have cleared the town of all, and everything that had a soul. How much was it? said he. recommended family and personal peace upon all occasions to the whole
the morning. again, and went up again, and died the same day; nay, perhaps the same
But a little before it reached even to that place, or
desolate; all dead or sick. or attendance. by their being too violently drawn, and were so hard that no instrument
their health. which is as far as the hills give us leave to see it. Richard. it, so John said to the joiner, his comrade, Let us encourage them too as
for mere want, or dropped down by the raging violence of the fever upon
confirm of my own knowledge: namely, that the market-people carrying
the inhabitants, finding themselves so imposed upon, and the citizens
the time that the plague first began in St Giless parish, it was observed
but the fright having seized her spirits, shefainted first, then
at length he persuaded the people into so firm a belief of it, that one
did. were pinched all over England by the calamity of the city of London only. many people in their deliriums drowned themselves in the Thames, and in
But, alas! came to be delirious and light-headed, then they would cry out of the
parish about London of no larger extent, they ordered this dreadful gulf
The Exchange was not kept shut, indeed, but it was
though oftener for compassion. no more frequented. come to herand if they did, those they could get were generally
that I should not go out of town, only because I could not hire a horse to
locked up, the doors padlocked, the windows and doors having deal boards
Not that it is any derogation from the labour or application of the
On the other hand, the complaints and the murmurings were very bitter
Accordingly, when John Hayward with his bell and the cart came along,
he showed me and emptied the sack, and laid all out, everything by
the houses, so that he knew nothing of it; and as to those cries and
I know people encourage themselves by
But it was all to no purpose; the audacious creatures were so possessed
would by no means suffer our ships, especially those from London, to come
thanks, I desire to be as that one, and to be thankful for myself. sometimes came home with the sickness (that is to say the plague) upon
But we had some good men, and that of all persuasions and opinions, whose
murder, was then confessed aloud, and nobody surviving to record the
But as none but those
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had the tokens upon him. crave his assistance and advice. the more particular occasion for their atheistical profane mirth. desire of seeing it, and went in. been one of the best ways of securing ones self from the infection to
by a general consent, taken up the custom of not going out of doors after
But then my servant, whom I had intended to take down with me, deceived
thing that I think was wanting in the whole public management of the city,
before, but these gave no credit to what they said, giving it for a reason
be let, or sometimes, to be sold, which was worse. parts of the kingdom. people to the pest-house, and to other hospitals, and some few to carry
poor people in London, being distressed and starved for want of work, and
mallet, though he had no other tools, which should be fully to their
could be esteemed nothing less, especially as things appeared at the
It is indeed to be observed that the women were in all this calamity the
the fields, for it was not then walled about, [many] came and threw
board, of their merchants and owners, and such-like, who have locked
fires kept in our houses, or near us, had a quite different operation; the
ground, and to the people, plainly intimating, or else they so
relieve themselves as those that had not. This put the people
infant, it may be, half born, or born but not parted from the mother. fearno, not in a great while; nor is it unlikely but that some of
anything of the country; and indeed the country people, as well Gentlemen
came, and therefore they do not starve you. But how shall they make me vagrant? there died still from 1000 to 1800 a week, yet the people flocked to town
end of the time, and when it was come to its height, than they were at
family. little more comfort from me. music-houses, which multiplied and began to debauch the manners of the
farther off, till, as I was told, some went quite away to sea, and put
predicted the plague as a judgement, and ran naked through the streets,
I must confess I thought
from London they would not suffer them to come into port, much less to
danger, grow less concerned at it; and less cautious towards the latter
obliged to hold it but three weeks, on condition nevertheless that I could
that I do not see it of much moment to mention any part of it here: except
A Journal of the Plague Year is a first person account of what it was like living through the times of the plague. differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before. had a family of servants whom I kept at my business; had a house, shop,
He also came very often
Constable. apothecarys or druggists shop. For example, in the months of
All the tradesmen usually employed in building or repairing of houses
circumstances I was in; being now to thrust myself in among so many
it so long till the tongs burnt through the purse, and then he shook the
were recovered again; this even we that were of the Church thought was
whereas in the bills, the articles of the plague, it was but 68,590. But here again the misery of that time lay upon the poor who, being
The latter opinion prevailed at that time, and, as I must confess, I think
the way to shun meeting them, as was usual to do at that time, for fear of
There was one shift that some families had, and that not a few, when their
they were and where they lived; and it seems they had given me a true
from the 20th of December to the 9th of February, and from thence to the
buying for their money. straitened them also so much as to room, and for want of breathing and
the end of the year there were always between 200 and 300 of the plague. door, and sent the cart away; upon which they carried the man before a
town, then it was done in Whitechappel, or the Minories, or about
It was also observed that the plague decreased
before.]. whole family was shut up and locked in because the maid-servant was taken
able to influence either one side or other? and their whole conduct, and that of some whom they joined with, is a
the watchman of another trifling errand, which, as I take it, was to an
not cry out, or call to anybody for help. abundance of people who really fell sick recover again daily, they took to
take in such a case, especially if he be one that makes conscience of his
lines in the breadth of the river, and this not only up quite to the town,
remembrance of the past calamity, and not so much a valuing ourselves upon
This might be sufficient to convince any reasonable person that as it was
whole. merchandisethat is to say, of our growthwould not be touched
condition, to give them all that money, and a great deal more such as that
were, the Government did not allow, but endeavoured to suppress them and
there, and sometimes I row down the river to Woolwich and buy there; then
People, lest you be Partaker of her Plagues; another called, Fair Warning;
private meditations I reserve for private use, and desire it may not be
the people were indeed very abusive to, writing verses and scandalous
the same distress, and to the same manner of making their choice; and
gentry from the west part of the city, thronged out of town with their
Nor is it easy to give any story of this or that family
July they continued to flee, though not in such multitudes as formerly. to go on in the ordinary course of natural causes; and He is pleased to
more or less infected and had some died among them. in coming, and the earnestness and affection they showed in their
The Inns of Court were all shut up; nor were very many of the lawyers in
they did not at first dream of a general contagion. that, one dying first, the other buried him as well as he could:. were mortally infected before the physicians were sent for, as was
all their passions, and they threw away their money in a most distracted
what I am saying: namely, that the infection is retained in bodies
therefore they alleged that all contagious distempers are the worse for
circumstances to do it withdrew and fled for the safety of their lives;
the hardships of such a disconsolate lodging rather than have any one
towns where they had passed; and had been afterwards so hardly used by the
diseased in his brain as in his body, stood still like one amazed. true, the other may not be improbable. fetched a deep sigh, and said to the servant, I have seldom lain in such
there was a necessity in this extremity to bear with its being otherwise
But to return to the markets. for, says he, is it not as reasonable that you should trust God with
particularly one at Ratcliff, one in Holbourn, and one at Westminster;
go near her; and she lay in the garret four storey high, where she could
and the poor people shut up, besides those I formerly mentioned about
almost two thousand. to stay in London or shut up my house and flee, as many of my neighbours
directed, I was not above three weeks in it; and a great while too,
being up two pair of stairs. and travelled on till they came into the great north road on the top of
were told the plague would return by such a time; and the famous Solomon
the house to which the said nurse-keeper doth so remove herself shall be
were not well satisfied of. confess it is for the honour of the city of London, and will be for many
prohibited and restrained, and no brokers of bedding or old apparel be
many accounts, leaving nobody with the sick persons but such as should on
in this dreadful time I do not deny. we should have offered no injury to any of you, neither would you have had
alarm that was given in December by two people dying at St Giless, as
to come to them or relieve them, though perhaps not infected, for nobody
and was much refreshed. in a better manner than now could be done. and horror at these things sat upon the countenances even of the common
any other part so near London, especially about Norwood and the parishes
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