HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ By the queen.  
WHere in the Parliament holden at Westminster, in the thirteenth year of the queens majesties reign, amongst other things, there was one act and Statute made, entitled an act against usury, which act was then made to continue for, and during the space of five yeeres next after the end of the said Parliament, and from the end of the said five yeeres, to the end of the first Session of the Parliament then next ensuing, as by the same act more at large it doth appear. And forasmuch as the said five yeres were ended and expired in the eighteen year of her majesties reign, during the tune of the second session of this present Parliament begun at Westminster in the fourteenth year of her majesties reign, and by diuers prorogations yet continuing: therefore some doubts and questions haue been lately moved, whether the said Act & Statute should continue but unto the end of the last Session of this present Parliament, which in dead was the third Session of the said Parliament begun in the said 14. year of her majesties reign, and first holden after the end of the said five yeeres, or else unto the end of the first Session of the next Parliament that hereafter shall fortune to be newly summoned. Wherefore her Highnesse considering that such doubts and questions being moved and spread abroad, may breed some troubles and many inconveniences amongst her loving Subiects, hath therefore thought good to use the aduise of her Iudges and counsel learned therein. And finding plainly by their opinions that the said act and Statute was not determined or expired at the end of the said last Session of Parliament, but doth yet stand in full strength and force until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament, which hereafter shall fortune to be newly summoned: doth now by the aduise of her majesties privy counsel for the avoiding of all troubles that by the occasion of such fryuolous questions might hereafter ensue, notify and declare by this her majesties Proclamation, to all her loving subiects, that the said act and Statute doth and shall continue and remain in full force and effect, until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament, which hereafter shall fortune to bee newly summoned. And so willeth and straightly chargeth and commandeth all and every her said subiects, to accept o. it as a lawe, yet standing in full force according to the good meaning thereof, without any such doubts or questions thereupon hereafter to be had, made, or moved by any person or persons whatsoever, in any of her Highnesse courts of Record or else where.  
given at her majesties palace of Westminster the nineteenth day of May. In the xxiii. year of her Highnesse reign. 
 God save the queen.   

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