❧ By the queen.  
WHereas by an act of Parliament made in the fifth year of the queens majesties reign, it was among other things enacted, that from the first day of april in the year of our lord God. 1564. it should be lawful to all and every of her highnesse Subiectes, at his & their will and pleasure to carry & transport out of this realm, in the ships or other vessels of any the Subiectes of the same, all and every kind of herring & other sea fish, to be taken vpon the seas by any of the Subiectes aforesaid, and all and every person and persons which should by virtue of that act transport or carry any herrynges, or other sea fish from or out of any Port or harbour of this realm, to any place out of the dominions of her majesty, should be free from payment of any custom, subsidy, or Pondage money for the same fish so carried or transported, during the space of four yeres then next following, and so further during her majesties pleasure, as by the same act appeareth: Her majesty having ben well informed of the great benefit which thereby hath ensued to her Subiectes, is well pleased, and doth by these presentes give her loving Subiectes to understand, that it shall be lawful for them and every of them, to continue & enjoy the whole effect and benefit of the said provisions in the said act, in such sort as is before expressed, until such time as vpon further cause her majesty shall think meet to repeal or alter the same.  
And whereas it was at the same time further enacted for the benefit & commodity of this realm, as is in that act diversly expressed, that the fish dayes in every week, as well those which of ancient time were by lawe allowed and continued, as also the wednesday in every week then limited by the said act to be observed and kept as a fish day, should be well and duly kept as fish dayes, whereof none of her majesties Subiectes can pretend any ignorance: Which ordinances, namely that for the wednesday, haue not ben, nor be so well in most partes of the realm observed, as for the benefit of the common weal were meet, but rather broken, to the manifest contempt of the laws: Therfore her majesty straightly chargeth & commandeth, as well all her loving Subiectes to haue due regard to the ordinances of the said act for keeping of those fish dayes, vpon the pain that may follow, as also all and every the Iustices of the peace, and other Iustices, officers, and ministers, to whom the execution therof appertaineth, to be diligent to inquire and punish the offenders in that behalf, as they and every of them will answer for the contrary.  
given at her majesties manor of greenwich the xxiiii. day of june. 1568. the tenth year of her highnesse reign. God save the queen.   

❧ Imprinted at London in Powles Churchyard, by richard jug and John Cawood, Printers to the queens majesty.   

¶ Cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.