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BY THE KING. A Proclamation prohibiting the keeping of Bartholomew Faire, and Sturbridge Faire.

THE Kings moſt Excellent Maieſtie out of his Princely and Chriſtian care of his louing Subiects, that no good meanes of providence may bee neglected to ſtay the further ſpreading of the great infection of the Plague, doth finde it neceſſary to prevent all occaſions of publique concourſe of His people for the preſent, till it ſhall pleaſe Almighty God of his goodneſſe, to ceaſe the violence of the contagion, which is very farre diſperſed into many parts of the Kingdome already. And therefore remembring that there are at hand two Faires of ſpeciall note, vnto which there is vſually extraordinary reſort out of all parts of the Kingdome. The one kept in Smithfield neare the Citty of London, called Bartholomew Faire: and the other neare Cambridge, called Sturbridge Faire. The holding whereof at the vſuall times would in all likelyhood be the occaſion of further danger and infection to other parts of the Land, which yet by Gods mercy ſtand cleere, and free. Hath with the advice of his Maieſties Privie Councell, thought good by this open declaration of His pleaſure, and neceſſary commandment, not only to admoniſh and require all his louing Subiects to forbeare to reſort for this time to either of the ſaid two Faires, or to any other Faires within fifty miles of the ſaid Citty of London, but alſo to inioyne the Lords of the ſaid Faires, and others intereſſed in them, or any of them, that they all forbeare to hold the ſaid Faires, or any thing appertaining to them at the times accuſtomed, or at any other time, till by Gods goodneſſe and mercy the infection of the plague ſhall ceaſe, or be ſo much diminiſhed, that his Maieſtie ſhall giue order for holding them, vpon paine of ſuch puniſhment, as for a contempt, ſo much concerning the vniverſall ſafety of his people, they ſhall be adiudged to deſerue, which they muſt expect to be inflicted with all ſeverity, his Maieſties deſire being ſo intentiue for preventing the generall infection threatned, as he is reſolued to ſpare no man that ſhall be the cauſe of diſperſing the ſame. And to that purpoſe doth hereby further charge and enioyne vnder like penalty, all Cittizens, and Inhabitants of the ſaid Citty of London, that none of them ſhall repaire to any Faire held within any part of this Kingdome, vntill it ſhall pleaſe God to ceaſe the infection now reigning amongſt them, his Maieſties intention being, and ſo hereby declaring himſelfe, that no Lord of any Faires, or others intereſsed in the profits thereof, ſhall by this neceſſary and temporary reſtraint receiue any preiudice in the right of his, or their Faires, or liberties therevnto belonging, any thing before mentioned notwithſtanding. Given at the Court at Woodſtocke the fourth day of Auguſt in the firſt yeare of his Maieſties Raigne of great Brittaine, France, and Ireland.

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. 1625.