The history of the Great Plague in London, in the year 1655. Containing observations and memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both public and private, that happened during that dreadful period / By a citizen [i.e. D. Defoe] Who lived the whole time in London. To which is added a Journal of the plague at Marseilles in the year 1720 [by Pichatty de Croissante].

  • Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Date:
1819
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Credit: The history of the Great Plague in London, in the year 1655. Containing observations and memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both public and private, that happened during that dreadful period / By a citizen [i.e. D. Defoe] Who lived the whole time in London. To which is added a Journal of the plague at Marseilles in the year 1720 [by Pichatty de Croissante]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HISTORY OF THE PLAGUE IN LONDON, IT was about the beginning of September* 1664, that I, among the rest of my neigh- bours, heard, in ordinary discourse, that the Plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and par- ticularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not, from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again. B