At the Court at Whitehall this sixth day of November 1685. Present, the Kings most excellent Majesty. His Royal Highness Prince George.... Mr. Chancellour of the Dutchy. For the preventing tumultuous disorders, which may happen hereafter upon pretence of assembling, to make bonfires, and fire-works,...
England and Wales.Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
JamesII,King of England,1633-1701.
London : printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas'd: and by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty,
1685.
"A reissue of previous Orders in Council, nos. 3711, 3734, 3754, q.v., forbidding bonfires and fireworks without permission having been previously obtained." -- Steele.
Title from caption title and first lines of text.
Arms 102a; Steele notation: may  fires,  Persons.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
Crawford, J.L.L. Royal proclamations, 1485-1714,
Goldsmiths' Lib. cat.,
ESTC
Microfilm.
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