HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
ELizabeth by the grace of God, queen of England, France, and Ireland defendor of the faith. &c. To all and singular, Archbishops, Bishops, Archdecons, deans, and their Officials, Parsons, Vicars, Curates, and to all other spiritual perssons: and also to all Justices of the peace, Maiors, Shirifes, Balifes, Constables, Churchwardens, and Sidemen: Officers, Ministers and all other our faithful Subiects within the realm of England, as well within liberties as without, to whom these presents shall come, greeting.  
Know ye, that whereas the Prisoners in the custody of the Marshall of the marshalsea of our house, haue made to us supplication that they haue not whereof to live, neither any way be able to be comforted, but of such devout men to God and faithful in Christ as are willing charitably to relieve them: we willing in this behalf graciously to foresee their poverty, taking it to be a charitable act that ther may be yearly charity, we haue assigned our faithful subject Hugh oliver by himself & his sufficient deputy, jointly or seueally to ask, gather, receive & take, the alms, charity & devotion of our loving subiectes, inhabiting and dwelling within our County of Kent, with our cities of Caunterbury and Rochester, and in our five Ports with, the members of the same, and in our Isles of Tennet & Sheppa: And the alms and gifts aforesaid so by him or his deputy gathered and received, well and faithfully to bring into our Court: & yeeldan account therof, to our ward or Keeyer or clerk of the same Prison. As also to arrest & attach aswell al those which by our licence as yet not obtained, do famed them selues collectors of the said alms, as also al those which by any our letters to th̄e therof made, do gather the like rewards over & above one year contrary to the tenor of the same our letters patents. And those so arrested, to bring before our Marshall wheresoever he shall then be in England, or to the Prison of the marshalsea of our house aforesaid lawfully to led, there to remain until they be punished according to the law in that behalf.  
Therefore we command you and every of you, that you gentlye receive the aforesaid Hugh oliver or his sufficient deputy in this parte, to gather and receive the alms and gifts aforesaid, not doing or suffering to be done him or his deputye, anyhurt damage, molestatior grief: and if auyiniurye shall be done him or his deputy, that you do amend the same without delay.  
Furthermore we command you the aforesaid Constables, Church wardens & officers, & & every of you, that yot be counsellors & helpers for the executing & gathering of the premises. And also we command you the aforesaid Parsons, Vicars and curates, that you publish in pour Churches in your Parishes, he tenor of these presents.  
In witness whereof, we haue caused these our letters to be made patents for the space of one whole year to endure. witness George Carey Knight, Baron of Hunsdon, and great Marshal of our house aforesaid. At our Mannor of Castgreenwich the nine & twentieth day of September, in the eight and thirtieth year of our reign.  
God save the queen.