History of a Plague in London

The Introduction begins: "The father of Daniel Defoe was a butcher in the paris h 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 ...