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History of the Plague in England
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Title: History of the Plague in England
Author: Daniel Defoe
Release Date: December 4, 2005 [EBook #17221]
Language: English
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ECLECTIC ENGLISH CLASSICS
HISTORY OF THE PLAGUE IN LONDON
BY DANIEL DEFOE
NEW YORK ·:· CINCINNATI ·:· CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
Copyright, 1894, by AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
DEFOE--THE PLAGUE IN LONDON. M. 2
[Illustration: PRINCIPAL WARDS AND PARISHES IN THE CITY OF LONDON, 1665.]
[Illustration: LONDON AND THE SUBURBS, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.]
INTRODUCTION.
The father of Daniel Defoe was a butcher in the parish of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, London. In this parish, probably, Daniel Defoe was born in 1661, the year after the restoration of Charles II. The boy's parents wished him to become a dissenting minister, and so intrusted his education to a Mr. Morton who kept an academy for the training of nonconformist divines. How long Defoe staid at this school is not known. He seems