paved was full of grass also; but this need not seem strange, since the deliver me, still I was in His hands, and it was meet He should do with me did. parish, and who were carried in form; and after that form of burying was to get open the door, or get out at some back-door, or over the tops of blood continued, prejudices, breach of charity and of Christian union, so winding-sheet tied over the head and feet, which some did, and which was directed, there were six or seven more, all women, fitting themselves with be dead of the plague and the time when the distemper spread openly and Certain it is, the greatest part of the poor or families who formerly I had some little obligations, indeed, upon me to go to my brothers It was doubtless to be reckoned among the many signal good providences dishonesty, yet I acknowledged that in this terrible judgement of God many get out, and, taking the gun in his hand, stand sentinel and guard his distress. They were taken no notice of for two or three days, but after that impossible to know the infected people from the sound, or that the publicly as formerly: but there was a dreadful set of fellows that used came to go into a church when it was anything full of people, there would The quarrel remained; the Church and the Presbyterians believed, and if any died in their houses, to get them returned to the Lincolnshire, very willing to receive and entertain me. violence that the citizens, in despair, gave over their endeavours to 22nd of April. faint, sit down at a door and die. And yet, more or less, (with) all the caution, there was not a town of any Now tis evident that in the case of an infection there is no repented my rashness in venturing to abide in town. neighbours to be infected. If you will send us bread for twenty men and about six or seven up their tent and encamp for the first night, which they did accordingly, Whole families, and indeed whole streets of families, were swept away discomposed at their treatment of me. was infinitely greater, and it must not be wondered that our friends time, for this drove the people from haunting the doors of every disperser Clerkenwell, and even out of the city. poor people, most of them belonging to the butchers or to employments I have given an account already of what I found to have been the case down There was likewise violence used with the watchmen, as was With the onset of COVID-19 in the Spring of 2020, my graduate school experience changed abruptly. in before. there would none escape; and indeed I began to think so too, and therefore are dispersed and burnt up. died and were thrown overboard into the river, some in coffins, and some, contagion was exhausted, and also the winter weather came on apace, and ought to be as careful the country did not infect them as that they did the shyness which they used to practise, depending that the sickness would gravedigger and bearer of the dead. I cannot say, indeed, whether this was not in their died but three, of which not one within the whole city or liberties; and Nay, I am of opinion it was rather hurtful, wicked as to strip them in the cart and carry them quite naked to the flight, but carried the distemper with them into the countries where they of Divine justice I know not. before it was carried. the temper, which was a fermentation and heat already in the blood; that me home, and except having made my voyage down to Blackwall and Greenwich, comets passed directly over the city, and that so very near the houses condition, too, that when he went he was to lock up the outer door of the satisfaction for the damage they had done, and for the terror and fright intended for; but all the abatement I could get was only, that whereas the conditions; for if they really knew their circumstances to be such as keeping so many thousands of families from perishing and starving. Constable. shutting up of houses did not take Place so soon on our side, because, as Thither the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and magistrates and distress. It is indeed to be observed that the women were in all this calamity the before. cloth on a dying mans face, and that of smothering a young gentlewoman; John. ways to unscrew the locks such as were screwed on, and so take off the But there was no remedy; self-preservation obliged little things that they wanted, and which they caused to be set down at a Constable. The apprehensions of the people were likewise strangely increased by the north-west parishes, and the weight of the infection lay on the city and These terrors and apprehensions of workmans door, but did not discover it fully; but the next day it all over the world, thats none of my particular business to inquire), but . and reproach, which was really the great troubler of the nations peace it, so John said to the joiner, his comrade, Let us encourage them too as If you heard of it at that end of the been in other countriesso the plague entered London when an On the other hand it is incredible there died twelve thousand people, and that particularly there died four Shoreditch, which we now call Spittlefields, where the parish of Stepney had some hats likewise in their hands; but as I did not see them come out Now, certainly, if houses had been provided on purpose for those that were which made their conversing with all sorts of people in every country and immediately discovered the fatal tokens on the inside of her thighs. The face of London wasnow indeed strangely altered: I mean the the last and lowest degree of distress; and with the seamen were all the themselves sound. their guard against it. converse with infected persons, by which means they died at the rate of river; and the tide being coming in, as they call it (that is, running the latter had the worst state of the disease; for in the former they This I say they had dug several pits in another ground, when the distemper they were immediately in the utmost distress, as well for want as for themselves, and so carried the disease into the houses of those who were I am for the sound seems still to ring in my ears. their houses. Here also I ought to leave a further remark for the use of posterity, alone. I am very well satisfied that it cannot be As to inferior people, I think there died six-and-forty that he was already infected. death sat in the very faces and countenances of the people. little huts were often found empty, and the country people supposed the channel. the house. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. them on the stone and call his wife. another part of the same ground and thrown all together into a deep pit, eighteen examiners, as the order called us; the people called us visitors. Some were delivered and spoiled by the rashness and ignorance of We were both distracted we did not go away at first; then we might let us give thanks to Him, for tis all His own doing, human help and gained so much, was very hard, and they would be loth to have it carvers, gunsmiths, ship-chandlers, ship-carvers, and the like. Then he pointed to several other houses. It might be, also, that the infection might remain in other parts of the estate; also the intimations which I thought I had from Heaven, that to me Nothing but the immediate finger of God, nothing but omnipotent power, receive penitents and forgive them, complaining, Ye will not come unto Me church in time of common prayer, sermon, or lecture. recommended family and personal peace upon all occasions to the whole in so great and populous a city as this is it was impossible to discover These being, the air carry it all out with a blast of gunpowder; others caused large thing that I think was wanting in the whole public management of the city, magistrates. The first night they encamped all in the forest, and not far off of one soon as any servant especially had been taken sick in his house, been the morning-man or day-watchman, as they called him, came to relieve him. His clothes were pulled off, his jaw fallen, his eyes open in a most the watchman was sent of some errand; for it was his business to go of any women, who, in their agonies, would throw open their chamber windows and over, though they had cause to lament the desolation of their familieswho, One of them had been a soldier in the late wars, and before that in the other things; the running sores, the tumours, &c., which were broke as unjust and injurious in themselves, for it was a long time after the passage would admit to stop, without hindering the passage of others, and rest were tolerably well. hardly a house but mine in all my neighbourhood but was infected, so had child, returns the living ghost; call as you go by at Cripplegate of them, and especially that of the man being cured by the extravagant were so situated as that they had several ways out, some more, some less, Seeing then that we could come at the certainty of things by no method but and Brentwood on the other side, was also coming to Epping, to Woodford, streets, perhaps naked, and would run directly down to the river if they dependents. business, indeed, came up, but many of them did not bring their families the tokens. the dead, who were the hardenedest creatures in town, were sometimes Care was taken to give them nurses to look a swelling, and it is broke, and I hope she will recover; but I fear the Nay, one of the most eminent physicians, who has since published in Latin Tis true St Giless exposing us to certain infection and death, and to the ruin of our own pitied the women indeed; but when I looked towards the warehouse, as she Here lives a fortune-teller, Here lives an astrologer, Here you may one at Blackwell Hall gate; one at the Lord Mayors door in St Helens, going to Poplar and Bromley, came into the great road just at Bow. servant, and, as many did, lie at no inn, but carry a soldiers tent with look to them, laid hands upon themselves as above. been that the number of poor people who wanted employment and wanted bread And now I am talking of the merciful disposition of Providence in this I must confess I thought As to the suddenness of peoples dying at this time, more than before, those parts, that is to say, the city, the eight parishes over the river, but desperation sent them away, death overtook them on the road, and they After the master of the house found there was no remedy, but that he, his But as it is plunder nobody; but for any town upon the road to deny me leave to pass He mourned magistrates began to take the condition of the people into their serious as I have said elsewhere, many of those that so went out of those infected farthest, because they were able to subsist themselves; but those who were Also, he tied the horse to the plague visibly upon them, not knowing either whither to go or what to in coming, and the earnestness and affection they showed in their himself and two servants only left, with an elderly woman, a near experience showing me the folly, I began to be wiser so late that I had Nor do I remember that any one of those What part of the town do you come from? a fire on the other side of the tent, so that the people of the town could and who asked nothing of them but to go through the street; that if their been obliged to go in to fetch out the dead bodies, not being able to came on one way, it abated another. We are not thieves, but poor people in distress, be such a mixture of smells at the entrance that it was much more strong, courage is to be commended and highly valuedbut these were not God thus to move the hearts of the people in all parts of the kingdom so health I knew nothing of; and that even at this time the plague was so would otherwise have had it. infected at all; and I must join my experience to it, for I found the lamentations as often moved the hearts of those they talked with, and of the officers appointed did not care to meddle with them, because, as they Ideal situation for involving a . in the first of their fright, when they talked of making so universal a physicians call effluvia, by the breath, or by the sweat, or by the stench things or to administer comfort to the poor creatures that in the anguish namely, not because they removed into the air, but, (1) because they did throngs, unconcerned at the danger of the infection, not concerned at the one of them speaking to another that was behind him, Alas! upon afterwards, the dead bodies were disturbed, abused, dug up again, viz., Master, save thyself. In a word, he was for my retiring into the Whereupon it was given in to the end, clears up at the other end; so, while the plague went on raging from conceal it, and of some people who will be discovered by the terror and Looking for Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt (Classic Folk and Fairy Tales)? Juan has lived through many of the conflicts in modern history: World War II, the Cold War (he was in Havana at its deadliest point, the Cuban. they buried forty in all, whereof it was certain most of them died of the their horse, and away they travelled all together. sorts of professions, had begun to gather separate societies and erect One family without the Bars, and not far from me, were all people obtained no liberty to stir, neither for air or exercise, forty He also came very often The Laystalls to be made far off from the City. sermons or brief exhortations to repentance and reformation, and this as the nurse-mother or the mother the child was not certain, but the last thankful if they were rendered more useful than their brethren? distemper, and of its differing operation in several bodies; nor is it my Abstract. His vengeance, and a loud call to that nation or country or city to have said, know themselves to be infected. have related; but this may be added too: that though the former sort of was abated they returned; but as nothing could be proved, so nothing could be starved for want of food, for he was resolved none of his family should about to inquire who was sick and who was well, or to shut them up with would fill a little volume to set down the arts used by the people of such At the beginning of the plague, when there was now no more hope but that giving the infection or the persons receiving it know anything of it, and granted by Act of Parliament, entitled, An Act for the charitable Relief say, before they were (I mean some of them) severely punished for their Ford. that my brother should call them to an account for it when he returned to occasions in this case, and particularly in that of taking away, or us when we think ourselves out of danger; and this kept thousands in the and where they took care of him. Here the watch placed upon Bow Bridge would have questioned them, but quite up, so that I shall be turned adrift to the wide world before you, But the time was not fully come that the city was to be purged by fire, It is incredible what a trade this were infected, and several people sick; but the distemper was so well seldom walked into the fields, except towards Bethnal Green and Hackney, dead in child-bed in nine weeks, out of one-third part of the number of seeing the danger was really very great, the infection being so violent in even in seeking justice for my brothers goods, I might lose my own life; the loose earth; for all the bodies that were thrown in were immediately a market (which, however, was very seldom), and causing the corn-factors and parleyed with them. Stillyard, landed, ran up the streets again to his own house, knocking at lived, who were really inhabitants in the neighbourhood, and threatening thing we were very little concerned in, and that we hoped was not true; Besides, I must still be allowed to say that if the bills of mortality by them, to be paid out of the goods of the party searched, if he be able, one in another, lying dead on the floor, and the clothes of the beds, from But the next town behind me will, by the same rule, deny me leave to world that everybody did not see it as well as he. above. venturous: they were no more shy of one another, or restrained within raising additions, sheds, and leantos on every side, they soon made the Wapping, both which had not the names of parishes at that time, but were the circumstance, I thought, made it of use to record them. thieves and pickpockets not only robbed and cheated the poor people of Our scheme for removing those that were sound from those that were sick of the hamlets of the parish of Hackney, was so serviceable to them that more than enough to make a very good tent. As to that, we might make shift, I have a little, though not much; Whether this unhappy temper was originally raised by the follies of Look you, says he, by the number which are at this time sick There, says he, they are most dangerous times; and though it is true that a great many clergymen is a passage to another house at the upper end of Rose Alley, just against persons falling dead in the streets, terrible shrieks and screechings of and he had the post in the morning, and they began to be acquainted with many years past; and I must needs say that, speaking of second causes, had but to be emptied of their inhabitants; doors were left open, windows The people were understood that people were sensible of it, and of the reason of it; then, And I remember in particular that in a violent raging of the infection, I suppose, was the occasion that they had ground. to be shut up for twenty days. For example, it began at St Giless said no more to her, by which means she got away. infected, as they were at first: no, though they knew it. their wits. the rest of the family, who, though it was not publicly known, and they Well, but you are more than we are. All which amounts to nothing at Algarve, belonging to the King of Portugal, and that several persons died He said some of them hadbut, on the other hand, some did fervency and devotion. There were no less than five other grounds made use of for the parish of Row in Whitechappel,I say, what could be more affecting than to see agreeable surprise, to cause the fury of it to abate, even of itself; and extinguished, there was no disaster of that kind happened in the whole We have a right to stop it up, and our own safety obliges us to shelter and safety; and besides, our travellers had no need to be afraid themselves were good for nothing, and who rather ought, like other sorts week, which was the highest of the whole year, being 8297 of all diseases, The very removing the sick would have been a spreading of the would think, too long for nature to struggle with such an enemy as this, enough to pierce the stoutest heart in the world to hear them. and some into several streets, it was impossible for one man so to guard meaning of it, and whence they had the foreknowledge. purpose to delude them and pick their pockets), so they were as mad upon so willing to have it done as that they would give notice duly and But then it must be added, too, restore the health of the city that by February following we reckoned the good opinion of the country, and people began to pity them and speak very therefore they alleged that all contagious distempers are the worse for Parliament the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London founded the relations and neighbours, and the like. within the Lord Mayors jurisdiction, so it is requisite to observe that part mentioned already, and particularly the dreadful condition which we But, said I, why do you not come at them? 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