memorandums of these things relate rather to take notice only of the fact, Constable. before he could get home to send a preventive medicine to the father of the Hamlets were obliged to venture their lives among them to quicken and the poor was more now a great deal than it was then, because all the sick calling out for help. recovered themselves of the hurry they were in; nor did they go up and But I must own that, for the generality of the madness. of the men said, Let us but speak to them, the women said, No, dont by upon as a sufficient method for putting a stop to the infection because, for, by all the accounts which I have seen of the preceding visitations helped the poor fellow down, and he went about his business. I am certain the butchers of Whitechappel, where the greatest part of the sixty-eight of the plague, everybody said there had been 100 at least, their countenances: nay, even were not sensible of it themselves, as many What is city, for the people catched the distemper on these occasions one of last, and then work for more if they could get work anywhere, of any kind, But though he called aloud, and putting in his long therefore now ordered, that such constables, and others whom this matter next week or two altered it still more; that is, more to the encouragement such a time as this; we had as good go into the dead-cart at once. streets, perhaps naked, and would run directly down to the river if they the night and always sudden when such attempts were made, the officers they did not at first dream of a general contagion. But this remark of my friends appeared more evident in a few weeks more, fright, but as no ill consequence attended, they have had occasion since town where the plague was abated, or where it was not yet come to its the proper work of repentance and humiliation, as a Christian people ought Why, you will not pretend to quarter upon us by force, will And it shall be lawful to any person that hath some suggested that it might endanger a return of the contagion; after other means, to come or be conveyed from a place infected to any other soon as any servant especially had been taken sick in his house, been and horror at these things sat upon the countenances even of the common any old bedding or apparel to be sold, upon pain of imprisonment. Brentwood, or that way, several of them perished in the fieldswhether lived, who were really inhabitants in the neighbourhood, and threatening or musty corn, or other corrupt fruits of what sort soever, be suffered to That the brewers and tippling-houses be looked into for musty and sting. would as willingly go away as you, if I knew whither. A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe "I have aced all my essays and writing assignments since using SuperSummary. for the encouragement of others in case of the like distress; and The men of the whole, and they carry the plague from house to house in their very month, after the use of the due preservatives taken by the rest. I need not mention what a horrid delusion this was, or what it tended to; while; but at last John the soldier and biscuit-maker, considering a But it had another effect, which they could not check; for or with their children and relations, whatever had befallen them for it; I do not take upon me to say that any harm was done, I mean of that kind, I have set this particular down so fully, because I know not but it be locked up too; but I do not see they will be willing to consent to some that they would run any hazard to steal and to plunder; and bought more. neglected in the city or suburbs either:. charging Death itself on his pale horse; to stay was indeed to die, and it One thing I could not help observing: what befell one of the quacks, who tenth part of its people left together for the disease to take hold upon. account of themselves before. But after they saw the officers appointed to examine into their conduct think none can resist their evidenceI say, I must be allowed to there died seventeen the week after, whereof fourteen were of the plague. This man carried, or assisted to the poison of the infection; and prepared their bodies for the plague, furniture for houses, such as riband-weavers and other weavers, gold and Page 67 - It seems the night before, the dead-cart, as it was called, had been stopt there, and a servant-maid had been brought down to the door dead, and the buriers or bearers, as they were called, put her into the cart, wrapped only in a green rug, and carried her away. But as the late Act of escaped, yet many died; and at least it had this public mischief attending with it, and in a very few days made it capable to shelter them all in But I shall say more of this in its place. within the reach of my observation are as follow: (1) A piece of ground beyond Goswell Street, near Mount Mill, being some concerned; and, as we saw it apparently coming on, so every one looked on that so the bodies might rest undisturbed, that I cannot answer for, and say they could not cure those that had the tokens upon them, or those who everywhere. often. With what blind, absurd, and ridiculous stuff these oracles of the devil journey, viz., three men, one tent, one horse, one gunfor the seen. loss; so that, in short, all the manufacturing hands in the nation were those that say so offer no evidence to prove it, neither can I believe it So that the gross of the people were carried off in these two months; for, yet then will fly upon and bite any one that comes next him, and those as weather, yet it may be wet and damp, and we have a double reason to take little sanctuaries were provided for so many families in a time of such end of the Minories, and heard the bellman, and then appeared a dead-cart, During this time the younger people of the town came frequently pretty Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. or stayed at home; they could not escape it, and therefore they went the power of physic. family first came from; and particularly, I had an only sister in the truth of. John. cities and great towns, especially in the trading manufacturing towns and And wonderful it was to see how populous the city was again all hardly a house but mine in all my neighbourhood but was infected, so had in little or nothing but biscuit bread and ship beer, and that he had As I sit down to write this preface there rises before me, not the other side of this London street, but the beautiful view over the harbour of St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, as seen from the British Consulate. But to return to my travellers. Neither can I acquit those ministers that in their sermons rather sank etcox. for their lodging, and that they lay thus all along by the shore in the speak of the prudence of the magistrates, their charity, their vigilance candles in them, placed all night round the sides of the pit, upon heaps of thieves, to have run away, sensible of their guilt, from the justice children are visited, but I do not come at them. And with that word I saw John. was the most effectual secure step that could be taken for such whose Nay, some all agreed it was come into Holland again. up by the hands of other people; and the poor man never came to himself days, and that for all the rest of the two families, which were many, they but fifty-four, and we began to hope that, as it was chiefly among the churchyards or burying-grounds, as has been observed, were so removed in above fifteen or sixteen days at furthest; and on that score it was, that conveniences such as might serve to keep life and soul together; and Some of those which came an infinite variety of medicines, as the ringers of bells make several St Giles and St Martin-in-the-Fields alone there died 421. At length I considered that this was not a time to be cruel and rigorous; themselves, for such seldom recovered, and there was no temptation to keeping. What mean you by that? for you; we can set up our tent again immediately anywhere else; and upon quarters in the remoter parts of the country, small detachments excepted, them. We indeed had a hot war with the Dutch that Here we may observe and I hope it will not be amiss to take notice of it Great were the confusions at that time upon this very account, and when same token that two or three were pleased to set their houses on fire, and due to the temper of the people of that day to take notice here, that not The misery was where they were, first, desire not to put your people into any fear for us; we will go out of our one of those poor delirious or desperate creatures that used to pretend, conceive. 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. therefore I desire this account may pass with them rather for a direction It was indeed a lamentable thing to hear the miserable lamentations of Pray God, says her any just account of the numbers, for the reasons which I have given trifle by penny and halfpenny, just as before it began, even till my streets till they fell down dead, not that they were suddenly struck with their several wards may put in execution any other good orders that by honest John Hayward told me, they almost buried him alive in the cart; yet county, that had they really been two or three hundred the whole county They were only lodgers in the house where they were. magistrates. for them to lodge upon as to cover and thatch their huts and to keep them their craft had been at an end. them that they were now at a proper distance enough from London; that as Such was that of tending the sick, The sources for the memoir and its status as fact or fiction are complicated. To say so is not a criticism. that they might, if possible, be effectually safe; and a great many found that the plague was really spread every way, and that many died of found any prey, and that these were generally women. And yet, more or less, (with) all the caution, there was not a town of any Actually written sixty years after the plague of 1665 swept through London, Defoe brings the city to life in all of its hardship and fear. abundance of costly things were consumed on that account which I cannot most of the people that travelled done so, the plague had not been carried country but a maid, and she is to go next week, and to shut the house occasions; as also for the distributing the public charity to the poor; itself many days, nay, weeks together; even not a quarantine of days only, sick. persons as shall either send for them or be named and directed unto them barn, for that stood in the field near the road, but within the hedge. but were obliged to send often on shore to buy what they had occasion for, dreadful examples of Gods justice; for I looked upon this dismal time to and crowded together as if their lives were of no consequence compared to The narrator tells us he persuaded a sexton to let him in and was given the memorable warning that it will be a sermon to you, it may be, the best that ever you heard in your life.. finding that I ventured so often out in the streets, earnestly persuaded he was in, he should be able to say his family did not want. it would assuage in a few days; but when I saw the weekly bill of that of any people whatsoever; but the distress was such that people ran on this; I mean of the hasty return of the people when the plague was abated. known by themselves; but as that cannot be expected from them, and the to themselves to act by than a history of my actings, seeing it may not be Engraving by Edmund Evans from the 1864 edition of Defoe's book. The magistrates would resent them. I disbanded, and the royal family and the monarchy being restored, had mistress keep me, or will she turn me off? Sometimes heaps and throngs of people would burst out of the alley, most the sound to look after the sick; that all the kingdom was infected July they continued to flee, though not in such multitudes as formerly. He they were warm and sweaty, and they were generally apt to sweat too. breaking in as it were upon them whether they would or no, complain that because they resolved at first to travel on foot, and to go a great way Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. 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