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Page 1 of the Plague Book

Vernacular Transcript

Orders to be obserued,

9 9 Item, the Ministers and Curates, and the
Church wardens in euery Parish, shall in writing
certifie weekely to some of the Iustices, residing
within ye Hundred or other limit where they serue,
the number of such persons as are infected and doe
not die, and also of all such as shall die within their
Parishes, and their diseases probable whereof they
dyed, and the same to be certified to the rest of the
Iustices at their assemblies, which during some
conuenient time would be euery xxi. dayes, and
thereof a particular booke kept by the Clerke of the
peace, or some such like.

10 10 Item, to appoynt some place apart in each
parish to the burial of such persons as shal die of the
plague, as also to giue order that they be buryed af-
ter sunne setting, and yet neuerthelesse by daylight,
so as the Curate be present for the obseruation of the
rites and ceremonies prescribed by the lawe, fore-
seeing as much as conueniently he may, to be distãt
from the danger of infection of the person dead, or
of the companie that shall bryng the corse to the
graue.

11 11 Item, the Iustices of the whole Countie to
assemble once in xxi. dayes, to examine whether
those orders be duely executed, and to certifie to the
lordes of the priuie Councell their proceedings in
that behalf, what townes and villages be infected,
as also the nombers of the dead, and the diseases
wherof they dyed, and what summes of money are
taxed and collected to this purpose, and howe the
same are distributed.

12 12 Item, the Iustices in the hundred, where a-
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Modern Transcript

Orders to be observed,

9 9 Item, the Ministers and Curates, and the
Church wardens in every Parish, shall in writing
certify weekly to some of the Justices, residing
within the Hundred or other limit where they serve,
the number of such persons as are infected and do
not die, and also of all such as shall die within their
Parishes, and their diseases probable whereof they
died, and the same to be certified to the rest of the
Justices at their assemblies, which during some
convenient time would be every xxi. days, and
thereof a particular book kept by the Clerk of the
peace, or some such like.

10 10 Item, to appoint some place apart in each
parish to the burial of such persons as shall die of the
plague, as also to give order that they be buried af-
ter sun setting, and yet nevertheless by daylight,
so as the Curate be present for the observation of the
rites and ceremonies prescribed by the law, fore-
seeing as much as conveniently he may, to be distant
from the danger of infection of the person dead, or
of the company that shall bring the corpse to the
grave.

11 11 Item, the Justices of the whole County to
assemble once in xxi. days, to examine whether
those orders be duly executed, and to certify to the
lords of the privy Council their proceedings in
that behalf, what towns and villages be infected,
as also the numbers of the dead, and the diseases
whereof they died, and what sums of money are
taxed and collected to this purpose, and how the
same are distributed.

12 12 Item, the Justices in the hundred, where a-
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