HONI SOIT Q●● MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  royal blazon or coat of arms  
September xxvij. Anno xviij. Reginae Elizabethae.  
¶ The orders appointed for the government and order of the exchange, that the same may be used and kept according to the laws and statutes of the realm, which are now ordained to be observed by the queens majesties Proclamation.  
first, all merchants, Englishe and strangers, and all other her majesties subiectes, are to understand, that by the laws and statutes of this realm, no man ought to make any exchange, or rechaunge of money, but such as her majesty shall aucthorise, or their leeful Deputies, to keep, make, and answer for such eschaunges and rechaunges, vpon pains contained in the same Statutes.  
And to the intent the same may be used for the necessary uses of leeful exchange and rechaunge in cases requisite, it is at this present time ordered for the usage thereof, that Edmonde Calthrop, Thomas Dalton, of the city of London Haberdashers, and John Wanton, of the same city Grocer, men well acquainted with the manner of eschaunges and rechanges, from and to the city of London, and to from forra●gne partes, shall and may make and give sufficient warrant to all persons for exchange and reeschaunge, in such sort as shall be agreeable to the observation of the laws for that purpose ordained. And therefore from henceforth al bills of exchange or reeschaunge, endorced or subscribed with the name and hand writing of them, or any one of them, shall be sufficient warrant both for the deliverer and taker. And whensoever any others shalbe appointed to occupy and exercise the same rooms, for the keeping of the said exchange, there shal be thereof from time to time notice publicly given in places thereto requisite.  
Item, It is to be regarded, that none go about by any fraudulent colour or device, to alter, or to discontinue the ancient manner of delivering or taking of money by exchange, whereby either the intention of the laws provided therefore, or her majesties prerogative for her fines and dueties answerable for the same, be abused or defrauded.  
Item, though there haue ben always answered in former times to her majesties progenitors, and to the Maisters and keepers of the eschange, from time to time, as by many records is very manifest to be seen, vpon every Englishe Noble, of the deliverer one penny, and the like of the taker, which was vpon every pound syxe pence: yet for the more ease, and less burden, of such as shal haue necessary cause to deliver and take by exchange, there shall not be for this time, nor until greater cause shall move for her majesties service, and more be taken but one farthing of the said Noble, or the value thereof for the deliverer, and one other farthing of the taker, which shalbe vpon the pound, but penny halfpenie.  
Item, It is to be considered, that the exchange and reeschaunge shall be so ordered, that as near as possibly may be, and as times of trade may suffer, the moneys of this realm may not be delivered under the just valves of their standard, neither that any eschaunges of money to be used, but for the use of known merchants, or for such as otherwise by the queens majesties licence, or leefully by the laws and usages of the realm, haue or hereafter shal haue cause for their needful business, to make their eschaunges of moneys of this realm, for moneys in foreign places.  
Finally, yf there shall hereafter appear any further matter needful to be ordained or declared for the better and more perfect usage of the exchange, or for the avoiding or explaining of any doubts that may arise: the same shal be with aduise of wise and expert men in the trade of merchandise, and of exchange, notified in like tables from time to time, to be seen and red in this place.  
God save the queen.