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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88461	Orders formerly conceived and agreed to be published by the Lord Major and the aldermen of the City of London: and the justices of peace of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, concerning the infection of the plague. And now re-printed and published by order of the Honourable House of Commons.; Laws, etc.	City of London (England).; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.; City of London (England). Court of Aldermen.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2864B; Thomason E352_2; ESTC R201073	10,154	23

bee so sequestred then though he afterwards die not the house wherein hee sickned shall bee shut up for a moneth after the use of due Preservatives taken by the rest Ayring the Stuffe FOr sequestration of the goods and stuffe of the infected their Bedding and Apparell and hangings of Chambers must be well ayred with fire and such perfumes as are requisite within the Infected house before they bee taken again to use this to be done by the appointment of the Examiner Shutting up of the House IF any person shall have visited any man known to bee Infected of the Plague or entred willingly into any knowne Infected house being not allowed the house wherein hee inhabiteth shall be shut up for certain dayes by the Examiners direction None to bee removed out of infected houses but c. ITem that none be removed out of the house where he falleth sick of the infection into any other house in the City Borough or County except it bee to the Pest-house or a Tent or unto some such house which the owners of the said Visited house holdeth in his owne hands and occupieth by his owne servants and so as security bee given to the Parish whither such remove is made that the attendance and charge about the said visited persons shall be observed and charged in all the particularities before expressed without any cost of that Parish to which any such remove shall happen to be made and this remove to be done by night And it shall be lawfull to any person that hath two houses to remove either his sound or his infected people to his spare house at his choice so as if hee send away first his sound hee may not after send thither the sick nor againe unto the sick the ●●und And that the same which hee sendeth be for one week at the least shut up and secluded from company for fear of some infection at the first not appearing Buriall of the dead THat the buriall of the dead by this Visitation be at most convenient hours alwayes either before Sun rising or after Sun setting with the privity of the Churchwardens or Constables and not otherwise and that no neighbours nor friends be suffered to accompany the Coarse to Church or to enter the house visited upon pain of having his house shut up or bee imprisoned No infected Stuffe to be uttered THat no Clothes Stuffe bedding or garments bee suffered to be carryed or conveyed out of any Infected Houses and that the Criers and Caries abroad of Beddding or old Apparell to bee sold or pawned be utterly prohibited and restrained and no Brokers of Bedding or old Apparell be permitted to make any outward Shew or hang forth on their Stalls Shop-boards or Windows toward any Street Lane common Way or Passage any old Bedding or Apparell to be sold upon pain of Imprisonment And if any Broker or other person shall buy any Bedding Apparell or other Stuffe out of any Infected house within two months after the Infection hath been there his house shall be shut up as Infected and so shal continue shut up twenty dayes at the least No person to be conveyed out of any infected house IF any person visited doe fortune by negligent looking unto or by any other meanes to come or bee conveyed from a place infected to any other place the Parish from whence such Party hath come or been conveyed upon notice thereof given shall at their charge cause the said party so visited and escaped to be carryed and brought back again by night and the parties in this case offending to be punished at the direction of the Alderman of the Ward and the Justices of the Peace respectively and the house of the receiver of such visited person to bee shut up for twenty dayes Every visited house to be marked THat every house visited bee marked with a Red Crosse of a foot long in the middle of the doore evident to be seen and with these usual Printed words that is to say Lord have mercy upon us to bee set close over the same Crosse there to continue untill lawfull opening of the same house Every Visited house to be watched THat the Constables see every house shut up and to be attended with Watchmen which may keep them in and minister necessaries unto them at their owne charges if they be able or at the common charge if they be unable the shutting up to be for the space of foure weeks after all be whole That precise order bee taken that the Searchers Chirurgions Keepers and Buriers are not to passe the streets without holding a red Rod or Wand of three foot in length in their hands open and evident to bee seen and are not to goe into any other house then into their own or into that whereunto they are directed or sent for but to forbeare and abstaine from company especially when they have bin lately used in any such businesse or attendance And to this end it is ordered that a weekly Tax bee made in every Parish visited If in the City or Borough then under the hand of the Alderman of the Ward where the place is visited If in either of the Counties then under the hands of some of the Justices next to the place visited who if there be cause may extend the Tax into other Parishes also and may give warrant of Distresse against them which shall refuse to pay and for want of Distresse or for assistance to commit the offendors to Prison according to the Statute in that behalf Orders for cleansing and keeping of the Streets sweet The Streets to be kept cleane FIrst it is thought very necessary and so ordered that every Housholder do cause the street to be daily pared before his doore and so to keep it cleane swept all the week long That Rakers take it from out the Houses THat the sweeping and filth of houses be daily carryed away by the Rakers and that the Raker shall give notice of his comming by the blowing of a Horn as heretofore hath been done Laystalls to be made far off from the City THat the Laystals be removed as farre as may bee out of the City and common passages and that no Nightman or other bee suffered to empty a Vault into any Garden near about the City Care to be had of unwholsome Fish or Flesh and of musty Corne. THat speciall care be taken that no stinking Fish or unwholsome Flesh or mustie Corne or other corrupt fruits of what sort soever be suffered to bee sold about the City or any part of the same That the Brewers and Tipling houses be looked unto for mustie and unwholsome Cask That order be taken that no Hogs Dogs or Cats or tame Pigeons or Conies bee suffered to bee kept within any part of the City or any Swine to bee or stray in the Streets or Lanes but that such Swine bee impounded by the Beadle or any other Officer and the Owner punished according to the Act of Common-councell and

of the houses infected will not duly observe the directions of shutting up the doores specially in the night then shall there be appointed two or three Watchmen by turnes which shall be sworne to attend and watch the house and to apprehend any person that shall come out of the house contrary to the order and the same persons by order of the Iustices shall be a competent time imprisoned in the stockes in the high way next to the house infected and furthermore some speciall marke shall be made and fixed to the doores of every of the infected houses and where any such houses shall be Innes or Alehouses the signes shall be taken downe for the time of the restraint and some crosse or other mark set upon the place thereof to be a token of the sicknesse 6 Item they shall have good regard to chuse honest persons that either shall collect the summes assessed or shall have the custodie thereof and out of the said collection to allot a weekly proportion for the finding of victuall or fire or medicines for the poorer sort during the time of their restraint And whereas some persons being well disposed to yeeld almes and reliefe will bee more willing to give some portions of victuall as corne bread or other meat the same shall bee committed to the charge of some speciall persons that wil honestly and truly preserve the same to be distributed as they shall be appointed for the poore that are infected 7 Item to appoint certaine persons dwelling within the Townes infected to provide and deliver all necessaries of victuals or any matter of watching or other attendance to keep 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 publique assembly during the time of such their attendance as also to weare some marke on their upper garment or to beare a white rod in their hand to the end others may avoid their company 8 Item that in the shire Towne in every Countie and in other great Townes meete for that purpose there may be provision bespoken and made of such Preservatives and other remedies which otherwise in meaner townes cannot be readily had as by the Physitians shall be prescribed and is at this present reduced into an Advice made by the Physitians and now printed and sent with the said Orders which may be fixed in Market-places upon places usuall for such publique matters and in other Townes in the bodies of the parish Churches and chappels in which Advice only such things are prescribed as usually are to be had and found in all Countries without great charge or cost 9 Item the Ministers and Curates and the Church-wardens in every parish shall in writing certifie weekely to some of the Justices residing within the Hundred or other limit where they serve 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 Justices at their assemblies which during some convenient time would be every one and twenty dayes and thereof a particular book kept by the Clerk of the Peace or some such like 10 Item to appoint some place a part in each Parish for the buriall of such persons as shall die of the Plague as also to give order that they be buried after as Sun-setting and yet neverthelesse by day light so as the Curate be present for the observation of the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed by the Law foreseeing as much as conveniently 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 grave 11 Item the Justices of the whole County to assemble once in one and twenty days to examine whether those Orders be duly executed and to certifie to the Lords of the Privy Councell their proceedings in that behalfe what Townes and Villages be infected as also the numbers of the dead and the diseases whereof they dyed and what summes of money are taxed and collected to this purpose and how the same are distributed 12 Item the Justices of the Hundred where any such infection is or the Justices next adjoyning thereunto to assemble once a weeke to take accompt of the execution of the said Orders and as they finde any lacke or disorder either to reforme it themselves or to report it at the generall assembly there to bee by a more common consent reformed 13 Item for that the contagion of the Plague groweth and encreaseth no way more then by the use and handling of such cloths bedding and other stuffe as hath beene worne and occupied by the Infected of this disease during the time of their disease the said Justices shall in the places infected take such order that all the said clothes and other stuffe so occupied by the diseased so soone as the parties diseased of the plague are al of them either wel recovered or dead be either burnt and clean consumed with fire or else aired in such sort as is prescribed in an especiall Article contained in the advice set downe by the Physitians And for that peradventure 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 well beare it is thought good very expedient if it be thought meet it shall be burnt that then the said Justices out of such Collections as are to be made within their Counties for the relief of the poorer sort that be infected allow also them such summe or summes as to them shall be thought reasonable in recompence of the losse of their said stuffe 14 Item the said Iustices may put in execution any other Orders that by them at their general assembly shall be devised and thought meet tending to the preservation of his Majesties Subjects from the infection And to the end their care and diligence may the better appeare they shal certifie in writing the said Orders newly devised and if any shall wilfully breake and contemne the same or any the Orders herein specified they shal either presently punish them by imprisonment or if the persons so contemning them shall be of such countenance as the Iustices shall thinke meet to have their faults known to His Majesty 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 pnuishment of the same by order of His Majesty 15 Item if there be lacke of Iustices in some parts of the Shire or if they which are Iustices there shall be for the time absent in that case the more number of the Justices at their assembly shall make choise of some convenient persons to supply those places for the better execution hereof 16 Item if there be any person Ecclesiastical or Lay that shall hold and publish any opinions as in some places report is made that it is a vain thing to forbeare to resort to the Infected or that it is not charitable to forbid the same pretending that no person shal die but at their time prefixed such persons shall be not onely reprehended but if they be Ecclesiasticall shall be forbidden to preach and being Lay be enjoyned to forbeare to utter such dangerous opinions upon pain of imprisonment which shall be executed if they shall persevere in that errour And yet it shall appeare manifestly by these Orders that according to Christian charity no persons of the meanest degree shall bee left without succour and reliefe 17 And of these things above mentioned the Iustices shall take great care as of a matter specially and directed commanded by his Majesty upon the princely and naturall care he hath conceived towards the preservation of his Subjects who by very disorder and for lacke of direction do in many parts wilfully procure the increase of this generall Contagion FINIS