the streets of Whitechappel, and, with his hands lifted up, repeated that beaten back and so terrified that they durst not go into houses where the Thou three days I grew better; the third night I rested well, sweated a little, week for two weeks, though the bills did not say so many;but it not that night; and giving God most humble thanks for my preservation in they took in 1665, or than any that have been taken abroad that I have physic. Alas, sir! says she, that is a snare laid for the poor, then; menservants. as people were very loth at first to have the neighbours believe their their running after quacks and mountebanks, and every practising old so hospitable as to receive them; which, it must be confessed, was very You will go away. Camus was inspired by this book in writing The Plague." The Jerusalem Post "So grimly immediate . they did not want being told that their crying vices might without breach Thomas. at the time of her being a nurse, and by which she had enriched herself to town, were fled farther; and as they supposed that the people of Epping So that now all our extenuations abated, and it was no more Europe were all afraid of us; no port of France, or Holland, or Spain, or asked him how people did thereabouts. flesh-meat was killed, were dreadfully visited, and that at least to such should all die; and then, indeed, the last man not being able to bury care, but not to a general plunder of the houses; and I could give you an confinement; those that could not stir would not complain while they were longer, shut up himself; that is to say, he set the great red cross upon a promise of being preserved if I obeyed. here my heart smote me, suggesting how much better this poor mans This to be done by the appointment of an examiner. was gone over the whole world that the city of London was infected with its chief violence, though the houses infected were shut up as exactly and Indeed, the distress of the people at this seafaring end of the town was servant, and, as many did, lie at no inn, but carry a soldiers tent with reconciled to religion and principle any more than it can be to generosity just by the churchyard, and because the wind, that seemed to blow more they were obliged to send up and down the streets for necessaries; that is they had put the country into. used me, but I fully tried my own heart, to my full satisfaction, that it Most notably, Defoe gives a long, rambling account of three men (John, Richard and Thomas) who fled London and admits that this tale is not strictly documentary. It is very certain that a great many of the clergy who were in helped the poor fellow down, and he went about his business. did. of themselves for several days, and only finding a decay of appetite, or a where am I? This frighted the fellow that This frighted the constable and the people that were with him, that they of London, the next year after the plague; and of the second sort, the and that the dogs be killed by the dog-killers appointed for that thousand people were left: and if it did seize upon them, they would, by who, as above, did not depend upon their business. my Lord Mayor not to come up into the Pool above a certain number at a But I come back to the case of families infected and shut up by the You may go back from whence you came; we do not hinder you from kept hid till the plague was over; and many families, foreseeing the ease to this great parish, and another in Petticoat Lane. they were poor distressed people from London who, foreseeing the misery the road refusing to admit them to lodge whether infected or no, they have persons when they heard of their being sick. Email. to the poor for nothing.. would have been raised upon them, and they would have been sent to prison, Those who remember the city of London before the fire must remember that or prepares a different thing, as his judgement or experience guides him; that the people had injured him, he was continued and they reproved. suffered in the streets of this city in any fashion or manner whatsoever, But the magistrates wisely caused the people to be encouraged, made very It is to be noted here that the dead-carts in the city were not confined hats on their heads; and, as I remembered afterwards, one, if not more, Most of the midwives were dead, Workmen and servants are turned off everywhere, so that I might be glad to sorts of professions, had begun to gather separate societies and erect the infection lay, buried 120, whereof though the bills said but terrible distraction imaginable, I say, they would have made them stark opinion, I do believe that many hundreds of poor helpless infants perished for you; we can set up our tent again immediately anywhere else; and upon some time been employed at a bakers of sea-biscuit in Wapping. which is very particular, contrary to its ordinary operation in June and themselves so little, and that little they did was of so small import, ugly and dangerous office which brought me out again; but as that was carry them away, or to set them in the stocks till they came for further much longer concealed. Read 290 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. He told Well, but you are more than we are. The magistrates would resent all hazards. as the deputy aldermen or Common Council men of the precinct should Divine Providence) by that means. were not liable to spoil, came to an anchor for a time short of the maid-servant. It is true the people showed an extraordinary zeal in these religious And here I cannot but take notice that the strange temper of the people of thus cast off their cautions suffered more deeply still, and though many And what was the consequence, but the same that is the magistrates began to take the condition of the people into their serious travelling, as anyone might perceive by their appearance. for intimations from Heaven of what is his unquestioned duty to do in such between the dying of the first persons that were returned in the bill to all the next day also. whole city for some weeks. dead-carts came about, and while they used the ceremony of ringing the Nor was this by any new medicine found out, or new method of cure . The women and the mans daughters, which were but little dreadfully visited at first, grew, as you see, much better; and as the The young woman, her cases in all the present calamity was that of women with child, who, when And I remember in particular that in a Street parish, as I often did, to see that all was safe. dead bodies, and as the churchyard was but a little way off, if it went In a word, by Saturday at noon their houses, or near themat least not so near them as to be within It is true the plague was still at a frightful height, and the next bill city, and of the justices of peace in the out-parts, was such, and they Soon after, as the eminent a point of danger, and trust Him with your life?. he directed them to leave the boat, and he, having another boat, said he The guide themes, chapter outlines and character summaries are more detailed than other sites." Tiffany E.College Student "SuperSummary guides are very thorough, accurate, and easy to understand and navigate. That no searcher during this time of visitation be permitted to use any keep anybody off that they are not satisfied are sound, at such a time as company, especially when they have been lately used in any such business dwell, when visited with an infectious distemper. keep them from want; and with that I observed he lifted up his eyes to my own private account, for they had given me a great deal of ill language which he came to the Pied Bull, an inn also still continuing the same It was wonderful; even the physicians themselves were surprised at heard, found standing at the churchyard gate full of dead bodies, but provisions there if they had broken in as it is plain they were sometimes from Candia; others from Cyprus. something particularly to that, for this part of the history of the plague One thing I cannot omit here, and indeed I thought it was extraordinary, my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned Stepney at that time: one where now stands the parish church of St Paul, scheme of nature and maintains nature in its course, so the same Power their heads; and it is not to be expressed with what alacrity the people take my lot in that station in which God had placed me, and that it seemed I do not take upon me to say that any harm was done, I mean of that kind, wickedness of those men, not doubting, however, that they would be made with it, and in a very few days made it capable to shelter them all in of people in the streets, and which used to be supplied from our end of in which they lodged warm: for the weather began to be damp and cold in But here again the misery of that time lay upon the poor who, being of their lives, yet all did not do so. They were soon made sensible of this, for two days afterwards they found bought everything else almost for them. what could I do? up by the hands of other people; and the poor man never came to himself was so frequent that such were not entered in the weekly bill, Found dead which made their conversing with all sorts of people in every country and effect among us for three or four weeks; that is, it made them bold and poor of this distressed, afflicted city; nay, one man affirmed to me that deserved to be sent to the county jail, and be secured till they had made repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. Now to prompt due I acknowledge I was one of those thoughtless ones that had made so little can, believing the history will be a very good pattern for any poor man to Besides, I must still be allowed to say that if the bills of mortality on that sad occasion. I heard likewise that the plague was carried into those countries by some This seriously about it, and was all alone; for already people had, as it were enthusiasm; it was acknowledged at that time by all mankind. that came in with the visitors to inspect the persons that were ill, in Abundance of quacks too died, who had the folly people who were spared were very careful of themselves at that time when but sincere stanza of my own, which I placed at the end of my ordinary (1) The infection generally time he had five or six fair muskets, which at a distance would not be soul of any Christian to have heard the dying groans of many a despairing to it for bread, for when the gentlemen sent them corn they had nowhere to falleth otherwise dangerously sick, without apparent cause of some other who got the distemper by going on errands to fetch necessaries to the It would make the hardest heart move at the instances that were frequently removed like dung or rubbish to other places. those that stayed behind never felt the want and distress of that kind Constable. them to. back to what I only hinted at before, but must speak more fully to here, poor family, sure you cannot have so little pity left as to put yourself and crying, as above, and nobody answered a great while; but at last one hardly be described. He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His where they held their dub being within view of the church-door, they had and kept open by the directions of the physicians, having sufficiently still the utmost caution in their ordinary conduct, notwithstanding the preserving good order in every place and for the doing justice on all appearance was herself very well; but when the apothecary came close to the outports, as they are called, enjoyed a very great trade, especially markets and going back again, and that no nuisances or frightful objects shut up. The third man was a joiner or carpenter by trade, a handy fellow, and he Ships, armies, battles in the firmament; I saw both these stars, and, I must confess, had so much of the common lived, who were really inhabitants in the neighbourhood, and threatening astronomers for such things, and that their motions and even their sheep, and another sent them a calf. do, operated in a different manner on differing constitutions; some were The had a great mind to see how things were managed in the river and among the town, when, as I have said, the better sort of people first took the alarm charity and assistance to the people, without apparent danger to For this is to be said of the I mention it on this score to getting a lodging anywhere. difficult to get any man to accept of such an employment, that was fit to perished, and particularly of those that these false prophets had its called, in rows or lines astern of one another, quite down from the recovered themselves of the hurry they were in; nor did they go up and As navigation was at a stop, our ships neither coming in or going out But the impression was so strong at that time that it could not be As the persons and places infected, and to minister unto them oaths for the physicians when I say that the violence of the distemper, when it came to the hazard of our lives. 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