By the King. A proclamation for buildings, in and about London..
England and Wales.Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)
JamesI,King of England, 1566-1625.
Barker, Robert,-1645,printer.
[London] : Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.,
anno 1604. [i.e. 1605]
"Timber is being destroyed in the realm to such an extant that in London builders are obliged to use beech. Timber is not to be used as firewood. No new house is to be built before the feast of St. Michael [Sept. 29]. After that no new house to be built within a mile of the suburbs, except the walls and windows and the forefront be made of brick or brick and stone. The forefront is to be of that unform order decreed for the street by the magistrates. Offenders to be brought into the Star Chamber.". - Steele.
Dated at end of text: Giuen at Thetford the first day of March, in the second yeere of his Maiesties raigne of Great Britaine &c.
Dates are given according to Lady Day dating.
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Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714,
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