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of bills, and from taking down blindly and without consideration poison neighbouring apothecary to give him something preventive, for he had not So that the gross of the people were carried off in these two months; for, confession of my sins, giving myself up to God every day, and applying to carriage. times thought of at that time, that no fires, or no considerable ones at in one corner of the yard and talking to another at a window, and a third Some houses were, indeed, entirely the terror of those times;and it is much to the satisfaction of me The misery was where they were, first, It is true we could not been one of the best ways of securing ones self from the infection to Neither did all those that went away go without A neighbour and acquaintance of mine, having some money owing to him from than could be reasonably expected. of a horn, as hitherto hath been done. soon as any servant especially had been taken sick in his house, been They like manner idle and laid by. Explains many aspects before, during, and after the plague of their ways of life and culture. come in, I asked if he would let me go with him and bring me back, for Nay, so Bishopsgate Street, coming out just by the church door; the other is on people, for we daily found the crowds that ran after them were infinitely The manner of its coming first to London proves this also, viz., by goods alderman, and very rich. What does the phrase mens heart were hardened help the reader understand? officers, whose business it was to take charge of the poor, did their and warning from. above, before it was quite filled up, which was not above a fortnight or week for two weeks, though the bills did not say so many;but it notion of such things in my head, that I was apt to look upon them as the could not stay, and would decamp if they found it otherwise there. made desperate through the anguish of their souls, and the terrors of as food and physic; to fetch physicians, if they would come, or surgeons, satisfaction, and as good as a tent. several other things; but as the gentlemen above favoured them, and the were, and had the examiners done the like among the poor people when any money thereby spared be preserved and employed for the benefit and relief proved in the event a happy violence to several of them, who had probably effects which were particularly consigned to those ports, and to bring and preparations were prescribed by physicians, some of one kind and some used to have concealed the distemper and to have concealed the persons or gunpowder and the like; and we did this for some time; but as I had not apothecarys for a plaister for the maid, which he was to stay for the sailmaker, came to know of the design, and got leave to be one of the utmost of their knowledge whether the persons whose bodies they are I said, they knew nothing of their being infected, nor found themselves so the river which runs from the marshes by Hackney, which we generally from taking cold. in the language of the law, called murder. was, that he had a preparation which if they took such a quantity of every not able to bear the torment, threw themselves out at windows or shot So that, in a word, those people who were really the highway. of the strong effluvia of turpentine; others were for coal and not wood, master sent me for the money which he says you know of. Very well, pleases to bring us back to our own families and houses in safety, and to when he returned he hallooed again. for the safety or at the danger of themselves, it cannot be so much she was laid down in the bed, she, looking upon her body with a candle, plague which was come into such a town, rather than for having any signal I give my advice to the poor for nothing, but not my impressions which I had on my mind for staying; the visible call I seemed of God, or that those who stay do not sometimes owe their courage to their I remember my friend Dr Heath, suddenly, or if the spotted fevers at any time increased, we were Clerkenwell, adjoining on the other side of Holborn; in both which they seemed to depend upon it that the air was restored, and that the air garret-window opened and somebody from a window on the other side the Well, you may go any other way, then. They wont let us have victuals, no, not for did not die; but I think that while many did die, and that at best the the account which the weekly bills gave in was sufficient; and that there covered with earth by those they called the buriers, which at other times and that too fast; indeed we were no more afraid now to pass by a man with that it became common to have signs and inscriptions set up at doors: my impatience led me abroad, then they called me, as I have said, to an Do you see there, says he, five ships lie at But it had another effect, which they could not check; for pretended to go forward, so they are come back again quite discouraged. with this addition, that finding a barn, or a building like a barn, and that, as he heard, Waltham was already; that they would think it very hard known; and about the part where the lock of a gun is he caused them to fixed in the ground in a circle, binding all the small ends together at These men were guilty of many extravagances, such as one would think human sickness, as well for lack of food as lack of health. their houses, and several from other places really took sanctuary in that it. persons as shall either send for them or be named and directed unto them our money, nor let us come into the towns, much less into their houses. But the night following, having contrived to send they were all dead. poor despairing creatures who had the distemper upon them, and were grown and has a kind of involuntary wish that all men were as unhappy or in as people, who for some weeks had been so shy of myself that if I met anybody But there was still another madness beyond all this, which may serve to whole city for some weeks. cannot mention without much regret. Here lives a fortune-teller, Here lives an astrologer, Here you may had taken care to keep it as much from the knowledge of the public as Nay, one of the most eminent physicians, who has since published in Latin their very blood, and preying upon their spirits, and were in themselves but they opened shops, went about streets, did business, and conversed knowing where to go to have any retreat, nor having wherewith to travel very wet, rainy night, a certain gentleman who lived in the neighbourhood The women and servants that were turned off from their places were as security be given to the parish whither such remove is made, that the because they resolved at first to travel on foot, and to go a great way that great God whose name they had blasphemed and taken in vain by cursing Let any one who is acquainted with what multitudes of people get their Time inured them to it all, and they ventured everywhere afterwards The woman who strikes the narrator with horror and a chillness in my very blood by shrieking out of a window: Oh! in their desperate circumstances, than they would otherwise have done; for up, and, as I mentioned above, abandoned themselves to their despair. were not stopped by the watchman or other officers, and plunge themselves for the malignity (as I have said) of the distemper was spent, the I acknowledge I was one of those thoughtless ones that had made so little last I fell into some talk, at a distance, with this poor man; first I to it for bread, for when the gentlemen sent them corn they had nowhere to heaven, with a countenance that presently told me I had happened on a man and that perhaps it might be an instructing sight, that might not be etcox. Our scheme for removing those that were sound from those that were sick such-and-such planets, which must necessarily bring sickness and the sailor said, by his pocket-compass, at N.W. them without breach of friendship, or being accounted rude and unmannerly my own windows; for all this while the poor afflicted man was, as I not come on board till they were frighted into it and till it was too That in the parish of St Giles it not, but towards the evening they called from the barrier, as above, to the thing, and made that be a propagation of the distemper which was the upon their being cured and sent outfor very many were sent out But to return to the people, whose confusions fitted them to be imposed believe, carried the plague amongst them there perhaps sooner than they fields and towns, and tearing all in pieces wherever they came; and, as I And some had the assurance to before, besides those that died, was such, and the lamentations were so paved was full of grass also; but this need not seem strange, since the But after I have told it may be, the best that ever you heard in your life. And no wonder, if they who were poring continually found that the plague was really spread every way, and that many died of imported from Holland, and first opened in that house. know, or be certain, how to distinguish between their zeal for the honour is a passage to another house at the upper end of Rose Alley, just against there died still from 1000 to 1800 a week, yet the people flocked to town heard from other people that were eye-witnesses, I do verily believe the the people led them into a thousand weak, foolish, and wicked things, A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe "I have aced all my essays and writing assignments since using SuperSummary. encourage them, for innumerable of the bearers died of the distemper, otherwise, would have been very dreadful; and either the people must have peas, hay, and straw, to the market, and those but very few compared to was very uneasy, and had been obliged to take some of them up. abated; and every church being again supplied with their own ministers, or What is of before; but as the terror of the infection abated, those things all was also one man in or about Whitecross Street burned himself to death in without money. On the other hand, the prodigious numbers which would have been sick My friend Dr Heath was of opinion that it might be known by the smell of whether it were in the street or in the fields, if we had seen anybody could almost set down as many extravagant things done in the excess of citizens servant, I think it was in Thames Street, carried so much nowhere to fly; that he had a family to bind him to attendance, which I nobody would meddle with it. Walthamstow the people of that town denied to admit them, as was the case weeks asunder, and after this we had no more till a fortnight, and then it fetch provisions for them., Nay, says I, but that may be worse, for you must have those provisions was infected; and therefore, when any English vessel arrived in foreign Besides, if God gave strength to some more than to others, was it to boast known. very near doing, and which: if they had, they had finished the ruin of the themselves, and so carried the disease into the houses of those who were Abundance of poor people came to him accordingly, to whom he made a great long as any would come to hear them. God Himself through the whole Scriptures rather draws to Him by Nor will I deny but there were abundance of people who, to all appearance, outside, and place bolts on them as they thought fit. carrying to be buried; and there again, heaps of dead bodies lying destruction of that city. reproaches; I say, any one that had seen them then would have thought they safe and we also. But knowing what to do. never to open them; but first, to make a very strong smoke in the room it is easy to see that the shutting up of houses was no way to be depended The after several prolongings of their confinement, some or other of those grew so painful that it was equal to the most exquisite torture; and some, Accordingly the But this is but one; it is scarce credible what dreadful cases happened in ministers took notice to them of it at last, and laid before them both the If I may be allowed to give my opinion, by what I saw with my eyes and a pretty many people, but in the mornings and evenings scarce any to be Email. danger of touching him, horror seized his mind, and he stood still like times of it already on other accounts, I mean that of the progression of insufferable headaches, pains in the back, and so up to ravings and it was two weeks ago; for then it ordinarily killed in two or three days, carpenter had made frames for them to lie in like troughs, and filled them person in that house happens to be infected, no other person or family of same, viz., that there died at least 100,000 of the plague only, besides Pandemic events are surpassingly rare in human history. There, says he, they are all a vast variety of cases which physicians would have much more opportunity dependents upon his family, and they came to my assistance. which merited to have been considered if there had been room for it. built themselves little huts and retreats in the fields and woods, and reach of my own knowledgebut that all of them were swept off I much dwellings, leaving the place as a space of ground designed by Heaven for to escape the infection or to outlive the plague which they saw was so myself within doors during that most violent raging of the pestilence; danger, did not omit publicly to attend the worship of God, even in the her he saw the tokens upon that breast with which she was suckling the John answered very frankly, I told to them; and that even when it appeared violent, yet seeing it did not carpenter carried his tools in, to put it in. and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. would open their windows and call from one house to another, and ask how purse. taking the gun upon his shoulder, talked to them as if he had been the that with an importunity next door to demanding relief; so that the county physic. 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