By the queen.  
A Proclamation against the Sectaries of the Family of love.  
WHereas by report of sundry of the Bishops of this realm, & others having cure of souls, the queens majesty is informed, that in sundry places of her said realm, in their several dioceses, there are certain persons which do secretly in corners, make privy assemblies of diuers simplo unlearned people, & after they haue craftily & hypocritically alured them to esteem them to be more holy & perfect men then other are, they do then teach them damnable heresies, directly contrary to diuers of the principal Articles of our belief and Christian faith, & in some parts so absurd and fanatical, as by feigning to themselves a monstrous new kind of speech never found in the Scriptures, nor in ancient father of writer of Christs Church, by which they do move ignorant & simplo people at the first rather to marvel at them, then to understand them: but yet to colour their sect withall, they name themselves to be of the family of love, and then as many as shall be allowed by them to be of that family, to be elect & saved, and all others of what Church so ever thy be, to be rejected and damned: And for that vpon conuenting of some of them before the Bishops and ordinaries, it is found that the ground of their sect is maintained by certain lewd, heretical, & seditious books first made in the Dutch tongue, and lately translated into English, and printed beyond the seas, and secretly brought over into the realm, the author whereof they name E. N. without yielding to him vpon their examination, any other name. In whose name they haue certain books set forth, called evangelium Regni, or a joyful Message of the kingdom. Documentall sentences. The prophecy of the spi●●●… ●●●… ue. A publishing of the peace vpon the earth, and such like. And considering also it is found, that these Sectaries hold opinion, that they may before any Magistrate Ecclesiastical or temporal, or any other person not being professed to be of their sect( which they term the family of love) by oath or otherwise deny any thing for their advantage, so as though many of them are well known to be teachers & spreaders abroad of these dangerous and damnable s; ects, yet by their own confession they can not be condemned, whereby they are more dangerous in any Christian realm: Therefore her majesty being very sorry to see so great an evil by the malice of the devil first begun and practised in other countreys, to be now brought into this her realm, and that by her Bishops and ordinaries, shee understandeth it very requisite, not only to haue these dangerous heretics & Sectaries to be severely punished, but that also all other means be used by her majesties royal authority, which is given her of God to defend Christes church, to roote them out from further infecting of her realm, shee hath thought meet and convenient, and so by this her proclamation. shee willeth and commandeth that all her officers & Ministers temporal, shal in al their several vocations, assist the Archbyshops and Bishops of her realm, and all other persons ecclesiastical, having cure of soul, to search out all persons duly suspected to be either teachers or professors of the foresaid damnable seets, and by al good means to proceed severely against them being found culpable, by order of the laws either ecclesiastical or temporal, & that also search be made in all places suspected for the books and writings maintaining the said heresies and sects, and them to destroy and burn. And wheresoever such books shalbe found after the publication hereof, in custody of any person, other then such as the ordinaries shall permit, to the intent to peruse the same for confutation thereof, the same persons to be attached and committed to close prison, there to remain, or otherwise by law to be condemned, until the same shalbe purged and cleared of the same Heresies, or shal recant the same, and be thought meet by the ordinary of the place to be delivered. And that whosoever in this realm shall either print, or bring, or cause to be brought into this realm, any of the said books, the same persons to be attached and committed to prison, and to receive such bodily punishment and other mulet, as fautors of damnable Heresies. And to the execution hereof, her majesty chargeth all her Officers and Ministers both ecclesiastical and Temporal, to haue special regard, as they will answer not only afore God, whose glory and truth is by these damnable sects greatly sought to be defaced, but also will avoyde her majesties indignation, which in such cases as these are, they ought not to escape, if they shal be found negligent & careless, in the Execution of their authorities.  
given at our manor of Richmond the third of October, in the two and twentieth year of our reign. 
 God save the queen.   

Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the queens most excellent majesty.