royal blazon or coat of arms HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
❧ By the King.  
❧ A Proclamation for the better ordering the Transportation of Clothes, and other Woollen Manufactures into Germany, and the Low-Countreys.  
WHereas We haue taken into Our Princely consideration the manifold benefits that redound to this kingdom, by the Manufacture of Woollen Clothes, and the Transportation, and Venting thereof in foreign parts: And finding, how much good government, and managing the said Trade in an orderly way, will conduce to the increase and aduancement of the same: Wee, for the better settling of order therein for the time to come, haue thought fit, with the advice of Our privy council, to declare Our royal pleasure herein: And do therefore hereby strictly will and command, that no person or persons, subject or Subiects, of this Our realm of England, shall at any time from, and after the Feast of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Mary now next coming, ship, Transport, Carry, or convey, or cause to bee Shipped, Transported, Carried, or convyed, either from Our City and Port of London, or from any other City, town, Port, haven, or Creeke of this Our realm of England, by way of Merchandise, any white Clothes, coloured Clothes, Clothes dressed, and died out of the Whites, Clothes called Spanish Clothes, bays, Kerseys, Perpetuanoes, Stockings, or any other English Woollen commodities, unto any the Cities, towns, or places in Germany, or the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands, save onely, and except to the Mart, and Staple-Townes of the Fellowship of Merchant-aduenturers in those parts for the time being, or to one of them.  
And further, to the end that the said Trade may be hereafter reduced and continued in an orderly and well governed course; We do hereby declare Our royal pleasure to be; That the Fellowship of Merchant-aduenturers, shall admit into the freedom of their said Trade, all such Our Subiects dwelling in Our City of London, and exercised in the profession of Merchandise, and not Shop-keepers, except they give over their Shops, as shall desire the same, for the Fines of fifty pounds apiece, if they shall take their freedom before the Feast of Saint John the Baptist now next coming: And that the said Fellowship shall likewise receive, and admit into their freedom, such Our Subiects of the Out-ports of this Our kingdom, as being exercised in the Trade of Merchandise, shall desire the same, paying them five and twenty pounds apiece for their Fine or In-come; if they shall take their said freedom before Michaelmas next: And that the sons, and seruants of such as shall be so admitted, as aforesaid, shall pay to the said Fellowship at their several admissions thereinto, the sum of twenty nobles apiece: And that all such persons, as shall not accept, and come into the said freedom before the dayes herein prefixed, shall pay the double of the Fines before limited respectively, in case they shall afterwards desire to be admitted into the said Fellowship.  
And Our further will and pleasure is, and We do hereby command and inhibit all, and every Our Subiects, not being free of the said Fellowship of Merchant-aduenturers, that they, or any of them, shall not presume to Trade in any of the forenamed Commodities into any of the parts, or places of Germany, or the Low-countreys, from, or after the said Feast of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Mary next ensuing, vpon pain of Our high displeasure, and of such punishments, as Our Court of Star-chamber, whom We especially charge with the execution of Our royal pleasure herein, shall think fit to inflict for such contempts.  
given at Our Court at Whitehall, the seventh day of December, in the tenth year of Our reign of England, Scotland, France and Ireland.  
God save the King.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent majesty. M.DC.XXXIIII.