AN extract Translated out of the French Copy, and taken out of the Registers of the French Kings Privy Council.  
Between john Potter, William Woollestone, Henry Morris, and Thomas Church, English Merchants, as well for themselves, as for the other English Merchants, trading in the town of Rovan, appealing from the sentence given by the Bailiff of the said town, the seventh of April 1598. on the one party, and the Masters and Wardens of the Art and Mystery of the Company of the Drapers, as well in the whole sale, as retail, Clothworkers, & Shearemen of the said town intimated, on the other party, By the King in his Council being seen the said sentence, whereof appeal is made, the advertisements & evidences of the said parties, the decree of the said Council, by the which the examining of the said appeal is referred to the said Council of the four and twentieth of November 99 the production of the said parties, on the which the said sentence is made, Another decree of the said Council, by the which it is ordained, that the Masters & Wardens of the art and mystery of the Company of the Drapers of the town of Paris, shall be called before the Commissioners in that behalf appointed, to give their advise on the difference of the said parties, and articles by them delivered, to the end that this being done, and their advice seen, right to be done unto them according to reason, of the seventeenth of March 1600. the verbal plea of the said Commissioners containing the said advice, the request of the Ambassador of the Queen of England to moderate the said suit, the means of the moderation of the said Ambassador, and all that which by the said parties hath been produced before the Commissioners thereunto appointed. His report being heard, The King in his Council hath made, and doth make void the appellation, and that whereof appeal is made, and in mending the judgement, hath ordained, and ●oth ordain, that within three months after the signification which shall be made of this present decree, all sorts of woollen cloth which, shall be brought by the said Englishmen or Strangers, white, or died, in wool, & not otherwise, before entering into this Realm, shall be wet & shrunk, not drawn out upon the Tenters with pulleys, engines, wheels, not made of divers sorts of wools, barred, striped, cockled, & filled with flocks, on pain of confiscation, according to the ordinances. Which merchandises being loyal, & of such condition as is aforesaid, may be sold in wholesale by the said English or Foreign Merchants, after having been duly visited by the said Masters and Wardens of the said art and mystery of the Company of the Drapers and none others: which merchandises shall be put in the halls and public places, if there be any, and not elsewhere. And if in case it should be found, that there were no public place,( visitation being formerly made) a place shall be demanded of the judges of the places: and it shall not be lawful for the said English or Foreign Merchants to open their Bales, before they have called thereunto the said Masters & Wardens of the said art and mystery of Drapers, who also shall be subject within twice four and twenty hours, to make the said visitation gratis. And in case the said Merchants do not sell their said merchandises in the same places, after the said visitation, and after three market days, in the which the halls shall have been opened, and that the said merchandises shall have been exposed to sale, it shall be lawful for the said Merchants to carry them where they shall think good, for to make sale of them: And touching the measuring of the said merchandises, the said Council hath ordained, and doth ordain, that the Edict thereupon made in the year 1543. shall be kept and observed, & without expenses.  
Done in the privy Council of the King, holden at Paris, the one and twentieth day of April, 1600. subscribed thus, Des baigneaulx.   

Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford, dwelling on Adling hill, near Carter-lane.