A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Publick as Private, Which Happened in London ... Great Visitation in 1665 (Classic Reprint)

INTRODUCTION. --0- DANIEL DE FOE, son of James Foe, a respectable butcher, was born in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, in the year 1661. He was four years old, therefore, in the Plague year, 1665. The son of James Foe was na:ned Daniel after his grandfather, who in the time of Charles the First was a gentleman in Northamptonshire, and kept a pack of hounds. Ye may infer, if we please, from the nature of man, that the family fortunes then went to the dogs, and that the son James, with energy of character, turned country training to account in the supply of sheep and cattle to the London food-market. James Foe prospered and grew old, acquiring, by his good sense, honour and influence among the London Nonconformists. He intended to train his son Daniel as a Nonconformist minister, and sent him, when fourteen years old-a year after the death of Milton-to an academy at Newington Green, established for the training to such ministry. The Reverend Charles Morton was its

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