XXIII. Maij 1587. Anno 29. Elizabethae Reginae.  
❧ A publication of an order lately granted by the queens majesty, in favour of a great number of her loving subiectes, occupying the trade of Clothing in the realm; whereby they may haue better sales of their Clothes to be transported out of the realm by the port of London.  
WHereas the Clothiers heretofore haue used onely to sel their clothes which they brought to a place called Black well hall in London, where none but the merchant adventurers did accustomably buy the same, and where also none but free men of the city might bargain for any the said clothes with the clothiers: The queens majesty in favour of the said clothiers, to the end they may haue more Marchants to buy their clothes, is pleased that both the Marchants of the Stillyard resident in London, and all other Marchants strangers whatsoever, and also all other Marchants of the realm though they be not free of the company of the merchant adventurers, shall & may buy lawfully of the said Clothiers any cloth being unwrought, vnbarbed or unshorn, notwithstanding any law to the contrary prohibiting the same, & shall haue full liberty to ship & carry away out of the port of London any such clothes: and of her majesties further favours the Marchants shal understand at the custom house in London, what customs and dueties they shal pay.  
And further it is ordered that all Marchants, strangers and English, that shall not haue liberty to buy any clothes at Black well hall, or within the liberties of the city of London, shall and may at their will bargain for and buy, all maner of clothes in the city of Mestminster, at a house appoynted for the same in the Kings street commonly called the George, where convenient room is provided for that purpose, and to which place, the clothiers may bring or cause to bee brought all such clothes as they shall not bee disposed to sell within the city of London.   

❧ Imprinted at London by C. B.