THE securing against all Apprehensions of this Kind, is of so great Importance, that in _Cities_ too large to be invested, as, for Example, this City of _London_, the _Magistrates_ must use all possible Diligence to supply this Defect, not only by setting up _Barriers_ without their City, but by making it in the most particular manner their Care to appoint such _Orders_ to be observed at them, as they shall judge will be most satisfactory to the Country about.
THOUGH Liberty ought to be given to the _People_, yet no sort of _Goods_ must by any means be suffered to be carried over the _Line_, which are made of _Materials_ retentive of _Infection_. For in the present Case, when _Infection_ has seized any Part of a Country, much greater Care ought to be taken, that no _Seeds_ of the _Contagion_ be conveyed about, than when the Distemper is at a great Distance: because a _Bale of Goods_, which shall have imbibed the _Contagious Aura_ when pack'd up in _Turky_, or any remote Parts, when unpack'd here, may chance to meet with so healthful a Temperament of our Air, that it shall not do much hurt. But when the Air of any one of our Towns shall be so corrupted, as to maintain and spread the _Pestilence_ in it, there will be little Reason to believe, that the Air of the rest of the Country is in a much better State.
FOR the same Reason _Quarantaines_ should more strictly be enjoined, when the _Plague_ is in a bordering Kingdom, than when it is more remote.
THE Advice here given with respect to _Goods_, is not only abundantly confirmed from the Proofs, I have given above, that _Goods_ have a Power of spreading _Contagion_ to distant Places; but might be farther illustrated by many Instances of ill Effects from the Neglect of this Caution in Times of the _Plague_. I shall mention two, which happen'd among us during the last _Plague_. I have had occasion already to observe, that the _Plague_ was in _Poole_. It was carried to that Place by some _Goods_ contained in a _Pedlar's Pack_. The _Plague_ was likewise at _Eham_ in the Peak of _Derbyshire_, being brought thither by means of a Box sent from _London_ to a Taylor in that Village, containing some Materials relating to his Trade. There being several Incidents in this latter Instance, that will not only serve to establish in particular the Precepts I have been giving, in relation to Goods, but likewise all the rest of the Directions, that have been set down, for stopping the Progress of the _Plague_ from one Town to another; I shall finish this Chapter with a particular Relation of what passed in that Place. A Servant, who first opened the foresaid _Box_, complaining that the Goods were damp, was ordered to dry them at the Fire; but in doing it, was seized with the _Plague_, and died: the same Misfortune extended itself to all the rest of the Family, except the Taylor's Wife, who alone survived. From hence the Distemper spread about and destroyed in that Village, and the rest of the Parish, though a small one, between two and three hundred Persons. But notwithstanding this so great Violence of the Disease, it was restrained from reaching beyond that Parish by the Care of the Rector; from whose Son, and another worthy Gentleman, I have the Relation. This Clergyman advised, that the _Sick_ should be removed into _Hutts_ or _Barracks_ built upon the _Common_; and procuring by the Interest of the then Earl of _Devonshire_, that the People should be well furnished with Provisions, he took effectual Care, that no one should go out of the Parish: and by this means he protected his Neighbours from Infection with compleat Success.