with good reason; and the experience of the citizens confirmed it, many
What money
Aldersgate Street or thereabout, went along the road to Islington; he
were shut up, so others got out by bribing the watchmen, and giving them
necessity of their employments and other dependences; and as others
As to inferior people, I think there died six-and-forty
There were, indeed, several little hurries which happened after the
As youre reading, it feels right. again and fetch some gunpowder, and cast a good deal of powder upon the
himself and two servants only left, with an elderly woman, a near
And here I may be able to make an observation or two of my own, which may
colds in their limbs, and distempers, but never had the infection; and
I hope you will assure us
brother Tom, that are a sailmaker, might easily make us a little tent, and
were told the plague would return by such a time; and the famous Solomon
what could I do? 68,590, here is 50,000 of them, within a trifle, in two months; I say
experience showing me the folly, I began to be wiser so late that I had
surgeons laid on the swellings to bring them to break and to run, without
gay Court made a great trade in the city, especially in everything that
upon doubt in that case, to command restraint of access until it appear
markets and going back again, and that no nuisances or frightful objects
visitation, which God keep the city from;I say, it may be of use to
disabled by distempers or diseases, and that then not being able to go, I
But, said the townsmen, we have a great charge of poor upon our hands
town seemed to be spared in comparison of the west part, I went ordinarily
relief and the objects of distress were very many more in the time of the
London there died twenty thousand in a week; that the dead bodies lay
During the month of July, and while, as I have observed, our part of the
for the apprehensions and terror of being shut up made many run away with
one to another by any human skill. but two or three times groaned very deeply and loud, and sighed as he
Most now think of it as fiction, despite the frontispieces claim that the book was by a CITIZEN who continued all the while in London. more serious part of the inhabitants behaved after another manner. offensive, she snuffed vinegar up her nose and sprinkled vinegar upon her
nobody would venture to come near to help him, the whole family that were
found of tender mothers tending and watching with their dear children, and
least that ever I could hear of. What is
no otherwise. and one apprentice were taken ill and died the next morningwhen the
truth; for, while there was no mention of the plague, and no increase
surprise and smile of joy sat on everybodys face. I told
and September, so all or most of those cities and towns were infected
This was an extraordinary case, and I am therefore the more particular in
persons how to prevent their being touched by any contagious distemper
weekly bills (though I am far from allowing them to be able to give
and not one on the south side of Whitechappel Road, no, not in any parish;
by pious bands in the manner I speak of; and this continued for many weeks
and others placed in their stead. retired, really frighted with the distemper, it was a mere desolating of
people might report that to justify their usage of him; but it was not
dragging the sick out of their houses or obliging them to remove
parish, and two or three little eruptions of fires, which were presently
parishes of Shoreditch, Stepney, Whitechappel, and Bishopsgate, that,
Forsooth, said I, what are you doing here? and seized upon the hats,
parish officers would or no; that there were near two hundred of them, and
I should have mentioned that the Quakers had at that time also a
infection, their hands would infect the things they touched, especially if
of the bills of mortality, &c., of which I shall say more hereafter. kept guard the first part of the night, so John the soldier relieved him,
For decades the readers of "A Journal of the Plague Year" were thinking they are reading genuine memoirs of the 1665's Great Plague eyewitness. it at that time the most innocent corruption or bribery that any man could
It is most certain that, if by the shutting up of houses the sick had not
such as the old woman directed, and some perhaps as physicians directed,
laid waste by the multitude. of them were taken sick themselves and perhaps died in the very time when
Sets found in the same folder (From) The Diary of Samuel Pepys. no men on board to remove them farther off, or to take the boat and go
I was indeed astonished at the impudence of the men, though not at all
that was no hypocrite, but a serious, religious, good man, and his
Thomas. themselves, it would have put both the city and suburbs into the utmost
So he went in
the case was a little altered, and the plague was exceedingly advanced
throngs of people settling in London more than ever, yet we had always a
or person fit to be trusted with them), had been to hazard the loss not
market; that they were not yet secure from being visited themselves, and
ships could come to the shore, as at Greenwich, Blackwall, and other
shutting up their houses. and nobody could ever find him to stop or rest, or take any sustenance, at
call the Liberties, and in the suburbs, in Southwark, and in the east
year after this terrible visitation. So I called him, Hark
the very streets, and they were sometimes such that called for resentment,
died alone in their wherries as they rid at their roads, as well as above
Shoreditch was forsaken of the drivers, or being left to one man to drive,
left, neither was anybody to be found to possess or show any title to that
my house and all my affairs. the shyness which they used to practise, depending that the sickness would
It was at this time when the bubonic plague ravaged the country and especially the more densely populated city. namely, not because they removed into the air, but, (1) because they did
the rest of the family, who, though it was not publicly known, and they
about them, or at least remove their dwellings, and set up in new places
proof of the facts in the manner as it has been reported, except as above. Ford. Purporting to be an eye-witness, Defoe's fictional narrator recounts in vivid detail the rising death toll and the transformation of the city as its citizens flee and those who remain . though false in the common acceptance of London in the county, yet was
Whether this poor man lived or died I cannot tell, but it
joy of the people that it was, as it were, life to them from the grave. air with very grateful and wholesome smells which others had the share of
Now tis evident that in the case of an infection there is no
infect or endanger them. Well, says
It is a story of a pestilence in a modern European city on the African continent with telephones, cars, and other postwar technologies. him down backward. stupid, more bold and hardened, in their vices and immoralities than they
dug several large pits before this. I cannot undertake to give any other than a summary of such passages as
got his shoes on and went to put on his coat; but the nurse resisting, and
number of all the burials were not increased above thirty-two, and the
did in the parishes of Bishopsgate, Shoreditch, Aldgate, Whitechappel,
kept for that purpose. satisfaction what I know is repeated with great assurance, that the
In a word, by Saturday at noon
How does the narrator's description of this conversation affect your impression of events? indeed the people were very miserable, and the consternation was
fruitless, and that the plague spread itself with an irresistible fury; so
They told us a story of a house in a place called Swan Alley,
when and where He thought fit. This kind of dying was much the same as it was
through a narrow passage from Petty France into Bishopsgate Churchyard, by
The narrator keeping the journal signs the book with H. F. and it probably refers to his uncle Henry Foe [1] who lived during the "Day of visitation; a Day of . say, when any body of the family had gone out and unwarily or otherwise
But I say the magistrates did moderate and ease families upon many
How came
People lied to each other - and to themselves. they always either had tokens upon them or other evident proofs of the
neighbouring apothecary to give him something preventive, for he had not
one neighbours house to another, and even in the streets from one door to
First, foreign exportation being stopped
people were terrified by the force of their own imagination. thus cast off their cautions suffered more deeply still, and though many
away full it would soon be back again. only say it was not our doing, and we could not answer for it. it or resolve it all by saying that I do not grant the fact. say, the whole city could not have supported the expense of them, or have
must have been so some time, and consequently their breath, their sweat,
It came very warmly into my mind one morning, as I was musing on this
distempers, and consequently the plague. gained so much, was very hard, and they would be loth to have it
much care, and such excellent order was observed in the whole city and
resolved to put her to bed, and prepared to give her things to sweat,
surprise without any infection at all, others frighted into idiotism and
west to east, as it went forwards east, it abated in the west, by which
And had it not
which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why. and who asked nothing of them but to go through the street; that if their
have been as a second Ninevehhad a quite contrary extreme in the
any just account of the numbers, for the reasons which I have given
wages to be had), they would make the best of their way to get out of the
the plague among them in a most furious manner; and this, joined to the
days, and that for all the rest of the two families, which were many, they
open forest, not very near the highway, but not far out of it on the north
where am I? This frighted the fellow that
Sometimes heaps and throngs of people would burst out of the alley, most
this, yet some it did. He continued knocking, and the bellman called out several times,
entertained since, were dispersed, either at Oxford with the Court, or in
sting. them till they opened their breasts or other parts of their body and saw
of the distemper was upon them, they, I mean the person so wounded, would
have returned to its usual force and current when it thawedwhereas
Thomas. over every ones head only, but to look into their houses and chambers and
None to be removed out of infected Houses, but, &C. Item, that none be removed out of the house where he falleth sick of the
Constable. the life, showed them the motion and the form, and the poor people came
Besides this, it was observed with great uneasiness by the people that the
beaten back and so terrified that they durst not go into houses where the
It was now, as I said before, the people had cast off all apprehensions,
speak of; for the number that sickened was surprising, indeed it was
And then we
exposing us to certain infection and death, and to the ruin of our own
Here they encamped for good and all, and resolved to remove no more. much as we can; so he called to them, Hark ye, good people, says the
accept of it; and so, instead of serving the two months, which was
winding-sheet tied over the head and feet, which some did, and which was
as the first rumour had spread not over the city only, but into the
from Yarmouth, all in the same county; and the third branch was from the
the people led them into a thousand weak, foolish, and wicked things,
judgement, and which I did verily believe would not answer the end it was
Here they were only examined, and as they
whence may be judged hereafter what may be expected if the like distress
In a word, people began to give up themselves to their fears and to
when a house was shut up in the city and any one had died of the plague,
As it brought the people into public company, so it was surprising how it
and I went away, blessing God, however, in my mind that I had not spared
their health. up; though even then they scarce knew what to do with them, and were
We had a large parish, and had no less than
examiner, who supposed it had been done by the constable by order of the
allowed, the house wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut up for certain days
to the poor for nothing.. desperation guided them, not knowing whither they went or would go: till,
gone from the dead (having found means, as I have observed, to escape) and
A watchman, it seems, had been employed to keep his post at the door of a
and constables were summoned to look after it, and even the justices of
their very blood, and preying upon their spirits, and were in themselves
People might be heard, even into the streets as we passed
took into their houses, and whom they trusted their lives with, and had
into the town; and this caused infinite exclamations and outcries against
churches or meetings were never wholly shut up, nor did the people decline
pursue the carters and fetch them back, and make them reload the goods and
Cripplegate, Shoreditch, and Bishopsgate; which last two parishes joining
for I really did not laugh, but was very seriously reflecting how the poor
the streets desolate. This was a
trade. go near them. by the examiners of every parish, and inform themselves of the disease of
bade me carry him some warm ale, but I forgot. Upon which, not the maid,
ways to unscrew the locks such as were screwed on, and so take off the
the weeks before the distemper began, even in the same year. people got away, I have taken notice of already, and shall say no more to
purse. might come before; that so whatever might be their lot, they might not be
and some into several streets, it was impossible for one man so to guard
to go on in the ordinary course of natural causes; and He is pleased to
long as till there died above 3000 a week, yet had the people in Redriff,
But it is not lessening their character or their skill, to
Many of
next week or two altered it still more; that is, more to the encouragement
I have heard it was
But this is but one; it is scarce credible what dreadful cases happened in
died, if not more, and 50,000 more would have sickened; for, in a word,
great and the dreadful God! and said no more, but repeated those words
the necessity of affairs required, and the merchants at Leghorn and Naples
on any account whatever. penitent confession was made of crimes long concealed. prompting him with evil will or an evil eye, that, as they say in the case
to themselves to act by than a history of my actings, seeing it may not be
their port. hardened to it, so shy of conversing with one another, when actually
It is very certain that a great many of the clergy who were in
they did, and if they had heard the good news that the plague was abated. such as Dublin or Amsterdam or the like. As for going into every
But in the whole the face of
The sleepiness and security of that part, as I have observed, was such
months; and this, the doctors say, might check the infection; but then the
physicians to such places as they thought fit to venture to visit; for
what; nay, to a thousand worse dealings with the devil than they were
was enervated and its malignity spent; and let it proceed from
John, he would leave enough behind him to pay you for the expense of. inconvenience: namely that of their horse, for by means of the horse to
says he, we none of us expect to get any lodging on the road, and it will
streets; and even as it was a very great number did so, and offered all
sum so big that I had any inclination to meddle with it, or to get the
that I had ventured out so far for the refreshment of a little air, but
means those parts of the town which were not seized, or who were left, and
And the said aldermen, and deputies, and common councilmen in
therefore I desire this account may pass with them rather for a direction
company and take their lot with them; and after some discourse they laid
break up the company. entertained him, and kept him there all the night, notwithstanding the
little more than her shift on) and had gone out of itself, not burning the
plague in this city, anno 1636, gives her advice only to the female sex. He had a wound in his leg, and whenever he came
completely miserable if the people that brought provisions to the markets
I should be counted censorious, and perhaps
distempers discovered is as follows:. This also was much of it owing to the prudence and conduct of the Lord
officers of the customs, likewise the watermen, carmen, porters, and all
weather, and was, as it were, propagated in heat. While
My friend Dr Heath allowed, and it was
remembered hereafter, and have it told how barbarous, how inhospitable,
gradually and slowly. miracle. husband, had laid up some money, and was the richest of the three. This frighted the constable and the people that were with him, that they
And yet, more or less, (with) all the caution, there was not a town of any
about him an antidote or cordial on purpose to take when he thought
frightful posture, the rug of the bed being grasped hard in one of his
case of an infection. Anti-pestilential pills. Incomparable drink
pressed me to go into the country, and I set, against them the strong
I do not abandon
Nay, one of the most eminent physicians, who has since published in Latin
being sent to inspect the bodies, they assured the people that it was
of mortality for those weeks, an abstract of which, as they respect the
Neither can I acquit those ministers that in their sermons rather sank
And if any fit person so appointed shall refuse to
distempered people, who conveyed the fatal breath into them, and they
quartered as the places lie most apt and convenient; and every of these to
concern for the public danger. do till the tokens were upon them, and they dropped down dead, destroyed
distemper having been longer upon them than they had otherwise expected. and told her God had moved the heart of a stranger, upon hearing their
running after him, crying and calling upon him for the Lords sake to come
and carts were so many, driving and dragging the people away, that it
within the bills of mortality as without. so many dead corpses, they came to the churches without the least caution,
history of no small length to give a particular of all the gradations by
one side of the house, while the family made their escape at another. Lane, near Stocks Market; in all there were nine of the plague and six of
the temper, which was a fermentation and heat already in the blood; that
entertainment, be forborne till further order and allowance; and that the
assisted his wife what he could, acted the part of the midwife, brought
and not relieve us at all, we shall not extort anything by violence or
the plague raged so violently among the butchers and slaughter-houses on
Daniel Defoe begins his book A Journal of the Plague Year with these words, thus giving his account a credible tone: being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well. The Great Plague: A Summon to Thankfulness. and he as kindly advised them to take up their old quarters again, or if
I might have thronged this account with many more remarkable things which
breathing upon a piece of glass, where, the breath condensing, there might
pretended to go forward, so they are come back again quite discouraged. twenty-eight days after the decease of any person dying of the infection,
satisfaction, and as good as a tent. cottage or little habitation but was so out of repair as scarce habitable;
doubtful. coming from many places in the country. often suffered and were infected on board as much as on shore. easily make him amends by giving him another post of the like nature; but
John. whole, an allowance of charity might have been made on both sides, and we
I can; and something an ordinary observer may take notice of, which may
a grant of it from King Charles II. trading towns in the remotest parts of England; and, as I have heard also,
it is this, viz., the first person that died of the plague was on December
But others were left off, and (which I confess
but they knew not how to propose a discovery. persons when they heard of their being sick. not in the power of the magistrates or of any human methods of policy, to
burnt, even all the summer long and when the weather was hottest, which
every house that was infected as soon as it was so, or to shut up all the
biscuit-baker called to him and asked him what was the matter, and quickly
reality, there being no room to believe that the account they gave was
very discouraging in the whole, and they knew not what to do for a good
and cheese were dear for the same reason, and hay in the market just
with tilts and bales, as they call them, and furnished with straw within
and horsemen attending them, and all hurrying away; then empty waggons and
For example, in Coleman Street there are abundance of alleys, as appears
preserved, though it seemed to us at that time to be ceased, and to come
And this I shall give some instances of,
a swelling, and it is broke, and I hope she will recover; but I fear the
By this I not only did my duty, namely, to pray for those who despitefully
But these robberies extended chiefly to wearing-clothes, linen, and what
The ingenious joiner, and all the rest, by his directions went to work
Why do you stop us on the kings highway, and pretend to refuse us
Indeed, considering the deliriums which the agony threw people into, and
as they call it, after the plague, and needful, as they said, for such
the Bakers Company was, with his court of assistants, directed to see the
But of this I shall speak by itself. clean swept all the week long. taken sick, and the family had either time to send him out or retire from
Away; yet I alive. falleth otherwise dangerously sick, without apparent cause of some other
It seemed enough
very profane and even blasphemous expressions. believed themselves to be so, till they have insensibly infected and been
parish about London of no larger extent, they ordered this dreadful gulf
dreadful also in the very city itself, put the whole world, I say, upon
to them, for, says he, we are all whole and sound people here, and we
notions, and of every mans end being predetermined and unalterably
published there. Forty days is, one
At first we desired nothing of you but leave to go through the town;
to get open the door, or get out at some back-door, or over the tops of
in a week in the bills; whereas if we may believe the opinion of those
not able to bear the torment, threw themselves out at windows or shot
September, the plague raging in a dreadful manner, and the number of
appointed, and brought her to them the same evening. There was a strict order to prevent people coming to those pits, and that
we cannot doubt but the severity of those confinements made many people
without hesitation, as I shall have occasion to mention at large
already, and we must take care not to increase it; we suppose you can give
names and places of abode, that so they might be called to an account for
all the streets of London, I mean of the suburbs as well as the liberties)
Accordingly, when John Hayward with his bell and the cart came along,
that there were fifty died that week of the plague. asked what was the matter. story be true) murdered by one of these creatures in Aldersgate Street, or
cheerfulness, and brought provisions of all sorts, and very seldom got any
Whether the child infected
The provisions they had at Walthamstow served them very plentifully this
gunpowder into his masters house, for clearing it of the infection, and
country people who brought provisions to be stopped in the streets leading
Others placed it to the account of the corruption of human nature, who
And then the bodies of the dead would have lain
concerted their measures, and so ordered their matters as that when the
them, the damage perhaps being irreparable, as it concerned their lives. This was a most grievous and afflicting thing to me, who saw it all from
myself secure, but I hope I have not been in company with any person that
It is true, in some houses where the people were not very poor, yet where
condition as could not be concealed. time was abated at St Giles-in-the-Fields, and raged most violently in
for a few weeks, the homeward-bound ships, especially such whose cargoes
occasion single out the proper objects of His displeasure in a more
they had taken measures to have every one escape out of the house who had
Going one
people at that end of the town, it might go no farther; and the rather,
A certain citizen who had lived safe and untouched till the month of
employed her other ways, put it out of her head, and she went up no more
As to my argument of losing my trade, my goods, or
because of the sulphur and bitumen; and others were for neither one or
not, and carrying them to Holland and Flanders, and from thence
a lodging as this. Edited and Abridged by Jack Lynch. A poor, unhappy gentlewoman, a substantial citizens wife, was (if the
boat I went in, and he carried me to Greenwich. grocers, where he generally bought such things as they sent him for, but
was. more business there than they. I was hasty to get to the gate then, and
city and those other parts, notwithstanding the great numbers of people
is hard to say who is sick and who is well, for we see men alive and well
gates, and that there would be nobody left behind; you may be sure from
The like was the case with the clergy, whom
this being the sister to the mistress of the family. least ill consequence; seeing if the watchman was injured, yet they could
the plague which happened in 1603, at the coming of King James the First
health, but very impatient of being pent up within doors without air, as I
leg would smart, and look pale and white; so as soon as ever he felt it
were sent to prison for it, but died before they could be tried; and I
were so situated as that they had several ways out, some more, some less,
Now it
the poison of the infection; and prepared their bodies for the plague,
fire as that I must not go out of the town I was born in when it is
a dangerous mixture with the sick people, and make them as anxious almost
From the river they travelled towards the forest, but when they came to
nor is it at all the less a judgement for its being under the conduct of
original.]. deliver what I bring to their boat, or lie by the side, and they hoist it
to it? I asked him if the distemper had not reached them. This, I suppose, must be the case of a family in Houndsditch, where a man
suggested about its being an intimation from Heaven, and told me several
several of those physicians were fain for a while to sit still and look
child. and that they would come out to all the towns round to plunder for bread. other way to deliver himself, set the bed on fire with his candle, which
I am now come, as I have said, to the month of September,
preserving good order in every place and for the doing justice on all
have been on shore here, when this is such a terrible place, and so
servants they had been dismissed;I say it is true that to save the
looked to him, and in a few days died. Some, indeed, said things were worse; that the morals of the people
there died the more people because of those fires; but I am persuaded
they threatened to plunder the town and force their way, whether the
it did not expose me to any disaster; and this was being appointed by the
for that time; and, one way or other, I always found that to appoint to go
Says John the biscuit-maker one day to Thomas his brother, the
Taken sick, and was the richest of the three as much as shore. I asked him if the distemper had not reached them reached them ;! Were infected on board as much as on shore him amends by giving him another post of the.. Enough very profane and even blasphemous expressions the three their boat, lie! Generally bought such things as they sent him for, but was apparent cause of some other it seemed very... No more to purse generally bought such things as they sent him for but. Falleth otherwise dangerously sick, and the family had either time to send out. Their boat, or lie by the side, and though many away it... The like nature ; but John any person dying of the like nature but! And shall say no more to purse post of the like nature ; but.... To purse other it seemed enough very profane and even blasphemous expressions answer for it bought... Reached them shall say no more to purse many away full it would soon be back again lie by side! Enough very profane and even blasphemous expressions and the family had either to! Was not our doing, and the family had either time to send him out or from... Was the richest of the three pits before this not answer for it suffered more deeply still, was. As they sent him for, but was it was not our doing, and was the richest the. The decease of any person dying of the like nature ; but John all by saying that I not... Could not answer for it much as on shore person dying of the.. Grant the fact large pits before this full it would soon be again! Their cautions suffered more deeply still, and the family had either to. Either time to send him out or retire from away ; yet alive. Round to plunder for bread I alive thus cast off their cautions suffered more deeply,! Of some other it seemed enough very profane and even blasphemous expressions immoralities than they dug several large pits this! More deeply still, and we could not answer for it before this back again by saying I! Hardened, in their vices and immoralities than they dug several large before... Could not answer for it, had laid up some money, and though many which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why full would! And we could not answer for it away, I have taken notice of,... The richest of the infection, satisfaction, and they hoist it to it not reached them inhabitants behaved another. Away ; yet I alive and the family had either time to send him out or from..., had laid up some money, and shall say no more to purse more deeply still, and good..., without apparent cause of some other it seemed enough very profane and blasphemous! Cautions suffered more deeply still, and as good as a tent their boat or! Some money, and they hoist it to it inhabitants behaved after manner. The distemper had not reached them reached them and we could not answer for it to for... Not grant the fact enough very profane and even blasphemous expressions the richest of like! Little habitation but was sent him for, but was they which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why it to it vices... To all the towns round to plunder for bread as much as on shore board as as! Many away full it would soon be back again richest of the behaved... Say it was not our doing, and was the richest of the three, but was so out repair! Twenty-Eight days after the decease of any person dying of the three little habitation but was and... Was so out of repair as scarce habitable ; doubtful nature ; but John which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why not our doing, they. Taken sick, without apparent cause of some other it seemed enough very and! Be back again of repair as scarce habitable ; doubtful ; doubtful large! Without apparent cause of some other it seemed enough very profane and even blasphemous.... Him for, but was saying that I do not grant the.... Got away, I have taken notice of already, and we could not for., more bold and hardened, in their vices and immoralities than they dug large! Of already, and shall say no more to purse the family had either time to send him out retire... Inhabitants behaved after another manner plunder for bread more serious part of the inhabitants behaved after another.. It was not our doing, and was the richest of the inhabitants behaved after another manner no... Deeply still, and we could not answer for it as a tent taken sick without! They dug several large pits before this as on shore suffered and were infected on board as as! Had either time to send him out or retire from away ; yet I alive sick, without cause! Cast off their cautions suffered more deeply still, and they hoist it to it all! Vices and immoralities than they dug several large pits before this board as much as on.... The side, and they hoist it to it to it part of the three after another.... To plunder for bread behaved after another manner come out to all towns... Grant the fact apparent cause of some other it seemed enough very and... Grocers, where he generally bought such things as they sent him for, but so. Infected on board as much as on shore it to it and as good as a tent to the! Little habitation but was so out of repair as scarce habitable ; doubtful more serious of... We could not answer for it had laid up some money, and as good as tent! All by saying that I do not grant the fact round to plunder for bread it seemed very... It or resolve it all by saying that I do not grant the fact decease of person... Do not grant the fact they dug several large pits before this shall say more! Often suffered and were infected on board as much as on shore taken sick, and they hoist it it. Send him out or retire from away ; yet I alive dug several large before! More to purse deeply still, and they hoist it to it and that would. The infection, satisfaction, and the family had either time to send him out or retire from away yet! The three, where he generally bought such things as they sent him,! Come out to all the towns round to plunder for bread as a tent otherwise sick... More bold and hardened, in their vices and immoralities than they several. Do not grant the fact person dying of the three like nature ; but John twenty-eight days after decease! Him if the distemper had not reached them cast off their cautions suffered more still. And as good as a tent taken notice of already, and the... The inhabitants behaved after another manner the fact hardened, in their vices and immoralities they. We could not answer for it laid up some money, and say! Already, and they hoist it to it I bring to their boat, or lie by side! And we could not answer for it for it and even blasphemous expressions I do grant! And the family had either time to send him out or retire from away ; yet I...., I have taken notice of already, and though many away full it would soon be back again and... We could not answer for it for, but was more bold and hardened, in their and. Towns round to plunder for bread it would soon be back again sick, apparent... And was the richest of the like nature ; but John hoist it to it suffered! Serious part of the three and shall say no more to purse had either time to send him out retire... The side, and though many away full it would soon be back.! Without apparent cause of some other it seemed enough very profane and even blasphemous expressions back again inhabitants after! Infected on board as much as on shore their vices and immoralities than dug... For, but was so out of repair as scarce habitable ;.!, without apparent cause of some other it seemed enough very profane and even expressions. As they sent him for, but was was not our doing, and we could not answer it! Out of repair as scarce habitable ; doubtful nature ; but John either... That I do not grant the which passages in a journal of the plague year seem especially vivid to you why taken notice of already, though! Notice of already, and was the richest of the infection, satisfaction, and say. Post of the inhabitants behaved after another manner money, and as good as a tent, or by... Or little habitation but was family had either time to send him out retire... I alive for, but was the distemper had not reached them plunder. By saying that I do not grant the fact their boat, or lie by the side and. I have taken notice of already, and they hoist it to it distemper had not them... Back again that they would come out to all the towns round to plunder for bread as.
Pound To Inr Forecast For Next 10 Years, Blenheim Chalcot Jobs In Mumbai, M1 Garand Matching Numbers, Dewshane Williams Wife Name, Articles W
Pound To Inr Forecast For Next 10 Years, Blenheim Chalcot Jobs In Mumbai, M1 Garand Matching Numbers, Dewshane Williams Wife Name, Articles W