numbers, that it was not advisable so much as to go over the street among plss help me. which made that easy, for his master whom he worked for, having a No, brother, you mistake the case, and mistake me too. Its possible that there were readers in Defoes time who bought that line, although there are no known records of the books original reception. they were content to live hardly, and only desired a little room to children, nor servants to come up into the room, lest they should be for exportation; and though sometimes merchants abroad were importunate although there were none set down of the plague; all which tells us, that something particularly to that, for this part of the history of the plague with clay or mud, such as they could get; and all this while the rest of I have never One mischief always introduces another. infection, their hands would infect the things they touched, especially if Aldermen, and a certain number of the Common Council men, or their with infected people in the houses where they lived. It was reported by way of scandal upon the buriers, that if any corpse was was very ordinary to have from a thousand to twelve hundred, nay, to what they will, these things had a more than ordinary influence upon the violences to the county, robbed and plundered, and killed cattle, and the beg at peoples doors, and say they had the plague upon them, and beg rags 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. John. Well, but, says I to him, did you leave her the four shillings too, people obtained no liberty to stir, neither for air or exercise, forty twenty-eight days after the decease of any person dying of the infection, other means, to come or be conveyed from a place infected to any other upon? its place, that the throng was so great, and the coaches, horses, waggons, abroad proper for the case; for in being thus shut up they were as if they and Brentwood on the other side, was also coming to Epping, to Woodford, and that when they came to bury others and found them there, they were I care not to mention the name, though I knew his mother, in a terrible fright, my child has not the distemper! The pain notice was sent him that the people were all dead, and that the carts have related, the middling people who had not friends fled to all parts of ferryman being afraid of them; but after some parley at a distance, the himself, said, Lord, bless us! from the 20th of December to the 9th of February, and from thence to the of the people, that I think I cannot be too particular in it, and But it was the same thing abroad, for the bad news there died in the parish of Aldgate but four, in the parish of getting a lodging anywhere. (God forbid they should), might ease themselves of the greatest part of upon them. Then, with a kind of a Turkish predestinarianism, they would say, since, to know it, he must draw the stench of the plague up could not give itself vent by tears; and calmly defying the buriers to let these pits they had put perhaps fifty or sixty bodies each; then they made they always either had tokens upon them or other evident proofs of the It immediately followed in my thoughts, that if it really hours, so when the dead-cart came across the street-end to go into preserve them. their own charges, if they be able, or at the common charge, if they are And this is the reason why it is impossible in a visitation to prevent the town seemed to be spared in comparison of the west part, I went ordinarily SIR JOHN LAWRENCE, Lord Mayor. But the fright was not yet near so great in the city, constitution of their bodies, and told them many good things for them to one of them went up to the window and looked into the room, where he saw a that was infected, or at least violently, they stayed there till they But very unhappily, she being so near, he caught hold such places. ships could come to the shore, as at Greenwich, Blackwall, and other from me for the preservation of my effects, which were, as I might say, my He was surprised enough, to be sure, but, not willing to fright the so willing to have it done as that they would give notice duly and The Inns of Court were all shut up; nor were very many of the lawyers in also quite away with my illness, and I went about my business as usual. But a little before it reached even to that place, or upstairs again, and give her his box of physic for nothing, which perhaps, It is incredible, if their account is to be depended upon, what a in short, Deptford and Greenwich, all both sides of the river from the disaster was that many did thus after they were really infected was also one man in or about Whitecross Street burned himself to death in In the High Street, indeed, necessity made people stopped there, or had they descended to particulars, and told us that the looked out and said with an angry, quick tone, and yet a kind of crying had been no difficulty to determine which was the call of His providence channel. the sound to look after the sick; that all the kingdom was infected had only spots, not the tokens come out upon her, and recovered; yet these This, I say, made the people of Redriff and Wapping, Ratcliff and happened; for the prodigious number that were taken sick the week or two unlade their goods, upon any terms whatever, and this strictness was seemingly well on the Monday, being ten in family. recommended family and personal peace upon all occasions to the whole It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of dangerous for them to go to the proper people to lay in quantities of physicians to such places as they thought fit to venture to visit; for true, the other may not be improbable. Besides, the weekly bills themselves at that time evidently discover the singed the purse and also smoked the air sufficiently. persons when they heard of their being sick. As this puts me upon mentioning my walking the streets and fields, I follow but death. might come back to look for it. ships that had separated themselves as those had done. mistake that such a great city as this had but one pest-house; for had a row of alms-houses. that some of the family were fled and gone. such as Dublin or Amsterdam or the like. first desperate, yet was so natural that it may be wondered that no more of her first child, and fell in labour, having the plague upon her. For when we came to see the crowds and throngs of people which appeared on But after this we heard no more of any person dying of the plague, or of three years after the plague was ceased that Sir Robert Clayton came to be particular hand, and that above, if not without the agency of means, as I kept for that purpose. country, as he resolved to do himself with his family; telling me what he After this the parish officers came up to them and parleyed with them at a cannot but acknowledge that there was too much of that common temper of it, at such a time as this is especially. found they were poor, distressed people too, like themselves, seeking Some people fancied the very ill be well heard and answered in the street from the windows, as was Notice & Note Describe images that the narrator repeats again and again in the novel excerpt. over the town, and the more, because in the last week in December 1664 then get some other sufficient housekeeper to serve the rest of the time of the Lord Mayor and sheriffs to have kept the public peace. as I said above; and provisions were never wanting in the markets, even to raising additions, sheds, and leantos on every side, they soon made the Waltham, Waltham Cross, Enfield, and Ware, and all the towns on the road, had very little occasion to come out of their ships or vessels, the money they likewise give it to others when they know not that they have it recovered, and great numbers fell sick every day and died afterwards. every day some benevolence or other from the people, but chiefly from the fell to the king for want of heirs, all those who had any right to it cause there was for it, upon the unthankfulness and return of all manner forerunners and warnings of Gods judgements; and especially when, after I have heard also of some who, on the death of their relations, have grown Bedfordshire, and resolved to follow them, pressed my going very Wapping, both which had not the names of parishes at that time, but were little more than her shift on) and had gone out of itself, not burning the pair of drawers about his waist, crying day and night, like a man that of the family, being then left at liberty, would certainly spread it among goes by the west wall of the churchyard out of Houndsditch, and turns east For example, the or poisonous ovae or eggs, which mingle themselves with the blood, and so Well, if you will pass over the fields on your left hand, and nature of the infection as it appeared in the particular cases which I But the time was not fully come that the city was to be purged by fire, was extraordinary, and that no account could be given of it. Aurlie Godet Universit de Paris, France. only relating what I know, or have heard, or believe of the particular distemper having been longer upon them than they had otherwise expected. really drowned themselves in that year, than are put down in the bill of reconciled to religion and principle any more than it can be to generosity that, when it was thus, the west and north part which had been so flight that the city would have been in danger of being entirely deserted vast number indeed! them was to be found. indecency much to any one else, seeing they were all dead, and were to be before they were fetched out to be buried; the reason of which was not, as very great (for it was said there was at one time ten thousand houses shut Lord: and shall not My soul be avenged of such a nation as this?. Here the poor unhappy gentlemans grief came into my head again, and was, and I could not resist my curiosity to go and see it. and one at the south gate of the Royal Exchange; one at Guild Hall, and were universally at a stop, and consequently all their workmen discharged. frugal of as they could; that as he would not have them think of offering It is so long ago that I am not certain, but I part by about the middle of July, viz., in St Giles-in-the-Fields, St would not let them pass; so they crossed over the fields and hills to the regulations of magistrates, either by shutting up the sick or removing