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❧ By the King.  
A Proclamation appointing the time when his Majesty's subjects may approach to the Court, for cure of the Disease, called The King's Evil.  
WHereas by the grace and blessing of Almighty God, the Kings and Queens of this Realm, by many ages past, have had the happiness, by their sacred touch, to Cure those who are afflicted with the Disease called, The King's Evil: And his now most Excellent Majesty, in no less measure than any of his Royal Progenitors, hath had blessed success therein: And in his most gracious and pious disposition, is as ready and willing any King or Queen of this Realm ever was, in any thing to relieve the distresses and necessities of his good Subjects: Yet in his Princely wisdom foreseeing, that in this (as in all other things) order is to be observed, and fit times are necessary to be appointed for performing of this great work of Charity; And taking into his Royal consideration the inconveniences which may happen, both in respect of the temperature of the season, and in respect of contagion which may happen in this near access to his Majesty's sacred Person, when the season of the year is grown warm: Doth hereby publish and declare his Royal Pleasure to be, and also willeth and commandeth, that from the time of the publishing of this Proclamation, no person or persons whatsoever, do attempt or presume to repair to his Majesty's Royal Court to be healed of that Disease, before the Feast of All-Saints now next coming. And to the end that all His loving Subjects may the better take knowledge of this His Majesty's pleasure and command, His pleasure is, that this Proclamation be published and affixed in some fit and open place in every Market town of this Realm.  
Given at the Court at Whitehall, this two and twentieth day of April, in the tenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, CHARLES by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. 
 God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent MAJESTY: And by the Assigns of JOHN BILL. 1634.