WHereas diuers Mariners and Souldiers , billited or bestowed in seuerall parts of this Realme , to attend his Maiesties seruice , and diuers other persons of loose life , in their company , & by their example , haue of late presumed in a very disorderly maner , to come to His Maiesties Court , and doe flocke together in companies and so repair vnto , or towards the Citie of London , which vnsufferable disorder may breed very great inconueniences , if a timely course should not be taken to suppresse the same : His Maiesties therefore , taking these things unto His serious and Princely consideration , by the aduite of His Priuy Counsell , doeth straitly charge and command all Souldiers and Mariners , which now are , or hereafter shall be so billited , or bestowed , as aforesaid , That from hencefoorth they presume not , in any disorderly , or tumultuous manner , or by companies or troupes , or otherwise , ( without the special leaue of those , who haue , or for the time shall haue , the command of them ; ) to come to his Maiesties Court , or to repaire vnto , or towards the Citie of London , from those places where they are , or shall be so billited , or bestowed , otherwise then in their necessary passage thither , or from thence to those places , whither they shall be commanded or sent , vntill they shall be duly discharged .

And His Maiesties doeth also straitly charge and command , all such Souldiers and Mariners , and all other loose persons , who can giue no good account of their abode in these parts , that foorth with they returne to the places from whence they came , and that they duely obserue his Maiesties Royall Will and pleasure heerein , vpon paine of incurring his Maiesties high indignation , and such further penalties , as by Martial Law is appointed to be inflicted , or may be inflicted vpon offenders in that kinde .