By the Mayor of London.  
WHERE as a very rich L●●●erie general hath now lately been erected by the order of our lost dread Sovereign Lady, the Queen's most excellent Miestie, and by her highness commandment since publish● within this her highness City of London, the xxiij day of August, in the ix year of her majesties most prosperois' Reign, together with the Prices, Articles, and Condtions concerning the same, as by the chart of the said Lottery more plainly doth at large appear. In which chart among other things it is comprised, that her Majesty and her said City of London will answer t● all and singular persons, having adventured their money in the said Lottery, to observe all the Articles and conditions contained in the same from point to piynt inviolably.  
Now to avoid certain doubts since the publication of the said Lottery, secretly moved concerning the answering thereof, wherein though the wiser sort may find cause to satisfy themselves therein yet to the satisfaction of the simpler sort, The Lord Maior of the said City, and his brethren the Aldermen of the said City, by the assent of the common Council of the same, do signify and declare to all people by this Proclamation, That according to the Articles of her majesties order contained in the said chart so published, every person shallbe duly answered according to the tenor of her highness said proclamation.  
And it is newly 〈◊〉 for the advantage of the Adventurers, that the day of the Reading of the said Lottery shall not be deferred after the xxv day of june mentioned in the said chart without very great and urgent cause: and yet the same at the furthest, shall not be deferred past the feast of the Purification of Saint Marie the virgin, which shall be next following, in the year of our Lord God. M. D. Lxviij. after the computation of the Church of England.  
And that from the day of the said prorogation until the very day of the Reading, the parties having put in their Money to the said Lottery, shall be allowed for the forbearing thereof, after the rate of Twelve in the Hundred. etc.  
Proclaimed in London the xiij day of September, in the foresaid. ix. year of her majesties Reign. God save the Queen.   

¶ Imprinted at London, by Henry Bynneman, dwelling in Pater noster row, at the Sign of the mermaid. Anno. 1567. Septembris. 13.