❧ By the queen. ❧ A Proclamation for prohibition of transporting moneys into Ireland. THe queens most excellent majesty having found by exprience oflats yeeres, since the time that shee hath had cause to sand extraordinary sums of moneys into her realm of Ireland, for the payment of the great Forces which there she maintaineth, that infinite discommodities and loss doth arise to this her realm of England by transporting of the sterling moneys of this realm into Ireland, for that the same do for the most part either come into the hands of the Rebels, whereby they are enabled to continue their wicked and detestable rebellion and treasons( providing themselves by the help of those moneys of arms and munitions of warres from foreign parts) or else are transported from thence into other Countreys by Merchants for lack of commodities whereon to employ them, and hereby this realm exhausted of the treasure which should be kept within the same: Her majesty also finding by the laws of this realm in the times of her progenitors made, and specially by one Act of Parliament made in the nineteenth year of her Nighnesse grandfather of famous memory, king Henry the seventh,( yet continuing in force and effect) that for like inconveniences then felt, the transportation of moneys out of this realm into Ireland was expressly and severely forbidden, under great penalties: Her Highnesse hath thought good, for remedy of the like inconveniences in time to come, to put in execution those former laws restraining the transportation of moneys into Ireland. Wherefore her majesty doth straightly charge and command all Iudges, Iustices, Magistrates and Officers to whom it shall appertain, to see severe and due execution of such laws as do prohibit the transportation of her coins of England into Ireland, and namely the said statute made in the nineteenth year of the reign of her majesties grandfather, and doth also by this Proclamation admonish all her loving subiects of both her realms, and all others, trading in her realm of Ireland, that they shall from henceforth forbear all transportation of moneys of England, into Ireland, contrary to the said laws and statues, for that her majesty will cause the former laws and statutes prohibiting the said transportation of money to be so straightly looked unto, and executed, as the penalties thereof shall fall heavily vpon the offenders against the same, without any hope of remission. given under our sign manuel, at our manor of greenwich, the third day of july, in the three and fortieth year of our reign. God save the queen. ❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the queens most excellent majesty. ANNO 1601.