spare house at his choice, so as, if he send away first his sound,
he do not after send thither the sick; nor again unto the sick, the
sound; and that the same which he sendeth be for one week at the
least shut up, and secluded from company, for the fear of some
infection at first not appearing.

_Burial of the Dead._

That the burial of the dead by this visitation be at most
convenient hours, always before sunrising, or after sunsetting,
with the privity[80] of the churchwardens, or constable, and not
otherwise; and that no neighbors nor friends be suffered to
accompany the corpse to church, or to enter the house visited, upon
pain of having his house shut up, or be imprisoned.

And that no corpse dying of the infection shall be buried, or
remain in any church, in time of common prayer, sermon, or lecture.
And that no children be suffered, at time of burial of any corpse,
in any church, churchyard, or burying place, to come near the
corpse, coffin, or grave; and that all graves shall be at least six
feet deep.

And further, all public assemblies at other burials are to be
forborne during the continuance of this visitation.

_No Infected Stuff to be uttered._[81]

That no clothes, stuff, bedding, or garments, be suffered to be
carried or conveyed out of any infected houses, and that the criers
and carriers abroad of bedding or old apparel to be sold or pawned