A Brief of the Act for the relief of the Merchants of the Estaple.  
FIrst, that the Merchants of the Estaple of England are and have been a very ancient and famous Company, of great esteem with strangers in other nations; Profitable members of this Common wealth, and in times past great advauncers of the King's customs and revenues.  
secondly, that the said Company aswel by diverse laws and statutes of this realm, as by letters patents from his highness' progenitors, have had power and authority to keep the Estaple in England, at Westminster and London; and beyond the seas, in France Flaunders Zealand, Brabant and else where.  
thirdly, that the said Company are enabled by diverse laws & Letters-patents to buy all sorts of wools and woolfells within this Realm, and to transported so much of the same wools as are fit for the Staple, and to sell the rest again in England.  
fourthly, that the King's Majesty and his Council have of late prohibited and wholly restrained the said Company from their ancient trade of shipping and transporting.  
Fiftly, that the Company being not suffered to transport have put their wools to sale in England to their great loss.  
Sixthly, that many of the Company have been sued and exceedingly molested by Informers for selling the same wools in England, which they were absolutely commanded not to transport.  
They humbly therefore desire That whensoever the said Company of Merchants of the Estaple of England are or shallbe prohibited and restrained from their accustomed shipping and transporting of their wools and woolfells, That then it may be lawful for the said Company to sell their wools and woolfells in England without penalty or forfeiture.