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By the King : Forasmuch as it hath pleased God of his exceeding goodnesse, to stay his heauy hand wherewith the last yeere hee punished our city of London by the infection of the plague.

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By the King : Forasmuch as it hath pleased God of his exceeding goodnesse, to stay his heauy hand wherewith the last yeere hee punished our city of London by the infection of the plague.