BY THE KING.
¶ A Proclamation for the auoiding of all intercourse betweene His Maiesties Royall Court, and the Cities of London and Westmin­ster, and places adioyning.

HIS Maiestie hauing taken a resolution that Himselfe and His Roy­all Cons;ort the Queene and their Courts shall very shortly re­mooue, first to His Castle of Windsor, and after to His Honour of Hampton-Court, and there to settle: and foreseeing that the vicinity of those places to the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Suburbs thereof, and the Borough of Southwarke and Towne of Lambeth, which long haue beene, and yet are so grieuously infected with the Plague, is apt to draw an intercourse between those Cities and places and the Court, which may bring extreme perill to the Sacred Persons of their Royall Maiesties, vnlesse it be very carefully auoided. For the preuenting therefore of so great and so apparant a danger, wherein all His Maiesties good and louing Subiects haue so large an interest, His Maiesty doth straitly charge & command, that no person or persons of what degree or quality soeuer do presume to goe or repaire directly or indirectly, from the said Cities of London or Westminster, or either of them, or the Suburbs of them, or either of them, or the Borough of Southwarke or Towne of Lambeth, vnto the Court, or to goe from the Court vnto the said Cities of London or Westminster, or the Suburbs of them, or the said Borough of Southwarke, or Towne of Lambeth, or either, or any of them, and returne backe to the Court againe, vpon paine of his Maiesties heauy displeasure, and of such further punishment as can by Law or by his Maiesties Prerogatiue Royall be inflicted vpon them for so high a contempt. And if any Seruant to his Maiesty, or to the Queene his Royall consort, in any office or place whatsoeuer, shall offend herein, and either in their owne person haue recourse to and fro, or wittingly suffer any other to haue recourse or accesse vnto them from those Cities or Suburbs thereof, or places aforesaid, His Maiestie doth hereby signifie and publish his determinate purpose and resolution, That eue­ry such offender shall not onely ipso facto forfeit and lose the office or place he hol­deth, without any hope or expectation of fauour now or at any time hereafter, but shall also incurre the heauiest and seuerest punishment which can be inflicted vpon them. And his Maiesty doeth straitly charge and command all his louing Subiects to be carefull in the due execution of his Royall will and pleasure herein, not onely in their owne persons, but in all others as much as in them lieth, and this to be strictly obserued and continued vntill his Maiesty shall see cause to inlarge this restraint a­gaine.

God saue the King.

Printed at Oxford by I.L. and W.T. for BONHAM NORTON, and IOHN BILL, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie.

ANNO DOM. M.DC.XXV.

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