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Four women and one man wlio digged and raved up” 
clothes and other things that were buried in the ground for 
danger of infection, were set in the stocks, and taken out one 
by one, and set by the neck and hands in the gyns* there, and 
whipped. 
Two men who were fiddling, drinking, and dancing, on the 
Sabbath in sermon-time, and all the afternoon till eight o’clock 
p. m., were committed to prison, to the little ease.” 
Edward Hall, a spurrier, when the constable asked him how 
all did in his house, said, all were in health, but his cat was 
sick.” For this flippant reply, he was fined 10s., and committed 
to Monk Bar till he paid the fine. 
In the early part of October, the disease had partially abated, 
and several houses in the city which had been shut up, were 
ordered to be set at liberty. On the 17th, those who had been 
shut up in the hospital at Heslington, and in the Bean-hills 
near Fishergate Bar, were set at liberty. At the instance of 
Mr. Edmunds, the Lord President’s secretary, the household of 
Mr. William Allanson was ordered to be set at liberty. Two 
market gardeners were allowed to cut and offer for sale their 
cabbages which were growing out of AYalmgate Bar, so long as 
they did not go near the infected in that district. 
Yet fresh causes of alarm sprang up from time to time, and 
the order was repeated, that no person should visit any that 
were sick, or buy any goods of any other person during this 
time of infection, upon pain of having their houses closed. On 
the 24th, the inhabitants of Barker Hill, and all the residents 
without AValmgate Bar, were ordered to be shut up. Purveyors 
were appointed to lock the doors at night and open them in the 
morning, and supply the people with necessaries. One of the 
twenty-four to keep watch constantly. 
The town of Howden having been reported to be infected, 
persons coming from thence were not to be admitted into the 
city, and a watch was set at Castlegate postern to prevent them. 
Mr. Henry Bogers, “ one of the city preachers,” who had been 
shut up at Howden, and had ventured to return to ATork, was 
* The gyns vrere irons that had been made and fixed in a wall or post, for 
punishing those who were rebellious and would not be ruled. 
