Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	peace_n	realm_n	3,426	5	8.3632	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88461	Orders formerly conceived and agreed to be published by the Lord Major and the aldermen of the City of London: and the justices of peace of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, concerning the infection of the plague. And now re-printed and published by order of the Honourable House of Commons.; Laws, etc.	City of London (England).; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.; City of London (England). Court of Aldermen.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2864B; Thomason E352_2; ESTC R201073	10,154	23

ORDERS FORMERLY Conceived and Agreed to be published by the Lord Major and the Aldermen of the City OF LONDON AND The Justices of Peace of the Counties OF MIDDLESEX and SVRREY CONCERNING The Infection of the Plague And now Re-printed and published by Order of the Honourable House OF COMMONS Printed by Richard Cotes Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON 1646. Die Jovis 20. Augusti 1646. ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament That the Lord Major of the City of London and Court of Aldermen of the Committee of the Militia and the Justices of the Peace for the City of Westminster and for the Counties of Middlesex Essex and Surrey doe take care that all such Houses and Persons in and about the said Cities of London and Westminster Lines of Communication and Weekely Bils of Mortality that are or shall bee infected with the Pestilence be shut up and the usuall Markes set upon their Doores to the end they may be knowne And that such further care may be taken to prevent the spreading of the Infection and for provision of sick Persons as formerly hath been accustomed And that no Person or Persons that shall die of the Infection be buried in the day time but after the houre of ten of the clock in the night And for the better carrying on of this Service It is further Ordered that the late Orders and directions concerning the Plague be forthwith printed and published and put in due execution and Mr. Alderman Pennington and Mr. Alderman Atkin are to acquaint the Lord Major with this Order H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. ORDERS FORMERLY Conceived and agreed to be published by the Lord Major and the Aldermen of the City of London and the Justices of Peace of the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey And now Re-printed and published by Order of the Honourable House of COMMONS WHereas in the first Year of the Reigne of our late Soveraigne King James of happy memory over this Realme of England an Act was made for the charitable reliefe and ordering of Persons infected with the Plague whereby authority is given to Justices of Peace Majors Bayliffes and other head-Officers to appoint within their severall Limits Examiners Searchers Watchmen Keepers and Buriers for the Persons and Places infected and to minister unto them Oaths for the performance of their Offices And the same Statute also authoriseth the giving of other Directions as unto them for the present necessity shall seeme good in their discretions It is therefore upon speciall consideration thought very expedient for the preventing and avoiding of the Infection of Sicknesse if it shall please Almighty God which is now dangerously dispersed into many places within the City and Suburbs of the same that these Officers following bee appointed and these Orders hereafter prescribed be duly observed Examiners to be appointed in every Parish FIrst It is thought requisite and so ordered that in every Parish there be one two or more persons of good sort and credit chosen and appointed by the Alderman his Deputy and Common-Councell of every Ward and by the Justices of Peace in the Counties by the name of Examiners to continue in that Office the space of two moneths at least and if any fit person so appointed as aforesaid shall refuse to undertake the same the said parties so refusing to bee committed to prison untill they shall conforme themselves accordingly The Examiners Office THat these Examiners bee sworne by the Alderman or by one of the Justices of the County to enquire and learne from time to time what houses in every Parish be visited and what persons be sick and of what Diseases as neere as they can informe themselves and upon doubt in that case to command restraint of accesse untill it appeare what the Disease shall prove and if they finde any person sicke of the Infection to give order to the Constable that the house be shut up and if the Constable shall be found remisse or negligent to give present notice thereof to the Alderman or the Iustice of Peace respectively Watchmen THat to every Infected house there be appointed two watchmen one for the day and the other for the night And that these Watchmen have a speciall care that no person goe in or out of such infected houses whereof they have the charge upon paine of severe punishment And the said Watchmen to doe such further Offices as the sick house shall neede and require and if the Watchman bee sent upon any businesse to lock up the house and take the key with him and the Watchman by day to attend untill ten of the clock at night and the Watchman by night untill six in the morning Chirurgions THat there bee a speciall care to appoint women Searchers in every Parish such as are of honest reputation and of the best sort as can bee got in this kinde And these to be sworne to make due search and true report to the utmost of their knowledge whether the Persons whose bodies they are appointed to Search doe die of the Infection or of what other diseases as neere as they can And for their better assistance herein forasmuch as there hath beene heretofore great abuse in misreporting the disease to the further spreading of the Infection It is therefore ordered that there bee chosen and appointed three able and discreet Chirurgions besides those three that doe already belong to the Pesthouse amongst whom the City and Liberties to be quartered as the places lie most apt and convenient and every of these six to have one quarter for his Limit and the said Chirurgions in every of their Limits to joyne with the Searchers for the view of the body to the end there may bee a true report made of the disease And further that the said Chirurgions 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 informe themselves of the disease of the said parties And for as much as the said Chirurgions are to sequestred from all other Cures and kept onely to this disease of the Infection It is ordered that every of the said Chirurgions shall have twelve pence a body searched by them to bee paid out of the goods of the party searched if he be able or otherwise by the Parish Orders concerning infected Houses and Persons sick of the Plague Notice to bee given of the Sicknesse THe Master of every House assoone 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 houres after the said signe shall appeare Sequestration of the sick AS soon as any man shall bee found by this Examiner Chirurgion or Searcher to be sick of the Plague he shall the same night bee sequestred in the same house And in case hee