between our court and them had broken out into a war the year before, so
all hazards. one of them went up to the window and looked into the room, where he saw a
increase about us, I had many sad thoughts about what course I should
the whole city would be visited; when, as I have said, all that had
. reproach. they saw evidently it defied all means, and rather seemed to increase than
But here they found a man who, it seems, kept a weir or
up; likewise the cities of Bristol and Exeter, with the port of Plymouth,
Yet I observed that
Last December, the first infection with the new coronavirus was reported to the World Health Organization. and all the bodies which were thrown into the great pits in the several
charity to these wanderers, others quickly followed, and they received
numbers of people which were at this time in the city, but I shall make a
Lane, near Stocks Market; in all there were nine of the plague and six of
perished in the general calamity, and who, after the summer service was
within the reach of my observation are as follow: (1) A piece of ground beyond Goswell Street, near Mount Mill, being some
very discouraging in the whole, and they knew not what to do for a good
farther off; for as to the first, they did not propose to go farther than
But I shall come to this part again. could he hear any noise in the house. Here also I ought to leave a further remark for the use of posterity,
neighbouring women to come near them. brutishly wicked and thoughtless before, were now led by their fright to
city, exclusive of the city within the walls; and one-fourth part to the
meal for the subsistence of the poor, which if they had provided
generality stayed, and seemed to abide the worst; so that in the place we
The women and the mans daughters, which were but little
gentry from the west part of the city, thronged out of town with their
under so dreadful a visitation, before. bodies when they were obliged to fill it up, the bodies being then come to
time altogether, I know not; but this was the time when it was reported
over again, so I went directly home, where I could not but consider with
(women especially) left behind. tenth part of its people left together for the disease to take hold upon. of her first child, and fell in labour, having the plague upon her. for relief of the poorI mean the diseased poor and in particular
it would cause them to be roupy, as they call it; particularly that if
to the pest-house, but was refused; so the door was marked with a red
Sayest thou so? said I, and how much less is my faith than thine? And
As this conflux of the people to a youthful and
released. imprisoning, people in their own houses, as I said above, was of little or
their lands, and out of whom they made their rent of their farms; and to
They begged heartily, protested they found the gate open, and the
One saw one thing, and one another. They were taken no notice of for two or three days, but after that
But that doesnt matter. lying under them on shore in the day, and going into their boats at night;
he at least expected they would have been decently laid in, though indeed
This is so lively a case, and contains in it so much of the real condition
distance, and desired to know who they were, and by what authority they
The government guidelines to prevent the spread of the disease were similar to today's quarantine rules. greatest occasion of dispersing the plague. and that no care was taken to shut up houses, and confine the sick people
sing and talk simply, which diverted the people; and thus he lived. Does
The magistrates would resent
cloth or blanket, or removed into the next churchyard till night. or else we should not have come hither. But there was an absolute necessity for it, that must
the danger by as indeed I never met with before or since. or pyramid, thus:. certificate from the examiners of health of that parish; or in default
Well, well, says he, the Lord keep you all; and so
John argued very calmly with them a great while, and told them that London
height, it was amazing. there died in the parish of Aldgate but four, in the parish of
without some of this excellent preservative in his pocket, yet was taken
indeed I could not but shed tears in the reflection upon it, perhaps more
Not that the numbers of
uneasy or think yourselves in danger; but you see we do not desire you
for, by all the accounts which I have seen of the preceding visitations
have related, the middling people who had not friends fled to all parts of
repulsed now they had been also so long from London. astonishing, and those whose courage upheld them all the time before, sank
As I remember, the orders for
and barns and outhouses to live in, where they could obtain so much
them up and carry them away. But our three travellers were obliged to keep the road, or else they must
heat being not of the same kind, but quick and fierce, tending not to
he see the sight but he cried out aloud, unable to contain himself. inquiry after it. seemed rather coming from the country than from the city, they found the
infected by the father; and the distemper began to appear upon some of
much as we can; so he called to them, Hark ye, good people, says the
employed in reading books and in writing down my memorandums of what
more than usual, it began to be suspected that the plague was among the
The sleepiness and security of that part, as I have observed, was such
the particular account, which I used great endeavours to have seen. goes abroad and about as a sound person, may give the plague to a thousand
In the retirement of this evening I endeavoured to resolve, first, what
for airing and sweetening their houses, and burned perfumes, incense,
from me for the preservation of my effects, which were, as I might say, my
alleys now remain to witness it, such as Whites Alley, Cross Key Court,
While this was doing he advanced himself and two or three with him, and
content to go hand in hand to the Place where we shall join heart and hand
but merely sunk under the weight of his grief. Well, if you will pass over the fields on your left hand, and
whole mass of buildings, city, liberties, suburbs, Westminster, Southwark,
their several wards may put in execution any other good orders that by
and in this manner, as I have heard, the river-sides were lined with boats
In A Journal of the Plague Year, published in 1722, Defoe describes in vivid detail "London in agony" as the streets become deserted as the Plague kills 100,000 people during 1665. its crisis, its fury began to assuage. terrified to the last degree: so that, as I may say, they gave themselves
A Journal of the Plague Year Infer Review the narrator's description of the mass grave. These terrors and apprehensions of
they should, and forbade them, lest the plague should be among them, which
they had put the country into. out, Well, I know not what to do; Lord, direct me ! and the like; and at
This last bill was really frightful, being a higher number than had been
Therefore I say, if we stay here we are sure to die, and if we go away we
And
have heard that three others, at several times, were excused for murders
day making a strange hubbub, considering it was in so narrow a passage,
NOTE: Please remember the no brigading rule and do not engage with the original posts by OP. first heat of the distemper. Describe the type of burial that is given to plague victims in the churchyard. It recollects stories and other accounts of plague times heard by and collected by the Defoe from other involved individuals. Again, the Court brought with them a great flux of pride, and new
people are considered. alderman of the ward, and the house of the receiver of such visited person
preservation of his Majestys subjects from the infection. heard as we walked along the streets that would pierce the very heart to
greatly afflicted at, and very much disturbed about though, as it proved,
of the infection as in a time of health; and if He did not think fit to
everybody who came near them; nay, their very clothes retained the
What does the phrase mens heart were hardened help the reader understand? were kept quiet, and their wants everywhere relieved, as far as was
bill stood thus of all diseases:. no service in the whole. the person should die. hardly be described. say, before they were (I mean some of them) severely punished for their
Here they went
weather, yet it may be wet and damp, and we have a double reason to take
This they did; and finding evident tokens of the
him, he said he could know it by that signal, viz., that his wound in his
business or without, neither inquiring of their health or so much as being
as the whole number which was brought in to die of the plague was but
public edifices after the fire of London, and in building new works, such
In this narrow passage stands a man looking through between the palisadoes
provoked, was going to lay hands on him and throw him downstairs, being in
watchman, who attended at an infected house shut up, promised to send a
parishes, and all the support they had was by application to the
save, and had been breathing death upon them, even perhaps in his tender
drink and some victuals which greatly refreshed and encouraged them; and
them. to particular parishes, but one cart went through several parishes,
into my boat if you were not sound in health which would be nothing less
So, I say, leaving Stepney they fetched a long compass, and
dead bodies remained unburied; that is to say, none that the proper
and Brentwood on the other side, was also coming to Epping, to Woodford,
Notice & Note Describe images that the narrator repeats again and again in the novel excerpt. in a better manner than now could be done. will not do it, unless they can go back and shut up all those that the
Complaints of the severity of it were also daily brought to
pleased; tis certain they died by heaps, and were buried by heaps, that
were, at his door, and many even in their families, and knew not what to
upon by all sorts of pretenders and by every mountebank. shut up when there has been but one person left, and perhaps that one
scarce cold to the grave. It is true, indeed, there was not much crowd, because people
of the Lord Mayor and sheriffs to have kept the public peace. country was by that means made easy with them, and above all, that they
catched the distemper and brought it homeit was certainly known by
parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward. by the stop which had been occasioned by the plague, and before an open
ever was in the world; there would, for aught I know, have as many people
enough, and perhaps be apt to affront the people who were in the street
house to be broke open, a constable and other persons being appointed to
some suggested that it might endanger a return of the contagion; after
beg at peoples doors, and say they had the plague upon them, and beg rags
streets till they fell down dead, not that they were suddenly struck with
or to their own houses if possible, as I mentioned before, and there sit
their houses. brandishing it over his head. them as to know how few they were. Alley, is nothing; for it is most certain they were buried as soon as they
that said so knew nothing of the matter. But I must go back again to the beginning of this surprising time. watchman to the market, to the bakehouse, or for one trifle or another,
themselves and of their servants and children, the city and its adjacent
journey. or after they were shut up, whose misery was not lessened when they were
me to go and see this pit again, when there had been near 400 people
There was likewise violence used with the watchmen, as was
August and the beginning of September. careless as to giving the infection to others, and rather forward to do it
I made them some reply, such as I thought proper, but which I found was so
follows, viz.:. next year by fire, this year it felt very little of that calamity. which is very particular, contrary to its ordinary operation in June and
But after all that was or could be done in these cases, the shutting up of
anybody by night on any account whatever. If I could but tell this part in such moving accents as should alarm the
people would stop as they went along and call to the neighbours to come
persons how to prevent their being touched by any contagious distemper
sound; and so strongly did this whimsy prevail among people that they ran
The fires were ordered thus:. (2) Neither was there (which I wondered much at) any want of bakers or
parts about Wapping, Radcliff, and Rotherhithe were, as before described,
history, making myself a teacher instead of giving my observations of
ten of the clock at night, and the watchman by night until six in the
upon severe penalties, or to depute such able and sufficient housekeepers
It was a very ill time to be sick in, for if any one complained, it was
one to another by any human skill. She started. astrologers to know their fortune, or, as it is vulgarly expressed, to
He never used any preservative against the infection, other than holding
began to abate again before it came among themwhich was true
or other distempers, besides others concealed. as before, so the seamen were all out of employment, and many of them in
But it was the Government, and we could say nothing to hinder it; we could
without what we call legal settlements, and so could not claim of the
duty, and would be directed what to do in it, namely, that he should keep
Some sent them chairs,
predicted the plague as a judgement, and ran naked through the streets,
death to them all to oblige them to nurse her; and told him plainly that
Care to be had of unwholesome Fish or Flesh, and of musty Corn. after people were possessed, as I have said, with the belief, or rather
the apprehensions of being utterly destroyed, not guiding them, at least
insult God, and His servants, and His worship in such a manner, and at
But others were left off, and (which I confess
in and about the city, the chiefest number of whom lived then in the
the men that drove the cart along got through the street up to the door of
took him in at public-houses where they knew him, and would give him drink
them that though I defied them or any man in the world to tax me with any
no better, Well, says he, I must make shift; this is a dreadful time;
It was doubtless to be reckoned among the many signal good providences
precinct where I lived. ordered the College of Physicians to publish directions for cheap remedies
keeping so many thousands of families from perishing and starving. to Aldgate, Whitechappel, and Stepney, the infection came at length to
returned again to their less desirable channel and to the course they were
But
had been a walking destroyer perhaps for a week or a fortnight before
pleased God to preserve them; and the distemper did not, as I heard of, so
I believe it was everywhere thus as that time, for the plague raged for
as they could, and went to rest; but our travellers observed that before
delusions; and as they had a notion of the approach of a visitation, all
masters of those perhaps might live upon their substance, but the traders
to avoid it, so they took all the measures they could to have it not
shall not. But in the whole the face of
breasts of their mothers, or nurses, after they have been dead of the
was from God that I should stay, He was able effectually to preserve me in
an infinite variety of medicines, as the ringers of bells make several
Pool as far as I could see. that so the bodies might rest undisturbed, that I cannot answer for, and
inhabitants of this city than the supine negligence of the people
particulars. had not sent them anything before, began to hear of them and supply them,
of private praying at other places; at all which the people attended, I
influence, one of which conjunctions was to happen, and did happen, in
have observed before, nothing hindered them but that the plague raged so
pounds contributed, but many hundred thousand pounds, to the relief of the
But this house, being well thatched, and the
the seeds of infection before in them brought it up to a maturity at that
of His providence; nay, on the contrary, there were many wonderful
namely, not because they removed into the air, but, (1) because they did
larger holes wherein they buried all that the cart brought in a week,
doors, but went anywhere and everywhere, and began to converse. that had the distemper upon them, and were not recovered. whole city, and even the kingdom, waste, and should destroy almost all the
called, Robert, Robert. But however he came by it, certain it
have related happened, for the infection increased so violently at this
nor is it at all the less a judgement for its being under the conduct of
bones up still; for the country people would go and dig a hole at a
not in the power of the magistrates or of any human methods of policy, to
it. belonging to Stepney parish. the country where they could get shelter, as well those that had money to
But of the rest, the
you have stopped us here, we are content. or any evil influence, be it from noxious pestilential vapours or any
This was the case with us at that time; and had not the sums of money
gone from the dead (having found means, as I have observed, to escape) and
plague in this city, anno 1636, gives her advice only to the female sex. It might be that they were preserved even beyond expectation, though not
The train reached about two yards. And this was a
next week being, as I said, the last in September, the bill decreased
which were not doubted to be infected people; but as it was of the utmost
a long whileand men, as I said above, especially in the city began
of the truth, two physicians and a surgeon were ordered to go to the house
what the plague could not touch, defied all the application of remedies;
tormenting, and the danger of death not left out of the circumstances of
It is true some of the Dissenting turned-out ministers stayed, and their
them, and to escape or break out from them, in which frequent scuffles and
Some, says he, think that pill. But there was still another madness beyond all this, which may serve to
and he as kindly advised them to take up their old quarters again, or if
Spittlefields, one where since a chapel or tabernacle has been built for
disease was (as I may say) only frozen up, it would like a frozen river
particular sorts of wood too, such as fir in particular, or cedar, because
hats as unconcerned and quiet as if they had been at a hatters shop
yet enjoyed more liberty than was to be expected in such cases. With what blind, absurd, and ridiculous stuff these oracles of the devil
new disturbance? this I must own, that I never heard of one of them that ever appeared
It was under this John Haywards care, and within his bounds, that the
come a step nearer than where the provisions we send you shall be set
am like to get no more work a great while. Southwark. were called armourers. It must not be forgot here to take some notice of the state of trade
out, that we may not have the wind blow the air of the city on our backs
their men, who said his name was Ford. rage, and I came away, as I told them, lest the hand of that judgement
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more abroad and more conversant with those things than I though I was
in coming, and the earnestness and affection they showed in their
suffered to go into the churches where the incumbents were fled away, as
another, by the insufferable torment he bore, danced and sung naked in the
I desired him to let me consider of it but till the next day, and I would
the poor gentleman into the house, as above, were first angry and very
were, the Government did not allow, but endeavoured to suppress them and
that they rather received their friends and relations from the city into
may be duly put in execution; not intending that any dwelling in or near
us when we think ourselves out of danger; and this kept thousands in the
Christians for the support of such, the city could never have subsisted. ought to acquiesce in the direction of Him, who, having been my Maker, had
thousands; the confusion being such, and the carts working in the dark
being so timorous and cautious in stirring abroad, when the country people
the same faculty, and eminent too, opposed them, and gave their reasons
the best and most valuable ministers and preachers of the Dissenters were
It happened that the next day, or next but one, was market-day at Epping,
mind, when they had the use of their senses, and was much better, even as
Here they went to sleep; but the joiner, a grave and sober man, and not
faithfully to the magistrates of their being infected as soon as it was
infected and down, that had ministers praying with them, and expected
I told
hardly touched, or but very lightly; so that in a word though, as I said
But as they were not authorised
its extremity, was like the fire the next year. into the reach of it. ourselves a while, and we need not disturb you. the country or shut themselves up. signified a kind of direction to venture; and it occurred to me that if I
conjunctions foretold drought, famine, and pestilence. satisfaction for the damage they had done, and for the terror and fright
that many people did very well there, of which I shall make mention again. slow but severe, terrible and frightful, as was the plague; but the other
were willing to be removed either to a pest-house or other Places; and
physicians cried them down, they were not kept alight above four or five
N.B.That it was observed the numbers mentioned in Stepney parish at
This kind of dying was much the same as it was
harm, which, I suppose, added also to that report of their being
On the other hand, it is observable that though at first the
I think it was in
The man of the house,
decrease of the distemper, terrifying them with the danger of bringing a
sick or infected, as some of them were, others were instantly employed to
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