The Historical Sources of Defoes Journal of the Plague Year
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W. Brayley, ed. "Journal, " 1872, p. 29) "for purposes of heightening the interest. " Gad- bury, however, ("De Cometis, " 31 sq. And "Coelestis Legatus, " 62) has definitely and accurately recorded three comets in all in 1664-5 Two of these exactly fit Defoe's descriptions. [65] I1ISTOIMCAL snrh'CES OF DEFOE'S JOURNAL then been so extreamly sharp (it having a frost of al- most ten weeks continuance together) to have kept it back, as we knew it did, it had beyond all question broke forth then. N...ay, and break forth it did then too, as my self can experimentally testify, having been personally visited with it at Christmas that year. And my good friend Mr. Josias Westwood the chirur- reon (whose assistance I then craved, and advice I followed (I bless God) to my preservation) hath told me since that many of his patients at that time were afflicted with the same distemper, and yet obtained cure against it, the air being then so friendly to nature, and an enemy unto the Pestilence. And be- sides, it was but president in people to keep it from the knowledge of the \vorld (since few or none dyed thereof) as long as they could ; for we find that it came to a discovery soon enough to amaze and terrifie the whole Nation, and hath bid fair for the ruin of trade of all kinds in this great and populous city.
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