’That care be taken of hackney-coachmen, that
they may not (as some of them have been observed to
do after carrying of infected persons to the pest-house
and other places) be admitted to common use till their
coaches be well aired, and have stood unemployed by
the space of five or six days after such service.’
Orders for cleansing and keeping
of the streets sweet.
The Streets to be kept Clean.
’First, it is thought necessary, and so ordered,
that every householder do cause the street to be daily
prepared before his door, and so to keep it clean
swept all the week long.
That Rakers take it from out the Houses.
’That the sweeping and filth of houses be daily
carried away by the rakers, and that the raker shall
give notice of his coming by the blowing of a horn,
as hitherto hath been done.
Laystalls to be made far off from the City.
’That the laystalls be removed as far as may
be out of the city and common passages, and that no
nightman or other be suffered to empty a vault into
any garden near about the city.
Care to be had of unwholesome Fish or Flesh, and of
musty Corn.
’That special care be taken that no stinking
fish, or unwholesome flesh, or musty corn, or other
corrupt fruits of what sort soever, be suffered to
be sold about the city, or any part of the same.
’That the brewers and tippling-houses he looked
unto for musty and unwholesome casks.
’That no hogs, dogs, or cats, or tame pigeons,
or conies, be suffered to be kept within any part
of the city, or any swine to be or stray in the streets
or lanes, but that such swine be impounded by the beadle
or any other officer, and the owner punished according
to Act of Common Council, and that the dogs be killed
by the dog-killers appointed for that purpose.’
Beggars.
’Forasmuch as nothing is more complained of
than the multitude of rogues and wandering beggars
that swarm in every place about the city, being a
great cause of the spreading of the infection, and
will not be avoided, notwithstanding any orders that
have been given to the contrary: It is therefore
now ordered, that such constables, and others whom
this matter may any way concern, take special care
that no wandering beggars be suffered in the streets
of this city in any fashion or manner whatsoever,
upon the penalty provided by the law, to be duly and
severely executed upon them.
Plays.
’That all plays, bear-baitings, games, singing
of ballads, buckler-play, or such-like causes of assemblies
of people be utterly prohibited, and the parties offending
severely punished by every alderman in his ward.
Feasting prohibited.
’That all public feasting, and particularly
by the companies of this city, and dinners at taverns,
ale-houses, and other places of common entertainment,
be forborne till further order and allowance; and that
the money thereby spared be preserved and employed
for the benefit and relief of the poor visited with
the infection.
