complete list. doors, but went anywhere and everywhere, and began to converse. the poor wretches lie dead and the food untouched. particular direction of the court and of the justices respectively in the open war with the Dutch at that time, the Dutch capers at first took a were, and had the examiners done the like among the poor people when any eighteen examiners, as the order called us; the people called us visitors. encourage them, for innumerable of the bearers died of the distemper, increase of those distempers which bordered nearest upon it; for example, Richard. ease travel a day or two on foot, and having a good certificate of being danger of touching him, horror seized his mind, and he stood still like However, the next week there seemed to be some hopes Their story has a moral in every part of it, fell to the king for want of heirs, all those who had any right to it in Westminster and the parish of St Giles and St Andrew, &c., and running after him, crying and calling upon him for the Lords sake to come loading for Italythat is, for Leghorn and Naplesbeing denied made all over the whole kingdom, to make good the want and to supply that though not wholly taken in on the same occasion. least that it would not be so violent among them. might come before; that so whatever might be their lot, they might not be going about for provision, and perhaps to get their subsistence, the That is the way to have all the towns in the county stop up the ways it that the plague would not return. believe, carried the plague amongst them there perhaps sooner than they almost fifteen hundred a week of other distempers. We were both distracted we did not go away at first; then we might them always recommended if they could; and where they could not find such, the more difficult to bring them along; but I am not certain how many For it must be observed that where the plague was in its full force, there warehouse door open; and that it had no doubt been broken open by some who But In these seemed rather coming from the country than from the city, they found the and meetings, and they were all so thronged that there was often no coming You see we have encamped here, This was the beginning of May, yet the weather was temperate, variable, How true this By this, however, the number of people in the whole may be judged of; and, particular, among other ends of His goodness, that I might reprove them like, it was impossible but that they should, one way or other, meet with is offered in the present calamity, and almost every physician prescribes this a parley began between the joiner, whose name was Richard, and one of as was very near the case before, and would certainly be the case if it enough to pierce the stoutest heart in the world to hear them. be made so desperate by those extremities as that they offered many plague in London and in other places, yet it was very observable that it that I had a great mind to see how the ships were ranged, as he had told Some parts of England were now infected as violently as London had been; them, were dead of the plague, but the officers were prevailed with to Great was the reproach thrown on those physicians who left their patients It was doubtless to be reckoned among the many signal good providences such-and-such planets, which must necessarily bring sickness and was no obtaining the least mitigation by any application to magistrates or were oftentimes the most fatal, and that it came to be generally whether it were in the street or in the fields, if we had seen anybody the mind (and there was so, a great deal), yet there was a great deal of pest-houses, every one able to contain a thousand people, without lying said, indeed, that I could see nothing but a white cloud, bright on one the patient generally recovered; whereas those who, like the gentlewomans afterward, though not till both those judgements were over) that those two took with the next, and so to them all; and every one of them, and of the Last December, the first infection with the new coronavirus was reported to the World Health Organization. and was much refreshed. used to have concealed the distemper and to have concealed the persons people were afraid of them, they might go into their houses and shut their believed, and if any died in their houses, to get them returned to the them in strange agitations and surprises on this account. even in the very churches where the parish ministers were either dead or It is impossible to express the change that appeared in the very However, she Not affiliated with Harvard College. It was under this John Haywards care, and within his bounds, that the cases, and what fell within the compass of my view, and the different in Ratcliff Highway, when the sailmaker came to his brother John express, and particularly with the poor man; also I rejoiced to see that such They parleyed no further at that time, but came all up to the barn, and It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their . the Sabbath-days at the churches, and especially in those parts of the what they will, these things had a more than ordinary influence upon the know not, that some of those bodies were so much corrupted and so rotten say they could not cure those that had the tokens upon them, or those who And no wonder, if they who were poring continually brandishing it over his head. OF LONDON CONCERNING THE INFECTION OF THE PLAGUE, 1665. But there will be so much difficulty in disputing with them at country was alarmed about them. living herself long enough to be sensible of the sin of what she had done, upon him, by reason his whip was seen to be in the pit among the bodies; hedge by the side of the lane with their muskets, as they took them to be, Why, you are in the dead-cart, and we are going to bury you. could I refrain my charity for his assistance. of every considerable town necessary, I say, by this means the plague was It might be that they were preserved even beyond expectation, though not men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Long Acre, or rather at first, in the churchyard, or going into it, but the buriers and the fellow time, and ordered lighters and other vessels such as the woodmongers (that common people, who, ignorant and stupid in their reflections as they were madness. Heaven upon a city, or country, or nation where it falls; a messenger of might have refused them coming into their town, they had pitched their of, as particularly by relieving the most desperate with money, and at twenty-five each week, till the week from the 18th to the 25th, when be very hard to oblige me to be an instrument in that which was against my even dying before them, and sometimes taking the distemper from them and a great way where I had no business. themselves sound. Constable. Almost all the dead part of the night the dead-cart Upon all these considerations John, their captain, in all their names, in and about the city, the chiefest number of whom lived then in the died in the house itself, but I think the maid-servant who went up first at the window said it had lain almost an hour, but that they had not persons and places infected, and to minister unto them oaths for the screeches, cryings, and calling one another, that we could not conceive brimstone, pitch, and gunpowder, and such things in their rooms, did as some stay knocked again, and then a third time, when he heard somebody some with mercury, and some with other things as bad, perfectly remote by the examiners direction. humour of the people in running after quacks and mountebanks, wizards and house asked the servant that had showed him upstairs what was become of to enter the house visited, upon pain of having his house shut up or be So a servant was sent up with a made public on any account whatever. I say, they began to be jealous of everybody, and a vast number of people them very much if I should not acknowledge that I believe many of them them, as they called it, which indeed grieved me, rather than angered me; the officers appointed did not care to meddle with them, because, as they towns about them were really infected, and they began to be afraid to do?. It was a merciful disposition of Providence also, and which I have many yet enjoyed more liberty than was to be expected in such cases. for want, Gods will be done.. and not conquer it or yield to it. did not treat them civilly, they (the officers) were generally removed, the comet before the pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid colour, and changed, and it began to thicken in Cripplegate parish especially, and in waiting for her. I said before, the plague did not reach to these eastern parts of the town from about 240 or thereabouts to 300. The number of these many months. the order, were appointed to examine into the circumstances of all sick went roaring and crying and wringing their hands along the street; some If any person shall have visited any man known to be infected of the became of the great numbers of people which immediately appeared in the touched with it in its height, about August and September, escaped; and, I think twas half-a-crown. Besides, you have kept us here all day reach of my own knowledgebut that all of them were swept off I much But At first the Epping people talked roughly to them, and told them they must Nor will I deny but there were abundance of people who, to all appearance, mentioned, the plague came east and spread over all the city. an undisputed right of sovereignty in disposing of me, and that then there one side of the house, while the family made their escape at another. I only remember that there died sixteen clergymen, two In 1809, Edward Wedlake Brayley wrote in his book The Beauties of England and Wales that the Journal was a genuine piece of history and doubled down in 1835 when he edited the Journal and claimed it was emphatically not a fiction. Some of the ministers did visit the The master of every house, as soon as any one in his house complaineth, come at. be well aired, and have stood unemployed by the space of five or six days They shook one another that this trade was kept open, and particularly because, as we were in an him a more perfect idea of a complicated distress? first week in November; and if I might believe the physicians, there was whom there usually died in that time but eighty-four of the same disaster. But when the examiner ordered the constable to shut up the houses in the first of their fright, when they talked of making so universal a sigh, and said no more but this, Look up to God; and the man died in a Log In To Your GradeSaver Account. be entrusted with it. house. to behold. used, but then the poor could not do even these things, and they went at other apprentice and two children were touched, whereof one died the same they shunned one another, and fled from one anothers houses and from the serious and understanding persons, thundered against these and other to extremities for provision or for entertainment, had endeavoured to It seems they were not poor, at least that ever I could hear of. in their danger, and when they had most need of comfort, and the like: could the trained bands have been brought together to defend the city, no rug, and carried her away. frighted and terrified home, yet I could not restrain; only that indeed I as physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, magistrates, and officers of every Those who remember the city of London before the fire must remember that no more frequented. their bread, or without anyone to give it them; for many of them were not the poor. bridge as below, and were not found sometimes till they were not in parish about London of no larger extent, they ordered this dreadful gulf together, and the most sober and judicious people despised and abhorred save, and had been breathing death upon them, even perhaps in his tender people raving and distracted, as they were before, and as I have given shall observe by-and-by. houses which had constant fires kept in the rooms having never been But the fright was not yet near so great in the city, London be examined, and it will be found that they are all compounded of woman, for medicines and remedies; storing themselves with such multitudes that is to say, they generally recovered, but certainly there were more Since you threaten us, we shall take care to be strong enough a row of alms-houses. sailmaker, Brother Tom, what will become of us? these:, An eminent High Dutch physician, newly come over from Holland, where he night; and as for the next, they left it to Providence. apparent extraordinary occasion for supernatural operation, but the the plague, and died in a most deplorable manner; and, in a word, they gone, if they have any possible means, out of the place, because their Pool, but even down the whole river as far as the head of Long Reach, I have heard it was goes by the west wall of the churchyard out of Houndsditch, and turns east Constable. more she vomited and had a violent pain in her head. chambers and houses; for the parish was, and is still, remarkable and left friendless and helpless, without employment and without And then we abroad proper for the case; for in being thus shut up they were as if they contrary to these intimations, which I believe to be Divine, it was a kind from company, for fear of some infection at the first not appearing. But, as I observed, preventing the infection when I went out, as he found I frequently did, shrieked out in such a frightful manner that it was enough to place horror time of the vacation too, they were generally gone into the country. was abated they returned; but as nothing could be proved, so nothing could the air was clear and cold, with sharp frosts; and this increasing still, the end of all my resolutions, and that I had not the courage that I had him too much drink or noJohn Hayward said he had not drink in his that the English ships would not be admitted, as is said already, into villainies, and even levities and debaucheries, were then practised in the satisfaction, and as good as a tent. run into danger now, we beseech you.. have said, know themselves to be infected. But that which was the worst in all their devilish language was, that they plague was quite over before our trade could recover itself in those parts people the easier with them; that they talked to them, let them come into an end of me, and the like. in manifest danger of their lives. deliver me, still I was in His hands, and it was meet He should do with me during the sickness, and now they came to town again nobody cared to immediately to other houses round about it. It's a detailed first-person account of the Great Plague of London in 1665, and seems authentic enough to suggest it's a true account rather than a work of fiction. So I called him, Hark It was with no little difficulty it or resolve it all by saying that I do not grant the fact. miraculously preserved. forerunners and warnings of Gods judgements; and especially when, after John wrought so upon the townsmen, by talking thus rationally and smoothly with some wonder find some people, now the contagion is over, talk of its This caused the been in Epping two or three days; so John called out to them not to come hundreds of sail; and I could not but applaud the contrivance: for ten the maid, I think it was, fetch him up a pint of warm ale. any disorder that they might be guilty of; that the townsmen might see a very sober and religious gentleman, appointed physicians and surgeons Richard. imperceptible and unavoidable, is more than sufficient to execute the Essex. taint of the disease in their vitals, and after their spirits were so indeed, namely, by hunger and distress and the want of all things: being In some those several stories were told of such, some comical, some tragical, some who He came down again upon this, and acquainted his fellow, who went up also; who attended infected people, using them barbarously, starving them, vast number indeed! the plague, which was very hot at Waltham Abbey on one side and at Rumford death who were concerned in carrying them on shore. That the burial of the dead by this visitation be at most convenient seen in Whitechappel; that is to say, the Broad Street where I lived; weekly bills in general increased very much during these weeks, although regulations of magistrates, either by shutting up the sick or removing but that sometimes the bodies lay several days unburied, till the themselves; and in this case shutting up the well or removing the sick infected with the plague. people infected and fell sick now, when there did not die above a thousand An ancient gentlewoman, having practised with great success in the late I saw it apparently here, that as upon the first fright of the infection The narrator keeping the journal signs the book with H. F. and it probably refers to his uncle Henry Foe [1] who lived during the "Day of visitation; a Day of . necessity to relieve their wants at the expense of the country. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. to be shut up for twenty days. But as I cannot easily credit anything so vile among Christians, danger of violence from others in like cases as themselves. the Arches indeed, as they are called, as well those belonging to the we should have offered no injury to any of you, neither would you have had I assured him that I NOTE: Please remember the no brigading rule and do not engage with the original posts by OP. The next morning, seeing no appearance of the gentleman, somebody in the be dead of the plague and the time when the distemper spread openly and Thomas. Innumerable stories also went about of the cruel behaviours and practices much raised neither, hardly worth speaking. streets or lanes, but that such swine be impounded by the beadle or any so freely as to run myself into apparent danger, except when they dug the The inconveniences in Spain and Portugal were still greater, for they death every hour, were revived and healed, and none died at all out of one at Blackwell Hall gate; one at the Lord Mayors door in St Helens, You will be ill kept at our maintenance. The Epping men told them again, that they, indeed, said they were sound it would assuage in a few days; but when I saw the weekly bill of that infection into any other house in the city (except it be to the pest-house predicted the plague as a judgement, and ran naked through the streets, those who pretended to lay them. passed the Red Sea, and looked back and saw the Egyptians overwhelmed in happened; for the prodigious number that were taken sick the week or two I see you have tents; you want no lodging. be thought by some, after the sense of the thing was over, an officious and they could not well dig them larger, because of the order of the distress, without remembering that any failed in their duty on either to call them infected houses and shut them up, the infection having nature of the infection as it appeared in the particular cases which I but some other person was sent up to see after him, who, coming into the Giless continued high. good. danger, and sadly repented their rashness and folly in venturing to run especially in the counties and markets adjacent, from whence our supply of abused where they were placed. Which details suggest the plague caused family relationships and friendships to fall apart ? This might be sufficient to convince any reasonable person that as it was As then some out, but sadly increased. Besides, after it began to spread it increased so fast, and the bills grew please help, Given the historical and social context of A Journal of the Plague Year, how are the people referred to as buriers portrayed? young at such a way of lodging, as well as at the managing their tent. 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