Orders thought meet by his Majestie, and his Privie Councell, to bee executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague ... Also, an advice set downe by the best learned in physicke ... containing sundry good rules and easie medicines. Without charge to the meaner sort of people.

  • England and Wales. Privy Council.
Date:
1629
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Credit: Orders thought meet by his Majestie, and his Privie Councell, to bee executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague ... Also, an advice set downe by the best learned in physicke ... containing sundry good rules and easie medicines. Without charge to the meaner sort of people. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    17/74
    agaittjl tbe InfeUion of tbe 'Plague. a firlf, the? Iball fnqtifrc, anti pjefetttip fo;nte tbsmfelues bp all genu meanest, togat Countess anb HJillagesareattbattimeoffucb af* femblieinfecteb tuttfjtn eucrp their Countfes>anbin tobatlpunb;cbo;otbetiDiuifion, the fatb Cotones anbBtllages are, anti botu man? oftbe famepla* cess fo tnfecteb, are co;po?ate Cotones, market Cotonesanb aiillajes, anB flj all confloec of loljat toealtbtbe inhabitants oftbe fame Countess anti 3&arilbes are, to be able to relieue the pco;e that are o; lb all be tnfecteo, ant) to be reffratneo fit their boufess* 3 31 tern, tltereupon after conference bfeti ac« co;biug to the mxcffitie oftbe caufe, tbep lb all be* titfe anb make a genetall taratton, either bp char* ging tbe Coume tnfecteo Uittb one fumme tn groffe,o; bp charging tbe fptclall perfonss of toealtb toltbtntbe fame, tobefo;tbtoitb collected fo; tbe rate of one ntonetb at tbefirit, and fo if tbe ftcknelfe lb all continue, tbe collection of tbe like fumme, o; of mo;e o; of leffe, as time anb caufe (bail re» quire, attb tbe fame to be euerp firif, feconb, tbirb, o? fourth tofeke emplopeb to anb fo; tbe erccutiott Of tbe raid o;oers, 31 no itt cafe fome of tbe faib Countes tnfecteo lb all tmittfellip appeare not to be offufficient abtlitteto contribute fufftcient fo£ tbe charges requifite, then tbe tar a: ion o; collec¬ tion fljaU beemaOe o; furtber rrtenbcb to other parts, o; in attp other furtber limits, as bp them iball be thought requifite tobere there lbali be a* np fucb Cotones o; ©illages fo infecteb,atib unable to relceue tbemfelues. 3inb if the faib Cotones be feituateb tn the bo;bers anb confines of an? o* 3^, ther