Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Daniel Defoe and His Times: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text A Journal of the Plague Year Appendix A: From Daniel Defoe, Due Preparations for the Plague (1722) Appendix B: Plagues in History 1. The Bible a. 2 Samuel 24:1-17 b. Jonah 1-3 2. From Procopius, History of the Wars (c. 550 CE) 3. From Giovanni Villani, Chronicle (mid-fourteenth century) 4. From Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (c.

1353) Appendix C: Spiritual Responses 1. From Richard Kingston, Pillulae Pestilentiales (1665) 2. E.N., London's Plague Sore, Discovered (1665) 3. From David Jennings, Behold the Desolations in the Earth! (1721) Appendix D: Scientific and Medical Responses 1. From Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, The Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655) 2. From Thomas Willis, The London Practice of Physick (1685) 3.

From Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague (1665) 4. From W.J., A Collection of Seven and Fifty Approved Receipts Good against the Plague (1665) 5. From John Gadbury, London's Deliverance Predicted (1665) 6. From George Thomson, Loimotomia (1666) 7. From Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World (1668) 8. From Nathaniel Hodges, Loimologia (1720) 9.

From John Quincy, Of the Different Causes of Pestilential Diseases (1720) 10. From Richard Mead, A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion (1720) Appendix E: Civic Responses 1. From An Act for the Charitable Relief and Ordering of Persons Infected with the Plague (1604) 2. From John Graunt, Natural and Political Observations (1663) 3. College of Physicians, Certain Necessary Directions (1665) 4. From An Act to Oblige Ships . More Effectively to Perform Their Quarantine (1710) Appendix F: Maps 1. England in 1665 2.

London in 1665 3. H.F.'s London Works Cited and Select Bibliography.