❧ To all and singular Iustices of Peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, bailiffs, and other her majesties Officers, &c.  
WHereas her majesty hath been credibly informed, that notwithstanding there is great plenty of wools within this realm, whereby the same ought to be sold at convenient and reasonable prices, and nevertheless by the greedy desires of the great Woollgrowers, who keep the same in their hands contrary to the Statute made in the fift year of the reign of king Edward the sixth, and by the corrupt practices of diuers Broggers, engrossers, Woolgatherers and Regraters of wools, buying and selling great quantities of wool unwrought, contrary to the said Statute, And after by the means of these Broggers the wools are conveyed to the Sea coasts, and from thence convyed out of this realm, whereby many the Clothiers of this realm want wools to set themselves, & such as depend vpon that Trade in work, to the great prcindice and hindrance of her majesties good and loving Subiects, and consequently to the general harm of the realm, the number of these Broggers, engrossers and woolgatherers being grown to so excessine a multitude: These are in her majesties name by virtue hereof to will and require you, That you her majesties Iustices of Peace, and all other her Officers, and cuery of you to whom it may appertain, or within whose Liberties it shall happen, to call all such persons before you, as shall from time to time be complained of unto you, to haue bought, sold, offered to sell or transport any maner of wools contrary to the said Statute, or shall contemptuously abuse, or any ways withstand any that are of shal be lawfully licenced to buy and sell Wools, notwithstanding the said Statute, their Deputies or Seruants, and them and every of them( as they shall bee brought before you or any of you) by virtue of these our Letters, and the place you serve in, straightly to examine, and if any person or persons be found culpable therein, then to bind all such to their good behauiors, vulesse they shall desist from such their dealings, & conform themselves to her majesties laws, and withall to certify ber majesties Attorney general of the names of every such offenders, that shall not so conform himself, whereby they may be proceeded with according to the laws, and according to the nature of so high a contempt. And hereof fail you not, as you and every of you will answer the contrary at your perils.  
From the Court at greenwich the eight and twentieth day of june, in the xliiii. year of her majesties reign. 

Jo. Cant.  
Tho. Egerton. C.S.  
Gilb. Shrews bury.  
W. Knollis.  
J. Fortescu.  
T. Buchurst.  
E. Worcester.  
Jo. Stanhope.  
Jo. Popham.  
Notingham.  
Ro. Cecyll.  
J. Herbert.     

¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the queens most excellent majesty.  
Anno Dom. 1602.