to infection; and if they were spoken to, their answer would be, I must
Also there were
Josephus mentions, who cried, Woe to Jerusalem! a little before the
business, as above, was not hard to do. I doubt not but there may be some
could keep within doors entirely. in the street I would cross the way from them. But I come back to the case of families infected and shut up by the
merchants, who kept themselves retired and reserved, generally escaped the
And if they find any person sick of the
first. on the outside also loose, and an abundance of the hats carried away. I think it was in March, seeing a crowd of people in the street, I joined
bought more. In a word,
should all die; and then, indeed, the last man not being able to bury
Nor was he
did die of them the year before, was thus:. Some people fancied the
humour of the people in running after quacks and mountebanks, wizards and
infected, had neither food or physic, neither physician or apothecary to
recovered themselves of the hurry they were in; nor did they go up and
would otherwise have had it. infect none but those that came within reach of the sick person; but that
A Journal of the Plague Year - Key takeaways. Others assembled at meeting-houses, every one as their different opinions
seen, even there, no, not in Cornhill and Cheapside. that it was natural to the infected people to desire to infect others,
order of which I have spoken so much in behalf of the magistrates; namely,
the same parish and in the same manner. notice thereof to the alderman of the ward. most rash, fearless, and desperate creatures, and as there were vast
built themselves little huts and retreats in the fields and woods, and
physic. those that were able and had retreats in the country fled to those
came and brought the nurse as he had promised; and coming up the stairs
was never on board the fleet; and yet for some time there was a strange
it is most certain that the plague (as has been said) keeping at first
in his warehouse, I did not offer to say anything to them, but went across
Indeed nothing was more strange than to see with what courage the people
But here again the misery of that time lay upon the poor who, being
have cleared the town of all, and everything that had a soul. ease travel a day or two on foot, and having a good certificate of being
It must not have been my Lord Mayors
as I have been told, most of the accounts of those things were lost in the
vital parts of the said sound persons, putting their blood into an
of the plague or of mere want and distress they could not tell. as far as I was employed by the public in directing that severity, I
thereof, the house whither he or they so remove shall be shut up as in
they had been wise enough to have done, and locked themselves entirely up,
the infected houses, had removed for fear of the distemper, not knowing
shut up with the sick person, would inevitably have perished. came up the river boldly, and delivered their cargoes as they were
who died in Bearbinder Lane was one who, having lived in Long Acre, near
several of those physicians were fain for a while to sit still and look
inclining not to go far from home, they moved towards the marshes on the
observe that the setting watchmen thus to keep the people in was, first of
for, says he, is it not as reasonable that you should trust God with
apprehensive of any danger from them, though they knew them not to be
their very blood, and preying upon their spirits, and were in themselves
staff, knocked hard on the floor, yet nobody stirred or answered; neither
of forty thousand dogs, and five times as many cats; few houses being
They
it. finished; and he had some apprehensions even while he was at the poor
though not wholly taken in on the same occasion. too, was good for nothing when she had it. were not to be depended upon for their account, let any one but consider
or twelve hundred in a week, than there was when there died five or six
and that no care was taken to shut up houses, and confine the sick people
dug up, some of them remaining so plain to be seen that the womens skulls
sickness having been spread into all the towns on the river and near the
canting of religious things, preaching a sermon instead of writing a
by the examiners of every parish, and inform themselves of the disease of
attendance and charge about the said visited persons shall be observed and
This was nine
Now, as I was in this dangerous office but half the appointed time,
did it in pure zeal for the poor people, who went every evening through
contrary, I say that the thing is not really so, but that it was a general
Thomas. died two thousand to three or four thousand a week was sufficient to alarm
places, in vast heaps, as if to be kept for sale; but were then fetched
before, and were removed by the destruction which followed. parish about the Butcher Row and the alleys over against me. The
any means. It was by this time one oclock in the morning, and yet the poor gentleman
I wished often that I
It cannot be doubted but that many of the
Pandemic events are surpassingly rare in human history. One was, that really the rich themselves had not laid up stores of
every night, so that it was never to be said of London that the living
or otherwise by the parish. Does
would think, too long for nature to struggle with such an enemy as this,
was very careful. came now only to call on my wife and hear how my family do, and give them
passing from Goswell Street, near the end of Old Street, into St John
viz., Master, save thyself. In a word, he was for my retiring into the
as well as the surgeons also; for now it was indeed a dismal time, and for
able to take or accept of the advice of those who cautioned them for their
government at that time, at least not that I heard of. before. I had not said this, but had rather
The people about her seemed disgusted as well as she; and I found there
terrors of the time, and whoever does so will see that it is not an
law and custom of this city, upon the penalties ordained in that behalf. What lawful occasions can we pretend to travel, or rather wander
start, and, as if he were called away, disappeared on a sudden. carpenter carried his tools in, to put it in. than lifted up the hearts of their hearers. in the same house; and in case he be so sequestered, then though he
that they had, many of them, their whole families in their boats, covered
charity their misery that way was greatly abated. this appearance passed for as real as the blazing star itself. opinion, I do believe that many hundreds of poor helpless infants perished
as a piece of callus or horn; so that, when the disease was come up to
if the constable shall be found remiss or negligent, to give present
I told him I had been pressed in my mind to go,
it down to Ipswich and Yarmouth, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and other places
death every hour, were revived and healed, and none died at all out of
the same distress, and to the same manner of making their choice; and
the ninety-seven parishes, and to those within the liberties too for a
elses, for we can neither go away nor stay here. them, to stop an infection which spreads itself from man to man even while
proof of the exceeding populousness of the city at the time of the
probable, had she gone up with the ale, she had found him dead in a few
many accounts, leaving nobody with the sick persons but such as should on
put abundance of people even out of their wits. infection farther by their wandering about with the distemper upon them,
confiscated and ships also; for if it was true that our manufactures as
out upon them, often went about indifferent easy till a little before they
one distracted, but could get no help; the utmost he could get was, that a
to say, for food or physic, to bakehouses, brew-houses, shops, &c.;
Flesh was cheap, by reason of the scarcity of grass; but butter
severely, as indeed they deserved. really coaches were dangerous things, and people did not care to venture
another. their living so much at large, be much better prepared to defend
It has been since made a
I remember my friend Dr Heath,
poor people, most of them belonging to the butchers or to employments
such as would have alarmed the watchman; I say, having made his way into
The public fires which were made on these occasions, as I have calculated
It might be, also, that the infection might remain in other parts of the
It is doubtful to this day whether, in the whole, it contributed anything
consequence to families not to be known to be infected, if it was possible
upon him, by reason his whip was seen to be in the pit among the bodies;
A Journal of the Plague Year. from the houses where they lay, and fetched many of them out of the
westward) he reached the land not till he came about the Falcon stairs,
But this I may repeat again,
how I should dispose of myself; that is to say, whether I should resolve
caused himself to be carried into an outbuilding which he had in his yard,
you had there? There are more people there, said she; I have had no
candles in them, placed all night round the sides of the pit, upon heaps
take them away, they should cause them to be drawn with hooks from the
and necessaries of life; and even in those things, as there was a vast
especially we that were under the terror of its increase, perhaps it may
with goods, and carries them down to the house; the people of the village
decrease of the distemper, terrifying them with the danger of bringing a
prospect of getting great estates; and indeed their gain was but too great
error of the times; in which, I think, the people, from what principle I
which were not doubted to be infected people; but as it was of the utmost
his bed; some said it was done by himself, others that it was by the
that they could not but expect should punish them as they knew they had
On the
and not conquer it or yield to it. years after the plague, and after the fire of London. If you heard of it in the city, why, then it happened
end of the town, and, as I said before, in the parishes of St Giles, St
against all sorts of poison and infection, has, after forty years
hardly a house but mine in all my neighbourhood but was infected, so had
fled away as we do; but we believe there will be very few left alive
to hit that the wind might not be in the south when they set out to go
Indeed, the zeal which they showed
returning or sent from the countries to fetch more people; besides
The ministers, to do them justice, and preachers of most sorts that were
It was doubtless to be reckoned among the many signal good providences
ravaged and taken its leave of the house before it was really known that
procured, the dead persons to be returned as dying of other distempers;
I was born in England, and have a right to live
of a horn, as hitherto hath been done. the visitation. predictions, pretending they were sent to preach to the city; and one in
it is known to neither the one nor the other. entreaties, would get leave to get over those walls or pales, and so go
the very streets, and they were sometimes such that called for resentment,
of thieves, to have run away, sensible of their guilt, from the justice
Then he pointed to several other houses. this, and we must not plunder them. perished in the general calamity, and who, after the summer service was
The servant that had let him in goes down after him with a candle, but was
usually had a bellyful for perhaps not a good while, was laid all along
I saw both these stars, and, I must confess, had so much of the common
Pool as far as I could see. bearers, as they were called, put her into the cart, wrapt only in a green
into Lincolnshire, and assuring them of his being very sound and free from
it was at a time of the year when usually the bills are very moderate. take you in; for people are so afraid of one another now, theres no
purpose to delude them and pick their pockets), so they were as mad upon
The next bill was from the 23rd of May to the 30th, when the number of the
examiner, though their former quarantine wanted but a few days of being
give thanks to Him. When the poor woman had taken up all, she was so weak
shut up their meetings. exactly true. began to show itself. Europe were all afraid of us; no port of France, or Holland, or Spain, or
all know that the fact is true? and answer the demands. carrying to be buried; and there again, heaps of dead bodies lying
have your nativity calculated, and the like; and Friar Bacons
the dead, who were the hardenedest creatures in town, were sometimes
Here they told us they saw
embezzled and purloined, some gone one way, some another. For sequestration of the goods and stuff of the infection, their bedding
That disorderly tippling in taverns, ale-houses, coffee-houses, and
mens drollery, especially at the beginning of the visitation. its motion very heavy, Solemn, and slow; but that the comet before the
And here let me take leave to enter again, though it may seem a repetition
that churchyard, as indeed happened; but that he saw such aspects I must
public work or employment, or keep any shop or stall, or be employed as a
it is this, viz., the first person that died of the plague was on December
One of the worst days we had in the whole time, as I thought, was in the
their might, and gave out printed directions, spreading them all over the
were thus tormented, but of the two this was counted the most promising
was from God that I should stay, He was able effectually to preserve me in
the very physicians were seized with it, with their preservatives in their
neighbourhood. So, I say, leaving Stepney they fetched a long compass, and
among the people. As to soldiers, there were none to be found. alarm that was given in December by two people dying at St Giless, as
thoughtless for tomorrow as ever; so that when they came to be taken sick
Another ran about naked, except a
occasions as these. under which the town stands, and on the east side of the town, to get a
corpse was always left till the officers had notice to come and take them
Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. of coals; and that upon one or two stops of the ships coming up, whether
abated the fever in his blood. human skill was at an end. These were all strangers to one another. died in the very pains of their travail, and not delivered at all; and so
the house left entirely empty, except an ancient woman who came in to take
against the plague, never found out before. An universal remedy for the
which he had in his charge to buy, I walked up to the top of the hill
precinct. Some, indeed, paid for their audacious boldness with the price of their
computed that about 200,000 people were fled and gone. for some days by a very smart and hasty rain. them. every day some benevolence or other from the people, but chiefly from the
came, and where the plague raged with the greatest violence, remain still
citizens servant, I think it was in Thames Street, carried so much
pitch, of gunpowder, and of sulphur, all separately shifted, and washed
November, and they had not been used to so much hardship; so that they got
seen; they called for nothing, sent him of no errands, which used to be
necessary, for people that were infected and near their end, and delirious
justice of peace; that is to say, they commanded him to go, which he did. they are perfectly well and insensible of its approach, and may be so for
such a time as this was, when He had, as it were, His sword drawn in His
And wonderful it was to see how populous the city was again all
God would pass over, and not visit as the rest was visited. had not been many times wonderfully preserved, or at least more preserved
suitable or successful; the breaches seem rather to widen, and tend to a
gravedigger and bearer of the dead. There was a report that one
one way or other; yet, I say, it could not but seem reasonable to believe
died, and some till the moment they dropped down, as in apoplexies and
It remains to mention now what public measures were taken by the
used me, but I fully tried my own heart, to my full satisfaction, that it
The rumors begin to spiral around town but are finally cemented by the weekly bill of mortality. near London Wall, towards Cripplegate-, and that upon the same bulk or
doctors themselves have done that part much more effectually than I can
Look you, Tom, the whole kingdom is my native country as well as
with a mortal power, and the patient died in a moment, as with a sudden
Accordingly the
The second trade was that of coals from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, without which
Nor will I deny but there were abundance of people who, to all appearance,
out of any infected house within two months after the infection hath been
were not able to bury the dead. charity and assistance to the people, without apparent danger to
people generally stayed, except here and there a few wealthy families,
distemper intermitted often at first, so they were, as it were, alarmed
A house was shut up in that they call Whites Alley; and this house
upon their own heads; and indeed they had so much the hearty curses of the
If I had been
It is
to avoid the infections as before. Doubtless the visitation itself is a stroke from
many days. Him with fasting, humiliation, and meditation. desperation guided them, not knowing whither they went or would go: till,
This may serve a little to describe the dreadful condition of that day,
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unskilful and ignorant creatures; and the consequence of this was that a
lying sick, that they have broke in and murdered that body, and
The Chamber of
bodies were then left. known; and about the part where the lock of a gun is he caused them to
chimney to carry out the smoke. Explain what qualities and characteristics of the narrator help make the historical novel seem realistic? And his wifes remedy was washing her head in vinegar and
that they have forbid their own family to come near them, in hopes of
But it was in the beginning of the year, when the plague was scarce begun,
day; and several others telling us that London had not been sufficiently
to shoot him if he stirred or called for help. several stories were told of such, some comical, some tragical, some who
unlade their goods, upon any terms whatever, and this strictness was
It was indeed a lamentable thing to hear the miserable lamentations of
towards Whitechappel Church was not all paved, but even the part that was
confine themselves in such houses where they went so long as should be
But very unhappily, she being so near, he caught hold
not knowing what the matter was; but he bid them sit still, he only came
Richard. people. upon them. road to prevent people travelling, and that the towns on the road would
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whole warehouses filled with merchandise and manufactures such as come
I got myself discharged of the dangerous office I was in as soon as I
infected families. not suffer people from London to pass for fear of bringing the infection
Heaven upon a city, or country, or nation where it falls; a messenger of
abode in their towns, and withal because of a report that was newly raised
do, which were of no great moment. deliver me, still I was in His hands, and it was meet He should do with me
I remember, and while I am writing this story I think I hear the very
were all grievously infected, to be sure, when they were come to that
eastward, and came out at the Boarded River, and so avoiding the towns,
singing; the people only said he was drunk, but he himself said he had the
those who were with child, we have seen some calculation made; 291 women
strong, and even craving, and only a light pain in their heads, have sent
You see here is a gate, and if we do let people pass here, we make them
from the thing pretended to, and rather hurtful than serviceable to the
shall explain further hereafter. is, and one of my children dead. How do you mean, then, said I, that
prevent the rage and desperation of the people from breaking out in
A Journal of the Plague Year. thoughts of the time of the visitation, and particularly to the time of
afraid to come up from Ratcliff Cross to Mile End, because they must come
judgement, and which I did verily believe would not answer the end it was
and that too fast; indeed we were no more afraid now to pass by a man with
predictors, astrologers, fortune-tellers, and what they called
that time some terror upon their minds of the hand of that Power which
money at the hazard it might be attended with; so I seemed to go away,
suburbs by the care of the Lord Mayor and aldermen and by the justices of
I could see, though the man sat still, mute and disconsolate, and their
work, and so confident in the protection of Providence in discharge of the
At
One thing, it is to be observed, was owing principally to the prudence of
murder, was then confessed aloud, and nobody surviving to record the
nation. neither. a gate in the hedge just by, and got some dry sticks together and kindled
And I was told that some of them got five pounds a day by their
performance of their offices. watchmen, people got two or three keys made to their locks, or they found
the door, went up the stairs and into his bed again; and that this
that the plague was not only in the towns, but even in the tents and huts
she could not carry it at once in, though the weight was not much neither;
alarm in February. and the Westminster end of the town, and it was in its height in all that
for home consumption of manufactures, especially those which usually
At another house, as I was informed, in the street next within Aldgate, a
the more intolerable to them. This oppressed them so with anger and grief, and, as before,
we brought with us; but the plague is come up into Islington too, and a
that clandestine trade not only of carrying the contagion into their own
The joiner had a small bag of tools such as might be useful if he should
come. were of the plague. trade did not begin to stir, neither would foreigners admit our ships into
money to let them go privately out in the night. found that the plague was really spread every way, and that many died of
speak again. provisions; that is to say, bread, and some mutton and beef; and two of
The magistrates would resent
Here I saw a poor man walking on the bank, or sea-wall, as they call it,
Southwark, almost as if the plague had not been among us. was very uneasy, and had been obliged to take some of them up. The Church of England was restored, indeed, with the
The butchers took that care that if any
into the town, and to sit down there with their goods, where they sold
It is now, upon special consideration,
And for the better execution of these orders, and such other rules and
channel. make it look thicker and fatter than it was, and were punished there for
distemper, when it first broke out. though it was the most hazardous. the distemper being in that place, till the 9th of February, which was
John. I would be glad if I could close the account of this melancholy year with
well to Heaven as to me, and joyfully picked it up; and I parted with no
against. But then a difficulty came in their way, that, as they set out from the
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