# Orders conceived and published by the Lord Major and Aldermen of the City of London, concerning the infection of the plague

Author: City of London (England). Court of Aldermen; City of London (England). Lord Mayor

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72934

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## Summary

Whereas in the first Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign King _James_ of happy memory, an Act was made for the charitable relief and ordering of Persons infected with the Plague: whereby Authority was given to Justices of Peace, Majors, Bayliffs, and other Head-Officers to appoint within their several Limits Examiners, Searchers, Watchmen, Keepers, and Buriers for the Persons and Places infected, and to minister unto them Oaths for the performance of their Offices. And the same Statute did also authorize the giving of other Directions, as unto them for the present necessity should seem good in their discretions. It is now upon special consideration thought very expedient for preventin...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/orders-conceived-and-published-by-the-lord-major-and-aldermen-o-df1b0c62/chapters/1/index.md)