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C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT  ❧ By the King. 
A Proclamation against unjust pretences for colouring of French goods, taken by way of Reprize.  
WHereas We have been enforced, for diverse weighty and important reasons, to take the Ships and goods of the French King and his Subjects, either by Our own Ships, or by the Ships of Our Subjects, authorized by Letters of Marque; and whereas We have given authority to diverse persons of quality, by commission under the Seal of Our Court of Admiralty, to make sale of the goods & Merchandizes, which have been, or shall be so taken to our use, for Our best profit, wherein notwithstanding, Our purpose is, and We have so expressed and declared Our meaning to be, that all just proceed shall be held, that under colour of the goods of the French King, or his Subjects, the Goods, Merchandizes, or Ships of Our own Subjects, or of any of Our Friends or Allies, should not be sold or disposed of, or if they be Bona peritura, either in their nature, or values, and so are fittest to be presently put to sale, yet the proceed thereof shall be justly accounted for, and restored to the true owners thereof, when their Rights shall appear upon due examination in Our Court of Admiralty; Forasmuch as it falleth out very often, that sometimes Our own Subjects, and sometimes strangers, are contented for the hope of gain, or for other sinister respects, to make pretences and claims to those Goods, or part thereof, to the great wrong of Us and Our Subjects, who have taken and brought in the same, and to the defrauding and deluding of justice; We, by the advice of Our Privy Counsel, have thought fit to give a general admonition and warning, to all persons of what degree or quality soever, whom it may concern, that they, nor any of them, do from henceforth dare adventure to raise, or to maintain, or defend such unjust claims or pretences hereafter: And therefore We do hereby publish and declare Our Royal pleasure to be, and do hereby will and command, that no person whatsoever presume hereafter to offend herein.  
And We do hereby further publish and declare Our will and Command to be, that if any of Our own Subjects, or any other, being, or residing within any of Our own Dominions shall hereafter offend in any point, against the true intention of this our Proclamation, every such offendor shall incur Our heavy indignation, & that Our Attorney general now, & for the time being, shall proceed against them in Our high Court of Star-chamber, as persons offending against public justice, and contemners of this Our Proclamation and Royal pleasure; and if any attestations shall be brought from any State, City, Town, or Person in foreign parts, to colour any such Goods unduely, and the same shall in due course of justice be discovered and proved, We are resolved so fare to undervalue the reputation of that State, City, Town, & Person, that neither We Ourselves, nor Our Courts of justice, shall at any time after give any credit to the testimony or attestation of those, who have once endeavoured in that manner to defraud or abuse Us or Our people.  
Given at Our Court at White-Hall, the five and twentieth day of june, in the third year of Our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

❧ Imprinted at London by BONHAM NORTON and JOHN BILL, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. MDC.XXVII.