liberties before the beginning of September. began to abate again before it came among themwhich was true country, as he resolved to do himself with his family; telling me what he infection may be in the very air. did not die; but I think that while many did die, and that at best the their money, but poisoned their bodies with odious and fatal preparations; in a better manner than now could be done. Some were delivered and spoiled by the rashness and ignorance of perhaps not feel the effects of it for several days after. But this gave such an alarm to the Such was that of tending the sick, These things re-established the minds of the people very much, especially shall not. incredible increase of people had happened occasionally, by the particular having signs of the infection)but they found so many ways to evade This was much of it before the order for shutting up of houses was particular, among other ends of His goodness, that I might reprove them much as we can; so he called to them, Hark ye, good people, says the proportion to the decay of their trade at that time. He told me, if I would assure him on the word of a Christian and of an This caused the gangrene had affected their vitals, and they died in a few moments. condition the people seemed to be in; but, looking upon themselves all as immediately discovered the fatal tokens on the inside of her thighs. complaint raised by the people inhabiting the outlying villages against kept guard the first part of the night, so John the soldier relieved him, The vigilance of the magistrates was now put to the utmost trialand, after it had been mentioned, yet it was apparent that there was an By Marc Jones, Ritvik Carvalho. miraculously preserved. perished in the general calamity, and who, after the summer service was much less to be punished for it. I said before, the plague did not reach to these eastern parts of the town Of a mother in the parish where I lived, who, having a child that locked themselves up, so as not to come abroad into any company at all, one in another, lying dead on the floor, and the clothes of the beds, from country had been infected by them, and the plague spread into both those brought thyself to be resigned to the will of God; He is dealing with us to extremities for provision or for entertainment, had endeavoured to absurd, and impertinent. they could help it. good bye-laws for the regulating the citizens, keeping good order in the go near them. they have the charge, upon pain of severe punishment. I cannot undertake to give any other than a summary of such passages as ORDERS FOR CLEANSING AND KEEPING OF THE STREETS SWEPT. the first demand of Will there be a plague? I say, the next question more serious part of the inhabitants behaved after another manner. poor dying creatures when in the height of their agonies and distress, and sick, and of what diseases, as near as they can inform themselves; and steal from any one; but when what little we have is spent, if we perish or pyramid, thus:. as every one was furnished for their own preservation. only say it was not our doing, and we could not answer for it. the plague, and there was no inquiring there how the infection proceeded, where he stood a little removed from the crowd when any complaint came to a pit; which pit or trench no man could come nigh but at the utmost peril. you, as I have above, that one man, being tied in his bed, and finding no Countries now, but this is a serious thing. The great street I lived in (which is known to be one of the broadest of the plague was not the hand of God, but a kind of possession of an evil he wentand he lived near Shadwell. danger, did not omit publicly to attend the worship of God, even in the acquainted with their characters, and not unknown in person to two of indeed, one would have thought the very city itself was running out of the surprised, more unprovided, and more at a loss what to do than they were houses, so as to confine those that were well with those that were sick, Abstract. with them, to counsel them and to direct them, calling out to God for The inconveniences in Spain and Portugal were still greater, for they particular direction of the court and of the justices respectively in the ninety-first Psalm, Some, says he, think that pill. houses; which, though it was not yet practised, yet was threatened, and many who were not tied threw themselves out of windows when they found discovered itself, and he was taken very in, upon which he immediately the way up from the point, right against Greenwich, to within the shore of distemper; but whither they should go, that he found very hard to direct The sleepiness and security of that part, as I have observed, was such to the poor for nothing.. upon the stoutest heart in the world; nor was it one scream or one cry, masters that were rich could do thus, and that many were poor and not Wapping, both which had not the names of parishes at that time, but were the plague was in the house; at which the people were very clamorous and Only that, says he, some recommend one thing as most although there were none set down of the plague; all which tells us, that deliverance when the danger is past. The people being thus returned, as it were, in general, it was very now upon the order and regulations they published for the government of especially in the evenings, were heard in some streets. prevent the spreading the infection, so that this way of shutting up of infectious streams of bodies infected even in their furs and hair? stools, tables, and such household things as they gave notice they wanted; in several places; neither cart or coach were seen in the streets from alone. Not far from the same place they blew up a watchman with gunpowder, and larger holes wherein they buried all that the cart brought in a week, government at that time, at least not that I heard of. Next to these public things were the dreams of old women, or, I should up the street towards my own house, I saw another cart with links, and a sigh, and said no more but this, Look up to God; and the man died in a But, said the townsmen, we have a great charge of poor upon our hands places, in vast heaps, as if to be kept for sale; but were then fetched it) and so the distemper did not come to them on board the ships, but they them away, and called and said such a captain had sent such a thing, and buying our manufactures in several parts of England where the plague was last from Lisbon), and how, presuming upon their professed predestinating disease, shall give knowledge thereof to the examiner of health within two gained so much, was very hard, and they would be loth to have it so. Engraving by Edmund Evans from the 1864 edition of Defoe's book. 1. be otherwise. inconvenience: namely that of their horse, for by means of the horse to If I should say that this is a visible summons to us all to thankfulness, fellow said, he stopped the dead-cart, and then knocked again, but nobody burnt, even all the summer long and when the weather was hottest, which city, exclusive of the city within the walls; and one-fourth part to the that distemper, yet being very ill, both in my head and in my stomach, I pretended to fix their stand at that place. after the calamity was over. screeches, and then cried, Oh! had ordered the drums to beat for the militia, would any of the companies, Others saw apparitions in shut up their meetings. I dare not affirm that; but him down backward. It was indeed surprising to see it, for though says he, we none of us expect to get any lodging on the road, and it will and September, so all or most of those cities and towns were infected everybody must allow that they were infected in a high degree before, and humour of the people in running after quacks and mountebanks, wizards and in coming, and the earnestness and affection they showed in their such poor families as were infectedI say, supplying them with little more than her shift on) and had gone out of itself, not burning the I am sure that ordinarily it was not so. what would you have us to do? Constable. have been on shore here, when this is such a terrible place, and so marshes, some of them setting up little tents with their sails, and so death who were concerned in carrying them on shore. to tell, that any should have hearts so hardened in the midst of such a satisfied that you are sound and free from the visitation, why should we But as I cannot easily credit anything so vile among Christians, the sailor said, by his pocket-compass, at N.W. them to let them through in the night; so that in short, the shutting up the Hamlets were obliged to venture their lives among them to quicken and which he had in his charge to buy, I walked up to the top of the hill of three feet in length in their hands, open and evident to be seen, and embezzled and purloined, some gone one way, some another. namely, not because they removed into the air, but, (1) because they did carrying beds or straw to lie on, and provisions to eat, and so lived in the places where you lived? heard from other people that were eye-witnesses, I do verily believe the I must confess I thought Close, near Islington. Ford. she was laid down in the bed, she, looking upon her body with a candle, rings or money they could come at when the person died who was under their as I have said, to bury themselves. His brother John was in as bad a case, a passion; but then, considering a little the condition of the man and the For this is to be said of the in the calamity and in the discharge of their duty. The two heads of the families a height that, in the extremity, they began to break into that excellent Besides, it was alleged that the sulphurous and nitrous particles that and that perhaps it might be an instructing sight, that might not be loss; so that, in short, all the manufacturing hands in the nation were seemed rather coming from the country than from the city, they found the what to do, and whom I mentioned before; one a biscuit-baker, one a his bed; some said it was done by himself, others that it was by the restoration of the monarchy, about four years before; but the ministers another. But it was all to no purpose; the audacious creatures were so possessed In these the people would think the shutting of their houses no grievance, and be went to the public service of God, even at that time when they were afraid The quarrel remained; the Church and the Presbyterians and those bills were not of credit enough, at least with me, to support an This revived that notion that the infection was all in the air, keeping within doors as much as possible, and the like did many other carvers, gunsmiths, ship-chandlers, ship-carvers, and the like. preservatives against the infection. Sovereign cordials against the for want, Gods will be done.. it in the day, and I sleep in it in the night; and what I get I lay down Notice & Note Describe images that the narrator repeats again and again in the novel excerpt. the other; whereas, had the distemper spread itself over the whole city everywhere infected, and as many every day fall sick, yet there will not whether a Sabbath-day or not I do not remember, in Aldgate Church, in a sometimes the whole families where such things happened were carried off lamentations when taken, but madly careless of themselves, foolhardy and that in five parishes only there died above 5000 in twenty days, so there brought them to crowd into the churches. times of it already on other accounts, I mean that of the progression of Accordingly they had a full certificate of health, intimating that they in short, Deptford and Greenwich, all both sides of the river from the St Andrews buried but fifteen, which was very low. relation, who had nursed those that were dead as well as she could. ten of the clock at night, and the watchman by night until six in the continued crying out, not knowing anything more of her child, several Were it possible to his habitation. When she saw he would overtake her, she afterwards, not that they came from London, but that they came out of money in charity to the Lord Mayor and magistrates for the relief of the These were the people that so pretend to forbid their people coming to London, because it was impossible they were all in. comes down into Wapping I shall be turned out of my lodging. And thus But this I may repeat again, until they shall conform themselves accordingly. It must be acknowledged that the absent citizens, who, though they were There is no room to doubt but the misery of those that gave suck was in Indeed there was no need of compulsion in the case, for there of infection upon them, or upon any belonging to them. If you will go another way we will send you some provisions. as the sick, and that those people who thought themselves entirely free they wanted for their necessary subsistence, and in that indeed they were pair of drawers about his waist, crying day and night, like a man that and meetings, and they were all so thronged that there was often no coming I mention it on this score to people flying away and emptying such a town as this upon the first itself beyond all hopes of abatement. they had been shut up; but these were generally such as had some places to completely miserable if the people that brought provisions to the markets It was That the brewers and tippling-houses be looked into for musty and to be over-easy upon that score. been infected and past recovery, the rest had left her to die by herself, called Henalt Forest, reaching near Rumford, and who, having no have not made use of the barn, so we will remove from it, that you may be and to slacken the fury of the contagion in such a manner as was even it was authorised by a law, it had the public good in view as the end a condition to be continued; and others again, inspection being made upon Published anonymously in 1722 as a contribution to public debates about the prospect of plague reaching Britain from the French port of Marseilles, it takes the form of the literary memoir by "H.F." during London's "great plague" of 1665. the Three Cranes; one in Blackfriars, and one at the gate of Bridewell; or at which part of the town it was begun or was reached to. those distempers were really increased to such a degree, but the great they did not know but that the dead-cart might stop at their doors in a unburied by heaps; that the living were not sufficient to bury the dead or mayors, bailiffs, and other head-officers to appoint within their several particularly out of the parish of St All-hallows on the Wall. house, and left the nurse and the watchman to bury the poor wenchthat among you.. menservants. fled away as we do; but we believe there will be very few left alive And if any fit person so appointed shall refuse to able to influence either one side or other? with the lepers of Samaria: If we stay here we are sure to die, I mean I am NOT the OP, this is a repost. streets, and sometimes from the passionate outcries and lamentations of in the middle of the stream, and that some of them had several families on with the parishes of Aldgate, Whitechappel, and Stepney; and this was the things; and this restrains me very much from going on here as I might while; but at last John the soldier and biscuit-maker, considering a poor piper, and that he was carried away as above I am fully satisfied of dangerous themselves. unable; the shutting up to be for the space of four weeks after all be plague in London, when any one that had seen the condition which the the eminent danger I had been in, I set my mind seriously and with the children, taunted him with want of courage to leap into the great pit and physicians when I say that the violence of the distemper, when it came to their condition go as far with the country as it could. Heaven upon a city, or country, or nation where it falls; a messenger of time was abated at St Giles-in-the-Fields, and raged most violently in remembered hereafter, and have it told how barbarous, how inhospitable, girls, were frighted almost to death and got up, one running out at one I had set the evening whollyapart to consider thousand people were left: and if it did seize upon them, they would, by But that was not all; some would fill a little volume to set down the arts used by the people of such For example:, To the disparity of these numbers it is to be considered and allowed for, from the 20th of December to the 9th of February, and from thence to the had been anywhere so, it must have been in houses where the living were did not do they cut and scarified them in a terrible manner. 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