¶ By the king and the queen,  
WHere as many good and profitable laws, statutes, and ordinances, haue been heretofore made and devised, for ●he good government, order, and common weal of this realm, and for the better execution of the said laws, & statutes, it hath pleased our most dread sovereign Lord, & Lady, the king and the queens majesties, to address of late their several lettres with certain articles and instructions, to the Iustices of peace, sheriffes & other their ministers in every shire, city, & Borough, of this their realm, for the bettre order of the same, expecting and hoping, that by force therof, such diligent care and vigilant eye, should haue been had and used by the said Iustices and other ministers in every of the said shires, that the offenders of the said laws, and statutes, should not for want of due execution of the same, ben permitted and encouraged to use and continue as they do their unlawful mysdemenors, and disorders in contempt of the said laws, and statutes, and to the present peril and danger of the common wealth, and to the great disquietness. & grief of their majesties, whose only desire, pleasure, & good contentment is to haue their laws, truly executed, and the trangressours therof to be punished, according to the qualities of their offences, and their good and natural subiectes to be preserved in quietness, And to thintent, the same may the better, take effect, their highnes haue thought it good eftsoons by this their proclamation, straightly to charge and command, all and singular Iustices of prace, Maiors, Sheriffes, bailiffs, constables, & al other their ministers and subiects, to whom the charge of due execution of the same laws, and statutes appertaineth, that they with all their dyligence and dexterity, shall endeavour themselves to the uttermost of their powers to the due and effectual execution of the said laws and statutes.  
And in especial to see all the articles and commandments contained in the said Letters and instructions, lately sent unto them by there said majesties, to be diligently observed and kept.  
And also to see the laws, statutes, ordinances, and prouysions, hereafter specefied specially, to be put in due execution, and thoffendours in the same to be condignly punished. That is to say, the laws, and statutes heretofore, made and provided, concerning, or in any wise, touching the punishment of heresy, and lolardye, false rumors, and tales, excess of apparel, counterfeiting of coin, unlawful assemblies and conventicles: Reading and expounding of scriptures, and matters of religion, in secret corners, by persons not aucthorised, And also al other statutes, & laws, made touching the duties of Sheriffs and their deputies in the execution of writtes and processes, and of sturdy vagabonds and idle persons, of journey men, and of alehouses and suspect hostries, And not to fail hereof as they tender their dueties to the King, and queens most excellent majesties, and mind to be noted and taken worthy to deserve their most gracious favours.  
And if it may appear to their highnesse that the said Iustices of peace, ministers, and subiectes shall hereafter neglect to do their dueties in this behalf, their majesties intend to procede against such of them as shall herein so neglect, or offend, with such severe Iustice and sharp correction as the same shal be to the example of all others like offenders. given under our signs manuel, at our honour of Hampton court. the .xxvi. day of May, the first and second yeares of our reygnes.  
God save the king and the queen.   

Excusum Londini in aedibus johannis Cawodi, typographi Regiae Maiestatis.