whitechappel

Updated: June 22, 2025

It pleased God to send a very plentiful year of corn and fruit, but not of hay or grass by which means bread was cheap, by reason of the plenty of corn. Flesh was cheap, by reason of the scarcity of grass; but butter and cheese were dear for the same reason, and hay in the market just beyond Whitechappel Bars was sold at 4 pound per load. But that affected not the poor.

Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London