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<HEAD>&leaf; By the Queene.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas aduerti&s;ement is giuen vnto vs, that there is at this time di&s;per&s;ed within our City of London, and the Suburbs thereof, a great multitude of ba&s;e and loo&s;e people, &s;uch as neither haue any certeine place of abode, nor any good or lawfull cau&s;e of bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to attend hereabouts, but lie priuily corners and bad hou&s;es, li&s;t|ning after newes and &s;tirres, and &s;preading rumours and tales, being of like lihood ready to lay holde of any occa&s;ion to enter into any tumult or di&s;order, thereby to &s;eeke rapine and pillage: And like wi&s;e that further num|bers of &s;uch for&s;t of vagabond people doe continually &s;tocke and gather to our City, and the places confining about the &s;ame: Fora&s;much as we haue lately in this mo&s;t dangerous and de&s;perate action of Rebellion, had mo&s;t euident and full proofe of the loyall and true hearts and &s;etled and vnmoouebale affections, a&s;well of the re&s;t of our Subiects, as &s;pecially of our Citizens of London, whereby we do to our great comfort fore&s;ee there can grow now account of di&s;turbance of our peace and quiet, but from &s;uch refu&s;e and vagabond people:</P>
<P>Therefore we doe &s;treightly command and charge all per&s;ons, that &s;uch loo&s;e people, ha|uing no certaine dwelling or abode within the Citie and Suburbs thereof, or otherwi&s;e no &s;ufficient cau&s;e of &s;tay or lawfull bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, pre&s;ently anoyde, and get them downe into the Countrey, vpon paine of death by Mar&s;hall Lawe, to be executed vpon them, And doe in like maner commaund all people of like &s;ort and condition, or any other per&s;ons that can|not yeelde &s;ome rea&s;onable cau&s;e of their repaire, to forbeare to come out of the Countrey to our &s;aide Citie, or the Suburbs thereof, vpon like paine: And wee doe &s;treightly charge as well our Prouo&s;t Mar&s;hall, as the Con&s;tables and others, to whom it may appertaine, to apprehend &s;uch offendours, that they be proceeded with, with all care and diligence, as they will an&s;were it at their vttermo&s;t perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at our Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter <DATE>the fifteenth day of Februarie 1600. in the three and fortieth yeere of our Raigne.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;aue the Queene.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Queenes mo&s;t <HI>excellent Maiestie.</HI></P>
<P>ANNO 1600.</P>
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