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C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT  ❧ By the King. 
A Proclamation for the restraint of the disorderly repair of Mariners and Soldiers, unto the King's Court, or City of London.  
WHereas diverse Mariners and Soldiers, billeted or bestowed in several parts of this Realm, to attend his Majesty's service, and diverse other persons of lose life, in their company, & by their example, have of late presumed in a very disorderly manner, to come to His Majesty's Court, and do flock together in companies and so repair unto, or towards the City of London, which unsufferable disorder may breed very great inconveniences, if a timely course should not be taken to suppress the same: His Majesty's therefore, taking these things unto His serious and Princely consideration, by the advite of His Privy Counsel, doth straight charge and command all Soldiers and Mariners, which now are, or hereafter shall be so billeted, or bestowed, as aforesaid, That from henceforth they presume not, in any disorderly, or tumultuous manner, or by companies or troops, or otherwise, (without the special leave of those, who have, or for the time shall have, the command of them;) to come to his Majesty's Court, or to repair unto, or towards the City of London, from those places where they are, or shall be so billeted, or bestowed, otherwise then in their necessary passage thither, or from thence to those places, whither they shall be commanded or sent, until they shall be duly discharged.  
And His Majesty's doth also straight charge and command, all such Soldiers and Mariners, and all other lose persons, who can give no good account of their abode in these parts, that forth with they return to the places from whence they came, and that they duly observe his Majesty's Royal Will and pleasure herein, upon pain of incurring his Majesty's high indignation, and such further penalties, as by Martial Law is appointed to be inflicted, or may be inflicted upon offenders in that kind.  
Given at His Majesty's Court at White-Hall the seventh day of October, in the second year of His Majesty's Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by BONHAM NORTON and JOHN BILL, Printers to the Kings most Excellent MAJESTY. M.DC.XXVI.