By the Lords and other His Majesties commissioners an order for the observance and execution of the statute made for the reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the plague. England and Wales. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A39483 of text R43145 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E929). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A39483 Wing E929 ESTC R43145 26912156 ocm 26912156 109848 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A39483) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109848) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1715:11) By the Lords and other His Majesties commissioners an order for the observance and execution of the statute made for the reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the plague. England and Wales. 1 sheet ([1] p.). By Leonard Lichfield ..., Printed at Oxford : 1645. Signed at end: Ed. Littleton C.S. Cottington. Hertford. Dorchester. Dorset. Hen. Dover. Chichester. F. Seymour. Edw. Nicholas. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. eng Plague -- England -- 17th century. Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649. A39483 R43145 (Wing E929). civilwar no By the Lords and other His Majesties commissioners an order for the observance and execution of the statute made for the reliefe and orderin England and Wales 1645 946 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion By the Lords and other His Majesties Commissioners . ¶ An Order for the observance and Execution of the Statute made for the Reliese and ordering of Persons Infected with the Plague . WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament in the first yeare of the Raigne of Our late Soveraigne Lord King James , severall good and necessary Provisions were made and Ordeined , touching those that be or shall be infected with the Plague : by which Act , power is given to Justices of Peace of Counties , Majors , Bayliffes , Head-Officers , or Justices of Peace in Cities , Borroughes , Townes Corporate , and places Priviledged , and to the Vice-Chancellor of either of the Vniversities , and to the Bishop and Deane of every Cathedrall Church respectively , within their severall and respective Precincts and Jurisdictions , to taxe and assesse all Inhabitants , and all Houses of Habitation , Lands , Tenements , and Hereditaments , at such reasonable Taxes and payments as they shall think fit for the reasonable reliefe of Persons infected , and to levy the same of the Goods of such as shall refuse or neglect to pay , and in default thereof , to commit them to the Goale without Baile or Mainprize untill payment ; And also to appoynt Searchers , Watch-men , Examiners , Keepers , and Buriers , for the Persons and places Infected , and to minister Oathes unto them for the performing of their Offices , and to give them other directions as shall seeme good unto them in their discretions , for the present necessity . And it is thereby farther Provided and Enacted , That if any person or persons Infected , or being , or dwelli●g in any Houses Infected , shall be commanded or appointed to keep his or their House , for avoyding of farther Infection , and shall notwithstanding wilfully and contemptuously disobey such direction and appointment , offering or attempting to break or goe abroad , and to resist such Keepers or Watch-men , as shall be appoynted to see them kept in : that then it shall be lawfull for such Watch-men with violence to inforce them to keep their Houses : And if any hurt come thereby , that the Keepers , Watch-men , and their assistants shall not be impeached therefore ; And farther , That if any Infected persons being commanded to keep House , shall notwithstanding wilfully and contemptuously goe abroad , and converse with company , having any Infectious sore about him uncured , such person shall be taken and adjudged as a Felon , and suffer death as in case of Felony : but if they shall have no sore found about them , neverthelesse for such offence , they shall be punished as Vagabonds in all respects , and also be bound to his or their good behaviour for one whole yeare , as by the said Act may more fully appeare . The Lords and others intrusted and authorized by His Majesty , by His Commission under His Great Seale of England , for and concerning the safety , preservation , and well Ordering of this Vniversity and City of Oxford , and the County of Oxford , and other Counties and places adjoyning , in His Majesties absence , taking into their Consideration , that the due observance and execution of the said Law , may ( by Gods blessing ) be a good meanes to prevent the farther spreading of this present Infection , and that the neglect of the observance of the same Law , hath been , and may be , in probability , an occasion of the increase thereof , doe therefore hereby in His Majesties Name , by vertue of His Majesties said Commission , straitly Charge and Require , the Vice-Chancellor of this Vniversity , and the Major , Justices of Peace , Bayliffes , and other Officers of this City of Oxford , and the Justices of Peace of the County of Oxford , and all others whom it may concerne , That with all possible care and diligence , they cause the said Law to be duely and effectually put in execution , as well for the helpe and reliefe , as for the governing and keeping in of Infected persons , as they will answer their neglect and remisnesse therein at their perills . And they doe likewise in His Majesties Name , straitly Charge and Command all persons whatsoever , as well Souldiers as others , upon whom it hath pleased , or shall please God to lay this his Visitation , that they submit and yeeld obedience to the said Law , letting them know , that a strict and severe proceeding shall be had , for punishing of all such as shall wilfully or contemptuously offend against the same , to the endangering of others : And that a very strict account will be required of all , who are , or shall be any way concerned in this just and necessary Command , tending so much to the health and preservation of this Vniversity and City , and all that are resident therein , or resort thereunto . Dated at Oxford , the 12th day of May , in the One and Twentieth Yeare of His Majesties Raigne . 1645. Ed. Littleton C. S. Cottington . Hertford . Dorchester . Dorset . Hen. Dover . Chichester . F. Seymour . Edw. Nicholas . Printed at Oxford , by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the University . 1645.