THe Kings most Excellent Maiestie, considering what pe­rill oftentimes ensueth by the meanes of great assemblies of peo­ple in the time of infectious diseases; doth therfore straitly charge and command, that no maner of person or persons, of what e­state, degree, or condition he or they be, inhabiting within the Ci­ties of London, and Westminster, and the Suburbes of the same, or any other place where the Infection of the Plague is, or hath bene within sixe weekes next before the date hereof, doe presume to resort, or come vnto his Highnesse Court at Whitehall, or wher­soeuer it shall please the King, the Queene, or the Prince to lie or abide, vntill such time as his Highnesse pleasure shall bee further knowen therein, except the Lords the Bishops of this Realme, the Iudges of the Lawe, his Maiesties learned Councell, the principall Magistrates of the Cities of London, and Westminster, and all Houshold seruants of his Maiesties, and other necessary persons for prouisions of his Highnesse Houshould, not hauing the Infection of the Plague in their houses, or neere vnto them, by the space of sixe weekes, as aforesaid.

It is also further by his Maiestie thus prouided, That if any other (except before excep­ted) shall haue necessary cause to resort or come vnto the Court from any of the places before named, the same persons shall not come within the vtter gates of the Court, vntill they haue first sent one of the Kings Maiesties Porters at the Gates, and to him declared, vnto whom they haue necessary occasion to repaire within the Court, And thereupon the saide Porter shall cause the parties to stay abroad, without entring into any House, Tent, or companie of any person, and shall certifie the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlaine, the Treasourer, the Comptroller, the Secretary, the Vice chamberlaine, or any other of his Maiesties Prinie Councell, or some of the principall Officers of the Greenecloth, if the matter shal appertaine to the Kings Maiesties Houshould, according to the qualitie of the matter, and of the persons with whome the parties haue to doe in the Court: and by a warrant in writing vnder the hands of any of the said Lords Counsellers, or Officers, or by signification from some prin­cipall person about them, certified to any of the Kings Maiesties Porters, that the said per­sons shall or may come into the Court: then the said Porter shall permit and suffer them so to doe: otherwise the said persons shalbe commanded to returned without any longer abi­ding, vpon paine of his Maiesties grieuous displeasure, and seuere punishment in the Marshalsey.

Giuen at our Palace of Westminster, the first day of Nouember, in the fourth yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.

God saue the King.