❧ By the queen.  
ELizabeth by the grace of God &c. To our right trusty and right well-beloved counselor, William Lord Burghley our high treasurer of England, To all our Iudges of all our Courts at Westminster, to the Barons of our Exchequer, to all olther Iudges in any Court of record within our realm of England, and to all Maiors, Shirifes, Customers and controllers of our Ports, Alnagers, Searchers, and all others our officers and ministers whatsoever, and to all others to whom it shall appertain, greeting.  
Whereas humble suit and petition hath of long time ben made unto us by our loving Subiectes the Clothiers suffolk, norfolk, and Essex, for some reasonable mitigation and toleration of the strictness of the Statutes now standing in force, touching the making of clothes within the same Counties: And namely one statute made in the fifth and sixth yeeres of the reign of King Edward the sixth, entitled an act for the true making of wollen Cloth, and one other statute made in the fourth and fifth yeeres of the reigns of King Philip and queen Mary, entitled an Act touching the making of wollen Clothes, which as we are credible informed, are by experience found to be such as the makers of the said Clothes cannot by any means precisely and fully perform and observe, albeit they haue endeavoured themselves thereunto according to their best skill and industry, and as much as in them did lye: And so the said Clotheiers in extremity of lawe, haue incurred, and do daily incur the danger of the penalties and forfeitures limited in and by the said Statutes, for which many of them haue ben impleaded and sued, and otherwise grievously molested and vexed by informers and searchers: By reason whereof they haue forsaken and left their trade, to the great decay of cloth making within the said Counties, and to the impoverishment and utter undoing of great numbers of poor people there, which heretofore haue ben relieved and set on work by the same; A matter likely to grow to further inconvenience, if some speedy course be not taken for redress thereof. Whereupon we, of our Princely and godly disposition having a most tender care and regard of our said good and loving subiects, and desiring as much as in us lieth, to provide convenient and speedy relief for them, in that behalf: haue by the aduise of the Lords and others of our privy counsel, who haue had the examination thereof, and with great deliberation haue caused certain orders to be devised & set down for mitigation of the extremities & strictness of the said statutes, and for toleration with the said Clothiers for & concerning the same, so as they should not be vexed with any suits by informations or actions, as long as they shal observe the said orders, which said orders we haue caused to be hereunto annexed: Straightly charging & commanding aswell the Clothiers aforesaid, as also all others to whom it shal or may in any wise appertain, duly to observe and perform the same in all things. And our express will and pleasure is, that none of the Clothiers within our said counties of Suff. Norff. & Essex, which shall fully and truly in all things observe, fulfil, and accomplish the said orders according to the effect and true meaning of the same, shall in any wise be sued, impeached, troubled or molested by any Alnager, searcher or informer, or any other person or persons whatsoever, for or by reason of the breach or not performing of the said statutes or any of thē, or for or concerning any forfeiture or penalty therein contained: which we require you all to see obeserued in al Courts, where any person shal offer to implead them, contrary to the good intention of the said orders. And these tolerations to endure during our pleasure, or until by Parliament the same may be further considered and established, as the like provision hath ben made for western cloths in the xxvii. year of our reign. We will also that at the request of the clothiers of Suff. Norff. & Essex or any of them, the orders hereunto annexed shal be published and fixed up in our city of London, in places convenient, and likewise published in such market & port Towns as shal be thought needful in the said Counties. Al which shal be done by order & direction of our privy Counsel, as they shal think meet from time to time.  
given under our signet at our Mannor of greenwich the xiii, day of March, in the xxxii, year of our reign.