apt and convenient; and every of these to have one quarter for his limit: and the said Chirurgeons in every of their limits to join with the Searchers for the view of the body, to the end there may be a true report made of the disease.

"And further, that the said Chirurgeons shall visit and search such like persons as shall either send for them, or be named and directed unto them, by the Examiners of every parish, and inform themselves of the disease of the said parties.

66 And, forasmuch as the said Chirurgeons are to be sequestered from all other cures, and kept only to this disease of the infection: it is ordered, that every of the said Chirurgeons shall have twelve-pence a body searched by them, to be paid out of the goods of the party searched, if he be able, or otherwise by the parish."

NURSE-KEEPERS.

66 If any nurse-keeper shall remove herself out of any infected house before twenty-eight days after the decease of any person dying of the infection, the house to which the said nurse-keeper doth so remove herself shall be put up until the said twenty-eight days be expired."

ORDERS concerning infected houses, and persons sick of the plague.

NOTICE TO BE GIVEN OF THE SICKNESS.

"The master of every house, as soon as any one in his house complaineth either of botch, or purple, or swelling, in any part of his body, or falleth otherwise dangerously sick, without apparent cause of some other disease, shall give knowledge thereof to the Examiner of health, within two hours after the said sign shall appear.'

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SEQUESTRATION OF THE SICK.

"As soon as any man shall be found by this Examiner, Chirurgeon, or Searcher, to be sick of the Plague, he shall the same night be sequestered in the same house, and in case he he so sequestered then, though he afterwards die not, the house wherein he sickened should be shut up for a month, after the use of the due preservatives taken by the rest."

AIRING THE STUFF.

"For sequestration of the goods and stuff of the infection, their bedding, and apparel, and hangings of chambers, must be well aired with fire, and such perfumes as are requisite within the infected house, before they be taken again to use this to be done by the appointment of the Examiner."

SHUTTING UP OF THE HOUSE.

"If any person shall have visited any man, known to be infected of the plague, or entered willingly into any known infected house, being not allowed: the house wherein he inhabiteth, shall be shut up for certain days by the Examiner's direction."

NONE TO BE REMOVED OUT OF INFECTED HOUSES, BUT, &c.

"Item, That none be removed out of the house where he falleth sick of the infection, into any house in the city, (except it be to the pest-house, or a tent, or unto some such house, which the owner of the said visited house holdeth in his own hands, and occupieth by his own servants,) and so as security be given to the parish, whither such remove is made; that the attendance and charge

about the said visited persons shall be observed and charged in all the particularities before expressed, without any cost of that parish, to which any such remove shall happen to be made, and this remove to be done by night and it shall be lawful to any person that hath two houses, to remove either his sound or his infected people to his spare house at his choice, so as if he send away first his sound, he not after send thither the sick, nor again unto the sick the sound. And that the same which he sendeth, be for one week at the least shut up, and secluded from company, for fear of some infection, at the first not appearing."

BURIAL OF THE DEAD.

"That the burial of the dead by this visitation be at most convenient hours, always either before sun-rising, or after sun-setting, with the privity of the Church-wardens or Constables, and not otherwise; and that no neighbours nor friends be suffered to accompany the corpse to church, or to enter the house visited, upon pain of having his house shut up, or be imprisoned.

"And that no corpse dying of infection shall be buried, or remain in any church in time of common prayer, sermon, or lecture. And that no children be suffered at time of burial of any corpse, in any church, church-yard, or buryingplace, to come near the corpse, coffin, or grave. And that all the graves shall be at least six feet deep.

"And further, all public assemblies at other burials are to be forborne during the continuance of this visitation."

NO INFECTED STUFF TO BE UTTERED.

"That no clothes, stuff, bedding, or garments

be suffered to be carried or conveyed out of any infected houses, and that the criers and carriers abroad of bedding or old apparel to be sold or pawned, be utterly prohibited and restrained; and no brokers of bedding or old apparel be permitted to make any outward shew, or hang forth on their stall, shopboards, or windows, towards any street, lane, common way, or passage, any old bedding or apparel to be sold, upon pain of imprisonment. And if any broker or other person shall buy any bedding, apparel, or other stuff, out of any infected house, within two months after the infection hath been there, his house shall be shut up as infected, and so shall continue shut up twenty days at the least."

NO PERSON TO BE CONVEYED OUT OF ANY INFECTED HOUSE.

"If any person visited do fortune by negligent looking unto, or by any other means, to come, or be conveyed from a place infected, to any other place, the parish from whence such party hath come or been conveyed, upon notice thereof given, shall, at their charge, cause the said party so visited, and escaped, to be carried and brought back again by night, and the parties in this case offending, to be punished at the direction of the Alderman of the ward; and the house of the receiver of such visited person to be shut up for twenty days."

EVERY VISITED HOUSE TO BE MARKED.

"That every house visited, be marked with a red cross of a foot long, in the middle of the door, evident to be seen, and with these usual printed words, that is to say, "Lord have mercy upon

us," to be set close over the same cross, there to continue until lawful opening of the same house."

EVERY VISITED HOUSE TO BE WATCHED.

"That the Constables see every house shut up, and to be attended with Watchmen, which may keep them in, and minister necessaries unto them at their own charges (if they be able,) or at the common charge if they be unable: the shutting up to be for the space of four weeks after all be whole.

"That precise order be taken that the Searchers, Chirurgeons, Keepers, and Buriers, are not to pass the streets without holding a red rod or wand of three foot in length in their hands, open and evident to be seen, and are not to go into any other house than into their own, or into that whereunto they are directed or sent for; but to forbear and abstain from company, especially when they have been lately used in any such business or attendance."

INMATES.

"That where several inmates are in one and the same house, and any person in that house happens to be infected; no other person or family of such house shall be suffered to remove him or themselves without a certificate from the Examiners of health of that parish; or in default thereof, the house whither he or they so remove, shall be shut up as in case of visitation."

HACKNEY COACHES.

"That care be taken of hackney coachmen, that they may not, (as some of them have been observed to do), after carrying of infected persons