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An act for the charitable reliefe and ordering of person infected with the plague; Laws, etc.
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England and Wales.
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1630
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STC 16731.5; ESTC S3075
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HONE SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE CR Anno primo Iacobi Regis An Act for the charitable reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the Plague FOrasmuch as the Inhabitants of diuers Cities Boroughs townes corporate and of other Parishes and places being visited with the Plague are found to be vnable to relieue the poorer sort of such people so infected who of necessitie must be by some charitable course prouided for lest they should wander abroad and thereby infect others And forasmuch as diuers persons infected with that disease and others inhabiting in places infected aswell poore people and vnable to relieue themselues that are carefully prouided for as other which of themselues are of abilitie being commanded by the Magistrate or Officer of or within the place where the Infection shall bee to keep their houses or otherwise to separate themselues from company for the auoiding of further Infection doe notwithstanding very dangerously and disorderly demeane themselues Be it therefore enacted by the authoritie of this present Parliament That the Maior Bailiffes head Officers and Iustices of the Peace of euery Citie Borough Towne corporate and places Priuiledged where any Maior and Baliffes head Officers or Iustices of Peace are or shall be or any two of them shall haue power and authority from time to time to taxe and assesse all and euery Inhabitant and all Houses of habitation Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the said City Borough Towne corporate and places Priuiledged or the Liberties or Precincts thereof at such reasonable taxes and paiments as they shall thinke fit for the reasonable reliefe of such persons infected or inhabiting in houses and places infected in the same Cities Boroughes and Townes corporate and places Priuiledged and from time to time leuie the same taxes of the Goods of euery person refusing or neglecting to pay the said Taxes by Warrant vnder the Hand and Seale of the Maior and Bailifs and head Officers aforesaid or two such Iustices of Peace to bee directed to any person or persons for the execution thereof And if the party to whom such Warrant is or shall be directed shall not finde any Goods to leuie the same and the party taxed shall refuse to pay the same Taxe That then vpon returne thereof the said Maior Bailifs head Officers or Iustices of Peace or any two of them shall by like Warrant vnder their hands and Seales cause the same person so taxed to bee arrested and committed to the Gaole without Baile or Maineprise vntill he shall satisfie the same taxation and the arrerages thereof And if the Inhabitants of any such Citie Borough Towne corporate or place priuiledged shall finde themselues vnable to relieue their said poore Infected persons and others as aforesaid That then vpon Certificate thereof by the Maior Bailife head Officers and other the said Iustices of Peace or any two of them to the Iustices of Peace of the Countie of or neere to the said City Borough Towne corporate or priuiledged place so infected or any two of them to be made the said Iustices of or neer the said County or any two of them shall or may taxe and assesse the Inhabitants of the County within fiue miles of the said 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 neer the County by the sale of Goods and in default thereof by imprisonment of the bodie of the party taxed as aforesaid And if any such Infection shall be 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 or may be lawfull for any two Iustices of Peace of the said County wherein the said 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 be leuied by warrant from the said Iustices of Peace of the same County by sale of goods and in default thereof 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 Boroughes Townes corporate and 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 and Iustices of peace there or any two of them shall seeme fit and conuenient All which taxes and rates made within any such City Borough Towne corporate or place priuiledged shall be certified at the next quarter Sessions to be holden within the same City Borough Town corporate or place priuiledged And the said Taxes and Rates made within any part of the said County shal in like sort be certified at the next quarter Sessions to be holden in and for the said County And that if the Iustices of peace at such quarter Sessions respectiuely or the more part of them shall think fit the said taxe or rate should continue or be enlarged or extended to any other parts of the County or otherwise determined then the same to be so enlarged extended or determined increased or taxed and leuied in maner and forme aforesaid as to the said Iustices at the Quarter Sessions respectiuely shall be thought fit conuenient And euery Constable other officer that shall wilfully make default in leuying such mony as they shall be commanded by the said warrant or warrants shal forfeit for euery such offence ten shillings to be employed on the charitable vses aforesaid And be it further enacted That if any person or persons infected or being or dwelling in any house Infected shal be by the Maior Bailifs Constable or other head Officer of any City Borough Town corporate priuiledged place or Market Town or by any Iustice of Peace Constable Headborough or other Officer of the County if any such Infection be out of any City Borough Towne corporate priuiledged place or market Town commanded or appointed as aforesaid to keep his or their House for auoyding of further Infection shall not withstanding wilfully contemptuously disobey such direction appointment offring attempting to break go abroad to resist or going abroad resisting such Keepers or Watchmen as shall be appointed as aforesaid to see them kept in That then it shall be lawfull for such Watchmen with violence to enforce them to keep their houses And if any hurt come by such enforcement to such Disobedient persons That then the said Keepers Watchmen and any other their Assistants shall not be impeached therefore And if any infected person as aforesaid so commanded to keep house shal contrary to such Commandement wilfully and contemptuously go abroad shal conuerse in company hauing any Infectious Sore vpon him vncured That then such person persons shal be taken deemed adiudged as a Felon to suffer pains of Death as in case of Felony But if such person shall not haue any such Sore found about him Then for his said offence to be punished as a Vagabond in all respects should or ought to be by the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth yeere of the Reigne of our late Souereigne Ladie 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 Act 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 aforesaid That it shall be lawfull for Iustices of Peace Maiors Bailifs other head Officers aforesaid to appoint within the seuerall Limits Searchers Watchmen Examiners Keepers Buriers for the persons places respectiuely infected as aforesaid to minister vnto them Othes for the performance of their Offices of Searchers Examiners Watchmen Keepers Buryers giue them other directions as vnto them for the present necessity shall seeme good in their discretions And this Act to continue no longer then vntill the end of the first Session of the next Parliament Prouided alwaies and be it enacted by Authority of this present Parliament That no Maior Bailifs head Officers or any Iustices of Peace shall by force or pretext of any thing in this Act 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 the Bishop Deane of euery such Cathedrall Church or one of them within such Cathedrall Church the Prouost or Warden of either of the said Colledges within the same shall haue all such power authoritie shall doe execute all euery such Act Acts thing things in this Act before mentioned within their seueral Precincts Iurisdictions abouesaid as wholly absolutely fully to all intents purposes as any Maior Bailifs head Offices or Iustices of Peace within their seuerall Precincts and Iurisdictions may elsewhere by force of this Act doe and execute God saue the King Printed by Robert Young Printer to the honourable Citie of London 1630. Taxing others for the reliefe of the sicke of the Plague The Inhabitants vnable to reliefe the Infected An infected person commanded to keep his house disobeyeth Infected persons how Felons Attendants appointed vpon the infected The Vniuersities Cathedrall Churches Eaton Winchester