Orders, thought meete by Her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same. Also, an aduise set downe vpon Her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines. Without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordring of them after they shalbe infected
A 1578 London proclamation printed by Christopher Barker for Elizabeth I and her Privy Council, giving orders and simple medical advice against plague for English counties and towns. The two pictures are a dense black-on-cream repeating ornamental border of interlaced scrolls and a black-letter text block with decorated initial capital, offering a designer examples of strapline-style pattern repeats and early printed typography.
