By the King, a proclamation for putting off the fair to be held the thirteenth of October next ensuing, in the fields and grounds neer Gravesend England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A32484 of text R30898 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C3395). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A32484 Wing C3395 ESTC R30898 11686606 ocm 11686606 48145 2240868718

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32484) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 48145) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1482:1) By the King, a proclamation for putting off the fair to be held the thirteenth of October next ensuing, in the fields and grounds neer Gravesend England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1 broadside. Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker ..., London : 1666. "Given at our Court at Whitehall the 26th day of September in the eighteenth year of our reign." Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685. eebo By the King. A proclamation for putting off the fair to be held the thirteenth of October next ensuing, in the fields and grounds neer Gravesend. England and Wales. Sovereign 1666 1 530 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

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By the King . A PROCLAMATION For putting off the Fair to be held the Thirteenth of October next ensuing , in the Fields and Grounds neer Gravesend . CHARLES R.

THe Kings most Excellent Majesty out of his Princely and Christian care of His Loving Subjects , that no good means of Providence may be neglected to stay the further spreading of the great Infection of the Plague , doth find it necessary to prevent all occassions of publick concourse of His People for the present , till it shall please Almighty God of his goodness to cease the violence of the Contagion , which is very farre dispersed into many Parts of this Kingdom already ; And therefore remembring that there is at hand a Fair in the Fields and Grounds near Gravesend in the County of Kent , upon the Thirteenth Day of October next ensuing , unto which there is usually great resort from the adjacent places which are at the present Infected , the holding whereof would in all likelihood be the occasion of further danger and Infection to other parts of the Land which by Gods merry stand clear and free , Hath with the Advice of his Privy Councel thought good by this open Declaration of His Pleasure and necessary Commandement , not only to Admonish and Require all His Loving Subjects to forbear to resort , for this time , to the said Fair kept in the Fields and Grounds neer Gravesend in the said County of Kent upon the Thirteenth Day of October next ensuing , but also to Enjoyne the Lord of the said Faire and all others interested therein , or any of them , that they all forbear to hold the said Faire , or anything thereto appertaining at the accustomed or at any other time , till by Gods goodness and merry the Infection of the Plague shall cease , or be so much diminished that His Majesty shall give Order for holding the same , upon pain of such Punishment , as for a Contempt so much concerning the Vniversal safety of His People , they shall be adjudged to deserve , which they must expect to be inflicted with all severity : And to that purpose doth hereby further Charge and Enjoyne under like Penalty all Persons whatsoever , that they forbear to repair to the said Faire , until it shall please God to cease the Infection now remaining amongst Vs , His Majesties intention being and so hereby declaring Himself that no Lord of any Faires , or others interested in the profits thereof , shall by this necessary and temporary Restraint receive any prejudice in the right of his or their Faires or Liberties thereunto belonging ; Any thing before mentioned notwithstanding .

Given at our Court at Whitehall the 26th Day of September in the Eighteenth Year of our Reign . God save the King .

LONDON , Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker , Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty . 1666.