royal blazon or coat of arms HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT ❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation concerning The King's Evil.  
WHereas such people as repair to His Majesty for healing of THE KING'S EVIL, have in former times forborn to approach or offer themselves to the former Kings of this Realm, during the Summer time, in respect of danger, and inconvenience, which order hath been of late neglected, and such people useth to repair indifferently at all times: Therefore his Majesty doth declare and forbidden, That hereafter no such person make their repair up for healing, between the Feasts of Easter and Michaelmas, for the which although it had been enough for His Majesty to have signified His pleasure for recontinuing the said order unto the Clerk of His Closet, or His chirurgeons in that behalf; Yet His Majesty doubting that some such weak and infirm persons may come up from remote parts, and thereby lose their travail, is pleased out of His goodness, to publish this Order by His highness Proclamation.  
Given at Whitehall the xxv. day of March, in the fourteenth year of Our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland, And of Scotland the nine and fortieth.  
God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
ANNO DOM. 1616.