In the towns, shop shutters were let down to form a counter.
Behide this the goods were made and/or stored. The towns held a
market once a week. Fairs occurred once or twice a year. At given
times in the towns, everyone was to throw buckets of water onto
the street to cleanse it. During epidemics in towns, there was
quarantine of those affected to stay in their houses unless going
out on business. Their houses were marked and they had to carry a
white rod when outside. The quarantine of a person lasted for
forty days. The straw in his house was burned and his clothes
treated. People who died had to be buried under six feet of
ground. There was an outbreak of plague in London roughly every
ten years.
There was a pity for the distressed that resulted in towns voting
money for a people of a village that had burned down or been
decimated by the plague.
Communities were taxed for the upkeep and relief of the prisoners
in the gaols in their communities.
Queen Elizabeth was puzzling over the proper relationship between
the crown and the church when Richard Hooker, a humble scholar,
theologian, and clergyman, attempted to find a justification in
reason for the establishment of the Church of England as an
official part of the governing apparatus of the nation. His
thinking was a turning point from the medieval notion that God
ordered society, including the designation of its monarch and its
natural laws.
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