BY THE KING.  
A Proclamation for the further adiournment of Michaelmas Term.  
WHereas our gracious Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty, taking into His Princely consideration the health and safety of His loving Subjects, and how much they might be endangered by the great and general infection of the Plague, which hath been long in the Cities of London and Westminster, and the places ne'er adjoining, if by their services, suits, or other causes occasioned by the Term they should be drawn thither before that heavy visitation should by the mercy of God be removed: Did therefore by His Royal Proclamation dated the fourth day of September now last passed signify His pleasure, That part of the Term of S. Michael then next coming should be adjourned; That is to say, from the Vtas thereof unto the fourth return of the same Term called Mense Michaelis. Now His Majesty foreseeing, that although by God's mercy that grievous sickness is much assuaged in those Cities and parts adjoining, yet the danger thereof would be very great to His whole Kingdom, in dispersing the infection, and would longer continue the peril thereof in those places already infected by the concourse of so many from all parts of the Kingdom, whom the businesses of the Term must necessarily draw together; Doth therefore hereby declare His pleasure to be, That at the said return called Mense Michaelis, the said Term be again adjourned until the next return after, being the fifth return of the said Term called Crastino Animarum, and that at the said adjournment the Term be also adjourned from the City of Westminster, unto the Town of Reading, in the County of Berke, and there continued for the residue of the said Term, where His Will is, that all His loving Subjects of this Realm, whom it may any way concern, do take notice. And His Majesty's pleasure is, That one of His justices of either Bench on that day of Mensae Michaelis, according to the ancient order of the Laws, keep the Essoynes of the said return of Mensae Michaelis, at which time Writs of adjournment (which His Majesty hereby commandeth the Lord Keeper of His Great Seal of England to make forth) shallbe directed to the said justices, giving them authority to make such further adjournment as aforesaid. And further His Majesty's pleasure is, that all matters, causes and suits depending in any of His other Courts of Star-chamber, Exchequer, Courts of Wards & Liveries, Duchy of Lancaster, and Court of Requests shall have continuance, and the parties shall have day from the said fourth Return called Mense Michaelis, until the said fifth Return called Crastino Animarum. And whereas His Majesty by His said former Proclamation did direct, That all Collectors, Sheriffs, and other Accomptants, and all other persons that should or ought to account for, or pay any sum or sums of money in any of His Majesty's Courts of Exchequer, Courts of Wards and Liveries, and of His Duchy of Lancaster, or in any of them, or to enter into any account in any of the said Courts, should repair unto His Majesty's house of Richmond, as though no such Proclamation of adiournment had been had or made; Now His Majesty's pleasure is, and he doth hereby direct and command, that at and from the said Return of Crastino Animarum, all Collectors, Receivers, Sheriffs, and other accomptants, and all other persons that should or ought to account for or pay any sum or sums of money in any of the places aforesaid, shall give their attendance at the Town of Reading aforesaid, and there make their payments, and enter into, and prosecute their accounts, as they ought to have done at the Receipt at Westminster. And lest the overhasty resort of Strangers to the said Cities of London and Westminster, and places near adjoining, and the intercourse of trade between those Cities and places adjoining, and other Cities, Towns, and places of this Kingdom more remote, might be an occasion of spreading the infection into other parts and places not yet infected, and of continuing it the longer where it is already, which would hinder his Majesty's repair to those Cities, and be an impediment to other matters of importance, for the benefit and comfort of those Cities, whereas the forbearance for a while might avail to their mutual good and safety. His Majesty doth hereby not only advise, but straight charge and command all persons, whose proper habitations are not in those Cities of London and Westminster, or places near adjoining, to forbear to reside there, or resort thither. And that all Carriers either by Land or by Water, with horse, Wain, Cart, Wagon, Boat, Barge, or other Vessel, do forbear to carry any wares, merchandise, or other things (other than victuals only) unto, or from the said Cities of London and Westminster, or Suburbs thereof, until the peril of the contagion be better passed over, and by the coldness of the weather the Air be cleansed, and the danger removed, and his Majesty's further pleasure be known herein. And lest the said Town of Reading, which is now free from the sickness, may itself be endangered, or endanger others resorting thither by fetching of wares from places now or lately infected; His Majesty doth straight charge and command all and every the Inhabitants of the said Town, and all other places within three miles thereof, that they wholly forbear to buy or receive any wares or merchandise from the said Cities of London and Westminster, or places adjoining, or from any other place now or lately infected with that contagious sickness, until the end of the said Term of S. Michael a the soon. And his Majesty doth straight charge and command the Mayor of the said Town of Reading, and the justices of peace inhabiting within the hundreds of Reading, Bunning, and Thele in the said County of Berke, that they with all diligence see his Majesty's pleasure observed herein.  
Given at the Court at Salisbury the eleventh day of October, in the first year our reign of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

Printed at Oxford by I.L. and W.T. for Bonham Norton and john Bill.