❧ By the queen.  
¶ A Proclamation by her majesties commandement, forbidding the making or forging of any Iron Ordonance, about the quantity of the piece commonly called the Minion, without the queens special licence and prohibiting also the carriage out of the realm to any foreign parts, of any maner of Ordonance of brass or Iron, vpon the pains hereafter contained in the Proclamation.  
THe queens most excellent majesty being certainly informed, that notwithstanding that it is unlawful to transport any Ordonance of brass on Iron out of the realm without special licence, other then for her majesties natural subiects, to be used in their shipping on the Seas abroad, and yet not to be by them aliened to Strangers: yet diuers evil minded persons haue presumed for their private commodity to do the contrary, even to the furnishing of the enemy. For the stay hereof, her majesty doth now straightly command all maner of persons to forbear to ship in any be vessel whatsoever, any kind of Ordonance of brass or Iron, with intent to transport the same into any foreign parts, or to sell or deliver any such Ordonance to any person to transport the same, vpon the pains already limited by the laws, and such other punishment as is due to them, that do arm and give strength to her enemies, and thereby incur her indignation, which her majesty justly must and will extend, for that it is most evidently seen by daily experience that by such unlawful transportations, her majesties enemies are either directly or indirectly furnished for the most part with such Ordonance. And for a further remedy against the inconvenience that is most generally seen to arise by making of great quantity of great Iron Ordonance, and by selling the same to sundry persons, who haue secretly carried the same out of the realm, whereby the common enemies haue been furnished therewith not onely in their: shipping, but also in their Maritime towns and Ports, where otherwise without the same, they had not been able nor durst haue put their ships to the Seas: Her majesty doth most straightly charge, vpon pain of her indignation and punishment due thereto, all maner of persons that be the owners of any Iron works, Furnaces or Forges, or that do make or cause to be made any Iron, that none of them shall make, forge, or cause to be made, any maner of Ordonance above that maner of piece, which is called a Minion, and that to bee accounted of no greater weight then of fifteen hundred or sixteen hundred pound weight, Except that her majesty shal for any special consideration, licence any person to make any other kind of Ordonance above the Minion. And furthermore though her majesty thinketh it reasonable and necessary that Ordonance of Iron be made for the use of the ships of her natural subiects, to serve for their defence vpon the Seas, yet her majesty meaneth to mescribe certain orders, and to appoint certain persons of authority to see the same executed, how her subiects, shall and may provide for their necessary shipping and defence, such Iron Ordonance, as shall be necessary for them, to be onely used in their shipping for their defence, and not to be directly or indirectly or indirectly transported out of the realm, or sold or delivered to any Stranger being not her majesties natural subject, vpon such pains as are above expressed.  
given at Sudeley castle the xi. day of September, in the xxxiiii. year of our reign. 
 God save the queen.   

❧ Imprintedat London by the Deputies of CHRISTOPHER BARKER, Printer to the queens most excellent majesty. 1592.