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A Journal of the Plague-Year. to Which Is Added Some Account of the Great Fire in 1666, Extr. From Evelyn's Memoirs
A Journal of the Plague-Year to Which Is Added Some Account of the Great Fire in 1666 Extr From Evelyn's Memoirs Author:Daniel Defoe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: " That the brewers and tippling-houses be looked unto, for ' musty and unwholesome casks. " That no hogs, dogs, or cats, or tame pigeons, or conies, be suffered to be kept within any part of the city; or any swine to be, or stay in the streets or lanes, but that such swine be impounded by the beadle, or any other officer, and the owner punished according to act of common council, and that the dogs be killed by the dog-killers appointed for that purpose." ORDERS concerning Loose Persons and Idle Assemblies. Beggars. " Forasmuch as nothing is more complained of than the multitude of rogues and wandering beggars, that swarm in every place about the city, being a great cause of the spreading of the infection, and will not be avoided, notwithstanding any orders that have been given to the contrary; it is therefore now ordered, that such constables, and others, whom this matter may any way concern, take special care that no wandering beggar be suffered in the streets of this city, in any fashion or manner whatsoever, upon the penalty provided by the law, to be duly and severely executed upon them." Plays. "That all plays, bear-baitings, games, singing of ballads, buckler-play, or such like causes of assemblies of people, be utterly prohibited, and the parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward." Feasting prohibited. " That all public feasting, and particularly by the companiesof the city, and dinners at taverns, ale-houses, and other places of common entertainment, be forborne till further order and allowance; and that the money thereby spared, be preserved and employed for th...« less