❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation against Inmates and multitudes of dwellers in straight rooms and places in and about the city of London: And for the rasing and pulling down of certain new erected buildings.  
WHereas it falleth out by woeful experience, that the great confluence and access of excessive numbers of idle, indigent, dissolute and dangerous persons, And the pestering of many of them in small and straight rooms and habitations in the city of London, and in and about the suburbs of the same, haue been one of the chiefest occasions of the great Plague and mortality, which hath not only most extremely abounded in and about the said City, and suburbs therof, and especially in such straight rooms and places, and amongst persons of such quality, but also from thence hath most dangerously overspread, and infected very many principal, and other parts of this realm,( which Almighty God cease at his good pleasure) His majesty tendering the safety of his loving Subiects, and minding, as much as in him lieth, to avoid the continuance or renewing of such mortality, doth by the advice of his privy council, not onely straightly require and command that his majesties good and profitable Orders and directions already published for the staying( if God so please) of the same Infection, be carefully, speedily, and duly executed, but also doth straightly prohibit and forbid, That no new Tenant or Inmate, or other person or persons, be admitted to inhabit or reside in any such house or place in the said city, suburbs, or within four miles of the same, which haue been so infected, during the continuance of this Plague and mortality, in or about the said city, nor after, until such time and as it shall be thought safe and expedient by the principal Officers there for the time being, That is to say, if it be within the said city, by the Alderman of the Ward, or his deputy; if without, then by the next Iustice of the Peace. Wherein his majesty straightly doth charge and require every of the said Aldermen, and their Deputies, and every Iustice of the Peace to whom it shall appertain, That they take special care, that none of the foresaid rooms, Houses, or places be hereafter pestered with multitudes of dwellers, or with any Inmates. And that such of the said rooms, Houses, or places as by any Proclamation heretofore published, are ordered or appointed to be razed or pulled down, shall forthwith, the same being now void, or as the same shall hereafter become void, be razed and pulled down accordingly. And being once pulled down, that they or any of them at any time afterwards, suffer not any of the same to be newly erected, as they will answer the contrary at their uttermost peril.  
given at his majesties Mannor of Woodstocke, the sixteenth day of September, in the first year of our reign of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the seven and thirtieth. God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty. ANNO DOM. 1603.