ounces of Oyle of Lillies or so much Salt Butter make a Pultesse apply it hot after it hath layâ—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 welâ— 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 Liâ—eseed beaten into powder two ounces boylâ— 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 Pâ—â—tesse of 〈◊〉 and lay it 〈◊〉 to the Sore Another TO the Sore it 〈◊〉 doe thus 〈◊〉 two handfulls of 〈◊〉 three roots of Daâ—t an handful of Sâ—allage or Loâ— if you can get it 〈◊〉 them 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 and a 〈◊〉 crâ—es of bread an◠〈…〉 thereof and lay it warme to the Soâ—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 Plâ—gue to bee â—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 â—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 â—otes â—e may 〈◊〉 it a good draught and iâ— beâ— 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 fâ—nd any persons sicke of the Infection to giue order to the Constable that
CERTAINE STATVTES 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 LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER and IOHN BILL Printers to Kings most Excellent MAIESTIE ANNO DOM. M.DC.XXX HONI †SOIT †QVI †MAL †Y †PENSE DIEV· ET· MON· DROIT ⧠To the Iustices of Peace AS the want of Lawes occasioneth wrongs to be committed wittingly And want of knowledge of Lawes carieth men into offences ignorantly So are Lawes theÌ„selues a burthen when they are too many and their very number is a cause that few are executed where Penall Lawes haue otherwise no life but in their execution And certainely that Magistrate who knowes but few and causeth those to be duely obserued deserueth better of the Common-wealth then he that knoweth many and executes but few Therefore is the Composition of this Volume that those few Lawes and other Ordinances being most needfull for the time may bee easily had soone knowne and duely executed Which is required by his MAIESTIE ¶ The Contents of this BOOKE 1A Proclamation for quickning the lawes made for the reliefe of the poore and the suppressing punishing and setling of the sturdy Rogues and Vagabonds 2 An Act for the reliefe of the poore 3 An Act for the necessarie reliefe of Souldiers and Mariners 4 An Act for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdie Beggars 5 An Act for the charitable reliefe and ordering of persons Jnfected with the Plague 6 Orders concerning health 7 A Decree of Starre-Chamber against Inmates and new Buildings ⧠By the KING ¶ A Proclamation for quickning the Lawes made for the reliefe of the Poore and the suppressing punishing and setling of the sturdie Rogues and Vagabonds WHereas many excellent Lawes and Statutes with great iudgement and prouidence haue been made in the times of Our late deare and Royall Father and of the late Queene Elizabeth for the reliefe of the impotent and indigent Poore and for the punishing suppressing and setâ—ing of the sturdy Rogues and Vagabonds which Lawes and Statutes if they were duely obserued would be of exceeding great vse for the peace plenty of this Realme but the neglect thereof is the occasion of much disorder and many insufferable abuses And whereas it is fit at all times to put in execution those Lawes which are of so necessarie and so continuall vse yet the apparant and visible danger of the Pestilence vnlesse the same by Gods gracious mercie and Our prouident endeuours be preuented doth much more require the same at this present We haue therefore thought it fit by the aduice of Our Priuie Councell by this Our publike Proclamation straightly to charge and command that all our louing Subiects in their seueral places doe vse all possible â—ate and diligence as a principall meanes to preuent the spreading and dispersing of that contagious sicknesse to obserue and put in due execution all the said Lawes made and prouided against Rogues and Vagabonds and for the reliefe of the truely poore and impotent people And in the first place Wee strictly charge and command that in Our Cities of London and Westminster and Suburbs thereof and places adiacent thereunto and generally throughout the whole Kingdome that there bee carefull Watch and Ward kept for the apprehending and punishing of al Rogues and Vagabonds who either in the streets or high wayes vnder the names of Souldiers or Mariners Glasse-men Pot-men Pedlars or Petty-Chapmen or of poore or impotent people shall bee found either wandring or begging And Wee doe further strictly charge and command that all Constables Head boroughs and other Officers doe vse all diligence to punish and passe away according to the Law all such Wanderers or Beggars as shall be apprehended either in the Cities or places aforesaid or in any other Cities Towns Parishes or places within this Realme and take great care that none passe vnder the colour of counterfeit Passes And that all Irish Rogues and Vagabonds be forthwith apprehended wheresoeuer they shall bee found and punished and sent home according to a former Proclamation heretofore published in that behalfe That all Householders of whose persons or at Whose Houses any such Vagrants shall bee taken begging doe apprehend or cause them to be apprehended and caryed to the next Constable or other Officer to bee punished according to the Lawes And that they forbeare to relieue them thereby to giue them incouragement to continue in their wicked course of life That the Iustices of Peace in their seuerall places throughout this Kingdome be carefull either by Prouost Marshals or by the high Constables or otherwise by their good discretions effectually to prouide that all Rogues and Vagabonds of all sorts bee searched for apprehended punished and suppressed according to the Law And that once euery moneth at the least a conuenient number of the Iustices of Peace in euery seuerall Countiâ— and Diuision shall meete together in some conuenient place in that Diuision and take account of the High Constables petty Constables and other Officers within that Diuision how they haue obserued the Lawes and Our commandement touching the Premisses And that they seuerely punish all such as shall bee found remisse or negligent in that behalfe And We doe hereby strictly charge and command as well all and singular Iustices of Peace Constables Headboroughs and other Our Officers and Ministers as also all Our louing Subiects of what estate or degree soeuer to vse all diligence that all and euery houses or places which are or shall bee visited or infected with the sicknesse bee carefully shut vp and Watch and Ward kept ouer them that no person or persons within those places doe goe abroad or depart from thence during the time of such Visitation And We doe hereby command all and singular our Iudges of Assize in their seuerall Circuits to giue speciall charge and make speciall inquiry of the defaults of all and euery the Iustices of Peace who shall not obserue their meetings in the seuerall Counties and Diuisions aforesaid or shall not punish such Constables or other Officers as being informed either by their owne view and knowledge or otherwise are or shal be found remisse or negligent in the Premisses or in leauying such penalties forfeitures as the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme require against the parties offending herein And thereof to informe Vs or Our Priuy Councell to the end that such due course may be taken either by remouing out of the Commission such negligent Iustices of the Peace or otherwise by inflicting such
time of the restraint and some crosse or other marke set vpon the place thereof to be a token of the sickenesse 6 Item they shall haue good regard to chuse honest persons that either shall collect the summes assessed or shall haue the custodie thereof and out of the sayd collection to allot a weekely proportion for the finding of victuall or fire or medicines for the poorer sort during the time of their restraint And whereas sâ—me persons being well disposed to yeeld almes and reliefe will be more willing to giue some portions of victuall as corne bread or other meate the same shal be committed to the charge of some speciall persons that will honestly and truely preserue the same to be distributed as they shal be appointed for the poore that are infected 7 Item to appoint certaine persons dwelling within the Townes infected to prouide and deliuer all necessaries of victuals or any matter of watching or other attendance to keepe such as are of good wealth being restrained at their owne proper costs and charges and the poore at the common charges and the said persons so appointed to be ordered not to resort to any publike assembly during the time of such their attendance as also to weare some marke on their vpper garment or to beare a white rodde in their hand to the ende others may auoid their company 8 Item that in the Shire towne in euery Countie and in other great Townes meete for that purpose there may be prouision bespoken and made of such Preseruatiues and other remedies which otherwise in meaner townes cannot be readily had as by the Physicians shal be prescribed and is at this present reduced into an Aduise made by the Physicians and now Printed and sent with the said Orders which may be fixed in Market places vpon places vsuall for such publique matters and in other Townes in the bodies of the Parish Churches and Chappels in which Aduise onely such things are prescribed as vsually are to be had and found in all Countreys without great charge or cost 9 Item the Ministers and Curats and the Churchwardens in euery Parish shal in writing certifie weekely to some of the Iustices residing within the Hundred or other limit where they serue the number of such persons as are infected and doe not die and also of all such as shall die within their Parishes and their diseases probable whereof they died and the same to be certified to the rest of the Iustices at their assemblies which during some conuenient time would be euery one and twentie dayes and thereof a particular booke kept by the Clerke of the Peace or some such like 10 Item to appoint some place apart in each Parish for the buriall of such persons as shall die of the Plague as also to giue order that they be buried after Sunne setting and yet neuerthelesse by day light so as the Curate be present for the obseruation of the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed by the Law foreseeing as much as conueniently he may to be distant from the danger of infection of the person dead or of the company that shall bring the corpse to the graue 11 Item the Iustices of the whole Countie to assemble once in one and twentie dayes to examine whether those Orders be duely executed and to certifie to the Lords of the Priuie Counsell their proceedings in that behalfe what Townes and Villages be infected as also the numbers of the dead and the diseases whereof they died and what summes of money are taxed and collected to this purpose and how the same are distributed 12 Item the Iustices of the Hundred where any such Infection is or the Iustices next adioyning thereunto to assemble once a weeke to take accompt of the execution of the sayd Orders and as they finde any lacke or disorder either to reforme it themselues or to report it at the generall assembly there to be by a more common consent reformed 13 Item for that the Contagion of the Plague groweth and encreaseth no way more then by the vse and handling of such clothes bedding and other stuffe as hath bin worne and occupyed by the Infected of this disease during the time of their disease the sayd Iustices shall in the places infected take such order that all the sayde clothes and other stuffe so occupyed by the diseased so soone as the parties diseased of the plague are all of them either wel recouered or dead be either burnt and cleane consumed with fire or else ayred in such sort as is prescribed in an especiall article conteined in the Aduise set downe by the Physicians And for that peraduenture the losse of such apparell bedding and other stuffe to be burnt may be greater then the poore estate of the owners of the same may wel beare it is thought very good and expedient if it be thought meet it shall be burnt that then the sayd Iustices out of such Collections as are to bee made within their Counties for the reliefe of the poorer sort that be infected allow also them such summe or summes as to them shall be thought reasonable in recompense of the losse of their sayd stuffe 14 Item the said Iustices may put in execution any other Orders that by them at their generall assembly shall be deuised and thought meet tending to the preseruation of his Maiesties Subiects from the infection and to the end their care and diligence may the better appeare they shall certifie in writing the said Orders newly deuised and if any shall wilfully breake and contemne the same or any the Orders herein specified they shall either presently punish them by imprisonment or if the persons so contemning them shal be of such countenance as the Iustices shal think meet to haue their faults knowen to his Maiestie or to the Councell they shall charge and binde them to appeare before vs and the contempt duely certified that there may be a more notorious sharpe example made by punishment of the same by order of his Maiestie 15 Item if there be lacke of Iustices in some partes of the Shire or if they which are Iustices there shal be for the time absent in that case the more number of the Iustices at their assembly shall make choice of some conuenient persons to supply those places for the better execution hereof 16 Item if there be any person Ecclesiasticall or Lay that shall hold and publish any opinions as in some places report is made that it is a vaine thing to forbeare to resort to the Infected or that it is not charitable to forbid the same pretending that no person shall die but at their time prefixed such persons shall be not onely reprehended but by order of the Bishop if they be Ecclesiasticall shall be forbidden to preach and being Lay shal be also enioined to forbeare to vtter such dangerous opinions vpon paine of imprisonment which shall bee executed if they shal perseuere in that errour And yet it shall appeare manifestly by
said Village standeth or to the common Gaole of that Countie or place there to remaine and be imployed in worke vntill hee or she shal be placed in some seruice and so to continue by the space of one yeere or not being able of body vntill he or she shall be placed to remaine in some Almeshouse in the same Countie or place Prouided alwayes and be it enacted If any of the sayd Rogues shall appeare to be dangerous to the inferiour sort of people where they shall bee taken or otherwise be such as wil not be reformed of their roguish kind of life by the former prouisiō of this Act That in euery such case it shal may be lawfull to the said Iustices of the limite where any such Rogue shall be taken or any two of them whereof one to be of the Quorum to commit that Rogue to the house of correction or otherwise to the Gaole of the County there to remaine vntill their next quarter Sessions to be holden in that Countie 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 shal bee conueyed vnto such parts beyond the Seas as shall bee at any time hereafter for that purpose assigned by the priuie 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 be 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 felonie The sayd felonie 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 aforesayd that if any Towne Parish or Village the Constable Headborough or Tithingman be negligent do not his or their best endeuours for the apprehension of such Vagabond Rogue or sturdy Begger which there shall be found contrary to the forme of this present Act and to cause euery of them to be punished and conueied according to the true meaning of this present Act that then the said Constable Headborough or tithingman in whome such default shall bee shall lose and forfeite 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 rescusse against any officer or person authorized by this present Acte 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 shal 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 Realms 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 Mannisk 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 aforesayd shall be 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 Acte and from thence to bee transported at the common charge of the Countrey where they were set on land into those partes from whence they came or were brought And that euery Constable Headborough and Tythingman neglecting the due performance therof shall forfeit for euery such offence ten shillings Bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no diseased or impotent poore person shal at any time resort or repaire from their dwelling places to the Citie 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 be licensed to passe thither by two Iustices of the Peace of the Countie where such person doeth 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 trauell and 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 Acte And that the inhabitants of the same Citie of Bath and towne of Buxton shall not in any wise be charged by this Acte with the finding or reliefe of any such poore people Prouided alwayes that the Iustices of peace within any County of this Realme or Wales shall not intromit or enter into any Citie Borough or Towns corporate where be any Iustice or Iustices of the Peace for any such Citie Borough or Towne Corporate for the execution of any Branch Article or sentence of this Acte for or concerning any offence matter or cause growing or arising within the Precincts Liberties or Iurisdictions of such City borough or townes corporate But that it may and shal be lawfull to the Iustice and Iustices of the Peace Maiors Bayliffes and other head Officers of those Cities Boroughes and Townes Corporate where there be such Iustices of the Peace to proceed to the execution of this Acte within the precinct and compasse of their Liberties in
of Peace of the Countie of or neere to the sayde Citie Borough Towne Corporate or priuiledged place so infected or any two of them to be made the said Iustices of or neere the sayd 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 Priuiledged 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 be lawfull for any two Iustices of Peace of the said County wherein the saâ—d place infected is or shall be to Taxe and Assesse the inhabitants of the said County within fiue miles of the said 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 party 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 thinke 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 shal seeme fit and conuenient All which taxes and rates made within any such citie borough towne 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 Countie 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 sayd taxe or rate should continue or be enlarged or extended to any other partes of the Countie or otherwise determined then the same to bee so enlarged extended or determined increased or taxed and leuied in maner and forme aforesaid as to the sayd Iustices at the Quarter Sessions respectiuely shal be thought fit and conuenient And euery Constable and other officer that shall wilfully make default in leuying such mony as they shal 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 bee it further enacted That if any person or persons infected or being or dwelling in any house Iniected shall be by the Mayor 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 commaunded or appointed as aforesayd to keepe his or their House for auoyding of further Infection and shall notwithstanding wilfully and contemptuously disobey such direction and appointment offering attempting to breake and goe abroad and to resist or going abroad and resisting such Keepers or Watchmen as shall bee appointed as aforesayd to see them kept in That then it shall be lawfull 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 sayde Keepers Watchmen and any other their Assistants shall not bee impeached therefore And if any infected person as aforesayd so commanded to keepe house shall contrary to such Commaundement wilfully and contemptuously goe abroad and shall conuerse in company hauing any Infectious Sore vpon him vncured That then such person and persons shall bee 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 sayd Offence to be punished as a Vagabond in all respects should or ought to bee by the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth yere 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 Felonie 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 be it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesayd That it shall be lawfull for Iustices of Peace Mayors Bayliffes and other head Officers aforesayd to appoynt within the seuerall Limits Searchers Watchmen Examiners Keepers and Buriers for the persons and places respectiuely infected as aforesayd and to minister vnto them Othes for the performance of their Offices of Searchers Examiners Watchmen Keepers and Buryers 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 authoritie of this present Parliament that no Mayor 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 euery such Cathedrall Church or one of them within such Cathedrall Church and the Prouost or Warden of either of the sayd Colledges within the same shall haue all such power and authority and shall doe and execute all euery such Act and Actes thing and things in this Acte before mentioned within their seuerall Precincts and Iurisdictions abouesayd as wholly absolutely and fully to all intents and purposes as any Mayor Bayliffes head Officers or Iustices of Peace within their seuerall Precincts and Iurisdictions may elsewhere by force of this Acte doe and execute ¶ Orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell to be executed throughout the Counties of this Realme in such Townes Villages and other places as are or may be hereafter Infected with the Plague for the stay of further increase of the same Also an Aduise set downe by the best learned