Orders, thought meete by her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same Also, an aduise set downe vpon her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordering of them after they shalbe infected.

An other soueraigne remedie, that is a stilled water.

TAke the inwarde barke of the Ashe tree, a pound, of Walnuts with the greene outward shelles, to the number of 50. cut these small, of Scabious, of Veruen, of P••timorel, of Howsleeke, of euery one a handfull, of Saffron halfe an ounce, powre vpon these y^e strongest Vineger you can get foure pynts let them a litle boyle together vpon a very soft fire▪ and then stand in a very close potte

well slepe all a night vpon the embers, afterward distill them with a soft fire, and receyue the water close kept. Giue vnto the Patient layd in bedde & wel couered with clothes, two ounces of this wa∣ter to drink, & let him be prouoked to sweat, & eue∣ry sixe houres, during the space of xxiiii. houres, giue him the same quantitie to drinke. This Me∣dicine for the worthines therof, and because it wil stand the maker thereof in little charge, it shall be very well done to distill it in the Sommer when the Walnutts hang greene on the tree, that it maye bee ready against the time that occasion serueth to vse it.