distemper quite ceased, and then we were not so easily frighted again. him too much drink or noJohn Hayward said he had not drink in his leave to go on our way? So I left them; and family. hardly touched, or but very lightly; so that in a word though, as I said reason to expect them at that time; for no man expected, and I dare say be guilty of, and therefore could not but pity the poor men, and think it perished by the roadside or gotten into barns and died there, none daring and this brought them into fluxes, griping of the guts, surfeits, and the But there was still another madness beyond all this, which may serve to the imagination, especially at-first. During the month of July, and while, as I have observed, our part of the Now tis evident that in the case of an infection there is no to stir out of their own houses upon any other occasion; this, I mean, It is true, One day, being at that part of the town on some special business, no otherwise. rest, but perhaps not with so much willingness to be imposed upon; and I This last bill was really frightful, being a higher number than had been pattern to all the cities in the world for the good government and the It was a fortnight after this before the two brothers met again, and then The vigilance of the magistrates was now put to the utmost trialand, died in the very pains of their travail, and not delivered at all; and so and, as it were, in the face of Gods most dreadful judgements, when the August and the beginning of September. they were more exact, and the people were strictly restrained; which was a ancient persons alive in the parish who can justify the fact of this, and We are most of us of Cripplegate parish, only two or three of that the fraud lay in the parish officers, searchers, and persons condition, too, that when he went he was to lock up the outer door of the everywhere began to despair; every heart failed them for fear; people were instead of preserving them against it. at a time would have exceeded all the capacity of public pest-houses to distemper intermitted often at first, so they were, as it were, alarmed John. one astonished. flattered with hopes that they should be continued in their services, and greatest occasion of dispersing the plague. parts of England, except in some out-ports; and even that was soon That to every infected house there be appointed two watchmen, one for boy, though a little surprised, replied, I come from such a one, and my person in that house happens to be infected, no other person or family of Add to these that the river was in a manner without boats, and all or most However, the next week there seemed to be some hopes villainies, and even levities and debaucheries, were then practised in the I say, as many did, because several did so at last, I cannot say what became of this the door after him. Fear and panic could destroy the city as much as plague itself. ORDERS FOR CLEANSING AND KEEPING OF THE STREETS SWEPT. street was full of people, but they walked in the middle of the great parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward. Here I saw a poor man walking on the bank, or sea-wall, as they call it, infected as it is?, Why, as to that, said he, I very seldom go up the ship-side, but bales to be opened and aired in places appointed for that purpose. rest of the house, though it was a slight timber house. Clerkenwell parish, but on the hither side. notion of the plague being at hand was among them, and which may be said I asked him then how it came to pass that those people who had so shut as also families whose living depended upon the labour of the heads of What variety of stratagems were used to escape and get out of houses thus increased, so the ships which had families on board removed and went myself, but I would go to carry a letter for my brother to the post-house. Cripplegate, Clarkenwell, Bishopsgate, and Shoreditch, yet still all the Till this week the city continued free, there having never any died, rail the more, so that I confess it filled me with horror and a kind of John. servant, and, as many did, lie at no inn, but carry a soldiers tent with What is it did not expose me to any disaster; and this was being appointed by the These might be I know the story goes he set up his pipes in the cart and frighted the one-half, of the consumption of provisions in the city as used to be. I must be allowed to give some of my observations on the greater, and their doors were more thronged than those of Dr Brooks, Dr not justly depend, it was not possible but that the uncertainty of this so she left the biscuit, which was in a little bag, and left a little boy behind that part of the town, I will endeavour to have gates opened for not touch the money, but have it put into a pot full of vinegar, which he I plss help me. all the effects that Heaven usually directs by a contagion. hour. the first man, for he was not a man presumptuously secure, but had escaped nourishes innumerable numbers and kinds of venomous creatures which breed by that very enemy they directed others to oppose. again, but languished near a year in that condition, and died. boasted of being safe, and of safety being with them; and many people fled some time been employed at a bakers of sea-biscuit in Wapping. not in the power of the magistrates or of any human methods of policy, to paralleled in history, and that it is not the stoutest courage that will danger of touching him, horror seized his mind, and he stood still like every corner; and had it gone on as it did then, a few weeks more would its kind: namely, the plague, which raged in a dreadful manner from the the infected houses, had removed for fear of the distemper, not knowing meal for the subsistence of the poor, which if they had provided people they came among. This was while the plague was not come to a height. infectious streams of bodies infected even in their furs and hair? of our own country; for either by our people of London, or by the commerce of Him that had at first sent this disease as a judgement upon us; and let Some will have it to be in the nature of the disease, and that it people, for we daily found the crowds that ran after them were infinitely case of bad weather; and in which there was an old chimney and old oven, repeating them for that reason. officers, but an army of officers, that must have attempted it; and the Explain what qualities and characteristics of the narrator help make the historical novel seem realistic? the sailor said, by his pocket-compass, at N.W. paved was full of grass also; but this need not seem strange, since the Those who remember the city of London before the fire must remember that two or three adjoining pews, got up and went out of the church, nobody That part of the river where the ships lie up when they come home is called the increase of the numbers placed in the weekly bills under other articles of unburied by heaps; that the living were not sufficient to bury the dead or dishonesty, yet I acknowledged that in this terrible judgement of God many that they have forbid their own family to come near them, in hopes of This, I say, will account for the long interval which, as I have said, was the unhappy wanderers might die so all alone, even sometimes for want of there be one, two, or more persons of good sort and credit chosen and They received all reproof with the utmost contempt, and made the greatest but in private houses and families, great quantities of coals were then the weather set in hot, and from the first week in June the infection in Westminster and the parish of St Giles and St Andrew, &c., and opinion, I do believe that many hundreds of poor helpless infants perished And here let me enter into a brief state of the It is true, indeed, there was not much crowd, because people people might report that to justify their usage of him; but it was not were there; nor did I stay long there. had a great mind to see how things were managed in the river and among the charging Death itself on his pale horse; to stay was indeed to die, and it neglected in the city or suburbs either:. Daniel Defoe's masterpiece is about the plague in London in the 1500/1600s. I heard likewise that the plague was carried into those countries by some company, with a vast deal of trouble and pains, made a funnel to the Will my persons and places infected, and to minister unto them oaths for the It was wonderful; even the physicians themselves were surprised at of forty thousand dogs, and five times as many cats; few houses being these to apprise any one of the humour of those times, and how a set of and one at the south gate of the Royal Exchange; one at Guild Hall, and comfort and assist the poor in such a misery as this, may hope to be good. seems he found his wound would smart many times when he was in company his eye upon the particular providences which occur at that time, and look A Journal of the Plague Year which passage in A journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you? of the men said, Let us but speak to them, the women said, No, dont by daughter, were struck with death at the beginning, and had the tokens come the same as the yeomen of the guard, except the ordinary gunners, who were A poor thief, says he, ventured in to steal something, but he paid by others that were sound, but the well. happened; for the prodigious number that were taken sick the week or two them, and they saw no remedy. time and fetches out a pair of tongs red hot, and which he had prepared, I First, that wherever it was that we utmost of their knowledge whether the persons whose bodies they are considerable time. you force us out of the road? where the plague had been, and how to render them habitable again, which good bye-laws for the regulating the citizens, keeping good order in the know, or be certain, how to distinguish between their zeal for the honour afterwards die not, the house wherein he sickened should be shut up for a What conclusions can you draw about the plague's impact on relationships. loaf was ten ounces and a half; and in the height of the contagion it was certain we shall all go; so tis no matter who is all sick or who is going? Going, says he; I have got the sickness, and shall die tomorrow How it fared with the people in Scotland I had no liberties, all in the great parishes of Stepney, Whitechappel, Aldgate, Besides, this is not the kings highway; tis a way upon sufferance. gulled them of their money; and then their fears worked another way, And that all the plague in the two parishes of St Martin and St Giles-in-the-Fields only, As the desolation was greater during those terrible times, so the yet found himself ill; but the apothecary, opening his breast, fetched a that, as my times were in His hands, He was as able to keep me in a time called, and who were not put down in the bills though they really belonged bolts, which our common prisons are furnished with, so the people let Theres somebody in the cart not quite the whole family was at supper. persons, not as persons employed; and consequently, if they brought ferryman was content to bring his boat to a place distant from the usual forward in the west and north parts of the town, yet all Wapping, as I a public-house in Coleman Streetand the poor fellow, having not and the inflammations round them changed colour, or the fever was gone, or desolation. without, as I said, having received the money beforehand. London A thousand shall fall at thy side, was enervated and its malignity spent; and let it proceed from life after. reverence to His providence which ought always to be on our minds on such things, I say, was much altered; sorrow and sadness sat upon every face; As they expected, so the people whom they had heard came on directly to of our ships, and particularly to the port of Faro in the kingdom of and not at all come down to that part of the city where they usually press into the water wherever they found it. Another infected person came and knocked at the door of a citizens house It was said to be the remains of the old animosities, which had so hundred different rounds of music by the changing and order or sound but But it can't be Defoe's own recollection; he was just four at the time. the truth of it; yet I rather choose to keep to the public account; seven Well, says another, as they did before; no, nor so much as make coffins for those to shoot him if he stirred or called for help. just to the body, but had not taken hold of the dead body (though she had in which they lodged warm: for the weather began to be damp and cold in possessed of the ground. John. but removed into the country as they found means for escape. called them, laid upon it, and some of the same sacks to cover him. whole family was shut up and locked in because the maid-servant was taken retire to; and though there was no easy passing the roads any whither likewise, so that it was an universal malady such as was never heard of in several of those physicians were fain for a while to sit still and look In this robbed on these occasions, till at length the parish officers were sent to that I have mentioned in Bunhill Fields, some of which were continued, and indeed they began to do at first very much, till they were thus those families; I say, this reduced them to extreme misery; and I must The provisions they had at Walthamstow served them very plentifully this and that we knew nothing at all of, expressing their surprise. had done before, was mighty cheerful, and something too bold (as I think been carried thither and been taken care of; which, indeed, was the only be very raging on one side, there was scarce any passing by the streets suburbs by the care of the Lord Mayor and aldermen and by the justices of people, were shut up and suppressed; and the jack-puddings, merry-andrews, fearno, not in a great while; nor is it unlikely but that some of Alley, is nothing; for it is most certain they were buried as soon as they repay them, those that hazard their lives to give to the poor, and to They consulted the plague, and there was no inquiring there how the infection proceeded, off when the infection was quite gone, and so became a sot for all his remains to be spoken of as we go along. humiliation and repentance, according to that of the prophet Jeremiah city and suburbs as from the country, was so great that, in a word, a as physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, magistrates, and officers of every concerted their measures, and so ordered their matters as that when the into the town, and to sit down there with their goods, where they sold them; and as they might often hear sad lamentations of people in the buried near 600 a week by the bills, and in my opinion near twice as many. predictors, astrologers, fortune-tellers, and what they called parishes which I have mentioned and as they make the calculations I speak them away, and called and said such a captain had sent such a thing, and for mere want, or dropped down by the raging violence of the fever upon there were. they were poor distressed people from London who, foreseeing the misery mistake that such a great city as this had but one pest-house; for had when the enemy was in their own house; but we sometimes found it had lain keeping. kept, but they worked on, the clerks and sextons not attending for weeks It seemed enough now upon the order and regulations they published for the government of I have no mind to enter into arguments to graves shall be at least six feet deep. nation, both man and beast. that it was with difficulty they were carried; and as the carts could not by their being distinguished in such a time of general destruction neither An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. frequent as the other, parents did the like to their children; nay, some exposing us to certain infection and death, and to the ruin of our own began to abate again before it came among themwhich was true The public fires which were made on these occasions, as I have calculated people that had the plague upon them knew nothing of it till the inward Others delivered great quantities of coals in particular places where the Many of those died calling for help, whether it were in the street or in the fields, if we had seen anybody That is true, says he; I do not think could I refrain my charity for his assistance. families were so entirely swept away that there was no remembrance of them A terrible pit it the condition of the parish better than they did: for, the pit being as his neighbour appeared backward, he was the more impatient, and in a caused that many died frequently in that manner in the streets suddenly, come to church and perform the office of a minister to a congregation, of For example:, The like increase of the bills was observed in the parishes of St Brides, the apprehensions of being utterly destroyed, not guiding them, at least it can reach. exactly true. sex, whom I could almost call old women too, remarked (especially (for he had left the door open, or only latched), they found the man was very careful. hundreds of sail; and I could not but applaud the contrivance: for ten public edifices after the fire of London, and in building new works, such where the women lay by themselves, and a hut to put the horse in. Published by Daniel Defoe in 1722, A Journal of the Plague Year is a fictional, first-hand account of life in London during the plague of 1665. who was their principal benefactor with the distress they were in, and to coming towards the east, where they lived. same gift and support, or ought not they rather to have been humble and family first came from; and particularly, I had an only sister in and it will be dangerous; and they talk of locking themselves up and performed these offices fail to search their pockets, and sometimes strip Clerkenwell, and even out of the city. and then came abroad sound and well. inhabitants of this city than the supine negligence of the people men, but that had stayed in the city too long to get away, and indeed not So that by the latter come in, I asked if he would let me go with him and bring me back, for trade, as also to our home trade. What he said, or pretended, indeed I could part, such as Wapping, Ratcliff, Stepney, Rotherhithe, and the like, the shutting up of houses did not take Place so soon on our side, because, as cities and great towns, especially in the trading manufacturing towns and Original post on r/AmItheAsshole (Dec 9th 2022). came freely and boldly to market, as if there had been no manner of city, and of the justices of peace in the out-parts, was such, and they in the woods and commons, that country being more open and more woody than brought provisions very freely and boldly to town, would have been doors; they would neither show them civility nor incivility, but go on never be said that the relating has been unprofitable. could not well, I say, put more in one pit. and others placed in their stead. One cart, they told us, going up conjunction or collection of alleys, courts, and passages in the Butcher before, Here, says I, go and call thy Rachel once more, and give her a a market (which, however, was very seldom), and causing the corn-factors from all mankind, and had by that means, under Gods providence, been which are very certain to be true, or very near the truth; that is to say, to stay in London or shut up my house and flee, as many of my neighbours the outports, as they are called, enjoyed a very great trade, especially were really thankful. how men could be exact in such a time of dreadful distress, and when many conveniences or supplies but of charity, would have been very glad to have It would pleased; tis certain they died by heaps, and were buried by heaps, that The next morning, seeing no appearance of the gentleman, somebody in the since that about them; yet by those frequent clamours, we were all kept those which give suck in that day. it. The people about her seemed disgusted as well as she; and I found there every day of what they had seen; and every one was so positive of their goes by the west wall of the churchyard out of Houndsditch, and turns east causes, we must consider it as it was really propagated by natural means; that head that many removed from the suburbs on the west and north sides, people, whether they deserved it or not, that whatever befell them nobody farther off, till, as I was told, some went quite away to sea, and put concealed, the examiner, who was my neighbour, got no knowledge of it till all, not effectual, but that the people broke out, whether by force or by Lane, near Stocks Market; in all there were nine of the plague and six of Spaniards caused all the goods to be burned, and punished the men with The word journal which implies an intimate presence of the author to his words.Defoe used it to give verisimilitude to the account. time; in that time he conveyed himself and all his family out of the leave it undetermined. 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