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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    ever; I will not say quite as frequently, because tlie numbers of people were many ways lessened. But the City itseK began now to be visited too, I mean within the walls; but the number of people there was indeed extremely lessened by so great a multitude having been gone into the country ; and even all this month of July they continued to flee, though not in such multitudes as formerly. In August, indeed, they fled in such a man- ner, that I began to think there would be really none but magistrates and servants left in the City. As they fled now out of the City, so I should observe that the Court removed early, viz., in the month of June, and went to Oxford, where it pleased God to pi-eserve them ; and the Distemper did not, as I heard of, so much as touch tliem; for which I cannot say that I ever saw they showed any great token of thankfulness, and hardly anything of reformation, though they did not want being told that then- crying vices might, without breach of charity, be said to have gone far in bringing that terrible judgment upon the whole nation.* The face of London was now, indeed, strangely altered, * There is a material error in the above parac^raph. The Court left Whitehall on the 29th of June, but Trent no further than to Hampton Court, and remained there untU the 27th of July follo\ving, -when the Kiug and Queen, as we learn from Pepys, set out towards Salis- bury. The Court, -sTith some little intermission, continued in that city, untn nearly the end of September, on the 28th of which month, the king arrived at Oxford, where, soon afterwards, he held a Parlia- ment. In the News, No. 79, is the following paragraph :— Lulworth Castle, in the Isle of Purbeck, September ISth—His Majesty was yes- terday at the Chapel ia this Castle, to the exceeding comfort of all that had the honour to behold him: no impression at all of his late indis- position appearing in his countenance, but on the contrary, an ayre of perfect serenity and health. In the succeeding Intelligencer, No, 80, is this notice— Winton, September 23.—The removal ef the Court from Salisbui-y to Oxford will leave this towij, thtu, the High Coixrt of Admiralty being already upon preparation for theu- removal too, &c. His Eoyal highness [the Duke of York] set forward early this morning towards Oxford..,.Ibid