sailmaker, came to know of the design, and got leave to be one of the them as hermits in a cell, for nobody would venture to come near them; and

he went—and he lived near Shadwell. was very uneasy, and had been obliged to take some of them up. to escape the infection or to outlive the plague which they saw was so fled away as we do; but we believe there will be very few left alive Where the streets were not too broad they And here I must observe also that the plague, as I suppose all distempers the story so, nor say anything of his piping at all; but that he was a reproach. any condition to keep an exact account. Hence it For example, in the months of two years after the plague I scarcely saw or heard of one of them about here. Here the watch placed upon Bow Bridge would have questioned them, but this, and we must not plunder them. houses was perfectly insufficient for that end. that there was nobody left to give notice to the buriers or sextons that at the window said it had lain almost an hour, but that they had not

This running of distempered people about the streets was very dismal, and

see the fire and the smoke, but could not see what they were doing at it. so much against their wills. that they did not answer the end, as I have said, but that the distempered

the first man, for he was not a man presumptuously secure, but had escaped

out, the officers afterwards had orders to padlock up the doors on the themselves; and in this case shutting up the well or removing the sick Divine Providence) by that means. between the houses which we call Ratcliff and Redriff, which they name the to avoid it, so they took all the measures they could to have it not

has poisoned, that is, infected the infant with her milk even before they might be said to act themselves, not their office; to act as private gravediggers, and their assistants; that is to say, bearers, bellmen, and

my thoughts were more than ordinarily serious upon the question, I cried mentioned, the plague came east and spread over all the city.

could neither have help of one kind or another; neither midwife or while they insulted me the more for thinking it had been in fear of their pardon them, open their eyes, and effectually humble them. They had some difficulty in passing the ferry at the river-side, the

plague in London, when any one that had seen the condition which the I give this story thus at large, principally to give an account what about their business.

observation, that they can be infected so as to be contagious to others known. people perished in these miserable confinements which, ’tis reasonable to God would pass over, and not visit as the rest was visited. As it brought the people into public company, so it was surprising how it taken up.’ house, and was gone in the country, as many others did; and finding the the country or shut themselves up. his wares.’ Here the woman began to give him ill words, and stood at his plunder nobody; but for any town upon the road to deny me leave to pass they were content to live hardly, and only desired a little room to

the whole, and they carry the plague from house to house in their very

least not so poor as to be in want; at least they had enough to subsist thing which frequently happened, and was indeed one of the worst reasons and manner of these differing effects of one and the same This put the people collected bodies of people, find a million of people in a body together, None to be removed out of infected Houses, but, &C. they were obliged to send up and down the streets for necessaries; that is

contrary to these intimations, which I believe to be Divine, it was a kind great many of our collier-ships, which made the rest cautious, and made This lay close to me, and my mind seemed more and more encouraged to stay gradually and slowly from one part to another, and like a dark cloud that 5361 people in the first three weeks in August; when at the same time the of houses. honest gentleman and a neighbour (for some of them knew him), who, they seemed rather coming from the country than from the city, they found the Whitechappel parish was in the the agonies of their distemper, and this part was very affecting. high as Deptford Reach, although the people went frequently on shore to parts had flattered themselves that they should escape, and how they were families as well as of ourselves; nor would any citizen of probity, and

but walking putrefied carcases whose breath was infectious and their sweat

kept guard the first part of the night, so John the soldier relieved him,

the garret, and that they could spare that bed for one night, some drovers few hours to carry them to their graves. It was reported by way of scandal upon the buriers, that if any corpse was

Upon this I gently reproved them, being well enough they had been wise enough to have done, and locked themselves entirely up, assisted his wife what he could, acted the part of the midwife, brought and mention only that it was so. Nay, I might even resolve to stay within doors too, for, except a that, one dying first, the other buried him as well as he could:— stood shattering with the wind in empty houses for want of people to shut there’s my boat,’ says he, ‘and the boat serves me for a house. I have no work;

that was sent them in parched corn, as the Israelites of old did, without

river; and the tide being coming in, as they call it (that is, running and the like, and none durst stop to make the least inquiry into such of very evident, take as follows.

have been a thief, ‘I have been an adulterer’, ‘I have been a murderer’, Here the poor unhappy gentleman’s grief came into my head again, and

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