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A39483 By the Lords and other His Majesties commissioners an order for the observance and execution of the statute made for the reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the plague. England and Wales. 1645 (1645) Wing E929; ESTC R43145 1,634 1

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By the Lords and other His Majesties Commissioners An Order for the observance and Execution of the Statute made for the Reliese and ordering of Persons Infected with the Plague WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament in the first yeare of the Raigne of Our late Soveraigne Lord King James severall good and necessary Provisions were made and Ordeined touching those that be or shall be infected with the Plague by which Act power is given to Justices of Peace of Counties Majors Bayliffes Head-Officers or Justices of Peace in Cities Borroughes Townes Corporate and places Priviledged and to the Vice-Chancellor of either of the Vniversities and to the Bishop and Deane of every Cathedrall Church respectively within their severall and respective Precincts and Jurisdictions to taxe and assesse all Inhabitants and all Houses of Habitation Lands Tenements and Hereditaments at such reasonable Taxes and payments as they shall think fit for the reasonable reliefe of Persons infected and to levy the same of the Goods of such as shall refuse or neglect to pay and in default thereof to commit them to the Goale without Baile or Mainprize untill payment And also to appoynt Searchers Watch-men Examiners Keepers and Buriers for the Persons and places Infected and to minister Oathes unto them for the performing of their Offices and to give them other directions as shall seeme good unto them in their discretions for the present necessity And it is thereby farther Provided and Enacted That if any person or persons Infected or being or dwelli●g in any Houses Infected shall be commanded or appointed to keep his or their House for avoyding of farther Infection and shall notwithstanding wilfully and contemptuously disobey such direction and appointment offering or attempting to break or goe abroad and to resist such Keepers or Watch-men as shall be appoynted to see them kept in that then it shall be lawfull for such Watch-men with violence to inforce them to keep their Houses And if any hurt come thereby that the Keepers Watch-men and their assistants shall not be impeached therefore And farther That if any Infected persons being commanded to keep House shall notwithstanding wilfully and contemptuously goe abroad and converse with company having any Infectious sore about him uncured such person shall be taken and adjudged as a Felon and suffer death as in case of Felony but if they shall have no sore found about them neverthelesse for such offence they shall be punished as Vagabonds in all respects and also be bound to his or their good behaviour for one whole yeare as by the said Act may more fully appeare The Lords and others intrusted and authorized by His Majesty by His Commission under His Great Seale of England for and concerning the safety preservation and well Ordering of this Vniversity and City of Oxford and the County of Oxford and other Counties and places adjoyning in His Majesties absence taking into their Consideration that the due observance and execution of the said Law may by Gods blessing be a good meanes to prevent the farther spreading of this present Infection and that the neglect of the observance of the same Law hath been and may be in probability an occasion of the increase thereof doe therefore hereby in His Majesties Name by vertue of His Majesties said Commission straitly Charge and Require the Vice-Chancellor of this Vniversity and the Major Justices of Peace Bayliffes and other Officers of this City of Oxford and the Justices of Peace of the County of Oxford and all others whom it may concerne That with all possible care and diligence they cause the said Law to be duely and effectually put in execution as well for the helpe and reliefe as for the governing and keeping in of Infected persons as they will answer their neglect and remisnesse therein at their perills And they doe likewise in His Majesties Name straitly Charge and Command all persons whatsoever as well Souldiers as others upon whom it hath pleased or shall please God to lay this his Visitation that they submit and yeeld obedience to the said Law letting them know that a strict and severe proceeding shall be had for punishing of all such as shall wilfully or contemptuously offend against the same to the endangering of others And that a very strict account will be required of all who are or shall be any way concerned in this just and necessary Command tending so much to the health and preservation of this Vniversity and City and all that are resident therein or resort thereunto Dated at Oxford the 12th day of May in the One and Twentieth Yeare of His Majesties Raigne 1645. Ed. Littleton C. S. Cottington Hertford Dorchester Dorset Hen. Dover Chichester F. Seymour Edw. Nicholas Printed at Oxford by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the University 1645.