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) 1666 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A32484 Wing C3395 ESTC R30898 11686606 ocm 11686606 48145 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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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 26 th 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.