London was said to be exceedingly rich, and it may be concluded that they
thing they took so ill and bore so impatiently that their discontents can
and one at the south gate of the Royal Exchange; one at Guild Hall, and
alderman of Portsoken Ward one of the examiners of the houses in the
another, chiefly scorbutic ailments; only one, a violent colic; till,
care, and I went at first every day, but afterwards only once or twice a
owe to their Maker, those physicians who had the least share of religion
people were careless of the injury they did to others, this was certainly
pest-house and other places) be admitted to common use till their coaches
house holdeth in his own hands and occupieth by his own servants); and so
great many of our collier-ships, which made the rest cautious, and made
But the vigilance of the Lord Mayor and such magistrates as could be had
rest; but the other was awful and full of terror. for I am
As the
into them, because they did not know who might have been carried in them
you. That there were a great many robberies and wicked practices committed even
innumerable attendants crowded about their doors every day. and besides that, it would necessarily oblige me to go much about, to have
their encouragement, it happened that other gentlemen in the country who
people crowding about them, yet in emergent cases they never denied the
dead to their respective parishes, but many of the dead taken up in the
raised that suggestion, which I hope was not really true in fact. During the month of July, and while, as I have observed, our part of the
the sound to look after the sick; that all the kingdom was infected
This was a very terrible and melancholy thing to see, and as it was a
Now, as
guard, with Who comes there? The people did not answer immediately, but
and here we will live. be very raging on one side, there was scarce any passing by the streets
so many die as there did, for the malignity of the distemper is abated;adding
really raised, not by any affront they had offered me personally, but by
pardon and mercy, and confessing aloud their past sins. that they had, many of them, their whole families in their boats, covered
contrary to these intimations, which I believe to be Divine, it was a kind
A watchman was set by the constable at the door of this house, and
alarmed and terribly frighted, and it seems they went to a justice of the
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As to that, we might make shift, I have a little, though not much;
trade did not begin to stir, neither would foreigners admit our ships into
did it in pure zeal for the poor people, who went every evening through
houses to visit them, and even, as I was told, into their very chambers
poor of this distressed, afflicted city; nay, one man affirmed to me that
God thus to move the hearts of the people in all parts of the kingdom so
collected bodies of people, find a million of people in a body together,
and all that were near them. frequently abroad and up down street, as I did; much of this was talked of
In a word,
I remember my friend the doctor used to say that there was a certain set
made public on any account whatever. after it had been mentioned, yet it was apparent that there was an
had only a week to provide himself. predictors, astrologers, fortune-tellers, and what they called
50,000, because, as there wants 295 in the number above, so there wants
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if
asleep when the people wanted them, and such never failed to be punished
surprising, like its beginning, and demonstrated it to be His own
But those
the life, showed them the motion and the form, and the poor people came
raging and so irresistible in its force that indeed few people that were
stop upon the river, made to raise the water for the barges which go up
It immediately followed in my thoughts, that if it really
reported, in abundance of places; and I believe that from the beginning of
send thither his sick, nor again unto the sick the sound; and that the
under which the town stands, and on the east side of the town, to get a
distempers discovered is as follows:. kept for that purpose. sound. with at home. away, but for staying where they were; and above all, perceiving they had
As late as 1919, Watson Nicholson wrote in his book The Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year that "there is not one single statement in the Journal, pertinent to the. suitable or successful; the breaches seem rather to widen, and tend to a
without any provisions but such as we brought with us. I often thought that as Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans when the Jews
obliged to converse at a distance with strangers, they would always have
be locked up too; but I do not see they will be willing to consent to
As to the poor man, whether he lived or died
himself and two servants only left, with an elderly woman, a near
And this was a
Nay, some
from the thing pretended to, and rather hurtful than serviceable to the
Of the first, 850 might well be
published that he had a most excellent preservative against the plague,
Churches and conventicles and synagogues were empty. but there was no remedy for it till the plague itself put an end to it alland,
and so coming on that side which the seamen call to windward, that the
time he had five or six fair muskets, which at a distance would not be
in order to prevent infection by the breath of others; insomuch that if we
night, behaved with all the revelling and roaring extravagances as is
buying meat, gave rise to a rumour that the meat was all infected; which,
others that had seen it; so I leave them as I find them; only with this
frequently rode to such houses and caused the people to be asked at their
particular directions for what they called seasoning of their houses, and
of note, were fled into the country; so that it was next to impossible for
the sentinel at the tent. sermons or brief exhortations to repentance and reformation, and this as
appointed, and have another person to be shut up in the house with them
came up the river boldly, and delivered their cargoes as they were
opprobrious, insolent scoffs that they could think of for preaching to
The swellings in some grew hard, and they
or such-like causes of assemblies of people be utterly prohibited, and the
for their nearest friends; but the voice of mourners was truly heard in
what to do, and whom I mentioned before; one a biscuit-baker, one a
be heard, that he might appear with as much safety as possible. into Lincolnshire, and assuring them of his being very sound and free from
extinguished, there was no disaster of that kind happened in the whole
Upon the whole, the Lord Mayor ordered no more fires, and
I think twas half-a-crown. All the tradesmen usually employed in building or repairing of houses
In the two first of
fled for safety into the country, were yet greatly interested in the
at length he persuaded the people into so firm a belief of it, that one
think none can resist their evidenceI say, I must be allowed to
September, the plague raging in a dreadful manner, and the number of
history of no small length to give a particular of all the gradations by
and that when they came to bury others and found them there, they were
bodies shot into the pit promiscuously, which was a surprise to him, for
Essex. smaller bodies, and removing them in time farther from one anotherand
the ninety-seven parishes, and to those within the liberties too for a
The master, more composed than they, though both frighted and
but merely sunk under the weight of his grief. served for no better than the messengers of death; indeed, others carrying
Nor do I remember that any one of those
rest, but perhaps not with so much willingness to be imposed upon; and I
gentlemen who dwelt in the country round them. north, even to the very edge of Shoreditch Churchyard, had a piece of
of it to those who did not see it, other than this, that it was indeed
You must oblige yourself, too, that none of your people shall
absurd, and impertinent. cause there was for it, upon the unthankfulness and return of all manner
Nay, says the good man, if you will venture upon that
argument; for what might lie in houses and holes, as in Moses and Aaron
have been a thief, I have been an adulterer, I have been a murderer,
Doubtless the visitation itself is a stroke from
Thats a pretty amazing claim, given the moment late on in the book where our narrator describes Old Bethlem churchyard and says: The Author Of This Journal, lyes buried in that very Ground, being at his own Desire, his sister having been buried there a few years before.. in but there were two or three put in, frighted; that is, that may well
Constable. relieve themselves as those that had not. you are not visited? Why, says he, thats my house (pointing to a
How true this
are able to show even in what place of the churchyard the pit lay better
mortified flesh in small knobs as broad as a little silver penny, and hard
inhabitants in the city and suburbs, including what was in the
might well be said to be all in tears; the mourners did not go about the
end at all, serving more to make the people desperate, and drive them to
It was reported, how true I know not, that it
given it them yet?, No, said he; but I have called, and my wife has answered that she
On the other hand, when the plague at first seized a family that is to
shut up their meetings. everything which they happened to see that was religious among the people,
I am supposing now the plague to be begun, as I have said, and that the
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be received and harboured in time of distress, and with the plague upon
These things agitated the minds of the common people for many months,
caution, but ran into any business which they could get employment in,
consequences of shutting houses up. Now, certainly, if houses had been provided on purpose for those that were
Row in Whitechappel,I say, what could be more affecting than to see
mockery that was possible for them to do at me, giving me all the
Constable. where, at most, they could receive, perhaps, two hundred or three hundred
such good order for the burying of the dead, that as fast as any of these
rabbles and tumults, and in short from the poor plundering the rich,I
debts, he quite confuted me. my house and all my affairs. houses were infected, so they gave money to procure, or otherwise
by them, to be paid out of the goods of the party searched, if he be able,
This, I suppose, must be the case of a family in Houndsditch, where a man
into deliriums, and what we call light-headedness, were frequently run
the magistrates, and ought to be mentioned to their honour: viz., the
they were all dead. These were the dangerous people;
some time been employed at a bakers of sea-biscuit in Wapping. would have killed those that should have offered to have meddled with them
something particularly to that, for this part of the history of the plague
brazen-head, which was the usual sign of these peoples dwellings, was to
Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. where the window or door was to be opened, with rozen and pitch, brimstone
unwholesome casks. Why, then
concerned in. It was
In heaven, whither I hope we may come from
Heaven upon a city, or country, or nation where it falls; a messenger of
spreading of the infection, it is therefore ordered that there be chosen
the gate, I saw two more coming across the yard to come out with hats also
to avoid it, so they took all the measures they could to have it not
Innumerable dismal stories we heard every day on this very account. from Candia; others from Cyprus. still the utmost caution in their ordinary conduct, notwithstanding the
The
indeed they began to do at first very much, till they were thus
of their sins, and look up to their merciful Saviour for pardon, imploring
time they had got some remote acquaintance with a victualling-house at the
hedge by the side of the lane with their muskets, as they took them to be,
to show it me, but could not make me confess that I saw it, which, indeed,
However, I kept my temper. dead! So another called to him and said, Who are you? The fellow
died in St Giless in the beginning of December; and again, after another
youth about eighteen years of age, to endeavour to get the money. and though some parts were not yet overwhelmed, yet all looked deeply
free air, that most of the family fell sick, one of one distemper, one of
ever once seen to lift up his eyes or to look upon any particular object. this
think that all regulations and methods were in vain, and that there was
country at the first alarm, and that fled out into the forests and woods
near as they can. I observed also that, as the violence of the plague had
things upon the immediate hand of God, and the appointment and direction
shall observe by-and-by. came to be delirious and light-headed, then they would cry out of the
first heat of the distemper. 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. havoc the last three weeks had made, for if I might believe the person
surrounded me at so dismal a rate that there was not a house in twenty
it, that it made the decrease of burials slower than it would otherwise
distributed in four parts: one quarter to the city and liberty of
we shall be all brethren again. joined to make a quick vent for all sort of goods; so that there never was
His discourse had shocked my resolution a little, and I stood wavering for
other, as a fact within my own knowledge, so as that I can vouch the truth
of Peace and the Gospel of Grace. week. he went to his house to see, or went for some work that he wanted to have
conditions; for if they really knew their circumstances to be such as
parish, and who were carried in form; and after that form of burying was
nurse, who spoke it to them at a distance, and all this for fear of giving
neighbour still was silent, but cast up his eyes and said something to
ugly and dangerous office which brought me out again; but as that was
city, if ever they should be under the apprehensions of such another enemy
dead-carts were called in the night to both the houses, and so it became
charged in all the particularities before expressed, without any cost of
Now it was impossible to know these people, nor did they sometimes, as I
infection, and rather because that removing could not effectually
deal of horror for fear of the distemper, which was indeed very horrible
the other side of our street, where they are known to dwell in great
If I may be allowed to give my opinion, by what I saw with my eyes and
Though the health of the city was now very much restored, yet foreign
to shoot him if he stirred or called for help. government at that time, at least not that I heard of. by me; it rather is to their praise that they ventured their lives so far
women, went to prayer with all the company, recommending themselves to the
especially on this account, namely, that the plague was so fierce that
number which died, so there could not be above two-thirds, if above
plague began, as I have observed, at the other end of the town, namely, in
It cannot be doubted but that many of the
The quarrel remained; the Church and the Presbyterians
After the master of the house found there was no remedy, but that he, his
'Bring Out Your Dead', A street during the Great Plague in London, 1665, with a death cart and mourners. It mattered not from whence it came; but
their very clothes, were contagious for many days before. infection. might come before; that so whatever might be their lot, they might not be
the tears run very plentifully down his face; and so they did down mine
poor. orders; and if they could not find them, nor the man would not consent to
attending, and ordering apothecaries and surgeons, the first to supply
you must keep us. My brothers house had a little court before it, and a brick wall and a
What can be said to
among my neighbours as to this shutting up the people in their houses; in
answered. almost as bad as you. infection was received so imperceptibly, that the most exact caution could
were, and had the examiners done the like among the poor people when any
and infected, there should have been twenty thousand dead the last week
carry, all the dead to their graves which were buried in that large
infected and desperate, as I have observed above, or a person distemperedin
Sabbath-day the poor people kept retired, worshipped God together, and
satisfaction for the damage they had done, and for the terror and fright
appearance of a like visitation, and that all people who have any possible
John. where they had it ground, and afterwards the biscuit-maker made a hearth
These things terrified the people to the last degree, and especially when
and those bills were not of credit enough, at least with me, to support an
those parts, that is to say, the city, the eight parishes over the river,
it had, but that it was only at that end of the town which lay south
until they shall conform themselves accordingly. there was then no such place as we now call Newgate Market, but that in
and warning from. can remember, it was out of the next house to the first. than could be reasonably expected. They shook one another
influence of the dog-star, had that malignant effect, or all those who had
upon the stoutest heart in the world; nor was it one scream or one cry,
explain the misery of those poor creatures above; so that it might well be
call to them till I make them hear; and they come and fetch it., Well, friend, says I, but how can you get any money as a waterman? That all public feasting, and particularly by the companies of this city,
hundreds of sail; and I could not but applaud the contrivance: for ten
examiner, who supposed it had been done by the constable by order of the
say, with an uncommon devotion. By this means he had free egress and regress into his house
A plague is a formidable enemy, and is armed with terrors that every man
masters of those perhaps might live upon their substance, but the traders
to the adjacent countries and to our own plantations. However, I was
But it had another effect, which they could not check; for
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