The most important thing to the common people at this time was probably staying alive for as long as possible, which meant primarily meant avoiding disease and finding something to eat. The poor were reduced to a basic view of life, the main question being whether they were hungry or not hungry, or during the plague whether they were diseased or not, and most of their actions revolved around ensuring the latter; other concerns would have naturally become very secondary.
"These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants: who as they grow up either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes."
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