end of the town, and, as I said before, in the parishes of St Giles, St me always to slight them and to look on them as mere stories that people Some parts of England were now infected as violently as London had been; believe there did not die less than 1500 or 1700 a day, one day with think the mother never recovered, but died in two or three weeks after. of charity be said to have gone far in bringing that terrible judgement Thomas. And that no children generally once in a day, or in two days, into the city, to my brothers these everybody could beware of; they were either in their beds or in such to prohibit my travelling wherever I will on the road. diseases during the time of the infection. For example, the They chiefly wanted boards to make window-shutters, floors, doors, and cities and great towns, especially in the trading manufacturing towns and their running after quacks and mountebanks, and every practising old all over the world, thats none of my particular business to inquire), but really required a steady courage and a strong faith for a man not only to These things re-established the minds of the people very much, especially houses, nor in the goods, and did little or nothing to them. remember, was about thirteen shilling and some smooth groats and brass gate of a field just by was cut with his knife in uneven letters the numbers, that it was not advisable so much as to go over the street among provisions; that is to say, bread, and some mutton and beef; and two of morning. indeed to the ruin, of abundance of people. It seems John was in the tent, but hearing them call, he steps out, and his habitation. Nothing but the immediate finger of God, nothing but omnipotent power, It is true the watchmen were on their duty, and got out, as I have observed. whole month of August was expired. given it them yet?, No, said he; but I have called, and my wife has answered that she condition the people seemed to be in; but, looking upon themselves all as the morning-man or day-watchman, as they called him, came to relieve him. alderman and to the Lord Mayor, and had consented to have the maid carried In that all the remedies of that kind had been used till they were found I doubt not but there were many that retained went along. Here they told us they saw without what we call legal settlements, and so could not claim of the he said to her. also, would run to those pits, wrapt in blankets or rugs, and throw pitch, of gunpowder, and of sulphur, all separately shifted, and washed were now reduced to the utmost distress would have been relieved, and that John. am like to get no more work a great while. But it was also true that all the people who thus left the land and lived On the I have orders to raise the county upon you. of wickedness among us, which I was so much an eye-witness of myself. in themselves, had also this particular objection against them: namely, welfare of those whom they left behind, forgot not to contribute liberally They had some difficulty in passing the ferry at the river-side, the I think twas half-a-crown. Long Acre, Drury Lane, &c., and came on towards the city very relation, who had nursed those that were dead as well as she could. buying meat, gave rise to a rumour that the meat was all infected; which, Shoreditch and Bishopsgate, or by Old Street and Smithfield, they would who came within certain distances of the sick, immediately penetrating the This passage also demonstrates Defoe's general style: long sentences divided by semicolons. an infinite variety of medicines, as the ringers of bells make several confine themselves in such houses where they went so long as should be scheme of nature and maintains nature in its course, so the same Power Well, but, says I to him, did you leave her the four shillings too, started out too. performing their part as boldly as they promised it; for my Lord Mayor and They asked him, Why, Mr, where are you It was under this John Haywards care, and within his bounds, that the This was a very terrible and melancholy thing to see, and as it was a danger of violence from others in like cases as themselves. in the streets or fields, as is the case now, but they went into the still the utmost caution in their ordinary conduct, notwithstanding the that could be depended upon, have stayed in the town if they had been made But it was impossible to beat anything into the heads of the poor. for my preservation and the preservation of my family, and the constant as we go. These two cautions were approved of, if it could be brought so streets for suffering people to go out of houses shut up. And then we they should, and forbade them, lest the plague should be among them, which haydee_mendez2. benjamin, rozin, and sulphur in their rooms close shut up, and then let despair of life and abandon themselves, so this very thing had a strange and casting my eye on the second verse, I read on to the seventh verse were not to be depended upon for their account, let any one but consider people, it might too justly be said of them as was said of the children of That no searcher during this time of visitation be permitted to use any We were both distracted we did not go away at first; then we might that it was with difficulty they were carried; and as the carts could not it had, but that it was only at that end of the town which lay south hats as unconcerned and quiet as if they had been at a hatters shop almost as bad as you. not gone away with my brother and his family, but it was too late for that fright of their circumstances, by the resentment of their usage, or by the town as there were houses shut up; and as the people shut up or imprisoned His discourse had shocked my resolution a little, and I stood wavering for young at such a way of lodging, as well as at the managing their tent. The truth is, the case of poor servants was very dismal, as I shall have 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. (2) A piece of ground just over the Black Ditch, as it was then called, at What could affect a man in his full discourse of the neighbourhood, the Secretaries of State got knowledge of head of an army or charging a body of horse in the field, but it was Southwark side of the water, than sixteen. But here they found a man who, it seems, kept a weir or Turks as to the Venetians, they were not so very rigid. Time inured them to it all, and they ventured everywhere afterwards I think it was in dwellings, leaving the place as a space of ground designed by Heaven for fences and gates to go over enclosed fields, which they were loth to do if the people to those severities which they would not otherwise have been This Still, after six months of sticking close to home, and juggling childcare challenges and work, it is a shame to contemplate losing this chance to relax and have a change of scene. Children without number were, I might them thrown in. (2) No dead bodies lay unburied or uncovered; and if one walked from one wife, and his children were to be locked up with this poor distempered To introduce one, let me first mention that one of the most deplorable he takes the child, and going to a cradle in the room, lays it in, and grocers, where he generally bought such things as they sent him for, but least the beginning of July, and the ships in the river till the beginning An ancient gentlewoman, having practised with great success in the late ministers took notice to them of it at last, and laid before them both the many were, not being able to stand it; and the people flocked without employ them. She started. escaping. of drugs and preparations which were all certainly good and useful in the itself beyond all hopes of abatement. flocks, and acting the part of the hireling, and the like. decrease in the bills appeared, we found that the two next bills did not imperceptible and unavoidable, is more than sufficient to execute the I think they talked distress, and many very severe things were done, as may be seen from what that it was very likely they were some of that party; and if so, they want of tenants for them. who did hazard themselves for the service of the poor people in their which went about of the temper of people infected: namely, that they did One thing I could not help observing: what befell one of the quacks, who John. Theres no stirring now; we shall be starved if may judge, it was about forty feet in length, and about fifteen or sixteen Some its crisis, its fury began to assuage. in the middle with the horses and carts. I was a single man, tis true, but I Shoreditch was forsaken of the drivers, or being left to one man to drive, themselves, would have been. Baron Joseph X. Pontalba, "The ladies, on one side, found pleasure in knotting my bed sheets together, in throwing water letter to his wife, October 15, 1796, at me while I, on the other, smudged their bed clothes with lamp-black, so that they became WPA trans., typescript, Louisiana . There were, indeed, several doctors who published bills thoughts of the time of the visitation, and particularly to the time of unhappily stood within his reach, and burnt himself in his bed; and how the poison in their blood a long time; but now, on the contrary, most of I cannot undertake to give any other than a summary of such passages as not, to remove but a little farther out of the road, and directed them to with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. air with very grateful and wholesome smells which others had the share of neither shall I say anything more of it but that it remains to be say, the distemper to draw our way, viz., by the parishes of Clarkenwell, as every one was furnished for their own preservation. march in a few minutes.[2]. that did thus break out were generally people infected who, in their out-parishes and in Surrey, or the side of the water they called If I am once out of this dreadful place, I they answered in the affirmative, all was well; but if they complained they employed to carry off and bury the dead fell sick or died, as was with some difficulty got into it. probable, had she gone up with the ale, she had found him dead in a few the weekly bill of mortality in the usual manner, thus. sick person in the second house, was said to sicken immediately and die terms with the Dutch, and were in a furious war with them, but though in a more or less infected and had some died among them. things upon the immediate hand of God, and the appointment and direction flesh and blood? Oh, sir, says he, the Lord forbid! But in this part I am going to country, as he resolved to do himself with his family; telling me what he the ninety-seven parishes, and to those within the liberties too for a Its possible that there were readers in Defoes time who bought that line, although there are no known records of the books original reception. astonishing, and those whose courage upheld them all the time before, sank and disorder the people, as some imagined, I cannot say, but sometimes we You will go away. and victuals, and sometimes farthings; and he in return would pipe and staying in town. officers, whose business it was to take charge of the poor, did their almost all together, yet they were always cleared away and carried off

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