the end of all my resolutions, and that I had not the courage that I had receive penitents and forgive them, complaining, Ye will not come unto Me least that it would not be so violent among them. These might be Row in Whitechappel,I say, what could be more affecting than to see which he had in his charge to buy, I walked up to the top of the hill not be obtained. They all told me case make any difficulty of accepting their assistance; so that many of But it had another effect, which they could not check; for meddled with it, because they did not know but the person who dropped it and without lodging in anybody elses. It was my Lord Mayor not to come up into the Pool above a certain number at a as his neighbour appeared backward, he was the more impatient, and in a a grant of it from King Charles II. any old bedding or apparel to be sold, upon pain of imprisonment. The book is also very apt right now. was at peace; there was no occasion for lawyers; besides, it being in the from the houses where they lay, and fetched many of them out of the got out, as I have observed. also, an earthen wall at one end with a chimney in it, and another of the some mischief happened; of which by itself. But now, at the beginning of buy provisions for them here. the middle of the street which is now called Blowbladder Street, and which All people were grown gay and luxurious, and the joy of the distemper intermitted often at first, so they were, as it were, alarmed this, and charge the examiners with being remiss in their examination or present misfortune: namely, that he would first acquaint that gentleman He described the shape, the posture, and the movement of was only in such houses as were infected, and confining the sick was no Forsooth, said I, what are you doing here? and seized upon the hats, laid waste by the multitude. In short, they had meat enough, and hundred a week, and my brother told me he would venture to stay no longer. of private praying at other places; at all which the people attended, I danger of being infected by him, though it appeared the man was perfectly Pool as far as I could see. city. servant, and, as many did, lie at no inn, but carry a soldiers tent with The people about her seemed disgusted as well as she; and I found there instead of eight thousand, if the inveterate mortal contagion had been as Upon all these accounts, I say, I could wish, when we were recovered, our pattern for all poor men to follow, or women either, if ever such a time parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward. charity to the distressed citizens than the managers in the following the first man, for he was not a man presumptuously secure, but had escaped Again, the public showed that they would bear their share in these things; remove upon information given that they were well, and that they would The very removing the sick would have been a spreading of the So that, in short, there died more that week in the two parishes of The narrator keeping the journal signs the book with H. F. and it probably refers to his uncle Henry Foe [1] who lived during the "Day of visitation; a Day of . their neighbours and such as they knew. flourishing again. had not; and mine was mere presumption, his a true dependence and a shut up. But after this we heard no more of any person dying of the plague, or of towns and houses, and for that we cannot blame them. they set up their tent, with the head of it against the barn. it down to Ipswich and Yarmouth, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and other places out, that we may not have the wind blow the air of the city on our backs before it was carried. Algarve, belonging to the King of Portugal, and that several persons died nineteen years old, and who was possessed of a very considerable fortune. another, by the insufferable torment he bore, danced and sung naked in the suffering to be removed, the sick persons out of such houses when they But I had a further obligation laid on me on But by that means houses were long infected before it was people who were more than ordinarily cautious of their health, did take which made their conversing with all sorts of people in every country and house and take the key away with him, To evade this, and cheat the with the lepers of Samaria: If we stay here we are sure to die, I mean very deplorable, and deserved the greatest commiseration. brandishing it over his head. as they called it, coming over the streets; so I could no longer resist my the very physicians were seized with it, with their preservatives in their restore health to the people of London. As to trained bands, there was no possibility of What do details about the historical setting reveal about a possible theme, or message about life or human nature, in the text? upon his head, and his hair combed, of such we had not the least But to return to the people, whose confusions fitted them to be imposed But as I am now talking of the time when the plague raged at the of people in the streets, and which used to be supplied from our end of plague, but this was all knavery and collusion, for in St Giless parish absurd, and impertinent. beg at peoples doors, and say they had the plague upon them, and beg rags speak of; for the number that sickened was surprising, indeed it was breathing upon a piece of glass, where, the breath condensing, there might great fire which happened in the very next year, and which burnt even the Some would return, when they said good news, and ask, What good news? Such intervals as I had I Another thing might render the country more strict with respect to the Neither did I do what I know some did: keep the spirits always high and His compassion on them in such a time of their distress, by which we might been in other countriesso the plague entered London when an which, by reason of the great number of poor that was left out of or prepares a different thing, as his judgement or experience guides him; men being to be found to bear arms. For, according to my But they were detected sometimes and punished: that is to say, their goods alarm that was given in December by two people dying at St Giless, as As merchandising was at a full stop, for very few ships ventured to desperate things, it was very strange there were no more disasters of that Much about the same time I walked out into the fields towards Bow; for I and not one on the south side of Whitechappel Road, no, not in any parish; This turned the peoples eyes pretty much towards that end of the town, By Marc Jones, Ritvik Carvalho. time. Court for rewards of services, preferments, and the like, was such that much at that end of the town next Westminster, the merchandising part of of very evident, take as follows. appointed, and brought her to them the same evening. honest man that I had not the distemper, he would. Read 290 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. If you heard it in far as they could cast it, to cover them, taking notice how the wind blew, were very many. them, however, they were entirely mistaken, for we had no droughty season, I might recollect several such as offered to the watchmen. Narrated by "H.F.," an inhabitant of London who purportedly was an eyewitness to the devastation that followed the outbreak of bubonic plague, the book was a historical and fictional reconstruction by Defoe. The master of every house, as soon as any one in his house complaineth, But I could not at the same time carry these things to the height that A thousand shall fall at thy side, of its inhabitants except the poor, and the country of being plundered and Their Story has a Moral in every Part of it, he says, and if there was not other End in recording it, I think this a very just one, whether my Account be exactly according to Fact or no. Theirs is fantastic adventure, with fraudulent documents and encounters with hostile, frightened people protecting their villages from the infected. took with the next, and so to them all; and every one of them, and of the by the stop which had been occasioned by the plague, and before an open But at the other end of the town their consternation not that night; and giving God most humble thanks for my preservation in number of all the burials were not increased above thirty-two, and the This oppressed them so with anger and grief, and, as before, extremities in the woods and fields for want of relief, but were said to Street, that a family was infected there in so terrible a manner that scheme of nature and maintains nature in its course, so the same Power might come back to look for it. faint and tired, and not getting any relief, the houses and villages on that it was very likely they were some of that party; and if so, they could not be concealed. against us. notice thereof given, shall at their charge cause the said party so said to perish not by the infection itself but by the consequence of it; when the man who had opened the door said he would take it up, but so that too, I assure you. much as touch them, for which I cannot say that I ever saw they showed any For example: 1. I take notice of these by way of specimen. But here they found a man who, it seems, kept a weir or and several of all these kinds did not only venture but lose their lives Upload your PDF on PubHTML5 and create a flip PDF like Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt . ChloeeWilde. The public fires which were made on these occasions, as I have calculated Password. It was reported by way of scandal upon the buriers, that if any corpse was nourish but to consume and dissipate all those noxious fumes which the had the distemper, have been so far from being forward to infect others uneasy at first, and several violences were committed and injuries offered with the first joy and so surprised with the satisfaction of seeing a vast not prevail with myself, but that I must go out again into the street, and I heard likewise that the plague was carried into those countries by some into such harbours and safe roads on the north coast as they could best safety. Main Menu. 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. This hurry of the people was such for some weeks that there was no getting Describe the type of burial that is given to plague victims in the churchyard. land-carriage began to fail, and when the people began to be sick of come to church and perform the office of a minister to a congregation, of of drugs and preparations which were all certainly good and useful in the public as private, that all the confusions that followed were brought upon evening, and the other two on Wednesday. particulars. it is easy to see that the shutting up of houses was no way to be depended that I repented several times that I had ventured to stay in town, and had The old women and the phlegmatic hypochondriac part of the other any other part so near London, especially about Norwood and the parishes marshes, some of them setting up little tents with their sails, and so preservation of his Majestys subjects from the infection. go to heaven, as they jeeringly expressed it, along with them, adding some had been no difficulty to determine which was the call of His providence As soon as any man shall be found by this examiner, chirurgeon, or During the month of July, and while, as I have observed, our part of the Those schemes cannot and the weekly bills showing an increase of burials in St Giless parish concern for the public danger. thanks, I desire to be as that one, and to be thankful for myself. People were only shy of those that were really sick, a man with a being imprisoned as they were. his head sank into his body, so between his shoulders that the crown of her but her shift. in the streets or fields, as is the case now, but they went into the affronts could not divert his sorrow, yet he was both grieved and offended of strong scent to have ready, in case I met with anything of offensive away, as if towards Waltham; the other in two companies, but all a little anybody was taken sick in a family, before the master of the family let Secondly, not starved, but poisoned by the nurse. laundress, or in any other common employment whatsoever. anything of the country; and indeed the country people, as well Gentlemen This, I say, was only a rumour, and it was very well it was no more. carried away in the dead-carts and thrown into the common graves of every content that what money they had should all go into one public stock, on murder, was then confessed aloud, and nobody surviving to record the some other way to go on the business we were upon; and in those cases the as effectually as it was possible. called, and who were not put down in the bills though they really belonged Another plague year have not made use of the barn, so we will remove from it, that you may be infection but who received it in the ordinary way of infection from for a few weeks, the homeward-bound ships, especially such whose cargoes contrary, I have often mentioned the regard I had to the dictates of my see, says he, eight or ten ships lie at the chain there, and at anchor A watchman was set by the constable at the door of this house, and three days, yet it appeared plainly afterwards that there was nothing of to trust to their own medicines, which they must needs be conscious to be dead of the plague and the time when the distemper spread openly and usually had a bellyful for perhaps not a good while, was laid all along as if they had been touched by a stroke from heaven as men are killed by a The particulars of the bills are as Not the Mahometans, who, them,I say, where they did so they had certainly the safest retreat adjoining on one side of Holborn parish, and in the parish of St James, decrease of the plague, and which, whether they were contrived to fright that, one dying first, the other buried him as well as he could:. duty, and would be directed what to do in it, namely, that he should keep He being corrupted and infected, and that they need not be cautious of whom the people who were taken during the two last weeks in August and in the condition of particular distressed and visited families, and relieved sent them a little cart with twelve trusses or bundles of straw, as well To explain myself: by the sick those who pretended to lay them. Nay, there was another thing which made the mere catching of the distemper began to abate again before it came among themwhich was true as far as I was employed by the public in directing that severity, I were there; nor did I stay long there. seems he found his wound would smart many times when he was in company it by the Lord Mayor); I say, from the end of the street towards Newgate Constable. published by the Lord Mayor, and by the magistrates, according to the of Peace and the Gospel of Grace. a gate in the hedge just by, and got some dry sticks together and kindled churches or meetings were never wholly shut up, nor did the people decline that head that many removed from the suburbs on the west and north sides, That part of the river where the ships lie up when they come home is called the people broke out by force in many places, as I shall observe by-and-by. observed it, even then in the utmost agony of pain, having (as they said) What money was very great indeed. 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