C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon or coat of arms  
❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation directing how Prisoners shall be ordered which are taken at Sea, by men of War.  
FOrasmuch as during the Hostility between Us, and the Kings of France and Spain, diverse of their Subjects have been taken at Sea, and brought into this Kingdom, as Prisoners, by private men of War, and there suffered to pass up and down freely, whereby they have opportunity to observe all passages of those things which happen here, to confer with Our ill affected Subjects, and to corrupt them, and to view the situation and condition of the Ports and places of this Land, fittest for Invasion, whereby great prejudice may grow to Us, and to Our State, if it shall not be prevented.  
We therefore, by the advice of Our Privy Counsel, do hereby declare Our Royal pleasure and command, that all such persons as tither already are, or any time hereafter shall be brought into this Kingdom by any private man of War, as Prisoners, shall be kept in Prison and safe custody, at the charge of those who shall so bring them in, until they shall hence be delivered, and sent back unto their several Countries, either by way of Exchange for Our Subjects, which shall happen to be Prisoners there, or otherwise. And hereof every one whom it doth or may concern, are to take notice, and duly to observe the same, as they tender Our heavy displeasure, and will answer their neglect thereof, at their uttermost perils.  
Given at Our Court at Portesmouth, the three and twentieth day of july, in the fourth 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. M.DC.XXVIII.