HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  

A copy.  WHere sundry Preachers haue lately come into sundry places of the diocese of London, some of them not being Ministers: others, such as haue no sufficient warrant for their calling: others, such as haue been detected in other Countries, & haue notwithstanding taken upon them publicly to preach, to the infamy of their calling: others, haue in their preaching rather stirred up the people to innovation, than sought the peace of the Church. These are therefore in her majesties name, by virtue of her high Commission for causes ecclesiastical to us and others directed, straightly to enjoin, command, and charge al Parsons, Uicars, Curates, & Churchwardens, of all Churches situate within the diocese of London, as well in places exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, as not exempt: that they nor any of them do suffer any to preach in their Churches or Parrishes, or to read any Lectures( not being in their own Cures) but onely such whose licenses, they shall first haue seen and red, and whom they shall find to be lycensed thereto, either by the Queens majesty, or by one of the universities of Cambridge, or Oxford, or by the L. Archbishop of Canterbury, or the L. Bishop of London for the time being, under seal. And that no private assemblies or conventicles about ecclesiastical exercises, by any persons whatsoever be suffered to be held, either in houses or elsewhere, by knowledge of the Minister or Churchwardens: but that the parties so assembling, be detected by them to the ordinary, with the manner of their said assemblies, with as convenient speed as may be.  
And, that this injunction may be published and take the better effect: we will that a true copy thereof shall be delivered to every Curate, or to the Churchwarden of every of the Churches aforesaid: And that vpon the Sunday next after the receipt hereof, presently after the reading of the second lesson at morning prayer, it shall be red openly by the Minister to the congregation: And afterwards it shall be written in the Church book of accounts, so as it may be known unto such Ministers and Churchwardens as shall succeed them: And then it to be fastened up in some convenient place of the Church.  
Yeouen the XXvi. day of March in the year of our Lord God 1589. 

jo: Cantuar.  
john London.  
Tho. Winton.  
Harb. Hereford.  

Subsigned.  Valen: Dale.  
Owyn Hopton.  
Bar: clerk.  
W. Aubrey.  
W. Fletewood.  
Edw. Stanhope.  
W. Lewyn.  
john Mullins.  
Richard cousin.