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 : Therfore her Maiestie willeth and straightly commaundeth that no maner of persons shall come from the said Citie or Suburbes to Windsor , or to the Towne of Eton , or shall cause to be brought any apparel , stuffe , or wares from thence directly or indirectly , mediatly or immediatly : neither that any person attendant or folowing her Maiesties Court ordinaryly or extraordinaryly , or dwelling or any wise belonging to the Townes of Windsor or Eton or any part therof , shall repayre by land or by water to London or the Suburbes of the same , or to any parish neare London where any persons haue ben knowen to haue ben lately sicke of the plague , with any intent to returne agayne from thence within one moneth , otherwise then is hereafter specially mentioned & prouided , vpon payne to be imprisoned without bayle for the same by the space of one moneth : or ( if the qualitie of the partie shall so require to be also whipped & punished like a common vacabonde . And because it can not presently be so prouided for , but that some persons shall of very necessitie haue cause to come from the sayd Citie or Suburbes to the Court or to the Townes of Windsor & Eton , & likewise some others to repayre to some partes of the said Citie or Suburbes not beyng infected : it is by her Maiestie thus prouided , That if any shall haue any such necessary cause to come from the Citie of London or Suburbes to the Court , the same person shal not enter into any maner house in Windsor or Eton , nor shall come within the vtter gates of the Court , vntyl he hath first resorted to the Maior of Windsor , or to the principal officers in Eton , & to him or them declared to whom he hath necessary cause to repayre in the Court . And thervpon the said Maior or officers shal cause the partie to stay abrode without entring into any house or company of any person , and shall certifie the lorde Stewarde , the lorde Chamberlaine , the Uizechamberlayne , or one of them , or some of the principal officers of the Greenecloth ( if the matter appertayne to the Queenes Maiesties housholde ) or to some other of the lordes or others of her Maiesties priuie counsell , according to the qualitie of the matter , and of the persons with whom the partie hath to do in the Court . And by a warrant in writing signed with the handes of any of the sayd lordes , counsellers , or officers , certified to the sayde Maior or officers , the sayd person shal be permitted to enter into some house , and afterwarde shall or may come to the Court with the sayde warrant to be first shewed to the Queenes Maiesties Porters , or otherwise without suche warrant and allowaunce the sayde person shal be commaunded to returne without any lenger abyding , vpon payne aboue mentioned . And if the cause of the comming of the sayde persons to the Towne , shal be for any matter belonging to any inhabitaunt of the Towne : in such case the sayde Maior and officers shall not in like maner suffer any such person to come into any house , nor to bryng any stuffe vntyll the name of the partie and his cause be declared by the sayde Maior or officers to the Constable of the Castell of Windsor , or to his Leefetenaunt , or to some of her Maiesties priuie counsell , or to the knight Marshall , or cheefe Porter of the Castell , and by them or some of them allowed by warrant in wrytyng , without which order and such allowaunce , no person shal be suffred to remayne in any of the sayde Townes , but shall returne immediatly . And if any person shall haue necessary cause to depart from the sayde Townes or Court by land or by water to London or the Suburbes , with any minde to returne within one moneth , the same shall sue to haue , and shall first obtayne speciall licence and warrant in writing for euery tyme of his departure fromsome of the foresayde principall officers of her Maiesties house , chamber , or some of her priuie counsell aboue mentioned : or els if the partie belong to the sayde Townes , then from the sayd Maior of Windsor , or the head officers of Eton : so as also the same persons haue the consent in writing of some of the officers and ministers aboue mentioned . And as for any Courriors , Postes , or messengers comming from London with letters to the Queenes Maiestie , or to any of the counsell : they shall not enter into the Court without knowledge first geuen by the Porters to some of the counsell , & therupon the partie to enter , tary , or depart , as they shal be specially commaunded , and not otherwise . And for the better execution hereof , her Maiestie willeth and requireth all the foresayde officers and ministers aboue mencioned to conferre together , and to instruct the sayd Maior of Windsor and officers of Eton , how and by what maner and fourme of warrantes ( without fraude or couen ) such only as haue necessarie causes belonging to the Queenes Maiestie , her lordes , counsellers , and others attending on her person or on her court , may be permitted to come from London or resort thither , and no other : vsing therein all circumspection conuenient and necessarie for such a cause of importaunce .

And further her Maiestie chargeth her knight Marshall and his ministers , to wayte dayly vpon the passages in and to these Townes of Windsor and Eton leadyng to and from the sayde Citie with all diligence : and whomsoeuer they shal suppose to be goyng or ridyng with intention to resort to London , or commyng from thence , the same to arrest and stay , and examine whether they haue such warraunt , or haue obserued such orders as aboue is mentioned . And yf any person shal be able to proue , that either the sayde Maior , principall officers in Eton , or that the knight Marshall or any of his ministers , shall neglect to do their dueties in the premises , the same being therof conuicted before her Maiesties priuie Counsel , or such as they shal appoint to examine the default , shal be committed to prison for their offence , & there remayne the space of fourtie dayes , or for redemption of some part of their imprisonment , shall pay to the infourmer such fine as shal be set by them before whom they shal be conuicted , besydes such further punishment as vpon the greatnesse of the offence shal be thought meete by her Maiesties priuie Counsell , or the Lorde Stewarde , or Lorde Chaumberlayne and Vize Chaumberlayne to be ordered . And this order her Maiestie wyll haue obserued vntyll the same shal be reuoked by open Proclamation . For the speedy occasion wherof to be geuen by the ceassyng of the plague , Almightie God is to be with dayly prayers called vpon .