❧ By the privy Counsel.  
A Commandement that no suitors come to the Court for any private suite except their petitions be endorsed by the Master of Requests. 1594.  
WHereas many and sundry orders, haue been formerly conceived and published by Proclamtion, and other wise by her majesties express commandement, for the restraint of the unordinate repair of multitudes of Suitors to the Court, with Petitions and Complaints to her majesty or her privy counsel: whereof commonly the most part are for matters private, unmeet to bee preferred to her, or for a Counsel of State to deal in: or be such as are depending or decidable in some of her majesties courts of Iustice, or equity at westminster or other places in the realm: which former orders are not observed, to the great distike of her majesty, and the trouble and hindrance of her counsel in the dispatch of her Highnesse important services: It is now therefore otrdered and enjoined that all suitors, that from henceforth shall vpon colour or cause of Suite, intend to exhibit complaint or petition to her majesty or to her counsel, shall first acquaint there with one of the Masters of Requests, if any of them shal be attendant in the Court, who with one of the Clerkes of the counsel then attendant vpon hearing of the complaints, or vpon view and consideration of their petitions, shall endorse the substance of the matter, with their opinions subscribed with their hands: But if the Master of Requests, shall bee out of the Court, so as the clerk of the counsel then attendant in the Court, cannot be present with the Master of the Requests at the hearing of the Complainant, then the Master of the Requests shall endorse the Bill with his opinion, and shall sand the same to the clerk of the counsel then attendant, who shall present the same to the privy counsel at their next sitting, to bee answered as shall bee found meet by the counsel. And the Master of the Requests to refer the rest of the Suitors, with their complaints to ordinary courts of Iustice or equity as the cause shall require: And to direct all other Suitors in causes, neither meet to be preferred to her majesty, nor to be heard by the privy counsel, nor yet meet for any other ordinary Court of Iustice or equity, to depart & not to remain as Suitors about the Court, vpon pain of imprisonment, and so to be committed by direction of the Masters of Requests by warrant under his hand to the Knight Marshall or his deputy.  
And the Master of the Requests shall also deliver the names, of the parties that shall bee rejected, to the queens majesties Porter, to the intent he may know whom to exclude: and vpon the direction on the complaints so endorsed, the Suitors shall address themselves to follow the said direction, & in no other sort to follow their suits. And therefore it is ordered, that at such time as any maner person( not being her majesties known seruant, or not of the degree & condition of a known gentleman) shall offer to come in at the Court gates, as to be a Suitor, the Queens majesties Porters shall inform the party of this order, and shall direct him or her to the Chamber of one of the Masters of the Requests, if any of them shalbe in the Court: And if none of them shall be in the Court, then the Porters shall command the party not to continue in the Court, but to repair to the house of one of the Masters of Requests, and afterwards as his petition shall be endorsed, he shall admit him to come into the Court, or reject him: straitly prohibiting all persons not to press in at the Court gate as Suitors, to exhibit any petition or complaint, without their Bill shall be first so endorsed by the said Master of the Requests and clerk of the counsel as abovesaid: or that the party shall be licenced by some of the privy Counsel, vpon special cause known to repair unto the Court, to exhibit his complaint to the queens majesty, or to the Counsel, vpon pain of imprisonment in the Marshalseas, during their Lordships pleasure.  
At the Court at greenwich the xx. of August. 1594. 
 God save the queen   

❧ Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Baker, Printer to the queens most excellent majesty. 1595.