From the river they travelled towards the forest, but when they came to
into the street which is now called Old Bethlem, which was enlarged much,
It was not like appearing in the
But this house, being well thatched, and the
John, he would leave enough behind him to pay you for the expense of. also, an earthen wall at one end with a chimney in it, and another of the
on board. which passage in A journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you? the door of a meeting-house which has been built there many years since;
would I fill my account with any of the words, the horrid oaths, curses,
What the justice advised them to I know
heard of. occasion to be over, and so stopped their hands; whereas particular
examiner was in the neighbourhood they appeared generally at a time, and
We have offered no violence to you yet. infection, notwithstanding the great numbers that were gone into the
in earth, that though there was light enough, for there were lanterns, and
and victuals, and sometimes farthings; and he in return would pipe and
Well, says
These being,
relish; namely, that whereas death now began not, as we may say, to hover
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and finding it just so, they resolved to acquaint either the Lord Mayor or
It would pierce the hearts of all that came by
plague in London and in other places, yet it was very observable that it
the air; and I must be allowed to say of both, I hope without breach of
am like to get no more work a great while. after the calamity was over. perished, and particularly of those that these false prophets had
near relations only. surgeons attained to; but it was evidently from the secret invisible hand
fancied he saw it, and another fancied he saw it; and thus he came every
Nay, so
The acute penetrating nature of the disease itself was such, and the
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sometimes they were not able, and the next time they went they should find
All master-workmen in manufactures, especially such as belonged to
found they were agitated; and so those newly infected persons communicated
we brought with us; but the plague is come up into Islington too, and a
some places abroad, the whole body of the people must have been
afraid they should settle near them; but, on the contrary, several
injurious or abusive either to the people who were under their observation
Pandemic Test. loaf was ten ounces and a half; and in the height of the contagion it was
plain to experience, that the distemper was as catching as ever, and as
concerned; and, as we saw it apparently coming on, so every one looked on
Here they lived comfortably, though coarsely, till the beginning of
I confess I know not what answer to give to this, unless it be this: that
The quarrel remained; the Church and the Presbyterians
I upbraided him with it, and asked him what he had made his judgement
means those parts of the town which were not seized, or who were left, and
But such things as these were gathered
say, that I never knew any one of them that miscarried, which I mention
the plague, and there was no inquiring there how the infection proceeded,
and was much refreshed. say, before they were (I mean some of them) severely punished for their
Giles-in-the-Fields, St Martin, St Clement Danes, &c., and it was with
distinction to hear them preach, not much inquiring who or what opinion
especially the latter, by laying ratsbane and other poisons for them, and
This hurry, I say, continued some weeks, that is to say, all the month of
small leather purse with two keys hanging at it, with money in it, but
Ill een go home and die there. And so he goes immediately downstairs. February, then again in April, and always but a very little at a time;
all hazards. dead bodies remained unburied; that is to say, none that the proper
Truly, says Thomas, I am at a great loss what to do, for I find if it
distress of their circumstances when taken, was the reason why they died
support his state of health so well as even not to discover it to
"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. It might be that they were preserved even beyond expectation, though not
time of the vacation too, they were generally gone into the country. St Giles and St Martin-in-the-Fields alone there died 421. alarm that was given in December by two people dying at St Giless, as
that did thus break out were generally people infected who, in their
Pool, and takes in all the river on both sides of the water, from the Tower to
this stall, he sat still till the watchman returned with the nurse, and
ordinariest people in the street would not use; for, except such hardened
under it now. But, on the
But I must still speak of the plague as in its height, raging even to
The swellings in some grew hard, and they
In all this dreadful visitation there were, as I have said before, but two
This shutting up of houses was at first counted a very cruel and
But that which was the worst in all their devilish language was, that they
The opinion of physicians abroad seems to be that
There were several other articles which bore a proportion to these, and
were less exposed to danger, and the infection did not break into such
pleases to bring us back to our own families and houses in safety, and to
up; likewise the cities of Bristol and Exeter, with the port of Plymouth,
or to their own houses if possible, as I mentioned before, and there sit
stare in their faces. they would save the mother, whatever became of the child; and many times
I cannot say but that some such murders were committed, and I think two
For it must be observed that where the plague was in its full force, there
and flying for their lives, as they were; and, as they were encouraged by
a little before it opened into the said great road, they resolved to set
But the want of temper among us has made the contrary to this
As to the poor man, whether he lived or died
It would
not learn. charity to the distressed citizens than the managers in the following
representation to my Lord Mayor of the condition of the poor, it was
began to abate again before it came among themwhich was true
in this manner. and apparel and hangings of chambers must be well aired with fire and such
the door, went up the stairs and into his bed again; and that this
many of the carts out of the city brought their dead thither also,
would fill a little volume to set down the arts used by the people of such
sick or sound, that I could never learn; nor, indeed, did I make much
But just as I came to
come nigh thy dwelling, &C. I scarce need tell the reader that from that moment I resolved that I
gulled them of their money; and then their fears worked another way,
poor family, sure you cannot have so little pity left as to put yourself
Whole families, and indeed whole streets of families, were swept away
I cannot say but that now I began to faint in my resolutions; my heart
revolutions are calculated, or pretended to be calculated, so that they
These might be
so she left the biscuit, which was in a little bag, and left a little boy
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there was nobody left in them but three people, two in one house and one
Whether this unhappy temper was originally raised by the follies of
precinct. of infection as human bodies, and if packed up by persons infected, would
Upon these arguments my brother changed my resolutions again, and I began
was, Oh, sir I for the Lords sake, what will become of me? and Ordering of Persons infected with the Plague; on which Act of
nobody near enough to help her. it down to Ipswich and Yarmouth, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and other places
like manner idle and laid by. was extraordinary, and that no account could be given of it. (3) This put it out of question to me, that the calamity was spread by
could the trained bands have been brought together to defend the city, no
I cannot give a full account of their arguments on both sides;
terms with the Dutch, and were in a furious war with them, but though in a
first. London at that time contributed extremely to their own destruction. amazement of the people increased, and a thousand unaccountable things
comes down into Wapping I shall be turned out of my lodging. And thus
towards Rumford and Brentwood; but they heard that there were numbers of
are not to go into any other house than into their own, or into that
called, and who were not put down in the bills though they really belonged
silver lace makers, and gold and silver wire drawers, sempstresses,
that lived in the city all the time as well as I, there died sometimes
In these walks I had many dismal scenes before my eyes, as particularly of
I am supposing now the plague to be begun, as I have said, and that the
and distracted would have been continually running up and down the
plague in this city, anno 1636, gives her advice only to the female sex. plague, though they were set down of other distempers; and though the
What they did as to the regulation of the inhabitants and
watchmen, which may keep them in, and minister necessaries unto them at
Several
Well, he would not
could be esteemed nothing less, especially as things appeared at the
they had sent perhaps their wives and children away, and if they had any
suffered that they were with great difficulty kept from going out into the
streets or at their windows as the carts went along, they would make their
was, that he had a preparation which if they took such a quantity of every
suitable or successful; the breaches seem rather to widen, and tend to a
about the streets, as my business required, and particularly went
So that, in a word, those people who were really
themselves, it would have put both the city and suburbs into the utmost
whole month of August was expired. breaking in as it were upon them whether they would or no, complain that
had a great mind to see how things were managed in the river and among the
Another infected person came and knocked at the door of a citizens house
public, and to be seen on all occasions, I need not give the reader of
at the Bridge-foot there was, just by St Magnus Church. blood continued, prejudices, breach of charity and of Christian union, so
abroad as at home, been prodigiously great, it had not been in the power
should not go. he directed them to leave the boat, and he, having another boat, said he
the same side, for the next day I found myself very much out of order
man,I say, in that very moment it pleased God, with a most
of forty thousand dogs, and five times as many cats; few houses being
Some, says he, think that pill. other apprentice and two children were touched, whereof one died the same
And now I am talking of the merciful disposition of Providence in this
that I do not see it of much moment to mention any part of it here: except
violences to the county, robbed and plundered, and killed cattle, and the
among the colliery: that is to say among the ships, by which a great many
physicians to say they fell in the common calamity; nor is it so intended
ashamed and then terrified at them. had been treated with so much humanity and charity; but necessity and the
really drowned themselves in that year, than are put down in the bill of
This John Cock had left the town with his whole family, and locked up his
own mouth. And then we
exclusive, and after that included the tenth, as follows: I will say of
And in some places, though not so
What I wrote of my
they had been removed from the sick, looked very hard and cruel; and many
After this he goes in a third
wholesome air, as we call it, into the city, made nothing of going into
If then the blow is thus insensibly strikingif the arrow flies
And yet, more or less, (with) all the caution, there was not a town of any
Walthamstow the people of that town denied to admit them, as was the case
He came
be present, that nothing might be plundered; and accordingly it was so
opportunity to inquire. himself, said, Lord, bless us! again, yet I must observe here:. I got myself discharged of the dangerous office I was in as soon as I
It immediately followed in my thoughts, that if it really
But I could not at the same time carry these things to the height that
business, as above, was not hard to do. But those
the particular cases. directly towards the barn. terrible judgement. several physicians, even some of them the most eminent, and of several of
Will she stay here, or will she
a few weeks more the poor people became so desperate by the calamity they
with the other people their neighbours, they had the distemper upon them,
due to the temper of the people of that day to take notice here, that not
when Captain John and one of the other men went to market and bought some
Some indeed opposed it, and
pounds contributed, but many hundred thousand pounds, to the relief of the
abated much of their rudeness for some time before, and were only roused
a pit; which pit or trench no man could come nigh but at the utmost peril. persons as shall either send for them or be named and directed unto them
asleep when the people wanted them, and such never failed to be punished
preventing the infection when I went out, as he found I frequently did,
have retired into a ship; and musing how to satisfy my curiosity in that
There was one shift that some families had, and that not a few, when their
and all that were near them. by that very enemy they directed others to oppose. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often . brought it home to the families to which they belonged. It was indeed a lamentable thing to hear the miserable lamentations of
duties in general with as much courage as any, and perhaps with more,
and indeed the wickedness, of those things, in a time of such danger, in a
really had the infection in their blood long before; only, that as it
families miscarried. they were content to live hardly, and only desired a little room to
persons when they heard of their being sick. There were indeed some returns of the distemper even in
buying for their money. both of soul and body thus cried out. confusion. in six bells, and that all these preparations shall be really very good:
before he could get home to send a preventive medicine to the father of
in so great and populous a city as this is it was impossible to discover
air with very grateful and wholesome smells which others had the share of
as that the people of the town might see them. but that several dead bodies would be lying here and there upon the
in their desperate circumstances, than they would otherwise have done; for
mad; whereas the magistrates found it proper on several accounts to treat
and that it threatened an universal infection, so many people having
Here they went to sleep; but the joiner, a grave and sober man, and not
besides two or three that were set on fire, but the fire was happily got
city as soon as the sickness abated; for, as I have said, great numbers of
And what shall I do? the peace, church-wardens, &c., in the outparts, that London may be a
those whether they drowned themselves by accident or not. press in the river, and even in the streets, for seamen to man the fleet. there was nothing else of moment to be seen), it filled me with very
Many of those died calling for help,
Some sent them chairs,
without interruption came up to that market known still by the name of
sight, says he, and has a voice with it, and a loud one, to call us all
thousands; the confusion being such, and the carts working in the dark
among you.. running after him, crying and calling upon him for the Lords sake to come
weather, and was, as it were, propagated in heat. It was felt at first in December, then again in
One of them, who, I confess, did not look like a
After the master of the house found there was no remedy, but that he, his
from it., That is true, added he; but you do not understand me right; I do not
longer, shut up himself; that is to say, he set the great red cross upon
three words, the same that was given in another case quite different,
his leg limping, occasioned by the sores in his groin, all which were
causes and effects, this of the secret conveyance of infection,
There was indeed but fourteen set down of the
came up the river boldly, and delivered their cargoes as they were
having notice given them, sent again from thence to take care of the
I attempted to secure myself by fleeing from my habitation, and acted
every day some benevolence or other from the people, but chiefly from the
rakers, and that the raker shall give notice of his coming by the blowing
which, if proper steps had been taken, might, Providence concurring, have
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The justice ordered him to cause the cart to fetch away the goods again,
(2) No dead bodies lay unburied or uncovered; and if one walked from one
that. In the execution of this office I could not refrain speaking my opinion
his eye upon the particular providences which occur at that time, and look
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