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 of the (plague in i66j y &c. 7 IN Order w hereunto, it is to be obferv'd, that a Law was made for marking the Houfes of infected Perfons with a Red Crofs, having with it this Subfcription, LORD HAVE MERCY UPON US: And that a Guard mould attend there con- tinually, both to hand to the Sick the Ne- cefTaries of Food and Medicine, and to reftrain them from coming Abroad until Forty Days after their Recovery. But although the Lord Mayor and all inferior Officers readily and effectually put thefe Orders in Execution, yet it was to no Purpofe, for the Plague more and more increafedj and the Confternation of thole who were thus feparated from all Society, unlefs with the infected, was ine^preilible and the difmal Apprehenfions it laid them under, made them but an eafler Prey to the devouring Enemy. And this Seclufion was on this Account much the more in- tolerable, becaufe if a freih Perfon was feized in the fame Houfe but a Day before ano- ther had finillied the Quarantine, it was to be performed over again j which occafion'd fuch tedious Confinements of fick and well together, as fometimes caufed the Lofs of the whole, B 4 BUT