❧ By the queen.  
A Proclamation forbidding the transportation and carriage of all manner of grain and beer out of the realm, to endure until the next Michaelmas hereafter following.  
The viij. of October, 1590.  
THe queens majesty understanding the likelihood of great de arth of all manner of grain, to follow this present year within her realm, if good foresight be not had to restrain the carrying out of all sorts of grain to foreign partes, where it is known there is scarcity, and thereby occasion given for private lucre, to carry into foreign parts, such kinds of grain, as( God be thanked) there is sufficient thereof in this realm for her own people and subiects: hath by aduise of her counsel, determined to provide remedy for such inconvenience. And therefore her majesty doth most straitly charge and command, that no persons of what condition soever they be, shall carry or cause to be carried out of the realm, or bargain, grant or covenant with any person, to the intent to be carried out of the realm, any wheat, Rye, Barley, malt, beans, oats, or Pease, vpon pain of imprisonment during their lives, and such fine, as shal be assessed by her majesties Counsel, vpon their lands or goods. And that all Owners and masters of Ships, and all mariners that shal be privy to the lading and carrying of any such grain into any parts out of the realm, shal also be committed to prison for one whole year, and the ship that shalbe laden belonging to any owner being privy thereto, to be arrested, and not to be suffered to make sail, during one whole year following. And because her majesty understandeth, that there is great abuse in carrying out of beer, by colour of certain licences, and in the name of victualling beer, or fowring beer: Her majesty commandeth and willeth the Lord treasurer of England, to stay the carriage of any maner of beer out of the realm, by virtue of any licences remaining yet in force, which her Highnes pleasure is, to be suspended until Michaelmas next now following, And that no beer be either for victualling of ships to be occupied in trade of merchandise, or any ships lawfully set forth as ships of war, or for a kind of victualling of strangers ships, in the name of fowring beer, shipped to the carried, but that the same be limited and ranted in every port, according to such good orders as haue been of late yeeres prescribed for the same in the port of London, and as shal be further prescribed to the Officers of every port within the realm, by the Lord treasurer of England. And yet nevertheless, her majesty thinketh it meet, that such reasonable quantity of wheat for bread corn, and beer, shalbe carried out of the usual ports of her realm, into the low countries, for the sustentation of her souldiers serving in the same low countries, according to such a convenient proportion as hath been of late limited to such persons as haue or shall haue the charge thereof, and not otherwise. And to the intent this her majesties strait commandement may take the better effect, Her majesty hath commanded her privy counsel to make choice of certain special trusty persons in all the Maritime Counties of her realm, where ports are meet to lad any such grain, and them by special letters to authorize and charge, to haue regard from time to time, to all manner of shipping that shall lad any grain to transport from port to port, that by colour thereof no grain be laden, but vpon bonds first given with good sureties, to be certified into her Exchequer, that the same shall not pass out of the realm, And to add to the same bonds such other needful conditions as shall seem meet to restrain the same, the better thereby to perform the intent of this her majesties commandement, which her Highnesse express pleasure is shall be and continue in force, until Michaelmas next coming after the publication hereof.  
given at her majesties Castle of Windsor the eight day of October 1590, in the two and 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. 1590.