WHEREAS We have been informed, that many and great Disorders have been, and are frequently Committed in this Garrison of Oxford both in the Evenings, and in the Night time. And the Lords and Commons of Parliament here Assembled at Oxford have besought Us, That by Our immediate Warrant and Command, such Disorders may for the future be prevented and supprest, And that all persons of what degree or quality soever they be, may be inhibited and restrained from committing the like hereafter. We have therefore thought fit to publish this Our Proclam [...] and do hereby straitly charge and command all Heads of Colledges and Halls within this Our University of Oxford, and all Inhabitants in Hou­ses opening into any Street, Lane, or place of Common passage within this City and Garri­son of Oxford, that every Evening upon shutting in of day-light, and when the Nights shall be dark, they cause Lights to be hung up before their Colledges, Halls, and dwelling Houses respectively, towards or into the Streets, Lanes, and Common Passages, to continue burning till the Tap-too be beaten. And that no Person or Persons of any degree or quality soever, shall after the beating of the Tap-too, stay or continue in any Taverne, Victualing-house or Ale-house, or in any other house or place, where Wine, Ale, Beere, or Victuals shall be sold or retayled, unlesse it be such Person or Per­sons as are, or shall be Lodged or Quartered in any such house; And farther, That no keeper of any Taverne, Victual­ing-house, or Ale-house, shall permit or suffer any Person or Persons whatsoever, to continue eating or drinking in any such House, after the time aforesaid; And if any Person or Persons being in any such House, shall after the time afore­said refuse to goe or depart from thence: then the Master or Keeper of any such House, shall make the same knowne at the Maine-Guard, to the end, that by assistance from thence, such Persons may be removed and carryed to the Guard; And in case he shall not crave such assistance, the Master or Keeper of the House, aswell as the Persons so re­fusing to depart, shall be taken and carryed to the Guards, and punished according to their demerits. And farther, We doe hereby Charge and Command all Persons of what degree whatsoever, that after the beating of the Tap-too, They repaire to, and keep within their Lodgings, without noyse or disturbance in the Streets. And We doe Charge and re­quire the Governour of Our said Garrison Oxford, That he cause these Our Orders and Commands to be straitly and punctually observed, and to punish all such as shall offend or doe to the contrary, by putting them in Guard or otherwise, as is used in Garrison Townes in time of Warre, without any Connivance or distinction of Persons whatsoever.

Given at Our Court at OXFORD, this Third of February, in the One and Twentieth yeare of Our Reigne. 1645.

GOD SAVE THE KING.