HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  
I. G. M.  By the Major.  
WHereas the infection of the Plague is daily dispersed more & more in diverse parts of this City and the Liberties thereof, aswell for that the houses infected have not been, nor yet are kept shut up, according to the Proclamation, and many Precepts and Orders in that behalf made and taken, aswell by the Kings most excellent Majesty, as by me and my Brethren the Aldermen, as also for that the people infected, and whose houses are infected (against all honesty, humane civility, and good conscience, seeking as it were rather the desolation of the City, and of this Kingdom by dispersing of the infection, than otherwise) do daily intrude themselves into all companies, both private and public, aswell at Sermons as elsewhere, and do flock and follow the dead to the Grave in multitudes, one still infecting another, to the displeasure of Almighty God, and great grief of his Majesty, to understand of the destruction of his Subjects in such wilful and desperate manner. To the end therefore that the cause of further infection, which may happen by any of the aforesaid occasions (if God be so pleased) may be taken away, and the King's Subjects (whom in his Princely and gracious care had over them, he tendereth as dear as himself) may be preserved from that peril. These are in God's Name to exhort and persuade, and in his Majesty's Name straightly to charge and command all persons whatsoever, inhabiting within this City and the Liberties thereof, whose houses now are, or hereafter during this Visitation, shall be infected with the Plague, upon their Allegiance, and due obedience, that they do owe unto our said Sovereign Lord the King, to keep their said houses shut up, for the space of xxviii. day's next after the burial of any dying of the Plague out of their said houses, And that the people infected, and of the said infected houses, do continue in their said houses, during the said time of xxviii. days, and none of them go abroad, but only for necessary food, and with red wands in their hands, and do not come into, or frequent any public assemblies, nor follow the dead infected bodies to the Grave, upon pain of his Highness' heavy displeasure and imprisonment of their bodies so offending by the space of ten days, without bail or maynprize: Requiring also, and charging all Churchwardens, Constables, Beadles of Wards, Clerks and Sextons of Parishes, and all other Officers and Ministers within this City and the Liberties thereof, every one of them in his place and office, carefully to look unto the performance of the premises, and of all other orders formerly set down by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this City for the time being, or by me and my Brethren the Aldermen, concerning the avoiding of the Plague, upon like pain as aforesaid. Given at Guild Hall, the fifth day of April, 1625.  
❧ God save the King. ❧   

London Printed by Isaac jaggard, Printer to the Honourable City of London. 1625.