❧ By the queen.  
A Proclamation against vagrant Souldiers and others.  
THE queens most excellent majesty being given to understand, that what through the remissness and negligence of the Iustices of peace, and other the inferior officers, and the contempt of vagrant and ill disposed persons, and others pretending to haue served her Highnesse in the warres, there hath not followed that due execution of the proclamantion lately made concerning such persons, as was by her Highnesse expected: Her majesty therfore, hearing of the great outrages that haue been, and are daily committed by Souldiers, Mariners, and others that pretend to haue served as Souldiers, vpon her Highnesse good and loving subiects, hath thought meet to authorize & appoint as well the provost marshall of the several Counties, as also the Right marshall of her Highnes own ●●●●●holde, to proceed to the punishment of such vagrant and ill disposed persons as shal be found to offend against this ●●●●… t Proclamation now published, by marshall Law. And although her majesty might in due course of policy cause the said Marshall, & other the provost marshals above mentioned, to proceed out of hand to the punishment of the trans●●●ss●rs of the late Proclamation, urged by their outrages to take that course: yet her Highnesse of her gracious & prince●●● disposition hath thought meet, that the said persons shall receive before the execution thereof, a second admonition. And therefore hath ordered, and doth hereby signify, that all Souldiers, Mariners, masterless men, and other vagrant persons whatsoever, shall within two dayes after the publishing of this proclamation, repair to the next Corporate 〈◇〉, or Iustice of the peace( where they shalbe at the time of the publishing of the said proclamation) and shall require of them a passport to repair into their country. And in case that after the two dayes expired after publication of this Proclamation, any of the said persons shall be found without his passport, or shall not according to the tenor of his or their ●asport repair to the place where such person was born or last resident, according to the statute in that behalf ordained: that then the said party shall be apprehended and executed by the said Knight marshall or provost marshall, and that within the Counties, or Cities where the said person shall be so apprehended, according to such direction as shall be given by warrant from her majesty, in that behalf to be made. And her majesty commandeth that the Maiors, and other principal officers Corporate towns, and the Iustice of peace in the several Counties, shall vpon the repair unto them of any the said Souldiers, Mariners, vagrant persons, and masterless men, deliver unto them passports containing a limitation of time for their repair of the place where they were born or last resident, according to the said statute, al●●●… king unto those that shal be found sound of their limbs, after the rate of xii. miles by the day agreeable to the distance of the place unto which they shal be so directed, with permission to require the benevolence of good people for their relief by the way. And to others that are impotent or maimed, such a rate of miles by the day, as by the said Maiors & Iustices in their discretion shalbe thought meet, & that within their passports, the notable towns & thorowfares for their passings be expressed, from which if they serve, then such persons to be punished according to the purport of this Proclamation.  
And whereas her majesty is also given to understand, that heretofore the masters of such persons as haue been pressed 〈◇〉 her highnesse service, haue refused vpon the return of the said persons, to receive them into their service, being able to serve: whereby diuers of the said persons haue been enforced for lack of relief, being not set a work, to go up and ●●●… ne begging, contrary to the laws and statutes of this realm: Her majesties pleasure is, that the said Maiors, principal Officers of corporate towns, and Iustices shall take order that the said masters, with whom the said persons haue last served, shall receive them again into their service, and vpon refusal thereof, commit them to prison, or otherwise punish them, as in their discretions shalbe thought meet. And her highnesse further pleasure and express commandement is, that the said Maiors, and principal Officers in Corporate towns, & the said Iustices in the several counties, shall take order, that such as are impotent persons, repairing to the places and parishes of their last residency, shall receive some weekly relief either in the said parish, or for want of ability in that parish, then by some contribution of the parishes adjoining, as by the statute is provided. And that in case any of the said maiors, officers in Corporate towns, 〈◇〉 Iustices of peace of the several Counties, shall deal remissly in the execution of this present proclamation, as heretofore they haue done in the execution of other like proclamations: Her highnesse pleasure is, that the said persons so offending, shable called before the Lords and other of the majesties privy counsel in the Starrechamber, and that then vpon information to be given by her majesties attorney general, or other her learned counsel for the time being, of their defaults in this behalf, the said offences being duly proved, they by order of that Court shall not onely be punished by ●ine and imprisonment, but also disinhabled ever afterwards to bear any public offices within this realm.  
given at our manor of Richmond, the xiii. day of november. In the one and thirtieth year of our reign. 
 God save the queen.   

❧ Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the queens most excellent majesty. Anno 1589.