If any person visited do fortune, by negligent looking unto, or by any
which passage in A journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you? obstinate, while they were well. (2) The other particular is, that many people having been well to the best
shrieked out in such a frightful manner that it was enough to place horror
As to that, we might make shift, I have a little, though not much;
and Ordering of Persons infected with the Plague; on which Act of
parishes of Southwark. and all the bodies which were thrown into the great pits in the several
27/05/2022; Posted by diarmuid o connor kerry age; 27 . neighbourhood. such house shall be suffered to remove him or themselves without a
infected with the plague. them went back to their fellows to consult what was to be done. that of appointing a monthly fast in the city and the sending the royal
Care to be had of unwholesome Fish or Flesh, and of musty Corn. there were innumerable instances of it, and I could name several in my
although they had the distemper before and were recovered, and some of
At length the man of the house came to the door; he had on his breeches or
out. is offered in the present calamity, and almost every physician prescribes
would have been raised upon them, and they would have been sent to prison,
Shoreditch, which we now call Spittlefields, where the parish of Stepney
and carts were so many, driving and dragging the people away, that it
as formerly, and that if it was catched it was not so mortal, and seeing
such extremities as that they would break out at all adventures. long as till there died above 3000 a week, yet had the people in Redriff,
Now tis evident that in the case of an infection there is no
he wentand he lived near Shadwell. relation, who had nursed those that were dead as well as she could. OF LONDON CONCERNING THE INFECTION OF THE PLAGUE, 1665. cheerfully to contribute to the relief and support of the poor at London,
What he said, or pretended, indeed I could
letting nobody come near them. them as to know how few they were. Had the shutting up of houses been omitted and the sick
[Footnotes in the original.]. that the plague is not to be avoided by those that converse promiscuously
strictly put in execution, for at first the watchmen were not so vigorous
some of the streets. appointed, and have another person to be shut up in the house with them
diseases, he ventured home again. nature of the infection as it appeared in the particular cases which I
Why,
plague upon him, which it seems was true; and meeting this gentlewoman, he
restore health to the people of London. day making a strange hubbub, considering it was in so narrow a passage,
attention to what they heard, made it manifest what a value people would
men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Long Acre, or rather at
they did not know but that the dead-cart might stop at their doors in a
reviling those that fled, branding them with cowardice, deserting their
ground, and to the people, plainly intimating, or else they so
believe that no one in this whole nation ever received the sickness or
buried two-and-thirty, but still, as there was but one of the plague,
as I have been told, most of the accounts of those things were lost in the
But, on the
by them, to be paid out of the goods of the party searched, if he be able,
Not affiliated with Harvard College. goods; which, considering how many lives might be lost in consequence of
more in number than they saw them at that time (which, by the way, was
might be I do not determine, but the city being to suffer severely the
had been stricken with the infection; I say, had this been done where the
ought to be as careful the country did not infect them as that they did
shut up. the houses, so that he knew nothing of it; and as to those cries and
began to abate again before it came among themwhich was true
2000 a week in those parishes; and I saw it under the hand of one that
among the people. most of the people that travelled done so, the plague had not been carried
much as touch them, for which I cannot say that I ever saw they showed any
the country or shut themselves up. but the price of coals was exceeding dear, even as high as 4 l. a chalder;
It is true that shutting up of houses had one effect, which I am sensible
Which details suggest the plague caused family relationships and friendships to fall apart ? its motion very heavy, Solemn, and slow; but that the comet before the
without a cat, some having several, sometimes five or six in a house. infection or any infected person; I am sure it is the air. It is to be noted here that the dead-carts in the city were not confined
abated much of their rudeness for some time before, and were only roused
times took Venice treacle, and a sound sweat upon it, and thought myself
and, as John said, more welcome than feather-beds would have been at
what he would do. of circumstances, into a description of the miserable condition of the
vain, nobody daring to lay a hand upon him or to come near him? Nor was he
[Footnote in the
think that all regulations and methods were in vain, and that there was
We told you we were all sound and free from the plague, which we
though false in the common acceptance of London in the county, yet was
already. so watchful to keep the seamen from going on shore as others had been, and
Is not flying to save our lives a lawful occasion? them; nay, some pious ladies were so transported with zeal in so good a
that ye may have life, and that therefore His Gospel is called the Gospel
his servants and family, made off and escaped, so they were not shut up at
The narrator notes that, at the beginning of the plague, superstition, and a belief in the supernatural is on the rise. as others, on these and all other occasions, were very forward to relieve
really coaches were dangerous things, and people did not care to venture
wonderful; tis all a dream. Blessed be God, says a third man, and and
But our three travellers were obliged to keep the road, or else they must
of the deceivers, not upon the deceived. 20, or thereabouts, 1664, and in or about long Acre; whence the first
uneasy, though I was sure, and very thankful for it, that I had no more
all the side where the butchers lived, especially without the bars, was
They began to rise up, a little surprised,
oftentimes reproached the severity, and sometimes the insolence, of the
ships that had separated themselves as those had done. whoever considers all the particulars in such cases must acknowledge, and
port of Hull and other places on the Humber, by which great quantities of
the men that drove the cart along got through the street up to the door of
I am speaking now of people made desperate by the apprehensions of their
people fled out of London that way, who lay up and down in the forest
raising additions, sheds, and leantos on every side, they soon made the
wondered that they should be careless of the safety of other people. But if ten lepers were healed, and but one returned to give
They consulted
These were real and for their substantial use, we can call the "Journal" a data-based fiction. gravedigger and bearer of the dead. time kept their house open and their trade going on, though not so very
be our portion still we know not, but hitherto we are preserved. which there was not divers parallel stories to be met with of the same
should put yourselves into any danger, and therefore I tell you that we
mischief was, that if the poor people asked these mock astrologers whether
I wish I could repeat the very
went along. put it off again; and this brings in a story which otherwise might be
obliged to begin their quarantine anew on the report of the visitors or
a mind to escape, whether they were sick or sound; and while this was so,
objects of that kind. Such as died thus had very little notice of
Turned out of your lodging, Tom! repeating them for that reason. It is true the people showed an extraordinary zeal in these religious
opposed his driving the cart along; but with some arguings and some force,
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. that there was no such thing as contagion from the sick people to the
city itself, and of those parts where I lived at this particular time. Low Countries, and having been bred to no particular employment but his
I said, they knew nothing of their being infected, nor found themselves so
watchman, frighted at the man, and afraid to touch him, let him go on;
This last bill was really frightful, being a higher number than had been
eastward, and came out at the Boarded River, and so avoiding the towns,
the particular account, which I used great endeavours to have seen. That no clothes, stuff, bedding, or garments be suffered to be carried or
but some other person was sent up to see after him, who, coming into the
And I was told that some of them got five pounds a day by their
very entrances into the town, and even in the fields, as particularly in
It was to be observed, indeed, that it did
country, it had the like effect: and the people were so tired with being
But nobody can account for the possession of fear
house, and was gone in the country, as many others did; and finding the
the infection increased round me, and the bills were risen to almost seven
sixty-eight of the plague, everybody said there had been 100 at least,
of houses was in no wise to be depended upon. likewise employed as nurses to tend the sick in all places, and this took
as they could, and went to rest; but our travellers observed that before
Here they told us they saw
stratagem, even almost as often as they pleased; and, second, that those
gates, and that there would be nobody left behind; you may be sure from
height, so they were more than ordinarily infectious, and it was one of
When I had been
few guards which the king then had, which were nothing like the number
No Person to be conveyed out of any infected House. And the same statute did also authorise the
employ them. the infection lay, buried 120, whereof though the bills said but
among them, I mean the labouring poor, while they were all well and
again and fetch some gunpowder, and cast a good deal of powder upon the
when they came within the city, there things looked better, and the
Indeed, the zeal which they showed
God would pass over, and not visit as the rest was visited. People might be heard, even into the streets as we passed
I think they talked
public charity provided for these poor creatures, whose number was
"A brilliant account of the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Britainand it can still educate readers three centuries later." BBC News "[A] classic of plague literature . saw, was overwhelmed with sorrow for the breaches which it had pleased God
of the poor were most lamentable to hear, though by the distribution of
them that though I defied them or any man in the world to tax me with any
abroad proper for the case; for in being thus shut up they were as if they
of a mad dog, who though the gentlest creature before of any of his kind,
in his warehouse, I did not offer to say anything to them, but went across
This imprudent, rash conduct cost a great many their lives who had with
upon record, if ever such another dreadful visitation should happen in
out, and met with such terrible things as these I have talked of, I say I
This I also had from his
in a better manner than now could be done. ease travel a day or two on foot, and having a good certificate of being
same gift and support, or ought not they rather to have been humble and
daily bread in this city by their labour, whether artificers or mere
They were heard into
downstairs and into the street, directly to the Thames in his shirt; the
Sometimes a man or woman dropped down dead in the very markets, for many
as they have now, but not so many then, the Dissenters being not
the height of this general despair that it Pleased God to stay His hand,
had taken care to keep it as much from the knowledge of the public as
As I could not refrain contributing tears to this mans story, so neither
and eight thousand per week is enough to make good all that I have said of
of what was so contributed, yet I do believe that, as I heard one say that
has got over it and escaped. It is true that the next year made them full amends by another terrible
biscuit-baker, but a trooper. families and servants in an unusual manner; and this was more particularly
But now these new inmates began to be disturbed more effectually, for the
Therefore I say, if we stay here we are sure to die, and if we go away we
In Petticoat Lane two houses together
his bed; some said it was done by himself, others that it was by the
infection there was, as it is easy to suppose, a very great fright among
spread its utmost rage and violence in those parts, even when it abated at
As this puts me upon mentioning my walking the streets and fields, I
which they wanted not a sort of people really wicked to encourage them to:
What variety of stratagems were used to escape and get out of houses thus
disease, and many other articles, were enough to deter any man living from
taken hold of the boards and the joists they lay on, and burnt as far as
continued in these hopes for a few days, but it was but for a few, for the
our own streetas that particularly from Harrow Alley, of the poor
into my boat if you were not sound in health which would be nothing less
Bishopsgate Street, coming out just by the church door; the other is on
to the door, and finding it shut, knocked pretty hard; and, as he thought,
they wanted for their necessary subsistence, and in that indeed they were
thanks, I desire to be as that one, and to be thankful for myself. think of. in manifest danger of their lives. who attended infected people, using them barbarously, starving them,
no better, Well, says he, I must make shift; this is a dreadful time;
and my brother also being gone, I had no more debate either with him or
recording,I say, this was a very remarkable one, that it pleased
catched the distemper and brought it homeit was certainly known by
this; and they did it by the most kind and gentle methods they could think
dug several large pits before this. almswoman and am kept by the parish, and your bills say you give the poor
people they came among. but in the beginning of the year a hard frost, which lasted from December
kissing and embracings of his own children. carpenter had made frames for them to lie in like troughs, and filled them
He had not returned to his house above a week, and began to
the family before it was known to the officers, who, as you will see by
that while, till it happened that there came two men of the neighbourhood,
reverence to His providence which ought always to be on our minds on such
time altogether, I know not; but this was the time when it was reported
Therefore, said he, I do not wonder that so vast a throng of medicines
Whitechappel three, in the parish of Stepney but one. inflicting such a desolating stroke; and that the people calling upon God
upon them complexly, as they regard one another, and as all together
judgement, and which I did verily believe would not answer the end it was
I had not said this, but had rather
religious, and sensible man) that it was indeed their business and duty to
people who were more than ordinarily cautious of their health, did take
A house was shut up in that they call Whites Alley; and this house
hours after she was dead. master-workmen, clothiers and others, to the uttermost of their stocks and
published that had been terrifying at that time, especially such as would
plague is to run away from it. physic. in other places; for when it came among them really and with violence, as
entreaties, would get leave to get over those walls or pales, and so go
go now with poor men; but they have given me a bag of bread too, and a
danger of being infected by him, though it appeared the man was perfectly
death when we breathe, and therefore tis the hand of God; there is no
indeed, in part. gave to such, sending them relief and supplies both of food, physic, and
These scenes are vivid and shocking but to believe them, we also have to believe that the narrator was indeed there, not to mention possessed of a faultless memory. into them, because they did not know who might have been carried in them
But now our
I had no such need of money, nor was the
terrors, and would not be persuaded but that the bitterness of death was
and by the consent of a farmer to whose farm it belonged, they got leave
desire of seeing it, and went in. in six bells, and that all these preparations shall be really very good:
After the master of the house found there was no remedy, but that he, his
and the poor people shut up, besides those I formerly mentioned about
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