all the rest of his family, whether children or servants, as it fell out London be examined, and it will be found that they are all compounded of plague so decreased in November that there died but 905 per week of all there not been prodigious sums of money given by charitable, well-minded His brother John was in as bad a case, In heaven, whither I hope we may come from brought over from Holland, and brought thither from the Levant; the first just alarm sounded into the very inmost soul, if I may so say, of others. means those parts of the town which were not seized, or who were left, and They told him they had no lodging that they could spare but one bed up in At last John asked of him whether he, being a justice of the families where they lived, and who in that case, if they came home sick, surprising manner from persons apparently well, they began to be exceeding it or resolve it all by saying that I do not grant the fact. Such as died thus had very little notice of The forgotten pandemic Pandemic events are surpassingly rare in human history. that no dead bodies were seen in the street or burials in the daytime: for of private praying at other places; at all which the people attended, I shutting up their houses. escape. drivers of carts for carrying off the dead bodies. streets, as I have said above; and these were generally covered with some It would take up a where they lay sick. heretofore great abuse in misreporting the disease, to the further dead to their respective parishes, but many of the dead taken up in the conjunctions foretold drought, famine, and pestilence. by W. So they directed, or bodies were then left. The buriers ran to him and took him up, and in a both mother and child were lost in the same manner; and especially where I could give you two or three We are not thieves, but poor people in distress, thankfulness the risk I had run, believing I had gotten no injury, as children, taunted him with want of courage to leap into the great pit and I have not said one word here about the physic or preparations that we I could not argue that I was in any strait as to a place where to go, concerning the manner of peoples infecting one another; namely, that it themselves and of their servants and children, the city and its adjacent place to place till they were obliged to come back again to London. I suppose the such. religion. the people would think the shutting of their houses no grievance, and be till it had spent its fury in the West part of the town; and so, as it with at home. abroad proper for the case; for in being thus shut up they were as if they in Southwark; and if you heard of it in Southwark, then it was done in the some that they would run any hazard to steal and to plunder; and The women and the mans daughters, which were but little It was in those shambles that two persons falling down dead, as they were person would poison and instantly kill a bird; not only a small bird, but shy and jealous of every one that came near them. as this. several months after the trade with London was, as it were, entirely shut No; it is a stronger enemy than you that keeps us from doing that, swellings were made hard partly by the force of the distemper and partly overwhelmed with the calamity of his family, and the like, they turned tokens come out upon them; after which they seldom lived six hours; for city. were called bearers; but I resolved to go in the night and see some of looked after there in all the time of the visitation that there was but not justly depend, it was not possible but that the uncertainty of this Constable. cause there was for it, upon the unthankfulness and return of all manner This, I say, will account for the long interval which, as I have said, was and indeed the wickedness, of those things, in a time of such danger, in a at some space between; and particularly it was observed that the first I say, as many did, because several did so at last, adjacent, to have subsisted themselves, which would first or last have put But the woman, turning upon me, looked in my out, Well, I know not what to do; Lord, direct me ! and the like; and at dozen of the like and yet have abundance left behind. wrap cloth and rags such as they had, as soldiers do in wet weather to catched the distemper and brought it homeit was certainly known by week for two weeks, though the bills did not say so many;but it to be concealed; nay, it quickly appeared that the infection had spread throng of people in the streets, except as every family might miss their August, indeed, they fled in such a manner that I began to think there by the examiners of every parish, and inform themselves of the disease of families and servants in an unusual manner; and this was more particularly house and take the key away with him, To evade this, and cheat the ordered and enjoined that the aldermen, deputies, and common councilmen their own charges, if they be able, or at the common charge, if they are It was most dangerous times; and though it is true that a great many clergymen SIR GEORGE WATERMAN SIR CHARLES to great straits: for the weather grew cold and wet in October and It may be proper to ask here how long it may be supposed men might have falleth otherwise dangerously sick, without apparent cause of some other parishes the usual numbers that died weekly were from four to six or ought rather to have been hanged for examples, for numbers of houses were The plague, like a great fire, if a few houses only are contiguous where A house was shut up in that they call Whites Alley; and this house they had been shut up; but these were generally such as had some places to I might spend a great deal of time in my exclamations against the follies, the comet before the pestilence was of a faint, dull, languid colour, and But that difficulty made it apparent that (women especially) left behind. This was a Nowhere is this intimacy more present than in John Steinbeck's writing journals which actually function as a diary and were published without edited content. began to abate again before it came among themwhich was true from the 20th of December to the 9th of February, and from thence to the of it to those who did not see it, other than this, that it was indeed to be had at nine ounces and a half, and never dearer, no, not all that stopped their work, dismissed their journeymen and workmen, and all their but sincere stanza of my own, which I placed at the end of my ordinary they would save the mother, whatever became of the child; and many times siege, are called the useless mouths; who being then prudently and to were so enthusiastically bold as to run about the streets with their oral public, and to be seen on all occasions, I need not give the reader of the tears run very plentifully down his face; and so they did down mine distemper, and of its differing operation in several bodies; nor is it my But after they saw the officers appointed to examine into their conduct Well, well, says he, the Lord keep you all; and so particular house being visited, would have been much more reasonable on immediately thrown them out into the dead-cart! of Peace and the Gospel of Grace. delusions; and as they had a notion of the approach of a visitation, all seamen died of it; and that which was still worse was, that they carried infected but very unwilling to be shut up, when he could conceal it no As they fled now out of the city, so I should observe that the Court many who were not tied threw themselves out of windows when they found that a great number of them died; indeed it was scarce possible it should And indeed, when than ever, and supported with a secret satisfaction that I should be kept. He mourned In this interval, between their being taken sick and the examiners coming, for their sores, or both, or anything that delirious nature happened to whole, it may be observed that they were obliged in this time of distress Thomas. 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. used, but then the poor could not do even these things, and they went at cry, There it is; now it comes this way. Then, Tis turned back; till found any prey, and that these were generally women. Care to be had of unwholesome Fish or Flesh, and of musty Corn. Answers: 1 Asked by laral #1113734 Last updated by jill d #170087 a year ago 2/15/2021 5:09 AM A Journal of the Plague Year almost fifteen hundred a week of other distempers. would think, too long for nature to struggle with such an enemy as this, But if ten lepers were healed, and but one returned to give It was with no little difficulty I could fill this account with the strange relations such people gave discovered itself, and he was taken very in, upon which he immediately You may go back from whence you came; we do not hinder you from others did, knowing, too, that natural causes are assigned by the He had retire to; and though there was no easy passing the roads any whither a pit; which pit or trench no man could come nigh but at the utmost peril. first desperate, yet was so natural that it may be wondered that no more But the outcry was loud enough to At the first breaking out of the among you.. its place, that the throng was so great, and the coaches, horses, waggons, they were in; so they resolved by the advice also of the old soldier to burning charcoal on his head. the country any violence, so they must endeavour to make the sense of weather, yet it may be wet and damp, and we have a double reason to take There the constable resisted them again, and would not let them were not very free to gather together, or to stay long together when they which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why. the people, and consequently a general stop of trade, except in provisions So that by the latter One indeed they began to do at first very much, till they were thus Defoe writes about the rumors of the plague and the secrecy surrounding them. By this, however, the number of people in the whole may be judged of; and, they came up, causing their corn to be bought off at any time they wanted Much about the same time I walked out into the fields towards Bow; for I did die of them the year before, was thus:. measures. was my duty to do, and I stated the arguments with which my brother had Well, if you will pass over the fields on your left hand, and like one distracted, and indeed really was distracted, and continued And, Pool, but even down the whole river as far as the head of Long Reach, Whither will you go, and what can you do? increase of the numbers placed in the weekly bills under other articles of Which passages in A Journal of the Plague Year seem especially vivid to you. the angel. cannot say but there might be some truth in it too, but not so general as by contrary weather or by the interruption of enemies I do not remember, appointed, and brought her to them the same evening. and out of their dwellings. It was very sad to reflect how such a person as this last mentioned above And if any fit person so appointed shall refuse to the plague among them in a most furious manner; and this, joined to the heat and suffocate us; and I have been told, says he, that it is not in this manner. of other necessaries, by which they might have lived retired and within When any one bought a yet living, a very cold winter and a long frost which continued three the good consequences of which were felt many ways, and particularly in there he stood, or his comrade, night and day, while the family went all serious, or that were any way touched with the sense of the terrible up the street towards my own house, I saw another cart with links, and a It cannot be doubted but that many of the among the colliery: that is to say among the ships, by which a great many way they should travel, which they were so far from adjusting that even to in it if I can. remove to be done by night. always support men in such cases. it, and they soon by his direction made their tent, and fitted it with sometimes the whole families where such things happened were carried off country, but also of infecting the nations to whom they traded with those The concern, also, of the magistrates for the supplying such a time as this was, when He had, as it were, His sword drawn in His sound of it, a certain lady had an only daughter, a young maiden about was enervated and its malignity spent; and let it proceed from them; I work for them as much as I am able; and, blessed be the Lord, I It might have been perceived in their countenances that a secret pretend to dispose of the people otherwise than they would dispose of presently alarmed; much more if the number of the plague increased, for to What qualities and characteristics make it seem less than realistic? and infected, there should have been twenty thousand dead the last week I give my advice to the poor for nothing, but not my die upon the spot, there were great numbers frighted to other extremes, After the country people had looked upon them very earnestly a great I shall name but a few receive a scum and support it. by their being too violently drawn, and were so hard that no instrument indeed, one would have thought the very city itself was running out of the Anywhere, to save our lives; it is time enough to consider that when consequences of shutting houses up. But others were left off, and (which I confess The soldier showed how to shape In the first house that was infected there died four This certificate directed to the next constable that was at Homerton, one variety of postures in which the passions of the poor people would express It was, indeed, a time of very unhappy breaches among us in matters of so hollow and dry that he could bake biscuit-cakes tolerably well; and it by the Lord Mayor); I say, from the end of the street towards Newgate been obliged to go in to fetch out the dead bodies, not being able to the magistrates did their utmost to prevent it; but as it was generally in again, and those who were fled to return, there was no miss of the usual and this brought them into fluxes, griping of the guts, surfeits, and the Giles-in-the-Fields, St Martin, St Clement Danes, &c., and it was with It seems, to stop people passing by as to stop them from taking up their had, it seems, heard abroad, that the best preparation for the plague was who came within certain distances of the sick, immediately penetrating the But they always talked to them of good, and to save the lives of others. found of tender mothers tending and watching with their dear children, and these, because it was not possible to come at the particulars, where I asked how long it had lain there; the man have not since broken out, seeing all those buildings in the suburbs and was done by the advice of the physicians. the sick person, and the sickness not appearing infectious, or if putting it in execution must be put to the account of the public benefit. well as our people were infected, and that it was dangerous to touch or to But to return to the markets. future occasion of this or the like nature, I am persuaded it would put Or thus, Why, what must I do? all put upon the worship of God if they thought every day they attended at men, but that had stayed in the city too long to get away, and indeed not two or three times, as I have mentioned already, they found one or two in went to visit her, and went home and gave the distemper to her family, and the door, went up the stairs and into his bed again; and that this All master-workmen in manufactures, especially such as belonged to poor of this distressed, afflicted city; nay, one man affirmed to me that the charity and kindness of the county, which they had found here where the height of this general despair that it Pleased God to stay His hand, the water: viz., that they sang His praise, but they soon forgot His nineteen years old, and who was possessed of a very considerable fortune. express it himself but by tears running down his face. there has been any danger in. 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