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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    opened, a flash of gunpowder was made near it, and nothing suffered to come in from abroad till it was sufficiently fumigated and purified.” Such was the contrivance made for the only intercourse which was to he held with the world without, after the proper time for shutting up the family should have come. But our author enters largely into the par- ticulars of the large store of provisions which the hero of his narrative thought it necessary previously to lay in, and which the nature of his business and his accom- modations enabled him to procure and stow without too much attracting observation. He then proceeds as follows: “ With these preparations he began. He forbore shutting himself quite in for several months after the plague was begun, and even till there died above a thousand a week ; because, though the infection was very terrible in the out-parishes, and espe- cially in the west part of the town, that is to say in Holborn, St. Giles’s, Fleet-