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A blacksmith’s wife was whipt openly for saying that if the 
sickness would come in fast enough, she would run among the 
thickest of them.” 
In September, orders made by the Lord Mayor and aldermen, 
to be observed during the time of this infection, together with 
some rules prescribed by expert physicians, were made publicly 
known by copies being pinned or nailed upon four posts or 
otherwise, at Walmgate Bar and Fossbridge-end, upon the 
Pavement, at Micklegate stowpes, Minster-gates and Monk- 
bar :— 
ORDERS. 
1. When sickness of any kind soever appears in any house 
the Lord Mayor to be informed, and none to go into or out of 
such house until he give directions. 
2. None to disperse their families or remove any member of 
their household without licence of the Lord Mayor, and none to 
receive such persons so removed. If any disobey, their houses 
to be shut up. 
Precepts prescribed by learned and approved physicians. 
1. Let those poor people who are afraid to be infected by 
being employed about the sick, eat butter and bread, with sage, 
sorrell, or garlicke pilled, in the morning before their employment. 
2. Let them put into their drink ginger sliced, and steep in 
it the tops of wormwood, first washed and burnt. 
8. Let them shut in their mouths lettwall or angellico for 
w^ant of it, or gentian. 
4. Let them tie upon a stick, posie wise, a little piece of 
sponge well dipped in white wine vinegar camphorated, which 
they may have at the apothecaries. 
5. Let the infected house be perfumed with the perfumes of 
tar, pitch, or rosin, or juniper wood, and also all their clothes ; 
also let them perfume their houses with vinegar, or rosemary, or 
bay-leaves. 
6. If any botches or plague-sores arise, let them use either 
of these medicines to draw them to a head and to ripen and 
burst them, viz.:—Take the roots of white lilies, roast them well 
in a good quantity of sorrell lapped in a wet paper; then stamp 
them, and apply them hot to the swelling, and let it lie too 
