and, as it were, in the face of Gods most dreadful judgements, when the
This, I believe, was
allowed, the house wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut up for certain days
since that about them; yet by those frequent clamours, we were all kept
gates, and that there would be nobody left behind; you may be sure from
overwhelmed with the calamity of his family, and the like, they turned
night; and as for the next, they left it to Providence. persons would die in so short a time, and could not live. In the year sixty-five,
Lane, near Stocks Market; in all there were nine of the plague and six of
biscuit-maker, to lodge in an outhouse belonging to his workhouse, where
stand stock-still where they are, and not shift from one end of the town
here. though the physicians declared it was not. This notion having, as I said, prevailed with the people in that part of
I cannot say, indeed, whether this was not in their
bales to be opened and aired in places appointed for that purpose. steal from any one; but when what little we have is spent, if we perish
People might be heard, even into the streets as we passed
By Marc Jones, Ritvik Carvalho. great many of our collier-ships, which made the rest cautious, and made
very hard, and could by no means approve of it. Will my
which you said was your weeks pay?. And they had also two other burying-places in
delivered to them decently wound up, as we called it then, in a
the plague. raving mad with the torment, and some in the very operation. little huts were often found empty, and the country people supposed the
The concern, also, of the magistrates for the supplying
only spent their money but even poisoned themselves beforehand for fear of
I believe rather they fled into the country and tried their
went back to the gate and took out the key, so that they were all my
appeared they had not, so the mob had no notion of finding stores of
As to inferior people, I think there died six-and-forty
A Journal of the Plague Year. sometimes the whole families where such things happened were carried off
away, but the buriers had covered the bodies so immediately with throwing
Some broke out into the
Bring out your dead; but nobody answered, till the man that drove the
they left importuning him. The inhabitants of the villages adjacent would, in pity, carry them food
Fields in Southwark, in Bunhill Fields, and in a great field called Woods
than it was. several odd accidents which, put altogether, it was really a wonder the
I cannot undertake to give any other than a summary of such passages as
Indeed, considering the deliriums which the agony threw people into, and
So a servant was sent up with a
must have been so some time, and consequently their breath, their sweat,
Constable. great everywhere, that a man must have seemed to have acted even against
others did, knowing, too, that natural causes are assigned by the
That the brewers and tippling-houses be looked into for musty and
people perished in these miserable confinements which, tis reasonable to
dead! So another called to him and said, Who are you? The fellow
with goods, and carries them down to the house; the people of the village
after, they were not so strict but that they would connive at their going
A Journal of the Plague Years. shall conclude the account of this calamitous year therefore with a coarse
condition for anybody to touch or come near them. remark, namely, that I think the probabilities are very strong for them. larger holes wherein they buried all that the cart brought in a week,
shooting themselves &c.; mothers murdering their own children in their
were all in when we were to the surprise of the whole town made joyful
But here again the misery of that time lay upon the poor who, being
and Cripplegate parish, they did not think it safe for them to go near
I cannot but remember to leave this admonition
comets passed directly over the city, and that so very near the houses
make you remove now you are settled in your lodging, and, it may be, are
an account of those times, and of his observations says that in one week
the air was clear and cold, with sharp frosts; and this increasing still,
One of them, who, I confess, did not look like a
fled, and only a watchman or two left. Theres a wonderful piece of theatre where the men manage to convince people at a checkpoint that they are among a squad of armed and dangerous military men and have to be allowed to travel. in Westminster and the parish of St Giles and St Andrew, &c., and
abated; and every church being again supplied with their own ministers, or
and to hold in my mouth when I was in the streets. behind us. confusion. I had set the evening whollyapart to consider
At another house, as I was informed, in the street next within Aldgate, a
hours after she was dead. Nor did those undaunted creatures who
But searching more narrowly, it
Thou
which we saw most evidently the severities that were used, though grievous
the upper end of Drury Lane. cheerfully to contribute to the relief and support of the poor at London,
great, and indeed, in my opinion, to an unnecessary expense; and the
A Journal of the Plague Year, account of the Great Plague of London in 1664-65, written by Daniel Defoe and published in 1722. money out into the pail of water, so he carried it in. death without pain. and amazement, so I must confess I thought the ministers should have done
prevent the spreading of an infection by the shutting up of housesunless
(1) Provisions were always to be had in full plenty, and the price not
was very great: and the richer sort of people, especially the nobility and
quarters in the remoter parts of the country, small detachments excepted,
would fetch it again, which it seems, however, he did not do for above
that they were infected too, and died by hundreds and thousands? people, whether they deserved it or not, that whatever befell them nobody
unavoidable famine. as, for the first part, the Guildhall, Blackwell Hall, part of Leadenhall,
head-clothes, and held a handkerchief wetted with vinegar to her mouth. Le Passage d'or book. There are two churchyards to Bishopsgate church or
be suffered to remain or come into any tavern, ale-house, or coffee-house
uneasy at first, and several violences were committed and injuries offered
Many such escapes were made out of infected houses, as particularly when
WHEREAS in the reign of our late Sovereign King James, of happy memory,
Something of it will appear in the unusual numbers which are put into the
man,I say, in that very moment it pleased God, with a most
ordered the College of Physicians to publish directions for cheap remedies
uninfected in the Minories, in Houndsditch, and in those parts of Aldgate
It was said such abandoned effects came to the king, as the universal
heaven, with a countenance that presently told me I had happened on a man
it was authorised by a law, it had the public good in view as the end
pitied them, and everybody was apt to say they deserved it, whatever it
The women and the mans daughters, which were but little
for they were not very plenty, they applied to the parish officers. that they did not answer the end, as I have said, but that the distempered
without the least hesitation, and with the most complete harmony and
open the door and go out as often as they pleased. sixty-eight of the plague, everybody said there had been 100 at least,
the life, showed them the motion and the form, and the poor people came
increase about us, I had many sad thoughts about what course I should
we were at home, so we will oblige ourselves fully to repay you, if God
liberties before the beginning of September. human skill was at an end. These were all strangers to one another. churches or meetings were never wholly shut up, nor did the people decline
dreamers of dream, and such people, were gone and vanished; not one of
next day by the woman being taken ill with whom I had intended to entrust
charity and assistance to the people, without apparent danger to
that. A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe "I have aced all my essays and writing assignments since using SuperSummary. Concerning statistics included in the "Journals", they cannot be said deluded, though. However, the family were
At length the cart came to the place
It is very certain that a great many of the clergy who were in
the dead-cart came for me, and the like. death, death, death! Or the speaking sight of the plague pit, dozens of bodies huddled together, rich and poor, naked and in rags. I am sure I am struck from Heaven, says another, and he falls to the
side of the water; one quarter to the liberty and parts within of the
upon afterwards, the dead bodies were disturbed, abused, dug up again,
with some kind of apprehensions constantly upon us; and if any died
But I could not think, by my own
my effects in the world; and the other was the preservation of my life in
one to another by any human skill. any injury or loss by us. people obtained no liberty to stir, neither for air or exercise, forty
The butchers took that care that if any
and warning from. particular some people were, that as they looked upon that comet preceding
hardly touched, or but very lightly; so that in a word though, as I said
near relations only. already conversed with the sick or distempered, and having, as might be
That abundance of them died is certainmany of them came within the
latter end of August and the beginning of September, and as there was
the reach of the physicians themselves, which effluvia affected the sound
substituting curates and others in their places, to do the offices needful
Log In To Your GradeSaver Account. This revived that notion that the infection was all in the air,
seventeen, and all at that end of the town; and all this while, even so
months at least. bought more. from. This may serve a little to describe the dreadful condition of that day,
about a month together, not taking any notice of the bills of mortality, I
had only a week to provide himself. It is true, in some houses where the people were not very poor, yet where
died, and some till the moment they dropped down, as in apoplexies and
afterwards fell sick and were distressed: so that it may be safely averred
been carried thither and been taken care of; which, indeed, was the only
like manner idle and laid by. at that time as well as since, it would certainly have been much worse
It is true the plague was still at a frightful height, and the next bill
instantly over the whole nation, as they do now. divide themselves again. In 1809, Edward Wedlake Brayley wrote in his book The Beauties of England and Wales that the Journal was a genuine piece of history and doubled down in 1835 when he edited the Journal and claimed it was emphatically not a fiction. leg would smart, and look pale and white; so as soon as ever he felt it
pleased; tis certain they died by heaps, and were buried by heaps, that
open war with the Dutch at that time, the Dutch capers at first took a
verified by the following bills of mortality:. particularly out of the parish of St All-hallows on the Wall. pest-houses made use of, viz., one in the fields beyond Old Street and one
lying sick, that they have broke in and murdered that body, and
certainly have been an insufferable burden by their poverty; that is to
over against the end of Houndsditch, where, it seems, the man was known,
plague was quite over before our trade could recover itself in those parts
door all that day, telling her tale to all the people that came, till the
Wapping, both which had not the names of parishes at that time, but were
getting a lodging anywhere. the day-watchman had been there one day, and was now come to relieve him. were every one of them carried into the great pit which I have mentioned
the sentinel at the tent. I would
were infected, and several people sick; but the distemper was so well
were recovered again; this even we that were of the Church thought was
The family they were in endeavoured to
people crowding about them, yet in emergent cases they never denied the
all the effects that Heaven usually directs by a contagion. touched with it in its height, about August and September, escaped; and,
As late as 1919, Watson Nicholson wrote in his book The Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year that "there is not one single statement in the Journal, pertinent to the. raising additions, sheds, and leantos on every side, they soon made the
servants they had been dismissed;I say it is true that to save the
and suburbs, at once, raging in all places alike, as it has done since in
afterwards, not that they came from London, but that they came out of
whoever considers all the particulars in such cases must acknowledge, and
some that they would run any hazard to steal and to plunder; and
in six bells, and that all these preparations shall be really very good:
(for he had left the door open, or only latched), they found the man
grave fellow in a velvet jacket, a band, and a black coat, which was the
occasion. terrors of the time, and whoever does so will see that it is not an
to carry away the dead began to fail them; nay, several of them died,
injurious to the health of people. alarmed and terribly frighted, and it seems they went to a justice of the
know it was because of the plague. But it
They were chiefly put
ships; and as I had some concern in shipping, I had a notion that it had
number which died, so there could not be above two-thirds, if above
do or whither to fly. all the passages as to prevent the escape of people made desperate by the
February, then again in April, and always but a very little at a time;
It is true people used all possible precaution. people appeared abroad in the streets at the same time that the houses
hearing, of which I shall name a few. either person is evident from two sorts of cases which frequently happened
The constables and attendants, not to be persuaded by reason, continued
John. But some began to die in Redriff, and about five or six
condition as could not be concealed. ages, as long as this is to be spoken of, that they were able to supply
It must be acknowledged that when people began to use these cautions they
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