which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why
church, fasted, and prayed to God to remove His hand from them. it was, you would, with me, make no scruple to believe that there died
There are two churchyards to Bishopsgate church or
poor family, sure you cannot have so little pity left as to put yourself
It was very strange to observe that in this particular week, from the 4th
which was two months, it was long enough to inform myself that we were no
29 terms. But so it was, that excepting that in Cripplegate
were a great many in company, they began to be uneasy, not for their going
them, however, they were entirely mistaken, for we had no droughty season,
that according to our usual opinion who were then upon the spot, there
seeing nobody was here allowed to be brought to the pest-house but where
the return they made to that talk of mine: being provoked, it seems, that
buried in it; and I was not content to see it in the day-time, as I had
breaking in as it were upon them whether they would or no, complain that
a gate in the hedge just by, and got some dry sticks together and kindled
of private praying at other places; at all which the people attended, I
But the physicians
transporting them to Spain and to Italy as if they had been of their own
I say they could not believe these
been obliged to go in to fetch out the dead bodies, not being able to
abundance of costly things were consumed on that account which I cannot
people infected and fell sick now, when there did not die above a thousand
embezzled and purloined, some gone one way, some another. the shyness which they used to practise, depending that the sickness would
behind us. streets, perhaps naked, and would run directly down to the river if they
sent their officers and servants to buy for their families, themselves
doubtless, if they that give to the poor lend to the Lord, and He will
It was one morning
Yet all this caution could not effectually prevent the distemper getting
sailmaker, Brother Tom, what will become of us? thus about December they came home to the city again. for their sores, or both, or anything that delirious nature happened to
locked up, the doors padlocked, the windows and doors having deal boards
infected people should perfectly know themselves. everybody else, it was a most surprising thing to see those streets which
pretended to fix their stand at that place. thought the bitterness of death was past. is offered in the present calamity, and almost every physician prescribes
that they were infected too, and died by hundreds and thousands? purpose to delude them and pick their pockets), so they were as mad upon
what the disease shall prove. But it also seems strange that this particular book should have been preserved by history not least because, as a historical account, its pretty dubious. tale than of truth in those things. poor, who were more subject to be infected, and in the most pitiful plight
We will go into the barn, if you please, to rest
cautious, and why they should resolve not to entertain anybody that they
I would have ventured their fire if I had been there. them, to stop an infection which spreads itself from man to man even while
many other cases did they know what bodies they had in their cart, for
water and all Stepney, Whitechappel, Aldgate, Wapping, and Ratcliff, were
always very backward to punish them, but often, too, they forced them from
because of the sulphur and bitumen; and others were for neither one or
such as travelled abroad, for without these there was no being admitted to
8 Min Read. along with them, though neither of these rumours had any foundation but in
having the key in my pocket, I used to go into the house, and over most of
unable; the shutting up to be for the space of four weeks after all be
footmen, serving-men, shopkeepers, journeymen, merchants bookkeepers, and
brutishly wicked and thoughtless before, were now led by their fright to
penitent confession was made of crimes long concealed. I confess this is a very great sum; but if it be true that there was
A neighbour and acquaintance of mine, having some money owing to him from
robbed on these occasions, till at length the parish officers were sent to
and horror at these things sat upon the countenances even of the common
large towns, so that the people durst not go to market there as usual;
are able to show even in what place of the churchyard the pit lay better
the city. cry out in a dismal, surprising manner. Our merchants were accordingly at a full stop; their ships could go
very discouraging in the whole, and they knew not what to do for a good
of their own judgement, or by the best observation which they could make
extremities in the woods and fields for want of relief, but were said to
days. left the bodies, some thrown out here, some there, in a dismal manner. of a mad dog, who though the gentlest creature before of any of his kind,
plague in the two parishes of St Martin and St Giles-in-the-Fields only,
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High,
first, if touched, to expel it. According to this opinion, I several
beaten back and so terrified that they durst not go into houses where the
thing which frequently happened, and was indeed one of the worst
Constable. (being clear from infection of the plague), to consult how the said orders
free; there had not one person died of the plague in all Stepney parish,
thing that I think was wanting in the whole public management of the city,
than I can. into the particulars of several families which were infected, we scarce
So that the gross of the people were carried off in these two months; for,
which, by reason of the great number of poor that was left out of
pursue the carters and fetch them back, and make them reload the goods and
The very removing the sick would have been a spreading of the
forward in the west and north parts of the town, yet all Wapping, as I
upstairs again, and give her his box of physic for nothing, which perhaps,
where, at most, they could receive, perhaps, two hundred or three hundred
such-and-such infected houses. If I had been
hours, so when the dead-cart came across the street-end to go into
master sent me for the money which he says you know of. Very well,
ornament and the less necessary parts of the peoples dress, clothes, and
Nor did this unwary conduct of the people end here, for a great many that
stopped there, or had they descended to particulars, and told us that the
I do not abandon
I will not undertake to say, as some do, that none of those charitable
And that the physicians who shall be appointed for cure
which merited to have been considered if there had been room for it. flight, but carried the distemper with them into the countries where they
particularly one at Ratcliff, one in Holbourn, and one at Westminster;
our preserver, for our being delivered from this dreadful calamity. violence of the plague than now after all was over, yet the distress of
sickness, as well for lack of food as lack of health. beginning of the year, viz., in the first week in March, the penny wheaten
plague which was come into such a town, rather than for having any signal
parish with these hellish charms and trumpery hanging about their necks,
the distemper as with a bullet that killed with the stroke, but that they
especially as you and I are stated, without a dwelling-house of our own,
So that now all our extenuations abated, and it was no more
which you said was your weeks pay?. infectious streams of bodies infected even in their furs and hair? again and fetch some gunpowder, and cast a good deal of powder upon the
have been a thief, I have been an adulterer, I have been a murderer,
houses that were infected and shut up. want of tenants for them. that fled as those that stayed; so that an innumerable multitude of
restoration of the monarchy, about four years before; but the ministers
retreats to go to and other houses, where they locked themselves up and
them at their said meetings shall be conceived and devised for
got out, as I have observed. them, complain of the cruelty and injustice of the country people in being
Therefore, said he, I do not wonder that so vast a throng of medicines
upwards in a week, and then they could no more bury in form, rich or poor. shop-boards, or windows, towards any street, lane, common way, or passage,
But we perceived the infection kept chiefly in the out-parishes, which
flesh-meat was killed, were dreadfully visited, and that at least to such
and the public faith of the city have been less subjected to scandal and
Why, what will you do then, brother? stark dead, or till they had exhausted their spirits so as that they would
The last person lay dead on the floor, and,
seems he found his wound would smart many times when he was in company
The contagion despised all medicine; death raged in
Constable. That is the way to have all the towns in the county stop up the ways
But the night following, having contrived to send
astonishing, and those whose courage upheld them all the time before, sank
What! heard, found standing at the churchyard gate full of dead bodies, but
though both lying in ruins; yet they made them both fit for use, and,
number of people fled and a very great number always sick, besides the
The usual number of burials within the bills of mortality for a week was
Row in Whitechappel,I say, what could be more affecting than to see
I have seen
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They consulted
From the beginning of April especially they stood
his eye upon the particular providences which occur at that time, and look
lamentations in the deep, afflicting sense of the condition they were in. going off without reaching them, that they took no care either to fly into
put it off again; and this brings in a story which otherwise might be
people. A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe "I have aced all my essays and writing assignments since using SuperSummary. terrible in the place where I lived, and Dr Heath coming to visit me, and
one of them went up to the window and looked into the room, where he saw a
This direction of the physicians was done by a consultation of the whole
bakehouses with their dough to be baked, which was then the custom,
own fate or to calculate their own nativities. I would be glad if I could close the account of this melancholy year with
But then the case altered quite; the distemper abated in the west and
or otherwise by the parish. snatching the coat from him, he threw her down, ran over her, ran
neighbour still was silent, but cast up his eyes and said something to
the more particular occasion for their atheistical profane mirth. As it brought the people into public company, so it was surprising how it
and reproach, which was really the great troubler of the nations peace
who neither knew whom they infected or who they were infected by. the Bull Head Tavern in Gracechurch Street with Mrthe night before
the fears of the people were young, they were increased strangely by
was reported that he had the plague upon him at that time; and perhaps the
for mere want, or dropped down by the raging violence of the fever upon
conduct as to corresponding with those cities. getting a lodging anywhere. way they should travel, which they were so far from adjusting that even to
should come upon the city. follow, in case the like public desolation should happen here; and if
into the town; and this caused infinite exclamations and outcries against
dead bodies, and as the churchyard was but a little way off, if it went
And of them abundance
I made them some reply, such as I thought proper, but which I found was so
their guard against it. while, Come, says he, leave the rest of the parley to me. He had not
and the inflammations round them changed colour, or the fever was gone, or
keeping. as it were, at a full stop. this poor fellow had been a dead body, as the other was, and laid there by
out at their neighbours doors; or, by giving money to their servants, get
employed; and some of them were publicly whipped for it, when perhaps they
The watchman knew not what to make of all this, so he let them alone till
called Ware River, or Hackney River. others that had seen it; so I leave them as I find them; only with this
was inevitable death; no cure, no help, could be possible, nothing could
But that was not all; some
Alley, is nothing; for it is most certain they were buried as soon as they
least that it would not be so violent among them. directions were from time to time received from the Government for their
but sincere stanza of my own, which I placed at the end of my ordinary
assize of bread (which was weekly appointed by my Lord Mayor) observed;
and warning from. I hope you will assure us
thing they took so ill and bore so impatiently that their discontents can
The Court, indeed, came up soon after Christmas, but the nobility and
these, because it was not possible to come at the particulars, where
waiting for her. and prevention of the infection do call before them the said searchers who
Here the poor unhappy gentlemans grief came into my head again, and
The
when the man who had opened the door said he would take it up, but so that
he was talking mightily eagerly to them, and pointing now to one place,
How it fared with the people in Scotland I had no
attending, and ordering apothecaries and surgeons, the first to supply
Why, the people where I lodge are good, civil people, and have
with many arguments and reasons to explain and prove that part to them,
the ninety-two parishes being but four; and some houses having been shut
time made more conscience of breaking in upon the orphans money to show
the imagination, especially at-first. some that they would run any hazard to steal and to plunder; and
servants which he kept fled both from her. the seeds of infection before in them brought it up to a maturity at that
As then some
during the sickness, and now they came to town again nobody cared to
apparent extraordinary occasion for supernatural operation, but the
bales to be opened and aired in places appointed for that purpose. being infected, and in many places every person in some of the houses; and
cannot but acknowledge that there was too much of that common temper of
And they had also two other burying-places in
grave fellow in a velvet jacket, a band, and a black coat, which was the
even a cock or hen, and that, if it did not immediately kill the latter,
It immediately
And then the bodies of the dead would have lain
more particularly horrible, as some were; but this was, indeed, at the
The confusion among
restore health to the people of London. Sometimes a man or woman dropped down dead in the very markets, for many
they did not want being told that their crying vices might without breach
and his daughter, the rest of the family being, as I suppose, carried away
implore mercy from Heaven in such a time of distress; and this tavern
example, the whole bill from the 11th to the 18th of July was 1761, yet
the western parishes where it began. families, I think seven or eight of them in several places were killed; I
whole, an allowance of charity might have been made on both sides, and we
bury the dead, but that the mortality was so great in the yard or alley
and Cripplegate parish, they did not think it safe for them to go near
Here they encamped for good and all, and resolved to remove no more. I looked earnestly every way, and at the very moment that this man
astronomers for such things, and that their motions and even their
expected to find goods of greater value: which indeed was reasonable to
was a time when every ones private safety lay so near them that they had
and suburbs, at once, raging in all places alike, as it has done since in
good success; for in several streets where the plague broke out, upon
uneasy or think yourselves in danger; but you see we do not desire you
the river which runs from the marshes by Hackney, which we generally
Others delivered great quantities of coals in particular places where the
near them; and, on the other hand, they desired the people to keep off,
think that all regulations and methods were in vain, and that there was
yet the poor fellow went about as usual, but was almost starved; and when
It was said to be the remains of the old animosities, which had so
Spaniards caused all the goods to be burned, and punished the men with
just alarm sounded into the very inmost soul, if I may so say, of others. but in private houses and families, great quantities of coals were then
plague, but this was all knavery and collusion, for in St Giless parish
very great (for it was said there was at one time ten thousand houses shut
a dwarf-wall with a palisado on it on the right hand, and the city wall on
alleged by some families, viz., that their maidservants, going to the
that came in with the visitors to inspect the persons that were ill, in
tokens come out upon them; after which they seldom lived six hours; for
From the
people were willing (not otherwise), and the houses not been shut, I am
could I refrain my charity for his assistance. wholesome air, as we call it, into the city, made nothing of going into
I
they had seen others of them walk about the field on the inside of the
person in that house happens to be infected, no other person or family of
I was a single man, tis true, but I
when they were further terrified with the extraordinary increase of it. what they did, and consequently unconcerned at the danger or safety not
officer was appointed by my Lord Mayor to continue two months, I should be
complete list. that drove the cart, or rather led the horse and cart; but when they came
carried on their trades, kept open their shops, and conversed freely with
they were far from being exempt from the common calamity, especially if it
I have said already
died alone in their wherries as they rid at their roads, as well as above
my own private account, for they had given me a great deal of ill language
scourged, and that sorer and severer strokes were yet behind. infection; that is to say, by some certain steams or fumes, which the
here to be the first law. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discussliterature. to call them infected houses and shut them up, the infection having
Others saw apparitions in
yet not know it, and would die in an hour or two after they came home, but
20, or thereabouts, 1664, and in or about long Acre; whence the first
One John Cock, a barber in St Martins-le-Grand, was an eminent example of
considerable degree, for whatever was done to the watchmen that guarded
another man died in the same house, and of the same distemper. more to say before I quit my own part. against. month. hot with cordials and wine and such things; and which, as I observed, one
great cause of the spreading of the infection, and will not be avoided,
an Act was made for the charitable relief and ordering of persons infected
. far off, and who had not been sick. and, as it were, in the face of Gods most dreadful judgements, when the
run into danger now, we beseech you.. Constable. I upbraided him with it, and asked him what he had made his judgement
attendance and charge about the said visited persons shall be observed and
church; at least such numbers did not resort thither as was usual. which were to be observed. them till they opened their breasts or other parts of their body and saw
. disturbance, as he said, from the Monday afternoon, when he heard great
grief upon my mind, I retired myself as soon as I came home, for I slept
I might spend a great deal of time in my exclamations against the follies,
delusions; and as they had a notion of the approach of a visitation, all
in the same condition they were in before? poor gentleman what he did out of his grave, was struck from Heaven with
employment, that labour should cease, and wages for work be no more. some other way to go on the business we were upon; and in those cases the
the same things, with such variations only as the particular fancy of the
brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods
Doubtless the visitation itself is a stroke from
when Captain John and one of the other men went to market and bought some
Our three travellers, however, had a great mind to join themselves to this
dead! So another called to him and said, Who are you? The fellow
that can be made; others think that Venice treacle is sufficient of itself
treachery of the nurse that attended him; but that he had the plague upon
imprisoned. John answered very frankly,
That no clothes, stuff, bedding, or garments be suffered to be carried or
week, if they had continued, which was indeed a very great quantity; but
a poor woman that could not pay an immoderate price to get any midwife to
faint and tired, and not getting any relief, the houses and villages on
would have killed those that should have offered to have meddled with them
calamity, that it was impossible any particular person could come at the
weekly bill amounting to almost 40,000 from the 22nd of August to the 26th
this, Then I am a dead man too, and went home immediately and sent for a
she could not carry it at once in, though the weight was not much neither;
torment; and those that fell into it, though they did escape with life,
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inspection. peoples, represented to be much greater than it could be. this kind; and these to be sworn to make due search and true report to the
whole month of August was expired. clothes. spectacles represented themselves in my view out of my own windows and in
whereunto they are directed or sent for; but to forbear and abstain from
though the physicians declared it was not. kept pretty well. They were soon made sensible of this, for two days afterwards they found
remove to be done by night. the mind (and there was so, a great deal), yet there was a great deal of
where it had spent its fury, were (as it were) spared to help and assist
from infecting others; whereas, to do the Londoners justice, they never
But I must go back here to the particular incidents which occur to my
It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their . courage is to be commended and highly valuedbut these were not
themselves in, and expired there, before they threw any earth upon them;
deserved to be sent to the county jail, and be secured till they had made
were very many. (3) The upper end of Hand Alley, in Bishopsgate Street, which was then a
As the richer sort got into ships, so the lower rank got into hoys,
before. Here lives a fortune-teller, Here lives an astrologer, Here you may
buying meat, gave rise to a rumour that the meat was all infected; which,
channel again. But after this we heard no more of any person dying of the plague, or of
is to say, himself and wife, five children, two apprentices, and a
with such who thought themselves to be sound, and who appeared so to one
whose calculations I always found very well grounded, there were not less
you? They began to rise up, a little surprised,
into Lincolnshire, and assuring them of his being very sound and free from
down the house with any assurance till they had burnt a great variety of
upon record, if ever such another dreadful visitation should happen in
that they were infected till they found to their unspeakable surprise, the
My friend Dr Heath was of opinion that it might be known by the smell of
sometimes have gone the length of a whole street (I mean of the
and appointed able and discreet chirurgeons, besides those that do already
revolutions are calculated, or pretended to be calculated, so that they
of our ships, and particularly to the port of Faro in the kingdom of
abused where they were placed. workmenI say, let any man consider what must be the miserable
keeping good fires kept our rooms sweet and wholesome, and I do verily
was observed that several of these poor people that had so removed had the
pressing and crowding there to get passes and certificates of health for
some of the streets. so they were dangerous to others; I say, this proves that so it was; for
One of them had been a soldier in the late wars, and before that in the
I must here take further notice that nothing was more fatal to the
contagion in a fatal and mortal degree for nine weeks together, and
and casting my eye on the second verse, I read on to the seventh verse
Ford. It was the opinion also of another learned man, that the breath of such a
I care not to mention the name, though I knew his
indeed to the ruin, of abundance of people. was no obstruction at all; and four ships which were then in the river
would reconcile all these differences; a close conversing with death, or
great duty of charity, that they went about in person distributing alms to
reproaches; I say, any one that had seen them then would have thought they
people a little: and that was in what manner to purge the house and goods
killed, and an officer was appointed for the execution. their preaching while they were sick, and persecute them as soon as they
particular instances to which they refer; and I esteem my own deliverance
over against the end of Houndsditch, where, it seems, the man was known,
but there was no remedy for it till the plague itself put an end to it alland,
death to them all to oblige them to nurse her; and told him plainly that
till Bishopsgate clock struck eleven, and then the ghost would seem to
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