THe Kings most Excellent Maiestie perceiuing the present increase and dispersing of the Plague into sundry parts of the Kingdome , is willing by His Princely Care and Prouidence to preuent the occasions of the further spreading thereof , by the publike concourse of His People in these times of Danger ; And therefore calling to minde that Sturbridge Faire , vsually kept neere Cambridge , is now at hand , which if it should be held this yeere , were likely ( through the exceeding confluence of people thither from all parts of the Land ) to occasion the scattering of the Infection in those places , which yet by Gods mercy stand cleere and free . His Maiestie hath thought good to Declare His Royall Pleasure and Commandement therein , And doth hereby straitely Charge and Require all His louing Subiects whatsoeuer , to forbeare to resort this yeere to that Faire , and expresly Commandeth the Lords and others interessed therein , That they shall not hold or keepe this next Sturbridge Faire neere Cambridge , nor elsewhere , nor any part thereof , nor any thing pertaining thereunto , vpon paine of such punishment , as for an offence so much importing the generall safety of His People , they shall be adiudged vnto , which they must expect to be inflicted with all seuerity . And His Maiestie doth hereby further Charge and Command vnder the like Penaltie , all Citizens and Inhabitants of His Citie of London , that none of them , for this present yeere , shall bring or send any of their Goods or Merchandise to Ely , New-Marker , or any other place neere vnto the Vniuersity of Cambridge , at or about the vsuall time appointed for Sturbridge Faire , which were but to transferre that Faire to other places , with no lesse Danger of dispersing the Sicknesse throughout the Kingdome .