¶ A PROCLAMATION ordained and made by the kings highness, with the advise of his most honourable counsel, the xxi day of may, in the xxxvi year of his majesties reign, lymytting how and at what prices beef mutton veal pork wildfowl and other kinds of victuals shallbe sold.  
forasmuch as it is come to the knowledge of our sovereign lord the king, that butchers and other victailers, having more respect to their own private lucre and advantage, than the common wealth of this his highness realm, have raised the prices of flesh, as of beeffes, muttons, veals, and other kind of pultrey and victuals, to such excessive and high prices, that his loving subjects cannot gain with their labours and salary, sufficient to pay for their convenient victuals and sustenance: unless that speedy remedy be provided in that behalf. HIS highness therefore, by the advise of his most honourable counsel, and by the authority of the act of parliament, made in the xxxi year of his majesties reign, straightly chargeth and commandeth, that all and every the said butchers and victuallers, selling flesh by retail, as well within the city of London and the suburbs of the same, as in all other places within this his realm of England, as well within franchises and liberties as without, shall from and after xiiii days next ensuing this present proclamation published and proclaimed according to the said statute, sell the flesh of beef mutton veal pork and lamb, being good and wholesome for man's body, by retail by weight, not above the pryees and rates hereafter ensuing: That is to say, between the xu day of june, and the feast oh the birth of our lord god yearly, every pound of beef to be sold, not above the price of half penny and half ferthing the pound: Every pound of mutton, not above the price of a penny the pound: and every pound of veal, not above the price of a penny the pound. And that the flesh of beeffes, muttons, and veals to be sold between the said feast of the birth of our lord god, and the said xu day of june, not above the prices and rates hereafter following: That is to say, the pound of beef to be sold, not above three ferthinges the pound, the pound of mutton, not above a penny the pound, and every pound of veal, not above three ferthinges and a half ferthing the pound. And furthermore that the flesh of lamb and pork shall be sold at all times in the year, not above the prices and rates hereafter following. That is to say, the best lamb to be sold, not above the price of. two. s. The second lamb, not above the price of xx. d. and the meanest lamb, not above the price of xvi d. And the half and quarters of every such lambs, to to be sold, not above the rates of the said prices of lambs. And also the flesh of pork to be sold by retail or otherwise, not above the price of three ferthinges the pound.  
AND furthermore his highness, by the same authority, straightly chargeth and commandeth all and singular his subjects, inhabiting within the cities of London and Westminster, and in the suburbs of the same, and in the borough of Southwark, being free men of the said cities and borough, or of any of them, to sell all manner of wild foul and pultrey wares not above the rates and prices herafret ensuing. That is to say, the best swan, not above the price of five shillings: the best crane bustard or stork, not above the price of four shillings: Herneshewes shouclars and byttours of the best, not above the price of. xviii.d. the piece. Peacock old, the best, not above the price of twenty d. Pechikins the best, not above the price of. xiiii.d'. the piece: The capon of grece of the best, not above the price of. xx.d'. Capon of Kent, otherwise called boiling capon of the best, not above the price of. viii.d. Capon good, not above the price of. xiiii.d. Hen of grece the best, not above the price of vii d. Brew and egrete of the best, not above the price of. xii.d'. the piece: Bytters of the best, not above the price of xii d. the piece: Gulls of the best, not above the price of xii d. the piece: Grene geese fat, sold between Ester and Midsummer, not above the price of. seven. d. the piece: Geese great, sold between midsummer and shrovetide of the best, not above the price of. viii.d. the piece: Goodwithez fat, not above the price of. xii.d. the piece, A dozen of dotterelles of the best, not above the price of. iii.s.iiii.d. the dozen: quails of the best, the dozen, not above. iiii.ss. sparrows the dozen, not above. iii.d'. the dozen: Pigeons of the best, not above. viii.d'. the dozen: Rabbettes suckars fat, not above. xviii.d'. the dozen: Coneys, between Easter and Alhalowtide the best, not above. ii.ss. the dozen: winter conies, between halowtide and shrovetide, not above. ii.s̄.vi.d'. the dozen: Malarde of the best, not above. iii.d'. the malard: Teeles of the best, not above. ii.d'. the teal: wygeons fat, not above. 3s.. the dozen: woodcocks of the best, not above four the piece. Plovers green of the best, not above. 3s.. the dozen: Bastard plovers fat, not above ii s. vi.d'. the dozen: Marles of the best, not above. xviii.d'. the dozen: Hen Snyttes of the best, not above. xviii.d'. the dozen: Larks of the best, 〈…〉 vi. d '. the dozen: Buntynges of the best, not above. iiii.d'. the dozen: Great birds of the best, not above. vi.d'. the dozen 〈…〉 〈…〉