HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ By the queen.  
The queens majesty being given to understand, that diuers Souldiers vpon the dissolving of the camp at Tilberie in the county of Essex, haue in their way homeward sold diuers their armours and weapons, which haue been delivered unto them by the Officers of those Counties where they haue been levied and set out: and besides the sale of their said armor and weapons, haue most falsely and slanderously given out, that they were compelled to make sale of them for that they received no pay, which is most vntruely reported. For remedy whereof, her Highnesse doth straightly charge and command all her good and loving Subiects, not onely to forbear hereafter to bye any such armours and weapons as shall be offered unto them to be sold by any of the said Souldiers: but also immediately vpon any such offer, to take and apprehended the said soldier, and to deliver him or them into the hands of the next Constable, charging him by virtue of this Proclamation in her majesties name, to carry him to the next Gaole, and shall see him committed, there to remain without bail or mainprize, until there shall be some general order taken for the punishment of the said parties. And further her majesties pleasure is, that such of her Subiects as haue since the dissolving of the said camp, bought any of the said armor & weapons before the publishing of this present Proclamation, shall within two dayes after the publishing thereof, present unto the Maior, or any other chief Officer of that city, town, or place where the said armor hath been bought, the said armor and weapons so by them bought: and shall by their corporal oath declare unto the said Maior, or chief Officer, what sum or sums of money they haue paid for the said armor and weapons, and of whom the same was bought, or of what band the party was that sold the same, to the end there may some order be taken for the restitution of such sums of money as haue been by them disbursed. And in case any of her majesties Subiects shall be by any means detected and proved to haue transgressed against the true meaning of this her Highnesse Proclamation, either in not confessing & bringing in to the Officers aforesaid such armours as they haue bought in maner aforesaid, or in buying hereafter any the said armours to be offered as aforesaid unto them: or in not apprehending any the foresaid Souldiers offering the sale of their armours: her Highnesse meaning is( besides her heavy displeasure to be therefore sustained) that every such transgressor shall suffer for his offence, not only imprisonment, but such further punishment in body or by sine, as by her majesties privy counsel shall be thought meet. The one moiety of the said fine to be to the use of the detecter of the said Offender, and the other moiety to be employed in provision of corn powder, to the public benefit of the county where the said Detecter shall dwell. And to the end this Proclamation may take the better effect, her Highnesse pleasure and commandment is, that all Iustices of peace, and other inferior Ministers in their several divisions of their Counties, make all diligent enquiry of all offences and Offenders against the true meaning of this present Proclamation.  
given at he majesties manor of Saint james, the five and twentieth day of August. 1588. In the thirtieth year of her majesties reign. 
 God save the queen.   

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