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.

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.

Giuen at Our Court at Salisbury the ſeuenteenth day of October, in the firſt yeere of Our Reigne of Great Brittaine, France, and Ireland. God ſaue the King.