WHereas the infection of the Plague is daily dispersed more & more in diuers parts of this City and the Liberties therof , aswell for that the houses infected haue not been , nor yet are kept shut vp , according to the Proclamation , and many Precepts and Orders in that behalfe made and taken , aswell by the Kings most excellent Maiestie , as by mee and my Brethren the Aldermen , as also for that the people infected , and whose houses are infected ( against all honestie , humane ciuility , and good conscience , seeking as it were rather the desolation of the Citie , and of this Kingdome by dispersing of the infection , then otherwise ) do daily intrude themselues into all companies , both priuate and publike , aswell at Sermons as elsewhere , and doe flocke and follow the dead to the Graue in multitudes , one still infecting another , to the displeasure of Almighty God , and great griefe of his Maiestie , to vnderstand of the destruction of his Subiects in such wilfull and desperate manner . To the end therefore that the cause of further infection , which may happen by any of the aforesaid occasions ( if God be so pleased ) may be taken away , and the Kings Subiects ( whom in his Princely and gracious care had ouer them , he tendereth as dearely as himselfe ) may be preserued from that perill . These are in Gods Name to exhort and perswade , and in his Maiesties Name straightly to charge and command all persons whatsoeuer , inhabiting within this Citie and the Liberties thereof , whose houses now are , or hereafter during this Visitation , shall be infected with the Plague , vpon their Allegiance , and due obedience , that they doe owe vnto our said Soueraigne Lord the King , to keepe their said houses shut vp , for the space of xxviii . dayes next after the buriall of any dying of the Plague out of their said houses , And that the people infected , and of the said infected houses , doe continue in their said houses , during the said time of xxviii . dayes , and none of them goe abroad , but onely for necessarie food , and with red wands in their hands , and doe not come into , or frequent any publike assemblies , nor follow the dead infected bodies to the Graue , vpon paine of his Highnesse heauy displeasure and imprisonment of their bodies so offending by the space of ten dayes , without bayle or maynprize : Requiring also , and charging all Churchwardens , Constables , Beadles of Wardes , Clarkes and Sextons of Parishes , and all other Officers and Ministers within this Citie and the Liberties thereof , euery one of them in his place and office , carefully to looke vnto the performance of the premisses , and of all other orders formerly set downe by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this Citie for the time being , or by me and my Brethren the Aldermen , concerning the auoyding of the Plague , vpon like paine as aforesaid . Giuen at Guild Hall , the fift day of Aprill , 1625.