❧
By
the
Queene
.
The
Queenes
Maiesties
Proclamation
for
suppressing
of
the
multitudes
of
idle
Vagabonds
,
and
for
staying
of
all
vnlawfull
assemblies
,
especially
in
and
about
the
Citie
of
London
,
and
for
orders
to
punish
the
same
.
FOrasmuch
as
it
is
seene
that
notwithstanding
the
good
Lawes
prouided
for
the
restrayning
of
idle
people
and
Vagabonds
,
yet
for
want
of
due
execution
thereof
by
the
Iustices
of
Peace
,
and
other
ministers
authorised
thereunto
,
there
are
in
many
parts
of
the
Realme
,
and
specially
about
the
Citie
of
London
and
her
Maiesties
Court
,
manifestly
seene
wandring
in
the
common
high
wayes
,
to
the
annoyance
of
the
common
people
both
in
their
goods
&
liues
,
multitudes
of
able
men
,
neither
impotent
nor
lame
,
exacting
money
continually
vpon
pretence
of
seruice
in
the
warres
without
reliefe
;
whereas
many
of
them
neuer
did
serue
,
and
yet
such
as
haue
serued
,
if
they
were
maymed
,
or
lamed
by
seruice
,
are
prouided
for
in
the
Countreys
by
order
of
sundry
good
Lawes
and
Statutes
in
that
behalfe
made
and
prouided
:
For
reformation
whereof
her
Maiestie
straightly
commaundeth
all
Iusticers
and
Officers
to
haue
better
regard
,
then
heretofore
they
haue
had
,
and
to
appoint
vpon
certanine
dayes
in
the
weeke
monethly
(
for
some
conuenient
season
)
watches
and
priuie
searches
in
places
needefull
,
and
thereby
to
attach
and
imprison
such
idle
Vagabonds
,
and
to
send
the
lame
and
maymed
into
the
Countreys
according
to
the
saide
Statues
.
And
doeth
further
notifie
hereby
to
all
her
Subiects
,
that
because
the
disorder
of
those
vagarant
persons
is
through
neglect
of
her
ordinarie
Officers
of
Iustice
growen
to
such
vnrulinesse
and
vndutifulnesse
,
that
there
hath
bene
of
late
diuers
routes
and
vnlawfull
assemblies
of
Rogues
and
Vagabonds
,
colouring
their
wandering
by
the
name
of
Souldiers
,
lately
come
from
the
warres
,
who
arming
themselues
with
shotte
and
other
forbidden
weapons
,
haue
not
onely
committed
robberies
and
murthers
vpon
her
Maiesties
people
in
their
trauaile
from
place
to
place
,
But
also
resisted
and
murthered
diuers
Constables
and
others
,
that
haue
come
to
the
rescue
:
Her
Maiestie
therefore
being
compelled
to
looke
with
the
eye
of
seueritie
into
these
growing
outrages
,
and
being
minded
to
prouide
for
her
good
and
dutiful
Subiects
by
cutting
off
in
the
beginning
such
lewde
and
notorious
offenders
,
meaneth
for
that
purpose
to
appoint
a
Prouost
Marshall
with
sufficient
authoritie
to
apprehend
all
such
as
shall
not
be
readily
reformed
,
and
corrected
by
the
ordinary
Officers
of
Iustice
,
and
them
without
delay
to
execute
vpon
the
Gallowes
by
order
of
Martiall
Lawe
.
And
these
her
Maiesties
commandements
she
willeth
to
bee
duely
obserued
vpon
paine
of
her
indignation
.
Giuen
at
her
Maiesties
Mannour
of
Greenewich
the
ninth
day
of
September
1598.
in
the
fourtieth
yeere
of
her
Highnesse
reigne
.
God
saue
the
Queene
.