❧Orders thought meete by her Maiestie and her priuie Councel, to be executed throughout the Counties of this Realme, in such Townes, Villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same.
INprimis, all the Iustices in euery 1 Countie, aswell within the liberties as without, immediatly▪ vpon knowledge to them giuen, shall assemble themselues together at some one generall place accustomed, being cleare from infection of the plague, to consult howe these orders following may be duely put in execution, not meaning that any Iustices dwelling in or nere places infected, shall come thither whiles their comming may be doubtful. And after their first generall assembly▪ they shal make a distribution of themselues to [...] dry limits and diuisions, as in other [...] seruices for the Countie they are accustomed to [...] for the prosecution thereof.
2 First, they shall inquire, [...] informe 2 [Page] habitants of the same Townes and Parishes are, to be hable to relieue the poore that are or shalbe infected, and to be restrained in their houses.
3 3 Item, thereupon after conference vsed▪ according to the necessitie of the cause, they shall deuise and make a generall taxation, eyther by charging the Towne infected with one summe in grosse, or by charging the speciall persons of wealth within the same, to be forth with collected for the rate of one moneth at the first, and so if the sicknesse shall continue, the collection of the like summe, or of more or of lesse, as time and cause shall require, and the same to be euery first, seconde, third, or fourth weeke emploied to and for the execution of the saide orders. And in case some of the said Townes infected shall manifestly appeare not to be of sufficient habilitie to contribute sufficient for the charges requisite, then the taxation or collection shalbe made or further extended to other partes, or in any other further [...], as by the [...] shalbe thought requisite where there shalbe any such Townes or Villages [...], and vnable to relieue themselues. And if the said Townes be scituated in the borders and confines of any other shire, then as the Iustices [...] neede for the greatnesse of the [...]arge [...], that the pa [...]es of the [...] ioyning to the [...] the next Iustices of the [...] Shire [...]o confir [...]g, [...]o procure by [...] some reliefe, as in [...] they [...] to relieue them, in respect of [...] of the place, and [...] that the [...] infection [...] the [...] from the said adioyning places, though they be separated [Page] by name of the Countie.
4 Item, they shal cause to be appointed in euery 4 Parish aswell infected as not infected, certaine persons to viewe the bodies of all such as shall die, before they be suffered to be buried, and to certifie the Minister of the Church and Churchwarden, or other principal officers, or their substitutes, of what probable disease the said persons died: and the saide viewers to haue weekely some allowance, and the more large allowance where the Townes or Parishes be infected, during the infection, towards their maintenance, to the end they which shal be in places infected, may forbeare to resort into the companie of others that are sounde: and those persons to be sworne to make true report according to their knowledge, and the choise of them to be made by direction of the Curat of the Church, with three or foure substantiall men of the Parish. And in case the said viewers either through fauour or corruption, shal giue wrong certificat, or shal refuse to serue being thereto appointed, then to cause them to be punished by imprisonmēt, in such sort as may serue for a terror to others.
5▪ Item, the houses of such persons out of the 5 which there shall dye any of the plague, being so certified by the viewers, or otherwise knowen, or where it shalbe vnderstood, that any person remaineth sicke of the plague, to be closed vp on all parts during the time of restraint, vz. sixe weekes, after the sicknesse [...]e ceased in the s [...]e house, in [...] the said houses [...] infected sh [...]lbe within any Towne ha [...]ing houses nere adio [...]ning to the same. And if [Page] the infection happen in houses dispersed in Villages, and separated from other houses, and that of necessitie, for the seruing of their cattel, and manuring of their ground, the said persons cannot continue in their houses, then they to be neuerthelesse restrained from resorting into companie of others, either publiquely or priuately during the said time of restraint, and to weare some marke in their vppermost garments, or beare white rods in their hands at such time as they shall goe abroade, and if there be any doubt that the masters and owners of the houses infected, will not duely obserue the directions of shutting vp their doores, specially in the night, then shall there be appointed two or three watchmen by turnes, which shalbe sworne to attend and watch the house, and to apprehend any person that shall come out of the house contrary to order, and the same persons by order of the Iustices, shal be a competent time imprisoned in ye stocks in the highway next to the house infected: and furthermore, some speciall marke shalbe made and fixed to the doores of euery of the infected houses, and where any such houses shall be Innes or Alehouses, the signes shalbe taken down for the time of the restraint, and some crosse or other marke set vp in the place thereof, to be a token of the sicknesse.
6 6 Item, they shall haue good regarde to chuse honest persons that either shall collect the summes assessed, or shall haue the custodie thereof, & out of the said collection to allot a weekely proportion for the finding of victuall, or fire, or medicines for the poorer sort, during the tyme of their restraynt. And whereas some persons being well disposed to yeeld [Page] almes and reliefe, wil be more willing to giue some portions of victuall, as corne, bread or other meate, the same shall be committed to the charge of some speciall persons, that will honestly and truely preserue the same, to be distributed as they shall be appoynted for the poore that are infected.
7 Item, to appoynt certaine persons dwelling 7 within the townes infected, to prouide and deliuer all necessaries of victuals, or any matter of watching or other attendance, to keepe such as are of good wealth being restrained, at their owne proper charges, and the poore at the common charges: and the said persons so appoynted to be ordered, not to resort to any publique assemblie during the tyme of such their attendance, as also to weare some marke on their vpper garment, or to beare a white rod in their hande, to the ende others may auoyde their companie.
8 Item, that in the shire towne in euery Countie,8 and in other great townes meete for that purpose, there may be prouision bespoken and made, of such preseruatiues & other remedies, which otherwise in meaner townes can not be readily had, as by the Physicians shall be prescribed, and is at this present reduced into an Aduise made by the Physicians, and nowe printed and sent with the sayd orders, which may be fixed in market places, vpon places vsual for such publique matters, and in other townes in the bodies of the parishe churches, and chappells, in which aduise only such things are prescribed, as vsually are to be had and founde in all countries without great charge or cost.
[Page] 9 9 Item, the Ministers and Curates, and the Church wardens in euery Parish, shall in writing certifie weekely to some of the Iustices, residing within ye Hundred or other limit where they serue, the number of such persons as are infected and doe not die, and also of all such as shall die within their Parishes, and their diseases probable wherof they dyed, and the same to be certified to the rest of the Iustices at their assemblies, which during some conuenient time would be euery xxi. dayes, and thereof a particular booke kept by the Clerke of the peace, or some such like.
10 10 Item, to appoynt some place apart in each parish for the burial of such persons as shal die of the plague, as also to giue order that they be buryed after sunne setting, and yet neuerthelesse by daylight, so as the Curate be present for the obseruation of the rites and ceremonies prescribed by the lawe, foreseeing as much as conueniently he may, to be distāt from the danger of infection of the person dead, or of the companie that shall bryng the corse to the graue.
11 11 Item, the Iustices of the whole Countie to assemble once in xxi. dayes, to examine whether those orders be duely executed, and to certifie to the lordes of the priuie Councell their proceedings in that behalf, what townes and villages be infected, as also the nombers of the dead, and the diseases wherof they dyed; and what summes of money are taxed and collected to this purpose, and howe the same are distributed.
12 12 Item, the Iustices in the hundred, where any [Page] such infection is, or the Iustices next adioyning therunto, to assemble once a week, to take accompt of the execution of the said orders, and as they finde any lack or disorder, either to reforme it themselues, or to report it at the generall assemblie there, to be by a more common consent reformed.
13 Item, for that the contagion of the plague 13 groweth and increaseth no way more, then by the vse and handling of such clothes, bedding and other stuffe as hath bene worne and occupyed by the infected of this disease, during the time of their disease: the sayde Iustices shall in the places infected take such order, that all the saide clothes and other stuffe, so occupied by the diseased, so soone as the parties diseased of the plague are all of them either well recouered or dead, be either burnt and cleane consumed with fire: or els ayred in such sort as is prescribed in an especiall article conteyned in the Aduise set downe by the Physicians. And for that peraduenture the losse of such apparell, bedding and other stuffe to be burnt, may be greater then the poore estate of the owners of the same may well beare: it is thought very good and expedient, if it be thought meete it should be burnt, that then the said Iustices, out of such collections as are to be made within their Counties for the reliefe of the poorer sort that be infected, allowe also to them such summe or summes as to them shall be thought reasonable, in recompēce of the losse of their said stuffe.
14 Item, the said Iustices may put in execution 14 any other orders that by them at their generall assemblie shall be deuised and thought meete, tending [Page] to the preseruation of her Maiesties subiectes from the infection, and to the end their care and diligence may the better appeare, they shall certifie in writing the sayde orders newly deuised, and if any shall wilfully breake and contemne the same or any the orders herein specified, they shal either presently punishe them by imprisonment, or if the persons so contemning them, shall be of such countenance as the Iustices shall thinke meete to haue their faults knowen to her Maiestie, or to the Councell, they shall charge and binde them to appeare before vs, & the contempt duely certified, that there may bee a more notorious sharpe example made by punishment of the same by order of her Maiestie.
15 15 Item, if there be lacke of Iustices in some partes of the shire, or if they which are Iustices there shall be for the tyme absent, in that case the more nomber of the Iustices at their assemblie shal make choyse of some conuenient persons to supply those places for the better execution hereof.
16 16 Item, if there be any person Ecclesiastical or laye, that shall holde and publishe any opinions (as in some places report is made) that it is a vayne thing to forbeare to resort to the infected, or that it is not charitable to forbid the same, pretending that no person shall dye but at their tyme prefixed, such persons shalbe not onely reprehended, but by order of the Bishop, if they be ecclesiasticall, shalbe forbidden to preache, and being laye, shalbe also enioyned to forbeare to vtter such dangerous opinions vpon payne of imprisonment, which shall be executed, if they shall perseuer in that error. And yet it shall appeare [Page] manifestly by these orders, that according to Christian charitie, no persons of the meanest degree shalbe left without succour and reliefe.
17 And of these things aboue mencioned, the 17 Iustices shall take great care, as of a matter specially directed & commanded by her Maiestie vpon the princely and naturall care shee hath conceyued towards the preseruation of her subiectes, who by very disorder, and for lacke of direction do in many partes wilfully procure the increase of this general contagion.
An aduise set dovvne vpon her Maiesties expresse commandement, by the best learned in Physicke within this Realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines, vvithout charge to the meaner sort of people, as well for the preseruation of her good Subiectes from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordring of them after they shal be infected.
Preseruatiue by correcting the aire in Houses.
TAke Rosemarie dried,Preseruatiues. or Iuniper, Bayleaues, or Frankincense, cast the same on a Chafindish, and receiue the fume or smoke therof▪ Some aduise to be added Lauender, or Sage.
Also to make fires rather in Pannes, to remoue about the Chamber, then in Chimneis, shall better correct the aire of the Houses.
Take a quantitie of Vineger very strong, and put to it some small quantitie of Rosewater, tenne branches of Rosemarie, put them all into a basen, then take fiue or sixe Flintstones, heated in the fire till they be burning hotte, cast them into the same Vineger, & so let the fumes be receiued from place to place of your house.
Perfuming of Apparel.
SVch apparel as you shal commonly weare, let it be very cleane, and perfume it often eyther with some red Saūders burned, or with Iuniper. And if any shal happen to be with them that are visited, let such persons as soone as they shal come home, shift themselues, & aire their other clothes, in open aire for a time.
Preseruation by way of defence in open aire, and common assemblies to be vsed outwardly.
IT is good in going abroade into the open aire in the streetes, to hold some things of sweete sauour in their hands, or in the corner of a handkerchiefe, as a sponge dipped in Vineger & Rosewater mixed, or in Vineger, wherein Wormewood, or Rue called also Herbegrace, hath bene boyled.
Preseruatiue by way of inward medicine.
TAke a quantitie of Rue, or Wormewood, or of both, and put it into a potte of vsuall drinke, close stopped, let it lie so in steepe a whole night, and drinke thereof in the morning fasting.
In all Sommer plagues, it shalbe good to vse Sorrel sauce to be eaten in ye morning with bread, And in the fall of the leafe to vse the iuice of Barberies with bread also.
[Page] Mens bodies are apt to take infectiō, either
- By the constitution of the heart, the vitall spirites being weake, and the naturall heate feeble, in which case thinges Cordiall are to be vsed.
- By repletion, the body being filled with humors, either
- Good, and then is the party to be let blood.
- Euill, and then is hee to be cured with medicine purgatiue.
Preseruatiues Cordialls.
Mithridates Medicine.
TAke of good Figges not wormeaten, cleane wasshed, of Walnuts ye kernels cleane picked, of either of them an hundred, of the leaues of greene Rue, otherwise called Herbgrace, ye weight of ii. s. of common Salt the weight of iiii. d. cut the Figges in pieces, and stampe them and the Walnut kernels together in a morter of Marble or wood a good space, vntil they be very smal, and then put your Rue leaues vnto them, stampe and stirre them well together with the rest, last put in the Salt and stampe and stirre these things together, vntill they be encorporated and made of one substance. Of the which take the quantitie of ii. or iii. Figges euery morning fasting, to children the halfe wil serue, and he that listeth to increase or diminish [Page] the substance of this Medicine, shall easely do it, by taking of a greater or lesse quantitie of the simples according to a due proportion.
A well approued Medicine to preserue.
TAke of the finest cleare Aloes you can buy, in colour like to a Liuer, and therefore called Hepatica, of Cinamō, of Myrrhe, of ech of these the weight of iii. French crownes, or of xxii. d. of our money, of Cloues, Maces, Lignum Aloes, of Masticke, of Bole Oriental, of ech of these half an ounce: mingle them together and beate them into a very fine powder. Of the which take euery morning fasting the weight of a grote of this in white wine delayed with water, and by the grace of God you shall be safe from the plague. No man which is learned, if he examine the simples of this medicine whereof it consisteth, and the nature and power of them, can denie but that it is a medicine of great efficacie against the plague, and the simples wherof it is made, are easily to be had in any good Apothecaries shoppe, except Bole Orientall, which is vsed in the stead of true Bolus Armenus, wherof we haue seene great store in the shopps of master Rich the Queenes Maiesties Apothecarie, and master Morgans in Cheapsyde.
Take a drie Figge and open it, and put the kernel of a Walnut into the same being cut very smal, iii. or iiii. leaues of Rue cōmonly called Herbgrace, a corne of Salt, then rost the Figge & eate it warme, fast iii. or iiii. houres after it, and vse this twyse in the weeke.
[Page] Take the powder of Turmentill, the weight of vi. d. with Sorrell or Scabious water in Sommer, and in Winter with the water of Valerian or common drinke.
Or els in one day they may take a litle Wormewood, and Valerian with a graine of Salt. In another day they may take vii. or viii. berries of Iuniper, dried and put in powder, and taking the same with common drinke, or with drinke in which Wormwood and Rue hath bene steeped al ye night.
Also ye triakle called Diaresseroū, which is made but of iiii. things of light price easie to be had.
Also the roote of Enula Campana, either taken in powder with drinke, or hanged about the br [...]t.
Likewise a piece of Arras roote kept in ye mouth as men passe in the streetes, is very good Cordiall.
Take vi. leaues of Sorrell, wash them with water and vineger, let them lye to steepe in the said water and vineger a while, then eat them fasting, and keepe in your mouth and chewe nowe or then either Setwall, or the roote of Angelica, or a litle Cinamon.
Take the roote of Enula Campana being layde and steeped in vineger, & grosse beaten, put a litle of it in a handkercheife, and smel to it if you resort to any that is infected.
For women with childe, or such as be delicate and tender, and cannot away with taking of medicines.
MAke a tost of white or of the second bread, as you thinke good, and sprinkle on it being hotte a litle good wine vineger, made with [Page] Rose leaues, and for want of it any good common or vsed vineger, & spreade on the tost a litle butter, and cast thereon a litle powder of Cinamon, and eate it in the morning fasting. The poore which can not get vineger nor buy Cinamon, maye eate bread and Butter alone, for Butter is not onely a preseruatiue against the plague, but against all maner of poysons.
When one must come into the place where infectious persons are, it is good to smel to the roote of Angelica, Gentian or Valerian, and to chewe any of these in his mouth.
An other preseruatiue for the poore.
IT shalbe good to take an handfull of Rue, and as much common Wormwood, and bruse them a litle: and put them into a potte of Earth or Tinne, with so much Vineger as shall couer the herbes: keepe this pot close couered or stopt, and when you feare any infection, dippe into this Vineger a piece of asyonge, and carie it in your hand and smell to it, or els put it into a round ball of Yuorie or Iuniper made ful of holes of the one side, carying it in your hand vse to smell thereunto, renewing it once in a day.
To be vsed after infection taken.
FOr as much as the cause of the plague standeth rather in poyson▪ Curati [...]es. then in any [...] of humours as other agues doe, the chiefest [Page] way is to moue sweatings, and to defend the heart by some cordiall thing.
Suppositary.
IF the Pacient be costiue and bound in his bodie, let him take a Suppositarie made with a litle boyled Honney, and a litle fine powder of Salt, and so taken in at the Fundament and kept till it mooue a stoole.
An excellent Medicine made without charges.
TAke of the powder of good Bayberries, the huske taken awaye from them, before they be dried, a spooneful: Let the Patient drincke this, well mingled in a draught of good stale Ale or Beere, which is neither sowre nor dead, or with a draught of white Wine, and go to bedde and cast himselfe into a sweat, and forbeare sleepe as is aforesaid.
An other soueraigne remedie, that is a stilled water.
TAke the inwarde barke of the Ashe tree, a pound, of Walnuts with the greene outward shelles, to the number of 50. cut these small, of Scabious, of Veruen, of P [...]timorel, of Howsleeke, of euery one a handfull, of Saffron halfe an ounce, powre vpon these ye strongest Vineger you can get foure pynts let them a litle boyle together vpon a very soft fire▪ and then stand in a very close potte [Page] well slepe all a night vpon the embers, afterward distill them with a soft fire, and receyue the water close kept. Giue vnto the Patient layd in bedde & wel couered with clothes, two ounces of this water to drink, & let him be prouoked to sweat, & euery sixe houres, during the space of xxiiii. houres, giue him the same quantitie to drinke. This Medicine for the worthines therof, and because it wil stand the maker thereof in little charge, it shall be very well done to distill it in the Sommer when the Walnutts hang greene on the tree, that it maye bee ready against the time that occasion serueth to vse it.
1. Bloud letting.
IF the Pacient be ful of humors which be good, let him immediatly be let bloud vpon the Lyuer veine in the right arme, or in the Median veine of the same arme (if no sore appeare) in the first day.
2. Medicine purgatiue.
FOr the poore take Aloes ye weight of vi. d. put in the pappe of an Apple: and for the richer Pilles of Rufus to be had in euery good Apothecaries shoppe.
After letting of bloud and purging (as shall be needfull) some of the forenamed Cordials are to be vsed.
These preparations thus vsed ye first day that the Pacient shall fall sicke, as cause shalbe to vse the one or the other (no sore appearing) in which [Page] case if the sore shal appeare, they are both to be forborne▪ the next is to vse all meanes to expell the poyson, and to defend the heart by Cordials.
3. Medicament expulsiue.
THe poyson is expelled best by sweatings prouoked by posset Ale, made with Fenel & Marigolds in Winter, and with Sorrell, Buglosse and Borage in Sommer, with the which in both times they must mixe the triacle of Diatessaroum, the weight of ix. d. & so to lay them selues with all quietnes to sweat one halfe houre or an houre, if they be strong. For they that be neither full of humors nor corrupt in humors, neede neither purging nor letting of bloud, but at the first plunge maye moue themselues to sweat with Cordiall things mixt with such things as moue sweat, and are before declared.
What is to be done when there is any rising or swelling in any part.
THen if by these three meanes the poyson be expelled outward by Botches, carbuncles or markes, called Gods markes, according as nature doth expell, so must the further procedings be, prouiding still, that they continue still in the vse of the cordiall and moderate sweating now and then, al the time that the sores be in healing, which must by the Surgion be handled with great discretion.
Medicine to be vsed in ordinarie dyet.
IT is thought that the powder of harts horne hath a speciall prerogatiue, to be vsed al the time of their sickenesse in their broths, and supping, which in Sommer must euer haue Sorrell, Borage, Buglosse, and in winter, Betony, and Scabious, or Morsus▪ Di [...]bol [...] ▪ and if their habilities do not serue, let them vse it with Aleburies made with a litle Nutmegge, or one Cloue, or with Cawdelles in like maner▪ made with Cloues, Maces, Nutmegges, Sanders or such like.
Both to preserue and cure the sickenesse.
TAke an egge & make a hole in the toppe of it, take out the white & y [...]lke, fil the shel with the weight of two frēch crownes of Saffron▪ rost the said egge thus filled with Saffron vnder the embres, vntill the shell begin to waxe yelow, then take it from the fire, and beate the shel and Saffron in a [...] together, with halfe a spoonefull of Mustard seede▪ take of this powder a french crown weight, and assoone as you suspect your self infected, dissolue it into tenne spoonfulles of posset ale, & drinke it luke warme, then go to bed and prouoke your selfe to sweating.
To be vsed in the first time of the Sickenesse.
ANother is to take fiue or sixe handefull of Sorrel, that groweth in the field, or a greater quantitie according as you will distill [Page] more or lesse of the water thereof, and let it lye infrised or steeped in good Vineger the space of xxiiii. houres, then take it of & drie it with a linen cloth put into a Limbecke, and distill the water thereof: And assoone as you finde your selfe touched with the sickenesse, drinke foure spoonfulles of the sayde water with a litle sugar, and if you be hable, walke vpō it vntil you do sweat, if not, keep your bed, and being well couered, prouoke your selfe to sweating, and the next day to take asmuch againe of it a litle before supper.
Item, to prouoke vomit with two ounces of rancke oyle, or walnutte oyle, a spoonefull of the iuyce of Celendyne, & halfe a spoonfull of the iuyce of radice roote, so that the party infected do walke and not sleepe, is better then any letting of blood, or any purging. For the disease neither can suffer▪ agitatiō of humors, nor when one is infected, hath no time to bleede or to purge.
Outward medicines for to be applyed to the sore.
The first.
TAke of Scabiouse two handefulls, stampe it in a stone morter with a pestell of stone if you can get any such, then put vnto it of olde swynes grease salted, two ounces, and the yelke of an egge, stampe them well together, & lay parte of this warme to the sore.
The second.
TAke of the leaues of Mallowes, of Camomill flowers, of eyther of them an handfull, of Lineseede beaten into pouder two ounces, boyle the Mallowe leaues first cut, and the flowers of the Camomil in faire water standing aboue a fingers breadth, boyle all them together vntil all the water almost be spent: then put thereunto the Lineseede, of Wheate flower halfe an handful, of swines grease the skins taken away iii. ounces, of oyle of Roses two ounces, stirre thē still with a sticke, and let them all boyle together on a soft fire without smoke, vntill the water be vtterly spent, beate them all together in a morter, vntill they be wel encorporated together, & in feeling smooth, & not rough: then make part thereof hot in a dish set vpon a chaf [...]ndish of coales, & lay it thicke vpō a linnen cloth applying it to the sore.
Another excellent medicine to ripen and bring out the Sore.
TAke a white Onion cut in pieces, of fresh butter three ounces, of Leuen the weight of twelue pence, of Mallowes one handfull, of Scabious if it may be had one handefull, of Cloues of garlicke the weight of xx. d. boyle them on the fyre in sufficient water, and make a pultesse of it, and lay it warme to the sore.
Another.
TO the sore it selfe do thus. Take two handfull of Valerian, three rootes of Danewort, a handefull of Smalledge, or Louage, yf you can [Page] get it, seethe them al in butter and water, & a fewe▪ crommes of bread, and make a pultesse thereof, & lay it warme to the sore vntill it breake.
Another for the same.
IF you can not haue these herbes, it is good to laye a loafe of bread to it, hot as it commeth out of the ouen, (which afterward shal be burnt or buried in the earth) or the leaues of Scabious or Sorrell rosted, or two or three Lillie rootes rosted vnder embers, beaten and applied.
A generall medicine for all sorts of people taken with the plague, to be had without cost.
TAke of ye roote of butter burre, otherwise called pestilēt wort, one ounce, of ye root of great Valerian a quarter of an ounce, of Sorrel an hādful, boyle al these in a quart of water to a pint, then straine it and put thereto two spoonfulles of Vineger, two ounces of good Sugar, boyle all these together vntill they be wel mingled, let ye infected drinke of this so hotte as he may suffer it a good draught, and if he chaunce to cast it vp againe, let him take the same quantitie straight way vpon it, and prouoke himselfe to sweat, and he shal finde great helpe.
Time of continuance apart from common assemblies.
SVch as haue bene infected, should keepe their house without being conuersant with the whole, vntill the sores shall haue left running [Page] and be perfectly whole and sound, which in sanguine & cholericke persons will be healed sooner, then in melancholike & flegmatike complexions.
SVch persons may not wel be conuersant with them which are not infected, for the space of one moneth.
Infected clothes.
THe cōtagion suspected to remaine in clothes, either wollen or linnen, cannot wel be auoyded by better meanes, then by fire and water, by often washing & airing the same in frosts, and sunne shine, with good discretion, and burning the clothes of small value.
❧Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie. (⸪)