❧ ORDERS AGREED UPON, AND PUBLISHED BY THE VICECHANCELLOR AND MAYOR OF THE UNIVERSITY AND TOWN OF CAMBRIDGE, AND THE Justices of both bodies, and the Doctors and Aldermen their assistants.  

I THat the articles and clauses of the statute made in the first year of our late Sovereign King JAMES of happy memory, and all other orders made by his Majesty, or the Honourable Lords of his Privie-Councel for the relief and ordering of persons infected with the plague, be duly executed and observed by all persons whom they concern, upon such pain and penalty as in the said statute and orders is expressed.  
TWO That all searchers, examiners, or overseers of the visited; all constables, churchwardens, and overseers of the poor; all watchmen, and warders, and other persons appointed to any office in their several places do from time to time duly and truly perform their offices, and execute that charge which is given unto them, upon pain of imprisonment, and such further punishment as may be inflicted by statutes and orders upon such persons as contemn authority.   

¶ Concerning suspected persons, houses, and watchmen.  
III That all searchers, examiners, or overseers; all constables, churchwardens, and overseers of the poor in this Town, do from time to time make enquiry after such persons as are sick in their parishes, and of what diseases; and in case that it be apparent, or suspected to be of the plague, that they acquaint the chief examiner or overseer with it, and presently restrain access unto suspected houses, and persons, until it appear what the disease will prove: and if it prove the infection, that the house be shut up, and well watched night and day.  
IIII That if any infected household be suffered to stay in the Town after the infection is known, that there be two watchmen appointed, one for the night, the other for the day; and that the watchmen be very careful that no persons go in or out of such infected houses, whereof they have charge, upon pain of severe punishment; and that such watchmen do such offices, and provide, and fetch such necessaries for the persons in the houses infected as they have need of, and require; and that the watchmen appointed for the day ward until eight of the clock at night, and the watchmen for the night, until six of the clock in the morning; the one not to depart till the other come.  
V That the master, mistress, or dame of every house or family, so soon as any in the same falleth sick of any disease, or complaineth either of botch, purple, or swelling, shall give knowledge thereof to the searchers or examiners within two hours after the person is sick, & suffer no persons to enter into the house without order from them, or one of them.  
VI That so soon as it shall appear to the searcher or examiner that any person in a house or family is sick of the plague, the sick and the whole shall be sequestered in the same house, if it be possible, one from the other, and so continue with one person to attend the sick; and though the sick die not, the whole household shall be removed, if conveniently it may be, or shut up, and the house well aired, for six weeks at the least before the persons in it be set at liberty. And if any person shall have visited, or accompanied any man known to be infected of the plague, or willingly entered into any known infected house, the house wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut up for so many days as the Court, or examiner shall think fit.  
VII That the burial of the dead by this visitation be always either before sunrising, or after sunset with the privity of the examiners, or overseers, or churchwardens, and constables of the parish; and that no neighbours or friends be suffered to accompany the corpse to Church, or to enter, or come near the house visited, or to stand gazing in the streets as the corpse is carried to burial, or in burying, but only those of the same house, and buriers.  
VIII That no clothes, apparel, bedding, linen, woollen, or other stuff whatsoever, be suffered to be conveyed, or carried out of any infected houses; and that all pawning, buying, or receiving of any clothes, apparel, bedding, linen, woollen, and other householdstuff whatsoever, be utterly forborn by all persons whatsoever; And if any person shall be found to offend herein, his name to be presented to the Court.  
IX That if any person infected or suspected to be infected, shall come or be conveyed from a place infected to another place; the parish whence such party is come or conveyed, shall cause the person visited, and so escaped, to be brought back again by night; and the parties in this case offending, or consenting thereunto, to be punished at the discretion of the Vicechancellor, and Mayor, and their Assistants; and the house of the receiver of such visited person to be shut up twenty days at the least.  
X That every house visited be marked with a red cross in the midst of the door a foot long, evident to be seen, there to continue until lawful enlargement of the same house.  
XI That those which watch or keep the visited be not suffered to pass the streets, without a red rod of three foot in length in their hands held up evident to be seen, and not to come into the markets, or other houses then their own, nor to receive any money but in water, or goods from the house or persons they watch, and to abstain from company, especially when they have been used in attending the visited.  
XII Whereas for the better preservation of the Countrypeople, and inhabitants of this Town, there are certain persons appointed to buy provision for the persons infected or suspected, that those persons which do daily attend the markets in their several courses do keep out all such as dwell near the infected, and do buy such provision and other necessaries as they are entreated by the watchmen, and the same deliver unto the watchmen at the places appointed on the outsides of the Town, and not suffer any watchman, or other person dwelling in suspected places to come into the Town or market, to fear or endanger the Countrypeople that come to sell.   

sell Concerning public assemblies.  
XIII That all public assemblies at burials of the dead, christen, marriages, and churching, and visitation of the sick, be as much forborn as possibly may be, and no person admitted into the house where any infected or suspected persons are, and that upon no occasion there be suffered any flocking or thronging of people together, nor any begging in the streets, lanes, or back ways in or about the Town: And if any happen, that the watchmen, churchwardens, overseers, or constables present their names to the Vicechancellor and Mayor in the Court every Monday and Thursday, and of those that give occasion of the same.    

¶ Articles and Orders agreed upon by the Right Worshipful JOHN MANSEL Doctor of Divinity, and Vicechancellor of the University of Cambridge; and THOMAS PURCHAS Major of the Town of Cambridge; with the consent of their Assistants then present, the xj. day of july, Ann. Dom. 1625. All which and every particular of the same, they require and command all persons whom they do or may concern, duly to observe and keep upon pain of imprisonment, and such further punishment as may be inflicted upon the several offenders herein, by the Laws of this Land, and other Orders and Compositions heretofore in such cases made and agreed upon.  

I THAT the high Constables and petty Constables within this Town, and the Liberties of the same, do presently warn and set a sufficient Watch and Ward in the usual places of this Town, and the Liberties of the same; to be kept by all persons, aswell privileged as others in their courses. And the Watch to continue from nine of the clock at Night, till five in the Morning; and the Ward from five in the Morning until nine of the clock in the Evening: And that the Constable give this charge to the Watchers and Warders, and that the Watchers and Warders do duly observe the same, upon pain of imprisonment.  
TWO That all such Watchers and Warders do apprehend and take all idle, and wand'ring people, and all other suspected persons which are repaired, or which shall and will repair to this Town, and the Liberties of the same; and deliver them to the Constables, to be sent away and punished according to the Laws of this Land. And that they keep out of this Town all wand'ring Pedlars, Tinkers, Aquavitae-men, and such like: And all Strangers, and all Carriages and Goods, that may be suspected to bring infection or danger to this University or Town, until they be allowed to be entertained or received by the said Vicechancellor, or Major, or some other justice of Peace of either Body: and that they keep a true Book of the Name of every person, and his goods thus allowed, and by whom.  
III That the Churchwardens, Constables, and Overseers of every parish, do every day, (and oftener if there be cause) make inquiry and search in all Inns. Alehouses, and other houses within their Parish, for all passengers and strangers, that are or shall be lodged or received in any of them: and if they find, fear, or suspect, any of them did come from any part of London, or other place visited; that presently they discharge them, and give notice of the Host or receiver of them, to Mr. Vicechancellor or Mr. Major, or some justice of Peace, that they may undergo such punishment, as shall be thought fit by the foresaid Vicechancellor and Major.  
IIII That if in such search, or at any other time the said Churchwardens, Constables, or Overseers, or any of them, do observe and see, or shall be credibly informed of any drunken persons, swearers, or blasphemers: or find, or be informed that any persons do remain idle, mispending their time in drinking, gaming, or otherwise, within any Tavern, Inn, Alehouse, or other place within this Town, or Liberties of the same, that without favour, or any partiality, they see them presently punished, according to the Statute in such cases provided; or make present complaint of them and their receivers, to the Vicechancellor and Major.  
V That no person do carry, or recarry any Passengers, goods, wares, or merchandise by land or water, from this Town to London, or from London to or towards this Town, except it be for his Majesty's use: and except Francis Adcock, who only is allowed to carry and recarry Letters, and nothing else.  
VI That the aforesaid Churchwardens, Constables, and Overseers, do from time to time take care, that all inhabitants and other persons within their several parishes, do pave, gravel, water, sweep, and cleanse their doors, channels, streets, and lanes which belong unto them every Tuesday and Saturday: and to suffer no muckhills to remain in any penned houses or yards: nor any hogs to be kept in any houses, or penned yards in the Town, nor to come in the streets, or lanes of this Town: nor any Butchers to kill any beasts at their doors, or in their shops: nor Farriers to bleed any beast at their shops, or doors, nor in the streets, except they receive the blood, garbage, and other filth into some vessel, and the same presently convey to the common muckhill on the backside of the Town.  
VII That no person buy any goods brought into this Town by any strangers; or carried about the Town to be sold by them, or any others of this Town, upon pain of imprisonment.  
VIII That the General and public Fast (by his Majesty's Proclamation and Orders published) appointed to be kept upon Wednesday the xx. of this instant july, and so every Wednesday, be observed and kept religiously, and solemnly upon those days. And that the Ministers of every Parish do give public warning, that the Parishioners themselves, and their families and servants be wholly exercised upon those days in holy prayer, godly meditations, and reverend hearing of the Scriptures either read or preached; and that they shut up their shops, and forbear all bodily labours, bargaining, buying, and selling upon those days.  
IX That morning Prayers upon those days shall begin at nine of the clock in the forenoon, and they and the sermon end at eleven of the clock; and afternoon Prayers begin at one of the clock in the afternoon, and they and the Sermon end at three of the clock; and that all Churches be well watered and cooled, before morning and evening Prayers every Sabbath day, and every Wednesday, and the casements opened, and the glass of some of the chiefest windows taken down, to cool the Church, and prevent the danger that may happen by the penned and close air in this hot season.  
X That all persons take heed, that they spend not any part of those days in plays, pastimes, idleness, haunting of Taverns, Inns, or Alehouses: lascivious wantonness, surffeting, or drunkenness, which are the proper sins of this Nation, for which the heavy displeasure and wrath of God is fallen upon us.  
XI That the price of every meal forborn upon the days of Fast, be gathered by the Churchwardens and Overseers of every Parish, and written in a book of whom they receive it, and the same reserved in their hands, until it be disposed of by the Vicechancellor and Major, according to the tenor of the Order published.  
XII And further the said Vicechancellor and Major do in his Majesty's Name straightly charge and command all Constables, Churchwardens, and Overseers of every Parish in this Town, to take especial care, that all persons do observe and keep the said Fast, according to the said Orders and Directions: and that they present the names of all offenders herein, that they may undergo the severest punishment that may be inflicted upon offenders in this kind.  
XIII And lastly, it is ordered, that if any person shall refuse to obey these Orders, or any of them; or to be ordered by the said Churchwardens, Constables and Overseers, Watchers and Warders, or any of them in any matter hereby given them in charge; or shall resist them, or any of them; or maintain, or rescue any offender herein, that then the said Constables shall commit such offenders to the Gaol, there to remain until they be released by their competent judge, and be bound with sufficient Sureties to their good behaviour.   
❧ God save the King.