Narratives of two families exposed to the Great Plague of London, A.D. 1665 : with conversations on religious preparation for pestilence. / Republished, with notes and observations, by John Scott.

  • Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Narratives of two families exposed to the Great Plague of London, A.D. 1665 : with conversations on religious preparation for pestilence. / Republished, with notes and observations, by John Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    menced at Marseilles in 1720, was still raging in France, and was making such progress towards our own shores as in- duced the government of that day to adopt measures, similar to those which are now employed to prevent, by the blessing of God upon them, the intro- duction or diffusion of another fatal ■disease amongst us, which is calculated to have carried off, in various parts of the world, as many as fifty millions of our fellow creatures within the last four- teen years ! — In particular we may observe, that at the period referred to those prayers were first introduced, which are now by public authority again used amongst us.^ I purchased for sixpence the little volume I have described : and, on perus- ing it, found it to contain, in the form of a history of a family shut up in London at the time, an Account of the great plague of A. D. 1665, which is highly * Christian Observer, Nov. 1831.