Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. Also certaine orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell, to bee put in execution, together with sundry good rules, preseruatiues, and medicines against the infection of the plague, set downe by the Colledge of the Physicians vpon his Maiesties speciall command: as also a decree of the Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.

Orders concerning Infected houses and persons sicke of the Plague.

Notice to be giuen of the Sickenesse.

THe Master of euery house, assoone as any one in his house complai∣neth, either of Botch, of Purple, or Swelling in any part of his bo∣die, or falleth otherwise dangerously sicke, without apparant cause of some other dis∣ease, shall giue knowledge thereof to the Ex∣aminer of health within two houres after the said signe shall appeare.

Sequestration of the sicke.

AS soone as any man shall be found by this Examiner, Chirurgion or Sear∣cher, to be sicke of the Plague, hee shall the same night be sequestred in the same house. And in case he be so sequestred, then though hee afterwards die not, the house wherein he sickened, shall be shut vp for a moneth, af∣ter the vse of due Preseruatiues taken by the rest.

Ayring of the stuffe.

FOr sequestration of the Goods and ••••uffe of the Infected, their Bedding, and Ap∣parell, and hangings of Chambers, must be well ayred with fire, and such perfumes as are requisite within the Infected house be∣fore they be taken againe to vse, this to bee done by the appointment of the Examiner.

Shutting vp of the house.

IF any person shall haue visited any man, knowen to be Infected of the Plague, or entred willingly into any knowen infected house, being not allowed: the house where∣in he inhabiteth shall be shut vp for certaine dayes, by the Examiners direction.

None to be remooued out of infected houses, but &c.

ITem, that none bee remooued out of the house where he falleth sick of the infection, into any other house in the City, Borough, or Countie (except it be to the Pesthouse or a Tent, or vnto some such house, which the owners of the sayde Visited house holdeth in his owne handes, and occupyeth by his owne seruants) and so as securitie be giuen to the Parish, whither such remooue is made, that the attendance and charge a∣bout

the said Visited persons, shall be obser∣ued and charged in all the particularities before expressed, without any cost of that Parish, to which any such remoue shall hap∣pen to be made, and this remooue to be done by night: And it shall be lawfull to any per∣son that hath two houses, to remooue either his sound or his infected people to his spare house at his choice, so as if he send away first his sound, he may not after send thither the sicke, nor againe vnto the sicke the sound: and that the same which hee sendeth be for one weeke at the least shut vp, and secluded from company for feare of some infection, at the first not appearing.

Buriall of the dead.

THat the buriall of the dead by this visi∣tation be at most conuenient houres, al∣wayes either before Sunne rising, or after Sunne setting, with the priuitie of the Churchwardens or Constables, and not o∣therwise, and that no neighbors nor friends bee suffered to accompanie the Coarse to Church, or to enter the house visited, vpon paine of hauing his house shut vp or be im∣prisoned.

No infected stuffe to be vttered.

THat no Clothes, Stuffe, bedding or gar∣ments be suffred to be caried or conueyed

out of any Infected Houses, and that the Criers and Cariers abroad of Bedding or olde Apparell, to bee Sold or Pawned, bee vtterly Prohibited and restrained, and no Brokers of Bedding, or olde Apparell bee permitted to make any outward Shew, or hang forth on their Stalles, Shop-boords or Windowes, towards any Streete, Lane, common Way or Passage, any olde Bedding or Apparell to bee solde, vpon paine of Im∣prisonment: And if any Broker or other per∣son shall buy any Bedding, Apparell, or o∣ther Stuffe out of any Infected House, within two moneths after the Infection hath been there, his house shall be shut vp as Infected, and so shall continue shut vp twenty dayes at the least.

No person to be conueyed out of any Infected house.

IF any person Visited doe fortune, by neg∣ligent looking vnto, or by any other meanes, to come, or bee conueyed from a place Infected, to any other place, the Parish from whence such Party hath come, or been Conueyed, vpon notice thereof giuen, shall at their charge cause the sayd party so Visi∣ted and escaped, to bee caried and brought backe againe by night, and the Parties in this case offending, to bee punished at the di∣rection of the Alderman of the Warde, and

the Iustices of the Peace respectiuely: and the house of the receiuer of such visited per∣son, to be shut vp for twentie dayes.

Euery visited house to be marked.

THat euery house visited be marked with a Redde Crosse of a foot long, in the mid∣dle of the doore, euident to be seene, and with these vsuall printed wordes, that is to say, Lord haue mercy vpon vs, to be set close ouer the same Crosse, there to continue vntil law∣full opening of the same house.

Euery visited house to be watched.

THat the Constables see euery house shut vp, and to be attended with Watchmen, which may keepe them in, and minister ne∣cessaries vnto them at their owne charges (if they be able) or at the common charge if they be vnable: the shutting vp to be for the space of foure Weekes after all be whole.

That precise order be taken that the Sear∣chers, Chirurgions, Keepers and Buriers are not to passe the Streets without hol∣ding a redde Rodde or Wand of three foot in length, in their hands, open and euident to bee seene, and are not to goe into any other house, then into their owne, or into that whereunto they are directed or sent for, but to forbeare and abstaine from company, es∣pecially

when they haue beene lately vsed in any such businesse or attendance.

And to this end it is ordered, that a week∣ly Taxe be made in euery Parish visited: If in the City or Borough, then vnder the hand of the Alderman of the Ward, where the place is visited: if in either of the Counties, then vnder the hands of some of the Iusti∣ces next to the place visited, who, if there be cause, may extend the Taxe into other Pari∣shes also, and may giue warrant of distresse against them which shall refuse to pay: and for want of distresse or for assistance, to com∣mit the offenders to prison, according to the Statute in that behalfe.