Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair; With Facsimile Drawings, Engraved Upon Wood, by the Brothers Dalziel (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... good, by this open declaration of his pleasure and necessary commandment, not only to admonish and require all his loving subjects to forbear to resort for this time to either of the said two Fairs, or to any other fairs within fifty miles of the said City os London, but also to enjoin the Lords of the said Fairs, and others interested in them, or any of them, that they all forbear to hold the said Fairs, or anything appertaining to them, at all times accustomed or at any time, till by God's goodness and mercy the infection of the Plague shall cease, or be so much diminished, that his Majesty shall give order for holding them; upon pain of such punishment as, for a contempt so much concerning the universal safety of his people, they shall be adjudged to deserve, which they must expect to be inflicted with all severity, his Majesty's desire being so intentive for preventing the general Infection threatened, as he is resolved to spare no man that shall be the cause of dispersing the same. And to that purpose doth hereby further charge and enjoin, under like penalty, all citizens and inhabitants of the said City of London, that none of them shall repair to any fair held within any part of this kingdom, until it shall please God to cease the infection now reigning amongst them: His Majesty's intention being, and so hereby declaring himself, that no Lord of any Fairs, or others interested in the profits thereof, shall by this necessary and temporary restraint, receive any prejudice in the right of his or their fairs, or liberties thereunto belonging, anything before mentioned notwithstanding." This proclamation, given at the court at Woodstock, best tells its own story. Again, on the first of August in the year 1630, the Plague being in Cambridge and then thre...