of health farther direction may bee giuen from vs to the contrary. So wee bid your L. very hartily farewell. From the Court at Hampton, the 3. of February. 1593.
Your L. very louing friends,
Io: Cant. Io. Puckering. C. Howard.
Th. Buckhurst. R. Cecyll. I. Fortescue.
To our very good L. mr. Alderman Buckle L. Maior of the Citie of London.
xcviii.
[1594, May 10. Minute of City Court of Aldermen, printed in Harrison,
iv. 323, from Repertory, xxiii, f. 220.]
Countess of Warwicks playes.
Item yt is ordred that Mr. Saltonstall, Mr. Soame, Mr. Weoseley, Mr. Barnham, and Mr. Houghton, aldermen, or any others [?] of them, calling unto them Richard Wright, gentleman, shall consider of a cawse recommended to this courte by the right honorable the Countys of Warwicke concerning playes, And to make reporte to this courte of their doings therein. And George Foster to warne them to meet together and to attend on them.
xcix.
[c. 1594, July-Oct. Extract from Articles submitted to the Privy
Council against the increase of the plague and for the relief of poor people,
printed M. S. C. i. 202, from Lansd. MS. 74, f. 75. The date 1593 is
assigned in the Catalogue of Lansdowne MSS., but the document seems
to be related to No. c.]
That for avoydinge of great concourse of people, which causeth
increase of thinfection, yt were convenient, that all Playes, Bearebaytinges,
Cockpittes, common Bowlinge alleyes, and suche like
vnnecessarie assemblies should be suppressed duringe the tyme of
infection, for that infected people, after theire longe keepinge in, and
before they be clered of theire disease and infection, beinge desirous
of recreacion, vse to resort to suche assemblies, where throughe heate
and thronge, they infecte manie sound personnes.
c.
[c. 1594, July-Oct. Extract from Orders, suggested by the Privy
Council, to be set down by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. These are
undated, but appear to be the 'breif' of orders sent with a letter of the
Privy Council, also undated, but addressed to Sir Richard Martin, who
was Lord Mayor from July to Oct. 1594. Both documents are printed
in M. S. C. i. 206, 211, from Lansd. MS. 74, ff. 69, 71.]
Interludes and plaies.
If the increase of the sicknes be feared, that Interludes and plaies be restreyned within the libertyes of the Cyttye. . . .
. . . That all maisterlesse men who lyve idelie in the Cyttye without
