this remove
to be done by night. And it shall be lawful to any person that hath
two houses to remove either his sound or his infected people to his
spare house at his choice, so as, if he send away first his sound,
he do not after send thither the sick; nor again unto the sick, the
sound; and that the same which he sendeth be for one week at the
least shut up, and secluded from company, for the fear of some
infection at first not appearing.
_Burial of the Dead._
That the burial of the dead by this visitation be at most
convenient hours, always before sunrising, or after sunsetting,
with the privity[80] of the churchwardens, or constable, and not
otherwise; and that no neighbors nor friends be suffered to
accompany the corpse to church, or to enter the house visited, upon
pain of having his house shut up, or be imprisoned.
And that no corpse dying of the infection shall be buried, or
remain in any church, in time of common prayer, sermon, or lecture.
And that no children be suffered, at time of burial of any corpse,
in any church, churchyard, or burying place, to come near the
corpse, coffin, or grave; and that all graves shall be at least six
feet deep.
And further, all public assemblies at other burials are to be
forborne during the continuance of this visitation.
_No Infected Stuff to be uttered._[81]
That no clothes, stuff, bedding, or garments, be suffered to be
carried or conveyed out of any infected houses, and that the criers
and carriers abroad of bedding or old apparel to be sold or pawned
be utterly prohibited and restrained, and no brokers of bedding or
old apparel be permitted to make any public show, or hang forth on
their stalls, shop boards, or windows towards any street, lane,
common way, or passage, any old bedding or apparel to be sold, upon
pain of imprisonment. And if any broker or other person shall buy
any bedding, apparel, or other stuff out of any infected house,
within two months after the infection hath been there, his house
shall be shut up as infected, and so shall continue shut up twenty
days at the least.
_No Person to be conveyed out of any Infected House._
If any person visited[82] do fortune,[83] by negligent looking
unto, or by any other means, to come or be conveyed from a place
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