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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88464	The orders and directions, of the right honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, to be diligently observed and kept by the citizens of London, during the time of the present visitation of the plague As also, rules and instructions, to all brewers, butchers, fish-mongers, victualling-houses, hackney-coaches, brokers, and the rest of the inhabitants, both in city and suburbs. With divers excellent receipts, as well for the cure of the plague, as for preventing the further increase and infection thereof, by Gods blessing and assistance: set forth and approved of by the learned Sir Walter Rawleigh, Mr. Culpepper, and divers other famous physicians and doctors; and now published for the use and benefit of all his Majesties liege subjects.	City of London (England). Court of Aldermen.	1665 (1665)	Wing L2864I; ESTC R232156	5,325	10

THE ORDERS AND Directions Of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen to be diligently observed and kept by the Citizens of London during the time of the present Visitation of the PLAGUE As also Rules and Instructions to all Brewers Butchers Fishmongers Victualling-houses Hackney-Coaches Brokers and the rest of the Inhabitants both in City and Suburbi With divers excellent Receipts as well for the Cure of the Plague as for preventing the further Increase and Infection thereof by Gods blessing and Assistance Set forth and approved of by the Learned Sir Walter Rawleigh Mr. Culpepper and divers other famous Physicians and Doctors And now published for the use and benefit of all His Majesties Liege Subjects Printed for George Horton living near the Three Crowns in Barbican Health better then Gold Or Rules and Directions as well for the Cure of the Plague as for preventing the Infection c. VVHereas it hath pleased Almighty God to send forth his destroying Angel amongst Us to scourge and chastise a stiff-necked and perverse Generation of People by spreading the Black-Cloud of Plague and Pestilence over many famous Nations Cities beyond the Seas but hath also out of his Divine Justice even now brought it to the very Doors of many who have sleighted his gracious Tenders and Mercies and indeed who can say I am free from such provocations from provoking a just and righteous God and from crucifying afresh a precious dear and blessed Saviour by their wicked and abominable Oaths by their sad and lamentable Imprecations by their vitious Vices of Whoredom Drunkenness Sabbath-breaking c. O let every one therefo●e seriously lay it to heart the great and original cause of these our present Judgments and by serious Repentance and cont●ition of spirit endeavour to cure the sinful Plague of the Heart to amend their Lives to become new Creatures to bear a high esteem of the Blessed Sabbath and an ardent affection to his gracious Ordinances That the Lord may say unto London as he did unto Israel Return thou back-sliding People and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for I am me ciful saith the Lord and I will not keep anger for ever ● g acious saying and worthy of acceptation But now for the p●b●ick benefit of all people in these Times of Calamity I shall not onely recite some Orders of the Right Honourable the Lord Ma●or and Court of Aldermen for preserving of Health but also divers Receits and Directions as well for the cure of the Plague as for preventing the Infection of it c. And first it is thought requisite that in every Parish there be one two o● more persons of good sort and credit chosen and appointed by the Alderman his Deputy and Common-council of every Ward by the name of Examiners to continue in that Office the space of two Moneths at least and if any person so appointed shall refu●e to undertake the same the said parties so refusing to be committed to Prison until they shall conform themselves accordingly That these Examiners be sworn by the Alderman to enqui●e what houses be visited what persons sick and of what Diseases as near as they can and upon d●ubt to command restraint of access until it appear what the Disease shall prove and if they find any person sick of the Infection to give order to the Constable that the house be shut up and if the Constable shall be found remiss or negligent to give present notice thereof to the Alderman of the Ward That to every infected house there be appointed two Watch-men one for the day and the other for the night That for the Women-searchers in every Parish to be of honest reputation and sworn to make due search and true report and tkat the Physitians appointed for the cure and prevention of the Infection do call before them the said Searchers who are or shall be appointed for the several Parishes under their respective cares to the end they may consider whether they are fitly qualified for that employment and that no Searcher during this time of Visitation be permitted to use any publick work or imployment or keep any shop or stall or be imployed as a Landress or in any other common employment whatsoever And for better assistance of the Searchers it is ordered that there be chosen able and discreet Chirurgions to be resident in most convenient places and to be sequestred from all other cures and kept onely to this Disease of the Infection and every Chirurgion to haue twelve pence a Body searched by them to be paid out of the goods of the party searched if he be able or otherwise by the Parish And if any Nurse-keeper shall remove her self out of any infected house before 28 days after the decease of any person dying of the Infection the house to which the said Nurse-keeper doth so remove her self shall be shut up until the said 28 days be expired Likewise that the burial of the dead by this Visitation be at most convenient hours always before either Sun-rising or after Sun-setting with the privity of the Churchwardens or Constables and not othe●wise and that no Neighbours nor Friends be suffered to accompany the Coarse to Church or to enter the house visited upon pain of having his house shut up or be imprisoned And further all publick Assemblies at other Burials are to be forborn during the continuance of this Visitation And to the end no infected Stuff shall be uttered it is ordered That no Clothes Stuff Be●ding or Garments be suffered to be carryed or conveyed out of any infected houses and that the Cryers and Carryers ab●oad of Be●ding or old Apparel to be sold or pawned be utterly prohibited and restra●ned and no Brokers of Bedding or Old Apparel be permitted to make any outward shew or hang forth on their Stalls shopboards or Windows toward any Street Lane Common-way or Passage any old Bedding or Apparel to be sold upon pain of imprisonment and if any Broker or other person shall buy any Bedding Apparel or other stuff out of any infected house within two mone●ns after the Infection hath been there his house shall be shut up as infected and so shall continue shut up 20 days at least It is also ordered that care be taken of Hackney-Coachmen that they may not as some of them have been observed to do after carrying of infected persons to the Pest-house and other places be admitted to common use till their Coaches be well aired and have stood unimpistyed by the space of 5 or 6 days after such service Ordered That every Housholder do cause the Street to be daily pared before his door and so to keep it clean swept all the Week long And that the sweeping and filth of houses be daily carryed away by the Rakers and that the Raker shall give notice of his coming by the blowing of a Horn as heretofore hath been done Likewise that the Laystals be removed as far

as may be out of the City and common passages and that no Nightman or other be suffered to empty a Vault into any Garden near about the City That special care be taken that no stinking Fish or unwholesom Flesh or musty Corn or other corrupt Fruits of what sort soever be suffered to be sold about the City or n●y part of the same That the Brewers and ●ipling-houses be looked unto for musty and unwholsome Cask That no Hogs Dogs or Cats or tame Pigeons or Conies be suffered to be kept within any part of the City and that the Dogs be killed by the Dog-killers appointed for that purpose That all publick Feasting and particularly by the Companies of this City and Dinners at Taverns Alehouses other places of common entertainment be forborn untill further order and allowance and that the money thereby spared be preserved and imployed for the benefit and relief of the poor visited with the Infection That every house visited be marked with a Red-Cross of a foot long in the middle of the door and with the usual printed words Lord have Mercy upon Us. Directions for the Searchers 1. They are to take notice whether there be any swellings risings or botch under the ear about the neck on either side or under the arm-pits of either side or the groins and of its hardness and whether broken or unbroken 2. Whether there be any blains which may rise in any part of the body in the form of a blister much bigger then the Small Pox of a straw-colour or livid colour which latter is the worser either of them hath a reddish Circuit something swollen round about it which Circuit remains after the blister is broken encompassing the Sore 3. Whether there be any Carbuncle which is something like the blain but more fiery and corrosive easily eating deep into the flesh and sometimes having a black crust upon it but always compassed about with a very fiery red or livid flat and hard tumour about a finger-breadth more or less this and the blain may appear in any part of the body 4. Whether there be any tokens which are spots arising about the skin chiefly about the breast and back but sometimes also in other parts their colour is something various sometimes more reddish sometimes inclining a little toward a fai● t blue and sometimes brownish mixt with blue the red ones have often a purple-circle about them the brownish a reddish Perfumes against the Plague Such as are to go abroad shall do well to carry rue anglica Masterwort myrrhe scordiu● or water-germander wormwood valetian or setwall-root Virginian-snake root or Zedoarie in their hands to smell to and of those they may hold or shew a little in their mouths as they go in the streets they may anoint their nostrils with oyl of Amber or balsam of sulphur especially if they be afraid of any place Fear as well as presumption being hurtful Take rue one handful stamp it in a morter put thereto Vineger enough to moisten it mix them well then strain out the juce wet a piece of spunge or a toast of hrown bread therein tye it in a thin cloath bear it about to smell to Take the root of angelica beaten grosly the weight of six pence of rue and wormwood of each the weight of four pence setwall the w●●g●t of three pence b●●●se these then steep them in a l●ttle Wine Vineger tye them in a l nnen cloath which they may carry Inward Medicines against the Plague Let none go fasting forth every one according as they can procure let them take some such thing as may resist putrefaction Some may take Garlick with Butter a Clove two or three according as it shall agree with their bo●ies And for Women with child children and such as cannot take bitter things use this Take Conserve of Red-Roses Conserve of Wood-sorrel of each 2 ounces Conserves of Borage of Sage-flowers of each 6 drams Bole-Armoniack shaving of Harts-horn Sorrel seeds of each two drams yellow or white Sanders half a dram Saffron one scruple Syrup of Wood-sorrel enough to make it a most Electuary mix them well take so much as a Chesnut at a time once or twice a day as you shall find cause It will be good to forbear all crude and moist Fruits as Cucumbers Melons Plumbs Cherries Peaches and raw Hearbs and Salla●s as Lettice Spinage Radish and such like or to be moderate in the use of them mixt with Oyl and Vinegar A Remedy sent to the Lord Mayor of London by King Henry the Eighth against the Plague Take a handful of Sage a handful of Herb-grace a handful of Elder-leaves a handful of Red-bramble leaves stamp them all and strain them through a fine cloth with a quart of White-wine and then take a quantity of Ginger and mingle them together and take a spoonful of the same and you shall be safe for twenty four dayes Nine times taking of it is sufficient for a whole Year by the Grace of God And if it be so that the Party be stricken with the Plague before he hath drank this Medicine then take the Water of Scabios a spoonful of Water of Bettony a spoonful and a quanaity of fine Treacle and put them all together and cause him to drink it and it will expel all the Venome If the botch appear then take the Leaves of Brambles Elder Leaves Mustard seed and stamp them together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Sore and that shall draw out the Venome and the party shall be whole by the Grace of God A Medicine that was taught King Henry the Seventh by his Physitian against the PESTILENCE Take of Rue Maudragories Featherfew Sorrel Barnet of each half a handful of crops and roots of Dragons a like quantity wash them clean and seeth them with a soft fire in running Water from a bottle to a quart and then strain them together through a clean cloath and if it be bitter put thereto a quantity of Sugar-Candy or Sugar And if this Medicine be used before the Purples do arise you shall be whole by Gods Grace Sir Walter Rawleigh's Receipt against the Plague Yake three pints of Malmsey or Canary-Sack and boyl in it one handfull of Sage and as much of Rue till one pint be wasted away then stra●n it and set it over the fire againe and put thereto one dram of long Pepper half an ounce of Ginger and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs all well beaten together then let it boyl a little and put thereto one dram a half of Mithridate one dram of Venice-Treacle and a quarter of a pint of Aqua-Vita or hot Angelica-water Keep this as your life above all worldly treasure take it alwayes morning and evening three spoonfuls at each time if the party be diseased if not every morning is sufficient In all the Plague-time trust to this for certainly God be praised for it there was never man woman nor child whom this drink deceived if the heart were not poysoned and downed with the disease before An approved Remedy against the Pestilence be it never so vehement Take an Ounion and cut him overthwart then make a little hole in each peece the which you shall fill with fine Treacle then set the peices together againe as they were before then wrap them in a white linnen cloth Puting it so to Roast in the Embers and Ashes then when it is Roasted enough press out all the juce of it and give the patient a spoonful thereof to drink and so by Gods help he shall feel ease and most undoubtedly be healed For him that is sick of the Plague Take white Dittany Turmentil white Coral Genitine Bole Armonick Teria sigilata and Endive water of Scabius and the Accedent coming upon him this must be made at least four hours before it be used take of the said things stamped each one by it self and put them severally in glasses and make of all of them a drink at your own discretion making the Vineger mount in the glass a little above the other things and let the patient take it hot covering himself 〈◊〉 in his bed until he sweat and by Gods help he shall undoubtedly be Cured FINIS