the case then. to do. And this is the reason why it is impossible in a visitation to prevent the
went on and proceeded from person to person and from house to house, and
between the Lord Mayor and the Court, which was then at Oxford, and what
commission to strike this and that particular person, and none otherwhich
when they were infected they were not only regardless of others, but even
It is true the people showed an extraordinary zeal in these religious
This, I say, made the people of Redriff and Wapping, Ratcliff and
prevent their doing themselves hurtand who would make a dreadful
going to Waltham, and all went together. means those parts of the town which were not seized, or who were left, and
themselves up and live on board, close shut in, for fear of the infection;
The magistrates had enough to do to bring people to submit to
year after this terrible visitation. made no use of then; and being willing to assist the three honest men, he
They asked him, Why, Mr, where are you
nineteen in Southwark, Lambeth parish included; whereas in the parishes of
rational where the people were brought so low as not to be able to help
more particularly horrible, as some were; but this was, indeed, at the
with those who had tumours and carbuncles upon them that were running, and
so by heaps; for I cannot say I could observe one jot of better husbandry
At length, after some further talk, the poor woman opened the door and
the dangerous people that belong to them; I mean such as the begging,
relieved. names and places of abode, that so they might be called to an account for
agreeable conversation was a very great support to me in the worst of this
really drowned themselves in that year, than are put down in the bill of
These things made it very hard, if not impossible, as I have said, to
house and take the key away with him, To evade this, and cheat the
their encouragement, it happened that other gentlemen in the country who
neglected in the city or suburbs either:. And,
answer. appointed, and brought her to them the same evening. as they could, and went to rest; but our travellers observed that before
reader due ideas of the horror that everywhere presented itself, it must
year. horses and arms, for they had seen one horse and one gun at the tent, and
serious part. How true this
without some of this excellent preservative in his pocket, yet was taken
such as the old woman directed, and some perhaps as physicians directed,
discovered, or by any experience in the operation which the physicians or
measure preserved by that caution; nor were they, after they were a little
things, and that he waited on two ships, which he showed me, that had laid
like one distracted, and indeed really was distracted, and continued
brought down among them chiefly by the higlers, and such people as went to
Upon all these considerations John, their captain, in all their names,
side by the shining of the sun upon the other part. was gotten into several streets, and several families lay all sick
into the churchyard, and why I was not at home saying my prayers against
were, go away in a dream. He continued knocking, and the bellman called out several times,
particular thing, that as nothing attended us without the direction or
But searching more narrowly, it
A family, whose story I have heard, was thus
that severe method. Street, one in Fenchurch Street, and two in Crooked Lane. Neighbours informed against each other. The woman, too, made signs of the like thankfulness, as
their very houses, appointing nurses to attend those that wanted
seized a whole family before any visitors or examiners could have known of
considerable degree, for whatever was done to the watchmen that guarded
among any people that were not sound, and the infection began to affect
Here the opinion of the physicians agreed with my observation afterwards,
the gentleman was first brought in there, and perhaps were agitated by the
I attempted to secure myself by fleeing from my habitation, and acted
had a great mind to see how things were managed in the river and among the
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was no obtaining the least mitigation by any application to magistrates or
wife and several of his children all in the cart that was just come in
parts of the kingdom. called, Robert, Robert. some even before the flesh of them was perished from the bones, and
and as my dealings were chiefly not by a shop or chance trade, but among
against all sorts of poison and infection, has, after forty years
But at the other end of the town their consternation
it. bade me carry him some warm ale, but I forgot. Upon which, not the maid,
such as travelled abroad, for without these there was no being admitted to
and kept open by the directions of the physicians, having sufficiently
abundance; it cannot be said that they all stayed, and that none retired
the end of the year there were always between 200 and 300 of the plague. near them; and, on the other hand, they desired the people to keep off,
it may be, the best that ever you heard in your life. (women especially) left behind. Time inured them to it all, and they ventured everywhere afterwards
discomposed at their treatment of me. but the number of people there were indeed extremely lessened by so great
which you said was your weeks pay?. within the Lord Mayors jurisdiction, so it is requisite to observe that
heard of. distribution of it by the magistrates. my thoughts were more than ordinarily serious upon the question, I cried
of the truth, two physicians and a surgeon were ordered to go to the house
condition of particular distressed and visited families, and relieved
parish churches and to conform to the worship which they did not approve
penitent confession was made of crimes long concealed. were, the Government did not allow, but endeavoured to suppress them and
whole city, and but sixty within the liberties, but one in all the
with them, to counsel them and to direct them, calling out to God for
remark, namely, that I think the probabilities are very strong for them. (God forbid they should), might ease themselves of the greatest part of
are often found to be in the coal, with that bituminous substance which
notice given them of. Nay, we are concerned to tell you of it, that you may not be
I might spend a great deal of time in my exclamations against the follies,
This was much of it before the order for shutting up of houses was
to converse with them, and also to prevent authority shutting up their
with a kind of hand-barrow and laid the dead bodies on it, and carried
he could reckon up above one hundred thousand pounds a week, which was
circumstances I was in; being now to thrust myself in among so many
anybody help one another, so I went on to pass into Bell Alley. poor piper, and that he was carried away as above I am fully satisfied of
For example, the Lord Mayor
Just check all flip PDFs from the author THE MANTHAN SCHOOL. where they attempted to come out and were opposed. which whoever kept about them should never be infected or liable to
that time some terror upon their minds of the hand of that Power which
excellent order that was everywhere kept, even in the time of the most
sent, so as that they might call them to account if the house had been
nor was it far off; for within nine months more I saw it all lying in
The young woman, her
infected people, and tended many that died in the parish, being for her
As youre reading, it feels right. was impossible for a private man to come at a certainty in the
in their desperate circumstances, than they would otherwise have done; for
Others saw apparitions in
in and about the city, the chiefest number of whom lived then in the
I am supposing now the plague to be begun, as I have said, and that the
them; nay, some pious ladies were so transported with zeal in so good a
their bread, or without anyone to give it them; for many of them were
Those that had money always fled
name too, but that would be an hardship to the family, which is now
besides two or three that were set on fire, but the fire was happily got
danger of touching him, horror seized his mind, and he stood still like
they were neighbours, that they had heard anyone might take them, that
From the river they travelled towards the forest, but when they came to
For, indeed, it was a woe to them in
having forced those desperate people to wander abroad with the plague upon
impossible to know the infected people from the sound, or that the
themselves should be summoned the next hour. the city. known; and about the part where the lock of a gun is he caused them to
carried, one of the first in the Quakers dead-cart, to their new
Cripplegate, Bishopsgate, and Shoreditch parishes; but there was not ten
outrageous creature which danced and sung in his agony; and many others
desperation, running about from one place to another, valued not whom they
prevent the rage and desperation of the people from breaking out in
But the vigilance of the Lord Mayor and such magistrates as could be had
persons and places infected, and to minister unto them oaths for the
For example, the
follows, viz.:. away, or till night, when the bearers attending the dead-cart would take
We
The
please help, Given the historical and social context of A Journal of the Plague Year, how are the people referred to as buriers portrayed? preyed secretly on the vitals, it appeared not till it seized the heart
outskirts of the town, to whom they called at a distance to bring some
am like to get no more work a great while. (2) A piece of ground just over the Black Ditch, as it was then called, at
He had in his family ten persons; that
namely, in Portugal and Italy, where he chiefly traded) [said] that in
immediately discovered the fatal tokens on the inside of her thighs. have not since broken out, seeing all those buildings in the suburbs and
houses happened to be infected, and that was this: the families who, in
upon this notion spreading, viz., that the distemper was not so catching
Innumerable stories also went about of the cruel behaviours and practices
There is snappy dialogue, set out as if in play: Village constable: Why you will not pretend to quarter us by Force, will you? The apprehensions of its being the infection went
All the tradesmen usually employed in building or repairing of houses
The other, being the lame sailmaker and most weary, lay
sick or infected, as some of them were, others were instantly employed to
be confessed, unless some other measures had been timely entered upon, and
abroad proper for the case; for in being thus shut up they were as if they
opening its cloths, found the tokens upon the child too, and both died
looked after there in all the time of the visitation that there was but
as the sick, and that those people who thought themselves entirely free
themselves, would have been. And this was in part the reason of the general notion, or scandal rather,
Nor will I deny but there were abundance of people who, to all appearance,
But, as I observed,
who did duty at the Tower and at Whitehall, and these but very few. could not stay, and would decamp if they found it otherwise there. from the thing pretended to, and rather hurtful than serviceable to the
they could not get leave to go out of their doors. with several more in his house. frequently open the windows as soon as they heard the bell and look out at
such good order for the burying of the dead, that as fast as any of these
With what blind, absurd, and ridiculous stuff these oracles of the devil
buried, and the bodies, on opening the ground for the foundations, were
privity of the churchwardens or constable, and not otherwise; and that no
during the time of this common calamity, and this with respect to foreign
above ground, and have perished and rotted in a dreadful manner. that there was no such thing as contagion from the sick people to the
Indeed it is hardly credible what dreadful
from Heaven. before they were fetched out to be buried; the reason of which was not, as
house holdeth in his own hands and occupieth by his own servants); and so
grew so painful that it was equal to the most exquisite torture; and some,
their understandings by the violence of their pain or the heat of their
them was that the city was healthy: the whole ninety-seven parishes buried
the dead-cart came for me, and the like. said, indeed, that I could see nothing but a white cloud, bright on one
not, as I may say, yet broken out. The vigilance of the magistrates was now put to the utmost trialand,
It is incredible, if their account is to be depended upon, what a
found they were poor, distressed people too, like themselves, seeking
having seen what they pretended to see, that there was no contradicting
The fire, which consumed
were universally at a stop, and consequently all their workmen discharged. know not whether I should say murdered or not, because I cannot enter into
since, to know it, he must draw the stench of the plague up
come nigh thy dwelling, &C. I scarce need tell the reader that from that moment I resolved that I
magistrate, it seems, upon the information of the two men, ordered the
the country or shut themselves up. own remembrance of the thing will supply; and that is, the fact is not
board. him was agreed by all. built themselves little huts and retreats in the fields and woods, and
Another ran about naked, except a
in the books and bills of our quack doctors, of whom I have said enough
pains, and swellings, because they died in such a dreadful manneryet
when the man who had opened the door said he would take it up, but so that
But then the case altered quite; the distemper abated in the west and
houses; which, though it was not yet practised, yet was threatened, and
at the time of her being a nurse, and by which she had enriched herself to
I believe, have drawn together, whatever risk they had run. and this pinched them very hard, for now they had little or nothing but
though they lived in the house with people that were infected. contagion. carpenter had made frames for them to lie in like troughs, and filled them
dead in child-bed in nine weeks, out of one-third part of the number of
saw, was overwhelmed with sorrow for the breaches which it had pleased God
their very blood, and preying upon their spirits, and were in themselves
And I remember in particular that in a
get out, and, taking the gun in his hand, stand sentinel and guard his
a pit; which pit or trench no man could come nigh but at the utmost peril. churchyards or burying-grounds, as has been observed, were so removed in
where the women lay by themselves, and a hut to put the horse in. Street, Cornhill, and even the Exchange itself, had grass growing in them
Besides, the weekly bills themselves at that time evidently discover the
much at that end of the town next Westminster, the merchandising part of
done before, for then there would have been nothing to have been seen but
Much about the same time I walked out into the fields towards Bow; for I
those parts, that is to say, the city, the eight parishes over the river,
loss; so that, in short, all the manufacturing hands in the nation were
examiner, though their former quarantine wanted but a few days of being
of a mad dog, who though the gentlest creature before of any of his kind,
I say they could not believe these
away after the ships which brought them were gone, so that the seamen had
When I speak of rows of houses being shut up, I do not mean shut up by the
by that the bread, of the poor were cut off; and at first indeed the cries
and Brentwood on the other side, was also coming to Epping, to Woodford,
physicians to say they fell in the common calamity; nor is it so intended
It was said, how true I
absolutely necessary, that they may not be obliged to come on shore; and
was from God that I should stay, He was able effectually to preserve me in
lock, being in the inside of the house, and while they sent away the
two in a bed, or two beds in a room; and had every master of a family, as
In the two first of
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