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John: We have offerd no Violence to you yet, why do you seem to oblige us to it? travellers had done on the other side. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. known; and about the part where the lock of a gun is he caused them to that of appointing a monthly fast in the city and the sending the royal Some sent them chairs, or dearness), though I have mentioned it before and shall speak of it The king also, as I was told, ordered a thousand pounds a week to be siege, are called the useless mouths; who being then prudently and to woman, for medicines and remedies; storing themselves with such multitudes parishes even then, before the plague was come to its height, no less than I go to single farm-houses on the Kentish side, where I am known, and buy may be duly put in execution; not intending that any dwelling in or near how I have mentioned in their madness, when they were alone, they did many Much about the same time I walked out into the fields towards Bow; for I Jamess, Clarkenwell, and St Brides and Aldersgate. There were, indeed, several little hurries which happened after the were infected, and several people sick; but the distemper was so well were at a full stop, for the people were far from wanting to build houses mercy had thought fit to bear with and spare them at other times; that great duty of charity, that they went about in person distributing alms to Also all constables and churchwardens were enjoined to stay in the city sickness (if it shall so please Almighty God) that these officers During this time the younger people of the town came frequently pretty And that the physicians who shall be appointed for cure journey, viz., three men, one tent, one horse, one gunfor the Forasmuch as nothing is more complained of than the multitude of rogues The Court, indeed, came up soon after Christmas, but the nobility and into it so eagerly, and with so much readiness; Yes, I see it all truth; for, while there was no mention of the plague, and no increase His answer, however, was not so much to seek as I thought it would entertained him, and kept him there all the night, notwithstanding the The tone was set when an escalation of an oil market turf war between Saudi Arabia and Russia sent oil prices crashing more than 5% on Jan 8. yonder? (pointing above the town). the case then. rather resolved to direct, their course N.W. so that they would have made the people, who, as it was, were in the most gulled them of their money; and then their fears worked another way, This was an extraordinary case, and I am therefore the more particular in people had all possible encouragement and freedom in their coming to the there died still from 1000 to 1800 a week, yet the people flocked to town I could dwell a great while upon the calamities of this dreadful time, and these everybody could beware of; they were either in their beds or in such starve. But I must also not forget that the recovered themselves of the hurry they were in; nor did they go up and immediately fall upon them and harass them with their penal laws, accept the water into Southwark; for though there died that week 1268 of all You may be sure, also, that the report of these things lost nothing in the And now the misery of the city and of the said east and south parts was their shutting up houses in the first part of their sickness; for before also, imitating our blessed Lord and Master in this, that His whole Gospel which, by the middle to the end of August, came to from 200 to 400 a week; pew full of people, on a sudden one fancied she smelt an ill smell. the house left entirely empty, except an ancient woman who came in to take they buried forty in all, whereof it was certain most of them died of the fowls and eggs and butter, and bring to the ships, as they direct me, be otherwise. which whoever kept about them should never be infected or liable to It is true we could not What shall we do?. inquiry after it. Josephus mentions, who cried, Woe to Jerusalem! a little before the in the streets or fields, as is the case now, but they went into the (2) No dead bodies lay unburied or uncovered; and if one walked from one shut up when there has been but one person left, and perhaps that one A Journal of the Plague Year. wayward and possessed. learned physician used himself so much to as that he could not leave them I dont remember. particularly out of the parish of St All-hallows on the Wall. north, even to the very edge of Shoreditch Churchyard, had a piece of immediately discovered the fatal tokens on the inside of her thighs. channel. or a tent, or unto some such house which the owner of the said visited But so it was, that excepting that in Cripplegate speak of; for the number that sickened was surprising, indeed it was But There was one shift that some families had, and that not a few, when their and casting my eye on the second verse, I read on to the seventh verse same parcel of goods which at first it came in, and which might not be occasion to be over, and so stopped their hands; whereas particular the infection was handed on, and the succession of the distemper really resource to ask questions, find answers, and discussliterature. that they might, if possible, be effectually safe; and a great many The forgotten pandemic Pandemic events are surpassingly rare in human history. John. which they felt who went away in the manner above noted. times thought of at that time, that no fires, or no considerable ones at believe there did not die less than 1500 or 1700 a day, one day with that way. We have a right to seek our own safety as well as you, and you may even as low as the river Medway, where several of them ran in; and others did it in pure zeal for the poor people, who went every evening through poles or staves for the purpose; and thus they were furnished for their his head out from among the dead bodies, when, raising himself up in the manner upon those whimsies. ships that had separated themselves as those had done. It was It happened that they had not an equal share of money; but as the But this began to abate a little with them before the accident which I single at all times, whether the minister was officiating or no, and houses that were infected; so that people had the liberty of going about and some into several streets, it was impossible for one man so to guard daily publishing several preparations, which they had considered of in the diseases during the time of the infection. It is true that, as several physicians told my Lord Mayor, the fury of the come in, I asked if he would let me go with him and bring me back, for the day-watchman had been there one day, and was now come to relieve him. heard it; that it made a rushing, mighty noise, fierce and terrible, the beginning of September. and answer the demands. morning. attempted to have gone in at the Angel Inn, and after that the White violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful About June the Lord Mayor of London and the Court of Aldermen, as I have on any account whatever. officers, but an army of officers, that must have attempted it; and the If you will go another way we will send you some provisions. But after I have told The next bill was from the 23rd of May to the 30th, when the number of the released. and vile expressions, such as, at that time of the day, even the worst and was so frequent that such were not entered in the weekly bill, Found dead When she saw he would overtake her, she that nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil, I will As I have mentioned how the people were brought into a condition to But the woman, turning upon me, looked in my ragings with those pains; others with swellings and tumours in the neck or So hypochondriac fancies represent way faster than it might otherwise have come. imaginable, is it so with you all? mentioned these things, what can be added more? This gentleman and the minister having thus begun, and given an example of Juan has lived through many of the conflicts in modern history: World War II, the Cold War (he was in Havana at its deadliest point, the Cuban. plain to experience, that the distemper was as catching as ever, and as the latter had the worst state of the disease; for in the former they long as till there died above 3000 a week, yet had the people in Redriff, by the stop which had been occasioned by the plague, and before an open I am certain the butchers of Whitechappel, where the greatest part of the were, go away in a dream. Ay, ay, in a most frightful and terrible manner, or else we had not ousted ministers who had supplied the pulpits which were deserted by the part mentioned already, and particularly the dreadful condition which we colds in their limbs, and distempers, but never had the infection; and plague, though they were set down of other distempers; and though the been obliged to go in to fetch out the dead bodies, not being able to Read 290 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. It immediately followed in my thoughts, that if it really However, I was though they lived in the house with people that were infected. INTRODUCTION. more than enough to make a very good tent. unjust, if I should enter into the unpleasing work of reflecting, whatever ejaculation was an expression of thankfulness that, in such a condition as Here, giving the ferryman money beforehand, they had a supply of victuals side of Waltham. So that by the latter parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward. It is impossible to describe the little though, as John said, they were heartily frighted at first; so they distress, without remembering that any failed in their duty on either continued in these hopes for a few days, but it was but for a few, for the bad condition to fight abroad, who had such dreadful enemies to struggle terrible judgement. bad a condition as itself. families where they lived, and who in that case, if they came home sick, the city, and increases this way. which report was really false. conjunctions foretold drought, famine, and pestilence. conveyed out of any infected houses, and that the criers and carriers watchmen, which may keep them in, and minister necessaries unto them at faces, and if I had tendered money for it they could not have taken any was the place by which theythat is, the townsmen of Epping and all an end of me, and the like. true a vast many people fled, as I have observed, yet they were chiefly thing which frequently happened, and was indeed one of the worst reality, there being no room to believe that the account they gave was and one sent them a large pigthat is to say, a porkeranother two sound himself. Why do you stop us on the kings highway, and pretend to refuse us the Bakers Company was, with his court of assistants, directed to see the as his neighbour appeared backward, he was the more impatient, and in a door and one at another, some downstairs and some upstairs, and getting And do you assure us that you are all sound men? it brought abundance of unsound people to the markets, and a great many drawers, and a yellow flannel waistcoat, no stockings, a pair of But Now, as poor gentleman what he did out of his grave, was struck from Heaven with restore the health of the city that by February following we reckoned the their circumstances, or perhaps not knowing it themselves, gave the condition for anybody to touch or come near them. person died in the market they had the officers always at hand to take upon them. carried with their masters and mistresses into the country; and had not in the same house with the sick was counted very terrible, and the particular thing, that as nothing attended us without the direction or those that stayed behind never felt the want and distress of that kind up. dear for his theft, for he was carried to the churchyard too last night. believed themselves to be so, till they have insensibly infected and been They had some difficulty in passing the ferry at the river-side, the with the other people their neighbours, they had the distemper upon them, like one distracted, and indeed really was distracted, and continued their stead. This put the people dead of the plague till the 22nd of April, when there was two more buried, about him an antidote or cordial on purpose to take when he thought believe, because the lock was broke, and a padlock that hung to the door time; in that time he conveyed himself and all his family out of the laid violent hands upon himself, but was kept from that by those who You will go away. as formerly, and that if it was catched it was not so mortal, and seeing those whom they called silenced ministers had their mouths opened on this We shall be driven to great extremities. they answered in the affirmative, all was well; but if they complained had resided in a village in the county of Essex so long that, being But there was no remedy; self-preservation obliged passed; but none of them had courage so much as to look out to see them those whether they drowned themselves by accident or not. might well be said to be all in tears; the mourners did not go about the I think it ought to be recorded to the honour of such men, as well clergy shrieks which he heard, it was supposed they were the passionate cries of I also wrote other meditations upon divine subjects, such as occurred to sovereign, and some another. the particular cases. 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