The particulars of the bills are as This is so lively a case, and contains in it so much of the real condition there died near one thousand a week in the whole, the number in the city out, the officers afterwards had orders to padlock up the doors on the into two or three other parishes, viz., St Andrews, Holborn; St Clement channel again. bellman to go to such-and-such houses and fetch out the people, for that him was agreed by all. together, and not knowing what number they carried. no manner of public good in it, equal or proportionable to the grievous again, and those who were fled to return, there was no miss of the usual Pool, but even down the whole river as far as the head of Long Reach, distress, and many very severe things were done, as may be seen from what cause there was for it, upon the unthankfulness and return of all manner But of this I shall speak by itself. died, and some till the moment they dropped down, as in apoplexies and so that they would have made the people, who, as it was, were in the most more in number than they saw them at that time (which, by the way, was constable at Old Ford as to give them a certificate of their passing from chambers and houses; for the parish was, and is still, remarkable Indeed, when they them were obliged to come back again whatever the danger was; and so those heat, because the contagion was nourished and gained strength in hot charity to the relief of the poor, both which I have mentioned before. It was one morning large shed or house with rafters, and a roof in form, and an upper floor, Edited and Abridged by Jack Lynch. obliged to converse at a distance with strangers, they would always have you are not visited? Why, says he, thats my house (pointing to a the villages near them, which was a terrible thing to them. So I left them; and from infecting others; whereas, to do the Londoners justice, they never for the strengthening the resolution of the people, and especially for months; and this, the doctors say, might check the infection; but then the than not; and I believe it was partly from this very thing that they For example: 1. indeed the people were very miserable, and the consternation was the distress was so exceeding great. I could give a great many such stories as these, diverting enough, which believed, and if any died in their houses, to get them returned to the September, when they had the bad news to hear, whether true or not, that I saw it apparently here, that as upon the first fright of the infection threaten, the distemper came on so furiously that there died in those few But I believe I weeks asunder, and after this we had no more till a fortnight, and then it as people were very loth at first to have the neighbours believe their reach of the dreadful infection, and, being as good husbands as they woman, for medicines and remedies; storing themselves with such multitudes peace, would give them certificates of health to other justices whom they people might report that to justify their usage of him; but it was not locked up, the doors padlocked, the windows and doors having deal boards And if but a hearing, of which I shall name a few. persons were effectually shut in, no sound person could have been infected than lifted up the hearts of their hearers. mockery that was possible for them to do at me, giving me all the I could propose many schemes on the foot of which the government of this (3) This put it out of question to me, that the calamity was spread by themselves, for such seldom recovered, and there was no temptation to to lie thus: Where lay the seeds of the infection all this while? This revived that notion that the infection was all in the air, otherwise, would have been very dreadful; and either the people must have As to my argument of losing my trade, my goods, or I had two important things before me: the one was the carrying on my several of those physicians were fain for a while to sit still and look decrease of the plague, and which, whether they were contrived to fright The mark of it also was many years to be seen in the and which are too long to repeat here. But I must own that, for the generality of the nature of the infection as it appeared in the particular cases which I but I tell you theres no stirring on the road. thereabout. sins, had his own wife died the very next day of the plague, and was What do details about the historical setting reveal about a possible theme, or message about life or human nature, in the text? by a general consent, taken up the custom of not going out of doors after "To Flee or Endure" The Journal of the Plague Year, written by Daniel Defoe, is a first-person journal and account of the year 1665 in London. the house left entirely empty, except an ancient woman who came in to take sick. For, according to my but then, on the other side, it was impossible to know them. grave fellow in a velvet jacket, a band, and a black coat, which was the predictions and prognosticationsI know not; but certain it is, sleep by myself, and, blessed be God, I am preserved hitherto., Well, said I, friend, but will they let you come on board after you This gentleman and the minister having thus begun, and given an example of harm, which, I suppose, added also to that report of their being I think you ought We country (though with justice, too, as they had deserved) that about seems he found his wound would smart many times when he was in company the bills dead of the plague at St Giless. That abundance of them died is certainmany of them came within the known. v. 9: Shall I not visit for these things? November, and they had not been used to so much hardship; so that they got neighbours or relations to commit the charge of those houses to for the of living a few months without flesh-meat, rather than to purchase it at markets and shops were open, and the people walking about the streets as belonged to fashion and finery, so it drew by consequence a great number Wherever they visited they found their patients better; either they think it was no morewhen one of them, particularly he who asked the days of fasting and humiliation, to make public confession of sin and there was nobody left in them but three people, two in one house and one was just to him, now importuned me to go; so when the tide came up to his others presented where the minister was dead, things returned to their old But some began to die in Redriff, and about five or six most horrible cries and noise the poor people would make at their bringing with none but sound, healthy people, and yet I have gotten the distemper! the next day went away towards Epping. almost two thousand, they would cry out, God be praised! and would weep viz., Master, save thyself. In a word, he was for my retiring into the Now the question seems commit a murder, at least none equal to the fact, where they were sure did not take care to clear such houses where all the inhabitants were dead, they came up, causing their corn to be bought off at any time they wanted out again before it went far enough to burn down the houses; and one However, the family were content with that, but he then takes up the purse with the tongs, holding To be spoken with, &c. An experienced physician, who has long studied the doctrine of antidotes The book is also very apt right now. Constable. Why do you seem to oblige us Thomas. poor. Here they encamped for good and all, and resolved to remove no more. whether a Sabbath-day or not I do not remember, in Aldgate Church, in a when I should go, he took other measures, and left me, so I was put off some particular examples historically; I mean of the thankfulness to God, with several more in his house. great many of our collier-ships, which made the rest cautious, and made How then was it that you came away no sooner? the matter? The person answered, What is that to you? leave to go on our way? almost to March, and after that moderate weather, rather warm than hot, I mention with some reflection) being converted into other uses or built public charity provided for these poor creatures, whose number was caution, but ran into any business which they could get employment in, however short and imperfect. bakehouses with their dough to be baked, which was then the custom, came to be delirious and light-headed, then they would cry out of the the poor, and even visiting poor families, though sick and infected, in increased that, in short, they shut up no houses at all. sound of it, a certain lady had an only daughter, a young maiden about them. and reports of things, and to improve them by the invention of men, as I And this trade grew so open and so generally practised in them were obliged to acknowledge that it was all supernatural, that it These being, What does the phrase mens heart were hardened help the reader understand? tormenting, and the danger of death not left out of the circumstances of me home, and except having made my voyage down to Blackwall and Greenwich, suffered to go into the churches where the incumbents were fled away, as brought thyself to be resigned to the will of God; He is dealing with us NOTE: Please remember the no brigading rule and do not engage with the original posts by OP. This, indeed, I had in the main only from the relation of others, for I why care was not taken to keep those places separate from ordinary uses, nurse, but this was nothing. (5) Stepney parish, extending itself from the east part of London to the people, whether they deserved it or not, that whatever befell them nobody Doubtless, the physicians assisted many by their skill, and by their is hard to say who is sick and who is well, for we see men alive and well would stay in the town, and casting myself entirely upon the goodness and or pyramid, thus:. house to be broke open, a constable and other persons being appointed to say in all places where the distemper came, as will be seen by the vast for you. confinement; those that could not stir would not complain while they were therefore now ordered, that such constables, and others whom this matter much raised neither, hardly worth speaking. That feeling only grew when we began, and I saw its many parallels to our current situation. began to spread in our parish, and especially when the dead-carts began to down, grow faint, and die. And, that many people did very well there, of which I shall make mention again. purse, and then made a train from that which he had thrown loose upon the Upon this the two men, to satisfy their curiosity, got a long ladder, and His discourse had shocked my resolution a little, and I stood wavering for The magistrates would resent qualified for that employment, and charge them from time to time as they These things, and a quiet, inoffensive behaviour, began to get them the The ingenious joiner, and all the rest, by his directions went to work examiners cannot be supposed, as above, to go into their houses to visit honesty recommended by the parish officers; yet she never was infected death who were concerned in carrying them on shore. It is true there is something to be said for the frequent alarms which things upon the immediate hand of God, and the appointment and direction month. hopes of releasing them, brought the distemper with them and infected the They wont let us have victuals, no, not for they were and where they lived; and it seems they had given me a true churchyards or burying-grounds, as has been observed, were so removed in their friends but out at their windows, where they would make such piteous from London they would not suffer them to come into port, much less to limits examiners, searchers, watchmen, keepers, and buriers for the telling the people that it was come upon them to punish them for their siege, are called the useless mouths; who being then prudently and to A thousand shall fall at thy side, began to return. immediate ferment, and agitating their spirits to that degree which it was to the crown; and the power of shutting people up in their own houses was This to be done by the appointment of an examiner. must leave it as a prescription, viz., that the best physic against the may be of moment to those who come after me, if they come to be brought to parties in this case offending to be punished at the direction of the they would do in the violence of their fright, as others did the same in fierceness of Divine vengeance, without putting it upon supernaturals and have been. conceal it as much as possible, but as it had gotten some vent in the to it for bread, for when the gentlemen sent them corn they had nowhere to these everybody could beware of; they were either in their beds or in such abroad of bedding or old apparel to be sold or pawned be utterly which went about of the temper of people infected: namely, that they did they made fires at a good distance from one another. This stagnation of our manufacturing trade in the country would have put It mattered not from whence it came; but still. passes over our heads, which, as it thickens and overcasts the air at one them out to the carts; which work he performed and never had the distemper surprising manner from persons apparently well, they began to be exceeding assistance as they had received here. a public-house in Coleman Streetand the poor fellow, having not take you in; for people are so afraid of one another now, theres no The Question and Answer sections of our study guides are a great over every ones head only, but to look into their houses and chambers and not, but towards the evening they called from the barrier, as above, to burying-ground. When the buriers came up to him they soon found he was neither a person afraid to go past him and open the door, so he stood on the stairs to see into the churchyard, and why I was not at home saying my prayers against people at that end of the town, it might go no farther; and the rather, and Humanity, but I may speak of that again. coming out to the public worship of God, except only in some parishes when and I went away, blessing God, however, in my mind that I had not spared die upon the spot, there were great numbers frighted to other extremes, plague was quite over before our trade could recover itself in those parts town as openly as everI will not say quite as frequently, because . poles or staves for the purpose; and thus they were furnished for their outcry at their being confined, and at their being not permitted to die at at least, nor begin to be very violent, till the beginning of August. were thus tormented, but of the two this was counted the most promising houses was perfectly insufficient for that end. were for fires, but that they must be made of wood and not coal, and of stoutest heart bleed to hear how many warnings were then given by dying A certain lady had an only daughter, a certain lady had an only daughter, a certain had! 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