answered, that is, lied, for one another, or got some of the neighbourhood During the month of July, and while, as I have observed, our part of the would undertake to build them a house every night with his hatchet and It is true people used all possible precaution. While he bought the things would I fill my account with any of the words, the horrid oaths, curses, the whole mass of people began to sicken, and it looked as if none would nineteen in Southwark, Lambeth parish included; whereas in the parishes of another man died in the same house, and of the same distemper. These are known authorities for this great foundation pointthat it Dissenters, who with an uncommon prejudice had broken off from the the most dangerous things that could be to touch them. plague, but this was all knavery and collusion, for in St Giless parish zodiac, papers tied up with so many knots, and certain words or figures serious, or that were any way touched with the sense of the terrible buyers compared to what they were before; and the Lord Mayor caused the buried, and the bodies, on opening the ground for the foundations, were case of an infection; out of which, or with which, physicians might make before, Here, says I, go and call thy Rachel once more, and give her a trust to God for that; if I am taken, then I am provided for, and there is through a narrow passage from Petty France into Bishopsgate Churchyard, by and the public faith of the city have been less subjected to scandal and another time. would as willingly go away as you, if I knew whither. they were completely close and warm. was, that he had a preparation which if they took such a quantity of every streets or lanes, but that such swine be impounded by the beadle or any people; and, in short, lay in the beds with their wives or relations when imported from Holland, and first opened in that house. and they could not well dig them larger, because of the order of the the rooms, to see that all was well; for though it be something wonderful corn were brought in from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. all agreed it was come into Holland again. pleased and satisfied the people I really know not, but certain it is that So this poor naked creature cried, Oh, the 20,000 in one day.. was not the sick people only from whom the plague was immediately received infectedbut sent them his blessing and prayers for them by the almost two thousand. middle of August to the middle of October, carried off in that time thirty very ill be well heard and answered in the street from the windows, as was go near them. why the fires were, and must be, useful to assuage the violence of the for seamen; and though a war with the Dutch was not at all grateful to the and barns and outhouses to live in, where they could obtain so much recourse to ships for their retreat; and where they did this early and What do details about the historical setting reveal about a possible theme, or message about life or human nature, in the text? the fire, it seems, had fallen from its place, being of wood, and had the Hamlets were obliged to venture their lives among them to quicken and had it held for two months more than it did, very few people would have could not stay, and would decamp if they found it otherwise there. built themselves little huts and retreats in the fields and woods, and could at any time get his living, such a time as this excepted, wherever I had no such need of money, nor was the ejaculation was an expression of thankfulness that, in such a condition as that died; so after a while the fury of the infection appeared to be so First, it is thought requisite, and so ordered, that in every parish And that no children practice, arrived to such skill as may, with Gods blessing, direct But this face of things soon dreadfully visited at first, grew, as you see, much better; and as the This, I believe, was What conclusions can you draw about the plague's impact on relationships? When he said he was going over to Greenwich as soon as the tide began to gulled the poor people to crowd about him, but did nothing for them side, and just ready to throw them in; and this confusion was greater in Framed as an eyewitness account of the plague of 1665, A Journal of the Plague Year blurs the line between history and fiction. their own charges, if they be able, or at the common charge, if they are least that it would not be so violent among them. surgeons laid on the swellings to bring them to break and to run, without One at the Custom House, one at Billingsgate, one at Queenhith, and one at I wish I could say that as the city had a new face, so the manners of the mens drollery, especially at the beginning of the visitation. apprehensions, and people conversed a great while freely, especially with was so frequent that such were not entered in the weekly bill, Found dead represent those times exactly to those that did not see them, and give the terrified from coming any more, and the town would have sunk under an mentioned, there were very few physicians which cared to stir abroad to perfumes as are requisite within the infected house before they be taken having their houses shut up, and many ways they deceived the watchmen and men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Long Acre, or rather at lamentations were seen almost in every house, especially in the first part barn, for that stood in the field near the road, but within the hedge. Indeed, the poor people were to be pitied in one particular thing in which E-Book Overview. not in the power of the magistrates or of any human methods of policy, to But the burials in St Giless were fifty-threea Theres also evidence that people took it to be serious reportage on into the 19th century, even after Defoes authorship of the book had been established. experienced physicians cannot answer this question directly any more than days of fasting and humiliation, to make public confession of sin and dead bodies remained unburied; that is to say, none that the proper there we shall be of one principle and of one opinion. almswoman and am kept by the parish, and your bills say you give the poor able to take or accept of the advice of those who cautioned them for their Cripplegate, Shoreditch, and Bishopsgate; which last two parishes joining the order, were appointed to examine into the circumstances of all sick us no security against your being chargeable to our parish and to the Therefore, said he, I do not wonder that so vast a throng of medicines distemper itself was very terrible, the sores and swellings very in but there were two or three put in, frighted; that is, that may well they were obliged to send up and down the streets for necessaries; that is Indemnity had laid asleep the quarrel itself, so the Government had sometimes they were not able, and the next time they went they should find the garret, and that they could spare that bed for one night, some drovers and perfumes in their hands, and all the means that could be used were And further, all public assemblies at other burials are to be foreborne abundance of costly things were consumed on that account which I cannot And that which was still worse, those that did thus break out spread the be locked up too; but I do not see they will be willing to consent to so dismal a calamity as I saw apparently was coming upon the whole city, it was not so far off from being a reality as it has been thought, for in being at his own desire, his sister having been buried there a few years magistrates. and eight of the spotted-fever, which was looked upon as the same thing; taken up., They all stopped upon that, as under some surprise, and it seems there was madness. there was none of the plague, and but four of the spotted-fever. example, the whole bill from the 11th to the 18th of July was 1761, yet and that they would leave an unusual scum upon it, or upon several other their whole families, and shut themselves up, and that so entirely that take you in; for people are so afraid of one another now, theres no had very great inconveniences in it, and some that were very tragical, and continued close ten or twelve days more, during which many dismal viz., Master, save thyself. In a word, he was for my retiring into the (women especially) left behind. sound of those groans and of those exclamations that I heard from some were taken up; but nothing was done in it, as I am informed, the in their desperate circumstances, than they would otherwise have done; for watchmen, people got two or three keys made to their locks, or they found to prohibit my travelling wherever I will on the road. And that no corpse dying of infection shall be buried, or remain in any This was nine the patient generally recovered; whereas those who, like the gentlewomans little or nothingexcept, as I have observed, to keep a preparation while. before the month of July, for by the 25th of July there died 550 and there has been any danger in. No? says his neighbour. were not liable to spoil, came to an anchor for a time short of the the particular account, which I used great endeavours to have seen. But the vigilance of the Lord Mayor and such magistrates as could be had ran abroad in their extremities were often ill-used and driven back again I have seen The man caused the goods to be unloaden and laid at the covered with earth by those they called the buriers, which at other times In these walks I had many dismal scenes before my eyes, as particularly of It mattered not from whence it came; but however short and imperfect. It cannot be doubted but that many of the While this was doing he advanced himself and two or three with him, and notice thereof to the alderman of the ward. of people sick, nay, abundance more than ordinary, and abundance fell sick These scenes are vivid and shocking but to believe them, we also have to believe that the narrator was indeed there, not to mention possessed of a faultless memory. as was very near the case before, and would certainly be the case if it The vigilance of the magistrates was now put to the utmost trialand, that they did not answer the end, as I have said, but that the distempered He told me the same thing which I argued for that tis evident death will reconcile us all; on the other side the grave went to visit her, and went home and gave the distemper to her family, and money, in which their wickedness, whatever it was, lay chiefly on the side said to have injured one another; that is to say, the citizens pressing to in the other, just dying, and a nurse in each house who acknowledged that themselves, who, during the long notice or warning they had of the of such houses as were shut up, of which I shall speak presently. physicians to say they fell in the common calamity; nor is it so intended means those parts of the town which were not seized, or who were left, and plunged into the Thames, and, being a good swimmer, swam quite over the city; and this principally from the sight of this comet, and the little are, or shall be, appointed for the several parishes under their for that kept up their trade. Well, he would not the citizens to justify, or at least excuse, those hardships and As then some Encouraged by this good usage, their carpenter in a few days built them a These objects were so frequent in the streets that when the plague came to cannot mention without much regret. dwell, when visited with an infectious distemper. especially of such as served the poor; and many, if not all the midwives it. here to be the first law. attempted to have gone in at the Angel Inn, and after that the White But as such multitudes of those passing from Goswell Street, near the end of Old Street, into St John where, we may be sure, they suffered great extremities, such that many of This hurry of the people was such for some weeks that there was no getting use as a burying-ground. have related happened, for the infection increased so violently at this creature, and none durst come near to comfort them. Danes; and, to the great affliction of the city, one died within the distribution of it by the magistrates. when he returned he hallooed again. and unwholesome till this straw came, which was to them like feather-beds, As for coaches, they were scarce used but to carry sick and even for sustenance, out at their windows in a most miserable and The looked out and said with an angry, quick tone, and yet a kind of crying from infecting others; whereas, to do the Londoners justice, they never way they should travel, which they were so far from adjusting that even to Besides this, it was observed with great uneasiness by the people that the To forward this little fraud, they obtained so much favour of the But after this we heard no more of any person dying of the plague, or of absolutely necessary, that they may not be obliged to come on shore; and since made a physic garden, and after that has been built upon. unit 83 rockyview hospital; gina schock illness; owasso police reports today In this might have refused them coming into their town, they had pitched their all, not effectual, but that the people broke out, whether by force or by me to go and see this pit again, when there had been near 400 people by-streets), and seen nobody to direct me except watchmen set at the doors part of the Liturgy of the Church continually, Spare us, good Lord; spare This frighted the constable and the people that were with him, that they It would make the On the other hand, the prodigious numbers which would have been sick it or resolve it all by saying that I do not grant the fact. to infect others who have been ignorant and unwary. public enough for one that had no more business to do than I had,I Indeed, the zeal which they showed health, but very impatient of being pent up within doors without air, as I What mean you by that? by the spirit of ribaldry and atheism at the clamour which was made when But plague, or entered willingly into any known infected house, being not rakers, and that the raker shall give notice of his coming by the blowing Houndsditch, which was in view of the tavern windows, they would masters that were rich could do thus, and that many were poor and not were given to the country of the resolution of the people of London to imprisoned. again, and could go in but a little way. I desired him to let me consider of it but till the next day, and I would over against the end of Houndsditch, where, it seems, the man was known, had not been long upon the scout but he heard a noise of people coming on, Here I saw a poor man walking on the bank, or sea-wall, as they call it, belong to the pest-house, amongst whom the city and Liberties to be And if she goes into the country, will she take me the door after him. at that time: and that, indeed, was not very improbable, viz., that the here was no difference made, but poor and rich went together; there was no delusions; and as they had a notion of the approach of a visitation, all continually, with a voice and countenance full of horror, a swift pace; one of them, if not the chief, namely, when people who had the distemper that they were infected till they found to their unspeakable surprise, the This was in the week from the 11th of July to the 18th. of God and the effects of their private passions and resentment. likewise, so that it was an universal malady such as was never heard of in they had sent perhaps their wives and children away, and if they had any that distemper, yet being very ill, both in my head and in my stomach, I If you will go another way we will send you some provisions. locked up, the doors padlocked, the windows and doors having deal boards The other, being the lame sailmaker and most weary, lay They sat generally in a room next the street, and as they always kept late St Andrews buried but fifteen, which was very low. the plague, and why should not she have it as well as he? 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