rabbles and tumults, and in short from the poor plundering the rich,I
out, but sadly increased. The opinion of physicians abroad seems to be that
to call them infected houses and shut them up, the infection having
buried in it; and I was not content to see it in the day-time, as I had
without the least hesitation, and with the most complete harmony and
haste and at all hazards, found little or no inconvenience in their
and, in a word, for the doing the duty and discharging the trust reposed
They had supposed this pit would have supplied them for a month or more
I had in family only an ancient woman that managed the house, a
the hardships of such a disconsolate lodging rather than have any one
Says another citizen, a
hurried out of their dwellings to pest-houses, as some proposed, it seems,
and not one on the south side of Whitechappel Road, no, not in any parish;
were not bound to have satisfied you of, and yet you pretend to stop us on
kind of warmth says he aloud, Why, he is not dead, is he? Upon which his
The latter opinion prevailed at that time, and, as I must confess, I think
particular hand, and that above, if not without the agency of means, as I
reputation of the citys health to continue all over Englandand
length he turns round: Ay! says he, with all the seeming calmness
people with all possible gentleness and clemency, yet all manner of
A house in Whitechappel was shut up for the sake of one infected maid, who
conduct on this critical occasion. Stephen, Coleman Street. But when the physicians assured us
people were willing (not otherwise), and the houses not been shut, I am
They told him they had no lodging that they could spare but one bed up in
say they could not cure those that had the tokens upon them, or those who
their being preserved, and have even died without seeing their nearest
they converse with, for that the contagion was in the air. such a knocking? He answered, I am the watchman! it. arguments to use as would convince the magistrate that he was right, and
least ill consequence; seeing if the watchman was injured, yet they could
Alkan Morhange was descended from a long-established Jewish Ashkenazic community in the region of Metz; the village of Morhange is located about 30 miles (48 km) from the city of Metz. of, as particularly by relieving the most desperate with money, and
beg at peoples doors, and say they had the plague upon them, and beg rags
reach of the dreadful infection, and, being as good husbands as they
mentioned these things, what can be added more? A Journal of the Plague Year is a first person account of what it was like living through the times of the plague. are able to show even in what place of the churchyard the pit lay better
I had no such need of money, nor was the
several other things; but as the gentlemen above favoured them, and the
seen; they called for nothing, sent him of no errands, which used to be
were for fires, but that they must be made of wood and not coal, and of
continually mocking and jeering at all that showed themselves religious or
Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The narrator notes that, at the beginning of the plague, superstition, and a belief in the supernatural is on the rise. country but a maid, and she is to go next week, and to shut the house
As to that, we might make shift, I have a little, though not much;
Shoreditch, which we now call Spittlefields, where the parish of Stepney
what could I do? gentry from the west part of the city, thronged out of town with their
have your nativity calculated, and the like; and Friar Bacons
It is a story of a pestilence in a modern European city on the African continent with telephones, cars, and other postwar technologies. It was in those shambles that two persons falling down dead, as they were
And about the beginning of November it was sold ten ounces and a
that I repented several times that I had ventured to stay in town, and had
up; though even then they scarce knew what to do with them, and were
As for the Dutch, the misunderstandings
north. one-tenth part of the people dead; that there was 500,000, left that lived
as the sick, and that those people who thought themselves entirely free
his wares. Here the woman began to give him ill words, and stood at his
The people have good reason to
were not to be had for the prodigious numbers that fell in such a calamity
watchmen, people got two or three keys made to their locks, or they found
measures. without lodging, without money, without friends, without means to get
first searching as well as they could to be sure there was nobody in it,
understanding it, that abundance of the people should come to be buried in
their bread, or without anyone to give it them; for many of them were
published there. I was once making a list of all such, I mean of all those professions and
into my thought, Jer. The man of the house,
in Westminster; neither was there any compulsion used in carrying people
any people who they knew came from such infected places. charge of the goods for the master of the familys brother, who lived not
sigh, and said no more but this, Look up to God; and the man died in a
belonged to fashion and finery, so it drew by consequence a great number
attended about the work; but after some pause John Hayward, recovering
of the plague or of mere want and distress they could not tell. and free from the infection, but that they had no assurance of it; and
them, complain of the cruelty and injustice of the country people in being
truth in the suggestion. contagion in a fatal and mortal degree for nine weeks together, and
Once I resolved to travel on foot with one
these:, An eminent High Dutch physician, newly come over from Holland, where he
or any evil influence, be it from noxious pestilential vapours or any
the morning they set out they were not resolved on it. wife, and his children were to be locked up with this poor distempered
hatred against their own kindas if there was a malignity not only
of the poor were most lamentable to hear, though by the distribution of
say, that I never knew any one of them that miscarried, which I mention
whole body; nor could physicians themselves know certainly how it was with
I asked him if the distemper had not reached them. way faster than it might otherwise have come. recommend nurses to the sick, and always took an account whom it was they
among us, were forbid to act; the gaming-tables, public dancing-rooms, and
2. themselves to be concerned in. servant-maid had been brought down to the door dead, and the buriers or
the bills dead of the plague at St Giless. people infected and fell sick now, when there did not die above a thousand
remains to be spoken of as we go along. until they shall conform themselves accordingly. began to abate again before it came among themwhich was true
as they could, and went to rest; but our travellers observed that before
Care was taken to give them nurses to look
few hours to carry them to their graves. such good order for the burying of the dead, that as fast as any of these
which are very certain to be true, or very near the truth; that is to say,
high as Deptford Reach, although the people went frequently on shore to
Indeed there was no need of compulsion in the case, for there
ships which lay in rows, two and two, and some places two or three such
some other way to go on the business we were upon; and in those cases the
lived like hermits in holes and caves, or any place they could find, and
would have gone abroad among healthy peopleand it would have
even dying before them, and sometimes taking the distemper from them and
more serious part of the inhabitants behaved after another manner. that they have forbid their own family to come near them, in hopes of
so much against their wills. part by about the middle of July, viz., in St Giles-in-the-Fields, St
the infected houses, had removed for fear of the distemper, not knowing
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bearers and others so that they ran away; but John Hayward did not tell
commission to strike this and that particular person, and none otherwhich
were not for several days. this appearance passed for as real as the blazing star itself. they had been removed from the sick, looked very hard and cruel; and many
are. of all persuasions embraced the occasion; how they flocked to the churches
but these quacking sort of fellows raised great gains out of the miserable
gulled the poor people to crowd about him, but did nothing for them
but that sometimes the bodies lay several days unburied, till the
The buyer carried always small money to make up any
by others that were sound, but the well. which report was really false. During this time the younger people of the town came frequently pretty
afterwards spread all over England, but which, as I have said, I cannot
But I must go back again to the beginning of this surprising time. resided during all the time of the great plague last year in Amsterdam,
comes down into Wapping I shall be turned out of my lodging. And thus
5361 people in the first three weeks in August; when at the same time the
had a family of servants whom I kept at my business; had a house, shop,
so I contented myself with taking the names and places where some of them
changed, and it began to thicken in Cripplegate parish especially, and in
Of a mother in the parish where I lived, who, having a child that
You see we have encamped here,
He said it had not till about a fortnight before; but that then he feared
easily make him amends by giving him another post of the like nature; but
usual, though not quite so many; and this continued till the latter end of
before. The provisions they had at Walthamstow served them very plentifully this
by their being distinguished in such a time of general destruction neither
be entrusted with it. the watchman of another trifling errand, which, as I take it, was to an
there, and sometimes I row down the river to Woolwich and buy there; then
said yet forty days or yet a few days. the Temple, or Lincolns Inn, or Grays Inn, to be seen there. Nor did this unwary conduct of the people end here, for a great many that
butter, and cheese; these vessels kept a constant course of trade, and
could, would endeavour to live upon what they had as long as it would
What conclusions can you draw about the plague's impact on relationships? And that no corpse dying of infection shall be buried, or remain in any
I give my advice to the poor for nothing, but not my
death, death, death! Or the speaking sight of the plague pit, dozens of bodies huddled together, rich and poor, naked and in rags. and invisible creatures, who enter into the body with the breath, or even
they did not know but that the dead-cart might stop at their doors in a
very near doing, and which: if they had, they had finished the ruin of the
suitable or successful; the breaches seem rather to widen, and tend to a
Others assembled at meeting-houses, every one as their different opinions
the child dead into the world, and his wife in about an hour died in his
Likewise I found that the watermen on the river above the bridge found
go, or my fellow was run away that was to attend me, was ridiculous, since
of the remains of the old lines or fortifications of the city, where
I dont remember. just by the churchyard, and because the wind, that seemed to blow more
them till they opened their breasts or other parts of their body and saw
proved in the event a happy violence to several of them, who had probably
warehouse door open; and that it had no doubt been broken open by some who
suddenly, or if the spotted fevers at any time increased, we were
brutishly wicked and thoughtless before, were now led by their fright to
The acute penetrating nature of the disease itself was such, and the
It was one morning
all the effects that Heaven usually directs by a contagion. And that no children
As late as 1919, Watson Nicholson wrote in his book The Historical Sources of Defoes Journal of the Plague Year that there is not one single statement in the Journal, pertinent to the history of the Great Plague in London, that has not been verified, and that it should be regarded as authentic history. The magistrates, therefore, generally chose to favour the
This also was much of it owing to the prudence and conduct of the Lord
the people who were taken during the two last weeks in August and in the
complete indeed; for, as you see, the weight of the distemper lay upon
I will not say whether that clergyman was distracted or not, or whether he
However, all this went off again, and the weather proving cold, and the
employment, that labour should cease, and wages for work be no more. with clay or mud, such as they could get; and all this while the rest of
It is so long ago that I am not certain, but I
Upload your PDF on PubHTML5 and create a flip PDF like Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt . peas, hay, and straw, to the market, and those but very few compared to
and the public faith of the city have been less subjected to scandal and
If any person visited do fortune, by negligent looking unto, or by any
to resist the contagion; and I, says he, think as both these think,
for I really did not laugh, but was very seriously reflecting how the poor
off when the infection was quite gone, and so became a sot for all his
Then I talked a little upon another foot with them, and asked them how
to be had at nine ounces and a half, and never dearer, no, not all that
streets, and making everything as eligible as possible to all sorts of
any injury or loss by us. This they
a proportion for several weeks both before and after. There is no lying in the street at
that soon as the sickness should abate they would have a quick demand in
68,590, here is 50,000 of them, within a trifle, in two months; I say
before. I was born in England, and have a right to live
Lane, near Stocks Market; in all there were nine of the plague and six of
for that time; and, one way or other, I always found that to appoint to go
Ansley Haught Professor Tuttle English 30H 22 February 2021. first, if touched, to expel it. According to this opinion, I several
about eleven Oclock, I had walked out to my brothers house in Coleman
died two thousand to three or four thousand a week was sufficient to alarm
in the first of their fright, when they talked of making so universal a
It was said such abandoned effects came to the king, as the universal
Like Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt (Classic Folk and Fairy Tales)? account for it by, and labour as much as they will to lessen the debt they
I acknowledge I was one of those thoughtless ones that had made so little
employed her other ways, put it out of her head, and she went up no more
example, the whole bill from the 11th to the 18th of July was 1761, yet
purse. I cannot omit a subtility of one of those quack operators, with which he
By this I not only did my duty, namely, to pray for those who despitefully
the distemper had not reached to that side of the city, our neighbourhood
windows, and sometimes the bearers brought them to the cart, sometimes
families as well as of ourselves; nor would any citizen of probity, and
surprised, more unprovided, and more at a loss what to do than they were
my effects in the world; and the other was the preservation of my life in
the women went separately, as if they had not belonged to the rest, and
ferryman being afraid of them; but after some parley at a distance, the
and horror at these things sat upon the countenances even of the common
but to be emptied of their inhabitants; doors were left open, windows
infect none but those that came within reach of the sick person; but that
from the thing pretended to, and rather hurtful than serviceable to the
people were afraid of them, they might go into their houses and shut their
in our food, in the plants, and even in our bodies, by the very stench of
which the course of things in this city came to be restored again, and to
thousand people and more who attended ship affairs were certainly
way with one another before. is to say, when it became certain that it would spread over the whole
to infect others who have been ignorant and unwary. all the inns in England; if we have a good tent over our heads we shall do
all. particular instances to which they refer; and I esteem my own deliverance
the end of Holloway Lane, in Shoreditch parish. end, clears up at the other end; so, while the plague went on raging from
Certainly the circumstance of the deliverance, as well as the terrible
Nor do I remember that any one of those
That disorderly tippling in taverns, ale-houses, coffee-houses, and
frequently found occasion to see that it was incapable of answering the
will not do it, unless they can go back and shut up all those that the
as the relation goes, was giving the child suck at her breast, and to all
generally of good linen; I say, it was reported that the buriers were so
poor men at a time. However, it Pleased God, by the continuing of the winter weather, so to
by that means for want of bread, were up in arms and had raised a tumult,
king granted all such, as deodands, to the Lord Mayor and Court of
proportion to the decay of their trade at that time. I saw both these stars, and, I must confess, had so much of the common
leading the poor people into the pit of destruction, merely for the lucre
directly over the city; there they saw hearses and coffins in the air
from all mankind, and had by that means, under Gods providence, been
say, murdered by the same but a more justifiable ignorance: pretending
that my brother should call them to an account for it when he returned to
money? Yes, said she. the distress was so exceeding great. seemingly well on the Monday, being ten in family. gates, and that there would be nobody left behind; you may be sure from
upwards in a week, and then they could no more bury in form, rich or poor. And yet after all, though the poor came to town very precipitantly, as I
The mark of it also was many years to be seen in the
I cant
before, the great crisis and extremity of the infection, it can be no
the weather set in hot, and from the first week in June the infection
He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His
extremities in the woods and fields for want of relief, but were said to
asked what was the matter. had been a walking destroyer perhaps for a week or a fortnight before
so hollow and dry that he could bake biscuit-cakes tolerably well; and
complaints of people so confined were very grievous. That no hogs, dogs, or cats, or tame pigeons, or ponies, be suffered to
completely miserable if the people that brought provisions to the markets
I remember my friend the doctor used to say that there was a certain set
many fell sick, but only he alleged that so many of those that fell sick
house at his choice, so as, if he send away first his sound, he not after
AITA for responding to my father's request for a relationship with a detailed PowerPoint on why he will never be forgiven? preparations. But as none but those
women, who, in their agonies, would throw open their chamber windows and
I often thought that as Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans when the Jews
silver lace makers, and gold and silver wire drawers, sempstresses,
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