=Source.=--_Rotuli Parliamentorum_, vol. v., p. 31. (Record
Commission.)
To the King our Sovereign Lord; Shewen meekly your true liege people,
here by your authority royal in this present Parliament for the Commons
of this your noble realm assembled; how that a sickness called the
Pestilence, universally through this your realm runneth more commonly
than hath been usual before this time, the which is an infirmity most
infective; and the presence of such so infect most to be eschewed, as
by noble physicians and wise philosophers before this time plainly it
hath been determined and as experience daily sheweth. Wherefore we
your poor liege people, above all earthly thing tendering and desiring
the health and welfare of your most noble person, beseech your most
noble grace, in conserving of your most noble person and in comfort of
us all, in eschewing of any such infection to you to fall, which God
defend, graciously to conceive how where that any of your said Commons,
holding of you by Knight's service, oweth in doing you homage, by your
gracious sufferance, to kiss you, to ordain and grant by the authority
of this present Parliament, that every of your said lieges, in doing of
their said homage, may omit the said kissing of you....