A journal of the plague year, or, Memorials of the great pestilence in London, in 1665 / by Daniel De Foe. Revised edition with historical notes by E. W. Brayley ... Also, some account of the great fire in London in 1666, by Gideon Harvey ... with an appendix containing the Earl of Clarendon's account of the fire. With illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank.
- Daniel Defoe
- Date:
- [1881]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A journal of the plague year, or, Memorials of the great pestilence in London, in 1665 / by Daniel De Foe. Revised edition with historical notes by E. W. Brayley ... Also, some account of the great fire in London in 1666, by Gideon Harvey ... with an appendix containing the Earl of Clarendon's account of the fire. With illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ward, and came out at the Boarded-river,* and so, avoid- ing the town, they left Hornsey on the left hand, and Newington on the right hand, and came into the great road about Stamford-hill on that side, as the three travellers had done on the other side; and now they had thoughts of going over the river [the Lea] in the marshes, and make forwards to Epping Forest, where they hoped they should get leave to rest. It seems they were not poor, at least not so poor as to he in want; they had enough to subsist them moderately for two or three months, when, as they said, they were in hopes the cold weather would check the infection, or at least the violence of it would have spent itself, and would abate, if it were only for want of people left alive to be infected. This was much the fate of our three travellers, only that they seemed to be the better furnished for travelling, and had it in then' view to go farther off; for, as to the first, they did not propose to go farther than one day's journey, so that they might have intelligence every two or three days how things were at London. But here om* travellers found themselves under an un- expected inconvenience, namely, that of their horse, for by means of the horse to carry their baggage they were obliged to keep in the road; whereas, the people of this other band went over the fields or roads, path or no path, way or no way, as they pleased; neither had they any occasion to pass through any town, or come near any town, other than to buy such things as they wanted for their necessary subsistence, and in that, indeed, they were put to much difficulty;—of which in its place. * The Boarded-rirer was a part of the Neir Eiver so called, neaf Hornsey--wood House; where, formerly, the water was conveyed over a low valley in a sort of trough.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21224377_0210.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
