Your home-born projects ever prove the best, they are so easy and familiar; they put too much learning in their things now o’ days.” In this spirit John Littlewit had been adapting a too classical play to the comprehension of the frequenters of the fair, “as for the _Hellespont_, I imagine our Thames here; and their _Leander_ I make a Dyer’s son about Puddle Wharf; and _Hero_ a wench of the Bankside, who going over one morning to Old Fish Street, _Leander_ spies her land at Trig-stairs, and falls in love with her; now do I introduce _Cupid_, having metamorphoz’d himself to a drawer [pot-boy] and he strikes _Hero_ in love with a pint of sherry....” _The Plague._—1625. The Plague again appeared in the Kingdom, and Charles I. issued a Proclamation from his Court at Woodstock, wherein he recites that there is usually extraordinary resort _out of all parts of the Kingdom_ of persons to attend this and Stourbridge Fair; hence there is prohibition against attending these fairs or any others held within fifty miles of the City of London. 1630. Another like proclamation in consequence of Plague—this time being in Cambridge. The King remembering that there were at hand “three great Fairs of special note, unto which there is extraordinary resort from all parts of the Kingdom,” attendance at Bartholomew, Stourbridge and Our Lady Fair (Southwark) was prohibited. 1637. Again the Plague, and there was issued: By the King. A Proclamation for putting off this next Bartholomew Faire in Smithfield, and our Lady Faire in Southwarke. Giuen at our Court at Oatelands, the three and twentieth day of Iuly in the thirteenth yeare of our Reigne. God save the King. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the King’s most excellent Maiestie: And by the Assigns of Iohn Bill. 1637. A sheet in Black Letter. Copy in Mr. Huth’s Library. _New Grant to the City._—1638. Charles I. this year granted a Charter to London which contained the following: