C R  DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for suspending the time of healing the Disease called, The King's Evil, until Easter next.  
WHereas the Kings most excellent Majesty, by His Proclamation dated the first day of july last, did prescribe the times of His healing the Disease called, The King's Evil, to be Michaelmas and Easter, or within fourteen days next before, or next after those Feasts: Nevertheless, His Majesty being new informed, that he Sickness increasoth in many parts of the Kingdom, and foreseeing the danger that may redound to His sacred Person, by the confluence of diseased people at this Michaelmas now approaching, Hath thought fit further to suspend all access to His Court and Presence for Healing, till Easter next, or fourteen days before or after the same. And doth therefore straight charge and command all persons whatsoever, hereby to take knowledge of His Majesty's Royal will and commandment herein. And that none presume until Easter next, or within fourteen days next before, or next after the said Feast, to resort to His Majesty's Court or Presence for Healing, under pain of His Majesty's high displeasure, and to be further punished as shall be meet: His Majesty's said Proclamation of the first of july last, or any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding, which nevertheless in all other the Directions and Declarations therein expressed, His Majesty willeth and commandeth to be duly and strictly observed, under the penalties therein mentioned.  
Given at Our Court at oatland's the second day of September, in the fourteenth year of Our Reign. 
 ❧ God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty: And by the Assigns of JOHN BILL. 1638.