HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ By the King.  
¶ A Proclamation to forbid the Subjects of the Realm of England, to have any Trade or Commerce within any the Dominions of the King of Spain or the Archduchesse.  
HIs Majesty, in His Princely wisdom and providence, foreseeing that the Intercourse of Trade, between His Highness' Subjects, and the Subjects of the King of Spain and the Archduchesse, within any of their Dominions, cannot but be full of peril and danger in these times; Doth hereby straight charge and command, That none of His Majesty's Subjects, of this His Realm of England, shall have or use, any Intercourse of Trade or Commerce, within any of the Dominions of the said King of Spain or Archduchesse, upon pain of Confiscation of all their Ships wherewith they shall so Trade, and of all the Ordnance, Tackle, Goods, and Merchandise, of, and in those Ships, to His Majesty's use, which shall be found and taken within any of His Majesty's Ports, or in any of the Ports of the said King of Spain or Archduchesse, or upon the main Seas, or within any Creek thereof, either outward, or homeward bound, upon any Voyage for Trade or Commerce, unto their, or either of their Dominions: And this to continue and be observed, until his Majesty declare His pleasure to the contrary.  
Given at His Majesty's Honour of Hampton Court, this 24. of December. 1625. 
 God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and john Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. M.DC.XXV.