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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  By the King. 
A PROCLAMATION For putting off the Fair to be held the Thirteenth of October next ensuing, in the Fields and Grounds near Gravesend.  
CHARLES R.  
THe King's most Excellent Majesty out of his Princely and Christian care of His Loving Subjects, that no good means of Providence may be neglected to stay the further spreading of the great Infection of the Plague, doth find it necessary to prevent all occasions of public concourse of His People for the present, till it shall please Almighty God of his goodness to cease the violence of the Contagion, which is very far dispersed into many Parts of this Kingdom already; And therefore remembering that there is at hand a Fair in the Fields and Grounds near Gravesend in the County of Kent, upon the Thirteenth Day of October next ensuing, unto which there is usually great resort from the adjacent places which are at the present Infected, the holding whereof would in all likelihood be the occasion of further danger and Infection to other parts of the Land which by God's merry stand clear and free, Hath with the Advice of his Privy Council thought good by this open Declaration of His Pleasure and necessary Commandment, not only to Admonish and Require all His Loving Subjects to forbear to resort, for this time, to the said Fair kept in the Fields and Grounds near Gravesend in the said County of Kent upon the Thirteenth Day of October next ensuing, but also to Enjoin the Lord of the said Fair and all others interested therein, or any of them, that they all forbear to hold the said Fair, or anything thereto appertaining at the accustomed or at any other time, till by God's goodness and merry the Infection of the Plague shall cease, or be so much diminished that His Majesty shall give Order for holding the same, upon pain of such Punishment, as for a Contempt so much concerning the Universal safety of His People, they shall be adjudged to deserve, which they must expect to be inflicted with all severity: And to that purpose doth hereby further Charge and Enjoin under like Penalty all Persons whatsoever, that they forbear to repair to the said Fair, until it shall please God to cease the Infection now remaining amongst Us, His Majesty's intention being and so hereby declaring Himself that no Lord of any Fairs, or others interested in the profits thereof, shall by this necessary and temporary Restraint receive any prejudice in the right of his or their Fairs or Liberties thereunto belonging; Any thing before mentioned notwithstanding.  
Given at our Court at Whitehall the 26th Day of September in the Eighteenth Year of our Reign. 
 God save the King.   

LONDON, Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1666.