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❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for restraint of unnecessary resorts to the Court.  
FOr that the Infection of the Plague weekly increaseth, and is much dispersed, aswell within the Cities of London and Westminster, as in the Suburbs and Confines thereof; His Majesty hath, by the advice of his Privy Council, thought fit for the more safety of himselft, and of the Queen's Majesty, and of such Lords and Ladies of Honour, & others, that necessarily are to attend at Court, to withdraw himself from Whitehall, to some other of his ordinary Houses of access, so fare remote from the said Cities, as the necessary occasions of his important affairs will conveniently adunt: Therefore to avoid unnecessary resort to the Court, of people dwelling in, or near any places infected; His Majesty doth straight charge and command, that no person, or persons whatsoever, do presume to come from London, or Westminster, or the Suburbs, or Confines of the same, or from any other Town, or Parish, that is, or shall be infected with the Plague, unto his Majesty's Court, Wheresoever the same shall happen to be, or to the Town, or Parish where his Majesty, or the Queen shall be resident, or make their abode, or wherein his Majesty's said houses of access are situate, nor newly to make any houses for their habitation in those Towns, Parishes, or places, specially not within the Towns of Hampton, Kingston, Windsor, Eton, Richmond, Nonesuch, Ewell, Otelands', Chertsey, or Weybridge, or in any of the Towns, or Villages that lie in the passages to Hampton Court, Windsor, Otelands', Nonesuch, or Richmond, or any of them, or bordering or adjoining upon the same, upon pain of his Majesty's heavy indignation, and the severest punishments that may be inflicted upon them, for their contempt & disobedience against this his Majesty's Royal and most necessary Commandment; Straight charging and commanding all and singular justices of the Peace, to take strict order with all Constables, Pettie-Constables, and other Officers of the Towns and Parishes, through which the said Passengers are to travail, that they suffer no person or persons to come to the Court, Parishes, or places aforesaid, or remain or abide there, contrary his Majesty's Royal Commandment, but to cause them to return back, till it shall please God to assuage the present violence of the Infection, and the great danger thereby threatened, as they, and every of them tender his Majesty's pleasure and safety, and the discharge of their own duties, and will answer for their neglects therein at their uttermost perils.  
Given at the White-Hall the six and twentieth day of june, in the first year of his Majesty's Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

¶ Printed at London by Bonham Norton and john Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. M.DC.XXV.