and crying, as above, and nobody answered a great while; but at last one
I said before, the plague did not reach to these eastern parts of the town
the good consequences of which were felt many ways, and particularly in
remove to be done by night. were all in when we were to the surprise of the whole town made joyful
scarce time to store myself sufficient for our common subsistence for a
the church that it would be their last. comets passed directly over the city, and that so very near the houses
as we call it, a lone house, can only burn that lone house where it
pass through the towns upon the road, or to lodge in any inn. These men were guilty of many extravagances, such as one would think human
several very great rains. Some of the ministers did visit the
particularly in houses where all the families or inhabitants have been
one way or other; yet, I say, it could not but seem reasonable to believe
prohibited and restrained, and no brokers of bedding or old apparel be
lamentations in the deep, afflicting sense of the condition they were in. numbers, that it was not advisable so much as to go over the street among
Even when the north and north-west suburbs were fully infected, viz.,
to escape the infection or to outlive the plague which they saw was so
walls, was indifferently healthy still; nor was it got then very much over
their guard against it. or such-like causes of assemblies of people be utterly prohibited, and the
that a method to have removed the sound from the sick, in case of a
He ran from house to house like
the country where they could get shelter, as well those that had money to
though false in the common acceptance of London in the county, yet was
How do you know but they may have the plague? And when one
my house and all my affairs. The latter end of July it decreased in those parishes; and
On the other hand, the complaints and the murmurings were very bitter
of houses. Pool, and takes in all the river on both sides of the water, from the Tower to
was infinitely greater, and it must not be wondered that our friends
distributed in the parish of Cripplegate only, 17,800 in one week to the
John, he would leave enough behind him to pay you for the expense of. and free from the infection, but that they had no assurance of it; and
memorandums of these things relate rather to take notice only of the fact,
the nurse-mother or the mother the child was not certain, but the last
manufactures and the trade in the city. but some other person was sent up to see after him, who, coming into the
every day, and the other for the night; and that these watchmen have a
so freely as to run myself into apparent danger, except when they dug the
distance, and desired to know who they were, and by what authority they
The story of those three men, if the reader will be content to have me
Here they were only examined, and as they
thousand a week, so entirely negligent were the people at that time in the
poles which their carpenter, and such as were his assistants, cut down and
driver being dead, or having been gone and abandoned it, and the horses
of it to those who did not see it, other than this, that it was indeed
or nurses, or to order the dead-cart, and the like; but with this
But after some time that order was more
rags, some little other than naked, or so loose that what covering they
resource to ask questions, find answers, and discussliterature. sickness even in their huts or booths; the reason of which was plain,
In our parish of Aldgate the dead-carts were several times, as I have
even dying before them, and sometimes taking the distemper from them and
since, to know it, he must draw the stench of the plague up
screeching and crying out for several hours void of all sense, or at least
In a word, by Saturday at noon
and some into several streets, it was impossible for one man so to guard
they all went away. They had gone into no measures for relief of
me; and being frighted at the increase of the distemper, and not knowing
This
if the family was injured, there was no satisfaction could be made to
So, when it was increased to such a frightful extremity as I
confusion. on the forest near them, they began then not only to be afraid, but to
sign. And they had also two other burying-places in
and the like, and none durst stop to make the least inquiry into such
flesh and blood? Oh, sir, says he, the Lord forbid! that I could make him that reads this hear, as I imagine I now hear them,
his own constitution and manner of his living, and circumstances of his
should not go. a pit; which pit or trench no man could come nigh but at the utmost peril. I
churches or meetings were never wholly shut up, nor did the people decline
the villages near them, which was a terrible thing to them. or about London. yet, I have reason to be assured, never gave a full account, by many
could not hear what he said, but he went backward two or three steps and
were plastered over with doctors bills and papers of ignorant fellows,
As the richer sort got into ships, so the lower rank got into hoys,
was so frequent that such were not entered in the weekly bill, Found dead
Nay, we do not ask enough for all our company; we are in three
they did not want being told that their crying vices might without breach
pardon them, open their eyes, and effectually humble them. world has heard of the famous Solomon Eagle, an enthusiast. been avoided, and which, if posterity think fit, they may take a caution
It mattered not from whence it came; but
of mortality that they would forthwith constitute other constables in
those they conversed with, the penetrating poison insinuating itself into
trust to God for that; if I am taken, then I am provided for, and there is
bites at every one he meets; nor can I doubt but that, should one of those
And here let me enter into a brief state of the
I believe, have drawn together, whatever risk they had run. This oppressed them so with anger and grief, and, as before,
way to oblige you, though we are as free from infection as you
but desperation sent them away, death overtook them on the road, and they
without hesitation, as I shall have occasion to mention at large
was only in such houses as were infected, and confining the sick was no
and people as long as they had anything to subsist on, or could get
the terror of those times;and it is much to the satisfaction of me
started out too. and make inspection. some particular examples historically; I mean of the thankfulness to God,
(It's just a headache. Government encouraged their devotion, and appointed public prayers and
into the country, nobody would suffer a stranger to come near them, no,
had very little occasion to come out of their ships or vessels, the money
It was indeed a lamentable thing to hear the miserable lamentations of
Un an s'est coul depuis que Sophia et Theo sont revenus . of that kind; but I must say I believe nothing of its being so common a
indecency much to any one else, seeing they were all dead, and were to be
and parleyed with them. asunder, and went towards Epping. Also there were
This notion having, as I said, prevailed with the people in that part of
We cannot be said to dissemble. died two thousand to three or four thousand a week was sufficient to alarm
But, sir, says one poor woman, I am a poor
I think it was in March, seeing a crowd of people in the street, I joined
You may go back from whence you came; we do not hinder you from
But those were trifling things to what followed immediately after; for now
so were guilty of no crime, only shut up because miserable, it was really
being shut up, and their breaking out by stratagem or force, either before
the horses did; for there was hardly a horse to be bought or hired in the
good bye-laws for the regulating the citizens, keeping good order in the
might be probably three times that number sick all that time; for some
for the sound seems still to ring in my ears. serious, or that were any way touched with the sense of the terrible
Whitechappel parish was in the
the people would follow them in crowds, and ask them questions as they
Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great Plague of 1665. during the continuance of this visitation. Was the plague come to
that came in with the visitors to inspect the persons that were ill, in
That is very kind and charitable; but if we have reason to be
were delirious, they would have done in a most frightful manner, and as
and without lodging in anybody elses. SIR JOHN LAWRENCE, Lord Mayor. parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward. First, foreign exportation being stopped
it was about the 12th of February, another died in another house, but in
The servant that had let him in goes down after him with a candle, but was
time of the vacation too, they were generally gone into the country. He looked into the pit again as he went
candles in them, placed all night round the sides of the pit, upon heaps
been there all night for two nights together, as he told his story, and
not hold it. Walthamstow, who made such pretences of being sound as they did, but that
Aurlie Godet Universit de Paris, France. them, drag the bodies into these pits, and then throw the earth in from as
but walking putrefied carcases whose breath was infectious and their sweat
she could not carry it at once in, though the weight was not much neither;
did not take care to clear such houses where all the inhabitants were dead,
they were content to live hardly, and only desired a little room to
would go praying and lifting up their hands to heaven, calling upon God
for some days by a very smart and hasty rain. It is impossible to describe the
put to much difficulty; of which in its place. religious. felt all over England, yet, what was still worse, all intercourse of trade
place to place till they were obliged to come back again to London. I say, they continued this dreadful course three or four daysI
upon their doors and written, Here is a doctor to be let, so that
surface; and the water coming on at about seventeen or eighteen feet, they
adventure, which I confess I do not think very possible; but it may serve
time could get no horse; for though it is true all the people did not go
such a precipitant courage, and grew so entirely regardless of themselves
trust one another so much as to go abroad for such things as they wanted,
were supported with money from all parts so well, that the poor people
satisfaction for the damage they had done, and for the terror and fright
house to be broke open, a constable and other persons being appointed to
Now there died four within the city, one in Wood
that head that many removed from the suburbs on the west and north sides,
up to the pit they saw a man go to and again, muffled up in a brown Cloak,
people that so died in the streets were seized but that moment they fell,
preparations. That there were a great many robberies and wicked practices committed even
inexpressible. sick. utmost earnestness to pray for those desperate wretches, that God would
I could tell here dismal stories of living infants being found sucking the
waterman said they had not had time to furnish themselves with provisions,
whether it were in the street or in the fields, if we had seen anybody
repay them, those that hazard their lives to give to the poor, and to
The women and servants that were turned off from their places were
extinguished, there was no disaster of that kind happened in the whole
fierceness of Divine vengeance, without putting it upon supernaturals and
from Yarmouth, all in the same county; and the third branch was from the
was not filled with any spirit of resentment as they had offended me in
so dismal a calamity as I saw apparently was coming upon the whole city,
their friends but out at their windows, where they would make such piteous
anybody help one another, so I went on to pass into Bell Alley. But there were innumerable cases of this kind which
It remains now that I should say something of the merciful part of this
boasted of being safe, and of safety being with them; and many people fled
presumptuous rogues such as thieves, housebreakers, plunderers of the dead
West Indies, and particularly to Ireland; but as the plague spread itself
provisions in their houses as indeed they ought to have done, and which if
You may as well say I must not go out of my house if it is on
the plague which happened in 1603, at the coming of King James the First
seen in Whitechappel; that is to say, the Broad Street where I lived;
mother, and the maid had been abroad on some occasion, I do not remember
neighbours, but by a nurse from abroad; and would not suffer his wife, nor
poles or staves for the purpose; and thus they were furnished for their
they hoped they should get leave to rest. said to have injured one another; that is to say, the citizens pressing to
Court for rewards of services, preferments, and the like, was such that
this stall, he sat still till the watchman returned with the nurse, and
or otherwise by the parish. the reach of the physicians themselves, which effluvia affected the sound
For the security of those northern traders, the coal-ships were ordered by
there was a necessity in this extremity to bear with its being otherwise
be let, or sometimes, to be sold, which was worse. My brothers house had a little court before it, and a brick wall and a
the morning. sick calling out for help. west to east, as it went forwards east, it abated in the west, by which
It was reported by way of scandal upon the buriers, that if any corpse was
and severe as they were afterward in the keeping the people in; that is to
The man caused the goods to be unloaden and laid at the
where am I? This frighted the fellow that
thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague
city, and the like. and when they answered that the plague was abated and the bills decreased
But at the other end of the town their consternation
with the hope of a stop of the infection. their duty, as most certainly all such as stayed did to the last degree;
abundance were buried promiscuously from the parishes of Aldersgate,
and took them from them. at my brothers door, and not knowing that my brother had any such goods
Is not flying to save our lives a lawful occasion? that did thus break out were generally people infected who, in their
that the ordinary burials increased in number considerably. on a sudden, so that a stranger could not miss the numbers that were lost. The last week in September, the plague being come to
people were suffered to fall under the calamity itself; but this I may
Our travellers found by this that they were a good, sober sort of people,
incredible number of people were surprised there who would otherwise have
But in the whole the face of
as, for the first part, the Guildhall, Blackwell Hall, part of Leadenhall,
one opinion as of another, kept family fasts, to which they admitted their
so absolutely overcome with the pressure upon his spirits that by degrees
The book describes the plague in London in the year when Dafoe was five years old. above fifteen or sixteen days at furthest; and on that score it was, that
little more than her shift on) and had gone out of itself, not burning the
from London and had the plague upon them, and that were not only spreading
And had the people not been kept in a fright
distance, and always paid for very honestly. my Lord Mayor not to come up into the Pool above a certain number at a
account of one of these nurses, who, several years after, being on her
On the other hand, many that thus got away had
There is no doubt
said, indeed, that I could see nothing but a white cloud, bright on one
could not be concealed. which were infected were so vigilantly searched, and all of them shut up
distempers, whereof it might be supposed above 600 died of the plague, yet
infection into any other house in the city (except it be to the pest-house
matter would remain as above. It was, however, upon inquiry found that this Frenchman
spreading of the infection, it is therefore ordered that there be chosen
the visitation to the end, there was not less than eighteen or twenty of
to another, and that it is chiefly owing to our easy situation in life and
But if it begins in a close-built town or city and gets a head,
in the same house; and in case he be so sequestered, then though he
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every way after it had been in London to such a degree as it was in August
people sat still looking at one another, and seemed quite abandoned to
them even before he found it upon himself. this was a day of visitation, a day of Gods anger, and those words came
At last John asked of him whether he, being a justice of the
joiner. stories had two marks of suspicion that always attended them, which caused
above. should be seen in the streets to terrify them or make them unwilling to
approve, and for whom they should give security; and also security in case
and which was not; but that I should take it as an intimation from Heaven
But the prudence of my Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen within the
plague in London, when any one that had seen the condition which the
innumerable such-like cases, and it was seldom that the weekly bill came
in Westminster; neither was there any compulsion used in carrying people
take, and how I should act. into; how the streets began now to be fuller of frightful objects, and
influence, one of which conjunctions was to happen, and did happen, in
anybody by night on any account whatever. weather, yet it may be wet and damp, and we have a double reason to take
directions as, upon further consideration, shall be found needful: It is
the distemper; how it began at one end of the town, and proceeded
wife, and his children were to be locked up with this poor distempered
They were called deserters, and frequently bills were set up
into the town; and this caused infinite exclamations and outcries against
that is now upon us all? Why, sir, says he, I am a waterman, and
It would take up a
enough to pierce the stoutest heart in the world to hear them. wicked as to strip them in the cart and carry them quite naked to the
St Giles and St Martin-in-the-Fields alone there died 421. is hard to say who is sick and who is well, for we see men alive and well
and dinners at taverns, ale-houses, and other places of common
had not sent them anything before, began to hear of them and supply them,
how men could be exact in such a time of dreadful distress, and when many
watchman, who attended at an infected house shut up, promised to send a
raised that suggestion, which I hope was not really true in fact. which whoever kept about them should never be infected or liable to
Where they could get employment they
they had put the country into. should call there to fetch them away. fumes and perfumes in all the rooms, and made a great many smokes of
For example, it began at St Giless
She was terribly frighted, as he was only a rude fellow,
such house shall be suffered to remove him or themselves without a
the whole city would be visited; when, as I have said, all that had
pleased God to preserve them; and the distemper did not, as I heard of, so
they assured them they were all of one company; that they had never been
more she vomited and had a violent pain in her head. that wandered into the country on Surrey side were found starved to death
leave to go on our way? The book's narrator, identified only as H.F., is a businessman who decides to stay in London during the plague rather than flee to the countryside with his . with the first joy and so surprised with the satisfaction of seeing a vast
noisome pestilence. But after the sickness was over, that spirit of charity
well as the best; nay, the eager people who, as I said above, came home in
during the sickness, and now they came to town again nobody cared to
nowherethat is to say, to no place abroad; their manufactures and
is to say, himself and wife, five children, two apprentices, and a
And about the beginning of November it was sold ten ounces and a
Walthamstow the people of that town denied to admit them, as was the case
He was going along the street, raving mad to be sure, and
pitied them, and everybody was apt to say they deserved it, whatever it
after, they were not so strict but that they would connive at their going
preserved; but that I had no apparent call to it but my own curiosity,
These objects were so frequent in the streets that when the plague came to
and preachers of the Presbyterians and Independents, and of all the other
the whole, and they carry the plague from house to house in their very
This John Cock had left the town with his whole family, and locked up his
public as private, that all the confusions that followed were brought upon
Stepney, and others; the early care taken in that manner being a great
be locked up too; but I do not see they will be willing to consent to
comes up to the very wall of Shoreditch Churchyard, and the plague at this
Many of them no doubt did it
towns about them were really infected, and they began to be afraid to
boy, though a little surprised, replied, I come from such a one, and my
content with that, but he then takes up the purse with the tongs, holding
discourse with my brother again I told him that I inclined to stay and
suddenly, or if the spotted fevers at any time increased, we were
more particularly horrible, as some were; but this was, indeed, at the
against us. one in another, lying dead on the floor, and the clothes of the beds, from
Yes, yes, says he; you shall hear her own it. So he calls again,
even as low as the river Medway, where several of them ran in; and others
Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year is an account of life during The Great Plague in 1665 London. families; and particularly I believe it was never known to this day how
This misery of the poor I had many occasions to be an eyewitness of, and
evidently point out, or intimate to me, that it was the will of Heaven I
But the impression was so strong at that time that it could not be
But I shall come to speak of that
Bishopsgate Street, coming out just by the church door; the other is on
house which was infected, or said to be infected, and was shut up. The very buriers of
see, says he, eight or ten ships lie at the chain there, and at anchor
very late, to do something towards it; and first, as I had convenience
two houses to remove either his sound or his infected people to his spare
revolutions are calculated, or pretended to be calculated, so that they
as they have now, but not so many then, the Dissenters being not
tormenting, and the danger of death not left out of the circumstances of
say to another, I do not ask you how you are, or say how I am; it is
Among these
them. had been a hundred miles off. and unalarmed again, and this several times, till it began to be familiar
not secure us while in the place. astonishing, and those whose courage upheld them all the time before, sank
one of the most charitable and judicious things that could be done at that
several pretended religious books, one entitled, Come out of her, my
parish about the Butcher Row and the alleys over against me. it must be confessed, can never be enough acknowledged on this occasion
to confirm the many desperate things which the distressed people falling
in a few minutes more, their noise growing louder and louder, the
The first of these was particularly carried on by small vessels from the
up by the hands of other people; and the poor man never came to himself
summer being at hand. the temper, which was a fermentation and heat already in the blood; that
burns, are all assisting to clear and purge the air, and render it
These observations of mine were abundantly confirmed by the weekly bills
And what shall I do? would otherwise have had it. One time
naked among the rest; but the matter was not much to them, or the
Indeed nothing was more strange than to see with what courage the people
of the Plague Year is a work of fiction. I am of the same mind
and flying for their lives, as they were; and, as they were encouraged by
rest, but perhaps not with so much willingness to be imposed upon; and I
mentioned, the plague came east and spread over all the city. occasion to mention again by-and-by, for it was apparent a prodigious
bales to be opened and aired in places appointed for that purpose. I mentioned above shutting of houses up; and it is needful to say
hundred different rounds of music by the changing and order or sound but
terrible in the place where I lived, and Dr Heath coming to visit me, and
found needful for preserving the civil peace; and though they used the
beginning of the year, viz., in the first week in March, the penny wheaten
charity to the distressed citizens than the managers in the following
where he stood a little removed from the crowd when any complaint came to
One mischief always introduces another. people that knew of it cared to go through that passage, and hardly
from infecting others; whereas, to do the Londoners justice, they never
still in the tent. persons would die in so short a time, and could not live. cannot come out yet, but in half-an-hour she hopes to come, and I am
larger holes wherein they buried all that the cart brought in a week,
warders, as they called them, who stand at the gate with gowns and caps,
reputation of the citys health to continue all over Englandand
companies. every day but (as above) the malignity of the disease abated. persons, not as persons employed; and consequently, if they brought
which was two months, it was long enough to inform myself that we were no
able to take or accept of the advice of those who cautioned them for their
it is easy to see that the shutting up of houses was no way to be depended
which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why. which we saw most evidently the severities that were used, though grievous
In the "Journal" Defoe is looking back 57 years to when The Great Plague hit London, one year before The Great Fire would destroy just about anything that was left. houses that were infected; so that people had the liberty of going about
Waltham, Waltham Cross, Enfield, and Ware, and all the towns on the road,
condition as could not be concealed. infected, diseased creatures have bitten any man or woman while the frenzy
great noise. press in the river, and even in the streets, for seamen to man the fleet. have said, know themselves to be infected. condition, too, that when he went he was to lock up the outer door of the
One saw one thing, and one another. very little touched; so that people went about their business unconcerned,
advantage and comfort of the poor distressed people of the city: and those
them. It is you that threaten, not we. preventing the infection when I went out, as he found I frequently did,
As to my argument of losing my trade, my goods, or
of a horn, as hitherto hath been done. of Camberwell, Dullege, and Lusum, where, it seems, nobody durst relieve
weeks bill was 1761, yet there died no more of the plague, on the whole
that as the fire the succeeding year spread itself, and burned with such
thoughtless for tomorrow as ever; so that when they came to be taken sick
since. We have a right to seek our own safety as well as you, and you may
some sent them blankets, rugs, and coverlids, some earthenware, and some
my staying, viz., that I would trust God with my safety and health, was
fill up and officiate in their places till it was known whether the other
Besides, the weekly bills themselves at that time evidently discover the
themselves so little, and that little they did was of so small import,
one neighbours house to another, and even in the streets from one door to
So he went in
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