❧ By the Queen.  
WHere it is ordained and provided by a statute made & established in the Parliament holden at Westminster the viii. day of june, in the xxviii. year of the Reign of the Queen's Majesties dearly beloved father of famous memory King Henry the eight, that the prices of all kind of wines, (that is to say) of the Tun, Butte, Pipe, Punchion, Nogshed, Tyerse, Barrel, and Roundlet, when it should be sold in gross, should be limited and declared by the Lord Chancellor of England, Lord treasurer of England, Lord Precedent of the said Kings most honourable privy Counsel, Lord privy Seal, and the two chief justices of either Bench, or slew, four, or three of them, and that the same should be sold according to the same prices so by them set and taxed upon pain and penalty contained in the said Act: Forasmuch as the Lord treasurer of England, and the two Lord chief justices for divers considerations them moving, and according to the effect and meaning of the said Statute and Act, have in writing by their deliberate advises (upon conference had with sundry persons thereto requisite,) taxed, limited, assigned and appointed the prices of Gascoigne and French Wines to be sold within this her highness Realm for this year following, in consideration of the great charges for safe conduction of the Wines out of France (that is to say) every Tun of the best Gascoigne and French Wines to be sold (the seller bearing all the charges due and payable to her Majesty in her Custom house) after the rate and price of sixteen Pounds sterling the Tun and not above: The buyer bearing all the said charges after the price and rate of thirteen Pounds six shillings eight pence sterling the Tun, and not above. And every Pipe, Butte, Hogshed, Tyerse, barrel, Rundlet, and other vessels of the same several Wines to be sold in gross after their quantities according to the same rates, and not above. And every Tun of Rochel and other small and thin Wines to be sold (the felier bearing all the characes due and payable to her Majesty in her Custom house) after the price and rate of fourteen Pounds six shillings eight pence sterling the Tun, and not above. And the buyer bearing the said charges at a xi. Pounds thirteen shillings four pence sterling the Tun, and not above. And every Butt, Pipe, Hogshead, Tyerse, barrel, Rundlette, and other vessels of the same several wines to be sold in gross after their quantities according to the same rates & not above. The Queen's most excellent Majesty therefore straightly chargeth and commandeth all and singular her loving Subjects and others, putting any manner Gascoigne, French, Rochel, or other small or thin wines to sale within this her highness Realm, that they, nor any of them in any manner of wise by any craft, covin, or private agreement shall sell any Gascoigne, French, Rochel or other small or thin wines, otherwise then is above limited upon pain to forfeit and pay such penalty as is contained and expressed in the said statute, or in any other statute made or ordained for the same. And moreover her highness pleasure and commandment is, that all & singular Majors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables and other officers to whom it appertaineth, that they, and every of them with diligence, cause and see that this her Proclamation be put in due execution after the tenor of the same, and also according to another act of Parliament established in the Parliament above rehearsed against such as will refuse to sell their wines at prices taxed as is aforesaid, as they will answer thereto at their perils.  
Given at our Palace of Westminster the seventeenth day of December, in the four and thirtieth year of our Reign. 
 God save the Queen.   

❧ Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.