¶ By the King.
❧ A Proclamation forbidding the Lodging of any Strangers, or His Maiesties owne Seruants, in His Palaces of White-Hall, and Denmarke-house, in the time of the absence of His Maiestie, and His Royall Consort the Queene, from those houses.
Whereas of late yeeres, more then in former times, and much more then is fitte to bee tolerated, many make their abode and resiance in the King and Queenes Royall Palaces of White Hall and Denmarke-house, when their Maiesties, and Courts, are absent from thence, to the great annoyance of those places, and scandall of gouernement, because many retiring themselues thither, by the priuiledge of those places escape the hand of Iustice; his Maiesty, therfore straitly chargeth & commandeth, that no person whatsoeuer, other then ordinary Keepers of those Houses, in the absence of their Maiesties, presume to lodge or abide in either of them, vpon paine of His Maiesties heauy displeasure. And hee doeth therefore straitly will and command, that the Lord Chamberlaine, and Vice-chamberlaine of his Maiesties house, and the Lord Chamberlaine and Vice-chamberlaine of the Queenes Highnesse house, and all those who haue the charge or keeping of those houses, bee carefull to see His Maiesties pleasure obserued herein, as they will answere the neglect thereof, at their vtter most perils.
And His Maiesties further pleasure is, that all such as haue any Keys, of, or belonging to those houses, or either of them, doe foorthwith vpon the King or Queenes Remooues, respectiuely, deliuer vp such Keyes to the Lord Chamberlaines respectiuely, or to such as they shall seuerally appoint, to receiue and keepe the same.
Giuen at Our Court at Portesmouth, the three and twentieth day of Iuly, in the fourth yeere of Our Reigne of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland.
God saue the King.
❧ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie.
ANNO M.DC.XXVIII.