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to the necessity of nature in a competent manner and to sobriety. 
The sessments likewise of your other poor in general must he 
enlarged that so they may he kept at home^ and severely and 
justly punished if they stir abroad ; wherein I shall be ready for 
my own part in a time thus conditioned to give you a good 
example in my own particular, as I told you, my Lord Mayor, the 
other day. I will only add thus much more to the third article, 
that if any man disperse his family, or receive any so flitting with¬ 
out the privity of my Lord Mayor, that you cause both the house 
of the remover and receiver to he presently shut up and all the 
people in them, and so kept till the time of danger he run up ; 
and in particular in the present case of Mr. Alderman Lawne, 
looke you precisely hold this course to begin with, who hath been 
hold from the beginning of this infection in believing so little, 
and whose care in shutting up himself, albeit 1 commend, yet do 
I much blame him for sending his children into other parts of the 
town, and them also who have of their own heads received them. 
'' Finally, I well hope if these and such other good orders as 
you in your own cares and judgments shall supply, be severely 
put in practice, it will be the means next under God, to restore 
health into our dwellings; so as it behoves me to call upon you 
strictly for an account herein, which I shall most assuredly do 
very precisely; and it behoves you not to he negligent in so great 
a duty, wherein if you fail you shall not only offend highly 
against God and the public, but the blood of these men he 
required at your hands, which you shall suffer thorow your 
retchlesness to fall under this heavy affliction. ^ 
I will end this long letter with desire that you will for my 
own discharge send me at my return a copy, for I have not time 
to take one myself, and finally to tell you the greatest pity you 
can in the world shew to yourselves, the inhabitants of this city, 
together with your own wives and children, will be by using all 
severe and strict courses in the preventing the first beginning 
and appearances of this contagion amongst us. 
And so I rest. 
Your very loving friend, 
W ENTWORTH. 
Mannour of Yorke, 
this last of August, 1631.” 
