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A00472	The duetie of a faithfull and wise magistrate, in preseruing and deliuering of the eommon [sic] wealth from infection, in the time of the plague or pestilence two bookes. Written in Latine by Iohn Ewich, ordinary phisition of the woorthie common wealth of Breame, and newlie turned into English by Iohn Stockwood schoolemaister of Tunbridge. ...; De officio fidelis et prudentis magistratus tempore pestilentiae rempublican a contagio praeservandi liberandique. English	Ewich, Johann von, 1525-1588.; Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1583 (1583)	STC 10607; ESTC S101800	118,209	274

the restraint of the extreame cold is by the force of it own heat set on fire As they also say of y e rouing and wandring fire which some call fooles fire Pliny nameth it Castor Pollux y e Greeks tearme it Polydeukes the which is wont to folow or go before such as trauel in y e night especially such as ride or go by sea not without some frighting of the ignoraunt which thinke it to be a spirit whereas it is a thing altogether naturall and harmlesse the which hurteth no body But because we are fallen into the mentioning of this naturall imagination I wil adde hereunto that wonderful fabulment or tale which Hier. Cardanus reporteth of certain dead mē that were wont to be seene about Sepulcres and Graues The which least any man should think that I forge vpon him whē as it is a thing almost incredible I will set downe his own words Dead bodies saith he to be seen in fields about graues and especially murthered and not deepe buried which in their life time were fierce and cruel to be seen I say in the night tyme and chieflye of suche as are ignoraunte of this is a thinge altogether naturall When as the moyst and freshe bodye of man in the graue dooth cast vppe a vapour alwayes of one likenes according vnto his greatnesse which carryeth the shape of a man Whereas in times paste when the bodyes were burnt and put in a vessell no such thing was seene This saith he fearefull doubtlesse to bee heard but much more to bee seene and the which I rather referre vnto a cunning mockerye of the Deuill for Sathan mocketh in the mindes of men and after the manner of Iugglers maketh many sights to appeare by the which he driueth the fearefull eyther into a vaine feare or else vnto idolatry then vnto the trueth of a naturall thing if so bee also that they be done as they seeme to bee done The which also may hereby be vnderstoode in that hee saith that they are cheflye seene of those which are ignoraunt of the matter For the Deuill can sooner deceaue these as who a good season haue tossed these thinges in their mindes and in their thoughe and power of imagination do conceaue and bring forth vnto them selues the phantasies and imaginations of such thinges so that they thinke they see outwardlye the thing whiche they haue imprinted and shaped in their owne brain the which is no new thing in those that are sicke of the Iandice and in melancholike persons And that such visions doe seldome or neuer appeare vnto stout men beecause that by reason of their couragiousnesse they neuer feare them or do once so much as conceaue imagination of them Theodorus Bysantius and after him the most worthy Phisition Iohn Wierus dooth testifie Wherefore if Cardanus had sayde further that those spirites had oftnest beene seene of Children women fearefull tender and sicke persons who by reason of the weakenes of their mind and body are troubled with continuall feare and vaine dreams that which he saith should of me more easily be credited But now I cannot chuse but put it among the true tales of Lucianus In these thinges I am to stay no longer if I shall onely adde this one thing that those which doe in such sorte asscribe all thinges vnto nature doe oftentimes delight them selues in vaine with their owne errour and doe imbrace the Image of Helena for the Goddesse her self when as the most of such straunge woonders are often doone by the sleightes of Deuilles as I haue sayde and many also rather by god his miracles wherof men can yeelde no reason then by any naturall cause Cardanus therfore a most learned man must pardō my beeing against him in this poynt for as much as by his own testimonie it is alwayes lawfull to doubte of a generall trueth howe good soeuer the man be that affirmeth the same And whereas I sayde that the Churchyardes are to be placed towards the North it hath the same cause the which hath beene alleaged for the building of the plague houses For the wind which bloweth from this parte with his thinnesse and purenesse dooth easilye consume and scatter abroade all thicke and troublesome vapours and cleanseth the ayre Wherefore he wil not bringe anye infectious smell or hurtefull breath into the Citie the which wee haue proued to be vsuall to rise out of such places Furthermore although it be but a very small matter yet that all the circumstances may be agreeable vnto the nature of the thing it must bee made of a rounde and not square or any other figure and compassed with a stone wall Why so whether because this figure of al other is the most capable or beecause it is the moste perfecte When as all other are founde in this Verelye for both causes but y e former is of lesse force the latter hath a more fine signification For when as oftentymes manye are to bee buryed chieflye at that tyme it shall bee profitable that the space be large leaste wee bee driuen to breake vp and open some graues that are not verye olde and to make bare corses half rotten which wil be euil fauoured and lothsom and bringeth danger of infecting the ayre The roundnes of y e figure betokeneth perfection both that which they that lye there haue already receiued that also which they yet looke for In which consideration the heauen it selfe is rounde and those which we reckon for saints and which are appoynted vnto blessed eternitie euerlastingnes vnto the same we are woonte to paint a round figure For there is no end of the circle or spere It may also signifie that which the Greekes say Al things belonging vnto man are as it were a round circle For whē as al things w t are vnder heauen do after a sort frame them selues vnto y e first mouing of the firmament going from lyfe it selfe as from the East vnto death as vnto the West they finish their circle with the motion of the whole heauen like as hee which is returned frō whence he went forth is sayde to haue ended his course and circle Hereunto also appertaine the grates of yron before the doore of the Church yardes and the dores or gates when as they are opened falling to againe of their own accord and shutting themselues that the bruite beastes cannot come into them But now it is time that making an end of this Chapiter of the place situation figure and ornamentes of common buryall I goe vnto other matters of greater weight then those of which we haue hitherto intreated Of the cleansing of houses and things infected Cap. 6. IT followeth therefore in order that when as the sicke and those suspected whiche haue beene with them haue nowe eyther beene carryed out or the dead buryed wee speake some thing of the cleansing of the houses and of such thinges as are in them For this

greate weight a thing it is vnto the preseruing of the common wealth how necessary a medicine to keepe away infection that we doe not rashly receiue either men or thinges of what sorte soeuer that come from infected places and this so much the more if we beleeue Cardanus by how muche those places are more East for the Plague saieth he like as other thinges is wont as it were with the daylie mouing of the heauens to goe from the East into the West when as I say these things are thus our Preseruers must vse such heede taking that appoynting and ordeining Warders at gates they receiue no straunger nor suffer any thinges to be brought in vnlesse they haue some written testimonial or sealed being woorthie credite of not beeing counterfeit The same also must be obserued in Citizens if peraduenture as they are woont to doe which haue more regard vnto wealth then health For through Sea and Lande the mechaunt runneth vnto the Indes for wealth and gayne they come home from an other countrey and from places suspected For albeit that this neither will be sufficient to take heede whilest rashe headded persons and full of prattle wil some times goe about either to deceaue the Porters or openly to withstand this order as an vnusuall bondage yet many honest men wil be made the more circumspect and will consider that our lawes are not perpetuall but tēporall which also are made for their health sake and shal last so much the lesse while by howe much the more sooner and timely they meete with the sicknesse comming and the more diligently turne it away For in a common aduersity euerye man ought to put to his helping hand and to haue more care of it then if it were a priuate cause But if any man shall thinke that it is against charitie for that I holde that men and such as are our brethren are to be shut out of the whiche many flie vnto vs as vnto a sanctuarie as it were from a deadly enimie vnto him I must make this answere that I wold haue no man forsakē or in anie case to be destitute of our helpe but yet there ought to be a set and stedfast waye and order in vsing of helpe True charitie beginneth at it selfe but endeth not in it self alone But rather it stretcheth out it selfe as farre as it can to euerie neighbour and according vnto her power imparteth her helpe with euery man and as Ambrose saith of liberalitie is commended of her faith cause place time For what a kind of charitie should this be to receiue one sick sheep into the fold and to bring the scab vnto the whole flocke If charitie be a vertue as no doubt it is a singuler and a diuine vertue it cannot be voyde of wisedome whiche doth as it were giue the shape vnto true vertue whilest as it is manifest out of Ambrose she hath her eye set vppon necessary circumstances with the which euery vertue is perfected and finished For albeit charitie haue no end as it is also vsually saide true loue can skill no end to haue yet wil shee not be carried away with rashnes and as I said euen now wil not be voyd of wisedome But after what way and order I think this duetie of charity to be to bee handled shall in that which followeth be spokē more at large Here therefore let be the ende of this firste booke ❧ Of the duetie of a faithfull and wise magistrate in preseruing and deliuering the common wealth from infection in the time of the plague or pestilence The second Booke Of those into whose house the Plague is gotten Cap. 1. THat parte being finished whiche rather concerneth those whiche are whole then those which are sick and therefore may be called a certayn publike preseruatiue it remaineth that following the practise and order of excellent Phisitions we treate in the same sort of that part of phisicke which is called Pharmaceutica that is of the way to heale and deliuer from sicknesse if peraduenture eyther immediatly from God or vpon some other cause this fierce disease and cruell dragon as Galen calleth it haue assaulted the house of any man And yet let not anie man looke here to haue particuler medicines for euerie priuate man set downe but y t which in this case the faithful and wise Magistrate by publike duety is bound to doe that a general way being found out and ordeined wherby regarde may bee had both of the sicke and also of those which are conuersant with thē the whole infection may be the sooner quenched and bring lesse hurt to the citie Wherefore in the time of such sicknesse raygning and infecting in the first kynd we haue saide alreadie at the beginning that we must flie vnto God alone craue pardon of him for al our sinnes in the latter kinds after the calling vpon of God the preseruers must first of all and foorthwith haue care of this that the house infected be noted and marked out by certaine signes tokēs as by setting of torches before y e doore which after y e maner of the Gentiles vse to be caried before the dead or by clubbes betokening punishment or rolles of strawe or hanging vp a blacke white or redde sheete signifiyng sicknesse or death and with all that the whole housholde be charged that they venture not to goe abroade vnto others nor to receiue any vnto them for the space of vi or vii weekes at the least if also in the meane season they haue vsed sufficient cleansing of the house other things which shall hereafter expresly be spoken of If any of his owne accorde shall come in vnto them let him be bounde by the same charge but for a shorter time In the meane season if they haue any thing to doe abroade they must cause it to be done by others For there ought greater care to be had of a whole societie and felowship then of a priuate familie or houshold But if any man shal thinke it an vnreasonable and cruell lawe to haue sounde men shut in so streightly for so long time especially in houses infected with such deadly poison woulde also suppose this Prouerbiall chiefe medicine to be better for them With all speede farre off long ere you returne againe and finally that it is not conuenient for the sicke thēselues especially if the house be not commodious that they should remayn so shut vp not sometimes to vse a more free ayre for al keep not their beddes truly they which say this seeme to say neither nothing nor al things For I my selfe thinke it to bee nothing safe often to vse the companie of the infected dayly to draw the corrupted ayre Therefore in the Chapter following we wil consider by what meanes we may find remedie for these streighnesses discommodities the which whilest they can bee hurtfull vnto none they may bee greately profitable vnto