By the Queenes commandement, forasmuch, as it is found by good proofe, that many persons which haue serued of late on the seas, in the iourney towards Spaine and Portingale in comming from Plimmouth, and other ports of the realme, haue fallen sicke by the way, and diuers dyed as infected with the plague ... - Elizabeth (By the deputies of Christopher Barker ...,, 1618)