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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

in defect thereof it shall be lawfull for any two such Iustices of Peace and the said Aldermen and head Officers within their seuerall limits to commit the offendor to the said prison there to remaine without baile or maineprise till the said forfeitures shal be satisfied and payed And bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that the Iustices of Peace of euery County or place corporate or the more part of them in their generall Sessions to be holden next after the feast of Easter next and so yeerely as often as they shall thinke meet shall rate euery Parish to such a weekely summe of money as they shall thinke conuenient so as no Parish bee rated aboue the summe of sixe pence nor vnder the summe of a halfepeny weekely to be payed and so as the totall summe of such taxation of the Parishes in euery County amount not aboue the rate of two pence for euery Parish within the said County Which summes so taxed shall bee yeerely assessed by the agreement of the Parishioners within themselues or in default thereof by the Churchwardens and petie Constables of the same Parish or the more part of them or in default of their agreement by the order of such Iustice or Iustices of Peace as shall dwell in the same Parish or if none bee there dwelling in the parts next adioyning And if any person shal refuse or neglect to pay any such portion of money so taxed it shal be lawfull for the said Churchwardens and Constables or any of them or in their default for any Iustice of Peace of the said limite to leuie the same by distresse and sale of the goods of the party so refusing or neglecting rendring to the party the ouerplus and in default of such distresse it shal be lawful to any Iustice of that limit to commit such person to the said prison there to abide without baile or maine prise till he haue payed the same And be it also enacted That the said Iustices of the Peace at their generall quarter Sessions to bee holden at the time of such taxation shall set downe what competent sums of money shall be sent quarterly out of euery County or place corporate for the releife of the poore prisoners of the Kings Bench Marshalsey and also of such Hospitals and almes houses as shal be in the said County what sums of money shal be sent to euery one of the said Hospitals and almes houses so as there be sent out of euery Countie yeerely xx s. at the least to each of the said prisons of the Kings Bench and Marshalsey which summes ratably to be assessed vpon euery parish the Churchwardens of euery Parish shall truely collect pay ouer to the high Constables in whose diuision such Parish shall bee situate from time to time quarterly ten dayes before the end of euery quarter and euery such Constable at euery such quarter Sessions in such County shall pay ouer the same to such two Treasurers or to one of them as shall by the more part of the Iustices of Peace of the County be elected to be the said Treasurers to be chosen by the Iustices of Peace of the said County Citie or towne or place corporate or of others which were sessed and taxed at fiue pound lands or ten pound goods at the least at the taxe of Subsidie next before the time of the said Election to be made And the said Treasurers so elected to continue for the space of one whole yere in their office and then to giue vp their charge with a due account of their receipts and disbursements at the quarter Sessions to be holden next after the feast of Easter in euery yeere to such others as shall from yeere to yeere in forme aforesaid successiuely be elected Treasurers for the said County Citie Towne or place corporate which said Treasurers or one of them shall pay ouer the same to the Lord chiefe Iustice of England and Knight Marshal for the time being equally to be diuided to the vse aforesaid taking their acquittance for the same or in default of the said chiefe Iustice to the next ancientest Iustice of the Kings Bench as aforesaid And if any Churchwarden or high Constable or his executors or administrators shall faile to make payment in forme aboue specified then euery Churchwarden his executors or administrators so offending shall forfeit for euery time the summe of ten shillings and euerp high Constable his executors or administrators shall forfeit for euery time the sum of xx s. the same forfeitures together with the summes behinde to be leuied by the said Treasurer and Treasurers by way of distresse and sale of the goods as aforesaid in forme aforesaid and by them to bee imployed towards the charitable vses comprised in this Act. And bee it further enacted That all the surplusage of money which shall be remaining in the said Stocke of any County shal by discretion of the more part of the Iustices of Peace in their quarter Sessions be ordered distributed and bestowed for the reliefe of the poore Hospitals of that County and of those that shall sustaine losses by fire water the Sea or other Casualties and to such other charitable purposes for the releife of the poore as to the more part of the said Iustices of Peace shall seeme conuenient And bee it further enacted That if any Treasurer elected shall wilfully refuse to take vpon him the sayd office of Treasurership or refuse to distribute and giue reliefe or to account according to such forme as shall be appointed by the more part of the said Iustices of peace That then it shall be lawfull for the Iustices of Peace in their Qarter Sessions or in their default for the Iustices of Assize at y e Assizes to be holden in the same Countie to fine the same Treasurer by their discretion the same fine not to be vnder three pound and to be leuied by sale of his goods and to be prosecuted by any two of the said Iustices of Peace whom they shall authorize Prouided alwaies that this Act shall not take effect vntill the Feast of Easter next And be it enacted that the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth yere of her Maiesties Reigne entituled An Act for the reliefe of the poore shall continue and stand in force vntill the Feast of Easter next And that all Taxations heretofore imposed not payed nor that shal be payed before the said feast of Easter next And that all Taxes hereafter before the said Feast to be taxed by vertue of the said former Act which shal not be payed before the said Feast of Easter shall and may after the said Feast of Easter be leuied by the Ouerseers and other persons in this Act respectiuely appointed to leuy taxations by distresse by such warrant in euery respect as if they had been taxed imposed by vertue of this Act and were not paid Prouided

in the time of our late Souereigne Queene Elizabeth as also since his Maiesties most happy 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 taking in of Inmates yet neuerthelesse the same doe so daily increase and multiply in euery place in and about this City 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 gouernement and safety of this 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 residing with many other great enormities if the same bee not carefully and speedily preuented And therefore it was humbly desired that this honourable Court would reuiue a Decree of this Court made the twentieth day of October in the fourtieth yeere of our said late Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth taken and established for restraining and reforming of such new erected Buildings and diuisions And that the said Decree might bee put in present execution for the speedy refor of the said enormities wherupon the said Decree being openly read this honourable Court and all the whole Presence here sitting taking tender care and consideration of the Good and Safety of the said City and grauely fore-seeing the imminent danger and euils which doe growe and increase and doe chiefely arise through ouermuch neglect in due execution of those former Proclamations Decrees and ordinances which are not looked into as they ought to bee Doeth therefore Decree and Order that the said former Decree taken the said twentieth day of October in the said fortieth yeere of our late Soueraigne be presently and from time to time hereafter more seuerely looked into and put in execution And his Maiesties learned Councell and also the Lord Maior and Aldermen of London together with all Iustices of Peace and other his Maiesties Officers whatsoeuer which the same may any way concerne are hereby straitly charged and required that they and euery of them doe from time to time hereafter diligently and strictly cause and see the said Decree to bee in all points duely obserued and put in execution and Tearmely to make Certificate to his Honourable Court of their proceedings therein and of such persons as they shall finde to offend in that behalfe Whereupon this Court doth purpose to proceed against them for their contempts with very seuere punishment * ⁎ * LONDON Imprinted by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie Anno Dom. 1626. The Church-wardens of euery Parish other substantiall housholders yeerely to be nominated at Easter to be Ouerseers for the poore Children of the poore to be set to work 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stocke of 〈…〉 axe Hemp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be raised The Church-wardens and Ouerseers to meet together once euery moneth Account to be giuen by the Ouerseers to two Iustices of Peace Other Parishes within the Hundred to be taxed towards the reliefe of poore parishes How to leuie money of such as refuse to pay Punishment of such as will not work Poore children to be put apprentices by the Church-wardens and Ouerseers Dwelling places for impotent poore to be built Order for such as are geieue with any Sesse or Taxe Parents c. being able shall maitain their owne poore 〈…〉 Every Alderman in the city of Londō 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 authority as two Iustices of Peace Iustices c. to meddle onely in their owne Liberties A double account to be made 〈…〉 for 〈…〉 Penalties and forfeitures to bee employed to poores vse Parishes to be rated at the generall ●●●●ions Leuying of summes of money rated Reliefe of the prisoners in the Kings Bench Marshalsey hospitals c. Treasurers for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈…〉 vp their account at the yeeres end L chiefe Iustice Knight Marshall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 surplusage shal be bestowed Refusing to be Treasurer to giue the reliefe appointed A former Statute for reliefe of the Poore 〈…〉 The Defendants plea in a suite commenced against him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taxation 〈…〉 parish Refusing to pay the money taxed Churchwardens shall pay to the high Constables the money taxed Churchwardens c. failing to make payment A Treasurer failing of account or neglecting his charge To which treasurer the Souldier shall repaire for reliefe Who shall make the Souldiers certificate Allowance of the Certificate Treasurers shall assigne reliefe to soldiers Iustices shall grant reliefe to Souldiers How much reliefe shall be assigned The Iustices may alter souldiers reliefe Souldiers ariuing far from the place where they are to haue reliefe The Treasurers booke of Computation and Register A Treasurer refusing to giue reliefe A Souldier begging or counterfeiting a Certificate The surplusage of the stock Chiefe Officers in Corporate Townes How the forfeitures shal be imployed Pensions assigned to stand in force though the Statutc be repealed Taxations made and not leuied If the rate be not sufficient for Souldiers in London All former statutes concerning Rogues c. reuealed Iustices of Peace shall set downe order for erection and maintenance of houses of correction Who shall be adiudged Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers The punishment of a Vagabond A testinoniall after punishment Rogues which be dangerous or will not be reformed Rogues to be banished the Realme or committed to the Gallies Rogues returning after banishment to be reputed Felons The forfeiture of a Constable c. not doing his duty Disturbing the execution of this Statute Bringing into this Realme of Irish Scottish or Manniske Vagabonds Diseased persons resorting to Bath and Buxton The Iustices within Towns Corporate shall only intermeddle S. Thomas Hospitall in Southwarke The Iurisdiction of Iohn Dutton of Dutton reserued In what sort the forfeitures shall be imployed Iustices of Peace may heare and determine the causes of this Statute Commissioners to enquire for mony gathered A prouision for poore Sea-faring men Glassemen not begging This Act to be proclaimed No authoritie giuen by any Baron c. shal free others from the offence and punishment of the Statute of 39. Eliz. Glassemen brought within the compasse of the Statute Rogues branded with an hot yron R. Glassemen brought within the compasse of the Statute Taxing others for the reliefe of the sicke of the Plague The Inhabitants vnable to relieue the Infected An infected person commanded to keep his house disobeyeth Infected persons how Felons Attendants appointed vpon the infected persons The Vniuersities Cathedrall Churches Caron Winchester

be holden next before or about the feast of the Natiuity of S. Iohn Baptist next in the County where the said parish shall be situate and so from time to time quarterly within ten dayes before euery quarter Sessions And that euery such high Constable at euery such quarter Sessions in such County shall pay ouer the same to two such Iustices of Peace or to one of them or to two such other persons or one of them as shall be by the more part of the Iustices of peace of the same Countey elected to be Treasurers of the said Collection the same other persons to be elected Treasurers to be such as at the last taxatiō of the Subsidie next before the same election shall be valued sessed at ten pounds in lands yerely or at fifteene pounds in goods which Treasurers in euery Countey so chosen shall continue but for the space of one whole yeere and then giue vp their charge with a du account of their receits disbursments at their meeting in Easter quarter Sessions or within ten daies after to such others as shall from yeere to yere in the forme aforesaid successiuely be elected And if any Church-warden pettie Constable or high Constable or his executors or administrators shall fail to make payment in forme about specified their euery Church-warden and pettie Constable his executors or administratours so offending shall forfeit the summe of twenty shillings And euery high Constable his executors or administrators the summe of fourty shillings to bee leuied by the Treasurers aforesaid by distresse and sale in maner before expressed and to be taken by the said Treasurers in augmentation of their stock to the vses aforesaid And if any Treasurer his executors or administrators shall faile to giue vp his account within the time aforesaid or shall bee otherwise negligent in the execution of his charge then it shall bee lawfull for the more part of the Iustices of Peace of the same County in their Sessions to assesse such Fine vpon such Treasurer his executors or administrators as in their discretion shall seeme conuenient so it bee not vnder the summe of fiue pounds And for the true and iust distribution and employment of the summes so receiued according to the true meaning of this Act Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that euery Souldier or Mariner hauing had his or their limmes lost or disabled in their bodies by seruice being in her Maiesties pay as aboue is mentioned or such as shall hereafter returne into this Realme hurt or maimed or grieuously sick shall repayre if he be able to trauell and make his complaint to the Treasurers of the County out of which he was pressed or if he were no prest man to the Treasurers of the County where hee was borne or last inhabited by the space of three yeeres at his election And if he be not able to trauell to the Treasurers of the County where hee shall land or arriue and shall bring a certificate vnto any of the Treasurers aforesaid vnder the hand and Seale of the Generall of the Campe or Gouernour of the Towne wherein hee serued and of the Captaine of the Band vnder whom hee serued or his Lieutenant or in the absence of the said Generall or Gouernour from the Marshall or Deputie of the Gouernour or from any Admirall of her Maiesties Fleet or in his absence from any other Generall of her Maiesties ships at the Seas or in absence of such Generall from the Captaine of the ship wherein the said Mariners or Souldiers did serue the Queenes Maiestie containing the particulars by his hurts and seruices which Certificate shal be also allowed of the generall Mustermaster for the time being resident here within this Realme or Receiuer generall of the Muster Rolles The Treasurer and Controller of her Maiesties Nauie vnder his hand for the auoyding of all fraud and Counterfeiting Then vpon such Certificate such Treasurers as are before expressed shall according to the nature of his hurt and commendation of his seruice assigne vnto him such a portion of reliefe as in their discretions shall seeme conuenient for his present necessity vntill the next quarter Sessions at the which it shall be lawfull for the more part of the Iustices of Peace vnder their hands to make an Instrument of grant of the same or like reliefe to endure as long as this Act shall stand or endure in force if the same Souldier or Mariner shall so long liue and the same pension not bee duly reuoked or altered which shall be a sufficient warrant to all Treasurers for the same Countie to make payment of such pension vnto such persons quarterly except the same shal be afterward by the said Iustices reuoked or altered So that such reliefe as shall bee assigned by such Treasurers or Iustices of Peace to any such Souldier or Mariner hauing not borne office in the said warres exceed not the summe in grosse nor yeerely pension of ten pounds Nor to any that hath borne office vnder the degree of a Lieutenant the summe of fifteene pounds Nor to any that hath serued in the office of Lieutenant the summe of twentie pounds And yet neuerthelesse it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Iustices of Peace and others hauing authority by this Act to assigne pensions to Souldiers Mariners vpon any iust cause to reuoke diminish or alter the same from time to time according to their discretions in the generall quarter Sessions of the Peace or generall assemblies for Cities or Townes corporate where the same pension shall be granted And whereas it must needs fall out that many of such hurt and maimed Souldiers and Mariners doe arriue in Ports and places farre remote from the Counties whence they are by vertue of this Act to receiue their yeerely Annuities and pensions As also they are prescribed by this Act to obtaine the allowance of their Certificates from the Mustermaster or Receiuer Generall of the Muster Rolles who commonly is like to abide about the Court or London so as they shall need at the first prouision for the bearing of their charges to such places Be it therefore enacted that it may be lawfull for the Treasurers of the Countie where they shall arriue in their discretion vpon their Certificate though not allowed to giue them any conuenient reliefe for their iourny to carry them to the next County with a testimoniall of their allowance to passe on towards such a place And in like manner shall it be lawfull for the Treasurer of the next County to doe the like And so from County to County in the direct way till they come to the place where they are directed to finde their maintenance according to the tenure of this Statute And for the better execution of this Act in all the branches thereof Bee it enacted that euery the Treasurers in their seuerall Counties shall keepe a true booke of

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