❧ By the King.  
THe King's most Excellent Majesty, considering what peril oftentimes ensueth by the means of great assemblies of people in the time of infectious diseases; doth therefore straightly charge and command, that no manner of person or persons, of what estate, degree, or condition he or they be, inhabiting within the Cities of London, and Westminster, and the Suburbs of the same, or any other place where the Infection of the Plague is, or hath been within six weeks next before the date hereof, do presume to resort, or come unto his highness Court at Whitehall, or wheresoever it shall please the King, the Queen, or the Prince to lie or abide, until such time as his highness pleasure shall be further known therein, except the Lords the Bishops of this Realm, the judges of the Law, his majesties learned Council, the principal Magistrates of the Cities of London, and Westminster, and all Household servants of his Majesties, and other necessary persons for provisions of his highness Household, not having the Infection of the Plague in their houses, or near unto them, by the space of six weeks, as aforesaid.  
It is also further by his Majesty thus provided, That if any other (except before excepted) shall have necessary cause to resort or come unto the Court from any of the places before named, the same persons shall not come within the utter gates of the Court, until they have first sent one of the King's majesties Porters at the Gates, and to him declared, unto whom they have necessary occasion to repair within the Court, And thereupon the said Porter shall cause the parties to stay abroad, without entering into any House, Tent, or company of any person, and shall certify the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the treasurer, the controller, the Secretary, the Vice chamberlain, or any other of his majesties Prinie Council, or some of the principal Officers of the Greenecloth, if the matter shall appertain to the King's majesties Household, according to the quality of the matter, and of the persons with whom the parties have to do in the Court: and by a warrant in writing under the hands of any of the said Lords Counsellors, or Officers, or by signification from some principal person about them, certified to any of the King's majesties Porters, that the said persons shall or may come into the Court: then the said Porter shall permit and suffer them so to do: otherwise the said persons shallbe commanded to returned without any longer abiding, upon pain of his majesties grievous displeasure, and severe punishment in the marshalsea.  
Given at our Palace of Westminster, the first day of November, in the fourth year of our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
ANNO 1606.