WHereas His MAIESTIE hath taken speciall care, and given seue­rall directions, that the vsuall Assemblies and concourse of people might be omitted and forborne, the better to prevent the Danger and Increase of the Infection: Yet finding that the Plague is dispersed in sundry places in and neere about the Citie of London, His Maiestie in pursuance of those directions, and out of His continuall care of the safety of His Subiects in generall, and of the said City in particular, and to cut off all occasions that may conduce to the further spreading of the sicknesse, Doth hereby declare his Royall will and pleasure for the putting off this next Bartholomew Faire, vsually keptin Smithfield, and of a Faire kept in Southwarke, called our Lady Faire.

And therefore his Maiesty doth admonish and command all His louing Subiects to for­beare to resort this yeare to the said Faires or either of them; And doth also require and en­ioyne the Lords, and others interessed in the same Faires, that they shall not hold this now next Bartholomew Faire in Smithfield, nor our Lady Faire in Southwarke nor elsewhere; Vpon paine of such punishment, as for a Contempt so much concerning the generall safety of His Maiesties Subiects they shall be adiudged to deserve.

Giuen at Our Court at Oatelands, the three and twentieth day of Iuly in the thirteenth yeare of Our Reigne.

❧ God saue the King.