❧ By the queen.  
THe queens majesty understanding of the common wandring abroad of a great multitude of her people, whereof the most part pretend, that they haue served in the warres of late on the other side of the Seas, though in truth it is known, that very mante of them, either haue not served at all, or haue been licensed to depart from the places of their service, as they ought to haue been, but haue run away from their service, and therefore they are fustly to be punished, and not to be relieved: some others are such as haue indeed served, and fallen into sickensse, and therefore lienced to depart towards their Countries, from whence they were levied, and do deserve relief, To the intent all her majesties Officers of Iustice in every place, where these sorts of people shall resort, may know, what her majesties most gracio pleasure is, for the usage of the said persons, both to punish the offenders, and to relieve the siche soldiers, and such as haue truly served, and are licensed to depart to their countries: She commandeth that such discretion be used berwixt the unlawful vagrant persons, and the soldiers now lawfully dismissed from their services, that all such vagrant persons, as neither haue been brought to sickness nor lameness by the said late service, and that shall not be able to she we sufficient passport for their dismission, shall be taken and apprehended, wheresoever they may be found, as persons vagabonds, and so to be punished. And if any of them shall allege, that they haue been in her majesties pay on the other side the Seas, and cannot she we sufficient passport from the Lord general, or some of the principal Officers of the army, then to be taken and committed to prison, and to be indicted as felons, and to suffer for the same, as soldiers being in her majesties pay, that haue run away, and left the service traitorously. And for the rest that haue served as soldiers, and can she we thier lawful passports, they ought to be relieved by some charitable means, to conduct them into their country, with commendation of public Letters from the Iustices of the Peace where they shall be found, to all other Ministers both spiritual and temporal, both to grant them reasonable relief and aid for their passage, and to bee particularly relieved by the Parishes or Hundreds, from whence they were levied during the time of their infirmities and sickness, as in conscience they ought, and so to be placed with their former Masters, as by her majesties late directions to the Counties hath been ordered and appoynted: And nevertheless, with special pains to be added to the same Letters of commendations of passports, that if they shall bee found to wander abroad out of the ordinary ways mentioned in their passports, that then, they are to be punished as vagabonds.  
And her majesty letteth it to be known, that order is given by her, that her treasurer of warres hath and shal make payment( in every Port where any such shall arrive coming with lawful passport) of such sums of money, as shall be conuentient to conduct them to the places from which they were levied. And that all Officers of Ports shall be allowed by the said treasurer any such sums of money, as by them shall be paid to any such lawful souldiers. And furthermore, for the repressing of the great number of mighty & able vagrant persons now wandring abroad under pretence of begging as souldiers, although in dead they are known to commit open robberies vpon her majesties poor subiects and trauaillers by the way: Her majesty straightly chargeth all her lieutenants of every county within the realm( having sufficient warrant by their Commission to execute Martiall Law vpon such offenders against the public peace and state of the realm) to appoint some special persons within their jurisdictions to travell within the Counties as Proust-Marshals, and to give directions to the Iustices of the Peace to assist the Prouoff-Marshall, for the apprehension of all such notable offenders, and to commit them to prison, and thereupon to be executed, as by the laws of the realm they shall deserve.  
given our Mannor of Richmond, the fift day of november and in the three 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. 1591.