C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  royal blazon surmounted by a crown  
BY THE KING.  
¶ A Proclamation for the Vent of Cloth, and Woollen Manufactures of this kingdom.  
WHEREAS We by Our Proclamations have upon just Grounds restrained and forbidden all Trade and Commerce to and from Our City of London, and all other Cities towns, Ports and Places within this Our Kingdom of England, which are not in Our actual Possession and under Our obedience, but are possessed and held by the Rebels now in arms against Us, or are Adhering, or Assisting to this Rebellion, until they shall return or be reduced to their due obedience, thereby to prevent the Rebells of the means, which Trade and Commerce would afford them for the supporting and maintaining of this unnatural war against Us their sovereign, and against Our good Subjects. And whereas by Our Proclamation dated the one and Twentieth day of November last past, for the better venting of the Cloath and Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom, We did publish and Declare Our pleasure to be, That it should be lawful for any of Our loyal Subjects, to carry all kind of Cloath and other Woollen Manufactures whatsoever, to any Port or Ports, which then were, or after should be in Our obedience and possession, and from thence( paying the customs and other payments to Us, and 〈…〉 such other payments as have been 〈…〉 place in Amity with Us. Which Licence or Freedom, We did likewise thereby give to all Merchants, Strangers, and their Factors, they only paying to Us Strangers-Customes and payments, and such other payments as have been usually answered and paid for Licences of White clothes, as by Our said Proclamation may appear. Now for the furtherance and quickening of the Vent of Cloath and Wollen Manufactures for the relief and benefit of those Our Subjects( being very many) whose employments and livelihood consists in clothing and Manufactures of wool, and whose Condition, We have taken into Our Princely Consideration; And having heard the opinions of divers Merchants expert in Trade We have upon mature deliberation and debate with Our privy council, and with their advice thought fit for the present to abate of Our own profit& Interest in the customs, Duties, and payments of Merchants-Strangers for those Manufactures and to make them equal with those of Our own Subjects, for their better encouragement in the taking off and exportation of the same; And therefore We do by this Our Proclamation Ordain, Publish, and Declare, That from and after the date of this Our Proclamation, and until We shall otherwise provide and Ordain and signify Our Pleasure to the contrary, it shall and may be lawful to and for any Our loyal Subjects, and likewise for any Strangers in amity with Us, to carry any kind of Cloath, or other Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom whatsoever to any Port or Ports, which either now are, or shall be in Our obedience and possession, and from thence( paying only such customs and other payments to Us, and such other payments for Licences of White clothes as have been usually answered and paid by Our own Subjects) to Ship and Transport the same to any foreign place in Amity with Us. And to this purpose We Command all Our admirals, Vice-Admiralls, Captains of Ships, Captains of Forts, Customers, controllers, Searchers, and all other Officers Ministers, and Loving Subjects, to give way to the exportation of the same; And that they give the Merchants or their Factors, Strangers, or others neither in their Shipping, nor when they are at Sea, any interruption therein, they producing their Cocquets that they Shipped forth their Landing from a Port under Our obedience, and in Our possession. And likewise We command all Generalls, colonels, Captaines of Horse and Foot, and other Our Officers of Our Army, that in their Conveying the said Commodities from any inward part of the Country to any Port as aforesaid, they give no interruption to any of Our loyal Subjects or foreigners, Trading as aforesaid.  
Given at Our Court at Oxford, this 9th 9th day of April, in the Twentieth year of Our reign. 
 GOD SAVE THE KING.   

¶ Printed at Oxford, by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University, 1644.