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. - Elizabeth I, 1533-1603 Queen of England (imprinted by Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1558)