Then follow the orders giving these officers instructions in detail and prescribing the extent and limits of their several duties. Next, "_Orders concerning infected houses and persons sick of the plague._" These had reference to the "notice to be given of the sickness," "sequestration of the sick," "airing the stuff," "shutting up of the house," "burial of the dead," "forbidding infected stuff to be sold, and of persons leaving infected houses," "marking of infected houses," and "regulating hackney coaches that have been used to convey infected persons." Lastly there followed "_Orders for cleansing and keeping the streets and houses sweet_" and "_Orders concerning loose persons and idle assemblies_" such as "beggars," "plays," "feasts," and "tippling-houses." "(Signed) SIR JOHN LAWRENCE, _Lord Mayor_. SIR GEORGE WATERMAN, SIR CHARLES DOE, _Sheriffs_." I need not say that these orders extended only to such places as were within the lord mayor's jurisdiction; so it is requisite to observe that the justices of the peace, within those parishes, and those places called the hamlets and out-parts, took the same method: as I remember, the orders for shutting up of houses did not take place so soon on our side, because, as I said before, the plague did not reach the eastern parts of the town, at least not begin to be very violent, till the beginning of August. Now, indeed, it was coming on amain; for the burials that same week were in the next adjoining parishes thus: The next week To the prodigiously 1st of increased, as Aug. thus St. Leonard's, Shoreditch ... 64 84 110 St. Botolph, Bishopsgate .... 65 105 116 St. Giles, Cripplegate.......213 421 554 --- --- --- 342 610 780 The shutting up of houses was at first considered a very cruel and unchristian thing, and the poor people so confined made bitter lamentations; complaints were also daily brought to my lord mayor, of houses causelessly--and some maliciously--shut up. I cannot say, but, upon inquiry, many that complained so loudly were found in a condition to be continued; and others again, inspection being made upon the sick person, on his being content to be carried to the pesthouse, were released.