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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

holden in that County and then such of the same Rogues so committed as by the Iustices of the Peace then and there present or the most part of them shall be thought fit not to be deliuered shall and may lawfully by the same Iustices or the most part of them bee banished out of this Realme and all other the dominions thereof and at the charges of that Countrey shall bee conueyed vnto such parts beyond the Seas as shall be at any time hereafter for that purpose assigned by the Priuy Councell vnto her Maiesty her heires or successors or by any sixe or more of them whereof the L. Chancellor or L. Keeper of the great Seale or the L. Treasurer for the time being to bee one or otherwise be iudged perpetually to the Gallies of this Realme as by the same Iustices or the most part of them it shall bee thought fit and expedient And if any such Rogue so banished as aforesaid shall returne againe into any part of this Realme or dominion of Wales without lawfull licence or warrant so to doe that in euery such case such offence shall be Felony and the party offending therein suffer death as in case of felony The said felony to bee heard and determined in that County of this Realme or Wales in which the offender shall be apprehended And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid that if any Towne Parish or Village the Constable Headborough or Tythingman be negligent and doe not his or their best endeauours for the apprehension of such Vagabond Rogue or sturdy Begger which there shall bee found contrary to the forme of this present Act and to cause euery of them to bee punished and conueied according to the true meaning of this present Act that then the said Constable Headborough or Tithingman in whom such default shall be shall lose and forfeit for euery such default ten shillings And also if any person or persons doe in any wise disturbe or let the execution of this Law or any part thereof concerning the punishment or conueying of Rogues Vagabonds sturdy Beggers or the reliefe or setling of poore impotent persons in any maner of wise or make rescous against any Officer or person authorised by this present Act for the due execution of any the premisses the same person so offending shal forfeit lose for euery such offence the summe of fiue pound and shall be bound to the good behauiour And bee it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid That no person or persons hauing charge in any voyage in passing from the Realmes of Ireland or Scotland or from the Isle of Man into this Realme of England doe wittingly or willingly bring or conuey or suffer to be brought or conueyed in any Vessell or Boate from and out of the said Realme of Ireland Scotland or Isle of Man into the Realme of England or Wales or any part thereof any Vagabond Rogue or Begger or any such as shall be forced or very like to liue by begging within the Realme of England or Wales being borne in the same Realmes or Island on paine of euery such person so offending to forfeit and lose for euery such Vagabond Rogue Begger or other person like to liue by begging .xx. s. to the vse of the poore of the said Parish in which they were set on land And if any such Manniske Scottish or Irish Rogue vagabond or begger be already or shall at any time hereafter be set on land or shall come into any part of England or Wales the same after he or she shall be punished as aforesaid shall bee conueyed to the next Port or Parish in or neere which they were landed or first came in such sort as Rogues are appointed to bee by this present Act and from thence to bee transported at the common charge of the County where they were set on land into those parts from whence they came or were brought And that euery Constable Headborough and Tythingman neglecting the due performance thereof shall forfeit for euery such offence ten shillings Be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that no diseased or impotent poore person shal at any time resort or repaire from their dwelling places to the City of Bath or Towne of Buxton or either of them to the Baths there for the ease of their griefes vnlesse such person doe forbeare to begge and bee licensed to passe thither by two Iustices of the Peace of the County where such person doth or shall then dwell or remaine and prouided for to trauaile with such reliefe for towards his or her maintenance as shal be necessary for the same person for the time of such his or her trauaile abode at the city of Bath and town of Buxton or either of them and returne thence and shall returne home againe as shall be limited by the said licence vpon paine to be reputed punished and vsed as Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers declared by this present Act. And that the inhabitants of the same City of Bath and Towne of Buxton shall not in any wise be charged by this Act with the finding the reliefe of any such poore people Prouided alwayes That the Iustices of Peace within any County of this Realm or Wales shall not intromit or enter into any City Borough or Towns corporate where be any Iustice or Iustices of the Peace for any such City Borough or Towne Corporate for the execution of any Branch Article or sentence of this Act for or concerning any offence matter or cause growing or arising within the Precincts Liberties or Iurisdiction of such City Borough or Townes Corporate But that it may and shal be lawfull to the Iustice and Iustices of the Peace Maiors Bailiffes and other head Officers of those Cities Boroughes and Townes Corporate where there bee such Iustices of the Peace to proceed to the execution of this Act within the precinct and compasse of their Liberties in such maner and forme as the Iustices of Peace in any County may or ought to doe within the same County by vertue of this Act Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Prouided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the poore people for the time being in the Hospitall called Saint Thomas Hospitall otherwise called the Kings Hospitall in the Borough of Southwarke neere adioyning to the City of London but that the Maior Commonalty and Citizens of the said City of London for the time being shall and may haue the rule order and gouernment of the said Hospitall and of the poor people therein for the time being Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Prouided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained or any authority thereby giuen shall not in any wise extend to dis-inherit preiudice or hinder Iohn Dutton of Dutton in the County of Chester Esquire his heires or assignes

computation of all such summes as they leuie and also a Register of the names of euery such person vnto whom they shall haue disbursed any reliefe And shall also preserue or enter euery Certificate by warrant whereof such reliefe hath beene by them disbursed And also that the Mustermaster or Receiuer generall of the Muster Rolles shall keepe a booke wherein shall be entred the names of all such whose Certificates shall bee by him allowed with an abstract of their Certificates And that euery Treasurer returning or not accepting the Certificate brought vnto him from the said Muster-master shall write and subscribe the cause of his not accepting or not allowing thereof vnder the said Certificate or on the back thereof And be it further enacted That if any Treasurer shall wilfully refuse to distribute and giue any reliefe according to the forme of this Act That it shall be lawfull for the Iustices of peace in their quarter Sessions to Fine such Treasurers by their discretions as aforesaid The same Fine to bee leuied by distresse and sale thereof to bee prosecuted by any two of them whom they shall authorize And be it also enacted that euery Souldier or Mariner that shall be taken begging in any place within this Realme after the Feast of Easter next Or any that shall counterfeit any Certificate in this Act expressed shall for euer lose his Annuitie or pension and shall be taken deemed and adiudged as a common Rogue or Vagabond person and shall haue and sustaine the same and the like paines imprisonment and punishment as is appointed and prouided for common Rogues and Vagabond persons Prouided alwayes and be it enacted that all the surplusage of money which shall bee remaining in the Stock of any County shall by the discretion of the more part of the Iustices of Peace in their quarter Sessions bee ordered distributed and bestowed vpon such good and charitable vses and in such forme as are limited and appointed in the Statutes made and now in force concerning reliefe of the poore and punishment of Rogues and Beggars Prouided alwayes that the Iustices of peace within any County of this Realme or Wales shall not intromit or enter into any City Borough Place or Towne corporate where is any Iustice of Peace for any such Citie Borough Place or Towne corporate for the execution of any Article of this Act But that it shall be lawfull to the Iustice and Iustices of the peace Maiors Bailiffes and other head Officers of those Cities Boroughs Places Townes corporate where there is any Iustice of Peace to proceed to the execution of this Act within the precinct and compasse of their liberties in such manner as the Iustice of Peace in any County may doe by vertue of this Act. And that euery Iustice of Peace within euery such Citie Borough Place or Towne corporate for euery offence by him committed contrary to the meaning of this Statute shal be fineable as other Iustices of peace at the large in the Counties are in this Act appointed to be And that the Maior and Iustices of Peace in euery such Borough Place and Towne corporate shall haue authority by this present Act to appoint any person for the receiuing of the said money and paying the same within such Citie Borough Place or Towne corporate which person so appointed shall haue authority to doe all such things and be subiect to all such penalties as high Constables by vertue of this Act should haue or be And be it enacted that all forfeitures to bee forfeited by any Treasurer Collector Constable Church-warden or other person for any cause mentioned in this Act shall be imployed to the reliefe of such Souldiers and Mariners as are by this Act appointed to take and haue reliefe And after that reliefe satisfied then the ouerplus thereof with the ouerplus of the stock remaining in any the said Treasurers hands shall bee imployed as is before mentioned to the charitable vses expressed in the said Statutes concerning the reliefe of poore and for punishment of Rogues and Beggers except the said Iustices or the more part of them shall thinke meet to reserue and keepe the same in stock for the maintenance and reliefe of such Souldiers and Mariners as out of the same County may afterward bee appointed to receiue reliefe and pensions And that the reliefe appointed to bee giuen by this Act shall be giuen to Souldiers and Mariners out of the County or place where they were pressed so far forth as the Taxation limited by this Act will extend And if the whole Taxation there shall be before imployed according to the meaning of this Act or that they shall not be prest men then out of the place where they were borne or last inhabited by the space of three yeeres at his or their election Prouided alwayes and be it enacted that euery pension assigned heretofore to any Souldier or Mariner or that shall be assigned before the said Feast of Easter next notwithstanding the discontinuance of the said two former Acts shall stand in force and shall yeerely from and after the said feast of Easter next be satisfied and payed out of such Taxations and forfeitures as shall be made collected and leuied by force of this Act so long as the said pension shall remaine in force without such reuocation or diminishing as is before in this Act mentioned Which clause of reuocation or diminishing before mentioned shall extend aswell to pensions heretofore assigned as to such as at any time hereafter before or after the said feast of Easter shall bee assigned to any person or persons And bee it also enacted that all arrerages of Taxations heretofore made by vertue of the said former Statutes or any of them which shall be or remaine at the said feast of Easter next vncollected and not receiued or leuied shall and may by authority of this Act be had receiued and leuied by such persons and in such manner and forme as in euery respect Taxations made by vertue of this Act are appointed to bee collected receiued and leuied and shall be imployed to the vses expressed in this Act and no otherwise Prouided alwaies and bee it enacted by the authority aforesaid that if the said rate shall bee thought not to bee sufficient for the reliefe of such Souldiers and Mariners as shall be to be relieued within the City of London That then it shall bee lawfull for the Maior Recorder and Aldermen of London or the more part of them to rate and taxe such reasonable taxe summe and summes of money for the said reliefe as shall be to them thought fit and conuenient So as such summe and summes of money so to be rated doe not exceed three shillings weekely out of any Parish and so as in the totall the summe shall not exceed or bee vnder twelue pence weekely out of euery Parish one with another within the said Citie and the Liberties thereof

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

the said Countie within fiue miles of the sayd place infected at such reasonable weekely taxes and rates as they shall thinke fit for the reasonable reliefe of the said places infected to bee leuied by warrant from the said Iustices of Peace of the same County by sale of goods and in default therof by imprisonment of the body of euery partie so taxed as aforesaid The same taxes made by the said Iustices of Peace of the County for the reliefe of such Cities Boroughs townes corporate places priuiledged where there are no Iustices of Peace to be disposed as they shall think fit And where there are Iustices of Peace Then in such sort as to the Maior Bailifs head officers Iustices of Peace there or any two of them shall seeme fit conuenient All which taxes and rates made within any such Citie Borough town corporate or place priuiledged shal be certified at the next quarter Sessions to be holden within the same Citie Borough Towne corporate or place priuiledged And the said Taxes and Rates made within any part of the said County shall in like sort be certified at the next quarter Sessions to bee holden in and for the said Countie and that if the Iustices of Peace at such quarter Sessions respectiuely or the more part of them shall thinke it fit the said tax and rate should continue or be inlarged or extended to any other parts of the Countie or otherwise determined then the fame to be so enlarged extended or determined increased or taxed and leuied in manner and forme aforesaid as to the said Iustices at the Quarter Sessions respectiuely shall be thought fit and conuenient And euery Constable and other Officer that shall wilfully make default in leuying such money as they shall be commanded by the said Warrant or Warrants shall forfeit for euery such offence ten shillings to be employed on the charitable vses aforesaid And be it further enacted That if any person or persons infected or being dwelling in any house Infected shall bee by the Maior Bayliffes Constable or other head Officer of any Citie Borough Towne Corporate Priuiledged place or Market Towne or by any Iustice of Peace Constable Headborough or other Officer of the Countie if any such Infection be out of any Citie Borough Towne Corporate Priuiledged place or Market Towne commanded or appointed as aforesaid to keepe his or their house for auoiding of further Infection and shall notwithstanding wilfully and contemptuously disobey such direction and appointment offering and attempting to breake and goe abroad and to resist or going abroad and resisting such Keepers or Watchmen as shall be appointed as aforesaid to see them kept in That then it shal be lawful for such Watchmen with violence to inforce them to keepe their houses And if any hurt come by such enforcement to such disobedient persons That then the said Keepers Watchmen and any other their assist assistants shall not bee impeached therefore And if any infected persons as aforesaid so commanded to keepe house shall contrary to such Commandement wilfully and contemptuously go abroad and shall conuerse in company hauing any infectious Sore vpon him vncured That then such person and persons shall be taken deemed and adiudged as a Felon and to suffer paines of death as in case of Felonie But if such person shall not haue any such sore found about him Then for his said offence to be punished as a Vagabond in all respects should or ought to be by the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth yeere of the Reigne of our late Souereigne Lady Queene ELIZABETH for the punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds And further to be bound to his or their good behauiour for one whole yeere Prouided That no attainder of Felony by vertue of this Acte shall extend to any attainder or corruption of blood or forfeiture of any Goods Chattels Lands Tenements or Hereditaments And bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesayd That it shall be lawfull for Iustices of Peace Maiors Bayliffes and other head Officers aforesayd to appoint within the seuerall Limits Searchers Watchmen Examiners Keepers and Buriers for the persons and places respectiuely infected as aforesayd and to 〈…〉 vnto them Oathes for the performance of their Offices of Searchers Examiners Watchmen Keepers and Buriers and giue them other directions as vnto them for the present necessitie shall seeme good in their discretions And this Acte to continue no longer then vntill the end of the first Session of the next Parliament Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by authority of this present Parliament that no Maior Bayliffes head Officers or any Iustices of Peace shall by force or pretext of any thing in this Acte contained doe or execute any thing before mentioned within either the Vniuersities of Cambridge or Oxford or within any Cathedrall Church or the Liberties or Precincts thereof in this Realme of England or within the Colledges of Eaton or Winchester But that the Vicechancellor of either of the Vniuersities for the time being within either of the same respectiuely and the Bishop and Deane of such Cathedrall Church or one of them within such Cathedrall Church and the Prouost or Warden of either of the said Colledges within the same shall haue all such power and authority and shall doe and execute all and euery such Act and Acts thing and things in this Act before mentioned within their seuerall Precincts and Iurisdictions abouesaid as wholly absolutely and fully to all intents and purposes as any Maior Bayliffes head Officers or Iustices of Peace within their seuerall Precincts and Iurisdictions may elsewhere by force of this Act doe and execute In Camera Stellata coram Concilio ibidem vicesimo die Octobris Anno Regni Reginae ELIZABETHAE quadragesimo c. Praesentibus Thoma Egerton mil. Dn̄o Cultod Magni Sigilli Angliae Dn̄o North. Dn̄o Buckhurst Iohanne Fortescue milite Cancellar Scaccarij Archiepiscopo Cantuariens Popham milite Capitali Iustic de Banco Regis Anderson milite Capitali Iustic de Communi Banco THIS day Rice Griffin and Iohn Scrips were brought to the Barre against whome Edward Coke Esquire Her Maiesties Attourney Generall did enforme That the said Griffin had vnlawfully erected and built one Tenement in Hog-lane in the Countie of Middlesex which he diuided into two seuerall roomes wherein were now inhabiting two poore Tenants that onely liued and were maintained by the reliefe of the Parishioners there and begging abroad in other places And that the said Iohn Scrips had in like sort diuided a Tenement in Shordich into or about seuenteene Tenancies or dwellings and the same inhabited by diuers persons of very poore and base condition contrary to the intent and meaning of her Highnesse Proclamation published and set out the seuenth day of Iuly 1580. in the two and twentieth yeere of Her Highnesse Reigne whereby the same and such manner of buildings and diuisions are altogether forbidden and prohibited as by her Maiesties said