"In most humble wise complayninge sheweth unto your worships, your Orators, the persons whose name are subscribed inhabiting in a certain lane within the same citie called Pepper Street, That where yt haue pleased God to infect divers persons of the same Street with the plage, and where also for the avoidinge of further infection your worships have taken order that all such so infected should observe certaine good necessarye orders by your worships made and provided. But so it is, right worships, that none of the said persons infected do observe any of the orders by your worships in that case taken, to the greate danger and perill, not only of your Orators and their famelyes being in number twenty, but also of the reste of the said citie, who by the sufferance of God and of his gracious goodness are clere and safe from any infection of the said deceas: In consideration whereof your Orators moste humbly beseche your worships for God's sake, and as your worships intend it your Orators should, by the sufferance of God, avoide the dangers of the said deceas with their family, and also for the better safty of the citie to take such directions with the said infected persons that they may clearly be avoided from thens to some other convenient for the time untill God shall restore them to their former health. And in this doing your Orators shall daily pray, &c."[1] During the visitation of the plague at Manchester in 1645, when the place suffered severely, the authorities not only provided "cabins" at Collyhurst for the reception of those whom the disease attacked, but engaged the services of "Doctor Smith," who received L4 "for his charges to London and a free guift," and L39 "for part of his wages for his service in the time of the visitation." Thos. Minshull, the apothecary, was paid L6 2s. 6d. for "stuffe for ye town's service." Some "bottles and stuffe" were unused at the end of the plague, and these were sold to "Mr. Smith, Phissition," for L1.