An Ordinance of the City of Nuremberg. 881 
lich, auch sunst ander mer nu e tzliche gute ordnung vnd fu e r- 
sehung bedacht. Derhalb sicli ein yeder, dem .soldier gestalt 
etwas von no® ten, der krancken Treger ha lb, im Spital, vnnd 
von wegen der war tong vnd Leichentreger bey den Kirch- 
nern beder Pfarren, auch den vier geordenten dienern, so das 
Wochenlich Allmusen, vmbzutragen pflegen, nottu e rfftigs guts 
bescheyds erholen mag, Guter zuuersicht, vermittelst Go € tt- 
licher hilff (dem fu e rnemlich hierinn vertrawt, vnd in sein 
Go e ttliche barmhertzigkeyt verhofft werden sol) disen vnlust 
etlicher massen damit zuringern. 
Decretum in Senatu den 
26. Januarij. 1562. 
A LAW AND ORDINANCE OF THE HONORABLE COUNCIL OF 
NUREMBERG, RENEWED IN THE PRESENT TIME OF PESTI¬ 
LENCE, IN THE YEAR MDLXII. 
Inasmuch as God Almighty, provoked in the highest degree 
by manifold sinful and ever-increasing transgressions of His 
law, shameful and enormous acts of sacrilege, blasphemies, de¬ 
baucheries, prostitutions, unjust offenses against the rights of 
fellow citizens and other crimes of surpassing wickedness, 
practiced almost daily by young and old without shame or re¬ 
straint, has been moved to allow His righteous wrath to de¬ 
scend upon us, to punish this sinful manner of life with the 
rod of pestilence, and to visit war and famine upon the city, 
the Honorable Council in a spirit of fatherly solicitude ear¬ 
nestly admonishes and enjoins all burghers, inhabitants and de¬ 
pendents to desist from such wickedness, and to turn with a 
devout heart and humble prayer to God, in the confident hope 
that His Omnipotence will be moved to pity, and, unmindful 
of His great provocation, will mercifully stay His intended 
wrath. 
