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A06288	Certain necessary directions, aswell for the cure of the plague as for preuenting the infection; with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Maiesties subiects / set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Maiesties speciall command ; with sundry orders thought meet by His Maiestie, and his Priuie Councell, to be carefully executed for preuention of the plague ; also certaine select statutes commanded by His Maiestie to be put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme ; together with His Maiesties proclamation for further direction therein, and a decree in Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.	Royal College of Physicians of London.	1636 (1636)	STC 16769.5; ESTC S108814	57,021	154

which otherwise may fall vpon their persons or estates by their neglect thereof Wee haue thought it fit hereby to giue notice thereof to all Our louing Subiects to the end that none may pretend ignorance for an excuse in matters of so great importance And wee doe hereby declare that whosoeuer shall be found remisse or negligent in the execution of any part of the Premisses shall receiue such condigne punishment for their offence as by the Lawes of this Realme or by Our Prerogatiue Royall can or may be iustly inflicted vpon them Giuen at our Court at White-hall the three and twentieth day of April in the sixt yeere of Our Reigne of England Scotland France and Ireland God saue the King Anno xliii Reginae Elizebethae ¶ An Act for the reliefe of the poore BE it enacted by the authoritie of this present Parliament that the Churchwardens of euery parish and foure three or two substantiall housholders there as shall be thought meet hauing respect to the proportion and greatnes of the same Parish and Parishes to be nominated yeerely in Easter weeke or within one moneth after Easter vnder the hand and Seale of two or more Iustices of the peace in the same Countie whereof one to be of the Quorum dwelling in or neere the same Parish or diuision where the same Parish doeth lie shall be called Ouerseers of the poore of the same parish And they or the greater part of them shall take order from time to time by and with the consent of two or more such Iustices of Peace as is aforesaid for setting to worke of the children of all such whose parents shall not by the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers or the greater part of them bee thought able to keepe and maintaine their children And also for setting to worke all such persons married or vnmarried hauing no means to maintaine them vse no ordinary and dayly trade of life to get their liuing by and also to raise weekly or otherwise by taxation of euery inhabitant Parson Vicar and other and of euery occupier of Lands Houses Tithes impropriate or Propriations of tithes Cole-mines or saleable vnderwoods in the said Parish in such competent summe and summes of money as they shall thinke fit a conuenient stocke of flaxe hemp wooll threed yron and other necessary ware and stuffe to set the poore on worke and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary reliefe of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poore not able to worke also for the putting out of such children to bee apprentices to be gathered out of the same Parish according to the ability of the same Parish and to doe and execute all other things aswell for the disposing of the said storke as otherwise concerning the premisses as to them shall seeme conuenient Which said Churchwardens and Ouerseers so to be nominated or such of them as shall not be let by sicknesse or other iust excuse to be allowed by two such Iustices of Peace or more as is aforesaid shall meete together at the least once euery moneth in the Church of the said Parish vpon the Sunday in the afternoone after diuine Seruice there to consider of some good course to be taken and of some meet order to be set downe in the premisses and shal within foure daies after the end of their yere and after other Ouerseers nominated as aforesaid make and yeeld vp to such two Iustices of Peace as is aforesaid a true and perfect account of all summes of money by them receiued or rated and sessed and not receiued and also of such stocke as shall bee in their hands or in the hands of any of the poore to worke and of all other things concerning their said office and such summe or summes of money as shall he in their hands shal pay and deliuer ouer to the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers newly nominated and appointed as is aforesaid vpon paine that euery one of them absenting themselues without lawful cause as aforefaid from such monethly meeting for the purpose aforesaid or being negligent in their office or in the execution of the Orders aforesaid being made by and with the assent of the said Iustices of Peace or any two of them before mentioned to forfeit for euery such default of absence or negligence twenty shillings And be it also enacted that if the said Iustices of Peace doe perceiue that the Inhabitants of any Parish are not able to leuie among themselues sufficient summes of money for the purposes aforesaid that then the said two Iustices shall and may taxe rate and assesse as aforesaid any other of other Parishes or out of any Parish within the Hundred where the said Parish is to pay such sum and sums of money to the Church-wardens and Ouerseers of the said poore parish for the said purposes as the said Iustices shall thinke fit according to the intent of this Law And if the said Hundred shall not be thought to the said Iustices able and fit to relieue the said seuerall Parishes not able to prouide for themselues as aforesaid Then the Iustices of Peace at their generall quarter Sessions or the greater number of them shall rate and assesse as aforesaid any other of other Parishes or out of any Parish within the said County for the purposes aforesaid as in their discretion shall seeme fit And that it shall be lawfull aswell for the present as subsequent Churchwardens and Ouerseers or any of them by warrant from any two such Iustices of peace as is aforesaid to leuie aswell the said sums of money and all arrerages of euery one that shall refuse to contribute according as they shall be assessed by distresse and sale of the offendors goods as the summes of money or stock which shall be behinde vpon any account to be made as aforesaid rendring to the parties the ouerplus and in defect of such distresse it shall be lawfull for any such two Iustices of the Peace to commit him or them to the common Goale of the Countie there to remaine without baile or mainprise vntill paiment of the said sum arrerages and stocke And the said Iustices of Peace or any of them to send to the house of correction or common Goale such as shall not employ themselues to worke being appointed thereunto as aforesaid And also any two such Iustices of Peace to commit to the said prison euery one of the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers which shall refuse to accompt there to remaine without baile or maineprise untill he haue made a true accompt and satisfied and paid so much as vpon the said accompt shall be remaining in his hands And be it further enacted that it shall be lawfull for the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers or the greater part of them by the assent of any two Iustices of the Peace aforesaid to bind any such children as aforesaid to be apprentices where they shall

where they trauell whereof one to bee of the Quorum as by the Statute more at large appeareth By reason of which libertie many notorious Rogues and Vagabonds and euill disposed persons haue vndertaken and doe professe the trade of Glassemen and by colour thereof doe trauell vp and downe diuers Counties of this Realme and doe commit many Pickeries petty Felonies and other misdemeanours For the auoding of which inconuenience Bee it established and enacted by the Authoritie of this present Parliament That from and after two moneths next after the end of this present Session of Parliament all such person and persons as shall wander vp and downe the Countrey to sell Glasses shall be adiudged deemed and taken as Rogues and Vagabonds and shall suffer the like paine and punishment in euery degree as is appointed to bee inflicted vpon Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers by the intent and true meaning of the said Statute made in the nine and thirtieth yeere of the Reigne of the said late Queene Elizabeth and shall be set down limitted and appointed by this present Act Any thing in the said Statute of the nine and thirtieth yeere of her said Reigne to the contrary therof in any wise notwithstanding And forasmuch as one branch of the Statute of 39. Eliz. is taken to bee some what defectiue for that the said Rogues hauing no Marke vpon them to bee knowne by notwithstanding such iudgement of Banishment may returne or retire themselues into some other parts of this Realme where they are not known and so escape the due punishment which the said Statute did intend to inflict vpon them For remedy whereof Be it ordained and enacted That such Rogues as shall after the end of two moneths next after the end of this Session of Parliament be adiudged as aforesaid incorrigible or dangerous shall also by the iudgement of the same Iustices or the more part of them then present in their open Sessions of the Peace bee branded in the left shoulder with an hot burning Iron of the breadth of an English shilling with a great Romane R vpon the Iron and the branding vpon the shoulder to bee throughly burned and set on vpon the skinne and flesh that the Letter R bee seene and remaine for a perpetuall Marke vpon such Rogue during his or her life and therevpon bee sent by the same Iustices to the place of his dwelling if he haue any if not then to the place where hee last dwelt by the space of a yeere if that can be knowne by his confession or otherwise And if that cannot bee knowne then to the place of his birth there to bee placed in labour as a true Subiect ought to doe And after such punishment of any such Rogue as aforesaid if any Rogue so punished shall offend againe in begging or wandring contrary to the said Statute or this present Act That then in euery such case the party so offending shall bee iudged a Felon and shall suffer as in Cases of Felony without benefit of Clergie the same Felony to be tried in the County where any such offender shall bee taken Anno primo Iacobi Regis ¶ An Act for the charitable reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the Plague FOrasmuch as the Inhabitants of diuers Cities Boroughs Townes corporate and of other Parishes and places being visited with the Plague are found to bee vnable to relieue the poorer sort of such people so infected who of necessity must be by some charitable course prouided for lest they should wander abroad and thereby infect others And forasmuch as diuers persons infected with that disease and others inhabiting in places infected aswell poore people and vnable to relieue themselues that are carefully prouided for as other which of themselues are of abilitie being commanded by the Magistrate or officer of or within the place where the Infection shall be to keepe their houses or otherwise to separate themselues from company for the auoiding of further Infection do notwithstanding very dangerously and disorderly demeane themselues Bee it therefore enacted by the authoritie of this present Parliament That the Maior Bailiffes head Officers and Iustices of the Peace of euery City Borough Town corporate and places Priuiledged where any Maior and Bailiffes head Officers or Iustices of Peace are or shall bee or any two of them shall haue power and authority from time to time to taxe and assesse all and euery Inhabitant and all Houses of habitation Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the said Citie Borough Towne corporate and places Priuiledged or the liberties or precincts thereof at such reasonable taxes and paiments as they shall thinke fit for the reasonable reliefe of such persons infected or inhabiting in houses and places infected in the same Cities Boroughs and Townes corporate and places priuiledged and from time to time leuie the same Taxes of the goods of euery person refusing or neglecting to pay the said Taxes by Warrant vnder the Hand and Seale of the Maior and Bailiffes and head Officers aforesaid or two such Iustices of Peace to bee directed to any person or persons for the execution thereof And if the party to whom such Warrant is or shall be directed shall not find any Goods to leuy the same and the party taxed shall refuse to pay the same Taxe That then vpon returne thereof the said Maior Bailiffes head Officers or Iustices of Peace or any two of them shall by like Warrant vnder their hands and Seales cause the same person so taxed to bee arrested and committed to the Gaole without Bayle or Maineprise vntill he shall satisfie the same taxation and the Arrerages thereof And if the Inhabitants of any such Citie Borough Towne corporate or place priuiledged shall finde themselues vnable to relieue their said poore infected persons and others as aforesaid That then vpon Certificate thereof by the Maior Bayliffe head Officers and other the said Iustices of Peace or any two of them to the Iustices of Peace of the Countie of or neere to the sayd Citie Borough Towne corporate or priuiledged place so infected or any two of them to be made the said Iustices of or neer the said County or any two of them shall or may taxe and assesse the Inhabitants of the Countie within fiue miles of the sayd place Infected at such reasonable and weekely Taxes and Rates as they shall thinke fit to be leuied by warrant from any such two Iustices of Peace of or neere the Countie by sale of Goods and in default thereof by imprisonment of the body of the party taxed as aforesayd And if any such Infection shall bee in any Borough Towne corporate or piuiledged place where there are or shall be no Iustices of peace or in any Village or Hamlet within any County That then it shall and may bee lawfull for any two Iustices of peace of the said County wherein the said place infected is or shall be to taxe and assesse the inhabitants of

thereof and lay it warme to the sore till it breake Another If you cannot haue these hearbes it is good to lay a loafe of bread to it hot as it commeth out of the Oven which afterward shall be burnt or buried in the earth or the leaues of Scabious or Sorrell rosted or two or three Lilly rootes rosted vnder Embers beated and applied ¶ Orders thought meete by his MAIESTIE and his Priuie Councell to be executed throughout the Counties of this Realme in such Townes Villages and other places as are or may be hereafter Infected with the Plague for the stay of further increase of the same AS the most louing and gracious care of his Maiesty for the preseruation of his People hath already beene earnestly shewed and declared by such meanes and waies as were thought expedient to suppresse the grieuous Infection of the Plague and to preuent the increase thereof within the City of LONDON parts about it so whatsoeuer other good meanes may bee yet remaining which may extend and proue behouefull to the Countrey abroad where his Maiestie is sorry to vnderstand that the Contagion is also in many places dispersed it is likewise His gracious pleasure that the same be carefully prouided and put in practise And therefore hauing taken knowledge of certaine good Orders that were vpon like occasion published in time past together with certaine Rules and medicines prescribed by the best and most learned Physicians and finding both of them to serue well for the present time his Maiesty is pleased that the same shall be renewed and published And withall straitly commandeth all Iustices of the Peace and others to whom it may appertaine to see the said Orders duely executed At the Court at Hāpton Court this 30. of Iuly 1603. Infection of the Plague INprimis All the Iustices in euery County aswel within the Liberties as without immediately upon knowledge to them giuen shall assemble themselues together at some one generall place accustomed being clear from Infection of the Plague to consult how these Orders following may be duly put in execution not meaning that any Iustices dwelling in or neere places infected shall come thither whiles their comming may be doubtfull And after their first generall assembly they shall make a distribution of themselves to sundry Limits and diuisions as in other common seruices of the County they are accustomed to doe for the prosecution thereof 2 First they shall enquire and presently informe themselues by all good meanes what Towns and villages are at the time of such assembly infected within every their Counties and in what Hundred or other Diuision the said Townes and Villages are and how many of the same places so infected are Corporate Townes Market Townes and Villages and shall consider of what wealth the inhabitants of the same townes and Parishes are to be able to relieue the poore that are or shal be infected and to be restrained in their houses 3 Item thereupon after conference vsed according to the necessitie of the cause they shall deuise and make a general taxation either by charging the Towne infected with one summe in grosse or by charging the speciall persons of wealth within the same to be forth with collected for the rate of one moneth at the first and so if the sicknesse shall continue the collection of the like summe or of more or of lesse as time and cause shall require and the same to be every first second third or fourth weeke employed to and for the execution of the said Orders And in case some of the said Townes Infected shall manifestly appeare not to bee of sufficient abilitie to contribute sufficient for the charges requisite then the Taxation or Collection shall bee made or further extended to other parts or in any other further limits as by them shall bee thought requisite where there shall be any such Townes or Villages so infected and vnable to relieue themselues And if the said Townes be situated in the borders confines of any other shire then as the Iustices shall see cause and need for the greatnesse of the charge requisite that the parts of the shire ioyning to the Towns infected be not able they shal write their letters to the next Iustices of the other Shire so confining to procure by collection some reliefe as in like cases they are to relieue them in respect of neere neighbourhood of the place for that the same Infection may be the better stayed from the said adioyning places though they be separated by name of the County 4 Item they shall cause to be appointed in euery Parish aswell infected as not infected certaine persons to view the bodies of all such as shall die before they be suffered to be buried and to certifie the Minister of the Church and Churchwarden or other principall Officers or their substitutes of what probable disease the said persons died and the said viewers to haue weekely some allowance the more large allowance where the Townes or Parishes bee infected during the infection towards their maintenance to the end they which shal be in places infected may forbeare to resort into the company of others that are sound and those persons to be sworne to make true report according to their knowledge the choise of them to bee made by direction of the Curate of the Church with three or foure substantiall men of the Parish And in case the said viewers either through fauour or corruption shall giue wrong certificate or shal refuse to serue being thereunto appointed then to cause them to be punished by imprisonment in such sort as may serue for a terrour to others 5 Item the houses of such persons out of the which there shall die any of the Plague beeing so certified by the viewers or otherwise knowen or where it shall bee vnderstood that any person remaineth sicke of the Plague to bee closed vp in all parts during the time of restraint viz. sixe weekes after the sicknesse be ceased in the same house in case the said houses so infected shal be within any Towne hauing houses neere adioyning to the same And if the infection happen in houses dispersed in Villages and separated from other houses and that of necessitie for the seruing of their cattell and manuring of their ground the said persons cannot continue in their houses then they bee neuerthelesse restrained from resorting into company of others either publikely or priuately during the said time of restraint and to weare some mark in their vppermost garments or beare white rods in their hands at such time as they shall goe abroad yf there be any doubt that the masters and owners of the houses infected will not duely obserue the directions of shutting vp the doores specially in the night then shall there be appointed two or three Watchmen by turnes which shall be sworne to attend watch the house and to apprehend any person that shall come out of the house contrary to the order

infected houses but c. ITem that none bee remooued out of the house where he falleth sick of the infection into any other house in the Citie Borough or County except it be to the Pest-house or a Tent or vnto some such house which the owners of the said Visited house holdeth in his owne hands and occupieth by his owne seruants and so as securitie be giuen to the Parish whither such remooue is made that the attendance and charge about the said Visited persons shall be obserued and charged in all the particularities before expressed without any cost of that Parish to which any such remoue shall happen to be made and this remoue to be done by night And it shall be lawfull to any person that hath two houses to remooue either his sound or his infected people to his spare house at his choice so as if he send away first his sound he may not after send thither the sick nor againe vnto the sick the sound And that the same which he sendeth be for one weeke at the least shut vp and secluded from company for feare of some infection at the first not appearing Buriall of the dead THat the buriall of the dead by this Visitation be at most conuenient houres alwayes either before Sunne rising or after Sunne setting with the priuitie of the Churchwardens or Constables and not otherwise and that no neighbours nor friends be suffered to accompany the Coarse to Church or to enter the house visited vpon paine of hauing his house shut vp or bee imprisoned No infected stuffe to be vttered THat no Clothes Stuffe bedding or garments be suffred to be carried or conueyed out of any Infected Houses and that the Criers and Caries abroad of Bedding or olde Apparell to be Sold or Pawned be vtterly Prohibited and restrained and no Brokers of Bedding or olde Apparell bee permitted to make any outward Shew or hang forth on their Stalles Shop-boords or Windowes towards any Streete Lane common Way or passage any olde Bedding or Apparell to bee solde vpon paine of Imprisonment And if any Broker or other person shall buy any Bedding Apparell or other Stuffe out of any Infected House within two moneths after the Infection hath been there his house shall bee shut vp as Infected and so shall continue shut vp twenty dayes at the least No person to be conueyed out of any Infected house IF any person Visited doe fortune by negligent looking vnto or by any other meanes to come or be conueyed from a place infected to any other place the Parish from whence such Party hath come or beene conueyed vpon notice thereof giuen shall at their charge cause the said party so Visited and escaped to bee caried and brought backe againe by night and the parties in this case offending to be punished at the direction of the Alderman of the Ward and the Iustices of the Peace respectiuely and the house of the receiuer of such visited person to be shut vp for twenty dayes Euery Visited house to be marked THat euery house visited be marked with a Red Crosse of a foot long in the middle of the doore euident to bee seene and with these vsuall Printed words that is to say Lord haue mercy vpon vs to bee set close ouer the same Crosse there to continue vntill lawfull opening of the same house Euery Visited house to be watched THat the Constables see euery house shut vp and to be attended with Watchmen which may keepe them in and minister necessaries vnto them at their own charges if they be able or at the common charge if they be vnable the shutting vp to be for the space of foure weekes after all be whole That precise order be taken that the Searchers Chirurgions Keepers and Buriers are not to passe the streets without holding a red Rod or Wand of three foot in length in their hands open and euident to be seene and are not to goe into any other house then into their owne or into that whereunto they are directed or sent for but to forbeare and abstaine from company especially when they haue been lately vsed in any such businesse or attendance And to this end it is ordered that a weekely Taxe be made in euery Parish visited If in the City or Borough then vnder the hand of the Alderman of the Ward where the place is visited if in either of the Counties then vnder the hands of some of the Iustices next to the place visited who if there bee cause may extend the Taxe into other Parishes also and may giue warrant of distresse against them which shall refuse to pay and for want of distresse or for assistance to commit the offenders to prison according to the Statute in that behalfe Orders for cleansing and keeping of the Streets sweet The streets to be kept cleane FIrst it is thought very necessary and so ordered that euery house-holder do cause the Street to bee daily pared before his doore and so to keep it cleane sweptall the weeke long That Rakers take it from out the houses THat the sweeping and filth of houses be dayly caried away by the Rakers and that the Raker shall giue notice of his comming by the blowing of a Horne as heretofore hath beene done Laystals to be made far off from the City THat the Laystals bee remooued as farre as may be out of the City and common passages and that no Night-man or other be suffered to empty a Vault into any Garden neere about the Citie Care to be had of vnwholsome Fish or Flesh and of mustie Corne. THat speciall care be taken that no stinking Fish or vnwholesome Flesh or mustie Corne or other corrupt fruits of what sort soeuer be suffered to be sold about the City or any part of the same That the Bruers and Tipling houses be looked vnto for mustie and vnwholesome Caske That order be taken that no Hogs Dogs or cats or tame Pigeons or Conies be suffered to be kept within any part of the City or any Swine to be or stray in the Streets or Lanes but that such Swine bee Impounded by the Beadle or any other Officer the owner punished according to the Act of Common Councell and that the Dogs be killed by the Dog killers appointed for that purpose Orders concerning loose Persons and idle assemblies Beggers FOr asmuch as nothing is more complained on then the multitude of Rogues and wandering Beggers that swarme in euery place about the City being a great cause of the spreading of the infection will not be auoided notwithstanding any Order that hath been giuen to the contrary It is therefore now ordered that such Constables and others whom this matter may any way concerne doe take speciall care that no wandering Begger be suffered in the Streets of this City in any fashion or manner whatsoeuer vpon paine of the penalty prouided by the Law to be duely and seuerely executed vpon them Playes THat all Plaies Beare-baitings Games Singing of Ballads