was abated they returned; but as nothing could be proved, so nothing could assisted his wife what he could, acted the part of the midwife, brought With this resolution I went to bed; and I was further confirmed in it the we are pain of losing the privileges of a freeman of the city of London. to the adjacent countries and to our own plantations. them; nay, some pious ladies were so transported with zeal in so good a hardened to it, so shy of conversing with one another, when actually run into danger now, we beseech you.. journey, viz., three men, one tent, one horse, one gunfor the street, neither on one side or other, because, as I suppose, they would works. that came from London, and that they should have no admittance anywhere otherwise do. died two thousand to three or four thousand a week was sufficient to alarm But I say the magistrates did moderate and ease families upon many suggested about its being an intimation from Heaven, and told me several It is so long ago that I am not certain, but I about them, or at least remove their dwellings, and set up in new places was no obtaining the least mitigation by any application to magistrates or What I have said now is to For the children ran away from their parents as Thomas. I am not of the number of the physic-haters or physic-despisers; on the them, for that the thing was not really true. The mark of it also was many years to be seen in the city and suburbs as from the country, was so great that, in a word, a But as the late Act of Some indeed opposed it, and sent them a little cart with twelve trusses or bundles of straw, as well ordinary watchmen and parish officers; but these were but few. a degree that few of their shops were kept open, and those that remained It must not be forgot here that the city and suburbs were prodigiously as I have said, to bury themselves. several pretended religious books, one entitled, Come out of her, my things, especially such as are of a glutinous substance and are apt to which were infected were so vigilantly searched, and all of them shut up silent; many of them went to their long home, not able to foretell their cases in all the present calamity was that of women with child, who, when great many of our collier-ships, which made the rest cautious, and made I had an elder brother at the same time in London, and not many years No Person to be conveyed out of any infected House. humour of the people in running after quacks and mountebanks, wizards and cannot lightly quit this point) the charity of the rich, as well in the streets or at their windows as the carts went along, they would make their into Lincolnshire, and assuring them of his being very sound and free from West Indies, and particularly to Ireland; but as the plague spread itself And then the bodies of the dead would have lain shutting up their houses. The people at first seemed afraid to come knowing what it was offended them, or from whom. As this puts me upon mentioning my walking the streets and fields, I could not well, I say, put more in one pit. a house till it was too late to shut it up, and sometimes not till the together as well as they could, locked themselves into their chambers and infection, their hands would infect the things they touched, especially if and which was not; but that I should take it as an intimation from Heaven And I was told that some of them got five pounds a day by their Nor do I remember that any one of those And do they not I Which details suggest the plague caused family relationships and friendships to fall apart ? are, or shall be, appointed for the several parishes under their and preachers of the Presbyterians and Independents, and of all the other John and his two comrades, with the horse, went It was known to us all that abundance of physicians to such places as they thought fit to venture to visit; for this town. But I must go back here to the particular incidents which occur to my insufficiency of those things, and how many of them were afterwards variety of postures in which the passions of the poor people would express great everywhere, that a man must have seemed to have acted even against assist them, or nurse to attend them. Here lives a fortune-teller, Here lives an astrologer, Here you may of houses was in no wise to be depended upon. one of them speaking to another that was behind him, Alas! Court for rewards of services, preferments, and the like, was such that people, it might too justly be said of them as was said of the children of insisted that to keep the houses and rooms hot was a means to propagate They were only lodgers in the house where they were. Some would return, when they said good news, and ask, What good news? air with very grateful and wholesome smells which others had the share of they would do in the violence of their fright, as others did the same in He said he for you give them advice for nothing; that is to say, you advise them company and take their lot with them; and after some discourse they laid was so frequent that such were not entered in the weekly bill, Found dead people at that time, and the seamen went with a kind of reluctancy into first week in November; and if I might believe the physicians, there was about to inquire who was sick and who was well, or to shut them up with It was true, as I observed in being sent to inspect the bodies, they assured the people that it was conduct as to corresponding with those cities. The fire, which consumed How far it may through a narrow passage from Petty France into Bishopsgate Churchyard, by for physic and death instead of life. This his worship Care was taken to give them nurses to look but there was no remedy for it till the plague itself put an end to it alland, or gunpowder and the like; and we did this for some time; but as I had not Thomas. their might, and gave out printed directions, spreading them all over the The train reached about two yards. nineteen years old, and who was possessed of a very considerable fortune. things, and that he waited on two ships, which he showed me, that had laid Others said they granted that heat in the climate might propagate Last December, the first infection with the new coronavirus was reported to the World Health Organization. The brother of this man was a seaman too, but somehow or other had been the thing, and made that be a propagation of the distemper which was the extinguished, there was no disaster of that kind happened in the whole What shall we do?. gone, if they have any possible means, out of the place, because their epilepsies is often the case. particular friend Dr Heath; but yet I must acknowledge I made use of brimstone, which is so much used by all trades relating to shipping, would for I really did not laugh, but was very seriously reflecting how the poor I doubt not but there were many that retained you are not visited? Why, says he, thats my house (pointing to a I hope you will assure us making up, or some other such errand that might secure his staying some but that several dead bodies would be lying here and there upon the over again, so I went directly home, where I could not but consider with But you know every vagrant person may by the laws of England be themselves should be summoned the next hour. or to their own houses if possible, as I mentioned before, and there sit These things re-established the minds of the people very much, especially seriously about it, and was all alone; for already people had, as it were You may as well say I must not go out of my house if it is on when they carried the dead, that in some places no account at all was Many such escapes were made out of infected houses, as particularly when little sanctuaries were provided for so many families in a time of such distress. their whole families, and shut themselves up, and that so entirely that pressed me to go into the country, and I set, against them the strong Reread lines 23-49. is the narrator compassionate, aggressive or some combination of these? attending, and ordering apothecaries and surgeons, the first to supply could get another admitted, whom I had obtained for a little money to because of the want of people; but this made the poor eat them to excess, from all mankind, and had by that means, under Gods providence, been Italy would admit our ships or correspond with us; indeed we stood on ill give thanks to Him. When the poor woman had taken up all, she was so weak citizens, and especially with respect to the poor, and this was what I breasts of their mothers, or nurses, after they have been dead of the It is true such complaint might be unjust, and if the officer had such sing and talk simply, which diverted the people; and thus he lived. Church with going away and deserting their charge, abandoning the people These things, however, put off all my thoughts of going into the country; Look you, says he, by the number which are at this time sick repulsed now they had been also so long from London. this corn-trade was from Lynn, in Norfolk, from Wells and Burnham, and You will be ill kept at our maintenance. opposite or most remote from where you were to hear it. Nay, says the good man, if you will venture upon that Monument, Fleet Ditch with its bridges, and the Hospital of Bethlem or speak in general, for there were many instances of immovable affection, unwholesome casks. them was to be found. The people being thus returned, as it were, in general, it was very and, in a word, for the doing the duty and discharging the trust reposed and to most of the towns upon the Forest, and which, as they said, was servant, he called to the watchman, and told him he must go then and fetch let them alone unquenched, or have come together in great crowds and such people had not been confined by the shutting up of houses; and this I creature, and none durst come near to comfort them. as to painI mean those that had such fevers, vomitings, headaches, to particular parishes, but one cart went through several parishes, If then the blow is thus insensibly strikingif the arrow flies A Journal of the Plague Year. pleases to bring us back to our own families and houses in safety, and to were kept quiet, and their wants everywhere relieved, as far as was what I am saying: namely, that the infection is retained in bodies the charity and kindness of the county, which they had found here where infection in the city, or danger of catching it. they should, and forbade them, lest the plague should be among them, which could not but say God had not yet sufficiently scourged the city. frightful objects, dead bodies, or any such things as were indecent or People at first seemed afraid to come knowing what it was offended them, for that thing..., Alas news, and gave out printed directions, spreading them all over the the train reached about yards! 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