❧ A Proclamation for the merchants adventurers.  
ELizabeth dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Regina fidei defensor, &c. Maiori & vicecomitibus civitatis sue Londoniensis, salutem. Vobis mandamus quod statim visis presentibus in singulis locis, infra civitatem predictam & Suburb, eiusdem, tam infra libertates quam extra, ubi magis expedire videritis ex parte nostra, solemniter & publicae proclamari fac. in haec verba.  
WHERE in the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the first day of March, in the seventh year of the reign of our dearest brother king Edward the sixth, and there continued till the last day of the same month of March. It is there resited by one act of Parliament, then & there made entitled an act reviving a Statute made in the xvii year of our most noble progenitor, king Edward the fourth, amongst other things it was then ordained and enacted by auctheritie of the same parliament, that no person should carry or make to be carried out of this realm or Wales, from no part of the same, any manner of money of the coin of this realm, nor money of the coin of other realms, lamdes, or worships, nor plate, vessel, bullion or Iuell of gold, garnished or vngarnished, or of silver without the kings licence, but such persons as be dispensed with in the statute made in the second year of our most noble progenitor king Henry the Sixte, and other diverse Statutes made vpon pain of felony. The which statute and ordinance so made in the time of our said most noble progenitor King Edward the fourth, was made to endure from the feast of Easter in the xviii. year of the said King Edward the fourth, unto th'end of seven yeares then next ensuing, which said statute and ordinance so before rehearsed by authority of Parliament, holden in the fourth year of the late king of famous memory, Henry the seventh, was confirmed & established to be good & effectual from the feast of the purification of our Lady in the year of our lord God a thousand four hundreth, four score and nine, to th'end and term of twenty yeares then next ensuing, as by the same Statute also more plainly appeareth. And where also at the said Parliament holden at Westminster, in the seventh year of our said dearest brothers reign, it is enacted by authority of Parliament, that the said statute & ordinance before rehearsed, made in the xvii. year of our most noble progenitor king Edward the fourth, and every clause, article, sentence or provision therein contained, is by authority thereof confirmed and enacted, to be good & effectual from the first day of May then next ensuing, and to endure unto th'end of twenty year then next following. As by the said act made in the seventh year of our said dearest brothers reign plainly appeareth.  
nevertheless vpon good and reasonable considerations us moving, we be pleased and contented, that from and after the publication of this our Proclamation, it shalbe lawful unto all notorious merchants, and all and every other person and personnes passing by our special licence out of this realm, into any outward parties beyond the Seas, to carry with them for their reasonable costs and expenses, the somme of four pounds of any money currant within this realm, or under and not above, or any rings or Signettes of gold or silver vpon their fingers, without any loss of life, lands or goods, or any other pain, forfeiture, imprisonment, or penalty to be to them or any of them for the same. The said statutes or any other Statute, ordinance or lawe heretofore made to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. Et hoc sub periculo incumbenti nullatenus omittatis.  
Teste me ipsa apud Westminster primo die Maij. Anno Regni nostri primo.  
God save the queen.   

Imprinted at London by Richard jug and John Cawood, Printers to the queens majesty. Anno M. D. LIX. Cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.