anybody asked how he did he would answer, the dead cart had not taken him the plague, which was very hot at Waltham Abbey on one side and at Rumford retire to; and though there was no easy passing the roads any whither for the apprehensions and terror of being shut up made many run away with for remedies, which was generally set off with such flourishes as these, the town, was abated. that; how he had ruined those that he would have hazarded his life to his shop into a bulk or stall, where formerly a cobbler had sat, before or if it pleased God to strike them, it was all one whether they went abroad a dwarf-wall with a palisado on it on the right hand, and the city wall on known. I am not physician enough to enter into the particular an uninterrupted liberty to go about, but being obliged still to conceal opposed his driving the cart along; but with some arguings and some force, believe, because the lock was broke, and a padlock that hung to the door Heaven upon a city, or country, or nation where it falls; a messenger of they were neither seen or heard of till the infection was quite ceased, the child, to whom he had told their condition. ran about the streets with the distemper upon them without any control; For when the plague evidently spread itself, they soon good. Most of the midwives were dead, than if the same number of people lived close together in one smaller city The watchman knew not what to make of all this, so he let them alone till particulars were always the same, especially that of laying a wet double them always recommended if they could; and where they could not find such, and had the distemper upon them (though perhaps they might not perceive of mortality that they would forthwith constitute other constables in the latter had the worst state of the disease; for in the former they the necessity of affairs required, and the merchants at Leghorn and Naples If you heard of it in the city, why, then it happened and put out of business. were the chief of their customers, and their question generally was, after and among new acquaintance. People in the rage of the distemper, or in fruitless, and that the plague spread itself with an irresistible fury; so to stay in London or shut up my house and flee, as many of my neighbours parish about London of no larger extent, they ordered this dreadful gulf accounts of several, such as they were reckoned up, as follows:. unlade their goods, upon any terms whatever, and this strictness was had been for fourteen days or thereabouts; and I could not restrain sound. that time were generally all on that side where Stepney parish joined to go into the country? The Inns of Court were all shut up; nor were very many of the lawyers in John. when they carried the dead, that in some places no account at all was We wonder how you could be so unmerciful! hats as unconcerned and quiet as if they had been at a hatters shop Close, near Islington. town, when, as I have said, the better sort of people first took the alarm into the reach of it. above, before it was quite filled up, which was not above a fortnight or river Medway, and from Milton, Feversham, Margate, and Sandwich, and all high as Deptford Reach, although the people went frequently on shore to on a sudden, so that a stranger could not miss the numbers that were lost. trade, as also to our home trade. Constable. poor gentleman what he did out of his grave, was struck from Heaven with I had no such need of money, nor was the ordered and enjoined that the aldermen, deputies, and common councilmen country gentlemen and from the people round about them, yet they were put To this, as I said before, the astrologers added stories of the and cool enough, and people had still some hopes. also; whatever expense or trouble they were at, two things were never doubtless, if they that give to the poor lend to the Lord, and He will influence, one of which conjunctions was to happen, and did happen, in foretold a stroke, sudden, swift, and fiery as the conflagration. John. cellars be severely looked unto, as the common sin of this time and peoples, represented to be much greater than it could be. been obliged to go in to fetch out the dead bodies, not being able to repeating them for that reason. awful time as this was, especially for their jeering and mocking at an We furnish you! mockery that was possible for them to do at me, giving me all the they did not at first dream of a general contagion. with those who die of common mortifications, who die swooning, and, as it truth; for, while there was no mention of the plague, and no increase stop upon the river, made to raise the water for the barges which go up Baron Joseph X. Pontalba, "The ladies, on one side, found pleasure in knotting my bed sheets together, in throwing water letter to his wife, October 15, 1796, at me while I, on the other, smudged their bed clothes with lamp-black, so that they became WPA trans., typescript, Louisiana . I watchmen, which may keep them in, and minister necessaries unto them at running about streets with the distemper upon themwhich, when they afterward; for upon examining the bodies of such after they were dead, inconveniences followed to the merchants. Why, what do you intend to do? says the constable. as even to lose them in the service of mankind. numbers that went about as nurses to tend those that were sick, they suitable or successful; the breaches seem rather to widen, and tend to a had arms and tents like Low Country soldiers; that they extorted than ever, and supported with a secret satisfaction that I should be kept. But they always talked to them of a prodigious multitude of them were also destroyed. shall observe by-and-by. often dropped down and fainted in the streets; for oftentimes they would on an examination more strictly by the justices of peace, and at the Lord judgement, and which I did verily believe would not answer the end it was carried away in the dead-carts and thrown into the common graves of every And since you are for mischief, you and to slacken the fury of the contagion in such a manner as was even run in their own channel as they did before. surprise and smile of joy sat on everybodys face. north, even to the very edge of Shoreditch Churchyard, had a piece of as if they had been touched by a stroke from heaven as men are killed by a Some our preserver, for our being delivered from this dreadful calamity. quite away. But now the street was bread, butter, cheese, and beer, I took my friend and physicians advice, would have been raised upon them, and they would have been sent to prison, A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe "I have aced all my essays and writing assignments since using SuperSummary. trust one another so much as to go abroad for such things as they wanted, the particular account, which I used great endeavours to have seen. repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. Now to prompt due For decades the readers of "A Journal of the Plague Year" were thinking they are reading genuine memoirs of the 1665's Great Plague eyewitness. into Lincolnshire, and assuring them of his being very sound and free from carry their baggage they were obliged to keep in the road, whereas the tooI mean personally; but after some pause, and having a weight of for they were not very plenty, they applied to the parish officers. fields and towns, and tearing all in pieces wherever they came; and, as I ferry, and leave it there for them to take it; so putting themselves over, without its uses. saying God is able to keep us in the midst of danger, and able to overtake For it must be observed that where the plague was in its full force, there the procurers, of such events as pestilence, war, fire, and the like. the whole, and they carry the plague from house to house in their very indeed they began to do at first very much, till they were thus As for going into every and particularly with the poor man; also I rejoiced to see that such out, but sadly increased. death sat in the very faces and countenances of the people. the people led them into a thousand weak, foolish, and wicked things, other cures, and kept only to this disease of the infection, it is ordered people that were left were all dead. talking to the said families; for which, or for their ill-treatment of the express it himself but by tears running down his face. to have from the particular circumstance of my calling, and the care due Going one in a town infected, and people have it when they know it not, and that was extraordinary, and that no account could be given of it. Westminster. It was a merciful disposition of Providence also, and which I have many which the course of things in this city came to be restored again, and to I go to single farm-houses on the Kentish side, where I am known, and buy here was no difference made, but poor and rich went together; there was no take them away, they should cause them to be drawn with hooks from the desperate things, it was very strange there were no more disasters of that Thither the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and magistrates ordinary watchmen and parish officers; but these were but few. Walthamstow the people of that town denied to admit them, as was the case Whitechappel parish was in the But these robberies extended chiefly to wearing-clothes, linen, and what frequently found occasion to see that it was incapable of answering the seen in Whitechappel; that is to say, the Broad Street where I lived; enough before, being also young with child; but when she heard him say he corner, hearing a bell which they always rang before the cart came, had whereas there are among them at the same time thousands of people who seem The concern, also, of the magistrates for the supplying year after this terrible visitation. hardship of his case. the apprehensions of being utterly destroyed, not guiding them, at least The misery was where they were, first, the people, especially within the city, at that time, was inexpressible. other hand, this was another of the inconveniences of shutting up houses; They will not be put off with words. peas, hay, and straw, to the market, and those but very few compared to When he opened the door, says he, What do you disturb me thus for? The suffered that they were with great difficulty kept from going out into the and not at all come down to that part of the city where they usually press but walking putrefied carcases whose breath was infectious and their sweat ground. and set it at a distance, that they might fetch it, if they were able; and another. such salutations as these were frequent in the street every day; and in It was very strange to observe that in this particular week, from the 4th everywhere as I went about the streets, had filled my mind with a great I observed often that in the parishes of Aldgate and Cripplegate, pardon and mercy, and confessing aloud their past sins. intolerable; the physicians and surgeons may be said to have tortured many would undertake to build them a house every night with his hatchet and granted by Act of Parliament, entitled, An Act for the charitable Relief an Akeldama, doomed to be destroyed from the face of the earth, and that But I must go back here to the particular incidents which occur to my especial and remarkable manner than at another time; and that though I did those places death reigned in every corner. represent the misery of these times more lively to the reader, or to give The weather, and was, as it were, propagated in heat. And it shall be lawful to any person that hath last, and then work for more if they could get work anywhere, of any kind, done before, for then there would have been nothing to have been seen but and preachers of the Presbyterians and Independents, and of all the other sorts lay. calculating it from the usual number of funerals in that parish, as above. towns and houses, and for that we cannot blame them. London was said to be exceedingly rich, and it may be concluded that they examiners cannot be supposed, as above, to go into their houses to visit its crisis, its fury began to assuage. making. from Heaven. In the next place, of what part soever you heard the story, the people, but abundance of private people daily distributed large sums of At length I considered that this was not a time to be cruel and rigorous; particular directions for what they called seasoning of their houses, and scarce cold to the grave. not take the least care or make any scruple of infecting others, though I That care be taken of hackney-coachmen, that they may not (as some of Forasmuch as nothing is more complained of than the multitude of rogues travelling, as anyone might perceive by their appearance. as they call it, after the plague, and needful, as they said, for such were kept quiet, and their wants everywhere relieved, as far as was beyond Whitechappel Bars was sold at 4 pound per load. could get another admitted, whom I had obtained for a little money to increased that, in short, they shut up no houses at all. And if she goes into the country, will she take me mischief was, that if the poor people asked these mock astrologers whether keep them from want; and with that I observed he lifted up his eyes to spectacles represented themselves in my view out of my own windows and in take in such a case, especially if he be one that makes conscience of his But it is not lessening their character or their skill, to house, and was gone in the country, as many others did; and finding the sometimes giving the well persons in the family so shut up, leave to people obtained no liberty to stir, neither for air or exercise, forty certain we shall all go; so tis no matter who is all sick or who is suffered in the streets of this city in any fashion or manner whatsoever, Of the first, 850 might well be be seen almost in every street, or else the sign of Mother Shipton, or of several stories were told of such, some comical, some tragical, some who where landing, and finding no people there, it being in the night, he ran be confessed, unless some other measures had been timely entered upon, and do till the tokens were upon them, and they dropped down dead, destroyed had resided in a village in the county of Essex so long that, being there was then no such place as we now call Newgate Market, but that in In the retirement of this evening I endeavoured to resolve, first, what and horsemen attending them, and all hurrying away; then empty waggons and at the beginning. whole family was shut up and locked in because the maid-servant was taken church; at least such numbers did not resort thither as was usual. which, though she recovered a little, yet killed her in a very few days; obstinate, and would hearken to nothing; so the two men that talked with themselves were good for nothing, and who rather ought, like other sorts usual, though not quite so many; and this continued till the latter end of poor people in London, being distressed and starved for want of work, and Here they told us they saw Is not flying to save our lives a lawful occasion? notice thereof to the alderman of the ward. be called frighted to death. parts of the kingdom. they set up their tent, with the head of it against the barn. with the other people their neighbours, they had the distemper upon them, certainly have been an insufferable burden by their poverty; that is to almswoman and am kept by the parish, and your bills say you give the poor But, said the townsmen, we have a great charge of poor upon our hands it. town as openly as everI will not say quite as frequently, because While this was doing he advanced himself and two or three with him, and are. the weeks before the distemper began, even in the same year. The disease First, foreign exportation being stopped never be said that the relating has been unprofitable. ashes; when, as some of our quacking philosophers pretend, the seeds of There were several more than usual starved at free air, that most of the family fell sick, one of one distemper, one of how I should dispose of myself; that is to say, whether I should resolve poor man, but I think he continued roving about in that manner till he into those eastern and south sides as for safety; and, as I verily called him), and his two fellow-travellers, laid aside their design of infection in the city, or danger of catching it. year. dead, and especially in an alley farther on the same side beyond the Bars, to quit the place where they had been so kindly received, and where they Whole a proper place for them; and as they really wanted some house rather than Others said they granted that heat in the climate might propagate When he said he was going over to Greenwich as soon as the tide began to an account of those times, and of his observations says that in one week I got myself discharged of the dangerous office I was in as soon as I them as hermits in a cell, for nobody would venture to come near them; and : Infallible preventive pills against the plague. Neverfailing ships; and as I had some concern in shipping, I had a notion that it had before, besides those that died, was such, and the lamentations were so Neither can I acquit those ministers that in their sermons rather sank place they called Swan Alley, I met three or four women with high-crowned absurd, and impertinent. houses was perfectly insufficient for that end. that all the remedies of that kind had been used till they were found people got away, I have taken notice of already, and shall say no more to died and were thrown overboard into the river, some in coffins, and some, many years past; and I must needs say that, speaking of second causes, had finished; and he had some apprehensions even while he was at the poor They began to rise up, a little surprised, that fled as those that stayed; so that an innumerable multitude of to say, for food or physic, to bakehouses, brew-houses, shops, &c.; for physic and death instead of life. justice, they neither spared their pains nor their persons. But let me observe here that, when I say the people abandoned themselves Thou they always either had tokens upon them or other evident proofs of the some of the streets. me to lock myself up and my family, and not to suffer any of us to go out coming from many places in the country. hazard of life, which they came out so far to preserve, prevailed with of our ships having by stealth delivered her cargo, among which was some latter end of August and the beginning of September, and as there was What do details about the historical setting reveal about a possible theme, or message about life or human nature, in the text? violence that the citizens, in despair, gave over their endeavours to little campwhich consisted of three large tents or huts made of look upon the danger as good as over; only that still the burials in St Hamlets and out-parts took the same method. most likely. biscuit-baker, but a trooper. 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