¶ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation commanding the due execution of two Statutes against falsifying of Wool, and woollen Yarn, for the better maintenance of clothing.  
Having taken into Our princely care & consideration, the maintenance and increase of the clothing of this our Kingdom, as the principal native commodity thereof, whereunto there are principally incident two considerations: The one of the manufactures depending thereupon: and the other of the materials of wool & woollen yarn, out of which the cloth is made and wrought: And being informed of the great and intolerable abuses of the Broggers, Forestallers & Engrossers of wool, which partly by neglect, & partly by colour of licence have not only been cause of the high prices & dearth of Wools, to the decay and discouragement of the Clothier, but also by their sundry falcifications and corruptions in the mixtures of the said Wools, do daily both deceive the Clotheir in that he buys, and disable him to make his Cloth of that true and perfect making which he ought: Against which inconveniences there have been principally devised and enacted two Statutes: The one in the eight year of the reign of King Henry the sixth, the fift Chapter; and the other in the fift and sixth years of King Edward the sixth, entitled an Act limiting the times for buying and selling of Wools. We therefore out of Our Royal zeal to the common good of Our people, do by this Our Proclamation by the advice of Our Privy Council, publish and declare, and straightly charge and command, aswell our Treasurer of England, Chancellor of our Exchequer, & all other our judges, Barons of our Exchequer, our Attorney general, Our justices, Officers, and Ministers, according to the several duties of their places, respectively: as also all Our subjects in general, to use their best care and diligence, that the said Statutes before mentioned, be duly kept & observed, & diligently and carefully prosecuted and put in execution, upon pain, not only of the penalties and forfeitures in the said Statutes contained, but also of our high indignation, and such prosecution and censure as shall be fit.  
Given at Our Manor at Greenwich, the xxxi. day of May, in the thirteenth year of Our Reign of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the 48.  
God save the King.   

Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty. ANNO DOM. 1615.