Historical fiction; London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction; Plague -- Fiction
And that no corpse dying of the 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, churchyard, or burying place, to come near the
corpse, coffin, or grave; and that all 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._[81]
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 public show, or hang forth on
their stalls, shop boards, 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[82] do fortune,[83] 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 in, and minister necessaries to 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.
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