❧ By the Queene.

WHereas aduertisement is giuen vnto vs, that there is at this time dispersed within our Citie of London, and the Suburbs thereof, a great multitude of base and loose people, such as nei­ther haue any certeine place of abode, nor any good or lawfull cause of businesse to attend hereabouts, but lie priuily in cor­ners and bad houses, listning after newes and stirres, and spreading rumours and tales, being of likelihood ready to lay holde of any occasion to enter into any tumult or disoder, thereby to seeke rapine and pil­lage: And likewise that further numbers of such sort of vagabond people do continually flocke and gather to our City, and the places confining about the same: Forasmuch as we haue lately in this most dangerous and desperate action of Rebellion, had most eui­dent and full proofe of the loyall and true hearts and setled and vnmooueable affections, aswell of the rest of our Subiects, as specially of our Citizens of London, whereby we do to our great comfort foresee there can grow no account of disturbance of our peace and quiet, but from such refuse and vagabond people:

Therefore we doe streightly command and charge all persons, that such loose people, hauing no certaine dwelling or abode within the Citie and Suburbs thereof, or other­wise no sufficient cause of stay or lawfull businesse, presently auoyde, and get them downe into the Countrey, vpon paine of death by Marshall Lawe, to be executed vpon them, And doe in like maner commaund all people of like sort and condition, or any other per­sons that cannot yeeld some reasonable cause of their repaire, to forbeare to come out of the Countrey to our sayd Citie, or the Suburbs thereof, vpon like paine: And wee doe streightly charge as well our Prouost Marshall, as the Constables and others, to whom it may appertaine, to apprehend such offendours, that they be proceeded with, with all care and diligence, as they will answere it at their vttermost perill.

Giuen at our Palace of Westminster the fifteenth day of Februarie 1600. in the three and fortieth yeere of our Raigne.


God saue the Queene.

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie.

ANNO DOM. 1600.

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