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 of the Realme , haue fallen sicke by the way , and diuers died as infected with the plague : And that it is likely that many will haue purpose to come from the said Nauie , to the Citie of London , and so consequently to the Court , whereby danger of infection may come to her Maiesties housholde , and so approche to her sacred person . Therefore it is commaunded by publication hereof , both at the Court Gate , and in all the Townes within the Uerge , that no person that hath serued within the said Fleete , shall come to the Court , nor within the Uerge , except such as shall be specially sent from those which were the Generals of the Nauie , with letters to the Court : which persons shall not enter within the Court Gates , vntill the cause of their comming from the Generals , with letters of importance be notefied to some of her Maiesties priuie Counsell , and thereupon the Queenes Porters warned to suffer them to enter into the Court .

And if any such person shall contrary to this commandement , from this day being the xxii . of this moneth of July , attempt to come either to the Court , or within the Uerge , and shall not immediatly vpon knowledge hereof depart with conuenient speede , the same shall be apprehended by the Knight Marshall and his Deputies , or by any Iustice or Constable dwelling within the Uerge , and shall bee committed to the Marshalseas without any bayle , vntil he shall be dismissed by some two of the Priuie Counsell attending on her Maiesties person .

And yet it is not meant , but if any shall haue necessarie cause to come to the Court , to exhibite any suite or information concerning his seruice in the said Nauie , the same person shall cause the same his suite or information to be sent to the Court in writing , or by message to be brought by a person that hath not bene in the saide Nauie , and not knowen to be infected , to bee deliuered either to one of her Maiesties ordinarie Masters of Requests , or to the Knight Marshall , or to some one of the Priuie Counsell , by which meanes the suite may be duely vnderstoode , and so a reasonable answere to bee made thereto .