By the Mayor.1
THE Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and his Brethren the Aldermen of the City of London, considering how the infection of the Plague is dispersed in diuers and sundry places
neere about this City, Doe for the better preuention of the increase thereof within
the said City, (so far as it shall please God to blesse mans endeauours) hereby streightly
charge, and in his Maiesties2 name command all manner of persons within the said City and Liberties thereof, to
take notice of, and obserue these seuerall Articles ensuing, Viz.
First, that all the seuerall Inhabitants within this City and Liberties thereof, doe
from hence forth daily cause their houses to be kept sweet,3 the streets and lanes before their doores to bee paued, and cleansed of all manner
of soile, dung, and noisome things whatsoeuer, and the channels thereof to be kept
cleane, and washt, by water to be poured down, or let running into the same.
That no Vagrants or Beggars doe presume to come, or presse together in Multitudes
to any Buriall, or Lectures, or other publike meetings, whereby to seeke or gaine
reliefe as hath beene lately vsed, but that they and euery of them vpon euery Buriall,
doe repaire to such places to receiue the Almes, Charity or Reliefe, as they shall
haue notice giuen them by the Officers of the Parish, wherein they doe reside.4
That no idle Vagaband, and vagrant Persons doe presume to come, wander or remaine
in and about this Citie and Liberties thereof, either to begge reliefe or otherwise.
And if any of them shall be found, or taken to offend therein, Then they and euery
of them to be apprehended by the Constables and Warders with in this Citie, and being
punished, to be passed away according to the Lawes and statutes of this Realme, in
that case made and prouided for.
That the Feasts and Meetings at Hals, Tauernes, or other places within this Citie or Liberties, vsed to be made by the Countrimen
of any Shire, or other place within this Realme, Wrastlings, and Fencers Prises, Shewes,
or the like, which hath been a cause of gathering multitudes together, be now forborne,
and not attempted to be made by any person or persons whatsoeuer, vntill the City
and the places adiacent shall bee cleare of the present infection (which God of his
mercy grant.)
That no Fruiterer or other Seller of Fruite, Cabbages, Rootes or Herbes, doe keepe
or lay vp in any their houses, warehouses, or oThis text has been supplied. Reason: Type not (sufficiently) inked. Evidence: The
text has been supplied based on evidence internal to this text (context, etc.). (KL)ther place within this City or Liberties thereof, any Apples, Herbes, Roots, Cabbages,
or other fruite whatsoeuer, other than in the warehouses anciently vsed for such purpose,
lying in or about Thamestreet, or the places thereunto adioyning.
And for the better and more due performance of all and euery the premisses, the said
Lord Mayor and Aldermen doe hereby straightly charge and command all Constables, Scauengers,
Beadles, and other officers within this Citie and Liberties thereof, whom these may
any way concerne, to vse all possible care and diligence they may, for the due and
carefull execution and performance of all and euery the said Articles according to
the true intent and meaning thereof, & to acquaint the Lord Mayor of this City, or
some other his Maiesties Iustices of Peace within the same of all & euery the parties
as shall be found to offend therein, whereby they & euery of them may be punished,
& dealt withall according to the qualitie of the offence as the Law in such case shall
require, As they and euery of them will answer to the contrary at their perils.
God saue the King.
Notes
References
-
Citation
Lancashire, Anne. Mayors and Sheriffs of London. U of Toronto. https://masl.library.utoronto.ca/. [We cite this resource parenthetically by the acronym MASL.] -
Citation
Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford UP. https://www.oed.com/.This item is cited in the following documents:
Cite this page
MLA citation
Articles for the Plague.The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6, edited by , U of Victoria, 30 Jun. 2021, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/PLAG2.htm.
Chicago citation
Articles for the Plague.The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6. Ed. . Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 30, 2021. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/PLAG2.htm.
APA citation
The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 6.6). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/6.6/PLAG2.htm.
. 2021. Articles for the Plague. In (Ed), RIS file (for RefMan, RefWorks, EndNote etc.)
Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Mayor of London ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - Articles for the Plague T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 6.6 PY - 2021 DA - 2021/06/30 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/PLAG2.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/xml/standalone/PLAG2.xml ER -
TEI citation
<bibl type="mla"><author><name ref="#MAYO2" type="org">Mayor of London</name></author>.
<title level="a">Articles for the Plague</title>. <title level="m">The Map of Early
Modern London</title>, Edition <edition>6.6</edition>, edited by <editor><name ref="#JENS1"><forename>Janelle</forename>
<surname>Jenstad</surname></name></editor>, <publisher>U of Victoria</publisher>,
<date when="2021-06-30">30 Jun. 2021</date>, <ref target="https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/PLAG2.htm">mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/PLAG2.htm</ref>.</bibl>
Personography
-
Lucas Simpson
LS
Research Assistant, 2018-present. Lucas Simpson is a student at the University of Victoria.Roles played in the project
-
Abstract Author
-
Author
-
Compiler
-
Data Manager
-
Editor
-
Encoder
-
Geo-Coordinate Researcher
-
Markup Editor
-
Proofreader
-
Researcher
-
Transcriber
-
Transcription Proofreader
Contributions by this author
Lucas Simpson is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Lucas Simpson is mentioned in the following documents:
-
-
Kate LeBere
KL
Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, old-spelling library texts,quickstart
documentation for new research assistants, and worked to standardize both the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.Roles played in the project
-
Abstract Author
-
Author
-
CSS Editor
-
Compiler
-
Conceptor
-
Copy Editor
-
Data Manager
-
Editor
-
Encoder
-
Geo-Coordinate Researcher
-
Markup Editor
-
Proofreader
-
Researcher
-
Toponymist
-
Transcriber
-
Transcription Proofreader
Contributions by this author
Kate LeBere is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Kate LeBere is mentioned in the following documents:
-
-
Tracey El Hajj
TEH
Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course onArtificial Intelligence and Everyday Life.
Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.Roles played in the project
-
Author
-
CSS Editor
-
Editor
-
Geo-Coordinate Researcher
-
Junior Programmer
Contributions by this author
Tracey El Hajj is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Tracey El Hajj is mentioned in the following documents:
-
-
Joey Takeda
JT
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.Roles played in the project
-
Abstract Author
-
Author
-
CSS Editor
-
Compiler
-
Conceptor
-
Copy Editor
-
Editor
-
Encoder
-
Geo-Coordinate Researcher
-
Junior Programmer
-
Markup Editor
-
Metadata Architect
-
Post-Conversion Editor
-
Programmer
-
Proofreader
-
Researcher
-
Toponymist
-
Transcriber
-
Transcription Proofreader
Contributions by this author
Joey Takeda is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Joey Takeda is mentioned in the following documents:
Joey Takeda authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
-
Jenstad, Janelle and Joseph Takeda.
Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices.
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print.
-
-
Tye Landels-Gruenewald
TLG
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.Roles played in the project
-
Author
-
CSS Editor
-
Compiler
-
Conceptor
-
Copy Editor
-
Data Manager
-
Editor
-
Encoder
-
Geo-Coordinate Researcher
-
Markup Editor
-
Metadata Architect
-
Proofreader
-
Researcher
-
Toponymist
-
Transcriber
-
Transcription Proofreader
Contributions by this author
Tye Landels-Gruenewald is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Tye Landels-Gruenewald is mentioned in the following documents:
-
-
Kim McLean-Fiander
KMF
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.Roles played in the project
-
Associate Project Director
-
Author
-
CSS Editor
-
Compiler
-
Copy Editor
-
Data Manager
-
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach
-
Editor
-
Encoder
-
Geo-Coordinate Researcher
-
JCURA Co-Supervisor
-
Managing Editor
-
Markup Editor
-
Metadata Architect
-
Proofreader
-
Research Fellow
-
Toponymist
-
Transcriber
-
Transcription Proofreader
-
Vetter
Contributions by this author
Kim McLean-Fiander is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Kim McLean-Fiander is mentioned in the following documents:
-
-
Janelle Jenstad
JJ
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).Roles played in the project
-
Abstract Author
-
Author
-
Compiler
-
Conceptor
-
Copy Editor
-
Course Instructor
-
Course Supervisor
-
Data Manager
-
Editor
-
Encoder
-
Geo-Coordinate Researcher
-
JCURA Co-Supervisor
-
Markup Editor
-
Metadata Architect
-
Peer Reviewer
-
Project Director
-
Proofreader
-
Researcher
-
Toponymist
-
Transcriber
-
Transcription Proofreader
-
Vetter
Contributions by this author
Janelle Jenstad is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Janelle Jenstad is mentioned in the following documents:
Janelle Jenstad authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
-
Jenstad, Janelle and Joseph Takeda.
Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices.
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.
Placing Names. Ed. Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, and Humphrey Southall. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2016. 129-145. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
The Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody.
The Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C.E. McGee and A.L. Magnusson. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002. 181–202. Print. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 5.1–26..The City Cannot Hold You
: Social Conversion in the Goldsmith’s Shop. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
The Silver Society Journal 10 (1998): 40–43.The Gouldesmythes Storehowse
: Early Evidence for Specialisation. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 373–403. doi:10.1215/10829636–34–2–373. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.
Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed. Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
Smock Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage.
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ed. Katherine Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 87–99. Print. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London.
GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed. Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?.
Janelle Jenstad Blog. https://janellejenstad.com/2013/03/20/versioning-john-stows-a-survey-of-london-or-whats-new-in-1618-and-1633/. -
Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Internet Shakespeare Editions. U of Victoria. http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/MV/.
-
Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed.
-
-
Martin D. Holmes
MDH
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.Roles played in the project
-
Abstract Author
-
Author
-
Conceptor
-
Editor
-
Encoder
-
Geo-Coordinate Researcher
-
Markup Editor
-
Post-Conversion Editor
-
Programmer
-
Proofreader
-
Researcher
Contributions by this author
Martin D. Holmes is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Martin D. Holmes is mentioned in the following documents:
-
-
Jennifer Drouin
Jennifer Drouin is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Assistant Professor of English in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. Her monograph, Shakespeare in Québec: Nation, Gender, and Adaptation, was published by University of Toronto Press in 2014. She has also published essays in Theatre Research in Canada, Borrowers and Lenders, Shakespeare Re-Dressed, Native Shakespeares, Queer Renaissance Historiography, Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth, Shakespeare on Screen: Othello, and on the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project site. Her previous digital humanities work includes the SSHRC-MCRI-funded Making Publics project website. In collaboration with the Internet Shakespeare Editions, she is currently working on a bilingual critical anthology and database called Shakespeare au/in Québec (SQ), which aims to produce TEI critical editions of 35 Québécois adaptations of Shakespeare written since the Quiet Revolution.Roles played in the project
-
Guest Editor
Jennifer Drouin is mentioned in the following documents:
-
Emily Donahoe
ED
Student contributor enrolled in English 500: Digital Humanities at the University of Alabama in Spring 2015, working under the guest editorship of Jennifer Drouin. Students in this class participated in MoEML’s first encoding partnership.Roles played in the project
-
Encoder
-
Toponymist
Emily Donahoe is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Emily Donahoe is mentioned in the following documents:
-
-
Robert Ducye is mentioned in the following documents:
-
Robert Young is mentioned in the following documents:
Locations
-
London is mentioned in the following documents:
-
Thames Street
Thames Street was the longest street in early modern London, running east-west from the ditch around the Tower of London in the east to St. Andrew’s Hill and Puddle Wharf in the west, almost the complete span of the city within the walls.Thames Street is mentioned in the following documents:
-
Guildhall is mentioned in the following documents:
Organizations
-
Mayor of London
The Mayor (or Lord Mayor) of London was an office occupied annually by a new mayor. For the purposes of recording the authorship of mayoral proclamations, MoEML distinguishes between the office of the mayor and the person elected to the office for the year.Roles played in the project
-
Author
Contributions by this author
This organization is mentioned in the following documents:
-
-
Roles played in the project
-
First Encoders
-
Transcriber
This organization is mentioned in the following documents:
-