❧ By the queen.  
❧ A Proclamation for the publication of her majesties most gracious commission under the great seal of England, for avoiding of the trouble and charges that grow by concealments, and that her Highnessed loving subiects may compound for security of their estates from her majesty for a perpetual quiet to them and their posterities.  
THe queens most excellent majesty, having been informed that where diuers of her loving Subiects haue of long time quietly enjoyed diuers manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, some by descent, and others by purchase or otherwise vpon just and good considerations, and others that haue obtained grants vpon good consideration, from her majesty, of some other of her noble Progenitors, haue been of late yeeres greatly vexed, sued, and put to intolerable charges by colour of Letters patents of concealment, which are found for the most part to be void in Law, or vpon pretence that the said manours, lands, tenements, and hereditaments be from her majesty concealed or unjustly detained, or may hereafter vpon such pretences be vexed and put to extreme charges: Her majesty out of her gracious and Princely disposition, being very desirous( as in all other things) not onely to free her loving Subiects from such vexations and suits as haue been already attempted, but foreseing and providing for the utter extirping and taking away of the cause of such like hereafter: And to the intent that such of her loving Subiects as desire to settle and establish their estates for themselves and their posterity, and to be discharged of the mean profits, may vpon such composition as shal be agreeable to equity and good conscience, obtain Letters patents to be made to them, under the great seal of England, in such sort as their several cases shall require: Hath for that purpose( and that her loving Subiects with less suite and attendance may attain to the same) granted her Highnesse Commission under the great seal of England, unto the lord Buckhurst, lord high Treasurer of England, Sir Robert cecil Knight, her majesties principal secretary, Sir John Fortescue Knight, Chauncellos of her Highnesse Exchequer, Sir John Popham Knight, Lord chief Iustice of England, Sir William Peryam Knight, chief Baron of her Highnesse Exchequer, Robert clerk Esquire, one of the Barons of the same Exchequer, John Sauell Esquire, one other of the Barons of the same Exchequer, and Edward cook, her Highnesse attorney general, or to any four or more of them, whereof the said Lord Treasurer, Sir Robert cecil, Sir John Fortescue, or Sir John Popham to be two, for the relief of her loving Subiects, in such cases concerning the premises as her majesty in her Princely wisdom, hath thought to tend to the general quiet and security of her loving Subiects and their posterities, Giuing thereby to her Commissioners full power and authority for such reasonable compositions as they shall think fit, as well to secure the estates of her loving Subiects therein by force of Letters patents under the great seal of England, as to discharge the mean profits thereof, as by the same Commission more at large appeareth. Wherein her majesties gracious pleasure is, that no person be enforced, or drawn to discover the imperfection or imbecility of any their estates or interests. And to the end, that this general and perpetual quiet and good to her loving Subiects, proceeding from her majesties exceeding grace and favour might take to good effect as is most Princely and honourably intended, Her most excellent majesty hath commanded the same to be published and divulged generally through her whole realm by these presents, And that her majesty hath given in charge to the said Commissioners vpon suite made by any of her loving Subiects, to execute the said Commission in all things according to the tenor and purport of the same with all convenient expedition.  
given at her majesties Mannour of Richmond the fourteenth day of Ianuarie, in the two and fortieth year of her reign. 
 God save the queen.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the queens most excellent majesty. 1599.