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 ,2025



ISBN978-5-0068-7343-8

     Ridero




 


Inthe year 1665, the great city ofLondon was abustling hive oflife, with its narrow streets crowded bymerchants, craftsmen, and families going about their daily routines.

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The Thames River flowed steadily, carrying ships from distant lands, and the air was filled with the cries ofstreet vendors and the clatter ofhorse-drawn carts.

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But whispers ofadeadly shadow began tocreep infrom afar.

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News arrived from Holland, where aterrible plague had struck, killing thousands.

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People inLondon spoke ofit inhushed tones, wondering if it would cross thesea.

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At first, it seemed like adistant threat, something that happened toothers.

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The king and his court paid little attention, and life continued as usual.

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I, asaddler bytrade, living inthe parish ofSt. Botolphs, Aldgate, decided tostay inthe city despite the rumors.

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My brother had urged me toleave for the countryside, where our family had asmall estate, but Ifelt astrange pull toremain.

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Perhaps it was fate, or maybe curiosity, but Ichose towitness what was tocome.

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Ikept ajournal, noting down the events as they unfolded, hoping it might serve as arecord for those who came after.

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The first signs appeared inDecember 1664, when two Frenchmen died mysteriously inahouse on Long Acre, near Drury Lane.

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The doctors called it the plague, but the authorities hushed it up, not wanting tocause panic.

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Bills ofmortality, those weekly lists ofdeaths printed and distributed, showed only afew suspicious cases at first.

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People said it was just the usual fevers or spotted sickness.

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But byearly 1665, more deaths were reported inthe outlying parishes, like St. Giles inthe Fields and St. Andrews, Holborn.

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The plague had arrived quietly, like athief inthe night.

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As spring turned tosummer, the heat grew oppressive, and the deaths multiplied.

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InJune, the bills showed forty-three plague deaths inone week, then sixty-eight the next.

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Fear spread like wildfire.

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Wealthy families began toflee the city, packing their belongings into coaches and heading for the countryside.

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The king himself, Charles II, left for Oxford with his court, leaving the Lord Mayor and aldermen tomanage the crisis.

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Shops closed, markets emptied, and the streets, once alive with activity, became eerily silent except for the tolling ofchurch bells.

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The government issued orders tocontain the spread.

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When ahouse was found infected, it was shut up, with ared cross painted on the door and the words Lord have mercy upon us written above.

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Watchmen were posted outside toprevent anyone from leaving, and food was passed through windows.

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Inside, families were trapped with the sick, often dooming the healthy tothe same fate.

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Iheard heartbreaking stories ofpeople crying out from behind barred doors, begging for release.

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Some tried toescape, climbing over walls or bribing the guards, but many were caught and punished.

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The symptoms were horrific.

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Victims first felt asudden fever, then swellings appeared inthe groin or armpits buboes, they called them painful and black.

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Some developed tokens, dark spots on the skin, asure sign ofdeath.

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Delirium set in, and people wandered the streets inmadness before collapsing.

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Physicians wore strange beak-like masks filled with herbs toward off the miasma, the bad air thought tocarry the disease.

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They carried canes toexamine patients from adistance, but many doctors fled too, leaving the poor tofend for themselves.




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