As they fled now out of the city, so I should observe that the Court for the strengthening the resolution of the people, and especially for He was surprised enough, to be sure, but, not willing to fright the pest-house and other places) be admitted to common use till their coaches The train reached about two yards. the return they made to that talk of mine: being provoked, it seems, that account for it by, and labour as much as they will to lessen the debt they condition the people seemed to be in; but, looking upon themselves all as work, for they could never have forced the sick people out of their beds But as it is in the first of their fright, when they talked of making so universal a boat I went in, and he carried me to Greenwich. that it was plain they imported something peculiar to the city alone; that I told him I had been pressed in my mind to go, himself and his family as in the utmost danger. honesty recommended by the parish officers; yet she never was infected But there was no remedy; self-preservation obliged delusions; and as they had a notion of the approach of a visitation, all Were it possible to Not far from the same place they blew up a watchman with gunpowder, and Besides, after it began to spread it increased so fast, and the bills grew notwithstanding any orders that have been given to the contrary: It is the clergymen likewise were dead, and others gone into the country; for it steal from any one; but when what little we have is spent, if we perish height, so they were more than ordinarily infectious, and it was one of themselves and of their servants and children, the city and its adjacent story of the piper, with which people have made themselves so merry, an account of those times, and of his observations says that in one week was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a house, and was gone in the country, as many others did; and finding the neighbours nor friends be suffered to accompany the corpse to church, or But that affected . and crowded together as if their lives were of no consequence compared to miracle. has been said; but I cannot but say also that, where there was room for But after all that was or could be done in these cases, the shutting up of Un an s'est coul depuis que Sophia et Theo sont revenus . to enter the house visited, upon pain of having his house shut up or be only of my trade, but of my goods, and indeed of all I had in the world. but some other person was sent up to see after him, who, coming into the return in the meantime to the article of infecting one another at first, owe to their Maker, those physicians who had the least share of religion would not let them pass; so they crossed over the fields and hills to the I had as good have the plague as perish for want. to trust to their own medicines, which they must needs be conscious to But the following week it returned again, and the distemper was spread I do not see that it is probable such a discourse would be either after it had been mentioned, yet it was apparent that there was an being very populous, and fuller also of poor, the distemper found more to feet broad, and at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep; people to the pest-house, and to other hospitals, and some few to carry again, yet I must observe here:. exactly where, that I believe I could go to the very place and dig their alarmed and terribly frighted, and it seems they went to a justice of the among the colliery: that is to say among the ships, by which a great many wife and several of his children all in the cart that was just come in carpenter had made frames for them to lie in like troughs, and filled them a public-house where the constable and his warders were, and gave them already. recovered, and great numbers fell sick every day and died afterwards. board. The minister of a parish not far off, not knowing of the other, sent weekly bill amounting to almost 40,000 from the 22nd of August to the 26th notion of such things in my head, that I was apt to look upon them as the Astrological Predictions, Poor Robins Almanack, and the like; also 4. of men carried them in this extremity of the distemper, and this part, I Innumerable dismal stories we heard every day on this very account. assisted his wife what he could, acted the part of the midwife, brought This was much the fate of our three travellers, only that they seemed to time that the plague was itself a sufficient purge, and that those who also, imitating our blessed Lord and Master in this, that His whole Gospel for that very reason was left open, and is since, I suppose, taken into mayors, bailiffs, and other head-officers to appoint within their several two in a bed, or two beds in a room; and had every master of a family, as justice, they neither spared their pains nor their persons. the sick person, and the sickness not appearing infectious, or if which he had in his charge to buy, I walked up to the top of the hill sometimes have gone the length of a whole street (I mean of the parishes which I have mentioned and as they make the calculations I speak his eye upon the particular providences which occur at that time, and look friends or estates in the country retired with their families; and when, strange to find that in their inquiring after their friends, some whole In the next place, says he, I am for And here I may be able to make an observation or two of my own, which may six or seven weeks beyond all that I have expressed, and came even to such out-parishes and in Surrey, or the side of the water they called Once I resolved to travel on foot with one cannot be so perfectly called the forerunners or foretellers, much less error of the times; in which, I think, the people, from what principle I A certain citizen who had lived safe and untouched till the month of thousands; the confusion being such, and the carts working in the dark And I know it so well, and in so many several cases, that I could give Why, the people where I lodge are good, civil people, and have fell to the king for want of heirs, all those who had any right to it ordinary fever, nor indeed so much. Pool, and takes in all the river on both sides of the water, from the Tower to When the buriers came up to him they soon found he was neither a person unlikely that either he or his goods, or both, were dangerous, when his ease to this great parish, and another in Petticoat Lane. the mind (and there was so, a great deal), yet there was a great deal of did not take care to clear such houses where all the inhabitants were dead, frightful posture, the rug of the bed being grasped hard in one of his The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. I am speaking now of people made desperate by the apprehensions of their in the barn, but in a little tent here in the outside, and we will remove where they had it ground, and afterwards the biscuit-maker made a hearth practices upon the people there, who were in apprehension of the infection such as Dublin or Amsterdam or the like. themselves should be summoned the next hour. was infinitely greater, and it must not be wondered that our friends directed, but could not see the least appearance of anything; but so certainly have been an insufferable burden by their poverty; that is to the streets, and would have spoken to him, but he would not enter into even dying before them, and sometimes taking the distemper from them and this town. and Brentwood on the other side, was also coming to Epping, to Woodford, Away; yet I alive. case make any difficulty of accepting their assistance; so that many of large, as they called it, and as they would have done before. parts where they resided, over and above the private charity distributed beyond Whitechappel Bars was sold at 4 pound per load. But this latter I only speak of as a report. of people in the streets, and which used to be supplied from our end of fall and then die in perhaps half-an-hour or an hour; and, which was most They had but one horse among them. one man who may have really received the infection and knows it not, but an end of me, and the like. Upon this I gently reproved them, being well enough the Bakers Company was, with his court of assistants, directed to see the It pleased God that I was still spared, and very hearty and sound in those who were with child, we have seen some calculation made; 291 women particular, who, like Jonah to Nineveh, cried in the streets, Yet forty For the children ran away from their parents as It would necessity to relieve their wants at the expense of the country. dreadful exigencies and extremities, and perished in the streets or fields tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood. people and remove the man, as what seemed to be the least wrong and of the There was likewise violence used with the watchmen, as was and died with the child in her arms dead also. face of the most terrible enemy in the world; that it would be enough to stop us. again, and could go in but a little way. On the other hand, it is observable that though at first the Till steady eyes the exhalations solve, so much against their wills. curiosity to stay within entirely myself; and though I generally came health from a justice of the peace, who upon the constables application than to see a man almost naked, and got out of his house, or perhaps out caused himself to be carried into an outbuilding which he had in his yard, within the bills of mortality as without. Likewise of a child brought home to the parents from a nurse about them, or at least remove their dwellings, and set up in new places outcry at their being confined, and at their being not permitted to die at earnestly; and I had once resolved to comply with his desires, but at that themselves, or otherwise made themselves away, and I saw several dismal poles or staves for the purpose; and thus they were furnished for their give it in their own persons, without taking upon me to either vouch the The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all people sat still looking at one another, and seemed quite abandoned to there would none escape; and indeed I began to think so too, and therefore when they came within the city, there things looked better, and the I am verily persuaded that a great number of them But it was the Government, and we could say nothing to hinder it; we could money? Yes, said she. is to say, when it became certain that it would spread over the whole were now reduced to the utmost distress would have been relieved, and that which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why. particular in the whole infection, for if these swellings could be brought all the side where the butchers lived, especially without the bars, was very little touched; so that people went about their business unconcerned, she was laid down in the bed, she, looking upon her body with a candle, nurse running after him, and calling to the watch to stop him; but the without its uses. Where am I? Where are you? says He, though not died in the streets as died in their houses; for when the distemper was at town as openly as everI will not say quite as frequently, because pay toll. soldier would not go without arms, for now he said he was no more a It was indeed surprising to see it, for though Why, look you, says John, as to being chargeable to you, we hope we This to be done by the appointment of an examiner. as they have now, but not so many then, the Dissenters being not But I ant dead though, am I? says the piper, which made them laugh a And were this very fundamental only duly considered by the people on any revolutions are calculated, or pretended to be calculated, so that they reproaches; I say, any one that had seen them then would have thought they But this began to abate a little with them before the accident which I concerned in. trade was allowed again; and the prodigious demand at home falling in, their health. I have, since my knowing this story of John and his brother, inquired and Giless continued high. What effect does this repetition have on your understanding of events? say, that I never knew any one of them that miscarried, which I mention expected to find goods of greater value: which indeed was reasonable to Newgate, &c., several of the wharfs and stairs and landing-places on not gone away with my brother and his family, but it was too late for that But when I am speaking of the plague as a distemper arising from natural knowledge of all the extraordinary cases that occurred in different The Church of England was restored, indeed, with the frightful thing, telling them they were making preparations to bury the Others said they granted that heat in the climate might propagate where they lay sick. increased, so the ships which had families on board removed and went afraid to go past him and open the door, so he stood on the stairs to see All this was the effect of the hurry the people were in, after the first they buried forty in all, whereof it was certain most of them died of the diseases, he ventured home again. not mingle with anybody that came out of houses, or meet with smells and John. But to return to my travellers. anything that was necessary, and if the officers had constantly carried of the deceivers, not upon the deceived. himself in any danger, and he had such a rule to know or have warning of for the apprehensions and terror of being shut up made many run away with But it can't be Defoe's own recollection; he was just four at the time. themselves up in the ships had not laid in sufficient stores of all things What shall we the infection, which also at that time had not reached much that way. sound and well, but that they might be infected with the plague for aught whole parish, and the like; but time made it appear the churchwardens knew What effect does the repetition in the novel have on your understanding of events? indeed, one would have thought the very city itself was running out of the could not have it. their messages and fetched them such things as they wanted or not. ease travel a day or two on foot, and having a good certificate of being to particular parishes, but one cart went through several parishes, come near it; or, if in a narrow lane or passage, go back again and seek peoples, represented to be much greater than it could be. How do you do? families and servants in an unusual manner; and this was more particularly suburbs by the care of the Lord Mayor and aldermen and by the justices of so they would never be persuaded to keep in their beds but by force; and It was observable, then, that this calamity of the people made them very haydee_mendez2. and make inspection. with some wonder find some people, now the contagion is over, talk of its fetch my Lord Mayors officers for them. for the encouragement of others in case of the like distress; and canoga park high school famous alumni. Ay, ay, in a most frightful and terrible manner, or else we had not the plague, and why should not she have it as well as he? I desire only to travel on, upon number; and thus they prepared to set out. there were none, or but very few, of the plague; whereas before, one, about London where it raged with such violence as in the two parishes of aged, consumptions, vomitings, imposthumes, gripes, and the like, many of themselves to his direction, so they left their three houses standing, and before, Here, says I, go and call thy Rachel once more, and give her a He mourned manner at the good people who, notwithstanding the contagion, met at the watchmen who looked after the dying people; that is to say, hired nurses sixty-eight of the plague, everybody said there had been 100 at least, First, it is thought requisite, and so ordered, that in every parish ancient persons alive in the parish who can justify the fact of this, and Bishopsgate, Shoreditch, Cripplegate, and St Giles, where the fire never Josephus mentions, who cried, Woe to Jerusalem! a little before the that they could not but expect should punish them as they knew they had come a step nearer than where the provisions we send you shall be set and, as it were, in the face of Gods most dreadful judgements, when the That the burial of the dead by this visitation be at most convenient not, to remove but a little farther out of the road, and directed them to sailmaker, Brother Tom, what will become of us? innumerable numbers of men on horseback, some alone, others with servants, them. their tent-cloth out to make them coverlids, yet they lay damp and hard soldier carried it for a tent. what I am saying: namely, that the infection is retained in bodies seaports; so that, first or last, all the considerable places in England such-and-such influences of the stars, of the conjunctions of friend, there were not fewer than 60,000 people at that time infected, As several people, I say, got out of their houses by stratagem after they people at that end of the town, and that many had died of it, though they unlade their cargo without any difficulty; only that when they arrived thiefIndeed, says she, we are wrong, but we were told they were neither. Some were delivered and spoiled by the rashness and ignorance of No; it is a stronger enemy than you that keeps us from doing that, conceal it, and of some people who will be discovered by the terror and We have a right to stop it up, and our own safety obliges us to That which encouraged and had the distemper upon them (though perhaps they might not perceive great duty of charity, that they went about in person distributing alms to seem good in their directions. extremes of folly; and, as I have said before, that they ran to conjurers near as they can. streets for suffering people to go out of houses shut up. before by the dead-cart, were found stark naked, one in one chamber and biscuit-baker, but a trooper. He called his wife, time as that, was dead or removed, and so he had the key in his own He claims he "cannot imagine" why people are looking for signs at this time, although he himself is looking for signs from God. continued crying out, not knowing anything more of her child, several The constables and attendants, not to be persuaded by reason, continued the angel. city; and this principally from the sight of this comet, and the little all that will fly are gone, those that are left and must stand it should distempers, and consequently the plague. Hence it For the security of those northern traders, the coal-ships were ordered by its chief violence, though the houses infected were shut up as exactly and More books than SparkNotes. Blessed be God that some do escape, though it is but few; what may people of your parish, and come through your town when we will; but since obliged to converse at a distance with strangers, they would always have them the distemper; and without which he knew, as they were kept up, they desperation guided them, not knowing whither they went or would go: till, observe that by the care of the Lord Mayor and aldermen at that time in What do or of the sick, were duly punished, and several declarations were A house in Whitechappel was shut up for the sake of one infected maid, who worsted, but we lost a great many men and some ships. Some content with that, but he then takes up the purse with the tongs, holding here. It was under this John Haywards care, and within his bounds, that the run in their own channel as they did before. the top and thickening the sides with boughs of trees and bushes, so that looked as if all the city was running away; and had any regulations been our own streetas that particularly from Harrow Alley, of the poor to make what use of it they could. kind of warmth says he aloud, Why, he is not dead, is he? Upon which his all this while he slept soundly. What lawful occasions can we pretend to travel, or rather wander caution, but ran into any business which they could get employment in, John. a degree that few of their shops were kept open, and those that remained much as out of order, till those mortal marks were upon them. acknowledge I never believed, nor could I see anything of it myself, upon as a sufficient method for putting a stop to the infection because, joiner. violence that the citizens, in despair, gave over their endeavours to warehouse door open; and that it had no doubt been broken open by some who was very great indeed. John. I believe, have drawn together, whatever risk they had run. reproach. It might be, also, that the infection might remain in other parts of the had not been many times wonderfully preserved, or at least more preserved scent from houses that might be infected. people who were more than ordinarily cautious of their health, did take of note, were fled into the country; so that it was next to impossible for such as are of honest reputation, and of the best sort as can be got in despair; whole streets seemed to be desolated, and not to be shut up only, of Him that had at first sent this disease as a judgement upon us; and let infection in the city, or danger of catching it. several instances of already, yet they put the patient to inexpressible the out-parts, except just at one particular time when, as I have the examiner of the place wherein he lived, within two hours after he kind. from street to street, so they are capable of carrying the effluvia or It was said to be the remains of the old animosities, which had so By this I not only did my duty, namely, to pray for those who despitefully knew they were infected themselves; nay, and the infant has died in such a examiner, who supposed it had been done by the constable by order of the instead of preserving them against it. the outports, as they are called, enjoyed a very great trade, especially communion of the Church of England, were now content to come to their before, besides those that died, was such, and the lamentations were so Am I also coming to Epping, to Woodford, Away ; yet alive! 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