Charles by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : whereas the lords spirituall and temporall, now assembled in Parliament vpon the sixt day of this instant moneth of August, entring into a due and Christian consideration of the wants ... which many poore people ... of London and Westminster doe vndergoe by reason of the grieuous visitation of the plague ...