rchers._

That there be a special care to appoint women searchers in every
parish, such as are of honest reputation and of the best sort as
can be got in this kind; and these to be sworn to make due search
and true report, to the utmost of their knowledge, whether the
persons whose bodies they are appointed to search do die of the
infection, or of what other diseases, as near as they can. And that
the physicians who shall be appointed for the cure and prevention
of the infection do call before them the said searchers, who are or
shall be appointed for the several parishes under their respective
cares, to the end they may consider whether they be fitly qualified
for that employment, and charge them from time to time, as they
shall see cause, if they appear defective in their duties.

That no searcher during this time of visitation be permitted to use
any public work or employment, or keep a shop or stall, or be
employed as a laundress, or in any other common employment
whatsoever.

_Chirurgeons._[78]

For better assistance of the searchers, forasmuch as there has been
heretofore great abuse in misreporting the disease, to the further
spreading of the infection, it is therefore ordered that there be
chosen and appointed able and discreet chirurgeons besides those
that do already belong to the pesthouse, amongst whom the city and
liberties to be quartered as they lie most apt and convenient; and
every of these to have one quarter for his limit. And the said
chirurgeons in every of their limits to join with the searchers for
the view of the body, to the end there may be a true report made of
the disease.

And further: that the said chirurgeons shall visit and search such
like persons as shall either send for them, or be named and
directed unto them by the examiners of every parish, and inform
themselves of the disease of the said parties.

And forasmuch as the said chirurgeons are to be sequestered from
all other cures,[79] and kept only to this disease of the
infection, it is ordered that every of the said chirurgeons shall
have twelvepence a body searched by them, to be paid out of the
goods of the party searched, if he be able, or otherwise by the
parish.

_Nurse Keepers._

If any nurse keeper shall remove herself out o