WHereas by the grace and blessing of Almighty God, the Kings and Queenes of this Realme by many ages past, haue had the happinesse by their Sacred touch, to cure those who are afflicted with the disease called, The Kings Euill: And his now most Excellent Maiesty, in no lesse measure then any of his Royall Progenitors, hath had blessed successe therein: And in His most gracious and pious disposition, is as ready and willing as any King or Queene of this Realme euer was, in any thing to releeue the distresses and necessities of His good Subiects: Yet in His Princely wisedome foreseeing, that in this (as in all other things) order is to be ob­serued, and fit times are necessary to be appointed for performing of this great worke of Charity; And taking into His Royall consideration, how aduerse and dangerous trauell in the winter season is to the health of grieued and diseased persons, especially to such as liue in the remote Counties of this Kingdome, doth therefore hereby publish and declare His Royall pleasure to be, and also willeth and commandeth, that from the time of the publishing of this Proclamation, no person or persons whatsoeuer, doe attempt or presume to repaire to His Maiesties Royall Court to be healed of that disease, before the Feast of the Birth of Our Lord God now next com­ming. And to the end that all His louing Subiects may the better take knowledge of this His Maiesties pleasure and command, His pleasure is, that this Proclamation be published and af­fixed in some fit and open place in euery Market towne of this Realme.

Giuen at His Maiesties Palace at Hampton Court this three and twentieth day of September, in the tenth yeere of the Reigne of our Souereigne Lord CHARLES by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.

God saue the King.