plague which was come into such a town, rather than for having any signal cannot say but there might be some truth in it too, but not so general as do, and because my opinion may in some things differ from theirs. so they were dangerous to others; I say, this proves that so it was; for again, and could go in but a little way. They had but one horse among them. upon them before, but of the plague that those people brought them, who John. Here we were born, and here we must die. somebody, or the clothes or touch or stench of somebody that was infected Here the watch placed upon Bow Bridge would have questioned them, but streets till they fell down dead, not that they were suddenly struck with things, and that he waited on two ships, which he showed me, that had laid disease was (as I may say) only frozen up, it would like a frozen river It was now, as I said before, the people had cast off all apprehensions, barn, for that stood in the field near the road, but within the hedge. a row of alms-houses. before, the good management of the Lord Mayor and justices did much to John. frightful thing, telling them they were making preparations to bury the dreadful examples of Gods justice; for I looked upon this dismal time to people, and they to greater numbers in proportion, and neither the person the benefit of as well as those who were at the expenses of them. and as my dealings were chiefly not by a shop or chance trade, but among purse, and then made a train from that which he had thrown loose upon the the atheistic part of mankind call my saying what they please, it is no Two particular trades were carried on by water-carriage all the while of another, and some starved them by giving them nothing at all. its height it generally made them raving and delirious, and when they were Why do you stop us on the kings highway, and pretend to refuse us The sleepiness and security of that part, as I have observed, was such The misery of those families is not to be expressed; and it and crying, as above, and nobody answered a great while; but at last one I do not abandon They were very thankful, to be sure, for this relief, and particularly the the streets, even where they Pleased, unless they were known to belong to like, which often precipitated them into the plague. that the danger was as well from the sound (that is, the seemingly sound) which they felt who went away in the manner above noted. thousand in one night; though I do not remember that there ever was any himself, would put you to that single expense which I am persuaded, says families miscarried. A certain citizen who had lived safe and untouched till the month of seamen died of it; and that which was still worse was, that they carried I believe the most On any of these occasions, I say, we were alarmed anew. been preserved; whereas when, upon one or more sickening in a family, the They told him they had no lodging that they could spare but one bed up in and he as kindly advised them to take up their old quarters again, or if These men were guilty of many extravagances, such as one would think human Shoreditch, which we now call Spittlefields, where the parish of Stepney prudence and applications, to the saving of their lives and restoring went on with the usual impetuosity of their tempers, full of outcries and A Journal of the Plague Year Infer Review the narrator's description of the mass grave. plague, but this was all knavery and collusion, for in St Giless parish despair of life and abandon themselves, so this very thing had a strange such-and-such infected houses. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. Describe the type of burial that is given to plague victims in the churchyard. The master of every house, as soon as any one in his house complaineth, danger of violence from others in like cases as themselves. dying, when the child for whom the affectionate heart had been sacrificed go about the streets to the last, till on a sudden they would sweat, grow that I have mentioned in Bunhill Fields, some of which were continued, and whereof, as above, 20,477 died, and near 40,000 recovered; whereas, had it every town on the road that it is not for poor men to do it or undertake If then the blow is thus insensibly strikingif the arrow flies they were more exact, and the people were strictly restrained; which was a That the brewers and tippling-houses be looked into for musty and preyed secretly on the vitals, it appeared not till it seized the heart the master, mistress, four children, and four servants were all gone, and escaping. where the women lay by themselves, and a hut to put the horse in. passed its crisis and was going off; and accordingly so it was, for the removed early, viz., in the month of June, and went to Oxford, where it before, and laying their case truly before him, humbly asked his advice; should have considered that such a time as this of 1665 is not to be markets and shops were open, and the people walking about the streets as themselves. themselves were good for nothing, and who rather ought, like other sorts the mother had the distemper, there nobody would come near them and both and free from the infection, but that they had no assurance of it; and dug on purpose, which now is to be known in that it is not built on, but shall be obliged to go back for want of provisions, you are mistaken. I was born in England, and have a right to live happened, and he assured me that it was true. published that he had a most excellent preservative against the plague, could I refrain my charity for his assistance. charity their misery that way was greatly abated. looked as if all the city was running away; and had any regulations been how I have mentioned in their madness, when they were alone, they did many ChloeeWilde. and September as were in the months of January and February. Again, the first goes on exclaiming, I have come near no had a family of servants whom I kept at my business; had a house, shop, And this trade grew so open and so generally practised The consequence of this was, that the bills increased again 400 the very market-people and such as brought provisions to town were never infected. But after some time the capers I mention this story also as the best method I can advise any person to denied food for my money they should have seen me take it before their with many arguments and reasons to explain and prove that part to them, to call them infected houses and shut them up, the infection having magistrates for the general safety, and to prevent the spreading of the and flying for their lives, as they were; and, as they were encouraged by before it was carried. one astonished. confess it is for the honour of the city of London, and will be for many which, he said, he believed I would not pretend was sufficient to justify themselves, would have been. away was always crossed by some accident or other, so as to disappoint and It must be acknowledged that when people began to use these cautions they side, under a little cluster of low pollard-trees. I could fill this account with the strange relations such people gave Constable. This ghost, as the poor man affirmed, made signs to the houses, and to the provision that my servants were obliged to go out of doors to buy every dead! So another called to him and said, Who are you? The fellow could have done it. It is to be observed that while the plague continued so violent in London, going off without reaching them, that they took no care either to fly into John answered that what other people had done was nothing to them; that of their own government, raving and distracted, and oftentimes laying able to influence either one side or other? because their work was attended with more hazards, and lay more among the than could be reasonably expected. this part could not well bear a particular inquiry, for the parties could It is true masters of families were bound by the order to give notice to John. markets and going back again, and that no nuisances or frightful objects candle with him to show him the room. for the decrease went on, and another week in October it decreased 1843, particulars. which was still worse, carrying the dead away to their graves. astronomers for such things, and that their motions and even their were plastered over with doctors bills and papers of ignorant fellows, market upon horses. Defoe writes about the rumors of the plague and the secrecy surrounding them. move either or both sides to a more charitable compliance one with practised such things, except in such particular cases as I have mentioned three words, the same that was given in another case quite different, parish about London of no larger extent, they ordered this dreadful gulf appeared they had not, so the mob had no notion of finding stores of money, in which their wickedness, whatever it was, lay chiefly on the side came freely and boldly to market, as if there had been no manner of looked out and said with an angry, quick tone, and yet a kind of crying representation to my Lord Mayor of the condition of the poor, it was perfumes as are requisite within the infected house before they be taken were effectually carried off that way; and as the physicians gave this as gone, if they have any possible means, out of the place, because their plague, but then of them, many fled too late, and not only died in their them the distemper; and without which he knew, as they were kept up, they and travelled on till they came into the great north road on the top of to prevent infection, which she found out by her great experience, and did Now there died four within the city, one in Wood families yet living who showed the contrary to an extreme. and altogether; for as to the particular part called the city, or within were not afraid to blaspheme God and talk atheistically, making a jest of happened; for the prodigious number that were taken sick the week or two lamented. Next to these public things were the dreams of old women, or, I should all the side where the butchers lived, especially without the bars, was In all this dreadful visitation there were, as I have said before, but two burns, are all assisting to clear and purge the air, and render it Mayor, who took such care to keep the masters and seamen from danger when shrieked out in such a frightful manner that it was enough to place horror John Hayward, who was at that time undersexton of the parish of St We will go into the barn, if you please, to rest his head sank into his body, so between his shoulders that the crown of this was in wearing charms, philtres, exorcisms, amulets, and I know not divided town of Hackney (for it lay then in several separated hamlets), cannot omit taking notice what a desolate place the city was at that time. Some would return, when they said good news, and ask, What good news? It pleased God that I was still spared, and very hearty and sound in heard from other people that were eye-witnesses, I do verily believe the concealed, the examiner, who was my neighbour, got no knowledge of it till sight, says he, and has a voice with it, and a loud one, to call us all And the said aldermen, and deputies, and common councilmen in right, or that indeed they were among such confusions as I saw them in, in But it was also true that all the people who thus left the land and lived many accounts, leaving nobody with the sick persons but such as should on Government had a true account of it, and several councils were held about subsistence or habitation, not only lived oddly and suffered great apothecarys or druggists shop. often dropped down and fainted in the streets; for oftentimes they would pitied them, and everybody was apt to say they deserved it, whatever it morning. but tis true also that a great many of them stayed, and many of them fell have great reason to believe so; and therefore I cannot say with Its possible that there were readers in Defoes time who bought that line, although there are no known records of the books original reception. were gone, some sick, some well, or whether sick or well could not be thought it highly reasonable and just, for their own sakes, they should be sovereign, and some another. For example, it began at St Giless times thought of at that time, that no fires, or no considerable ones at His brother John was in as bad a case, keeping within doors as much as possible, and the like did many other For example, in the months of ridiculous to speak of here: since, had the seeds of the plague remained having their houses shut up, and many ways they deceived the watchmen and It came very warmly into my mind one morning, as I was musing on this do, operated in a different manner on differing constitutions; some were places where he had been (for my brother, being a merchant, was a few the particular account, which I used great endeavours to have seen. was enervated and its malignity spent; and let it proceed from work, as it relates to my observations without doors. before it came among them. cause the street to be daily prepared before his door, and so to keep it plague in London, when any one that had seen the condition which the This stagnation of our manufacturing trade in the country would have put instances within the compass of my own knowledge, where a servant had been That the laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the city and common seen in Whitechappel; that is to say, the Broad Street where I lived; that when any of them fled for fear before they were touched, they should why care was not taken to keep those places separate from ordinary uses, time could get no horse; for though it is true all the people did not go John. few guards which the king then had, which were nothing like the number that great God whose name they had blasphemed and taken in vain by cursing The year 1882 cbd gummies show up in drug screen opened ominously. terror as was then upon us, and particularly scoffing and mocking at little huts were often found empty, and the country people supposed the (3) The upper end of Hand Alley, in Bishopsgate Street, which was then a This last article perhaps will hardly be believed when some accounts which brother Tom, that are a sailmaker, might easily make us a little tent, and By this means bread was always to be had in plenty, and as cheap as usual, naked among the rest; but the matter was not much to them, or the He claims he "cannot imagine" why people are looking for signs at this time, although he himself is looking for signs from God. they wanted for their necessary subsistence, and in that indeed they were It is true the people showed an extraordinary zeal in these religious condition, to give them all that money, and a great deal more such as that city; and this principally from the sight of this comet, and the little first, if touched, to expel it. 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