❧ By the Queen.  
WHereas advertisement is given unto us, that there is at this time dispersed within our City of London, and the Suburbs thereof, a great multitude of base and lose people, such as neither have any certain place of abode, nor any good or lawful cause of business to attend hereabouts, but lie privily in corners and bad houses, listening after news and stirs, and spreading rumours and tales, being of likelihood ready to lay hold of any occasion to enter into any tumult or disoder, thereby to seek rapine and pillage: And likewise that further numbers of such sort of vagabond people do continually flock and gather to our City, and the places confining about the same: Forasmuch as we have lately in this most dangerous and desperate action of Rebellion, had most evident and full proof of the loyal and true hearts and settled and unmovable affections, aswell of the rest of our Subjects, as specially of our Citizens of London, whereby we do to our great comfort foresee there can grow no account of disturbance of our peace and quiet, but from such refuse and vagabond people:  
Therefore we do straightly command and charge all persons, that such lose people, having no certain dwelling or abode within the City and Suburbs thereof, or otherwise no sufficient cause of stay or lawful business, presently avoid, and get them down into the Country, upon pain of death by Marshal Law, to be executed upon them, And do in like manner command all people of like sort and condition, or any other persons that cannot yield some reasonable cause of their repair, to forbear to come out of the Country to our said City, or the Suburbs thereof, upon like pain: And we do straightly charge as well our Provost Martial, as the Constables and others, to whom it may appertain, to apprehend such offenders, that they be proceeded with, with all care and diligence, as they will answer it at their uttermost peril.  
Given at our Palace of Westminster the fifteenth day of February 1600. in the three and fortieth year of our Reign. 
 God save the Queen.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Queen's most excellent Majesty.  
ANNO DOM. 1600.