BY THE KING.  
A Proclamation for the avoiding of all intercourse between His Majesty's Royal Court, and the Cities of London and Westminster, and places adjoining.  
HIS Majesty having taken a resolution that Himself and His Royal Consort the Queen and their Courts shall very shortly remove first to His Castle of Windsor, and after to his Honour of Hampton-Court, and there to settle: and foreseeing that the vicinity of those places to the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Suburbs thereof, and the Borough of Southwark & Town of Lambeth, which long have been, and yet are so grievously infected with the Plague, is apt to draw an intercourse between those Cities and places & the Court, which may bring extreme peril to the sacred Persons of their Royal Majesties, unless it be very carefully avoided. For the preventing therefore of so great & so apparent a danger, wherein all his Majesty's good and loving Subjects have so large an interest. His Majesty doth straight charge and command, That no person or persons of what degree or quality soever do presume to go or repair directly or indirectly from the said City of London or Westminster, or either of them, or the suburbs of them, or the Borough of Southwark or Town of Lambeth unto the Court, or to go from the Court unto the said cities of London or Westminster, or the Suburbs of them, or the said Borough of Southwark, or Town of Lambeth, or either, or any of them, and return back to the Court again upon pain of his Majesty's heavy displeasure, and of such further punishment as can by Law or by his Majesty's prerogative Royal be inflicted upon them for so high a contempt. And if any Servant to his Majesty, or to the Queen his Royal consort in any office or place whatsoever, shall offend herein, and either in their own person have recourse to and fro, or wittingly suffer any other to have recourse or access unto them from those cities or suburbs thereof, or places aforesaid, His Majesty doth hereby signify and publish his determinate purpose and resolution, That every such offender shall not only ipso facto forfeit and lose the Office or place he holdeth, without any hope or expectation of favour now or at any time hereafter, but shall also incur the heaviest and severest punishment which can be inflicted upon them. And his Majesty doth straight charge and command all his loving Subjects to be careful in the due execution of his Royal will and pleasure herein, not only in their own persons, but in all others as much as in them lieth, and this to be strictly observed and continued until his Majesty shall see cause to enlarge this restraint again,  
Given at our Court at Salisbury the seventeenth day of October, in the first year of our reign of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. God save the King.   

Printed at Oxford by I. L. and W. T. for Bonham Norton and john Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1625.