royal blazon or coat of arms HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation reviving and enlarging a former Proclamation made in the reign of King james, prohibiting the bringing in of any Commodities traded by the Eastland Merchants into this kingdom, as well by Subiects as Strangers, not free of that Company, with a publication of certain Statutes for the restraint of all His majesties Subiects, from shipping any Commodities in Strangers bottoms, either into, or out of this kingdom.  
IT is a great part of Our royal care, like as it was of Our royal Father of blessed memory deceased, to maintain and increase the Trade of Our Merchants, and the strength of Our navy, as principal veins and sinews for the wealth and strength of Our kingdom. Whereas therefore the Society and Company of Our Eastland Merchants, trading the baltic Seas, haue by the space of fifty yeers at the least, had a settled and constant possession of Trade in those parts, and haue had both the sole carrying thither of Our English Commodities, and also the sole bringing in of all the Commodities of those Countreys, as namely, hemp, yarn, Cable-Yarne, flax, Pot-ashes, Sope-ashes, Polonia wool, Cordage, Eastland linen Cloth, Pitch, tar, and Wood, whereby Our kingdom hath been much enriched, Our ships and Mariners set on work, and the honour and famed of Our Nation and kingdom, spread and enlarged in those parts.  
And whereas for their further encouragement, the said Company haue had and enjoyed by Letters Patents under the great seal of England, in the time of the late queen Elizabeth, privileges, as well for the sole carrying out to those Countreys of all Our English Commodities, as also for the sole bringing in of the aboue-named Commodities of the said Countreys, with general Prohibitions and Restraints of others not licenced and authorised by the said Letters Patents, to traffic or trade contrary to the tenor of the same Letters Patents.  
Wee minding the upholding and continuance of the said Trade, and not to suffer that the said Society shall sustain any violation, or diminution of their Liberties& privileges, haue thought good to ratify and publish unto all persons, as well Subiects as Strangers, the said privileges and Restraints, to the end that none of them presume to attempt any thing against the same.  
And We do hereby straitly charge and command all Our Customers, controllers, and all other Our Officers at the Ports, and also the Farmers of Our customs, and their Deputies, and waiters, that they suffer not any Broad Cloth, Dozens, Kerseys, bays, Skins, or such like English Commodities, to bee shipped for exportation to those parts, nor any hemp, flax, dressed or vndressed, yarn, Cable-Yarne, Cordage, Pot-ashes, Sope-ashes, Polonia-wooll, Eastland-Linnen-cloth, Pitch, tar, or Wood, or any other Commodities whatsoever of those foreign parts and Regions, wherein the said Company haue used to trade, to be Landed, except onely such as shall be brought in by such as are free of the said Company. provided always, that the Importation of corn and grain bee left free and without restraint, Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Furthermore, whereas there hath been in ancient time diuers good and politic laws made against the shipping of merchandise in Strangers bottoms, either Inward or Outward, as namely the Statutes of 5. Rich. 2.4. Henr. 7.32. Henr. 8. which laws of later yeeres haue been much neglected, to the great prejudice of the navigation of Our kingdom: Wee do straitly charge and command, that the said laws be from henceforth duly put in execution,& that none of the said Company, nor any other, be permitted to Export or Import any of the aboue-mentioned Commodities in other then English Bottoms, vpon the pains in the said Statutes contained, and vpon pain of Our high indignation and displeasure towards all Our Officers and Ministers which shall bee found slack and remiss in procuring and assisting the due execution of the said laws.  
given at Our Court at Whitehall the seventh day of March, 1629. in the fift year of Our reign of Great britain, France and Ireland.  
God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker and John Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent majesty. M.DC.XXIX.