Defoe, Daniel, 1661-1731 / 2008-09-19 00:00:00
EBOOK HISTORY OF THE PLAGUE IN LONDON ***
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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 to think himself that he staid there long enough to become a
good scholar; for he declares that the pupils were "made masters of the
English tongue, and more of them excelled in that particular than of any
school at that time." If this statement be true, we can only say that
the other schools must have been very bad indeed. Defoe never acquired a
really good style, and can in no true sense be called a "master of the
English tongue.
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