By the queen,  
THe queen our sovereign lady graciouslye considering the good wills, forwardness, and hearty d●spositions of her true loving subiectes, always heretofore exhibited, to the aid & succour of the common weal, with their proper substance & goods, when the service, the necessity, & honour of the realm hath so required, as well in the times and several reygnes of the most excellent princes our late souereygne lords, her dear Father, and dear brother, king Henry the eight and king Edwarde the sixth, and specially since the time of her vocation to the crown, in the defence of her royal person, against the malicious force of the most arrande traitor sir John Dudley late Duke of northumberland, and his complyces. notwithstanding it is well known to the multitude of hyr said good subiectes, howe by the evil government of the realm in these late yeares, specially since the said Duke hath born rule, the treasure of the same is meruelouslye exhausted, and her highness now presently charged, with payment of notable great sums, being the debt of her said brother the king, partly due to dyvers of her said servants and subiectes, and partly to certain merchant strangers, and others, which for her own honour, and the honour of the realm, her highnes determineth by the help of God truly to discharge, content, and pay in times convenient and reasonable, yet having both a special mind to the weal of her said subiectes, and accounting their loving hartes and prosperity as her own weal, and the chiefest treasure that she desireth, next the favour and grace of God, and having a full affiaunce in her said subiectes, that yf the state, the cause, & honour of the realm shall so require, they will at all times hereafter exhibit their semblable service. notwithstanding in the latter Session of the last parliament holden in the time of the said late king Edwarde the sixth, towards the payments and discharges of the said notable debts, there was granted by act of parliament unto the said king Edwarde two dimes, and two fyftenes, and one Subsedie of four shillings of the pound, to be raised and levied of the manors, lands, and tenements, and two shillings eight pence of the goods and catelles of her said Subiectes, which grants are now due unto her highness by the said act, and wolde discharge one great piece of the said debts. Her majesty for the considerations aforerehearsed, of her more grace and great clemency, for the relief and succour of her said good subiectes, hath freely for her and her heirs, and successors, pardonned and remitted, & by these presentes freely & fully pardoneth & remitteth unto her said subjects, and their heirs and executours, the said subsidy of four shillings the pound, and two shillings eight pence the pound, granted in the latter session, and last parliament, trusting her said good subiectes will haue loving consideration thereof for their partes, whom she requireth heartily to bend themselves wholly to serve God to his glory, with continual prayer unto the same for the honour and auauncemente of her grace, and the common weal. given at our manor of Rychemonde, the first day of September. In the first year of our most prosperous reign.  
God save the queen.   

Londini in aedibus johannis Cawodi 
 Typographi Reginae excusum. 
 Anno. M. D. LIII.  
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