By the King.  
WHereas divers Bakers, Brewers, Inholders, Butchers, and other Victuallers through their greedy desire of un awful game, not contented with reasonable profit in uttering and selling of Thetuals unto our Subierts in the Commonwealth, And specially in our Progress within the Verge of our Court, where our Nobility, Servants, and Trame (daily attending upon our Person) are lodged and placed by our Harbingers, are unlawfully exacted upon with unreasonable and extreme Prices by the said Victuallers, enhaunsing the same Victuals, Horsemeate, Lodgings, and all other necessaries, at a more dear Price than it was sold for before our coming in Progress: Therefore our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby straightly charge and command, That every man do obey and keep all such Prices as is and shall be Prised, Assessed, and Rated by the Clerks of the Market of our Household within the Verge of our Court, aswell within Liberties as without, and the jury before him, or his lawful Deputy, by virtue of his Office, sworn and charged from time to time: The same Rates and Prices not only to be certified by our said Clerk of the Market or his Deputy, into our Counting house; But also fixed & set upon the gates of our Court and other places within the Verge, as well within Liberties as without: And that no manner of person or persons of what estate or degree soever he or they be, do in any wise apy more for Corn, Victuals, Horsemeate, Lodging, or any other thing, then after the Rate and Form aforesaid, upon pain of Imprisonment, and to be Fined, with further punishment that shall thereof follow: The same pains and punishments, and every part thereof to be executed, aswell upon them and every of them  do or shall presume to utter and sell any manner of thing or things contrary to the true meaning of this our Proclamation, As upon all those which do or shall presume to pay any more for any kind of Victuals, horse-meat, Lodging, or any other necessaries, then is or shallbe Rated and Prised as aforesaid.  
And moreover we do straightly charge and command, That no manner of person or persons, now using, or which hereafter shall use, or of right aught to use, to serve any City, Borough, Town or other place, where our repose & abode is or shallbe, or elsewhere, within the Verge of our Court, aswell within liberties as without, with any kind of corn, victuals or any other necessaries, aswell upon the Market day, as at any other time, shallbe any thing the more remiss or slack in making of promision for the same, than they or any of them now be, or heretofore have been, nor use any colour of craft to deceme the buyers thereof, nor hide or lay aside the same their Corn, Victuals, Horsemeate, Lodgings, or any other necessaries, to diminish the Market; whereby our whole Trame, within any City, Borough, Town, or other the Inhabitants of the same, and other our Subjects thereunto resorting, should not be aswell served and as plentcously furnished in every behalse, as it was before, or of right aught to have been, in defraud of this our Ordinance.  
And furthermore we straightly charge & expressy command all our justices of Peace, our Clerk of the Market, his deputy or deputies, Majors, Bailiffs, sheriffs, Constables, and all other our faithful officers, and every of them, of Cities, Boroughs, Towns, Hundreds, and other places within the Verge of our court, aswell within liberites as without: From time to tune, when and as often as need shall require, (upon complaint by any party justly made) diligently every of them within their authorities, forthwith to endeavour themselves, to see just punishment and due Reformation of the premises, agamst such person or persons as shall offend herein, according to justice, and Prices as aforesaid.  
Given at our Court of Whitehall the tenth of july, in the second year of our Reign of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the seven and thirtieth. 
 God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. Anno Dom. 1604.