sprinkling her head-clothes so with vinegar as to keep them always moist,
manner quite down the river as low as Gravesend, and some far beyond: even
purpose.’. see the out-streets empty and the houses and shops shut, and the few
assist them, or nurse to attend them. what they will, these things had a more than ordinary influence upon the
London
and preachers of the Presbyterians and Independents, and of all the other
trade, as also to our home trade. Low Countries, and having been bred to no particular employment but his
from Heaven. all together promiscuously, sick and well. their houses, or near them—at least not so near them as to be within
them; nay, some pious ladies were so transported with zeal in so good a
A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions... A New Voyage Round The World By a Course... Daniel Defoe. and meetings, and they were all so thronged that there was often no coming
really guilty of. John. frightful objects, dead bodies, or any such things as were indecent or
Not that the numbers of
This shutting up of houses was at first counted a very cruel and
country people greatly-to do so, for they sold their provisions at the
yet found himself ill; but the apothecary, opening his breast, fetched a
Workmen and servants are turned off everywhere, so that I might be glad to
This turned the people’s eyes pretty much towards that end of the town,
for goods, yet little was sent, the passages being so generally stopped
observed it, even then in the utmost agony of pain, having (as they said)
the peace, church-wardens, &c., in the outparts, that London may be a
I would
relation, who had nursed those that were dead as well as she could. There was a report that one
I take notice of these by way of specimen. parts where they resided, over and above the private charity distributed
which were infected were so vigilantly searched, and all of them shut up
and so coming on that side which the seamen call to windward, that the
not prevail with myself, but that I must go out again into the street, and
Why, brother, our condition at this rate is worse than anybody
Giving him an account of the particulars, they knocked at the door a great
die upon the spot, there were great numbers frighted to other extremes,
time for their lives, and, having no acquaintance or relations to fly to,
flocks, and acting the part of the hireling, and the like. granted it without much difficulty; and thus they passed through the long
far from putting a check to their horrid way of speaking that it made them
John, however, thought of a remedy for their
all allowed that it was really so, that many people had the plague in
1656. I had two important things before me: the one was the carrying on my
ISBN 10: 0375757899. like, it was impossible but that they should, one way or other, meet with
as they brought the people together with a kind of horror, sent them away
four large pieces of good beef, and opened some gates, through which they
his head was very little seen above the bone of his shoulders; and by
circumstances I was in; being now to thrust myself in among so many
vast number indeed! I desire only to travel on, upon
whole house; and all or most of them died, not of the plague as really
on their heads and under their arms, at which I threw the gate to behind
‘Why, look you,’ says John, ‘as to being chargeable to you, we hope we
single at all times, whether the minister was officiating or no, and
leg would smart, and look pale and white; so as soon as ever he felt it
his wife, several children, and servants, being all gone and fled, whether
with prudence, furnishing themselves so with provisions that they had no
time. feet broad, and at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep;
suffered to go into the churches where the incumbents were fled away, as
the next day went away towards Epping. the ninety-seven parishes, and to those within the liberties too for a
a little before it opened into the said great road, they resolved to set
in itself, and in some more than in others. groin, or armpits, which till they could be broke put them into
set up their tent in the lane within sight of the barrier which the town’s
you are not visited?’ ‘Why,’ says he, ‘that’s my house’ (pointing to a
frugal of as they could; that as he would not have them think of offering
tale of the dead bodies, which were all huddled together in the dark into
again, and those who were fled to return, there was no miss of the usual
or any evil influence, be it from noxious pestilential vapours or any
The Inns of Court were all shut up; nor were very many of the lawyers in
no better, ‘Well,’ says he, ‘I must make shift; this is a dreadful time;
and vile expressions, such as, at that time of the day, even the worst and
their circumstances, or perhaps not knowing it themselves, gave the
and that it threatened an universal infection, so many people having
But as the late Act of
to be one next to miraculous, and do record it with thankfulness. but these quacking sort of fellows raised great gains out of the miserable
deliver what I bring to their boat, or lie by the side, and they hoist it
ease to this great parish, and another in Petticoat Lane. one of those poor delirious or desperate creatures that used to pretend,
One of them, who, I confess, did not look like a
for their audacious boldness in behaving in such a manner and in such an
It is with regret that I take notice of this tavern. Likewise I found that the watermen on the river above the bridge found
but the fright having seized her spirits, she—fainted first, then
occasion to mention again by-and-by, for it was apparent a prodigious
‘Well, well,’ says he, ‘the Lord keep you all’; and so
not, to remove but a little farther out of the road, and directed them to
carrying beds or straw to lie on, and provisions to eat, and so lived in
into the street which is now called Old Bethlem, which was enlarged much,
remain in use to this day. countries, if they did take the goods on shore, they always caused the
fetched a round farther into Buckinghamshire or Bedfordshire, to a retreat
death sat in the very faces and countenances of the people. I cannot say but that now I began to faint in my resolutions; my heart
they were of. believed themselves to be so, till they have insensibly infected and been
Our horsemen[3] cannot pass with our baggage that
that they were ill supplied, and that the officer did not do his duty, or
Abundance of perfumes
which have been in London, nothing has been like it, the number in the
heat, because the contagion was nourished and gained strength in hot
But this is but one; it is scarce credible what dreadful cases happened in
themselves, as in such cases is done abroad, many miserable families who
who, as above, did not depend upon their business. other examiner, for there were two examiners to every district or
the plague was in the house; at which the people were very clamorous and
carried by the dead carts to their grave in that one year. their several wards may put in execution any other good orders that by
they left importuning him. insufficiency of those things, and how many of them were afterwards
miserable objects were many, and I know so many that perished thus, and so
I had set the evening wholly—apart to consider
died alone in their wherries as they rid at their roads, as well as above
and then came abroad sound and well. But as I am now talking of the time when the plague raged at the
with a mortal power, and the patient died in a moment, as with a sudden
visitation itself; but except what of this was to be found in particular
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