Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Sources; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Sources
LONDON. Orders to be sett downe by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London
for taking awaie such enormities as be meanes not only to continue but
increase the plague and disorders of the Citie; being taken out of the
proclamations set out by the Citie and the articles sett downe for
providing for the poor and setting them to work.
ALDERMEN OR THEIR DEPUTIES.
1. To give charge to Churchwardens, Constables, Parish Clerks and
Bedells to enquire what houses be infected.
2. To visit the ward often to see orders observed, especially touching
cleanness in the streets.
3. The Aldermen or their deputies in their own persons to appoint
Surveyors monthly in every parishe.
4. To appoint that certificate may be made to them what houses be
infected.
5. To give charge to all teachers of children that (as nere as they can)
they permit no children to come to their scoles from infected houses,
especiallie till such houses have bene clere by the space of 28 daies,
and that none kepe a greater number than their Roomes shall be thought
fit by the Aldermen or their deputies to conteyne.
SURVEYOURS.
1. To see the orders for the sick executed daylie and diligentlie, upon
knowledge from the Aldermen what houses be infected.
2. To appoint purveyours of necessaries for infected houses (being of
the same houses), and deliver them reed rods to carry, and see that none
other resort to their houses.
CONSTABLES.
1. To bring every daie notice in writing to the Aldermen or their
deputies what houses be infected.
CONSTABLE AND CHURCHWARDEN.
1. To provyde to have in readiness women to be providers and deliverers
of necessaries to infected houses, and to attend the infected persons,
and they to bear reed wandes, so that the sicke maie be kept from the
whole, as nere as maie be, nedefull attendance weighed.
CONSTABLE AND BEDELL.
1. To inquire what houses be infected.
2. To view dailie that papers remaine upon doors xxviii daies or to
place newe.
CLARKES AND SEXTONS.
1. To understand what houses be infected.
2. To see bills set upon the doors of houses infected.
3. To suffer no corpses infected to be buried or remain in the churche
during prayer or sermon, and to keep children from coming nere them.
SCAVENGERS AND RAKERS.
1. To see the streets made cleane every daie saving Sunday and the soile
to be carried away.
2. To warn all inhabitants, against their houses to keep channels clere
from fylth (by only turning it aside) that the water maie have passage.
COMMON HUNT.
1. To kyll dogs, etc., or to lose his place.
HOUSEHOLDERS AND HOUSES.
1. Houses having some sicke though none die, or from whence some sicke
have bene removed, are infected houses, and such are to be shut up for a
month.
2. The whole familie to tarry in xxviii days.
3. To keep shut the lower rooms for the like space.
4. One licensed to go for provision, etc.
5. No clothes hanged into the streets.
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