By the Quene. Forasmuche as the tyme wherein common interludes in the Englishe tongue ar wont vsually to be played ... The Quenes Maiestie doth straightly forbyd al maner interludes to be playde eyther openly or priuately, except the same be notified before hande ... Proclamations. 1559-05-16 England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A21593 of text S116777 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A21593 STC 7897 ESTC S116777 99851993 99851993 17290

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By the Quene

FOrasmuche as the tyme wherein common Interludes in the Englishe tongue ar wont vsually to be played , is now past vntyll All Hallontyde , and that also some that haue ben of late vsed , are not conuenient in any good ordred Christian Common weale to be suffred . The Quenes Maiestie doth straightly forbyd al maner Interludes to be playde eyther openly or priuately , except the same be notified before hande , and licenced within any Citie or towne corporate , by the Maior or other chiefe officers of the same , and within any shyre , by suche as shal be Lieuetenauntes for the Quenes Maiestie in the same shyre , or by two of the Iustices of peax inhabyting within that part of the shire where any shal be played .

AND for instruction to euery of the sayde officers , her maiestie doth likewise charge euery of them as they will aunswere : that they permyt none to be played wherin either matters of religion or of the gouernaunce of the estate of the common weale shal be handled or treated , beyng no meete matters to be wrytten or treated vpon , but by menne of aucthoritie , learning and wisedome , nor to be handled before any audience , but of graue and discrete persons : All which partes of this proclamation , her maiestie chargeth to be inuiolably kepte . And if anye shal attempte to the contrary : her maiestie giueth all maner of officers that haue authoritie to see common peax kepte in commaundement , to arrest and enprison the parties so offendinge for the space of fourtene dayes or more , as cause shall nede : And furder also vntill good assuraunce may be founde and gyuen , that they shal be of good behauiour , and no more to offende in the like .

AND further her maiestie gyueth speciall charge to her nobilitie and gentilmen , as they professe to obey and regarde her maiestie , to take good order in thys behalfe wyth their seruauntes being players , that this her maiesties commaundement may be dulye kepte and obeyed .

Yeuen at our Palayce of Westminster the .xvi. daye of Maye , the first yeare of oure Raygne .

Imprinted at London in Poules churcheyarde by Rychard Iugge and Iohn Cawood Printers to the Quenes Maiestie .

Cum priuilegio . Regiae Maiestatis .