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made that no physician, apothecary, or other person professing 
the like art, should visit, or minister physic, to any sick person, 
without the Lord Mayor’s licence. The servants of Alderman 
Micklethwaite, and his son. Dr. Joseph Micklethwaite, a phy¬ 
sician, both of whom lived in Micklegate, had been so incautious 
as to visit Richard Smith during his illness. A peremptory 
order was issued that both the Alderman, and his son the 
doctor, should keep their houses, and not go abroad unless it 
were to take the aire on their backsydes and they were 
required to kill their dogs and cats. Leonard Anderson, an 
apothecary, who ministered to Richard Smith and his family, 
was restrained from going abroad, and allowed to have only one 
of his shop-windows open. Several other persons in the neigh¬ 
bourhood who had visited Smith, were also shut up, the 
constables to keep their keys, and a watch to be set at their 
fore-doors and back-doors, and their kyne to have water given 
them at their back-doors. 
One Troutheck, of Bramham, who had given a glyster to 
Smith when he was sick, to be reported to Sir Edward Stanhope, 
who lived at Grimston, in that neighbourhood. 
The most rigorous measures were resorted to, for preventing 
contagion. Strict watch was ordered to be set over all persons 
who were supposed to have had the slightest intercourse with 
Smith or his family. The purveyors were to supply necessaries 
to those who were shut up ; and to receive their money in 
water.” Two persons, who were known to have visited the 
deceased, were fined £5 each, and several others were fined 
20s. each for the same offence. Smith’s family were at first 
placed in a house on Toft-green, hut were afterwards ordered 
to be removed to the Tang-hall lodge, if they might without 
danger of their lives. The removal of them was to be made at 
eleven o’clock at night—a cart to be provided, which they 
themselves were to load with their ^ stuff,’ and the horses and 
cart to stay in the Tang-hall fields for a week or so. Whilst the 
family remained on Toft-green, the two kyne and a horse that 
had belonged to Smith, were to be driven to Knavesmire and 
there swum in the water, and afterwards put up in a close in 
Bishopfields, 'and there the kyne were to be milked, and the 
