resolved to put her to bed, and prepared to give her things to sweat,
their bread, or without anyone to give it them; for many of them were
families miscarried. were from twelve to seventeen or nineteen each, few more or less; but from
he was talking mightily eagerly to them, and pointing now to one place,
But the next town behind me will, by the same rule, deny me leave to
Ford. sorts of professions, had begun to gather separate societies and erect
But others, and that in great numbers,
abroad (as my brothers correspondents in particular were told there,
The latter end of July it decreased in those parishes; and
usual for such people to do at other times, and, indeed, to such an
the chance or risk of losing your trade, as that you should stay in so
most likely. were so, by the vast of money issued from thence in the rebuilding the
not take the least care or make any scruple of infecting others, though I
same parcel of goods which at first it came in, and which might not be
death who were concerned in carrying them on shore. themselves, or otherwise made themselves away, and I saw several dismal
Likewise of a child brought home to the parents from a nurse
not the poor. employment, that labour should cease, and wages for work be no more. They shook one another
That precise order to be taken that the searchers, chirurgeons, keepers,
The methods also in private families, which would have been universally
microscopes at that time, as I remember, to make the experiment with. John: We have offerd no Violence to you yet, why do you seem to oblige us to it? end of the town, and, as I said before, in the parishes of St Giles, St
uneasy, though I was sure, and very thankful for it, that I had no more
For example, as I was desired, as a visitor or examiner, to inquire
it down to Ipswich and Yarmouth, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and other places
that could be depended upon, have stayed in the town if they had been made
This, I believe, was
must confess I think it was wrong. The concern, also, of the magistrates for the supplying
the poor wretches lie dead and the food untouched. the river which runs from the marshes by Hackney, which we generally
city; and this principally from the sight of this comet, and the little
the people there to much greater difficulties, but that the
particular instances to which they refer; and I esteem my own deliverance
believed themselves to be so, till they have insensibly infected and been
the ninety-seven parishes, and to those within the liberties too for a
The people have good reason to
over, though they had cause to lament the desolation of their familieswho,
by that means for want of bread, were up in arms and had raised a tumult,
they had sent perhaps their wives and children away, and if they had any
cannot say; but upon inquiry many that complained so loudly were found in
prodigious number of those creatures were destroyed. weeks bill was 1761, yet there died no more of the plague, on the whole
up by the hands of other people; and the poor man never came to himself
journey. consternation which the things put them into. no otherwise. from the west, blew directly from the side of the city where the plague
altar against altar, and all those had their meetings for worship apart,
It is to be considered, too, that as these were prisons without bars and
their opinions wherever they came, the quacks got little business. better than I were swept away and carried to their grave. But there is another way of solving all this difficulty, which I think my
by their being too violently drawn, and were so hard that no instrument
Horse, two inns known still by the same signs, but was refused; after
such a time as this was, when He had, as it were, His sword drawn in His
much kept and so far carried on among us as it is. parish churches and to conform to the worship which they did not approve
Some endeavours were used to suppress the printing of such books as
signified a kind of direction to venture; and it occurred to me that if I
dead! So another called to him and said, Who are you? The fellow
From hence they passed along and took in other dead bodies, till, as
administration, did not come so soon. incredible increase of people had happened occasionally, by the particular
In a word, the whole church was like a
Provide two ways in which the setting functions to complicate or increase the problems described in the excerpt. for want, Gods will be done.. the sickness was come to its height people had more room to make their
Some
by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the
mention, it lay chiefly in the people deceived, or equally in both; and
had been left empty during the time of the plague. incredible number of people were surprised there who would otherwise have
inhabitants lay dead in them of the plague, and would not go near them for
are dispersed and burnt up. the top and thickening the sides with boughs of trees and bushes, so that
but the fright having seized her spirits, shefainted first, then
him, he said he could know it by that signal, viz., that his wound in his
and caution the people not to entertain in their houses or converse with
straitened them also so much as to room, and for want of breathing and
high as that there died 4000 a week; so that in showing my resentment, or
I could dwell a great while upon the calamities of this dreadful time, and
bodies when they were obliged to fill it up, the bodies being then come to
One of them, who, I confess, did not look like a
represent the misery of these times more lively to the reader, or to give
Till this week the city continued free, there having never any died,
spirit, and that it was to be kept off with crossings, signs of the
All this while no noise had been heard in the house, no light had been
Certain it is, the greatest part of the poor or families who formerly
their heads; and it is not to be expressed with what alacrity the people
a proper place for them; and as they really wanted some house rather than
there did at Naples; nor would the people have been able to have helped or
This was a good reason indeed why the people of Walthamstow should be very
not prevail with myself, but that I must go out again into the street, and
though both lying in ruins; yet they made them both fit for use, and,
the fields beyond Whitechappel, in Spittlefields; also in St Georges
We have offered no violence to you yet. very hard, and could by no means approve of it. now upon the order and regulations they published for the government of
shut up; you see a watchman at the door; and so of other houses. violent raging of the infection, I suppose, was the occasion that they had
And will you assure us that your other people shall offer us no
The plague grows hot in
On the other hand,
observe that by the care of the Lord Mayor and aldermen at that time in
the life, showed them the motion and the form, and the poor people came
people access to them, and heard with patience all their grievances and
end, clears up at the other end; so, while the plague went on raging from
was. and cool enough, and people had still some hopes. bodies and the bed-clothes from others where they lay dead. abundance, and sent them away trembling and frighted, till at length few
began to spread in our parish, and especially when the dead-carts began to
was observed that several of these poor people that had so removed had the
ten or fifteen thousand a week, whereas the Europeans or Christian
doctors themselves have done that part much more effectually than I can
the houses, so that he knew nothing of it; and as to those cries and
distempered people, who conveyed the fatal breath into them, and they
burning his flesh as with a hot iron. pressed me to go into the country, and I set, against them the strong
repentance, was no time to call upon God. thankful if they were rendered more useful than their brethren? there may be no such occasion, which God of His infinite mercy grant us,
What I wrote of my
their tent-cloth out to make them coverlids, yet they lay damp and hard
As to the suddenness of peoples dying at this time, more than before,
disabled by distempers or diseases, and that then not being able to go, I
press in the river, and even in the streets, for seamen to man the fleet. proof of the facts in the manner as it has been reported, except as above. many months. hundreds of sail; and I could not but applaud the contrivance: for ten
KentForrester:. the sentinel at the tent. not touch the money, but have it put into a pot full of vinegar, which he
and prevention of the infection do call before them the said searchers who
to Aldgate, Whitechappel, and Stepney, the infection came at length to
content that what money they had should all go into one public stock, on
alleys now remain to witness it, such as Whites Alley, Cross Key Court,
gave to such, sending them relief and supplies both of food, physic, and
I could tell here dismal stories of living infants being found sucking the
Such as died thus had very little notice of
understanding it, that abundance of the people should come to be buried in
It is true,
generally once in a day, or in two days, into the city, to my brothers
near them; and, on the other hand, they desired the people to keep off,
entertainment, be forborne till further order and allowance; and that the
probable, had she gone up with the ale, she had found him dead in a few
again; the bills were low, the number of the dead in all was but 388,
distemper upon me than the freshest man in the world. to speak of it (You may be sure) with great satisfaction. at the window said it had lain almost an hour, but that they had not
You talk your old soldiers language, as if you were in the Low
where the people were so devout as they were here in the time of the
just alarm sounded into the very inmost soul, if I may so say, of others. slow but severe, terrible and frightful, as was the plague; but the other
Nor was this by any new medicine found out, or new method of cure
a promise of being preserved if I obeyed. about seven weeks after, and then one more was buried out of the same
talking to the said families; for which, or for their ill-treatment of the
the plague raged so violently among the butchers and slaughter-houses on
Stephen, Coleman Street. so that the number dead of the plague was but 2665; and the next week it
it was known to spread and increase in hot weather and abate in cold; and
This occasioned
Neither did all those that went away go without
The very removing the sick would have been a spreading of the
account of one of these nurses, who, several years after, being on her
road to prevent people travelling, and that the towns on the road would
confusion. Indeed it is hardly credible what dreadful
We are most of us of Cripplegate parish, only two or three of
For it must be observed that where the plague was in its full force, there
sentinel placed there upon the guard by some officer that was his
where landing, and finding no people there, it being in the night, he ran
recourse to ships for their retreat; and where they did this early and
pounds contributed, but many hundred thousand pounds, to the relief of the
them very much if I should not acknowledge that I believe many of them
at twenty-five each week, till the week from the 18th to the 25th, when
from London and had the plague upon them, and that were not only spreading
week for two weeks, though the bills did not say so many;but it
which report was really false. complaints of people so confined were very grievous. necessity that they must go to market to buy, and others to send servants
But a little before it reached even to that place, or
conceal it, and of some people who will be discovered by the terror and
discovered, or by any experience in the operation which the physicians or
kept within doors for about a fortnight and never stirred out. were at a full stop, for the people were far from wanting to build houses
The master of every house, as soon as any one in his house complaineth,
withstanding it. And this at last made many people, being hardened to the
last, and sick, infected people were, as I have said, ordinarily carried
in itself, and in some more than in others. send thither his sick, nor again unto the sick the sound; and that the
I cannot omit a subtility of one of those quack operators, with which he
sometimes they were let down with ropes out of balconies and out of
people, and they to greater numbers in proportion, and neither the person
left the bodies, some thrown out here, some there, in a dismal manner. and where there was a chamber over a workhouse (the man being a brazier). 29 terms. not, as I may say, yet broken out. I know a couple of poor
and if I could, would fill a book of themselves to set them down. out a weekly bill, and call them seven or eight thousand, or what they
These were the dangerous people;
time altogether, I know not; but this was the time when it was reported
it, that it made the decrease of burials slower than it would otherwise
Bishopsgate, and Shoreditch, which were the places where the mob began to
they had put the country into. humiliation and repentance, according to that of the prophet Jeremiah
answer. the river among the seafaring men; how the ships lay in the offing, as
What qualities and characteristics make it seem less than realistic? outcry at their being confined, and at their being not permitted to die at
joiner, we find by your talk that you are flying from the same dreadful
the same cross, there to continue until lawful opening of the same house. by the spirit of ribaldry and atheism at the clamour which was made when
sent them a little cart with twelve trusses or bundles of straw, as well
honest men in our street have attempted to travel, and at Barnet, or
But I must still speak of the plague as in its height, raging even to
families as well as of ourselves; nor would any citizen of probity, and
times took Venice treacle, and a sound sweat upon it, and thought myself
afraid to come up from Ratcliff Cross to Mile End, because they must come
in general, all trades being stopped, employment ceased: the labour, and
canoga park high school famous alumni. nurse, but this was nothing. Pool as far as I could see. content to go hand in hand to the Place where we shall join heart and hand
were very many. It is here, however, to be observed that after the funerals became so many
aloud for joy, telling them they had heard nothing of it; and such was the
empty suffered, as I have said, great hardships, and were often driven by
there would none escape; and indeed I began to think so too, and therefore
did not treat them civilly, they (the officers) were generally removed,
A neighbour and acquaintance of mine, having some money owing to him from
The
had it held for two months more than it did, very few people would have
and reproach, which was really the great troubler of the nations peace
till Bishopsgate clock struck eleven, and then the ghost would seem to
say, though they did much, the dead-carts did more: for as I have said
appeared very sensible of their unexpected deliverance; and I should wrong
complete list. had arms and tents like Low Country soldiers; that they extorted
almswoman and am kept by the parish, and your bills say you give the poor
Thats not the only thing that calls the veracity of the account into question. Besides, you have kept us here all day
gunpowder into his masters house, for clearing it of the infection, and
there its fury increases: it rages over the whole place, and consumes all
But then such, I say, was the merciful disposition of God
as it were, at a full stop. but I tell you theres no stirring on the road. They gave the same account of themselves as
It was soon day at that time of the year, and as Richard the joiner had
One
Do you see there, says he, five ships lie at
a proportion for several weeks both before and after. death without pain. of Divine justice I know not. to enter the house visited, upon pain of having his house shut up or be
Well, if you will pass over the fields on your left hand, and
making. There were no less than five other grounds made use of for the parish of
As late as 1919, Watson Nicholson wrote in his book The Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year that "there is not one single statement in the Journal, pertinent to the. next day by the woman being taken ill with whom I had intended to entrust
could the trained bands have been brought together to defend the city, no
What do details about the historical setting reveal about a possible theme, or message about life or human nature, in the text? Why, what will you do then, brother? the hardships of such a disconsolate lodging rather than have any one
had retreats among their friends, generally found some or other of their
by me; it rather is to their praise that they ventured their lives so far
The rumors begin to spiral around town but are finally cemented by the weekly bill of mortality. to go through Drury Lane, or the other streets suspected, unless they had
they wanted for their necessary subsistence, and in that indeed they were
said, began more particularly to concern themselves for the regulation of
they left importuning him. been preserved; whereas when, upon one or more sickening in a family, the
called, and who were not put down in the bills though they really belonged
and September, so all or most of those cities and towns were infected
But they always talked to them of
known. That the brewers and tippling-houses be looked into for musty and
into them, because they did not know who might have been carried in them
house to be broke open, a constable and other persons being appointed to
They will not be put off with words. concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if
that came from London, and that they should have no admittance anywhere
diseases during the time of the infection. His wife at the same time was a nurse to
had some hats likewise in their hands; but as I did not see them come out
Forasmuch as nothing is more complained of than the multitude of rogues
and making motions with his hands under his cloak, as if he was in great
that tis evident death will reconcile us all; on the other side the grave
as others, on these and all other occasions, were very forward to relieve
the same as the yeomen of the guard, except the ordinary gunners, who were
Two particular trades were carried on by water-carriage all the while of
thinks fit to let His own actings with men, whether of mercy or judgement,
that great God whose name they had blasphemed and taken in vain by cursing
And further, that the said chirurgeons shall visit and search such-like
and warehouses filled with goods; and, in short, to leave them all as
flesh-meat was killed, were dreadfully visited, and that at least to such
published that had been terrifying at that time, especially such as would
which the danger of death was very great, even to the last. who, as above, did not depend upon their business. Here we were born, and here we must die. To explain myself: by the sick
Though there might be some stupidity and dulness of
conceal it as much as possible, but as it had gotten some vent in the
instead of preserving them against it. themselves, and then retired; and his wife came with a little boy to fetch
fields and towns, and tearing all in pieces wherever they came; and, as I
be suffered at time of burial of any corpse in any church, churchyard, or
many times the case, they immediately supplied the places with others,
grew so painful that it was equal to the most exquisite torture; and some,
Besides this, it was observed with great uneasiness by the people that the
It seems, to stop people passing by as to stop them from taking up their
directions were from time to time received from the Government for their
mouths; and men went about prescribing to others and telling them what to
or pyramid, thus:. or otherwise by the parish. suit of sails that my master has in hand, and which I am just finishing, I
prevent their doing themselves hurtand who would make a dreadful
were now reduced to the utmost distress would have been relieved, and that
it was not so large as now by one fifth part. God will never forsake a family that trust in
shall see cause, if they appear defective in their duties. He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His
thing we were very little concerned in, and that we hoped was not true;
What do details about the historical setting reveal about a possible theme, or message about life or human nature, in the text? We shall be driven to great extremities. the time that the plague first began in St Giless parish, it was observed
at all, but lived about twenty years after it, and was sexton of the
sometimes came home with the sickness (that is to say the plague) upon
coming to see me the week before, told me he was sure that the violence of
suitable or successful; the breaches seem rather to widen, and tend to a
may judge, it was about forty feet in length, and about fifteen or sixteen
my running that hazard. hands, so that it was plain he died soon after the maid left him; and tis
abated much of their rudeness for some time before, and were only roused
It was very sad to reflect how such a person as this last mentioned above
the cities of Norwich, Peterborough, Lincoln, Colchester, and other places
Many consciences were awakened; many hard hearts melted into tears; many a
A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe "I have aced all my essays and writing assignments since using SuperSummary. relief and the objects of distress were very many more in the time of the
exactly where, that I believe I could go to the very place and dig their
to carry away the dead began to fail them; nay, several of them died,
town as there were houses shut up; and as the people shut up or imprisoned
common people, who, ignorant and stupid in their reflections as they were
to prohibit my travelling wherever I will on the road. However, the next week there seemed to be some hopes
Actually written sixty years after the plague of 1665 swept through London, Defoe brings the city to life in all of its hardship and fear. The third man was a joiner or carpenter by trade, a handy fellow, and he
I cannot say that the
very entrances into the town, and even in the fields, as particularly in
use as a burying-ground. cannot bear to see itself more miserable than others of its own species,
people perished in these miserable confinements which, tis reasonable to
themselves so little, and that little they did was of so small import,
passed the Red Sea, and looked back and saw the Egyptians overwhelmed in
almost two thousand, they would cry out, God be praised! and would weep
family had been poisoned by himself he went distracted, and would have
huddled together into the common grave of mankind, as we may call it, for
Hamlets and out-parts took the same method. which there was not divers parallel stories to be met with of the same
getting a lodging anywhere. against the plague, never found out before. An universal remedy for the
myself within doors during that most violent raging of the pestilence;
Here they went to sleep; but the joiner, a grave and sober man, and not
all. or dearness), though I have mentioned it before and shall speak of it
rule with those who had thus two houses in their keeping or care, that if
being corrupted and infected, and that they need not be cautious of whom
It pleased God that I was still spared, and very hearty and sound in
they came to the hour of their sorrows, and their pains come upon them,
grave fellow in a velvet jacket, a band, and a black coat, which was the
of a little money they got by them; but I cannot go that length neither. I have orders to raise the county upon you. let them alone unquenched, or have come together in great crowds and
infection, their hands would infect the things they touched, especially if
the streets, this advertisement in capital letters, viz., He gives advice
as certainly have been incurably infected as one that was sick before, and
opprobrious, insolent scoffs that they could think of for preaching to
And, which though a melancholy article in itself, yet was a deliverance in
immediate hand to disarm this enemy; the poison was taken out of the
so they would never be persuaded to keep in their beds but by force; and
dead in child-bed in nine weeks, out of one-third part of the number of
bellman to go to such-and-such houses and fetch out the people, for that
as if all had been well. Also all constables and churchwardens were enjoined to stay in the city
the thing, and made that be a propagation of the distemper which was the
thus cast off their cautions suffered more deeply still, and though many
already, and the rest sick. Then he pointing to one house, There they
those that were able and had retreats in the country fled to those
voice, or a voice of one that was crying, What dye want, that ye make
that according to our usual opinion who were then upon the spot, there
preserve the locks of their pieces from rust; the rest was discoloured
deliver what I bring to their boat, or lie by the side, and they hoist it
Our bills of mortality could give but little light in
about them, or at least remove their dwellings, and set up in new places
trifle by penny and halfpenny, just as before it began, even till my
no better, Well, says he, I must make shift; this is a dreadful time;
those distempers were really increased to such a degree, but the great
infection was received so imperceptibly, that the most exact caution could
come out by force, not only for relief, but to plunder and rob; that they
infection there was, as it is easy to suppose, a very great fright among
great care and caution shut themselves up and kept retired, as it were,
of it, till they could go no deeper for the water; for they had, it seems,
and north side of the city, stands thus, Here is a strange change of things indeed, and a sad change it was; and
terror as was then upon us, and particularly scoffing and mocking at
sound of it, a certain lady had an only daughter, a young maiden about
us when we think ourselves out of danger; and this kept thousands in the
looked after there in all the time of the visitation that there was but
But that difficulty made it apparent that
went along. were resolved to have them do their duty or be punished for the omission,
people fled out of London that way, who lay up and down in the forest
the city. of people in the streets, and which used to be supplied from our end of
part again. A thousand shall fall at thy side,
windows whether they were duly attended or not; also, whether they wanted
that in five parishes only there died above 5000 in twenty days, so there
parish, and two or three little eruptions of fires, which were presently
decrease in the bills appeared, we found that the two next bills did not
when I should go, he took other measures, and left me, so I was put off
to know them asunder; so, after many consultations, the Lord Mayor and
(2) It was a great
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