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
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[1881]
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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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    and towards Westminster, began now to come eastivard towards the part wliere I lived.* It was to be observed, indeed, that it did not come straight on towards us ; for the City, that is to say, within the walls, was indifferent healthy still; nor was it got then very much over the water into Southwark, for though there died that week 1268 of all distempers, whereof it might be supposed above 900 died of the Plague, yet there were but twenty- eight in the whole City, within the walls, and but nineteen in Southwark, Lambeth parish included ; whereas, in the parishes of St. Giles and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, alone, there died 421. But we perceived the Infection kept chiefly in the out- parishes, which being veiy populous, and fuller also of poor, the Distemper found more to prey upon than in the City, as I shall observe afterwards ; we perceived, I say, the Distemper to draw our way, viz. by the parishes of ClerkenweU, Cripplegate, Shoreditch, and Bishopsgate; which last two parishes joining to Aldgate, Whitechapel, and Stepney, the Infection came at length to spread its utmost rage aud violence in those parts, even when it abated at the western parishes where it began. It Avas veiy strange to observe, that in this particular week, from the fourth to the eleventh of July, when, as I have observed, there died near 400 of the Plague in the two parishes of St. Mfirtin and St. Giles in the Fields only, there died in the parish of Aldgate but four, in the parish of Whitechapel tlrree, in the parish of Stepney but one. Likewise, in the next week, from the eleventh of July * July 6tli.— I could not see Lord Brouncker, nor had miicli rDincL one of the great houses within two doors of him [in Covent Garden]) being shut up: and Lord! the number of houses visited, which this day I observed through the town, quite round in my way by Long Lane and London Wall.—Pepys's Diary.