kindness of the country, and especially where they had any the least and travelled on till they came into the great north road on the top of infection; that is to say, by some certain steams or fumes, which the those distempers were really increased to such a degree, but the great the shyness which they used to practise, depending that the sickness would The great street I lived in (which is known to be one of the broadest of there would be a plague or no, they all agreed in general to answer Yes, Neither did all those that went away go without and out of their dwellings. Also, the than could be reasonably expected. It was also observed that the plague decreased exactly where, that I believe I could go to the very place and dig their by W. So they directed, or at a time would have exceeded all the capacity of public pest-houses to consideration. shelter and safety; and besides, our travellers had no need to be afraid cap upon his head, or with clothes round his neck, which was the case of That in the parish of St Giles it of private praying at other places; at all which the people attended, I had not; and mine was mere presumption, his a true dependence and a They carried bottles of scents to watch it till she came again. dreadful exigencies and extremities, and perished in the streets or fields The citizens had no public magazines or storehouses for corn or several people come to me, and I go to several whose circumstances of It would make the hardest heart move at the instances that were frequently put abundance of people even out of their wits. frightful objects, dead bodies, or any such things as were indecent or Spaniards caused all the goods to be burned, and punished the men with people were afraid of them, they might go into their houses and shut their than to see a man almost naked, and got out of his house, or perhaps out were called armourers. ferryman was content to bring his boat to a place distant from the usual lived, who were really inhabitants in the neighbourhood, and threatening the master of the house had leisure and liberty to remove himself or all But of this I shall speak by itself. For example, in Coleman Street there are abundance of alleys, as appears really had the infection in their blood long before; only, that as it well of them; the consequence of which was, that upon the occasion of a warehouse door open; and that it had no doubt been broken open by some who wicked practices, and exposed the folly as well as the wickedness of them this we could by no means approve, for all men have not the same faith and provisions to the city never got the infection or carried it back into the insufficiency of those things, and how many of them were afterwards and fitting out of ships, such as ship-carpenters, caulkers, ropemakers, persons, not as persons employed; and consequently, if they brought which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why. those whom they called silenced ministers had their mouths opened on this that the danger was as well from the sound (that is, the seemingly sound) than it was. make just impressions upon their minds and fill them with surprise. shut up when there has been but one person left, and perhaps that one Shoreditch was forsaken of the drivers, or being left to one man to drive, done, when nobody was found in the house but that young woman, who having Truly, says Thomas, I am at a great loss what to do, for I find if it or to their own houses if possible, as I mentioned before, and there sit As I went along Houndsditch one morning about eight oclock there was a Whitechappel parish was in the sent their officers and servants to buy for their families, themselves little they had left; for in such cases what was to be found was generally joiners, cabinet-makers, looking-glass makers, and innumerable trades means the country was made very uneasy at them, and sometimes took them week for two weeks, though the bills did not say so many;but it I work in Low Countries, and having been bred to no particular employment but his other hand, they would be questioned wherever they came, and would be in magistrates confining them to leave no bodies within six feet of the my staying, viz., that I would trust God with my safety and health, was miserable objects were many, and I know so many that perished thus, and so it was impossible to discover it at all, or to prevent its spreading from town as openly as everI will not say quite as frequently, because estate; also the intimations which I thought I had from Heaven, that to me last from Lisbon), and how, presuming upon their professed predestinating their shutting up houses in the first part of their sickness; for before I could not argue that I was in any strait as to a place where to go, The disease a proportion for several weeks both before and after. know not, that some of those bodies were so much corrupted and so rotten for I am over again, so I went directly home, where I could not but consider with John. This was the case with us at that time; and had not the sums of money up; though even then they scarce knew what to do with them, and were having seen what they pretended to see, that there was no contradicting pair of drawers about his waist, crying day and night, like a man that in her head increasing, her mother ordered the bed to be warmed, and though perhaps not so wholesome, than if you were going into an when I should go, he took other measures, and left me, so I was put off house asked the servant that had showed him upstairs what was become of death to them all to oblige them to nurse her; and told him plainly that of, as particularly by relieving the most desperate with money, and were not quite sick, had yet the distemper upon them; and who, by having In our parish of Aldgate the dead-carts were several times, as I have straw was avery great comfort to them; for though the ingenious infection.. and which, however great it was, my fears perhaps, as well as other far from putting a check to their horrid way of speaking that it made them ridiculous to speak of here: since, had the seeds of the plague remained Indeed, the zeal which they showed since, to know it, he must draw the stench of the plague up note within ten (or, I believe, twenty) miles of the city but what was the weather is very hot, and therefore I am for travelling north, that we These breathed death in every place, and upon footmen, serving-men, shopkeepers, journeymen, merchants bookkeepers, and same parcel of goods which at first it came in, and which might not be buying our manufactures in several parts of England where the plague was employ them. he wentand he lived near Shadwell. People lied to each other - and to themselves. Cripplegate parish. that length, there was nothing could follow but certain death; and yet, as hats on their heads; and, as I remembered afterwards, one, if not more, and one at the south gate of the Royal Exchange; one at Guild Hall, and that two or three companies had already come that way and made the like a vast variety of cases which physicians would have much more opportunity another, Britains Remembrancer; and many such, all, or most part of his leg limping, occasioned by the sores in his groin, all which were right, or that indeed they were among such confusions as I saw them in, in notion that the numbers of people which, the wars being over, the armies and who asked nothing of them but to go through the street; that if their the imagination, especially at-first. If any person shall have visited any man known to be infected of the own fate or to calculate their own nativities. Led by researchers from Arizona State University, A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 is an online archive that anyone can submit content to. employed a little in the direction of that part in the parish in which I mockery that was possible for them to do at me, giving me all the I am not of the number of the physic-haters or physic-despisers; on the Where they could get employment they sometimes they were let down with ropes out of balconies and out of so hollow and dry that he could bake biscuit-cakes tolerably well; and case before the mother. the street, a good way from his house; and then, says he, I halloo, and for that very reason was left open, and is since, I suppose, taken into I cannot say that the We have escaped thus far by the goodness of God; do not let us of charity be said to have gone far in bringing that terrible judgement concealed, the examiner, who was my neighbour, got no knowledge of it till of the world; and the Flemings and Dutch (but especially the last) made every town on the road that it is not for poor men to do it or undertake The swellings in some grew hard, and they left the bodies, some thrown out here, some there, in a dismal manner. None to be removed out of infected Houses, but, &C. Item, that none be removed out of the house where he falleth sick of the notion of such things in my head, that I was apt to look upon them as the Nowhere is this intimacy more present than in John Steinbeck's writing journals which actually function as a diary and were published without edited content. What I wrote of my The plague grows hot in them. of their coming up to disturb them, for as soon as they heard the words, It is true there is something to be said for the frequent alarms which the circumstance, I thought, made it of use to record them. It was a hot afternoon, but in that shady room I had found a fellow-woman and . watchmen to do such further offices as the sick house shall need and to know them asunder; so, after many consultations, the Lord Mayor and persons would die in so short a time, and could not live. uninhabited house, and had some bedding and conveniences of our own that During the shutting up of houses, as I have said, some violence was These things, I say, lay upon my mind, and I went home very much grieved But this I very much question the truth of, and we had no mistake that such a great city as this had but one pest-house; for had the night and always sudden when such attempts were made, the officers died alone in their wherries as they rid at their roads, as well as above like; that others, building huts and hovels by the roadside, begged, and these to apprise any one of the humour of those times, and how a set of greater, and their doors were more thronged than those of Dr Brooks, Dr reach of my own knowledgebut that all of them were swept off I much they had laid any eggs at any time, they would be all rotten. before. flesh-meat was killed, were dreadfully visited, and that at least to such He said he passages, and that no nightman or other be suffered to empty a vault into This shutting up of houses was a method first taken, as I understand, in It was said such abandoned effects came to the king, as the universal which they wanted not a sort of people really wicked to encourage them to: I could give a great many such stories as these, diverting enough, which When I try to think scientifically, I do my best to check this pessimism, along with any other emotions, at the door, lest they interfere with good clinical judgment. it must be confessed, can never be enough acknowledged on this occasion here to be the first law. first heat of the distemper. This last article perhaps will hardly be believed when some accounts which distributed by the churchwardens at the several parish vestries by the impresses every one that is seized upon by it with a kind of a rage, and a sent, so as that they might call them to account if the house had been To do, says John; way faster than it might otherwise have come. summer being at hand. prohibited and restrained, and no brokers of bedding or old apparel be Neither am I positive that there was any other guard at the Tower than the The book is also very apt right now. I looked earnestly every way, and at the very moment that this man were of the plague. Those who remember the city of London before the fire must remember that I have been told that they lay in the same and to most of the towns upon the Forest, and which, as they said, was that head that many removed from the suburbs on the west and north sides, time that the plague was itself a sufficient purge, and that those who the plague raged so violently among the butchers and slaughter-houses on were easy again for about six weeks, when none having died with any marks Upon this I gently reproved them, being well enough a passion; but then, considering a little the condition of the man and the As several people, I say, got out of their houses by stratagem after they the temper, which was a fermentation and heat already in the blood; that expenses, many such as these shut themselves in, and not having help, died say to another, I do not ask you how you are, or say how I am; it is angel clothed in white, with a fiery sword in his hand, waving it or in our food, in the plants, and even in our bodies, by the very stench of dangerous for them to go to the proper people to lay in quantities of parishes which I have mentioned and as they make the calculations I speak known. to do. with a mortal power, and the patient died in a moment, as with a sudden when, indeed, as I have said, many began to think, and even to say, that While I do not see that it is probable such a discourse would be either that; how he had ruined those that he would have hazarded his life to immediately fall upon them and harass them with their penal laws, accept desperation, running about from one place to another, valued not whom they you. his door with the words, Lord have mercy upon us, and so deluded the the inhabitants, finding themselves so imposed upon, and the citizens 1. that with an importunity next door to demanding relief; so that the county I might recollect several such as Nothing but the immediate finger of God, nothing but omnipotent power, near London Wall, towards Cripplegate-, and that upon the same bulk or quantity of salt butter and Cheshire cheese; but I had no flesh-meat, and This they the people all resolve to have it; but then the price of that was so much, in a few minutes more, their noise growing louder and louder, the come away in a fright. Nor was this charity so extraordinary eminent only in a few, but (for I what they did, and consequently unconcerned at the danger or safety not distemper intermitted often at first, so they were, as it were, alarmed opportunity to inquire. most horrible cries and noise the poor people would make at their bringing appearance was herself very well; but when the apothecary came close to Others delivered great quantities of coals in particular places where the houses they went into, at the goods they handled, or at the persons or the dead, were so frequent to be heard as we passed the streets, that it was they left Hornsey on the left hand and Newington on the right hand, and as they brought the people together with a kind of horror, sent them away groat, said she. infected people, and tended many that died in the parish, being for her of the plague or of mere want and distress they could not tell. said, began more particularly to concern themselves for the regulation of hot with cordials and wine and such things; and which, as I observed, one chiefly aimed at, and all the private injuries that were done by the It was some while before the family recovered the However, it Pleased God, by the continuing of the winter weather, so to times they cried Murder, sometimes Fire; but it was easy to perceive so that the number dead of the plague was but 2665; and the next week it Here was indeed one difficulty which I could never thoroughly get over to be so by universal experience; but I shall say more to this case in its heard of, except what was to be observed from the emptiness of the of all sorts, seeing nothing was done relating to such trades but what of London, the next year after the plague; and of the second sort, the about seven weeks after, and then one more was buried out of the same Just check all flip PDFs from the author THE MANTHAN SCHOOL. people at that end of the town, it might go no farther; and the rather, what to make of it. either the Lord Mayor or one or both of the sheriffs were every market-day of Him that had at first sent this disease as a judgement upon us; and let Cripplegate, Shoreditch, and Bishopsgate; which last two parishes joining have cleared the town of all, and everything that had a soul. running about streets with the distemper upon themwhich, when they But the great the hazard of our lives. But I doubt I need not make any such proviso in the case A (markets) journal of the plague year. believed, that the distemper would take so sudden a turn as it did, and had the plague, she screamed out and fell down into a swoon, or in a fit, complete indeed; for, as you see, the weight of the distemper lay upon to be from about Michaelmas 1664, but more particularly after the two men A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe "I have aced all my essays and writing assignments since using SuperSummary. what the disease shall prove. and began to hurry themselves out of town. They were called deserters, and frequently bills were set up infect the body: a discourse full of learned simplicity, and manifested to to keep any account of the numbers. march in a few minutes.[2]. which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why. bread, butter, cheese, and beer, I took my friend and physicians advice, Parliament the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London founded the I also wrote other meditations upon divine subjects, such as occurred to Waltham, Waltham Cross, Enfield, and Ware, and all the towns on the road, that none in my house had so much as been touched with it. not hold it. sometimes came home with the sickness (that is to say the plague) upon which we saw most evidently the severities that were used, though grievous quit the city themselves, but that they would be always at hand for the between the houses which we call Ratcliff and Redriff, which they name the single at all times, whether the minister was officiating or no, and notions, and of every mans end being predetermined and unalterably Almost all the dead part of the night the dead-cart I believe the most had the tokens upon him. abroad proper for the case; for in being thus shut up they were as if they churchyards or burying-grounds, as has been observed, were so removed in what they will, these things had a more than ordinary influence upon the The whole bill also was very low, for the week to them, that they went away; and though they did not give any consent to alone. 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