C R  DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
By the King.  
A PROCLAMATION Prohibiting the keeping of BARNWELL-FAIR near Cambridge.  
CHARLES R.  
THe King's most Excellent Majesty, out of His Princely and Christian care of His loving Subjects, that no good means may be neglected to stay the further spreading of the present Infection and Contagion, doth find it convenient to prevent all occasions of public Concourse: And therefore being informed that there is at hand a Fair of special note, usually kept on the Four and twentieth of june, called Midsummer-day, at the said Town of Barnwell, unto which there is great resort out of many parts of this Kingdom; the holding whereof at this time may be occasion of Danger and Infection to the Town and University of Cambridge, and other places, which by God's mercy are now clear and free; Hath (with the Advice of His Privy Council) thought good by this His Royal Proclamation, not only to admonish and require all His loving Subjects to forbear to resort for this time to the said Fair, but also to enjoin the Lord thereof, and others interessed therein, to forbear holding the said Fair for this present year, upon pain of punishment, as for a Contempt, so much concerning the safety of the people, they shall be adjudged to deserve, which they must expect to be inflicted with all severity. And His Majesty doth hereby Declare, That the Lord of the said Fair, or any others interessed in the Profits thereof, shall not by this Temporary Restraint receive any prejudice in the Right of his Fair, or Liberties thereunto belonging; Any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Given at the Court at Whitehall the Fourteenth day of June, 1665. in the Seventeenth year of His Majesty's Reign. 
 God save the King.   

LONDON, Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1665.