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II. That the Houfes in which thoie Sick Cows have 
flood be Waflied very clean, and then fmoaked by the 
burning of Pitch, Tarr. and Wormwood, and be kept 
three Months at leaft before any other Cows are put 
therein. 
III. That the Fields where thofe Sick Cows have 
Grazed, be kept Two Months before any other Cows 
are FufTered to (land or Graze thereon. 
IV. That the Perfons looking after fuch as are III, 
fliou’d have no Communication with thofe that arc 
well. 
V. That the fame Methods be Obicrved if any o- 
ther of the Cow-keepers fhou’d get this Diftemper a- 
mongthem; and that they be all Summoned and told, 
that as foon as they perceive any of their Cows to re- 
fufe their Meat, or have any other Symptoms of this 
Diflemper, that they immediately feparate them from 
their others, and give notice to fuch Perlons as your 
Excellencies Ihall appoint, that they may be Burnt ; 
and the places where they have flood or Grazed to be 
ordered as before* 
VI. That the Cow- keepers be required to divide 
their Cows into fmall Parcels, not more than ten or 
twelve in a Field together; and that they be allowed 
fuch fatisfadion for complying with thefe Propofals, as 
your Excellencies fliall think fit ; all which is moft 
humbly fubmitted, 
The next day their Excellencies confulted the four 
Gentlemen before-named, and gave them Orders to com- 
ply with the preceeding Propofals, and to allow Forty Shil- 
lings for every Sick Cow which they Burnt, that be- 
longed to Vit. Ratcliff, Rufford, Pullen \ but the free 
intercourfe which both Maflers and Servants had had 
with each others Cows (before we were appointed^ 
^ 2 had 
