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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

as they frequently doe or rather not to keepe any at all It were also to bee wished that the Slaughter-houses were vtterly put from out the liberties of the City being in themselues very offensiue And that tunnells in Church-vaults be considered of and the depth of graues To be ca●tolous vpon any suspition IT is to be feared because every one desireth his owne liberty that none will giue notice of any suspition of the Plague against themselues wherefore that must be the Ouerseers care vpon any notice or suspition of Infection by the helpe of the Doctors Chirurgions Keepers or Searchers to finde out the truth thereof and so to proceed accordingly but not to depend vpon the Testimony of women Searchers alone The care to be taken when a house is visited THat vpon the discouery of the Infection in any house there bee present meanes vsed to preserue the whole as well as to cure the infectted And that no sick person be remoued out of any house though to another of his owne without notice thereof to be giuen to the Ouerseers and to be by them approued or if the whole be to be remoued that notice be giuen to the Ouerseers of their remoue and that caution be giuen that they shall not wander about till they be sound The house that is known to be infected though none be dead therein to be shut vp and carefully kept watched by more trusty men then ordinary warders till a time after the partie be well recouered and that time to be forty dayes at the least Caution concerning flying into the Countrey BEcause many masters of families presently vpon the visiting of their houses before any be dead fly into the countrey to their friends by which meanes the plague is often carried into the countrey That no man shall depart his house except it be to an house not inhabited and that it be to an house of such distance as that he may conueniently trauell thither without lying by the way much lesse that hee send his children or seruants and this to be done by the approbation of the Ouerseers vnder their hands That such also as remooue into the Countrey before their houses bee visited haue a certificate from the Ouerseers of their parish vnder their hands and seales testifying that such persons were not visited before their remoue that by vertue thereof they may the freeli●r trauell in the Countrey and be more readily entertained That no infected person be secretly conueied out of any house and in any such misdemeanour the master of the house both from which the sicke party is sent as also the master of the house into which the partie shall be receiued without the licence of the Ouerseers of both parishes respectiuely shall be seuerally punished at the discretion of the Ouerseers Because it is likely that the better sort will not call to them such Doctors as are deputed to the Care of the plague vpon the first fulling sick of any in their houses lest thereby they might draw greater infection vpon themselues if therefore any house so bring other Doctors shall happen to be visited that then the Doctor who shall ordinarily take the care of that house shall presently cause notice of the said infection to be giuen to the Ouerseers that care may be had thereof by the Physicians deputed Buriall of the dead THat one being dead in any house of the Plague notice be giuen to the Ouerseers and that the dead party be buried by night in priuate manner yet not without the priuity of the Minister Clerk Bearers and Constable or Ouerseers and that none enter the visited house but permitted persons vpon danger to be presently shut vp themselues and that there be a visible marke set vpon the outside of the doore and to stand shut vp fourty dayes and that there be no tolling or ringing of Bells at such priuate burialls Caution about apparell and housholdstuffe THat no apparell nor housholdstuffe be remoued or sold out of the infected house for six moneths after the infection is ceased in the house and that all the Brokers and inferiour Criers for apparell be restrained in that behalfe Preseruatiues Correction of the ayre FOr the correcting of the infectious aire it were good that often Bonfires were made in the streets and that sometime the Tower Ordnance might be shot off as also that there be good fiers kept in about the visited houses and their neighbours Take Rosemary dried or Iuniper Baileaues or Frankincense cast thē same vpon a Chafingdish and receiue the fume or smoake thereof Also to make fiers rather in pans to remoue about the chamber then in chimneies shall better correct the aire of the houses adding a piece of old iron to the fire Take a quantity of Vineger very strong and put to it some small quantity of rose-Rose-water ten branches of Rosemary put them all into a bason then take fiue or six flint stones heated in the fire till they bee burning hot cast them into the same Vineger and so let the fumes be receiued from place to place of your house That the house be often perfumed with Rue Angelica Gentian Zedoary Setwall Iuniper wood or Berries burnt vpon imbers either simply or they may bee steeped in Wine vineger and so burnt Perfume the house and all therein with this Slake Lime in Vineger and aire the house therewith burne much Tar Rosen Frankinsence or Turpentine both in the priuate houses and in the Churches before prayers By perfuming of apparell SVch apparell as you shall commonly weare let it be very cleane and perfume it often either with some Virginia Cedar burned or with Iuniper and if any shall happen to be with them that are visited let such persons as soone as they shall come home shift themselues and ayre their clothes in open ayre for a time By carrying about of perfumes SVch as are to go abroad shall do well to carry Rue Angelica or Zedoarie in their hands to smell to and of those they may chew a little in their mouthes as they go in the street especially if they be afraid of any place It is not good to be ouer-fearefull but it cannot be but bad to be ouer-presumptuous and bold Take Rue one handfull stamp it in a morter put thereto Wine vineger enough to moisten it mixe them well then straine out the iuyce wet a piece of spunge a toast of browne bread therein tie it in a thin cloth beare it about to smell to Take the root of Angelica beaten grosly the weight of six pence of Rue and Wormwood of each the weight of foure pence Setwall the weight of three pence bruise these then steep them in a little Wine vineger tie them in a linen cloth which they may carry in their hands or put it into a Iuniper box full of holes to smell to Or they may vse this Pomander TAke Angelica Rue Zedoarie of each halfe a dram Myrrhe two drams Camphire six graines Wax and

of the Ash-tree one pound of Walnuts with the greene outward shels to the number of fiftie cut these small of Scabious of Veruin of euery one a handfull of Saffron two drams powre vpon these the strongest Vineger you can get foure pintes let them a little boyle together vpon a very soft fire and then stand in a very close pot well stopt all a night vpon the embers after distill them with a soft fire and receiue the water close kept Giue vnto the Patient laid in bed and well couered with clothes two ounces of this water to drinke and let him bee prouoked to sweat and euery eight houres during the space of twenty foure houres giue him the same quantitie to drinke Care must bee taken in the vse of these sweating Cordialls that the party infected sweat two or three houres if hee haue strength and sleep not till the sweat bee ouer and that hee haue beene well wiped with warme linen and when he hath been dried let him wash his mouth with water and vineger warme and let his face and hands bee washed with the same when these things are done giue him a good draught of Broath made with Chicken or Mutton with Rosemary Thyme Sorrell Succory and Marigolds or else Water-grewell with Rosemary and Winter-Sauory or Thyme Panado seasoned with veriuyce or iuyce of wood-sorrell For their drinke let it be small Beere warmed with a toste or water boiled with Carraway seed Carduus seed and a crust of bread or such posset drinke as is mentioned before in the second medicine after some nutriment let them sleepe or rest often washing their mouth with water and vineger These Cordials must be repeated once in eight ten or twelue houres at the furthest If the partie infected vomit vp his medicine then repeat it presently or else giue him two or three spoonefuls of Vineger of Squills or Oxymel of Squills with posset drink and then after proceed Medicines externall VEsicatories applied to the armes inside of the thighes or about the bottome of the calfe of the leg will draw forth the venome but the vse of these requires the direction of the Doctors deputed For the swelling vnder the eares arme-pits or in the groines they must bee alwayes drawen forth and ripened and broke with all speed These Tumors and much more the Carbuncles and Blaines doe require the care and skill of the expert Chirurgion but not to leave the poorer sort destitute of good remedies these following are very good Pull off the feathers from the tailes of liuing Cocks Hennes Pigeons or Chickens and holding their bills hold them hard to the Botch or swelling and so keepe them at that part vntill they die and by this meanes draw out the poison It is good to apply a cupping glasse or embers in a dish with a handfull of Sorrell vpon the embers To breake the Tumor TAke a great Onion hollow it put into it a Figge Rue cut small and a dram of Venice Treacle put it close stopped in a wet paper and roste it in the embers Apply it hot vnto the Tumor lay three or foure one after another let one lie three houres Scabious and Sorrell rosted in the embers mixt with a little strong leaven and some Barrowes grease and a little salt will draw it and breake it Take two or three rosted onions a Lillie root or two rosted a handfull of Scabious rosted foure or fiue figs a piece of leauen and a little Rue stampe all these together if it be too dry put to it two ounces of oile of Lillies or so much salt butter make a pultesse applie it hot after it hath lien 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 copperasse to the pultesse Or this TAke the flowers of Elders two handfuls Rocker seed bruised one ounce Pigeons dung three drams stampe these together put to them a little oile of Lillies make thereof a pultesse apply it and change it as you did the former To draw VVHen it is broken to draw it heale it take the yolke of an Egge one ounce of honey of Roses Turpentine halfe an ounce wheat flowre a little London Treacle a dram and a halfe mixe these wel spread it vpon leather change it twice a day or take Diachylon cum Gummis For the Carbuncle APplie an actuall or potentiall Cautery saying a defensatiue of Bole Armoniack or Terra Sigillata mixed with Vineger and the white of an Egge round about the tumour but not vpon it Take three or foure Cloues of Garlick Rue halfe a handfull foure Figges strong Leauen and the Soote of a Chymney in which wood hath beene burnt of each halfe an ounce Mustard-seed two drams Salt a dram and a halfe stampe these well together and applie it hot to the sore You may put thereto a little salt butter if it be too dry Or this Take Leaven halfe an ounce Radish Rootes the bigger the better an ounce and an halfe Mustard-Seed two drams Onions and Garlick rosted of each two drams and a halfe Venice Treacle or Mithridatum three drams mixe these in a morter applie it hot thrice a day to the Sore But these Sores cannot be well ordered and cured without the personall care of a discreet Surgeon Take of Scabious two handfuls stamp it in a stone morter with a pestle of stone if you can get any such then put into it of old Swines grease salted two ounces and the yolke of an egge stampe them well together and lay part of this warme to the sore Take of the leaues of Mallowes of Camomyll Flowers or either of them a handfull of Linseed beaten into powder two ounces boyle the Mallow leaues first cut and the flowers of Camomyll in faire water standing about a fingers breadth boyle all them together vntill all the water be almost spent then put thereunto the Linseed of wheat flowre halfe a handfull of Swines grease the skinnes taken away three ounces of Oyle of Lillies two ounces stir them still with a stick and let them all boyle together on a soft fire without smoake vntill the water bee vtterly spent beat them altogether in a morter vntill they be well incorporated and in feeling smooth and not rough Then take part thereof hot in a dish set vpon a Chafindish of coales and lay it thick vpon a linen 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 Cloves of Garlick the weight of twenty pence Boyle them on the fire in sufficient water and make a pultesse of it and lay it warme to the sore Another Take two handfuls of Valerian three rootes of Danewort an handfull of Smallage or Lovage Seeth them all in Butter and water and a few Crums of bread and make a pultesse

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