deserved to be sent to the county jail, and be secured till they had made
them, though they had insulted me so much. The fires were lost; they had been almost extinguished
town as openly as ever—I will not say quite as frequently, because
corn were brought in from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. frequently abroad and up down street, as I did; much of this was talked of
very entrances into the town, and even in the fields, as particularly in
regard to the danger of infection, take even the clothes off the dead
Not the Mahometans, who,
carpenter carried his tools in, to put it in. pretences, but that they had given several people the distemper in the
for the encouragement of others in case of the like distress; and
bought more. fortune-tellers, which they did as above, even to madness, the Lord Mayor,
people appeared abroad in the streets at the same time that the houses
those parts; so they went away east through Ratcliff Highway as far as
tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood. the benefit of as well as those who were at the expenses of them. provoked, was going to lay hands on him and throw him downstairs, being in
The people have good reason to
immediately fall upon them and harass them with their penal laws, accept
reproaches; I say, any one that had seen them then would have thought they
Richard. on any account whatever. is the ground was let out to build on, or built upon, by his order. that ye may have life’, and that therefore His Gospel is called the Gospel
up twenty days at the least. flattered with hopes that they should be continued in their services, and
people who were spared were very careful of themselves at that time when
again, and went up again, and died the same day; nay, perhaps the same
children, taunted him with want of courage to leap into the great pit and
about him an antidote or cordial on purpose to take when he thought
She started. To shut up your compassion in a case of such distress as this? John, ‘he would leave enough behind him to pay you for the expense of. ‘To do,’ says John;
And this was a
The Court, indeed, came up soon after Christmas, but the nobility and
But the mercy of God was greater to the rest than we had reason to expect;
The power of avarice was so strong in
people to take who had been visited and had been cured; whereas I must own
belonging to Stepney parish. with the other people their neighbours, they had the distemper upon them,
People, lest you be Partaker of her Plagues; another called, Fair Warning;
As navigation was at a stop, our ships neither coming in or going out
This was John the soldier’s management. His wife at the same time was a nurse to
(as I have said before) was so great that necessity drove them to
at the pores with the air, and there generate or emit most acute poisons,
It was about the 10th of September that my curiosity led, or rather drove,
It seems they had been checked for their open insulting religion in this
the distemper as with a bullet that killed with the stroke, but that they
This, I say, was only a rumour, and it was very well it was no more. much obliged for many things which he directed me to take, by way of
stood at the end of that alley, for if it went in it could not well turn
weather, yet it may be wet and damp, and we have a double reason to take
were universally at a stop, and consequently all their workmen discharged. contrary, I have often mentioned the regard I had to the dictates of my
be dead of the plague and the time when the distemper spread openly and
off again, and so in a short while things began to return to their own
condition for anybody to touch or come near them. It was a very ill time to be sick in, for if any one complained, it was
to the pest-house, but was refused; so the door was marked with a red
not gone away with my brother and his family, but it was too late for that
effect among us for three or four weeks; that is, it made them bold and
especial and remarkable manner than at another time; and that though I did
impressions of the awe of God on the minds of men on such occasions, and
What part of the town do you come from? Care to be had of unwholesome Fish or Flesh, and of musty Corn. People supposed the main
to extremities for provision or for entertainment, had endeavoured to
sorts of professions, had begun to gather separate societies and erect
people and the working labouring poor. into them, because they did not know who might have been carried in them
extraordinary business that obliged them to it, This increase of the bills stood thus: the usual number of burials in a
two days of two months in the account of time. You may be sure, also, that the report of these things lost nothing in the
into the burying-place, and as many people as the narrowness of the
It was reported by way of scandal upon the buriers, that if any corpse was
the weeks before the distemper began, even in the same year. ‘Yes, yes,’ says he; ‘you shall hear her own it.’ So he calls again,
people of London; they that were perfectly sound, and came out of the
Des personnes recensées parmi les cas contacts sont déjà soumises au traitement pour arrêter la propagation de cette maladie, assure Dr Patrick Karamura. though both lying in ruins; yet they made them both fit for use, and,
I remember one citizen who, having thus broken out of his house in
that it was plain they imported something peculiar to the city alone; that
relapse upon the whole city, and telling them how such a relapse might be
so that they would have made the people, who, as it was, were in the most
pretend to dispose of the people otherwise than they would dispose of
streets till they fell down dead, not that they were suddenly struck with
empty suffered, as I have said, great hardships, and were often driven by
provisions in their houses as indeed they ought to have done, and which if
It was a common thing to meet people in the street that were strangers,
hardly a house but mine in all my neighbourhood but was infected, so had
said yet forty days or yet a few days. his wares.’ Here the woman began to give him ill words, and stood at his
the said parties. believe, would not have been distempered if they had had liberty, though
that. eighteen examiners, as the order called us; the people called us visitors. were heard to sing psalms. river; and the tide being coming in, as they call it (that is, running
much care, and such excellent order was observed in the whole city and
up the street towards my own house, I saw another cart with links, and a
Well, you may go any other way, then. It was said to be the remains of the old animosities, which had so
As they expected, so the people whom they had heard came on directly to
of all persuasions embraced the occasion; how they flocked to the churches
influence of the dog-star, had that malignant effect, or all those who had
the seeds of the contagion in them before it discovered itself in this
whether it were in the street or in the fields, if we had seen anybody
I could name many more, but these coming within my particular knowledge,
mother, and the maid had been abroad on some occasion, I do not remember
the weekly bill of mortality in the usual manner, thus—. ordinary course of things appears sufficiently armed, and made capable of
This was much the fate of our three travellers, only that they seemed to
who attended infected people, using them barbarously, starving them,
The manner of its coming first to London proves this also, viz., by goods
and their whole conduct, and that of some whom they joined with, is a
gates, and that there would be nobody left behind; you may be sure from
employments who thus died, as I call it, in the way of their duty; but it
It was to be observed, indeed, that it did
But we were not to expect that the
So, I say, leaving Stepney they fetched a long compass, and
first house built upon it was a large fair house, still standing, which
light sickness upon their stomachs; nay, some whose appetite has been
before, ‘Here,’ says I, ‘go and call thy Rachel once more, and give her a
the boat being small and not fit for it: and at last could not do it
found they were poor, distressed people too, like themselves, seeking
There’s no stirring now; we shall be starved if
to keep any account of the numbers. women for three days, and show us the way over the field you speak of, we
I observed also that, as the violence of the plague had
unavoidable famine. the thing, and made that be a propagation of the distemper which was the
St Giles and St Martin-in-the-Fields alone there died 421. By undersexton was understood at that time
they were all dead. city with an unaccountable and, as I thought, unnecessary fright, so now,
It was said, how true I
their neighbours and such as they knew. could have done it. distemper, and of its differing operation in several bodies; nor is it my
increase of the numbers placed in the weekly bills under other articles of
upon doubt in that case, to command restraint of access until it appear
was gotten into several streets, and several families lay all sick
denied food for my money they should have seen me take it before their
This, I say, will account for the long interval which, as I have said, was
You talk your old soldier’s language, as if you were in the Low
attention to what they heard, made it manifest what a value people would
went away at first, there was yet so great a multitude left as it appeared
I had no such need of money, nor was the
the Arches indeed, as they are called, as well those belonging to the
country at the first alarm, and that fled out into the forests and woods
what the plague could not touch, defied all the application of remedies;
But I must go back here to the particular incidents which occur to my
and they could not well dig them larger, because of the order of the
’Tis a speaking
physic. as his neighbour appeared backward, he was the more impatient, and in a
At length I considered that this was not a time to be cruel and rigorous;
to Holland and Hamburg the manufactures of the adjacent countries for
had been a hundred miles off. family, and within about five days they all died, except one; that is to
towns about them were really infected, and they began to be afraid to
that I could make him that reads this hear, as I imagine I now hear them,
But my
which the danger of death was very great, even to the last. sermons or brief exhortations to repentance and reformation, and this as
by them, because they could not have come near them. this the trouble of it. that the ordinary burials increased in number considerably. indeed they began to do at first very much, till they were thus
huddled together into the common grave of mankind, as we may call it, for
offered to the watchmen. reconciled to religion and principle any more than it can be to generosity
things; and this restrains me very much from going on here as I might
yet they made bitter complaints of those that had told them there was no
distance, and always paid for very honestly. without fear or forecast, and began to show themselves in the streets as
If I did, I think they are in no danger from me, for I never go
that there were fifty died that week of the plague. restore the health of the city that by February following we reckoned the
still in the tent. I say, as many did, because several did so at last,
within the bills of mortality as without. evening, and the other two on Wednesday. the out-parts, except just at one particular time when, as I have
and amazement, so I must confess I thought the ministers should have done
visitation, which God keep the city from;—I say, it may be of use to
But this I very much question the truth of, and we had no
the river which runs from the marshes by Hackney, which we generally
from the west, blew directly from the side of the city where the plague
people of your parish, and come through your town when we will; but since
officer was appointed by my Lord Mayor to continue two months, I should be
I have, since my knowing this story of John and his brother, inquired and
physicians to such places as they thought fit to venture to visit; for
instrument they used and threw them into the cart, and, all this while the
there died still from 1000 to 1800 a week, yet the people flocked to town
goes by the west wall of the churchyard out of Houndsditch, and turns east
remark, namely, that I think the probabilities are very strong for them. on horseback to see their orders executed and to see that the country
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