infected to any other place, the parish from whence such party hath
come, or been conveyed, upon notice thereof given, shall, at their
charge, cause the said party so visited and escaped to be carried
and brought back again by night; and the parties in this case
offending to be punished at the direction of the alderman of the
ward, and the house of the receiver of such visited person to be
shut up for twenty days.

_Every Visited House to be marked._

That every house visited be marked with a red cross of a foot long,
in the middle of the door, evident to be seen, and with these usual
printed words, that is to say, "Lord have mercy upon us," to be set
close over the same cross, there to continue until lawful opening
of the same house.

_Every Visited House to be watched._

That the constables see every house shut up, and to be attended
with watchmen, which may keep in, and minister necessaries to them
at their own charges, if they be able, or at the common charge if
they be unable. The shutting up to be for the space of four weeks
after all be whole.

That precise order be taken that the searchers, chirurgeons,
keepers, and buriers, are not to pass the streets without holding a
red rod or wand of three foot in length in their hands, open and
evident to be seen; and are not to go into any other house than
into their own, or into that whereunto they are directed or sent
for, but to forbear and abstain from company, especially when they
have been lately used[84] in any such business or attendance.

_Inmates._

That where several inmates are in one and the same house, and any
person in that house happens to be infected, no other person or
family of such house shall be suffered to remove him or themselves
without a certificate from the examiners of the health of that
parish; or, in default thereof, the house whither she or they
remove shall be shut up as is in case of visitation.

_Hackney Coaches._

That care be taken of hackney coachmen, that they may not, as some
of them have been observed to do after carrying of infected persons
to the pesthouse and other places, be admitted to common use till
their coaches be well aired, and have stood unemployed by the space
of five or six days after such service.

ORDERS FOR CLE