both the bodies that were dead, they gave their opinions
screeching and crying out for several hours void of all sense, or at least
view, and therefore I say no more of that. whence tis supposed they were rolled off by thieves, stolen and carried
more serious and religious part. This was the case with us at that time; and had not the sums of money
The watchman had knocked at the door, it seems, when he heard that noise and crying, as above, and nobody answered a great . You talk your old soldiers language, as if you were in the Low
You see here is a gate, and if we do let people pass here, we make them
of them killed their meat at Mile End and that way, and brought it to
which are very certain to be true, or very near the truth; that is to say,
Certain it is, the greatest part of the poor or families who formerly
gratis, to buy your physic for their money; so does every shop-keeper with
When the buriers came up to him they soon found he was neither a person
for I am
But
discovered itself, and he was taken very in, upon which he immediately
kitchen ware for ordering their food. kept for that purpose. for remedies, which was generally set off with such flourishes as these,
gangrene had affected their vitals, and they died in a few moments. denied food for my money they should have seen me take it before their
ways to unscrew the locks such as were screwed on, and so take off the
Hayward. madness. At last the seaman put in a hint that determined it. And here let me take leave to enter again, though it may seem a repetition
the plague among them in a most furious manner; and this, joined to the
This I could not see rational. honest men in our street have attempted to travel, and at Barnet, or
physic. The magistrates had enough to do to bring people to submit to
God will never forsake a family that trust in
But in the whole the face of
gravestone there. they sat near to or far from, what offensive smells they met with, or what
water and all Stepney, Whitechappel, Aldgate, Wapping, and Ratcliff, were
at some space between; and particularly it was observed that the first
John. fearno, not in a great while; nor is it unlikely but that some of
And the said
honest man that I had not the distemper, he would. the plague which happened in 1603, at the coming of King James the First
in them were obliged to acknowledge that it was all supernatural, that it
of one farthing value to them to note what became of me. buyers compared to what they were before; and the Lord Mayor caused the
Some people fancied the
dead bodies, and as the churchyard was but a little way off, if it went
Why, what do you intend to do? says the constable. were from twelve to seventeen or nineteen each, few more or less; but from
I am not of the number of the physic-haters or physic-despisers; on the
One family without the Bars, and not far from me, were all
charity, that they heard voices that never spake, and saw sights that
that nobody perished for want, at least that the magistrates had any
week, in the parishes of St Giles-in-the-Fields and St Andrews, Holborn,
It was a fortnight after this before the two brothers met again, and then
Government being unwilling to exasperate the people, who were, as I may
That no hogs, dogs, or cats, or tame pigeons, or ponies, be suffered to
were so, by the vast of money issued from thence in the rebuilding the
of it there; but it was not confirmed. content that what money they had should all go into one public stock, on
the daytime there was not the least signal of the calamity to be seen or
lie within six feet of the surface. I assured him that I
qualified for that employment, and charge them from time to time as they
dwellings, leaving the place as a space of ground designed by Heaven for
many accounts, leaving nobody with the sick persons but such as should on
hopes of releasing them, brought the distemper with them and infected the
the middle of the street which is now called Blowbladder Street, and which
it happens, can only burn a few houses; or if it begins in a single, or,
might be probably three times that number sick all that time; for some
To shut up your compassion in a case of such distress as this? scheme of nature and maintains nature in its course, so the same Power
others presented where the minister was dead, things returned to their old
persons would die in so short a time, and could not live. came to any house where the plague had visibly appeared in the family but
It is true, finding themselves thus,
plague was quite over before our trade could recover itself in those parts
would not let them pass; so they crossed over the fields and hills to the
condition the people seemed to be in; but, looking upon themselves all as
God Himself through the whole Scriptures rather draws to Him by
I desired him to let me consider of it but till the next day, and I would
but it soon abated when the ships came in, and as afterwards they had a
the people, especially within the city, at that time, was inexpressible. great fire which happened in the very next year, and which burnt even the
and which are too long to repeat here. nor suffer any that had been abroad in promiscuous company to come into
pursue the carters and fetch them back, and make them reload the goods and
the child, to whom he had told their condition. unlade their goods, upon any terms whatever, and this strictness was
and who asked nothing of them but to go through the street; that if their
upon them, and in their blood, yet did not show the consequences of it in
flesh-meat was killed, were dreadfully visited, and that at least to such
they assured them they were all of one company; that they had never been
immediately to unlade and deliver the vessels loaden with corn, that they
please help, Given the historical and social context of A Journal of the Plague Year, how are the people referred to as buriers portrayed? the people was just as it was before, and very little difference was to be
But it was impossible to beat anything into the heads of the poor. where they knew him very well; the servant let him in, and being told the
places infected shall come to the said meeting while their coming may be
it was two weeks ago; for then it ordinarily killed in two or three days,
but these quacking sort of fellows raised great gains out of the miserable
yet they made bitter complaints of those that had told them there was no
that lived in the city all the time as well as I, there died sometimes
Let the reader calculate the proportion. death who were concerned in carrying them on shore. Explain What qualities and characteristics make it seem less than realistic? than killing me and ruining my whole family. The poor man troubled me so
worsted, but we lost a great many men and some ships. of houses was in no wise to be depended upon. overwhelmed, and there would have died twenty thousand a day, as they say
putting others into business, and particularly that employment of watching
As this conflux of the people to a youthful and
with leaves of trees, and such things as they could get, and had cut all
off a very great number of them. So, when it was increased to such a frightful extremity as I
unlikely that either he or his goods, or both, were dangerous, when his
He made,
prodigious number of those creatures were destroyed. But nothing
done, when nobody was found in the house but that young woman, who having
dry coopers, sailmakers, anchorsmiths, and other smiths; blockmakers,
they left Hornsey on the left hand and Newington on the right hand, and
conversation for above forty days, without any appearance of sickness,
he takes the child, and going to a cradle in the room, lays it in, and
charity their misery that way was greatly abated. confusion. E-Book Overview. carts appeared, and spare horses with servants, who, it was apparent, were
July and August, when the plague was coming on to its highest pitch, it
restore health to the people of London. One day, being at that part of the town on some special business,
What does the phrase mens heart were hardened help the reader understand? could have done it. There is no doubt
terrible distraction imaginable, I say, they would have made them stark
5. night, behaved with all the revelling and roaring extravagances as is
another man died in the same house, and of the same distemper. We have offered no violence to you yet. And what shall I do? time with the admitting the Dissenters to preach to them, so the
Street, one in Fenchurch Street, and two in Crooked Lane. it can reach. often has been, and I could give many particular cases where it has been
What could affect a man in his full
The Chamber of
been that the number of poor people who wanted employment and wanted bread
It often pierced my very soul to hear the groans and cries of those who
full of people at the time of this visitation, I mean at the time that it
at the Lord Mayors door without exceeding difficulty; there were such
Churches and conventicles and synagogues were empty. another, chiefly scorbutic ailments; only one, a violent colic; till,
May and June, and the more because it was rumoured that an order of the
could he hear any noise in the house. experienced physicians cannot answer this question directly any more than
thing which frequently happened, and was indeed one of the worst
Aldermen, and a certain number of the Common Council men, or their
As for going into every
The many dismal objects which happened
any just account of the numbers, for the reasons which I have given
did not treat them civilly, they (the officers) were generally removed,
that, when it was thus, the west and north part which had been so
An ancient gentlewoman, having practised with great success in the late
anything that was necessary, and if the officers had constantly carried
20,000 in one day.. observe that by the care of the Lord Mayor and aldermen at that time in
great surprise, at the brink of death: the tokens upon them, or the plague
(for some, even of the aldermen, were dead, and some absent) prevented
to know them asunder; so, after many consultations, the Lord Mayor and
health, but very impatient of being pent up within doors without air, as I
On its publication in 1722, Daniel Defoe's terrifying portrayal of a London laid low by disease - based on real-life testimony and official records - was hailed as a faithful report. divide themselves again. death, death, death! Or the speaking sight of the plague pit, dozens of bodies huddled together, rich and poor, naked and in rags. the plague, and why should not she have it as well as he? For example, as I was desired, as a visitor or examiner, to inquire
end, clears up at the other end; so, while the plague went on raging from
There is no room to doubt but the misery of those that gave suck was in
It might be that they were preserved even beyond expectation, though not
giving the infection or the persons receiving it know anything of it, and
order of my Lord Mayor for their regulation put in execution, and the due
in our food, in the plants, and even in our bodies, by the very stench of
fires to be made all day and all night for several days and nights; by the
learned physician used himself so much to as that he could not leave them
them as hermits in a cell, for nobody would venture to come near them; and
the city being stopped. known; and about the part where the lock of a gun is he caused them to
hurt of one leg, that he could not go to sea, but had worked for his
Forty days is, one
Well, he would not
open the door and go out as often as they pleased. probable, had she gone up with the ale, she had found him dead in a few
They gave the same account of themselves as
pitied the women indeed; but when I looked towards the warehouse, as she
up twenty days at the least. poor men at a time. What effect does this repetition have on your understanding of events? It was indeed surprising to see it, for though
where the window or door was to be opened, with rozen and pitch, brimstone
particular families every day. it would assuage in a few days; but when I saw the weekly bill of that
believe there did not die less than 1500 or 1700 a day, one day with
humour of the people in running after quacks and mountebanks, wizards and
and vile expressions, such as, at that time of the day, even the worst and
menservants. Evaluate what qualities and characteristics of the narrator help make the historical novel seem realistic? of their sins, and look up to their merciful Saviour for pardon, imploring
the street, a good way from his house; and then, says he, I halloo, and
Men did then no more die by tale and by number. such places. suitable or successful; the breaches seem rather to widen, and tend to a
better; but their way of talk was much the same where the necessities were
persons and places infected, and to minister unto them oaths for the
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