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majesty_n	bill_n	king_n	printer_n	3,274	5	10.6123	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22370	By the King, a proclamation for restraint of disorderly and vnnecessary resort to the court	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1625 (1625)	STC 8780; ESTC S122666	2,453	2

❧ By the King ¶ A Proclamation for restraint of disorderly and vnnecessary resort to the Court. THe Kings most Excellent Maiesty hauing taken into His Princely consideration the many inconueniences which may fall out by the vnlimited concourse of people of all sorts to His Court or the Townes or Parishes neere the same especially at this time and in this season of the yeere which growes euery day more dangerous for increasing the infection already begun in the Citie of London and Confines of the same And being graciously and prouidently carefull to take away and preuent all occasions tending thereunto hath thought fit by aduice of His Priuie Councell by this Proclamation to publish and declare his Royall pleasure and commandement concerning the same That although his Maiestie cannot but conceiue great ioy and contentment when His louing Subiects out of their loyall and dutifull affections towards him shall desire to see the Persons of Himselfe or of his deare Consort the Queene who is by Gods blessing shortly to come ouer into England yet in his Princely care of His people Hee is contented to dispence with those publike shewes of their zeale chearefulnes and alacritie at this time lest the present occasions of ioy and reioycing should produce a contrary effect by dispersing the Infection into other parts of the Realme where his Maiestie shall keepe his Royall Court and residence And therefore his Maiestie doth hereby straitly charge and command That aswell in the Iourney which Himselfe shortly intendeth to Douer in Kent for the reception of his deare Consort the Queene at Her arriuall as also in His and Her Maiesties returne from thence and in all other Iourneys and Progresses which they or either of them shall make this Summer now ensuing till they shall returne to a standing house in Winter No person or persons whatsoeuer not being thereunto called or appointed or not hauing speciall cause of personall attendance at the Court for his Maiesties seruice or for some necessary occasion of extremity concerning their owne estate doe presume to follow or resort to the Court with Petitions or vpon other pretence or vnto any Citie Towne Uillage or priuate house within twelue miles of the same as they tender his Maiesties displeasure and will answere for the same as contemners of this his Maiesties iust and Royall commandement And whereas many of his Maiesties louing Subiects haue been heretofore wont to pester the Court vnder colour of repairing thither for healing the disease called The Kings Euill His Maiestie doth hereby publish and declare his pleasure That vntill Michaelmas next and after His Coronation shall be solemnized He wil not admit any person or persons to come to the Court for healing And doth straitly charge and forbid That no person or persons doe in the meane time presume to importune his Maiestie in that behalfe And for auoyding many and great abuses in that behalfe his Maiesty doth straitly charge and command That no person or persons doe at any time hereafter resort to his Maiestie or His Court for healing of that disease without bringing a Certificate from the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish wherein they inhabite or some other neighbours of more eminent quality expressing the time they haue been troubled with that infirmity and that they haue not at any time before been healed by his Maiestie or the late King And to auoid the great disorder of poore people who are vsed to come flocking into the high wayes and streetes where his Maiestie is to trauell vnder colour of reliefe from the Almoner his Maiestie hath taken order that in all the Townes and Parishes through which Hee shall passe his Maiesties sayd Almoner shall deliuer his Maiesties Almes to the Ouerseers of the Poore to be distributed amongst them for their better more equall reliefe then they should receiue by comming abroad in that dishonourable vndecent maner which therfore his Maiesty straitly chargeth and commandeth them to forbeare and all Maiors Sheriffes Iustices of Peace Constables and other Officers to take due care of accordingly And for other wandering poore Uagabonds Rogues and such like base and vnruly people which pester the high way and make it their Trade or profession to liue by begging pilfering or other vnlawfull shifting His Maiestie doth hereby straitly charge and command aswell the Knight Marshall of His houshold and his deputies as all Maiors Sheriffes Iustices of Peace Constables and other his Maiesties Officers and louing Subiects to cause such as bee Impotent to bee foorthwith returned into their owne Countreys and such as be able to labour to bee sent to the houses of Correction or otherwise ordered according to the Lawes To which end also his Maiestie likewise chargeth and commandeth the sayd Sheriffes Iustices and other Officers to cause diligent Watch by night and Ward by day to be kept by honest and substantiall housholders in euery Citie Towne Uillage and Parish through which his Maiesty shall passe and within twelue miles compasse of his Maiesties passage or Court aswell to be ready vpon all occasions to suppresse disorders and breaches of the Peace as to make speciall search for all such persons as shall pretend themselues to bee his Maiesties Seruants or followers of the Court and craue Lodging without hauing Billets for the same and to apprehend all such as they shall finde so lodged or entertained not billeted and to bring them before the Knight Marshal or his deputy and in all other things to be assisting to him and them concerning the premisses for all occasions of his Maiesties seruice And because his Maiestie findeth much disorder in some of his owne seruants in vnnecessary pestering of the Court when there is no cause for their attendance or imployment His Maiesty straitly forbiddeth That any of his seruants do either in this Iourney of his Maiesties intended to Douer or elsewhere in His Summers Progresse or vntil his Maiestie shal come to keepe a standing house in Winter resort to the Court execpt such onely of his Maiesties seruants as are or shall be set downe in the Liste or shall be allowed for seruice within doores and aboue staires by the Lord Chamberlaine of his Maiesties honourable houshold or below staires by the Treasurer and Comptroller of the houshold or for seruice without doores by the Knight Marshall vpon paine of his Maiesties displeasure and incurring the Censure of a high contempt And to the end his Maiesties Royall pleasure herein before declared may bee in all points obserued his Maiestie straitly chargeth and commandeth His Knight Marshall and all Maiors Sheriffes Iustices of Peace Constables Headboroughs Bayliffes and other his Maiesties Officers whatsoeuer to see all things concerning the premisses carefully performed and put in due execution according to the dueties of their seuerall places as they and euery of them will answere for any their neglects herein at their vttermost perils Giuen at the Court at White-Hall the seuenteenth day of May in the first yeere of his Maiesties Reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland God saue the King ¶ Printed at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie M.DC.XXV