It was about September 10th that my curiosity led or rather drove me to go and see this pit again, when there had been about four hundred people
Watchmen Guard Quarantined Houses
A terrible pit it was, and I could not resist the curiosity to go and see it.Continuing The Great London Plague,our selection from History of the
Escapes of the Quarantined
Many such escapes were made out of infected houses, as particularly when the watchman was sent some errand, that is to say, for necessaries, such as
Cruel Quarantines of the Houses of the Sick
As I went along Houndsditch one morning, about eight o'clock, there was a great noise.Continuing The Great London Plague,our selection from
The Great London Plague
This series has six easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Comet Foretells Death.IntroductionNone of the great visitations of
No Further Need to Fear Coup
Today's installment concludes The Gunpowder Plot,our selection from What the Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel R. Gardiner published in 1897.If you
Fawkes Reveals the Plan
First they hired the house at Westminster, of one Ferres, and having his house they sought then to make a mine under the Upper House of
King Orders Fawkes to be Tortured
If he will not otherwise confess," the King had ended by saying, "the gentler tortures are to be first used unto him.”Continuing The Gunpowder
Fawkes Collects the Explosives
Though Fawkes kept silence as to the mine, he did not keep silence on the desperate character of the work on which he had been engaged.Continuing