Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	honourable_a	lord_n	privy_a	3,111	5	10.0848	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06243	Orders heertofore conceiued and agreed to bee published by the Lord Mayor 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 priuie councell, and now thought fit to be reuiued, and againe published.	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.	1625 (1625)	STC 16729.3; ESTC S3286	4,257	3

Orders heeretofore conceiued and agreed to bee published by the Lord Mayor 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 Maisteies most Honourable Priuie Councell and now thought fit to be reuiued and againe published WHereas in the first yeare of his Maiesties most happie reigne ouer this Realme of England an Act was made for the charitable reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the Plague whereby Authoritie is giuen to Iustices of Peace Mayors Bayliffes and other head-Officers to appoint within their seuerall limits Examiners Searchers Watchmen keepers and buryers for the persons and places infected and to minister vnto them Oathes for performance of their Offices And the same Statute also authorizeth 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 auoyding of the infection of Sicknesse if it shall please Almighty God which is now dangerously dispersed into many places within the Citie and Suburbs of the same that these Officers following bee appointed and these Orders hereafter prescribed be duly obserued FIrst it is thought requisite and so ordered that in euery parish there be one two or more persons of good sort and credite chosen and appointed by the Alderman his Deputie 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 bee committed to prison vntill they shall conforme themselues accordingly THat these Examiners be sworne by the Alderman or by one of the Iustices of the County to enquire and learne from time to time what houses in euery parish bee visited and what persons be sicke and of what diseases as neere as they can informe themselues and vpon doubt in that case to command restraint of accesse vntil it appeare what the disease shall proue and if they find any persons sicke of the infection to giue order to the Constable that the house be shut vp and if the Constable shall be found remisse or negligent to giue present notice thereof to the Alderman or the Iustice of Peace respectiuely 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 said Watchmen to doe such further Offices as the sicke house shall neede and require and if the Watchman be sent vpon any busines to locke 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 THat there be a speciall care to appoint women Searchers in euery parish such as are of honest reputation and of the best sort as can bee 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 appointed to search do dye of the Infection or of what other diseases as neere as they can And for their better assistance herein forasmuch as there hath bene heretofore great abuse in misreporting the disease to the further spreading of the Infection It is therefore ordered that there be chosen and appointed three able and discreet Surgeons besides those three that do already belong to the Pest-house amongst whom the City and Liberties to bee quartered as the places lye most apt and conuenient and euery of these sixe to haue one quarter for his limit and the said Chirurgeons in euery of their limits to ioyne with the Serchers for the view of the body to the end there may be a true report made of the disease And further that the said Chirurgeons shall visite and search such sicke persons as shall eyther send for them or be named and directed vnto them by the Examiners of euery parish and informe themselues of the disease of the said parties And forasmuch as the saide Chirurgeons are to be sequestred from all other Cures and kept onely to this disease of the Infection It is ordred That euery of the saide Chirurgeons shall haue twelue pence a body searched by them to be paide out of the goods of the party searched if he be able or otherwise by the parish Orders concerning Infected Houses and Persons sicke of the Plague THe Master of euery house as soone as any one in his house complayneth eyther of botch of purple or swelling in any part of his body 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 AS soone as any man shall be found by this Examiner Chirurgeon or Searcher to be sick of the plague he shall the same night be sequestred in the same house And in case he bee so sequestred then though he afterwards die not the house wherein he sickned shall bee shut vp for a moneth after the vse of due preseruatiues taken by the rest FOr sequestration of the Goods and Stuffe of the Infected their Bedding and Apparell and hangings of Chambers must bee well ayred with fire and such perfumes as are requisite within the infected house before they be taken againe to vse this to be done by the appointment of the Examiner IF any person shall haue visited any man knowne to be infected of the plague or entred willingly into any knowne infected house being not allowed the house wherein hee inhabiteth shall be shut vp for certaine dayes by the Examiners direction ITem that none be remoued out of the house where he falleth sicke of the infection into any other house in the City Burrough or County except it be to the Pesthouse 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 security be giuen to the parish whether such remoue is made that the attendance and charge about the said visited persons shall be obserued 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 remoue 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 his sicke nor againe vnto the sicke the sound and that the