❧ By the queen.  
FOrasmuch as within these few dayes there haue been certain infamous Libels full of malice and falsehood spread abroad, and set up in sundry places about the city and Court, tending to sedition, and dishonourable interpretations of her majesties godly Actions and purposes, and especially invented of cankered malice colourably, to the destruction or ruin of some of good estimation and fidelity to wards her majesty, by lewd persons not worthy to enjoy the benefit of this her majesties quiet government, no more then evil and corrupt limbs, which for lack of speedy remedic may infect more of the body; The sufferance whereof cannot but breed a further disorder to the good quietness of her majesties most peaceable government. And because her majesty would haue such villainous, treasonable and seditious attempts both repressed and punished, and also would come to some certainty for the discovering of the Authors thereof, whereby she would not enter into any scruple of suspicion of any other manner of person then the offenders or their partners: Therefore her majesty willeth, that whosoever can, and will discover the Authors or partners of those Libels, and will open it to her majesty, or to some Attendant about her Person, the same shall be rewarded in this sort: If the party that shall discover the same be under the degree of a Gentleman, he shall haue forth with forty pounds; and if he bee a Gentleman, he shall haue one hundred pounds: And if hereafter it shall be proved, that any person hath been in any wise privy hereto, and shall not now very shortly after this Proclamation discover it, the same shall at no time hereafter be thereof pardonned. And furthermore, her majesty chargeth all manner of persons that shall hereafter at any time find any such seditious bills, to bring the same to the Lord Maior of London, or to some special officer of London, or of any other town where such shall be found. And if the same shall be found in or about the Court, then to be secretly brought to some of her majesties counsellors, or other her faithful seruants attendant about her Person, vpon pain, that if any bee found remiss herein, then the same to receive such like punishment as the Author of seditious Libels ought to do. For her majesty cannot think that these things are so much given out in respect of any private persons as they are in contempt of the present government and proceedings, wherein her majesty cannot but find herself touched.  
given at her majesties Palace of Westminster, the 26. day of March 1576. in the xviij. year of her majesties reign. 
 God save the queen.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Richard jug, Printer to the queens majesty.   

Cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.