'for the ornament and security of this Citty from fire...all houses now erected or hereafter to bee erected in Foregatestreete, Eastgatestreete, Northgatestreete, and Bridgestreete of this Citty shall be covered with slate or tyle and not thatched'.
As well as reducing the number of fires, this had the unexpected bonus of reducing the numbers of rats in the city, as they lived in the thatch in great numbers, and the city has had no outbreaks of plague since, though this may well be coincidental.
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