two-pence a week to the poor, and up- 
wards, are to be charged with a certain 
tax if they will not furnith the money vo- 
Fentartly. And that none may avoid their 
fhare of this fo neceflary a charge by their 
abfence out of town, the deputies, common- 
council-men and church-wardens of each 
parifh, are required to di-burle the money ; 
and the juftices will take care that a cer- 
tain rate be impofed on fuch as are abfent, 
or fhall retufe to do it voluntarily, for the 
repayment of thofe who fhall difburfe any 
money. The minifters of every parifh 
are defired to exhort the people to be for- 
ward in fo hopefull a means, if God fhall 
pleafe to grant his blefling. thereupon. 
find that sotice be given that upon Tuef= 
day the fifth of September, at eight of the 
at night rhe fires be kindled in all ftreets, 
courts, lanes and-alleys of the city and 
fuburbs thereof; and all officers whatfo- 
evér of the feveral wards and parifhes, as 
aifo the feveral inhabitants, are to take 
fpecial cave for the pundtual performance 
hereof, as they will an{wer their negleét at 
thetr utr ft peril. 
An excellent eleluary and drink for 
preventive and cure of the plague, by or- 
der and appointment of his Majefties Col- 
jese of Fhoficians, London, and by their 
fpecia! > and advice expofed at eafie 
rates @ + ected to be fold by Mr. Fran- 
cis Hai, apothecary, at the Green Dra- 
gron, Cheapfide, London; where they are 
accordingly fold, the ele¢tuary at twelve- 
pence the ounce, and the drink at 3s. 6d. 
the pint, with directions how to ufe them. 
Whereas fince the appointment of two 
phyficians to adminifter to the infe&ted in 
and about the city,‘the plague has fo much 
increafed that it is requifite there fhould be 
2 greater number to take care of the fick. 
Be it known that Doétor Nicholas Davis, 
a member of the King’s College of Phy- 
ficians, living in Auftin Friars, and Doc- 
tor Edward D’Awtry, a member of the 
fame fociety, living in Broad-ftreet, being 
two of thofe phyficians that were prefented 
by the colleze to the Lord Mayor and 
Court of Aldermen of this city of London, 
for.the prevention ‘and cure of the plague, 
have thought fit upon principles of honour 
and confcience to declare that they are 
ready and wiiling to attend the faid fervice, 
and to vifit all fuch perfons in and about 
the city and countries adjacenr as fhall de- 
fire their affitiance and direfiions. 
The Spiritus Antilamodes, appointed by 
the College of Phyficians asa prefervative 
again the plague, has by the teftimony 
ot abundance. of people proved very ef- 
ictual; and alfo their Antidote, by a fuf- 
From the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. f October. 
ficient teftimony from feveral infected pa- 
rifhes, has cured divers infected perfons : 
both which preparations, with divers others 
mentioned at the end of their book, are 
made by William Jehnfon, apothecary and 
chymift to the King’s College of Phyfi- 
cians, in London, and are fold in his fhop, 
in Amen-corner, at the end of Paternofter- 
row. 
Ifany man or Woman hath good hair 
to fell, let them repair #2 George Gray, 
barber and perriwig maker, over againft 
the Greyhound Tavern, in Black-fryars, 
London: there they fhall have at leaft 
as much ready money as any body elfe 
will give. : 
The fame George Gray afterwards - 
chufes to be more explicit, and we find 
him advertiling: Over agaipft the Grey~ 
hound Tavern, in Black-tryars, lives one 
George Gray, barber and perriwig maker, 
that will give ros. or 12s. per ounce for 
Jong flaxen hair; and for other long and 
fair hair 6s. or 8s. per ounce, © 
- Loft upon the road in Yorkhhire, a Black 
Greyhound, mufled, and little brown {pots 
above his eyes, and all his legs fpotted 
more or le{s ; he had a collar, ftudded with 
crowns, whereon was a plate engraved 
His Royal Highueffes Fames Duke of York. 
Whoever fliall bring him to his faid High- 
neffe his court at York, fhall be well re- 
warded for his pains. 
By the Mayor. k : 
His Majefty taking notice of the vaft 
fummes of mony yearly exported out of 
this his kingdom for forreign manufaétures 
of wearing apparel, which might be fuf- 
ficiently fupplied at home; and that many 
thoufands-of his fubjects might be profit- 
ably employed in working the faid manu- 
faétures, and likewife of the rigorous 
courfes taken both in France and Holland 
to difcourage and hinder the importation 
of the manufaétures of this kingdom into 
thofe countries, hath refolved and declared 
to his privy-council, that henceforward 
his Majeity and his Royal Confort will 
wear neither infide nor outfide of their 
clothes, but what is manufactured within 
this his kingdome of England (linen- 
cloth and calicoes only excepted) and hath 
enjoyned the whole court (and doubts not 
but all his fubjecis will be ready and wil- 
linz) to obferve and follow their good ex- 
ample therein; which faid royal intention 
hath been, by his Majetties command, fig-. 
nified to me by letter, whereby the fame 
may be publifhed within this city for the 
good encouragement of all his fubjects. 
And accordingly I do hereby publith the 
fame, that all merchants and fhop-keepers 
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