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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie con&s;idering</HI> what perill oftentimes en&s;ueth by the meanes of great a&s;&s;emblies of people in the time of Infections di&s;ea&s;es, Doeth therefore &s;treightly charge and commaund, That no maner of per&s;on or per&s;ons of what e&s;tate, degree or condition he or they be, inhabiting within the Cities of London, or We&s;tmin&s;ter, the Suburbs of the &s;ame, or any other place where the Iu&s;ection of the Plague is, not being Hou&s;hold &s;eruants to his Maie&s;tie, or nece&s;|&s;ary per&s;ons for proui&s;ions of his Hou&s;hold, doe pre&s;ume to re&s;ort or come vnto his Highne&s;&s;e Court at Whitehall, or where&s;oeuer it &s;hall plea&s;e his Maie&s;tie to lye or abide, vntill &s;uch time as his Highne&s;&s;e plea&s;ure &s;hall be further knowen herein, (except the Lords, the Bi&s;hops of this Realme, the Iudges of the Law, the King and Queenes learned Councell, the princi|pal Magi&s;trates of the Citie of London, his Highne&s;&s;e Hou&s;hold &s;eruants, and nece&s;&s;ary per|&s;ons for proui&s;ions of his Maie&s;ties Hou&s;hold, not hauing the Infection of the Plague in their hou&s;es, or neere vnto them, during the time afore&s;aid.)</P>
<P>It is al&s;o further by his Maie&s;tie thus prouided, That if any other (except before excepted) &s;hall haue nece&s;&s;ary cau&s;e to come vnto the Court from the &s;aid Cities of London, We&s;tmin|&s;ter, the &s;aid Suburbs or other places before declared, the &s;ame per&s;ons &s;hall not come with|in the vtter gate of the Court, vntill they haue fir&s;t &s;ent vnto one of the Kings Maie&s;ties Por|ters at the Gates, and to him declared vnto whom he hath nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ion to repaire with|in the Court, and thereupon the &s;aid Porter &s;hall cau&s;e the party to &s;tay abroad, without en|tring into any Hou&s;e, Tent, or company of any per&s;ons, and &s;hall certifie the Lord Steward, Lord Chamberleine, Ma&s;ter Trea&s;ourer, Ma&s;ter Comptroller, the Vicechamberlein, or one of them, or &s;ome of the principall Officers of the Greencloth, if the matter appertaine to the Kings Maie&s;ties Hou&s;hold, or to &s;ome other of the Lords, or other of his Maie&s;ties Priuie Councell, according to the qualitie of the matter, and of the per&s;ons with whom the party hath to doe in the Court, and by a warrant in writing, &s;igned with the handes of any of the &s;aid Lords, Councellers, or Officers, certified to any of the Kings Maie&s;ties Porters, that the &s;aid per&s;on &s;hall, or may come into the Court, then the &s;aid Porter &s;hall permit and &s;uffer him &s;o to doe: otherwi&s;e the &s;aid per&s;ons &s;hall be commanded to returne without any longer abiding, vpon paine of his Maie&s;ties grieuous di&s;plea&s;ure, and &s;euere puni&s;hment in the Mar&s;hal&s;ea.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at his Maie&s;ties Palace of We&s;tmin&s;ter <DATE>the &s;econd day of Nouember, in the fifth yeere of his Highne&s;&s;e reigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie.</P>
<P>ANNO DOM. 1607.</P>
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