By the King At our first entrance into this our realme, and in al the way as we haue passed, we tooke no small contentment in the resort of noblemen, gentlemen and other our subiects comming to visit vs, holding their affectionate desire to see our person, to bee a certaine testimony of their inward loue.

¶ By the King.

AT our firſt entrance into this our Realme, and in al the way as we haue paſſed, we tooke no ſmall contentment in the reſort Noblemen, Gentlemen and other our Subiects comming to viſit vs, holding their affectionate deſire to ſee our Perſon, to bee a certaine teſtimony of their inward loue. And in the ſame contentment we haue dwelled ſince our ſoiourning at this place, and ſhall euer remaine, as long as ſuch concourſe of them to our Court may bee without grieuance and offence to the Body of this Realme. But hearing from all parts of our Kingdome, that by the remooue of great numbers of the principall Gentlement out of the ſeuerall Counties, aſwell of ſuch as haue charge there, as Deputie Lieutenants, or Commiſſioners for the Muſters or for the Peace, as others with their whole families, both th'execution of things incident to their charge is omitted, and hoſpitalitie exceedingly decayed, whereby the reliefe of the poorer ſort of peole is taken away, who had from ſuch Houſes much comfort and caſe towards their living: For remedy of the inconueniences like to grow thereby, and alſo for that we finde the ſickneſſe already ſomewhat forward within our City of London, which by concourſe of people abiding there is very like to be increaſed, and importeth vs aſwel for our peoples ſake, as for the ſafety of our owne Perſon (who for the moſt part liue in places neere the ſaid City) to preuent by all prouident meanes: Wee haue bene mooued rather to want for a time the contentment wee haue in the ſight and reſort of our Subiects to vs, then for our owne priuate delight, to giue way to ſo great a miſchiefe, as the continuall reſort hither may breed. Wherefore we do hereby wil and command all Gentlemen and others, aſwell ſuch as haue any kind of charge in the Counties of their ordinary habitation, as of other ſort, That if they haue not ſome ſpeciall cauſe of attendancé at our Court for our Seruice, or for ſome neceſſary cauſe concerning their owne eſtate, whereof they may informe our Priuie Councell, they ſhall immediatly after the ende of this Terme depart our ſaid City of London and the Suburbs thereof, and returne to their ſeuerall habitations in the Counties of their abode, vntill the time of our Coronation be come, at what time we ſhall not miſlike to haue them returne vntill that ſolemnitie be paſſed. And becauſe we perceiue that heretofore there hath bene a great neglect in obeying Proclamations publiſhed vpon iuſt cauſes, we do admoniſh all thoſe whom this Proclamation concerneth, to be ſo wary, as Wee haue not iuſt cauſe to make them an example of contempt, which wee muſt and will doe, if after the Terme ended we ſhall finde any making ſtay here, contrary to this direction.

Giuen at our Manour of Greenewich the 29. of May, in the firſt yere of our Reigne of England, France and Ireland, and the ſixe and thirtieth of Scotland. God ſaue the King.