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<HEAD>&leaf; By the King.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe Kings Maie&s;tie perceiuing the great inconueniences, which</HI> dayly doe ari&s;e by the continuall additions of a multitude of New buildings in the Citie of London and the Suburbs and confines thereof, and the filling &amp; pe&s;tering of hou&s;es with Inmates and &s;euerall dwellers (and tho&s;e of the wor&s;e &s;ort) almo&s;t in euery &s;euerall roome, whereby both the people increa&s;ing to &s;o great numbers, are not well to be gouer|ned by the wonted Officers and ordinarie Iuri&s;diction of the &s;ame, and likewi&s;e the pri|ces of Victuals are by that meanes exce&s;&s;iuely inhaunced, and the health of his louing Subiects, not onely tho&s;e which inhabite in and about the &s;aid City, but al&s;o all others repairing thither from all parts, (in re&s;pect either of the v&s;uall re&s;iance of his Maie&s;ties Court thereabouts, or otherwi&s;e for ordinary Iu&s;tice) indangered (whereof the pre&s;ent Infection in and about this City, makes his Maie&s;tie the more &s;en&s;ible) And moreouer the other good Townes and Borrowes of his kingdome by rea&s;on of &s;o great receit for people in and about the &s;aid City, are much vnpeopled, and in their trading, and otherwi&s;e de|cayed, for remedy of which inconueniences, there haue bene diuers politique and nece&s;&s;ary Proclamations, a&s;well in the time of the late Queene <HI>Elizabeth</HI> of famous memorie, as &s;ince his Maie&s;ties mo&s;t happy reigne, publi&s;hed and deui|&s;ed: His Maie&s;tie mindes to require accompt a&s;wel of tho&s;e that haue neglected the execution of them, as to puni&s;h the of|fenders again&s;t the &s;ame: And further by the deliberate adui&s;e of his Priuie Councell hath determined, to take yet a more &s;trait and &s;euere cour&s;e, for the auoyding of the like inconueniences hereafter. For although there be manife&s;t cau&s;e of greater concour&s;e of people to the &s;aid City, and by con&s;equence, of habitation and receit for them, by rea&s;on of the large|ne&s;&s;e of his Highne&s;&s;e dominions, and the vniuer&s;al peace wherein his Maie&s;tie liues and gouernes: yet notwith&s;tanding his Maie&s;tie (con&s;idering that the foundations already layd within the &s;aid City and Suburbs and confines of the &s;ame cannot but be &s;ufficient for all that &s;hall haue iu&s;t cau&s;e to dwell or abide hereabouts) hath therefore re&s;olued, that vnle&s;&s;e it be in &s;ome rare ca&s;es, and by &s;peciall Licence, as hereafter in the&s;e Pre&s;ents &s;hall be pre&s;cribed, there &s;hall be no more New buildings erected in or neere the &s;aid City of London: and al&s;o that tho&s;e that &s;halbe erected vpon old Foundations, &s;halbe &s;uch as &s;hall both adorne and beautifie his &s;aid City, and be le&s;&s;e &s;ubiect to danger of fire, and cau&s;e le&s;&s;e wa&s;te of Timber (fitter to be re&s;erued for the &s;hipping of his Realme) and likewi&s;e &s;uch as in regard of the charge of building, can|not be inhabited but by per&s;ons of &s;ome abilitie. And becau&s;e the former Proclamations of this kinde heretofore pub|li&s;hed are &s;euerall, and in &s;ome points defectiue: therefore his Maie&s;tie hath thought good (not intending thereby to di&s;|pen&s;e with former offenders) to make and publi&s;h one cleare Proclamation dige&s;ted into plaine and di&s;tinct Articles, that the offenders hereafter may be without all colour of excu&s;e, as they are already without all iu&s;t defence. And therefore his Maie&s;tie doeth &s;traitly charge and command all maner of per&s;ons, of what qualitie &s;oeuer they be, duely to ob&s;erue and fulfill, and all Officers and per&s;ons in Authority whom it may concerne, duely, carefully, and diligently to &s;ee ob&s;er|ued, fulfilled, and put in execution the&s;e Articles following.</P>
<P>FIr&s;t, that no maner of buildings, be they dwelling hou&s;es, Stables, Shops, Stalles, or any other building what|&s;oeuer, be from henceforth erected, or attempted to be erected within the City of London, or the Suburbs therof, or within the di&s;tance of two miles, to be taken from any of the gates of the &s;ayd City (except it be vpon the foundation of a former dwelling hou&s;e, or in or vpon &s;ome inner court or yard of the &s;ame hou&s;e:) And if any building co~trary to this Article of his Maie&s;ties prohibition &s;hall happen to be begun, that the &s;ame be forthwith by the Iu&s;tices of Peace with|in that limit, or Alderman of the Ward, or any of them, &s;tayed from any further proceeding. And as well &s;uch Builder, as the Workmen vpon &s;uch building to be committed to pri&s;on, and bound ouer to an&s;were their contempt in the Starre Chamber, and the Timber, or other &s;tuffe imployed or to be imployed thereupon, to be &s;old by the &s;ayd Iu&s;tices, or Alder|men, or any of them, to the reliefe of the poore of the Pari&s;h where the &s;ayde building &s;hall happen to bee. And in ca&s;e through neglect, or ouer&s;ight, any &s;uch building happen to be fini&s;hed, or in part done before &s;tay made thereof: that ne|uerthele&s;&s;e the &s;ame may be and &s;hall be by the &s;ayd Iu&s;tices or Aldermen, or any of them at any time within &s;euen yeeres after the fini&s;hing of the &s;ayd building, pulled downe, and the offenders puni&s;hed, and the &s;tuffe and matter of the &s;aid buil|ding be&s;towed as is before expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>AL&s;o all new buildings that are already erected contrary to that which is prohibited by the former Article, concer|ning buildings to be erected hereafter, and are not at this pre&s;ent fini&s;hed, &s;hall be immediatly pulled downe, and the offenders and &s;tuffe ordered as is before expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
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<P> ALl &s;uch new buildings as afore&s;ayd, which haue beene erected at any time within fiue yeeres before the date of this Proclamation, &s;hall not in any wi&s;e be pulled downe: but neuerthele&s;&s;e, if they be at this pre&s;ent voyde of a Tenant, they &s;hall not be inhabited nor let to any, vnle&s;&s;e the owners &s;halbe content that the Churchwardens and Mini&s;ter by al|lowance of two or more of the Iu&s;tices of Peace of that diui&s;ion, or Alderman of the Ward &s;hall di&s;po&s;e of them to &s;ome of the poore of the Pari&s;hes that are de&s;titute of hou&s;es, or for the good and behoofe of the &s;ayd poore, and at and vnder &s;uch rents as they &s;hall allow: and in ca&s;e any &s;uch building be already demi&s;ed, that then &s;uch hou&s;e bee not let againe, either in reuer&s;ion, or vpon the expiration of the former e&s;tates, but in &s;uch &s;ort and order as is before expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>ANd if any hou&s;e &s;hall be let contrary to this Article, as well the taker as the Lea&s;&s;or to be deemed an offendor, and to be committed to pri&s;on, and bound ouer to an&s;were the &s;ame in the Starrechamber.</P>
<P>PRouided neuerthele&s;&s;e, that if any per&s;on &s;hall erect, or hath erected for the inlargement of his dwelling hou&s;e, any buil|ding ioyning to the &s;ame, hee &s;hall not be taken or held to be an offendor again&s;t this Proclamation, &s;o as the precinct of ground within the &s;aid addition or enlargement, amount not to any more then a third part of the precinct of ground within the olde foundation, and that it be v&s;ed with the former for one onely habitation.</P>
<P>ALl Sheds and Shops which haue beene builded or &s;et vp within the limits afore&s;aid at any time within fiue yeeres la&s;t pa&s;t, &s;hall be foorthwith pulled downe, and the &s;tuffe of them ordered as is before directed touching other Buil|dings to be pulled downe: And no Cellars erected within this fiue yeeres la&s;t pa&s;t, to be v&s;ed for lodgings, or tipling or victualling hou&s;es.</P>
<P>NO new buildings &s;halbe hereafter erected vpon the foundation of any former dwelling hou&s;e, or within the precincts thereof, within the Citie or Limits afore&s;aid, except the forefront of the &s;ame, and all the vtter walles and windowes thereof &s;halbe wholly made of Bricke and Stone, or one of them; and the forefront al&s;o thereof &s;halbe made in that vni|forme &s;ort and order, which &s;hall be pre&s;cribed by the Alderman of the Ward within the Cittie and the Liberties thereof, and by two or more Iu&s;tices of Peace within the Suburbs and other Precinct afore&s;aid, for the better beautifying of the Streete where the &s;aid Building &s;hall be erected, vpon paine that euery per&s;on offending again&s;t this Article, &s;halbe fined and impri&s;oned for the &s;ame by order of the Court of Starrechamber.</P>
<P>ALl new Buildings that for the time alreadie pa&s;&s;ed haue beene built &s;ince the fir&s;t day of March in the &s;econd yeere of his Maie&s;ties reigne, and haue not their forefronts and walles of Bricke as afore&s;aid, contrarie to his Maie&s;ties Proclamation in that behalfe at that time publi&s;hed, &s;halbe certified by the Iu&s;tices or Aldermen vnto his Maie&s;ties learned Councell, that there may be a pre&s;ent proceeding again&s;t the offendors in that behalfe.</P>
<P>ANd fora&s;much as the diuiding of Hou&s;es into &s;euerall Tenements and habitations, and the letting of part of hou|&s;es and Chambers to Inmates and Vnder&s;itters, is no le&s;&s;e inconuenient then exce&s;&s;iue building, as well in re|gard of &s;urcharge of people, &s;pecially of the wor&s;e &s;ort, as for breeding and &s;preading of Infection, be&s;ides other inconueniences proper to this abu&s;e, His Maie&s;tie doth further charge and &s;traightly command, that the&s;e Articles fol|lowing be al&s;o duely ob&s;erued and obeyed.</P>
<P>FIr&s;t, that no per&s;on within the Citie or Limits afore&s;aid, doe diuide any dwelling hou&s;e by Lea&s;e, &s;ufferance or other|wi&s;e, into any more Tenements or dwellings then are at this pre&s;ent v&s;ed within the &s;ame.</P>
<P>THat no per&s;on doe hereafter receiue into any Hou&s;e any Inmates or Vnder&s;itters, or any more families then one.</P>
<P>THat no man that &s;hall erect a new hou&s;e vpon or within the Precincts of an olde foundation, &s;hall diuide the &s;ame into more Tenements or &s;euerall dwellings, then were v&s;ed in the &s;aid former hou&s;es.</P>
<P>ANd for the more certaine execution of euery Article of this his Maie&s;ties Proclamation, His Maie&s;tie further commandeth, that the Alderman in euery Ward, and the Iu&s;tices of Peace within the Limits afore&s;aid, doe make diligent view, perambulation, and inquirie of euery of the &s;ayd offences, and them to certifie to his Ma|ie&s;ties learned Coun&s;ell once in the beginning of euery Terme, that there may be a &s;trict and &s;euere proceeding therein, as appertaines. And &s;uch Iu&s;tices or Aldermen which &s;hall be found negligent or remi&s;&s;e in the execution of the&s;e Arti|cles, his Maie&s;tie will haue cen&s;ured and puni&s;hed as contemners of his Royall commandement, and to be remooued from being Iu&s;tice of Peace, as vnworthy &s;o to be.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Roy&s;ton <DATE>the twelfth day of October, in the fifth yeere of our Reigne of great Britaine, France and Ireland.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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