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These are two questions which suggest very different answers:) especially in hindsight:) without specifying where the person lives, my only guess is for the second question - exterminate rats; but it might have been simply impossible to arrive at in 1400, so - lessen taxes?
That's part of the point.
Is that possible with XV-century technology and level of social organization?
I think so (based on fictional evidence of a Kipling's story). For example, the church could damn rats, it would make people united in their efforts.
If we're going for fictional evidence, it's easier to train an army of Pied Pipers :-)