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A22844	Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. Also certaine orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell, to bee put in execution, together with sundry good rules, preseruatiues, and medicines against the infection of the plague, set downe by the Colledge of the Physicians vpon his Maiesties speciall command: as also a decree of the Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Royal College of Physicians of London.	1630 (1630)	STC 9342; ESTC S125901	56,831	142

ounces of Oyle of Lillies or so much Salt Butter make a Pultesse apply it hot after it hath lay●e three or foure houres take it off and burne it and apply a fresh Pultesse of the same if it proue hard to breake adde a little burnt Copris to the Pultesse which will soone worke his effect Or this TAke the Flowers of Elders two handfuls Rocket seede bruised one ounce Pigeons dung three drammes stampe these together put to them a little oyle of Lillies make thereof a Pultesse apply it and change it as you did the former To draw WHen it is broken to drawe it and deale it take the Yolke of an Egge one ounce of honey of Roses Turpentine halfe an ounce wheate Flower a little London Treacle a dramme and a halfe mixe these wel● spread it vpon Leather change it twice a day You must take care not to heale any of these pestilent sores too soon for that might breed a new sicknesse or at least a new sore For the Carbuncle SOme put great confidence in a Cautery laying a defensatiue of Bole Armoniacke or Terra sigillata mixed with Vineger and the White of an Egge round about the tumor but not vpon it Take three or foure cloues of Garlicke Rue halfe a handfull foure Figges strong Leauen and the Soote of a Chimney in which wood hath been burnt of each halfe an ounce Mustard seede two drammes Salt a dramme and a halfe stampe these wel together and apply it hot to the Sore you may put thereto a little salt Butter if it be too drie Or this TAke Leauen halfe an ounce Radish rootes the bigger the better an ounce and a halfe Mustard seed two drammes Onions and Garlicke rosted of each two drammes and a halfe Venice Treacle or Mithridatum three drammes mixe these in a morter applie it hote thrice a day to the Sore But these Sores cannot be well ordered and cured without the personall care of a discreete Surgeon Take of Scabious two handfuls stampe it in a stone morter with a pestell of stone if you can get any such then put vnto it of old Swines grease salted two ounces and the yelke of an Egge stampe them well together and lay part of this warme to the Sore Take of the leaues of Mallowes of Camomill flowers of either of them a handfull of Li●eseed beaten into powder two ounces boyl● the Mallow leaues first cut and the flowers of Camomill in faire water standing aboue a fingers breadth boile all them together vntill all the water be almost spent then put thereunto the Lineseede of wheate flower halfe a handfull of Swines grease the skins taken away three ounces of oyle of Roses two ounces stirre them still with a sticke and let them all boyle together on a soft fire without smoake vntill the water bee vtterly spent beate them all together in a morter vntill they bee well incorporated and in feeling smooth and not rough then make part thereof hot in a dish set vpon a Chafendish of coales and lay it thicke vpon a linnen cloth applying it to the Sore Take a white Onion cut in pieces of fresh Butter three ounces of Leauen the weight of twelue pence of Mallowes one handfull of Scabious if it may bee had one handfull of cloues of Garlicke the weight of twenty pence boyle them on the fire insufficient water and make a P●●tesse of 〈◊〉 and lay it 〈◊〉 to the Sore Another TO the Sore it 〈◊〉 doe thus 〈◊〉 two handfulls of 〈◊〉 three roots of Da●t an handful of S●allage or Lo● if you can get it 〈◊〉 them 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 and a 〈◊〉 cr●es of bread an● 〈…〉 thereof and lay it warme to the So●e till it breake Another IF you cannot haue these herbes it is good to lay a loafe of bread to it hot as it commeth out of the ouen which afterward shall be burnt or buried in the earth Or the leaues of Scabious or Sorrel rosted or two or three Lilly rootes rosted vnder Embers beaten and applied A generall Medicine for all sorts of people taken with the Pl●gue to bee ●ad without Cost TAke of the roote Butter Burre otherwise called Pestilent-wort one ounce of the roote of great Valerian a quarter of an ounce of Sorrell an handfull boyle all these in a quart of water to a pint then ●ine it and put thereto two spoonfuls of Vineger 〈◊〉 ounces of good Sugar boyle all these together vntill they bee well mingled let the Infected drinke of this so ●otes ●e may 〈◊〉 it a good draught and i● be● chance to 〈◊〉 it vp againe let him take the same quantity straightway vpon it and prouoke himselfe to sweat and hee shall finde great helpe ¶ Orders conceiued and agreed to be published by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the Citie of London and the Iustices of Peace of the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey by direction from the Lords of His Maiesties most Honourable Priuy Councell WHereas in the first yeere of the Reigne of our late Soueraigne King Iames of happy memory ouer this Realme of England an Act was made for the charitable reliefe and Ordering of persons infected with the Plague wherby Authoritie is giuen to Iustices of Peace Maiors Bayliffes and other head Officers to appoint within their seuerall Limits Examiners Searchers Watchmen Keepers and Buriers for the persons and places infected and to minister vnto them Oathes for the performance of their Offices And the same Statute also authoriseth the giuing of other Directions as vnto them for the present necessity shall seeme good in their discretions It is therefore vpon speciall consideration thought very expedient for the preuenting and auoiding of the Infection of Sicknesse if it shall please Almighty God which is now dangerously dispersed into many places within the City and Suburbs of the same that these Officers following bee appointed and these Orders hereafter prescribed bee duely obserued Examiners to be appointed in euery Parish FIrst It is thought requisite and so ordered that in euery Parish there bee one two or more persons of good sort and credit chosen and appointed by the Alderman his Deputy and Common Councell of euery Ward and by the Iustices of Peace in the Counties by the name of Examiners to continue in that Office the space of two moneths at least and if any fit persons so appointed as aforesaid shall refuse to vndertake the same the said parties so refusing to be committed to Prison vntill they shall conforme themselues accordingly The Examiners Office THat these Examiners be sworne by the Alderman or by one of the Iustices of the County to enquire learne from time to time what houses in euery parish be visited and what persons be sicke and of what Diseases as neere as they can enforme themselues and vpon doubt in that case to command restaint of accesse vntill it appeare what the Disease shall prooue and if they f●nd any persons sicke of the Infection to giue order to the Constable that

the house be shut vp and if the Constable shal be found remisse or negligent to giue present notice thereof to the Alderman or the Iustice of Peace respectiuely Watchmen THat to euery Infected house there be appointed two Watchmen one for the day and the other for the night And that these Watchmen haue a speciall care that no person goe in or out of such Infected houses whereof they haue the charge vpon paine of seuere punishment And the sayd Watchmen to doe such further Offices as the sicke house shall neede and require and if the Watchman be sent vpon any busines to lock vp the house and take the Key with him and the Watchman by day to attend vntill ten of the clocke at night and the Watchman by night till sixe in the morning Chirurgions THat there be a speciall care to appoint women Searchers in euery Parish such as are of honest reputation of the best sort as can be got in this kinde And these to be sworne to make due search and true report to the vtmost of their knowledge whether the persons whose bodies they are appoynted to Search doe die of the Infection or of what other diseases as neere as they can And for their better assistance herein forasmuch as there hath beene heretofore great abuse in misreporting the disease to the further spreading of the Infection It is therfore ordered that there bee chosen and appointed three able and discreete Surgions besides those three that doe already belong to the Pesthouse amongst whom the Citie and Liberties to be quartered as the places lie most apt and conuenient and euery of these sixe to haue one quarter for his Limit and the sayde Chirurgions in euery of their Limits to ioyne with the Searchers for the view of the body to the end there may be a true report made of the disease And further that the sayd Chirurgions shall visite and search such like persons as shall either send for them or bee named and directed vnto them by the Examiners of euery Parish and informe themselues of the disease of the sayd parties And forasmuch as the sayd Chirurgions are to bee sequestred from all other Cures and kept onely to this disease of the Infection It is ordered that euery of the said Chirurgions shall haue twelue pence a bodie searched by them to be payd out of the goods of the partie searched if he be able or otherwise by the Parish Orders concerning Infected houses and persons sicke of the Plague Notice to be giuen of the Sickenesse THe Master of euery house assoone as any one in his house complaineth either of Botch of Purple or Swelling in any part of his bodie or falleth otherwise dangerously sicke without apparant cause of some other disease shall giue knowledge thereof to the Examiner of health within two houres after the said signe shall appeare Sequestration of the sicke AS soone as any man shall be found by this Examiner Chirurgion or Searcher to be sicke of the Plague hee shall the same night be sequestred in the same house And in case he be so sequestred then though hee afterwards die not the house wherein he sickened shall be shut vp for a moneth after the vse of due Preseruatiues taken by the rest Ayring of the stuffe FOr sequestration of the Goods and ●●uffe of the Infected their Bedding and Apparell and hangings of Chambers must be well ayred with fire and such perfumes as are requisite within the Infected house before they be taken againe to vse this to bee done by the appointment of the Examiner Shutting vp of the house IF any person shall haue visited any man knowen to be Infected of the Plague or entred willingly into any knowen infected house being not allowed the house wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut vp for certaine dayes by the Examiners direction None to be remooued out of 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 City Borough or Countie except it be to the Pesthouse or a Tent or vnto some such house which the owners of the sayde Visited house holdeth in his owne handes and occupyeth 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 remooue 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 sicke nor againe vnto the sicke the sound and that the same which hee 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 neighbors nor friends bee suffered to accompanie the Coarse to Church or to enter the house visited vpon paine of hauing his house shut vp or be imprisoned No infected stuffe to be vttered THat no Clothes Stuffe bedding or garments be suffred to be caried or conueyed out of any Infected Houses and that the Criers and Cariers abroad of Bedding or olde Apparell to bee Sold or Pawned bee 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 be 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 bee conueyed from a place Infected to any other place the Parish from whence such Party hath come or been Conueyed vpon notice thereof giuen shall at their charge cause the sayd party so Visited and escaped to bee caried and brought backe againe by night and the Parties in this case offending to bee punished at the direction of the Alderman of the Warde and the Iustices of the Peace respectiuely and the house of the receiuer of such visited person to be shut vp for twentie dayes Euery visited house to be marked THat euery house visited be marked with a Redde Crosse of a foot long in

the middle of the doore euident to be seene and with these vsuall printed wordes that is to say Lord haue mercy vpon vs to be set close ouer the same Crosse there to continue vntil 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 owne 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 redde Rodde or Wand of three foot in length in their hands open and euident to bee 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 beene lately vsed in any such businesse or attendance And to this end it is ordered that a weekly 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 be 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 sweete of the Streets The streets to be kept cleane FIrst it is thought very necessary and so ordered that euery Householder doe cause the Street to be daily pared before his doore so to keepe it cleane swept all the weeke long That the Rakers take it from out the houses THat the sweeping and filth of houses be daily 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 farre off from the Citie THat the Laystals be remooued as farre as may be out of the Citie and common passages and that no Nightman or other be suffered to emptie 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 bee sold about the Citie or any part of the same That the Bruers and Tipling houses be looked vnto for mustie and vnwholesome Caske That order bee taken that no Hogges Dogges or Cattes or tame Pigeons or Conies be suffered to be kept within any part of the Citie or any Swine to be or stray in the Streetes or Lanes but that such Swine be Impounded by the Beadle or any other Officer and the owner punished according to the Acte of Common Councell and that the Dogges be killed by the Dog-killers appointed for that purpose Orders concerning loose Persons and idle Assemblies Beggers FOrasmuch as nothing is more complained on then the multitude of Rogues and wandering Beggers that swarme in euery place about the Citie being a great cause of the spreading of the Infection and will not bee auoyded notwithstanding any Order that hath beene 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 Streetes of this Citie in any fashion or manner whatsoeuer vpon paine of the penalty prouided by the Lawe to be duely and seuerely executed vpon them Playes THat al Plaies Beare-baitings Games Singing of Ballads Buckler play or such like causes of Assemblies of people be vtterly prohibited and the Parties offending seuerely punished by any Alderman or Iustice of the Peace Tipling houses THat disorderly Tipling in Tauernes Alehouses and Sellers be seuerely looked vnto as the common sinne of this time and greatest occasiō of dispersing the Plague and where any shall bee found to offend the penalty of the Statute to be laid vpon them with all seuerity And for the better execution of these Orders as also for such other directions as shal be needfull It is agreed that the Iustices of the Citie and the Counties adioyning doe meete together once in tenne dayes either at the Sessions house without Newgate or some other conuenient place to conferre of things as shall be needfull in this behalfe And euery person neglecting the duetie required or willingly offending against any Article or clause contained in these Orders he to be seuerely punished by imprisonment or otherwise as by Law he ought God saue the King In Camera Stellata coram Concilio ibidem vicesimo die Octobris Anno Regni Reginae ELIZABETHae quadragesimo c. Praesentibus Thoma Egerton mil. Dn̄o Custod 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 hee diuided into two seuerall roumes 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 maner of buildings and diuisions are altogether forbidden and prohibited as by her Maiesties said Proclamation more at large appeareth Moreouer her highnesse said Attourney further informed this Honourable Court that sithence the sayd Proclamation sundrie Decrees haue been made and taken by this Court aswell for the prostrating pulling downe and defacing of diuers new Buildings as also for reformation of diuisions of Tenements All which notwithstanding sundry wilfull and disobedient persons continue in their contemptuous maner of buildings diuisions by meanes whereof the City of London and Suburbs therof are ouercharged and burdened with sundry sorts of poore beggerly and euill disposed persons to the great hinderance and oppression of the same So as the Magistrates and Officers in and about the Citie to whom the due execution of the aforesayd Decrees and Orders chiefly appertaineth cannot performe and doe

the same according to the purport and tenor thereof And in regard thereof her Highnesse said Attourney humbly prayed that the sayd Griffin and Scrips might receiue and haue inflicted on them some condigne and fit punishment and that at the humble petition of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the Citie of London and other the Iustices of Peace of the Countie of Middlesex and Surrey the Court would bee pleased to set downe and decree some last and generall Order in this and in all other like cases of new Buildings and diuisions of Tenements Whereupon the Court grauely considering the great growing euils and inconueniences that continually breed and happen by these new erected buildings and diuisions made and diuided contrary to her Maiesties sayd Proclamation and well weighing the reasons of the sayd Lord Maior and Aldermen of the sayd Citie and Iustices of the Counties aforesayd in that behalfe greatly tendering the ouerburdened and distressed estate of the inhabitants that dwell in sundry the Parishes where the sayd new Buildings and deuided Tenements are being for the most part but of small ability to beare and sustaine the great charge which is to growe there by meanes of the poore placed in sundry of the new erected and diuided Tenements Haue therefore by the whole and generall consent of all the honourable presence here sitting hearing the accusations aforesaid and the answeres defences and allegations of the said Griffin and Scrips ordered and decreed that the sayd Griffin and Scrips shal be committed to the prison of the Fleete and pay twentie pounds a piece for a Fine to her Maiestie And as for the pulling downe or reforming of any house new built or diuided sithence and contrary to the said Proclamation within the Citie of London or the compasse of three miles thereof in which any poore or Impotent persons now doe or hereafter shall dwell or abide for that if the same Houses should be pulled downe destroyed or reformed other Habitations must bee prouided for them at the charge of the Parishes where they be or shal be dwelling The Court doeth as yet thinke fit to forbeare and respit the doing thereof and haue ordered and adiudged that all and euery such poore and impotent persons which dwel or shall dwell and inhabite in any new buildings or diuided tenements erected diuided contrary to the effect and intent of her Highnesse said Proclamation and are or shal in any wise be driuē to liue by begging or to be relieued by almes within the City of Londō or any other place within the compasse of three miles thereof shall and may during the time of his or their life or liues abide and dwell in the same without giuing or paying any maner of Rent seruice or other recompence vnto the Landlords or any other for and in respect of the same and not be thence remooued vnlesse they shall after become able to liue of themselues And that the said Landlord owner or any other that claimeth Interest to or for any Rent or Rents growing arising or payable for any of the said new Buildings or diuided Tenements so inhabited or to be inhabited with poore people as aforesaid shall hereby be enioyned and vpon this Sentence and Decree take sufficient notice and warning that hee or they doe not impleade encumber disquiet or molest any of the said poore Tenants for any Rents Couenants Conditions promises or agreements touching or in any wise concerning the said Tenements new buildings or any of them for the leuying or recouering of any Rent seruice or other consideration in lieu of any Rent And for that the new buildings and diuisions of sundry houses within the Citie of London and three miles compasse thereof contrary to the tenor of the sayd Proclamation hath beene and is the occasion of great charges vnto the Parishes of the sayd Citie and Precinct aforesaid whereby the said Parishes are still ouermuch burdened with poore and impotent persons It is therefore ordered and decreed That all such Landlords or owners of such Buildings or Diuisions wheresoeuer they should dwell shall contribute and giue such like ratable and reasonable allowance with the said Parishioners where such Buildings and Diuisions are towards the finding and maintaining of the poore of the Parish in which such Buildings are is or shal be erected or diuided contrary to the said Proclamation as should be apportioned and allotted him or them to pay if hee or they were dwelling in the said Parish And it is further ordered and decreed by this Honourable Court that after the death or departure of such poore people as doe or shall inhabite the same houses or diuided Tenements aforesaid the houses thereby being become voide Then the Lord Mayor and Iustices of Peace neere vnto the Citie adioyning hereby are commaunded to reforme the said diuided Tenements and to prostrate pull downe and deface the said new buildings in such sort as the same bee no more left fit for habitation and the timber and wood thereof to be conuerted and disposed in such manner as by the sayd Proclamation is required As also to take order in all other the premisses That this Decree be duely obserued and kept And if any shall be obstinate then to binde such Landlords as that shall obstinately and wilfully disobey this said Decree to appeare in this Honourable Court of Starre-chamber to answere their contempt therein This Decree was afterward read in the Court of Starre-Chamber the 29. of Nouember 1609. and then confirmed and straitly commanded by all the Lords present to be duely put in execution In Camera Stellata coram Concilio ibidem vicesimo nono die Nouembris Anno septimo Iacobi Regis Praesentibus Thoma Egerton milite Dn̄o Ellesmere Dn̄o Canc. Angl. Comite Sarum Dn̄o Thesaurario Angl. Comite Northampton Comite Exon. Dn̄o Zouch Iul. Caesar milite Cancellar Scaccarij Archiepiscopo Cant. Fleming milite Capitali Iustic de Banco Regis Coke milite Capitali Iust de com Banc. Yeluerton milit Iustic de Banc. Reg. Williams milit Iustic de Banc. Reg. Foster milite Iustic de communi Banc. THis day Sir Henry Mountague Knight Recorder of London enformed this most honorable Court that where there haue been diuers Proclamacions aswell in the time of our late Souereigne Queene Elizabeth as also since his Maiestie most happie Reigne and also diuers Orders and Decrees taken in this honourable Court for the restraining and reforming of the multitude of new erected and diuided Tenements and the taking in of Inmates yet neuerthelesse the same doe so daily increase and multiply in euery place in and about this Citie of London and the Suburbs thereof infinite number of people being pestered together breeding and nourishing Infection so that the same tendeth to the great imminent danger of the gouernment and safetie of the Citie and consequently to the perill of his Maiesties Sacred person the Queenes Maiestie and their Royall Issue and the Lords of the State here ordinarily