Certaine rules, directions, or advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion With a caveat to those that weare about their neckes impoisoned amulets as a preservative from the plague. First published for the behoofe of the citie of London, in the two visitations, 1603 & 1625. And reprinted for the benefit of the said citie now visited, and all other parts of the land that may or shall hereafter be: by Francis Herring ... Whereunto is added certaine directions, for the poorer sort of people when they shall be visited.
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- Certaine rules, directions, or advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion With a caveat to those that weare about their neckes impoisoned amulets as a preservative from the plague. First published for the behoofe of the citie of London, in the two visitations, 1603 & 1625. And reprinted for the benefit of the said citie now visited, and all other parts of the land that may or shall hereafter be: by Francis Herring ... Whereunto is added certaine directions, for the poorer sort of people when they shall be visited.
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- Herring, Francis, d. 1628.
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- London :: Printed by Thomas Paine, and are to be sold by Mathew Simmons at the gilded Lyon in Ducke Lane,
- 1636.
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- Plague -- Prevention -- Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Controversial literature.
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"Certaine rules, directions, or advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion With a caveat to those that weare about their neckes impoisoned amulets as a preservative from the plague. First published for the behoofe of the citie of London, in the two visitations, 1603 & 1625. And reprinted for the benefit of the said citie now visited, and all other parts of the land that may or shall hereafter be: by Francis Herring ... Whereunto is added certaine directions, for the poorer sort of people when they shall be visited." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03111.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2025.
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TO THE HIGH AND POTENT KING, CHARLES King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, health and happinesse.
(Soveraigne Lord,)
THey that are to treat with great Potentates and Personages are inioyned, to be short and sweet. If I faile in the last, I shall not misse of the first,—Ne longo sermone morer tua Tem∣pora (Caesar.)
The last great Mortalitie, I published certaine Rules, and Directions, for the prevention of the spreading of that contagious, and all devouring Sicknesse. Those briefe advertisements I have sear∣ched out, reviewed, somewhat inlarged, and brought forth againe, to the view and use, and I hope good of
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my Citizens and Countrimen. My presumption is, that though I shall purchase neither profit nor praise, yet I shall obtaine pardon of your Maiestie, if tendring the common good of my Country, I bring one pale-full, or rather dishfull of water, toward the quenching of the common flame. Morbi (ut rectè Celsus Med. Latinorum Princeps) non curan∣tur eloquentia, multò minus loquentia. Espe∣cially this fierce Fury, which is non Morbus, sed Monstrum, superans saepissime tum Artem, tum Naturam, not a disease, but a Monster, over∣matching, and quelling, oft-times both Art and Na∣ture. The Lord of glory and mercy keep your High∣nesse, with your most Honourable Councell from the rage of this man-slaying Hydra, and all other both open and secret evils and enemies, and make you a wise and skilfull Physitian to prevent the dangers, and cure the maladies of Common-wealth and State.
Your MAIESTIES humble subject and suppliant, FRANCIS HERRING.