❧ By the King.  
FOrasmuch as it hath pleased GOD of his exceeding goodness, to stay his heavy hand wherewith the last year he punished our City of LONDON by the infection of the Plague, We have just cause given us both to be thankful to his Divine Majesty for his goodness, and to be as provident as a careful Prince can be, to take away occasion of reviving the same. Wherefore, for that there is at hand a notable Fair at Bristol, commonly called S. james Fair, whereunto there is great resort, especially from our City of LONDON, and the Sickness reigning now in the said City of Bristol, and places thereabouts: We have thought good by open declaration of our pleasure, to admonish and require all our loving Subjects of our said City of LONDON, to forbear to resort at this time to the said Fair, upon pain of such punishment, as for a contempt so much concerning the universal safety of our people of our said City, they shall be adjudged to deserve, which We shall have so much the more cause severely to inflict, because our return to our said City of LONDON is like to be very soon for our abode there, about great and weighty causes, from which by reviving of the Sickness in that place (which GOD forbidden) we might be put off, to the great hindrance of our affairs.  
Given at our Palace of Westminster the eight day of July, in the second year of our reign of England, France and Jreland, 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. 1604.