C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms ❧ By the King. ❧ A Proclamation appointing the time when his Majesty's subjects may attend to be cured of the Disease, commonly called, The King's Evil. WHereas by the grace and blessing of Almighty God, the Kings and Queens of this Realm by many ages past, have had the happiness by their Sacred touch, to cure those who are afflicted with the disease called, The King's Evil: And his now most Excellent Majesty, in no less measure than any of his Royal Progenitors, hath had blessed success therein: And in His most gracious and pious disposition, is as ready and willing as any King or Queen of this Realm ever was, in any thing to relieve the distresses and necessities of His good Subjects: Yet in His Princely wisdom foreseeing, that in this (as in all other things) order is to be observed, and fit times are necessary to be appointed for performing of this great work of Charity; And taking into His Royal consideration, how adverse and dangerous travel in the winter season is to the health of grieved and diseased persons, especially to such as live in the remote Counties of this Kingdom, doth therefore hereby publish and declare His Royal pleasure to be, and also willeth and commandeth, that from the time of the publishing of this Proclamation, no person or persons whatsoever, do attempt or presume to repair to His Majesty's Royal Court to be healed of that disease, before the Feast of the Birth of Our Lord God now next coming. And to the end that all His loving Subjects may the better take knowledge of this His Majesty's pleasure and command, His pleasure is, that this Proclamation be published and affixed in some fit and open place in every Market town of this Realm. Given at His Majesty's Palace at Hampton Court this three and twentieth day of September, in the tenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord CHARLES by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. God save the King. ¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent MAJESTY: and by the Assigns of john Bill. 1634.