❧ By the King.  
WHereas the King's Majesty hath always been ready to embrace and cherish such a perfect amity and friendship between him and the King of Spain, and the Archdukes his good brethren, as might stand with his own Honour, and the common good of his people (For the better and more particular observation whereof, there hath been lately passed a Treaty, wherein his majesties royal will and pleasure is made so notorious to the world in all things, as whosoever doth, or shall cross the sincerity of his majesties intention by any action of theirs, cannot avoid the censure of high & wilful contempt against his person and State,) Although his Majesty is not ignorant, that these offences for the most part, are daily committed by such, as (partly out of their own original corruption, and partly by habit of spoil and rapine) are become so insensible or desperate of the peril they draw upon themselves, and the imputation they cast upon the honour of their Sovereign (so precious to him) as his Majesty is driven for repair thereof, to make open profession of his sincerity in this kind, more often then otherwise he would: Nevertheless, his Majesty having lately found by many circumstances, that most of these great faults do grow and multiply, by negligence of inferior Officers, (especially such as are resident in the Ports, and dwell in the Maritime Counties,) from whom his Majesty expecteth so continual care and vigilancy (not only out of fear of his majesties displeasure, but even for conscience sake,) as they should be rather industrious watches over those that run such wicked courses, than (in any degree) Receitors or Abettors of the same, considering that those are as well accountable to God, that hinder not the evil of others (being in their power, and incident to their peculiar places and duties) as those that are the personal Actors, or contrivers of the same: His Majesty hath thought it necessary once again to publish to all persons of what place or condition soever within his majesties Dominions, these Rules and Ordinances following, as things whereunto he commandeth all persons (whatsoever) to yield their dutiful obedience, upon peril of his heavy indignation, and the grievous pains belonging to the same.  
FIrst, his Majesty commandeth that no Seaman or Mariner whatsoever, shallbe suffered to put himself into any Warlike service at Sea of any foreign Prince or State, straightly charging all that are in any such Service already, to leave the same presently and without delay, and to record their appearance in their native Country, to some of his majesties Officers, upon pain to be held and punished as Pirates.  
Item, If any person offending, do at any time hereafter come into any port, or place of his majesties Dominions, upon what pretext soever: his Majesty expressly chargeth all his Officers forthwith to apprehend the same, and to commit them to prison without Bail or Mainprize, and the Certificate thereof to be presently returned into the Admiralty Court, to the end that they may be proceeded withal, according to the Laws of the Realm, and the contents of his majesties former Proclamations.  
Item, His Majesty commandeth all his Subjects, (as they will avoid his heavy indignation) to forbear to be aiding or receiving of any Pirates, or such persons as shall continue in any such Warlike service, as aforesaid, or any person not being a known Merchant, by contracting, buying, selling, or by victualling of them, or any of their Company, upon pain for so doing, to be punished presently, as the principal Offenders and Pirates ought to be.  
Item, That no shipping, or men of war, of what estate or condition soever, going forth with commission of reprisal, or in any other warlike manner to serve at Seas, shall be permitted in any of his majesties ports, or in the members thereof to victual or relieve themselves with any warlike provisions, thereby to enable themselves the better, to any acts of hostility at Sea against any of his majesties friends: but only in their return homewards, if they happen to come into any of his majesties ports, that then it shall be lawful for them to relieve themselves with victual, or other necessaries to serve them only for the space of twenty days and no more, which is a proportion reasonable to use in trade of merchandise.  
Item, That all vice admiral's, Customers, or other officers of the Ports shall not suffer any Ship of his majesties subjects to go to the Seas, before such time as they (respectively in their several ports) have duly searched and visited the same, to the intent to stay such persons as apparently shall be furnished for the wars, and not for merchandise or fishing. And if there shall be any manner of suspicion, that the said person (though he shall pretend to trade for merchandise or fishing) hath or may have any other intent by his provisions or furniture, then to use the trade of merchandise or fishing, that in such case of suspicion, the officers of the Ports shall stay, and no ways suffer the same to pass to the Seas, without good bands with sufficient sureties first had, to use nothing, but the lawful trade of merchandise or fishing. And if the said officers shall suffer any persons otherwise to repair to the Seas, than above is mentioned, they shall not only answer for any Piracies, which any such person shall chance hereafter to commit upon the Seas, but shall suffer imprisonment until the offenders may be apprehended, if they shall be living.  
And further, as his Majesty declareth and denounceth generally all such Pirates and Rovers upon the Seas to be out of his protection, and therefore to be lawfully pursued and punished to the uttermost extremity: so because his Majesty presumeth, that all other States and persons in peace and friendship with him, will think it just and honourable to proceed towards him, with the same sincerity, which he observeth towards them: His Majesty doth also hereby notify to the world, that where it falleth out that divers of his Subjects are or may be entertained to serve at Sea under Captains and Commanders belonging to some foreign Prince or State, (which are now or may be in terms of Hostility with any of his majesties friends) thereby imagining, when they shall (upon occasion) enter with their Ships into any of his majesties Harboroughs, that they shall be free from any interruption, according to the liberty of Common Amity and correspondency which is usually observed between Princes in such cases, only because the Commander or Captain with some few persons beside are strangers, and the rest only discovered to be his majesties Subjects: For as much as his Majesty (having made his just and equal intentions thus apparent to all men by his public Proclamations) would be loath to frustrate the expectation of any his friends whom it doth or may concern: He doth hereby declare to all the world, that if he shall hereafter find any such fraudulent course taken, in hope colourably to avoid the true construction of his so just and necessary ordinances, the breach whereof gives cause of further trouble and jealousies to arise between his Majesty and other Princes in the mutual exercise of their Subjects free trade and intercourse: he will make absolute stay of any such ships and persons, which shallbe so brought into his Ports or Harboroughs, as persons and things wholly exempted from that protection and favour, which he intendeth to maintain and afford to all others which shall not in such kind go about to abuse his majesties integrity, whose desire is to receive no better measure in any thing, than he is willing to yield to others upon the like occasions.  
Given at our Castle of Windsor the viii. of july 1605. in the third year of our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. ANNO DOM. 1605.