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Wyllyam Cecill knight, high stewarde of the citie of Westminster, and Ambrose Caue, knight, chauncelour of the duchye of Lancaster, two of the priuie counsell to the Quenes moste excellent Maiestie, to the baylyffe, headboroughs, constables, and other officers within the sayde citie ... greeting knowe ye that our sayde soueraigne lady the quene, hauyng compassion of the estate of that her citie, because of the long visitation thereof with the plague ...

Date of publication:
1564

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Westminster (London, England). Steward. ; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598. and Cave, Ambrose, Sir, d. 1568.

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Title from first 8 lines of text. "From Wyndsor the .xii. of March. 1563 [i.e. 1564]." Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries.

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Articles to be enquired of, what orders haue bene put in execution, for the restreinyng of the infected of the plague, within the citie of London and liberties thereof

Date of publication:
1577

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City of London (England). Court of Common Council.

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Imprint from STC (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries.

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By the Queenes commaundement forasmuch as it is found by good proofe, that many persons which haue serued of late on the seas, in the iourney towardes Spayne and Portingall, in comming from Plimmouth, and other portes ... haue fallen sicke by the way, and diuers died as infected with the plague ...

Date of publication:
1589

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England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.

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Last complete line of text ends "bee". "At Nonsuch 22. Iulii. Anno 31. Reginæ Elizab. 1589." Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries.

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By the Queene. Forasmuch as it can not be but daungerous to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, and her court nowe residyng in the castel of Windsor, yf any common resort should be suffred from or to the Citie of London, or the suburbes of the same, where (by Gods sufferaunce) many places are infected with the plague ...

Date of publication:
1569

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England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)

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A proclamation forbidding access to the court at Windsor because of the plague. Publication date from STC. At bottom of sheet 2: Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

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By the Queene. Wereas the Queenes Maiestie our soueraigne lady by reason of the plague [and] pestilence in the citie of London, dyd lately by her proclamation adiourne part of the tearme of S. Michael ...

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By the Queene. Forasmuch as the Queenes Maiestie our soueraigne ladie is crediblie enfourmed, that the infection of the plague is at this present in sundry places in and about the citie of London ...

Date of publication:
1569

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England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)

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A proclamation adjourning Michaelmas term because of the plague. Publication date from STC. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

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By the Queene. Forasmuch as the Queenes Maiestie our soueraigne ladie, is crediblie enfourmed that the infection of the plague is at this present in sundry places in [and] about the Citie of London ...