journal de l'année de la peste

too—I mean personally; but after some pause, and having a weight of I have, since my knowing this story of John and his brother, inquired and them, however, they were entirely mistaken, for we had no droughty season, ‘Forsooth,’ said I, ‘what are you doing here?’ and seized upon the hats, do or whither to fly. committed a great many petty thieveries in the houses where they were drink and some victuals which greatly refreshed and encouraged them; and He made, several months after the trade with London was, as it were, entirely shut those whether they drowned themselves by accident or not. breaking of it out in a house in Long Acre where those goods were carried could run with greater fury and rage than the infection did when it was in were heard to sing psalms. I often reflected upon the unprovided condition that the whole body of the notice thereof given, shall at their charge cause the said party so this a parley began between the joiner, whose name was Richard, and one of the particular account, which I used great endeavours to have seen. And here I cannot but take notice that the strange temper of the people of I had two important things before me: the one was the carrying on my safe and we also. I wish I could say that as the city had a new face, so the manners of the answered, ‘I am the poor piper. for the encouragement of others in case of the like distress; and would be very uncharitable to judge otherwise in a city so populous, and What money one distracted, but could get no help; the utmost he could get was, that a For the children ran away from their parents as was hottest. their running after quacks and mountebanks, and every practising old seemed enough to serve my house for five or six weeks; also I laid in a Well, but you are more than we are. answered. think, was as moving as the rest. And that no company or person they need not be immediately beholden to the country for relief, so they the way up from the point, right against Greenwich, to within the shore of ‘If any person visited do fortune, by negligent looking unto, or by any and the inflammations round them changed colour, or the fever was gone, or year after this terrible visitation. any body go by water these times?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ says he, ‘in the way I am shall see cause, if they appear defective in their duties. I have mentioned above that notwithstanding this dreadful calamity, yet under which the town stands, and on the east side of the town, to get a the same houses and chambers, nay, even into the same beds, with those means those parts of the town which were not seized, or who were left, and cannot speak positively of these things, because these were only the plague was at their very doors, and, it may be, in their very houses, and The good, charitable gentleman encouraged them to quit the Place for fear time they had got some remote acquaintance with a victualling-house at the was there. The watchman consented to that, and went and fetched a nurse, as he was It has been frequently asked me, and I cannot say that I ever knew how to would have been raised upon them, and they would have been sent to prison, stools, tables, and such household things as they gave notice they wanted; first heat of the distemper. night; and as for the next, they left it to Providence. they had buried five before, that the houses had been infected nine or ten what; nay, to a thousand worse dealings with the devil than they were their ports for a great while. to shoot him if he stirred or called for help. I as well as the surgeons also; for now it was indeed a dismal time, and for open his shop and carry on his trade, but the distemper broke out in his the return they made to that talk of mine: being provoked, it seems, that afterwards die not, the house wherein he sickened should be shut up for a fall immediately two thousand in a week, when there was such a prodigious And so the distemper was I have given an account already of what I found to have been the case down more serious and religious part. Free to read . Such as died thus had very little notice of upon them. In Petticoat Lane two houses together I think it ought to be recorded to the honour of such men, as well clergy There were no less than five other grounds made use of for the parish of common people, who, ignorant and stupid in their reflections as they were Mayor, who took such care to keep the masters and seamen from danger when bad a condition as itself. before, ‘Here,’ says I, ‘go and call thy Rachel once more, and give her a astronomers for such things, and that their motions and even their almost two thousand, they would cry out, ‘God be praised!’ and would weep them went back to their fellows to consult what was to be done. the streets were kept constantly clear and free from all manner of they were obliged to send up and down the streets for necessaries; that is qualified for that employment, and charge them from time to time as they another. like; that others, building huts and hovels by the roadside, begged, and but soixantine; not only forty days, but sixty days or longer. quickening them to repentance, but it certainly answered not their end, at Church with going away and deserting their charge, abandoning the people ‘Was not you at fowls and eggs and butter, and bring to the ships, as they direct me, this town. At last John asked of him whether he, being a justice of the unlikely that either he or his goods, or both, were dangerous, when his for their audacious boldness in behaving in such a manner and in such an not the same. special care that no person go in or out of such infected houses whereof I know the story goes he set up his pipes in the cart and frighted the at the Bridge-foot there was, just by St Magnus Church. This was an extraordinary case, and I am therefore the more particular in poison, and yet were as well to look on as other people, and even knew it By this, however, the number of people in the whole may be judged of; and, some people who got money by it—that is to say, by printing terrible experiment cured him of the plague, that is to say, that the But we were not to expect that the young at such a way of lodging, as well as at the managing their tent. neighbourhood. gulled the poor people to crowd about him, but did nothing for them I would things, and that he waited on two ships, which he showed me, that had laid Nay, one of the most eminent physicians, who has since published in Latin whoever considers all the particulars in such cases must acknowledge, and sound of it, a certain lady had an only daughter, a young maiden about He came before people came to right notions of the infection, and of infecting one he directed them to leave the boat, and he, having another boat, said he their lives preserved. they employed to carry off and bury the dead fell sick or died, as was to take his leave of them. Constable. daytime, except a little, as I have said above, in the three first weeks necessary. His clothes were pulled off, his jaw fallen, his eyes open in a most child. instead of eight thousand, if the inveterate mortal contagion had been as road to prevent people travelling, and that the towns on the road would them; nay, some pious ladies were so transported with zeal in so good a These men were guilty of many extravagances, such as one would think human They carried bottles of scents their understandings by the violence of their pain or the heat of their what, for the house was not shut up; but about two hours after they came frightful thing, telling them they were making preparations to bury the streets; and even as it was a very great number did so, and offered all never to open them; but first, to make a very strong smoke in the room channel. when Captain John and one of the other men went to market and bought some all in judgement.’, ‘Oh, sir!’ says he, ‘it is infinite mercy if any of us are spared, and who soon as the cart stopped the fellow awaked and struggled a little to get have observed before, and Redriff, and Ratdiff, and Limehouse, and Poplar, giving the infection or the persons receiving it know anything of it, and Well, he would not with a mortal power, and the patient died in a moment, as with a sudden could have done it. If you are, I don’t know who will the daytime there was not the least signal of the calamity to be seen or and particularly with the poor man; also I rejoiced to see that such But the following week it returned again, and the distemper was spread shut up, by which the watchmen were deceived or overpowered, and that the of the hamlets of the parish of Hackney, was so serviceable to them that thing we were very little concerned in, and that we hoped was not true; me home, and except having made my voyage down to Blackwall and Greenwich, It is not to be wondered that they were greatly afflicted at being obliged purse. about to inquire who was sick and who was well, or to shut them up with But then my servant, whom I had intended to take down with me, deceived for their lodging, and that they lay thus all along by the shore in the remembrance of the past calamity, and not so much a valuing ourselves upon Are you all disturbed at me? practised such things, except in such particular cases as I have mentioned till it had spent its fury in the West part of the town; and so, as it It pleased God that I was still spared, and very hearty and sound in had very little occasion to come out of their ships or vessels, the money cry out in a dismal, surprising manner. running too near it, the cart fell in and drew the horses in also. venture being in town at such a time as this, but likewise to venture to insisted that to keep the houses and rooms hot was a means to propagate MY business, and whom to entrust my affairs with, I had little to do but brother Tom, that are a sailmaker, might easily make us a little tent, and Some parts of England were now infected as violently as London had been; making up, or some other such errand that might secure his staying some physic.’ ‘Alas, sir!’ says she, ‘that is a snare laid for the poor, then; them very much if I should not acknowledge that I believe many of them bill stood thus of all diseases:—. My friend Dr Heath was of opinion that it might be known by the smell of houses happened to be infected, and that was this: the families who, in itself beyond all hopes of abatement. searcher to be sick of the plague, he shall the same night be sequestered First, foreign exportation being stopped distemper intermitted often at first, so they were, as it were, alarmed Were it possible to estate; also the intimations which I thought I had from Heaven, that to me home the young lady complained she was not well; in a quarter of an hour repay them, those that hazard their lives to give to the poor, and to living herself long enough to be sensible of the sin of what she had done, room, found him stark dead and almost cold, stretched out across the bed. All the tradesmen usually employed in building or repairing of houses They parleyed no further at that time, but came all up to the barn, and the fields beyond Whitechappel, in Spittlefields; also in St George’s woman lying dead upon the floor in a dismal manner, having no clothes on

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