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A22844	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.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Royal College of Physicians of London.	1630 (1630)	STC 9342; ESTC S125901	56,831	142

ounces of Oyle of Lillies or so much Salt Butter make a Pultesse apply it hot after it hath lay●e three or foure houres take it off and burne it and apply a fresh Pultesse of the same if it proue hard to breake adde a little burnt Copris to the Pultesse which will soone worke his effect Or this TAke the Flowers of Elders two handfuls Rocket seede bruised one ounce Pigeons dung three drammes stampe these together put to them a little oyle of Lillies make thereof a Pultesse apply it and change it as you did the former To draw WHen it is broken to drawe it and deale it take the Yolke of an Egge one ounce of honey of Roses Turpentine halfe an ounce wheate Flower a little London Treacle a dramme and a halfe mixe these wel● spread it vpon Leather change it twice a day You must take care not to heale any of these pestilent sores too soon for that might breed a new sicknesse or at least a new sore For the Carbuncle SOme put great confidence in a Cautery laying a defensatiue of Bole Armoniacke or Terra sigillata mixed with Vineger and the White of an Egge round about the tumor but not vpon it Take three or foure cloues of Garlicke Rue halfe a handfull foure Figges strong Leauen and the Soote of a Chimney in which wood hath been burnt of each halfe an ounce Mustard seede two drammes Salt a dramme and a halfe stampe these wel together and apply it hot to the Sore you may put thereto a little salt Butter if it be too drie Or this TAke Leauen halfe an ounce Radish rootes the bigger the better an ounce and a halfe Mustard seed two drammes Onions and Garlicke rosted of each two drammes and a halfe Venice Treacle or Mithridatum three drammes mixe these in a morter applie it hote thrice a day to the Sore But these Sores cannot be well ordered and cured without the personall care of a discreete Surgeon Take of Scabious two handfuls stampe it in a stone morter with a pestell of stone if you can get any such then put vnto it of old Swines grease salted two ounces and the yelke of an Egge stampe them well together and lay part of this warme to the Sore Take of the leaues of Mallowes of Camomill flowers of either of them a handfull of Li●eseed beaten into powder two ounces boyl● the Mallow leaues first cut and the flowers of Camomill in faire water standing aboue a fingers breadth boile all them together vntill all the water be almost spent then put thereunto the Lineseede of wheate flower halfe a handfull of Swines grease the skins taken away three ounces of oyle of Roses two ounces stirre them still with a sticke and let them all boyle together on a soft fire without smoake vntill the water bee vtterly spent beate them all together in a morter vntill they bee well incorporated and in feeling smooth and not rough then make part thereof hot in a dish set vpon a Chafendish of coales and lay it thicke vpon a linnen cloth applying it to the Sore Take a white Onion cut in pieces of fresh Butter three ounces of Leauen the weight of twelue pence of Mallowes one handfull of Scabious if it may bee had one handfull of cloues of Garlicke the weight of twenty pence boyle them on the fire insufficient water and make a P●●tesse of 〈◊〉 and lay it 〈◊〉 to the Sore Another TO the Sore it 〈◊〉 doe thus 〈◊〉 two handfulls of 〈◊〉 three roots of Da●t an handful of S●allage or Lo● if you can get it 〈◊〉 them 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 and a 〈◊〉 cr●es of bread an● 〈…〉 thereof and lay it warme to the So●e till it breake Another IF you cannot haue these herbes it is good to lay a loafe of bread to it hot as it commeth out of the ouen which afterward shall be burnt or buried in the earth Or the leaues of Scabious or Sorrel rosted or two or three Lilly rootes rosted vnder Embers beaten and applied A generall Medicine for all sorts of people taken with the Pl●gue to bee ●ad without Cost TAke of the roote Butter Burre otherwise called Pestilent-wort one ounce of the roote of great Valerian a quarter of an ounce of Sorrell an handfull boyle all these in a quart of water to a pint then ●ine it and put thereto two spoonfuls of Vineger 〈◊〉 ounces of good Sugar boyle all these together vntill they bee well mingled let the Infected drinke of this so ●otes ●e may 〈◊〉 it a good draught and i● be● chance to 〈◊〉 it vp againe let him take the same quantity straightway vpon it and prouoke himselfe to sweat and hee shall finde great helpe ¶ Orders conceiued and agreed to be published by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the Citie of London and the Iustices of Peace of the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey by direction from the Lords of His Maiesties most Honourable Priuy Councell WHereas in the first yeere of the Reigne of our late Soueraigne King Iames of happy memory ouer this Realme of England an Act was made for the charitable reliefe and Ordering of persons infected with the Plague wherby Authoritie is giuen to Iustices of Peace Maiors Bayliffes and other head Officers to appoint within their seuerall Limits Examiners Searchers Watchmen Keepers and Buriers for the persons and places infected and to minister vnto them Oathes for the performance of their Offices And the same Statute also authoriseth the giuing of other Directions as vnto them for the present necessity shall seeme good in their discretions It is therefore vpon speciall consideration thought very expedient for the preuenting and auoiding 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 bee duely obserued Examiners to be appointed in euery Parish FIrst It is thought requisite and so ordered that in euery Parish there bee one two or more persons of good sort and credit chosen and appointed by the Alderman his Deputy and Common Councell of euery Ward and by the Iustices 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 persons so appointed as aforesaid shall refuse to vndertake the same the said parties so refusing to be committed to Prison vntill they shall conforme themselues accordingly The Examiners Office THat these Examiners be sworne by the Alderman or by one of the Iustices of the County to enquire learne from time to time what houses in euery parish be visited and what persons be sicke and of what Diseases as neere as they can enforme themselues and vpon doubt in that case to command restaint of accesse vntill it appeare what the Disease shall prooue and if they f●nd any persons sicke of the Infection to giue order to the Constable that

such two Iustices of the Peace to commit him or them to the common Gaole of the County there to remaine without baile or maineprise vntill paiment of the said sum arrerages stocke And the sayde Iustices of Peace or any of them to send to the house of correction or common Gaole such as shall not employ themselues to worke being appointed therunto as aforesaid And also any two such Iustices of Peace to commit to the said prison euery one of the sayd Churchwardens and Ouerseers which shall refuse to accompt there to remaine without Baile or maineprise vntill he haue made a true accompt and satisfied and payd so much as vpon the sayd accompt shall bee remaining in his hands And be it further enacted that it shall be lawfull for the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers or the greater part of them by the assent of any two Iustices of the Peace aforesayd to bind any such children as aforesaid to be apprentices where they shall see conuenient till such man child shall come to the age of foure and twenty yeeres and such woman childe to the age of one and twentie yeres or the time of her mariage The same to be as effectuall to all purposes as if such child were of full age and by Indenture of couenant bound him or her selfe And to the intent that necessarie places of habitation may more conueniently be prouided for such poore impotent people Be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that it shall and may be lawfull for the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers or the greater part of them by the leaue of the Lord or Lords of the Mannour whereof any waste or Common within their Parish is or shall be parcell and vpon agreement before with him or them made in writing vnder the hands and seales of the sayd Lord and Lords or otherwise according to any order to be set downe by the Iustices of Peace of the sayde Countie at their Generall quarter Sessions or the greater part of them by like leaue and agreement of the said Lord or Lords in writing vnder his or their hands and seales To erect builde and set vp in fit and conuenient places of habitation in such Waste or Common at the generall charges of the Parish or otherwise of the Hundred or Countie as aforesayd to be taxed rated and gathered in maner before expressed conuenient houses of dwelling for the sayd impotent poore and also to place Inmates or more families then one in one cottage or house One Acte made in the one thirtieth yeere of her Maiesties Reigne intituled An Acte against the erecting and maintaining of Cottages or any thing therein contained to the contrarie notwithstanding Which Cottages and places for Inmates shal not at any time after be vsed or imployed to or for any other habitation but only for impotent and poore of the same Parish that shall be there placed from time to time by the Churchwardens and Ouerseers of the poore of the same Parish or the most part of them vpon the paines and forfeitures contained in the said former Acte made in the sayd one and thirtieth yeere of her Maiesties reigne Prouided alwayes that if any person or persons shall finde themselues grieued with any Sesse or Taxe or other Acte done by the sayde Churchwardens and other persons or by the sayde Iustices of Peace that then it shall be lawfull for the Iustices of Peace at their generall quarter Sessions or the greater number of them to take such order therein as to them shal be thought conuenient and the same to conclude and binde all the sayd parties And be it further enacted That the Father and Grandfather and the Mother and Grandmother and the children of euery poore olde blinde lame and impotent person or other poore person not able to worke being of a sufficient abilitie shall at their owne charges relieue and maintaine euery such poore person in that manner and according to that ra●e as by the Iustices of Peace of that Countie where such sufficient persons dwell or the greater number of them at their generall quarter Sessions shall bee assessed vpon paine that euery one of them shall forfeit twentie shillings for euery moneth which they shall faile therein And be it further hereby enacted That the Maiors Bayliffes or other head Officers of euery towne and place corporate and city within this Realme being Iustice or Iustices of Peace shall haue the same authoritie by vertue of this Acte within the limits and precints of their Iurisdictions aswell out of Sessions as at their Sessions if they holde any as is herein limitted prescribed and appointed to Iustices of Peace of the Countie or any two or more of them or to the Iustices of Peace in their quarter Sessions to doe and execute for all the vses and purposes in this Acte prescribed and no other Iustice or Iustices of Peace to enter or meddle there And that euery Alderman of the City of London within his Ward shall and may doe and execute in euery respect so much as is appointed and allowed by this Acte to be done and executed by one or two Iustices of Peace of any Countie within this Realme And be it also enacted That if it shall happen any Parish to extend it selfe into more Counties then one or part to lie within the Liberties of any Citie Towne or place corporate and part without that then as well the Iustices of Peace of euery Countie as also the head Officers of such City Towne or place corporate shall deale and entermeddle onely in so much of the said Parish as lyeth within their liberties and not any further And euery of them respectiuely within their seuerall Limits Wards and Iurisdictions to execute the ordinances before mentioned concerning the nomination of Ouerseers the consent to binding Apprentices the giuing warrant to leuie taxations vnpayd the taking accompt of Churchwardens and Ouerseers and the committing to prison such as refuse to accompt or deny to pay the arrerages due vpon their accompts And yet neuerthelesse the sayd Church-wardens and Ouerseers or the most part of them of the sayd Parishes that doe extend into such seuerall Limits and Iurisdictions shall without diuiding themselues duely execute their office in all places within the sayd Parish in all things to them belonging and shall duely exhibite and make one accompt before the sayd head Officer of the Towne or place Corporate and one other before the said Iustices of Peace or any such two of them as is aforesaid And further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That if in any place within this Realme there happen to bee hereafter no such nomination of Ouerseers yeerely as is before appointed that then euery Iustice of Peace of the County dwelling within the diuision where such default of nomination shall happen and euery Maior Alderman and head Officer of City Towne or place Corporate where such default shall happen shall lose

and forfeit for euery such default fiue pound to bee imployed towards the reliefe of the poore of the sayd Parish or place Corporate and to be leuied as aforesaid of their goods by warrant from the generall Sessions of the Peace of the sayd Countie or of the same Citie Towne or place Corporate if they kepe Sessions And bee it also enacted by the authority aforesayd that all penalties and forfeitures before mentioned in this Act to bee forfeited by any person or persons shall go and be imployed to the vse of the poore of the same Parish and towards a stocke and habitation for them and other necessary vses and reliefe as before in this Act are mentioned and expressed and shal be leuied by the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers or one of them by warrant from any two such Iustices of Peace or Maior Alderman or head Officer of Citie Town or place corporate respectiuely within their seuerall limites by distresse and sale therof as aforesaid or in defect therof it shal be lawful for any two such Iustices of peace and the said Aldermen and head Officers within their seuerall limits to commit the offendor to the said prison there to remaine without baile or maineprise till the said forfeitures shal be satisfied and payed And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesayd that the Iustices of Peace of euery Countie or place corporate or the more part of them in their general Sessions to be holden next after the feast of Easter next and so yeerely as often as they shall thinke meet shall rate euery Parish to such a weekely summe of money as they shall thinke conuenient so as no Parish bee rated aboue the summe of sixe pence nor vnder the summe of a halfepeny weekely to bee payd and so as the totall summe of such taxation of the Parishes in euery County amount not aboue the rate of two pence for euery Parish within the said County Which summes so taxed shall be yeerely assessed by the agreement of the Parishioners within themselues or in default thereof by the Churchwardens and petie Constables of the same Parish or the more part of them or in default of their agreement by the order of such Iustice or Iustices of Peace as shal dwell in the same Parish or if none be there dwelling in the parts next adioyning And if any person shal refuse or neglect to pay any such portion of money so taxed it shall be lawfull for the said Churchwardens and Constables or any of them or in their default for any Iustice of Peace of the sayd limite to leuie the same by distresse and sale of the goods of the party so refusing or neglecting rendring to the party the ouerplus and in default of such distresse it shal be lawful to any Iustice of that limite to commit such person to the sayd prison there to abide without baile or maineprise till he haue payed the same And be it also enaced That the said Iustices of the Peace at their generall quarter Sessions to bee holden at the time of such taxation shall set down what competent sums of money shal be sent quarterly out of euery County or place corporate for the reliefe of the poore prisoners of the Kings Bench and Marshalsey also of such Hospitals and almes houses as shal be in the said County and what summes of money shal be sent to euery one of the said Hospitals almes houses so as there bee sent out of euery County yerely xx s. at the least to each of the said prisons of the Kings Bench and Marshalsey which summes ratably to be assessed vpon euery parish the Churchwardens of euery Parish shall truely collect and pay ouer to the high Cōstables in whose diuision such Parish shall be scituate from time to time quarterly ten dayes before the end of euery quarter and euery such Constable at euery such quarter Sessions in such County shall pay ouer the same to such two Treasurers or to one of them as shall by the more part of the Iustices of Peace of the County be elected to be the said Treasurers to be chosen by the Iustices of Peace of the said County Citie or Towne or place corporate or of others which were sessed and taxed at fiue pound lands or ten pound goods at the least at the taxe of Subsidie next before the time of the said Election to be made And the said Treasurers so elected to continue for the space of one whole yere in their office and then to giue vp their charge with a due account of their receipts and disbursements at the quarter Sessions to be holden next after the feast of Easter in euery yeere to such others as shall from yeere to yeere in forme aforesayd successiuely be elected Treasurers for the said County Citie Towne or place corporate which said Treasurers or one of them shall pay ouer the same to the Lord chiefe Iustice of England and knight Marshal for the time being equally to be diuided to the vse aforesaid taking their acquittance for the same or in default of the said chiefe Iustice to the next ancientest Iustice of the Kings Bench as aforesaid And if any Churchwarden or high Constable or his executors or administrators shall faile to make paiment in forme aboue specified then euery Churchwarden his executors or administrators so offending shall forfeit for euery time the summe of ten shillings and euery high Constable his executors or administrators shall forfeit for euery time the summe of xx s the same forfetures together with the summes behinde to be leuied by the said Treasurer and Treasurers by way of distresse and sale of the goods as af●resayd in forme aforesaid and by them to bee imployed towards the charitable vses comprised in this Act. And be it further enacted That all the surplusage of money which shall bee remaining in the said Stocke of any County shal by discretion of the more part of the Iustices of Peace in their quarter Sessions be ordered distributed and bestowed for the reliefe of the poore Hospitals of that Countie and of those that shall sustaine losses by fire water the Sea or other casualties and to such other charitable purposes for the reliefe of the poore as to the more part of the said Iustices of Peace shall seeme conuenient And bee it further enacted That if any Treasurer elected shall wilfully refuse to take vpon him the sayd office of Treasurership or refuse to distribute and giue reliefe or to account according to such forme as shal be appointed by the more part of the sayde Iustices of Peace That then it shall be lawfull for the Iustices of Peace in their quarter Sessions or in their default for the Iustices of Assize at the Assizes to be holden in the same Countie to fiue the same Treasurer by their discretion the same fiue not to be vnder three pound and to bee leuied by sale of his goods and

time of the restraint and some crosse or other marke set vpon the place thereof to be a token of the sickenesse 6 Item they shall haue good regard to chuse honest persons that either shall collect the summes assessed or shall haue the custodie thereof and out of the sayd collection to allot a weekely proportion for the finding of victuall or fire or medicines for the poorer sort during the time of their restraint And whereas s●me persons being well disposed to yeeld almes and reliefe will be more willing to giue some portions of victuall as corne bread or other meate the same shal be committed to the charge of some speciall persons that will honestly and truely preserue the same to be distributed as they shal be appointed for the poore that are infected 7 Item to appoint certaine persons dwelling within the Townes infected to prouide and deliuer all necessaries of victuals or any matter of watching or other attendance to keepe such as are of good wealth being restrained at their owne proper costs and charges and the poore at the common charges and the said persons so appointed to be ordered not to resort to any publike assembly during the time of such their attendance as also to weare some marke on their vpper garment or to beare a white rodde in their hand to the ende others may auoid their company 8 Item that in the Shire towne in euery Countie and in other great Townes meete for that purpose there may be prouision bespoken and made of such Preseruatiues and other remedies which otherwise in meaner townes cannot be readily had as by the Physicians shal be prescribed and is at this present reduced into an Aduise made by the Physicians and now Printed and sent with the said Orders which may be fixed in Market places vpon places vsuall for such publique matters and in other Townes in the bodies of the Parish Churches and Chappels in which Aduise onely such things are prescribed as vsually are to be had and found in all Countreys without great charge or cost 9 Item the Ministers and Curats and the Churchwardens in euery Parish shal in writing certifie weekely to some of the Iustices residing within the Hundred or other limit where they serue the number of such persons as are infected and doe not die and also of all such as shall die within their Parishes and their diseases probable whereof they died and the same to be certified to the rest of the Iustices at their assemblies which during some conuenient time would be euery one and twentie dayes and thereof a particular booke kept by the Clerke of the Peace or some such like 10 Item to appoint some place apart in each Parish for the buriall of such persons as shall die of the Plague as also to giue order that they be buried after Sunne setting and yet neuerthelesse by day light so as the Curate be present for the obseruation of the Rites and Ceremonies prescribed by the Law foreseeing as much as conueniently he may to be distant from the danger of infection of the person dead or of the company that shall bring the corpse to the graue 11 Item the Iustices of the whole Countie to assemble once in one and twentie dayes to examine whether those Orders be duely executed and to certifie to the Lords of the Priuie Counsell their proceedings in that behalfe what Townes and Villages be infected as also the numbers of the dead and the diseases whereof they died and what summes of money are taxed and collected to this purpose and how the same are distributed 12 Item the Iustices of the Hundred where any such Infection is or the Iustices next adioyning thereunto to assemble once a weeke to take accompt of the execution of the sayd Orders and as they finde any lacke or disorder either to reforme it themselues or to report it at the generall assembly there to be by a more common consent reformed 13 Item for that the Contagion of the Plague groweth and encreaseth no way more then by the vse and handling of such clothes bedding and other stuffe as hath bin worne and occupyed by the Infected of this disease during the time of their disease the sayd Iustices shall in the places infected take such order that all the sayde clothes and other stuffe so occupyed by the diseased so soone as the parties diseased of the plague are all of them either wel recouered or dead be either burnt and cleane consumed with fire or else ayred in such sort as is prescribed in an especiall article conteined in the Aduise set downe by the Physicians And for that peraduenture the losse of such apparell bedding and other stuffe to be burnt may be greater then the poore estate of the owners of the same may wel beare it is thought very good and expedient if it be thought meet it shall be burnt that then the sayd Iustices out of such Collections as are to bee made within their Counties for the reliefe of the poorer sort that be infected allow also them such summe or summes as to them shall be thought reasonable in recompense of the losse of their sayd stuffe 14 Item the said Iustices may put in execution any other Orders that by them at their generall assembly shall be deuised and thought meet tending to the preseruation of his Maiesties Subiects from the infection and to the end their care and diligence may the better appeare they shall certifie in writing the said Orders newly deuised and if any shall wilfully breake and contemne the same or any the Orders herein specified they shall either presently punish them by imprisonment or if the persons so contemning them shal be of such countenance as the Iustices shal think meet to haue their faults knowen to his Maiestie or to the Councell they shall charge and binde them to appeare before vs and the contempt duely certified that there may be a more notorious sharpe example made by punishment of the same by order of his Maiestie 15 Item if there be lacke of Iustices in some partes of the Shire or if they which are Iustices there shal be for the time absent in that case the more number of the Iustices at their assembly shall make choice of some conuenient persons to supply those places for the better execution hereof 16 Item if there be any person Ecclesiasticall or Lay that shall hold and publish any opinions as in some places report is made that it is a vaine thing to forbeare to resort to the Infected or that it is not charitable to forbid the same pretending that no person shall die but at their time prefixed such persons shall be not onely reprehended but by order of the Bishop if they be Ecclesiasticall shall be forbidden to preach and being Lay shal be also enioined to forbeare to vtter such dangerous opinions vpon paine of imprisonment which shall bee executed if they shal perseuere in that errour And yet it shall appeare manifestly by