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<P>ORDERS FORMERLY Conceived and Agreed to be publi&s;hed by the Lord Major and the Aldermen of the City OF LONDON: AND The Ju&s;tices of Peace of the Counties OF <HI>MIDDLESEX</HI> and <HI>S&V;RREY,</HI> CONCERNING <HI>The Infection of the Plague.</HI></P>
<P>And now Re-printed and publi&s;hed by Order of the Honourable Hou&s;e OF COMMONS.</P>
<P>Printed by <HI>Richard Cotes,</HI> Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON, 1646.</P>
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<HEAD>Die Jovis, <HI>20.</HI> Augu&s;ti, <HI>1646.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_ORdered by the Commons A&s;&s;em|bled in Parliament, That the Lord Major of the City of <HI>London,</HI> and Court of Aldermen, of the Committee of the Militia, and the Ju&s;tices of the Peace for the City of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and for the Coun|ties of <HI>Middle&s;ex, E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and <HI>Surrey,</HI> doe take care, that all &s;uch Hou&s;es and Per&s;ons, in and about the &s;aid Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> Lines of Communication, and Weekely Bils of Mortality, that are or &s;hall bee infected with the Pe&s;tilence, be &s;hut up, and the u&s;uall Markes &s;et upon their Doores, to the end they may be knowne; And that &s;uch further care may be taken to prevent the &s;preading of the Infection, and for provi&s;ion of &s;ick Per&s;ons
<PB REF="3"> as formerly hath been accu&s;tomed. And that no Per&s;on or Per&s;ons, that &s;hall die of the Infection, be buried in the day time, but after the houre of ten of the clock in the night. And for the better carrying on of this Service, It is further Ordered, that the late Orders and directions concerning the Plague, be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed, and put in due execution, and Mr. Alderman <HI>Pennington,</HI> and Mr. Alderman <HI>Atkin</HI> are to acquaint the Lord Major with this Order.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;ynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>ORDERS FORMERLY Conceived and agreed to be publi&s;hed by the Lord Major, and the Aldermen of the City of <HI>London,</HI> and the Ju&s;tices of Peace of the Counties of <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> and <HI>Surrey:</HI> And now Re-printed and publi&s;hed by Order of the Honourable Hou&s;e of <HI>COMMONS.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas in the fir&s;t Year of the Reigne of our late Soveraigne King <HI>James</HI> of happy memory, over this Realme of <HI>England,</HI> an Act was made for the cha|ritable reliefe and ordering of Per&s;ons infected with the Plague: whereby authority is given to Ju&s;tices of Peace, Majors, Bayliffes, and other head-Officers to appoint within their &s;everall Limits Examiners, Searchers, Watchmen, Keepers, and Buriers for the Per&s;ons and Places infected, and to mini&s;ter unto them Oaths for the performance of
<PB REF="4"> their Offices. And the &s;ame Statute al&s;o authori&s;eth the giving of other Directions, as unto them for the pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;ity &s;hall &s;eeme good in their di&s;cretions. It is therefore upon &s;peciall con&s;ideration thought ve|ry expedient for the preventing and avoiding of the Infection of Sickne&s;&s;e (if it &s;hall plea&s;e Almighty God) which is now dangerou&s;ly di&s;per&s;ed into many places within the City and Suburbs of the &s;ame: that the&s;e Officers following bee appointed, and the&s;e Orders hereafter pre&s;cribed be duly ob&s;erved.</P>
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<HEAD>Examiners to be appointed in every Pari&s;h.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, It is thought requi&s;ite and &s;o ordered, that in every Pari&s;h there be one, two, or more per&s;ons of good &s;ort and credit, cho&s;en and appointed by the Alderman, his Deputy, and Common-Councell of every Ward, and by the Ju&s;tices of Peace in the Counties, by the name of Examiners, to continue in that Office the &s;pace of two moneths at lea&s;t: and if any fit per&s;on &s;o appointed as afore&s;aid, &s;hall refu&s;e to undertake the &s;ame, the &s;aid parties &s;o re|fu&s;ing, to bee committed to pri&s;on untill they &s;hall conforme them&s;elves accordingly.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Examiners Office.</HEAD>
<P>THat the&s;e Examiners bee &s;worne by the Alder|man, or by one of the Ju&s;tices of the County, to enquire and learne from time to time what hou&s;es
<PB REF="4"> in every Pari&s;h be vi&s;ited, and what per&s;ons be &s;ick, and of what Di&s;ea&s;es, as neere as they can informe them&s;elves, and upon doubt in that ca&s;e, to com|mand re&s;traint of acce&s;&s;e, untill it appeare what the Di&s;ea&s;e &s;hall prove: and if they finde any per&s;on &s;icke of the Infection, to give order to the Con&s;ta|ble that the hou&s;e be &s;hut up: and if the Con&s;table &s;hall be found remi&s;&s;e or negligent, to give pre&s;ent notice thereof to the Alderman, or the Iu&s;tice of Peace re&s;pectively.</P>
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<HEAD>Watchmen.</HEAD>
<P>THat to every Infected hou&s;e there be appointed two watchmen, one for the day and the other for the night: And that the&s;e Watchmen have a &s;peciall care that no per&s;on goe in or out of &s;uch in|fected hou&s;es, whereof they have the charge, upon paine of &s;evere puni&s;hment. And the &s;aid Watch|men to doe &s;uch further Offices as the &s;ick hou&s;e &s;hall neede and require: and if the Watchman bee &s;ent upon any bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, to lock up the hou&s;e and take the key with him: and the Watchman by day to attend untill ten of the clock at night: and the Watchman by night untill &s;ix in the morning.</P>
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<HEAD>Chirurgions.</HEAD>
<P>THat there bee a &s;peciall care, to appoint wo|men Searchers in every Pari&s;h, &s;uch as are of hone&s;t reputation, and of the be&s;t &s;ort as can bee got in this kinde: And the&s;e to be &s;worne to make
<PB REF="5"> due &s;earch and true report, to the utmo&s;t of their knowledge, whether the Per&s;ons, who&s;e bodies they are appointed to Search, doe die of the Infection, or of what other di&s;ea&s;es, as neere as they can. And for their better a&s;&s;i&s;tance herein, fora&s;much as there hath beene heretofore great abu&s;e in mi&s;reporting the di&s;ea&s;e, to the further &s;preading of the Infection: It is therefore ordered, that there bee cho&s;en and ap|pointed three able and di&s;creet Chirurgions, be&s;ides tho&s;e three, that doe already belong to the Pe&s;thou&s;e: among&s;t whom, the City and Liberties to be quar|tered as the places lie mo&s;t apt and convenient: and every of the&s;e &s;ix to have one quarter for his Limit: and the &s;aid Chirurgions in every of their Limits to joyne with the Searchers for the view of the body, to the end there may bee a true report made of the di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>And further, that the &s;aid Chirurgions &s;hall vi|&s;it and &s;earch &s;uch like per&s;ons as &s;hall either &s;end for them, or be named and directed unto them, by the ex|aminers of every Pari&s;h, and informe them&s;elves of the di&s;ea&s;e of the &s;aid parties.</P>
<P>And for as much as the &s;aid Chirurgions are to &s;e|que&s;tred from all other Cures, and kept onely to this di&s;ea&s;e of the Infection: It is ordered, that every of the &s;aid Chirurgions &s;hall have twelve pence a body &s;earched by them, to bee paid out of the goods of the party &s;earched, if he be able, or otherwi&s;e by the Pari&s;h.</P>
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<HEAD>Orders concerning infected Hou&s;es, and Per&s;ons &s;ick of the Plague.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Notice to bee given of the Sickne&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Ma&s;ter of every Hou&s;e, a&s;&s;oone as any one in his hou&s;e complaineth, either of Botch, or Purple, or Swelling in any part of his body, or falleth otherwi&s;e dange|rou&s;ly &s;ick, without apparent cau&s;e of &s;ome other di&s;|ea&s;e, &s;hall give knowledge thereof to the Examiner of health within two houres after the &s;aid &s;igne &s;hall ap|peare.</P>
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<HEAD>Seque&s;tration of the &s;ick.</HEAD>
<P>AS &s;oon as any man &s;hall bee found by this Exa|miner, Chirurgion or Searcher to be &s;ick of the Plague, he &s;hall the &s;ame night bee &s;eque&s;tred in the &s;ame hou&s;e. And in ca&s;e hee bee &s;o &s;eque&s;tred, then though he afterwards die not, the hou&s;e wherein hee &s;ickned &s;hall bee &s;hut up for a moneth, after the u&s;e of due Pre&s;ervatives taken by the re&s;t.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Ayring the Stuffe.</HEAD>
<P>FOr &s;eque&s;tration of the goods and &s;tuffe of the in|fected, their Bedding, and Apparell, and hangings of Chambers, mu&s;t be well ayred with fire, and &s;uch perfumes, as are requi&s;ite within the Infected hou&s;e, before they bee taken again to u&s;e: this to be done by the appointment of the Examiner.</P>
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<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>Shutting up of the Hou&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>IF any per&s;on &s;hall have vi&s;ited any man, known to bee Infected of the Plague, or entred willingly into any knowne Infected hou&s;e, being not allowed: the hou&s;e wherein hee inhabiteth, &s;hall be &s;hut up for cer|tain dayes by the Examiners direction.</P>
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<HEAD>None to bee removed out of infected hou&s;es, but &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>ITem, that none be removed out of the hou&s;e where he falleth &s;ick of the infection, into any other hou&s;e in the City, Borough, or County (except it bee to the Pe&s;t-hou&s;e or a Tent, or unto &s;ome &s;uch hou&s;e, which the owners of the &s;aid Vi&s;ited hou&s;e holdeth in his owne hands, and occupieth by his owne &s;er|vants) and &s;o as &s;ecurity bee given to the Pari&s;h whi|ther &s;uch remove is made, that the attendance and charge about the &s;aid vi&s;ited per&s;ons &s;hall be ob&s;erved and charged in all the particularities before expre&s;&s;ed, without any co&s;t of that Pari&s;h, to which any &s;uch remove &s;hall happen to be made, and this remove to be done by night: And it &s;hall be lawfull to any per|&s;on that hath two hou&s;es, to remove either his &s;ound or his infected people to his &s;pare hou&s;e at his choice, &s;o as if hee &s;end away fir&s;t his &s;ound, hee may not af|ter &s;end thither the &s;ick, nor againe unto the &s;ick the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">und; And that the &s;ame which hee &s;endeth, be for one week at the lea&s;t &s;hut up and &s;ecluded from com|pany for fear of &s;ome infection, at the fir&s;t not appea|ring.</P>
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<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>Buriall of the dead.</HEAD>
<P>THat the buriall of the dead by this Vi&s;itation be at mo&s;t convenient hours, alwayes either before Sun ri&s;ing, or after Sun &s;etting, with the privity of the Churchwardens or Con&s;tables, and not otherwi&s;e; and that no neighbours nor friends be &s;uffered to accom|pany the Coar&s;e to Church, or to enter the hou&s;e vi&s;i|ted, upon pain of having his hou&s;e &s;hut up, or bee im|pri&s;oned.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>No infected Stuffe to be uttered.</HEAD>
<P>THat no Clothes, Stuffe, bedding or garments bee &s;uffered to be carryed or conveyed out of any In|fected Hou&s;es, and that the Criers and Caries abroad of Beddding or old Apparell to bee &s;old or pawned, be utterly prohibited and re&s;trained, and no Brokers of Bedding or old Apparell be permitted to make any outward Shew, or hang forth on their Stalls, Shop|boards or Windows toward any Street, Lane, com|mon Way or Pa&s;&s;age, any old Bedding or Apparell to be &s;old, upon pain of Impri&s;onment: And if any Broker or other per&s;on &s;hall buy any Bedding, Appa|rell, or other Stuffe out of any Infected hou&s;e, within two months after the Infection hath been there, his hou&s;e &s;hall be &s;hut up as Infected, and &s;o &s;hal continue &s;hut up twenty dayes at the lea&s;t.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>No per&s;on to be conveyed out of any infected hou&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>IF any per&s;on vi&s;ited doe fortune, by negligent loo|king unto, or by any other meanes, to come, or bee conveyed from a place infected, to any other place,
<PB REF="7"> the Pari&s;h from whence &s;uch Party hath come or been conveyed, upon notice thereof given, &s;hall at their charge cau&s;e the &s;aid party &s;o vi&s;ited and e&s;caped, to be carryed and brought back again by night, and the par|ties in this ca&s;e offending, to be puni&s;hed at the directi|on of the Alderman of the Ward, and the Ju&s;tices of the Peace re&s;pectively: and the hou&s;e of the receiver of &s;uch vi&s;ited per&s;on to bee &s;hut up for twenty dayes.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Every vi&s;ited hou&s;e to be marked.</HEAD>
<P>THat every hou&s;e vi&s;ited, bee marked with a Red Cro&s;&s;e of a foot long, in the middle of the doore, evident to be &s;een, and with the&s;e u&s;ual Printed words, that is to &s;ay, <HI>Lord have mercy upon us,</HI> to bee &s;et clo&s;e over the &s;ame Cro&s;&s;e, there to continue untill lawfull opening of the &s;ame hou&s;e.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Every Vi&s;ited hou&s;e to be watched.</HEAD>
<P>THat the Con&s;tables &s;ee every hou&s;e &s;hut up, and to be attended with Watchmen, which may keep them in, and mini&s;ter nece&s;&s;aries unto them at their owne charges (if they be able,) or at the common charge if they be unable: the &s;hutting up to be for the &s;pace of foure weeks after all be whole.</P>
<P>That preci&s;e order bee taken that the Searchers, Chirurgions, Keepers and Buriers are not to pa&s;&s;e the &s;treets without holding a red Rod or Wand of three foot in length in their hands, open and evident to bee &s;een, and are not to goe into any other hou&s;e then into their own, or into that whereunto they are directed or &s;ent for, but to forbeare and ab&s;taine from company,
<PB REF="7"> e&s;pecially when they have bin lately u&s;ed in any &s;uch bu&s;ine&s;&s;e or attendance.</P>
<P>And to this end it is ordered, that a weekly Tax bee made in every Pari&s;h vi&s;ited: If in the City or Bo|rough, then under the hand of the Alderman of the Ward where the place is vi&s;ited: If in either of the Counties, then under the hands of &s;ome of the Ju&s;tices next to the place vi&s;ited, who, if there be cau&s;e, may extend the Tax into other Pari&s;hes al&s;o, and may give warrant of Di&s;tre&s;&s;e again&s;t them which &s;hall refu&s;e to pay; and for want of Di&s;tre&s;&s;e, or for a&s;&s;i&s;tance, to commit the offendors to Pri&s;on, according to the Sta|tute in that behalf.</P>
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<HEAD>Orders for clean&s;ing and keeping of the Streets &s;weet.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The Streets to be kept cleane&punc;</HEAD>
<P>_FIr&s;t, it is thought very nece&s;&s;ary and &s;o orde|red, that every Hou&s;holder do cau&s;e the &s;treet to be daily pared before his doore, and &s;o to keep it cleane &s;wept all the week long.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>That Rakers take it from out the Hou&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>THat the &s;weeping and filth of hou&s;es be daily car|ryed away by the Rakers, and that the Raker &s;hall give notice of his comming by the blowing of a Horn as heretofore hath been done.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Lay&s;talls to be made far off from the City.</HEAD>
<P>THat the Lay&s;tals be removed as farre as may bee out of the City, and common pa&s;&s;ages, and that no Nightman or other bee &s;uffered to empty a Vault into any Garden near about the City.</P>
</DIV3>
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<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>Care to be had of unwhol&s;ome Fi&s;h or Fle&s;h, and of mu&s;ty Corne.</HEAD>
<P>THat &s;peciall care be taken, that no &s;tinking Fi&s;h, or unwhol&s;ome Fle&s;h, or mu&s;tie Corne, or other corrupt fruits of what &s;ort &s;oever, be &s;uffered to bee &s;old about the City or any part of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>That the Brewers and Tipling hou&s;es be looked un|to, for mu&s;tie and unwhol&s;ome Cask.</P>
<P>That order be taken, that no Hogs, Dogs, or Cats, or tame Pigeons, or Conies bee &s;uffered to bee kept within any part of the City, or any Swine to bee, or &s;tray in the Streets or Lanes, but that &s;uch Swine bee impounded by the Beadle or any other Officer, and the Owner puni&s;hed according to the Act of Com|mon-councell, and that the Dogs bee killed by the Dog-killers appointed for that purpo&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Orders concerning loo&s;e Per&s;ons and idle A&s;&s;emblies.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Beggers.</HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much as nothing is more complained on, then the multitude of Rogues and wandering Beggers that &s;warm in every place about the City, being a great cau&s;e of the &s;preading of the In|fection, and will not be avoided, notwith&s;tanding any Order that hath been given to the contrary: It is there|fore now ordered, that &s;uch Con&s;tables, and others whom this matter may any way concerne, doe take &s;peciall care, that no wandering Begger be &s;uffered in the Streets of this City, in any fa&s;hion or manner
<PB REF="8"> what&s;oever upon pain of the penalty provided by the Law to be duely and &s;everely executed upon them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Playes.</HEAD>
<P>THat all Playes, Beare-batings, Games, Singing of Ballads, Buckler-play, or &s;uch like cau&s;es of A&s;&s;emblies of people, bee utterly prohibited, and the parties offending, &s;everely puni&s;hed, by any Al|derman, or Ju&s;tice of the peace.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Tipling hou&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>THat di&s;orderly Tipling in Tavernes Ale-hou&s;es and Cellers, be &s;everely looked unto, as the com|mon &s;inne of this time, and greate&s;t occa&s;ion of di&s;|per&s;ing the Plague: and where any &s;hall be found to offend, the penalty of the Statute to be laid upon them with all &s;everity.</P>
<P>And for the better execution of the&s;e Orders, as al&s;o for &s;uch other directions as &s;hall be needfull, It is agreed that the Ju&s;tices of the City and Counties ad|joyning doe meete together once in ten dayes either at the Se&s;&s;ions hou&s;e without Newgate, or &s;ome other convenient, place to conferre of things as &s;hall be need|full in this behal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
<P>And every per&s;on neglecting the duty required, or willingly offending again&s;t any Article or clau&s;e con|tained in the&s;e Orders, he to be &s;everely puni&s;hed by impri&s;onment, or otherwi&s;e, as by the law he ought.</P>
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<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<PB REF="9">
<HEAD>Orders formerly thought meet and nece&s;&s;ary by His Maje&s;tie to bee put in exe|cution throughout the Counties of this Realme, in &s;uch Towns, Villages and other Places as are or may bee hereafter Infected with the Plague, for the &s;tay or further increa&s;e of the &s;ame, now commanded to be Reprinted by the Ho|norable the Hou&s;e OF <HI>COMMONS.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_INprimis,</HI> All the Ju&s;tices in every County, as wel within the Liberties as without, immedi|ately upon knowledge to them given, &s;hall a&s;|&s;emble them&s;elves together at &s;ome one generall place accu&s;tomed, being cleare from Infection of the Plague to con&s;ult how the&s;e Orders following may be duly put in execution: not meaning that any Ju&s;tices dwell|ing in or neere places infected, &s;hall come thither, whiles their comming may be doubtfull. And after their fir&s;t generall a&s;&s;embly, they &s;hall make a di&s;tribu|tion of them&s;elves to &s;undry Limits and divi&s;ions, as in other common &s;ervices of the County they are ac|cu&s;tomed to doe, for the pro&s;ecution thereof.</P>
<P N="2">2 Fir&s;t, they &s;hall enquire, and pre&s;ently informe them&s;elves by all good meanes, what Townes and
<PB REF="9"> villages are at the time of &s;uch a&s;&s;embly infected with|in every their Counties, &amp; in what Hundred or other Divi&s;ion the &s;aid Townes &amp; Villages are, and how many of the &s;ame places &s;o infected are Corporate Townes, market townes and Villages, and &s;hall con&s;i|der of what wealth the inhabitants of the &s;ame towns &amp; Pari&s;hes are, to be able to relieve the poore that are or &s;hal be infected, &amp; to be re&s;trained in their hou&s;es.</P>
<P N="3">3 Item, thereupon after conference u&s;ed according to the nece&s;&s;ity of the cau&s;e, they &s;hall devi&s;e and make a generall taxation, either by charging the Towne infected with one &s;umme in gro&s;&s;e, or by charging the &s;peciall per&s;ons of wealth within the &s;ame, to be forthwith collected for the rate of one moneth at the fir&s;t; and &s;o if the &s;ickne&s;&s;e &s;hall con|tinue, the collection of the like &s;umme, or of more or of le&s;&s;e, as time and cau&s;e &s;hall require, and the &s;ame to be every fir&s;t, &s;econd, third or fourth weeke employed to and for the execution of the &s;aid Or|ders. And in ca&s;e &s;ome of the &s;aid Townes Infected, &s;hall manife&s;tly appeare not to be of &s;ufficient ability to contribute &s;ufficient for the charges requi&s;ite, then the Taxation or Collection &s;hall be made or further extended to other parts, or in any other further li|mits, as by them &s;hal be thought requi&s;ite, where there &s;hall be any &s;uch Townes or Villages &s;o infected, and unable to relieve them&s;elves. And if the &s;aid Townes be &s;ituated in the borders and confines of any other Shire, then as the Ju&s;tices &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;e and need for the greatne&s;&s;e of the charge requi&s;ite, that the parts of the Shire joyning to the Townes infected be not able, they &s;hall write their letters to the next Iu&s;tices of the other Shire &s;o confining, to procure by collecti|on
<PB REF="10"> &s;ome reliefe, as in like ca&s;es they are to relieve them, in re&s;pect of neere neighbourhood of the place, and for that the &s;ame Infection may be the better &s;tayed from the &s;aid adjoyning places, though they be &s;eparated by name of the Countie.</P>
<P N="4">4 Item, they &s;hall cau&s;e to be appointed in every Pari&s;h as well infected as not infected, certaine per|&s;ons to view the bodies of all &s;uch as &s;hall die, be|fore they be &s;uffered to be buried, and to certifie the Mini&s;ter of the Church and Churchwarden, or other principall Officers, or their &s;ub&s;titutes, of what pro|bable di&s;ea&s;e the &s;aid per&s;ons died: and the &s;aid viewers, to have weekely &s;ome allowance, and the more large allowance where the Townes and Pa|ri&s;hes bee infected, during the infection, towards their maintenance, to the end they which &s;hall be in places infected, may forbeare to re&s;ort into the com|pany of others that are &s;ound: and tho&s;e per&s;ons to be &s;worne to make true report according to their knowledge, and the choi&s;e of them to be made by direction of the Curate of the Church, with three or foure &s;ub&s;tantiall men of the Pari&s;h. And in ca&s;e the &s;aid viewers either through favour or corruption &s;hall give wrong certificate, or &s;hall refu&s;e to &s;erve being thereunto appointed, then to cau&s;e them to be puni&s;hed by impri&s;onment, in &s;uch &s;ort as may &s;erve for a terrour to others.</P>
<P N="5">5 Item, the hou&s;es of &s;uch per&s;ons out of the which there &s;hall die any of the Plague, being &s;o certified by the viewers, or otherwi&s;e known, or where it &s;hall be under&s;tood, that any per&s;on re|maineth &s;ick of the Plague, to be clo&s;ed up in all
<PB REF="10"> parts during the time of re&s;traint, <HI>viz.</HI> &s;ix weekes, after the &s;ickne&s;&s;e be cea&s;ed in the &s;ame hou&s;e, in ca&s;e the &s;aid hou&s;es &s;o infected &s;hall be within any Towne having hou&s;es neere adjoyning to the &s;ame. And if the infection happen in hou&s;es di&s;per&s;ed in Villages, and &s;eparated from other hou&s;es, and that of nece&s;sity, for the &s;erving of their cattell, and manu|ring of their ground, the &s;aid per&s;ons cannot con|tinue in their hou&s;es, then they bee neverthele&s;&s;e re|&s;trained from re&s;orting into company of others, ei|ther publiquely, or privately during the &s;aid time of re&s;traint, and to weare &s;ome mark in their uppermo&s;t garments, or bear white rods in their hands at &s;uch time as they &s;hall goe abroad: if there be any doubt that the ma&s;ters and owners of the hou&s;es infected, will not duly ob&s;erve the directions of &s;hutting up the doores, &s;pecially in the night, then &s;hall there be appointed two or three Watchmen by turnes, which &s;hall be &s;worne to attend and watch the hou&s;e, and to apprehend any per&s;on that &s;hall come out of the hou&s;e contrary to the order, and the &s;ame per|&s;ons by order of the Iu&s;tices, &s;hall be a competent time impri&s;oned in the &s;tockes, in the high way next to the hou&s;e infected: and furthermore, &s;ome &s;peci|all marke &s;hall be made and fixed to the doores of every of the infected hou&s;es, and where any &s;uch hou&s;es &s;hall be Innes or Alehou&s;es, the &s;ignes &s;hall be taken downe for the time of the re&s;traint, and &s;ome cro&s;&s;e or other mark &s;et upon the place thereof to be a token of the &s;ickne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="6">6 Item, they &s;hall have good regard to chu&s;e hone&s;t per&s;ons, that either &s;hall collect the &s;ummes
<PB REF="11"> a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, or &s;hall have the cu&s;todie thereof, and out of the &s;aid collection to allot a weekly proportion for the finding of victuall, or fire, or medicines for the poorer &s;ort, during the time of their re&s;traint. And whereas &s;ome per&s;ons being well di&s;po&s;ed to yeeld almes and reliefe, will bee more willing to give &s;ome portions of victuall, as corne, bread, or other meat, the &s;ame &s;hall bee committed to the charge of &s;ome &s;peciall per&s;ons that wil hone&s;t|ly and truly pre&s;erve the &s;ame, to be di&s;tributed as they &s;hall be appointed for the poore that are in|fected.</P>
<P N="7">7 Item, to appoint certaine per&s;ons dwelling within the Townes infected, to provide and deliver all nece&s;&s;aries of victuals, or any matter of watch|ing or other attendance, to keep &s;uch as are of good wealth being re&s;trained, at their owne proper co&s;ts and charges, and the poore at the common charges: and the &s;aid per&s;ons &s;o appointed to be ordered, not to re&s;ort to any publique a&s;&s;embly during the time of &s;uch their attendance, as al&s;o to weare &s;ome marke on their upper garment, or to beare a white rod in their hand, to the end others may avoid their com|pany.</P>
<P N="8">8 Item, that in the &s;hire Towne in every Coun|tie, and in other great Townes meete for that pur|po&s;e, there may be provi&s;ion be&s;poken and made, of &s;uch Pre&s;ervatives and other remedies, which o|therwi&s;e in meaner townes cannot be readily had, as by the Phy&s;itians &s;hall be pre&s;cribed, and is at this pre&s;ent reduced into an Advice made by the Phy&s;i|tians, and now printed and &s;ent with the &s;aid Orders,
<PB REF="11"> which may be fixed in Market-places, upon places u&s;uall for &s;uch publique matters, and in other Townes in the bodies of the pari&s;h Churches and chappels: in which Advice only &s;uch things are pre&s;cribed, as u&s;u|ally are to be had and found in all Countries without great charge or co&s;t.</P>
<P N="9">9 Item, the Mini&s;ters and Curates, and the Church|wardens in every pari&s;h, &s;hall in writing certifie weekely to &s;ome of the Ju&s;tices re&s;iding within the Hundred or other limit where they &s;erve, the num|ber of &s;uch per&s;ons as are infected and doe not die, and al&s;o of all &s;uch as &s;hall die within their Pari&s;hes, and their di&s;ea&s;es probable whereof they died, and the &s;ame to be certified to the re&s;t of the Ju&s;tices at their a&s;&s;emblies, which during &s;ome convenient time would be every one and twenty dayes, and thereof a particular book kept by the Clerk of the Peace, or &s;ome &s;uch like.</P>
<P N="10">10 Item, to appoint &s;ome place a part in each Pa|ri&s;h for the buriall of &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall die of the Plague, as al&s;o to give order that they be buried after as Sun-&s;etting, and yet neverthele&s;&s;e by day light, &s;o as the Curate be pre&s;ent for the ob&s;ervation of the Rites and Ceremonies pre&s;cribed by the Law, fore|&s;eeing as much as conveniently he may, to be di&s;tant from the danger of infection of the per&s;on dead, or of the company that &s;hall bring the corp&s;e to the grave.</P>
<P N="11">11 Item, the Ju&s;tices of the whole County to a&s;&s;emble once in one and twenty days, to examine whether tho&s;e Orders be duly executed, and to cer|tifie to the Lords of the Privy Councell their procee|dings
<PB REF="12"> in that behalfe, what Townes and Villages be infected, as al&s;o the numbers of the dead, and the di&s;|ea&s;es whereof they dyed, and what &s;ummes of money are taxed and collected to this purpo&s;e, and how the &s;ame are di&s;tributed.</P>
<P N="12">12 Item, the Ju&s;tices of the Hundred, where any &s;uch infection is, or the Ju&s;tices next adjoyning thereunto, to a&s;&s;emble once a weeke, to take accompt of the execution of the &s;aid Orders, and as they finde any lacke or di&s;order, either to reforme it them&s;elves, or to report it at the generall a&s;&s;embly there, to bee by a more common con&s;ent reformed.</P>
<P N="13">13 Item, for that the contagion of the Plague groweth and encrea&s;eth no way more, then by the u&s;e and handling of &s;uch cloths, bedding and other &s;tuffe as hath beene worne and occupied by the Infected of this di&s;ea&s;e, during the time of their di&s;ea&s;e: the &s;aid Ju&s;tices &s;hall in the places in|fected take &s;uch order, that all the &s;aid clothes and o|ther &s;tuffe, &s;o occupied by the di&s;ea&s;ed, &s;o &s;oone as the parties di&s;ea&s;ed of the plague are al of them either wel recovered or dead, be either burnt and clean con|&s;umed with fire, or el&s;e aired in &s;uch &s;ort as is pre|&s;cribed in an e&s;peciall Article contained in the advice &s;et downe by the Phy&s;itians. And for that perad|venture the lo&s;&s;e of &s;uch apparell, bedding, and o|ther &s;tuffe to be burnt, may be greater then the poore e&s;tate of the owners of the &s;ame may well beare: it is thought good &amp; very expedient, if it be thought meet it &s;hall be burnt, that then the &s;aid Ju&s;tices, out of &s;uch Collections as are to be made within their Counties for the relief of the poorer &s;ort that be infected, allow
<PB REF="12"> al&s;o them &s;uch &s;umme or &s;ummes as to them &s;hall be thought rea&s;onable, in recompence of the lo&s;&s;e of their &s;aid &s;tuffe.</P>
<P N="14">14 Item, the &s;aid Iu&s;tices may put in execution any other Orders that by them at their general a&s;&s;em|bly &s;hall be devi&s;ed and thought meet, tending to the pre&s;ervation of his Maje&s;ties Subjects from the infection. And to the end their care and diligence may the better appeare, they &s;hal certifie in writing the &s;aid Orders newly devi&s;ed: and if any &s;hall wilfully breake and contemne the &s;ame, or any the Orders herein &s;pe|cified, they &s;hal either pre&s;ently puni&s;h them by impri|&s;onment, or if the per&s;ons &s;o contemning them, &s;hall be of &s;uch countenance as the Iu&s;tices &s;hall thinke meet to have their faults known to His Maje&s;ty or to the Councell, they &s;hall charge and binde them to ap|peare before Vs, and the contempt duely certified, that there may be a more notorious &s;harpe example made by pnui&s;hment of the &s;ame by order of His Ma|je&s;ty.</P>
<P N="15">15 Item, if there be lacke of Iu&s;tices in &s;ome parts of the Shire, or if they which are Iu&s;tices there, &s;hall be for the time ab&s;ent, in that ca&s;e the more number of the Ju&s;tices at their a&s;&s;embly &s;hall make choi&s;e of &s;ome convenient per&s;ons to &s;upply tho&s;e places for the better execution hereof.</P>
<P N="16">16 Item, if there be any per&s;on Eccle&s;ia&s;tical or Lay, that &s;hall hold and publi&s;h any opinions (as in &s;ome places report is made) that it is a vain thing to forbeare to re&s;ort to the Infected, or that it is not charitable to forbid the &s;ame, pretending that no per|&s;on &s;hal die but at their time prefixed, &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall be not onely reprehended, but if they be Eccle&s;i|a&s;ticall, &s;hall be forbidden to preach, and being Lay, be
<PB REF="13"> enjoyned to forbeare to utter &s;uch dangerous opinions upon pain of impri&s;onment, which &s;hall be executed if they &s;hall per&s;evere in that errour. And yet it &s;hall appeare manife&s;tly by the&s;e Orders, that according to Chri&s;tian charity, no per&s;ons of the meane&s;t de|gree &s;hall bee left without &s;uccour and reliefe.</P>
<P N="17">17 And of the&s;e things above mentioned, the Iu|&s;tices &s;hall take great care, as of a matter &s;pecially and directed commanded by his Maje&s;ty upon the princely and naturall care he hath conceived towards the pre|&s;ervation of his Subjects, who by very di&s;order, and for lacke of direction do in many parts wilfully pro|cure the increa&s;e of this generall Contagion.</P>
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