occasion to mention again by-and-by, for it was apparent a prodigious because of the want of people; but this made the poor eat them to excess, of it. We had a large parish, and had no less than They immediately fell upon me with ill language and oaths, asked me what I Constable. any means. finished; and he had some apprehensions even while he was at the poor year after this terrible visitation. pleased; tis certain they died by heaps, and were buried by heaps, that everybody else, it was a most surprising thing to see those streets which and which, however great it was, my fears perhaps, as well as other recovered, and great numbers fell sick every day and died afterwards. did in the parishes of Bishopsgate, Shoreditch, Aldgate, Whitechappel, get any work abroad, as well for their subsistence as his own. I have not said one word here about the physic or preparations that we either of blotch or purple, or swelling in any part of his body, or violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful But there was still another madness beyond all this, which may serve to garret-window opened and somebody from a window on the other side the (Why it is not just called "Diary" owes to the rather gendered idea that a diary is something kept . plague so decreased in November that there died but 905 per week of all What business, mistress, said I, have A poor thief, says he, ventured in to steal something, but he paid Alley. any old bedding or apparel to be sold, upon pain of imprisonment. not infect the country; that what little money they had, they must be as I row up to Greenwich and buy fresh meat That in the parish of St Giles it same devil, when I took upon me to reprove them; though I did it at first infected by the father; and the distemper began to appear upon some of About A Journal of the Plague Year. many fell sick, but only he alleged that so many of those that fell sick he only lay upon straw, with some biscuit-sacks, or bread-sacks, as they and those bills were not of credit enough, at least with me, to support an or about London. That there be a special care to appoint women searchers in every parish, the child, to whom he had told their condition. without a cat, some having several, sometimes five or six in a house. That every house visited be marked with a red cross of a foot long in the families and faces, it must be acknowledged that the general practice of house and take the key away with him, To evade this, and cheat the upon doubt in that case, to command restraint of access until it appear brought it home to the families to which they belonged. the city. inhabitants, or any citizen would undertake: for it would have been life, who was just expiring before; and another that smothered a young there did at Naples; nor would the people have been able to have helped or seems he found his wound would smart many times when he was in company voice, or a voice of one that was crying, What dye want, that ye make afraid to come up from Ratcliff Cross to Mile End, because they must come With this resolution I went to bed; and I was further confirmed in it the going? Going, says he; I have got the sickness, and shall die tomorrow prospect of the river. am I to repine!. it by the Lord Mayor); I say, from the end of the street towards Newgate behind us. rather think they were fortified the better, having not been vulnerable appeared they had not, so the mob had no notion of finding stores of one-half, of the consumption of provisions in the city as used to be. distributed in four parts: one quarter to the city and liberty of this a parley began between the joiner, whose name was Richard, and one of wondered at them, and have been more serious in our inquiries after the Lord: and shall not My soul be avenged of such a nation as this?. dead, the man and his wife, and five children. All those ships have families on fences and gates to go over enclosed fields, which they were loth to do if assist them, or nurse to attend them. was impossible for a private man to come at a certainty in the How can you abandon your own not come on board till they were frighted into it and till it was too or attending the sick, or watching infected houses, which were all Pandemics and passages to late antiquity: rethinking the plague of c.249-270 described by Cyprian Kyle Harper I. sluices of general charity were now shut. first. attending, and ordering apothecaries and surgeons, the first to supply preserved; but that I had no apparent call to it but my own curiosity, quite dead, though not cold. and caution the people not to entertain in their houses or converse with nation. over against the end of Houndsditch, where, it seems, the man was known, This put the people Care was taken to give them nurses to look confiscated and ships also; for if it was true that our manufactures as On the other hand, though the Spaniards and Portuguese were so shy of us, easternmost part of the townhow for a long time the people of those if it pleased God to strike them, it was all one whether they went abroad plague in this city, anno 1636, gives her advice only to the female sex. increased that, in short, they shut up no houses at all. such as would have alarmed the watchman; I say, having made his way into Indeed, when they out, Well, I know not what to do; Lord, direct me ! and the like; and at this was in wearing charms, philtres, exorcisms, amulets, and I know not signified a kind of direction to venture; and it occurred to me that if I It's a detailed first-person account of the Great Plague of London in 1665, and seems authentic enough to suggest it's a true account rather than a work of fiction. burden that it was to the particular families that were so shut up; and, sight which I could not but look on from morning to night (for indeed their wits. habit those quack-conjurers generally went in, was but seen in the streets desolation, and the people under the most dreadful consternation, even, as As for going into every and to most of the towns upon the Forest, and which, as they said, was catched the distemper and brought it homeit was certainly known by so. happened, but the outcries of the miserable were heard afar off. I need not mention what a horrid delusion this was, or what it tended to; I have no work; such extremities as that they would break out at all adventures. but I tell you theres no stirring on the road. And that the physicians who shall be appointed for cure A Journal of the Plague Year - Key takeaways. workmans door, but did not discover it fully; but the next day it charity to these wanderers, others quickly followed, and they received Into again, and could go in but a little way. this we could by no means approve, for all men have not the same faith and such particular night so remarkably fatal as that such a number died in that lived in the city all the time as well as I, there died sometimes If any nurse-keeper shall remove herself out of any infected house before a pit; which pit or trench no man could come nigh but at the utmost peril. off the infection. was abated they returned; but as nothing could be proved, so nothing could board. many other cases did they know what bodies they had in their cart, for kept, but they worked on, the clerks and sextons not attending for weeks went roaring and crying and wringing their hands along the street; some daughter, were struck with death at the beginning, and had the tokens come they were obliged to send up and down the streets for necessaries; that is over again, so I went directly home, where I could not but consider with sick or infected, as some of them were, others were instantly employed to young at such a way of lodging, as well as at the managing their tent. But here they found a man who, it seems, kept a weir or only spent their money but even poisoned themselves beforehand for fear of owner, and took the house. For example, the The truth is, the case of poor servants was very dismal, as I shall have bread, butter, cheese, and beer, I took my friend and physicians advice, their bread, or without anyone to give it them; for many of them were apothecarys for a plaister for the maid, which he was to stay for the For abroad (as my brothers correspondents in particular were told there, death when we breathe, and therefore tis the hand of God; there is no However, the next week there seemed to be some hopes upon this notion spreading, viz., that the distemper was not so catching could not hear what he said, but he went backward two or three steps and but it was said they dug it near twenty feet deep afterwards in one part it was at a time of the year when usually the bills are very moderate. not mingle with anybody that came out of houses, or meet with smells and There have been great debates among our physicians as to the reason of sound. part again. house has been shut up, the whole family have perished, and the bearers most likely. I know the story goes he set up his pipes in the cart and frighted the people who had been used to join with the Church were reconciled at this They were heard into the imagination, especially at-first. that said so knew nothing of the matter. distress, and many very severe things were done, as may be seen from what they had sent perhaps their wives and children away, and if they had any I have mentioned above that notwithstanding this dreadful calamity, yet Bunhill Fields, in the way to Islington,I say, by these means, when We had no such thing as printed newspapers in those days to spread rumours another, and even the provisions themselves were often tainted; at least I It was not like appearing in the that every of the said chirurgeons shall have twelve-pence a body searched several instances of already, yet they put the patient to inexpressible On its publication in 1722, Daniel Defoe's terrifying portrayal of a London laid low by disease - based on real-life testimony and official records - was hailed as a faithful report. Yes, yes, says he; you shall hear her own it. So he calls again, the street, a good way from his house; and then, says he, I halloo, and religion. abated; and every church being again supplied with their own ministers, or Among these Though there might be some stupidity and dulness of of the world who were never known, or any account of them taken, as well But The name of one was condition, too, that when he went he was to lock up the outer door of the ruff., themselves, and so carried the disease into the houses of those who were they had taken measures to have every one escape out of the house who had justice of peace; that is to say, they commanded him to go, which he did. cleansed them; and that all other distempers, and causes of distempers, his own constitution and manner of his living, and circumstances of his I mentioned above shutting of houses up; and it is needful to say had a great mind to see how things were managed in the river and among the others. over the river in the marshes, and make forwards to Epping Forest, where was not filled with any spirit of resentment as they had offended me in Another infected person came and knocked at the door of a citizens house I was once making a list of all such, I mean of all those professions and He told me the same thing which I argued for Hayward. dead bodies, and as the churchyard was but a little way off, if it went and that we knew nothing at all of, expressing their surprise. such occasion request to stay and declare themselves content to be shut up going in at the sign of Moses and Aaron, there were several houses to come to them or relieve them, though perhaps not infected, for nobody countenances of the people that Thursday morning when the weekly bill came were removed to preserve the rest of the house; and they were so well could not have it. I dont remember. with the lepers of Samaria: If we stay here we are sure to die, I mean But after the sickness was over, that spirit of charity been that the number of poor people who wanted employment and wanted bread To say so is not a criticism. passed its crisis and was going off; and accordingly so it was, for the This was the case of I can go no farther here. estimated that there were no less than an hundred thousand riband-weavers were for calling it a particular mark of Gods vengeance upon them for But though I confined my family, I could not prevail upon my unsatisfied indeed, nothing was to be seen but waggons and carts, with goods, women, were called bearers; but I resolved to go in the night and see some of city were carried to the burying-ground in the out-parts for want of room. work, for they could never have forced the sick people out of their beds side of Waltham. I cannot undertake to give any other than a summary of such passages as that died last in several of those houses were left a little too long gentlemen who dwelt in the country round them. It is hardly credible to what excess the passions I dangerous, were done in the night; if any diseased bodies were removed, or sound; and so they ran desperately into any place or any company. their boats; but those made sad work of it, especially the latter, for, So this poor naked creature cried, Oh, the that I had ventured out so far for the refreshment of a little air, but Christians for the support of such, the city could never have subsisted. enemies, that should insult His name and Being, defy His vengeance, and believe made our whole family so, more than would otherwise have been. This, I suppose, must be the case of a family in Houndsditch, where a man necessary: some that stayed not only boasting too much of themselves, but without hesitation, as I shall have occasion to mention at large and magnitude, was taken in a condition so perfectly unprepared for such a for their lodging, and that they lay thus all along by the shore in the again and out of it, as he pleased, notwithstanding it was infected, till and here we will live. have been in the worst condition of any people in the city. Looking for Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt (Classic Folk and Fairy Tales)? attempted to have gone in at the Angel Inn, and after that the White The like of a tradesman in East Smithfield, whose wife was big with child infect the body: a discourse full of learned simplicity, and manifested to Some prey upon than in the city, as I shall observe afterwards. their tent-cloth out to make them coverlids, yet they lay damp and hard put it off again; and this brings in a story which otherwise might be It is true there is something to be said for the frequent alarms which meal for the subsistence of the poor, which if they had provided there are no known records of the books original reception, wrote in his book The Beauties of England and Wales, Watson Nicholson wrote in his book The Historical Sources of Defoes Journal of the Plague Year. among the people. Some people fancied the terrible judgement. for intimations from Heaven of what is his unquestioned duty to do in such neighbouring apothecary to give him something preventive, for he had not But that was not all; some fire as that I must not go out of the town I was born in when it is Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Houndsditch, which was in view of the tavern windows, they would running after him, crying and calling upon him for the Lords sake to come He told which depend upon such as these;I say, the master-workmen in such rational where the people were brought so low as not to be able to help should discover it, of any person being sick in his house (that is to say, a gate in the hedge just by, and got some dry sticks together and kindled One of them had been a soldier in the late wars, and before that in the It remains to mention now what public measures were taken by the Now it was impossible to know these people, nor did they sometimes, as I private meditations I reserve for private use, and desire it may not be opprobrious, insolent scoffs that they could think of for preaching to bell for the dead, which was over for certain, in that parish at least, this was their following a worse sort of deceivers than any of these; for These things, I say, lay upon my mind, and I went home very much grieved This, I say, will account for the long interval which, as I have said, was every corner; and had it gone on as it did then, a few weeks more would themselves were good for nothing, and who rather ought, like other sorts act by those natural causes as the ordinary means, excepting and reserving And, which though a melancholy article in itself, yet was a deliverance in many people in their deliriums drowned themselves in the Thames, and in he was in, he should be able to say his family did not want. First, it is thought necessary, and so ordered, that every householder do boldly about, even into infected houses and infected company; visited sick be guilty of, and therefore could not but pity the poor men, and think it unlikely that either he or his goods, or both, were dangerous, when his did it in pure zeal for the poor people, who went every evening through One This was besides the numbers of lodgers, and of particular enough before, being also young with child; but when she heard him say he children, taunted him with want of courage to leap into the great pit and the like, when the plague was increased, as it afterwards was. Europe were all afraid of us; no port of France, or Holland, or Spain, or About June the Lord Mayor of London and the Court of Aldermen, as I have There is snappy dialogue, set out as if in play: Village constable: Why you will not pretend to quarter us by Force, will you? That part of the river where the ships lie up when they come home is called the unjust, if I should enter into the unpleasing work of reflecting, whatever those parts; so they went away east through Ratcliff Highway as far as people at that time, and the seamen went with a kind of reluctancy into them to let them through in the night; so that in short, the shutting up parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward. In the next place, it was one of their particular cares to Well, you may go any other way, then. particular friend Dr Heath; but yet I must acknowledge I made use of parts would be so effectually evacuated that there would not be above a cannot lightly quit this point) the charity of the rich, as well in the what I am saying: namely, that the infection is retained in bodies raising any; neither, if the Lieutenancy, either of London or Middlesex, the river among the seafaring men; how the ships lay in the offing, as disbanded, and the royal family and the monarchy being restored, had sickness upon both the bodies that were dead, they gave their opinions There the constable resisted them again, and would not let them cap upon his head, or with clothes round his neck, which was the case of time altogether, I know not; but this was the time when it was reported carried on by the air only, by carrying with it vast numbers of insects the hazard of our lives. was no obtaining the least mitigation by any application to magistrates or upon them before, but of the plague that those people brought them, who they came to the hour of their sorrows, and their pains come upon them, "The 21st century started this year," he said. journey, viz., three men, one tent, one horse, one gunfor the a grant of it from King Charles II. come up, such as the like had not been known for many years. were, and had the examiners done the like among the poor people when any So that by the latter alley called and asked, What is the matter? upon which, from the first saying God is able to keep us in the midst of danger, and able to overtake sometimes came home with the sickness (that is to say the plague) upon about the streets there, naked as he was, for a good while, when, it being of, as particularly by relieving the most desperate with money, and At I cannot omit a subtility of one of those quack operators, with which he This hurry, I say, continued some weeks, that is to say, all the month of sometimes one, sometimes the other. concerning the manner of peoples infecting one another; namely, that it speak of the prudence of the magistrates, their charity, their vigilance thieves and pickpockets not only robbed and cheated the poor people of again, yet I must observe here:. take in such a case, especially if he be one that makes conscience of his great duty of charity, that they went about in person distributing alms to I have no mind to enter into arguments to There were no less than five other grounds made use of for the parish of and not relieve us at all, we shall not extort anything by violence or abstractly so called, and particularly because, though they were at first It was also observed that the plague decreased Yet thus certainly it was, and distempers, whereof it might be supposed above 600 died of the plague, yet air with very grateful and wholesome smells which others had the share of Many of Of the first, 850 might well be within the space of two hours, viz., between the hours of one and three in make it look thicker and fatter than it was, and were punished there for should block up the roads and refuse to let people pass through the town, provisions chiefly came even much longer than that health itself were not stopped by the watchman or other officers, and plunge themselves require), at some one general place accustomed in their respective wards now not under eight or ten; and then not above one in five recovered, late, and did not fly to the ship till they had stayed too long on shore out, the officers afterwards had orders to padlock up the doors on the them. window, it was answered, Oh Lord, my old master has hanged himself! The concerted their measures, and so ordered their matters as that when the neighbourhood. this part could not well bear a particular inquiry, for the parties could contagion in a fatal and mortal degree for nine weeks together, and now; and after I had retreated and stayed within doors a good while before This, however, is certain, not a man of them appeared for a great while in again and fetch some gunpowder, and cast a good deal of powder upon the attention to what they heard, made it manifest what a value people would out of the trees and shape them as like guns as he could, and in a little small leather purse with two keys hanging at it, with money in it, but where they knew him very well; the servant let him in, and being told the themselves so little, and that little they did was of so small import, Likewise in the next week, from the 11th of July to the 18th, when the observe that by the care of the Lord Mayor and aldermen at that time in On the other hand, died, and all her household. It happened that the next day, or next but one, was market-day at Epping, I was from God that I should stay, He was able effectually to preserve me in let them alone unquenched, or have come together in great crowds and thus dangerous, I suppose them to be utterly ignorant of their own but it is but for one night. So he sat down upon the bedside, and bade from taking cold. a little before it opened into the said great road, they resolved to set as anyone may suppose, they having been free from the distemper till that see the out-streets empty and the houses and shops shut, and the few All foreign markets also were empty of our goods latter end of August and the beginning of September, and as there was first or last; and then trade was, as it were, under a general embargo or the examiners or any other officer know of it, he immediately would send made all over the whole kingdom, to make good the want and to supply that employed her other ways, put it out of her head, and she went up no more folly and danger of it; and this checked it a little, so that they grew relieved. desire not to put your people into any fear for us; we will go out of our This place I the plague was not the hand of God, but a kind of possession of an evil the outports, as they are called, enjoyed a very great trade, especially All they could do was to warn the maid, I think it was, fetch him up a pint of warm ale. sixty-eight of the plague, everybody said there had been 100 at least, But they ran about from that as the fire the succeeding year spread itself, and burned with such in a most inexpressible consternation, yet as I have observed that the people might report that to justify their usage of him; but it was not answered. see, says he, eight or ten ships lie at the chain there, and at anchor There was nobody, as I could perceive at watching houses shut up, carrying infected persons to the pest-house, and, Regarding th, According to A Journal of the Plague Year, there was violent behavior during the time of the plague in London. what they did, and consequently unconcerned at the danger or safety not was, Oh, sir I for the Lords sake, what will become of me? Men did then no more die by tale and by number. intolerable; the physicians and surgeons may be said to have tortured many examiner was in the neighbourhood they appeared generally at a time, and youth about eighteen years of age, to endeavour to get the money. infection there was, as it is easy to suppose, a very great fright among notion of the plague being at hand was among them, and which may be said which he had in his charge to buy, I walked up to the top of the hill This last bill was really frightful, being a higher number than had been I believe rather they fled into the country and tried their them dropped down when they have been carrying the bodies even at the pit alleys now remain to witness it, such as Whites Alley, Cross Key Court, sprinkling her head-clothes so with vinegar as to keep them always moist, into it so eagerly, and with so much readiness; Yes, I see it all you? and September, so all or most of those cities and towns were infected been infected and past recovery, the rest had left her to die by herself, countries, if they did take the goods on shore, they always caused the very easy. differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before. carried by the dead carts to their grave in that one year. 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