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]
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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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![to the eigliteenth, when the week's Bill was 1761, yet there died no more of the Plague, on the whole Southwark side of the water, than sixteen.* But this face of things soon changed, and it began to thicken, in Cripplegate parish especially, and in Clerken- well; so that by the second week in August, Cripplegate parish alone buried 886, and Clerkenwell 155 ; of the first, 850 might well be reckoned to die of the Plao-ue; and of the last, the Bill itself said, 145 were of the Plague. During the month of July, and while, as I have observed, our part of the town seemed to be spared, in comparis'on of the loest part,! I went ordinarily about the streets, as my business required, and particularly went, generally, once in a day, or in two days, into the City, to my Brother's house, which he had given me charge of, and to see if it was safe: and having the key in my pocket, I used to go over the house, and over most of the rooms, to see that all was well; for though it be something won derful to tell, that any should have hearts so hardened, in the midst of such a calamity, as to rob and steal, yet certain it is, that all sorts of villanies, and even levities and de- baucheries, were then practised in the town, as openly as * The wind blowing westward [from the east] so long together, from before Christmas until July, about seven months, was the cause the Plague began first at the west end of the town, as at St. Giles', and St. Martin's Westminster. Afterwards it gradually insinuated and crept down Holbom and the Strand, and then into the City, and at last to the east end of the suburbs ; so that it was half a year at the ' west end of the town before the east end and Stepney were infected, which was about the middle of July.—Vide Extracts from Boghurst's Loimographia,'' Appendix, No. 1. f Pepys says, under the date of July 18th:— I was much troubled this day to hear at Westminster, how the ofScers do bury the dead in the open Tuttle-fields, pretending want of room clscAThere.—See his Diary, vol, ii.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21224377_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
