WHereas it falleth out by wofull experience , that the great confluence and accesse of excessiue numbers of idle , indigent , dissolute and dangerous persons , And the pestering of many of them in small and strait roomes and habitations in the Citie of London , and in and about the Suburbes of the same , haue bene one of the chiefest occasions of the great Plague and mortality , which hath not only most extremely abounded in and about the sayd City , and Suburbes therof , and especially in such strait roomes and places , and amongst persons of such qualitie , but also from thence hath most dangerously ouerspread , and infected very many principall , and other parts of this Realme , ( which Almighty God cease at his good pleasure ) His Maiestie tendering the safetie of his louing Subiects , and minding , as much as in him lyeth , to auoide the continuance or renewing of such mortalitie , doth by the aduice of his Priuie Councell , not onely straightly require and command that his Maiesties good and profitable Orders and directions alreadie published for the staying ( if God so please ) of the same Infection , be carefully , speedily , and duely executed , but also doth straightly prohibite and forbid , That no new Tenant or Inmate , or other person or persons , be admitted to inhabite or reside in any such house or place in the saide Citie , Suburbes , or within foure miles of the same , which haue bene so infected , during the continuance of this Plague and mortalitie , in or about the sayd Citie , nor after , vntill such time and as it shall be thought safe and expedient by the principall Officers there for the time being , That is to say , if it be within the sayd Citie , by the Alderman of the Ward , or his Deputie ; if without , then by the next Iustice of the Peace . Wherein his Maiestie straightly doeth charge and require euery of the said Aldermen , and their Deputies , and euery Iustice of the Peace to whom it shall appertaine , That they take speciall care , that none of the foresaid Roomes , Houses , or places be hereafter pestered with multitudes of dwellers , or with any Inmates . And that such of the said Roomes , Houses , or places as by any Proclamation heretofore published , are ordered or appointed to be rased or pulled downe , shall foorthwith , the same being now voide , or as the same shall hereafter become voide , be rased and pulled downe accordingly . And being once pulled downe , that they or any of them at any time afterwards , suffer not any of the same to be newly erected , as they will answere the contrary at their vttermost perill .