❧ By the queen.  
THe queens most excellent majesty being certainly informed of diuers great spo●●es made of the goods laden in a Spanish Carraque lately brought to P●rtmouth in devonshire, & the same convyed secretly on land to certain parts of the realm, as well in devonshire, as to the city of London, & other ports and creeks, and there dispersed and unlawfully bought by sundry Merchants and Brokers, to the maniseft breach of her majesties laws, & to the robbing of her majesty of her royal customs and Subsidies: hath thought it most necessary to cause reformation hereof to be made with speed, and the offenders to understand what punishment is due to them, if they shall not speedily discover and restore the said goods. And therefore her majesty straightly chargeth & commandeth all maner of persons that haue taken out or received any maner of goods of any value out of the said Carraque, either while she was on the Seas, or since her coming into the haven of Dertmouth, though the same been taken in the name of pillage,( which was not lawful to be done by the laws of the realm, and the laws of the Sea, until the whole lading were borough into the Port) that they do within ten dayes after this Proclamation published in any City, Port, town or county, discover and make known to they principal Officer of the place where they shall reside, and diliuer the same to the said Officer to be certified to her Maiestice orher counsel, or to show where, and to whom they haue sold, given, or delivered the same. And in such case her majesty chargeth all Merchants, Goldsmiths, jewellers, Seamen, and all other persons that haue bought or received any of the said goods in like sort, within the said time, to discover & deliver the same, & to declare of whom, and by what means they haue received the same without any respect of any money paid, or bonds given for payment thereof. And like wise her majesty chargeth all In-keepers or other householders, or Owners of any vessels vpon the Sea, where any person shal come with any carriage, wherein there may be suspicion, that any portion of the commodities taken in the said Carraque shalbe bestowed, that the same householder or Master of any vessel, shal forth with give notice to the next public Officer thereof, to cause the same to be stayed and certisied to any person appointed as a Commissioner about the charge of the said Carraque, or to any of the privy Counsel. And all these her majesties several commandements she willeth to be observed vpon pain of imprisonment without battle of the offender, and further pimisdment against such so haue robbed the said Carraque, and their abetters and accessaries, as in cases of Felonies. And furthermore her majesty willeth it to be known to all persons, who by reason of their Consort of adventure in this late service wherein the Carraque was taken, shall claim any portion out of the goods of the said Carraque, that if it may be proved that they haue taken or bought any thing out of the said Carraque before the bringing & the view of her by her majesties Commissioners at Dertmouth, without revealing the same to her majesty or to her Commissioners, they are by the law to lose all the benefit that they might claim for their adventure. And to the intent that no master or Soldier, or other that haue adventured themselves about taking of the same Carraque should be discouraged in withdrawing from him that which lawfully is to be accounted pillage, her majesty mindeth vpon first discovering to her Commissioners of that which any hath taken by name of pillage, the same shalbe considered how far forth it is to bee indged pillage, & thereof shal haue allo wance besides their due wages, with all lawful favour: but without the discovery thereof to the Officers of the Port where they do first arrive, they neither ought to enjoy any thing by name of pillage, nor yet to haue allo wance of wages, or thirds, or such like, but by the laws of the Sea are punishable for concealing of every thing so taken. And as her majesty hath thought meet at this time to publish these her commandements, especially vpon the notorious spoils presently made out of this Carraque, so doth she command the like prohibitions & commandements to be observed, vpon like pains for all maner of spoils committed vpon any other prizes taken on the Stas this summer past, & for time to come doth also command the same to be observed in the taking of any ship of any ship of any enemy as a prise, to forbear from all spoils, and not to take any thing out of any prise, until the same be brought, viewed, and preached by the Officers of the ports, whereby her majesty may haue her due Customs, and other persons their duties, and the takers of the prizes their portions due to them.  
given at the city of Oxenford the 23. day of September 1592. in the 34. year of her majesties reign. 
 Godsaue the queen.   

Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the queens most excellent majesty. 1591.