THE Queenes Maiestie vnderstanding that there bee certaine persons hauing in times past the Office of Ministery to the Church, which nowe doe purpose to vse their former office of preaching and Mi­nistery, and partly haue attempted the same, assembling specially in the Citie of London in sundry places, great number of people, where­vpon riseth amonges the common sort not onlie vnfruitfull dispute in matters of Religion but also contention and occasion to breake com­mon quiet: Hath therefore according to thauthoritie committed to her highnesse for the quiet gouernaunce of all maner her subiects, thought it necessary to charge and command, like as hereby her highnesse doth charge and command, all manner of her Subiects, aswell those that bee called to Ministery in the Church as all others, that they doe forbeare to preach, or teach, or to giue audience to anie manner of doctrine or preaching other then the Gospells and Epistels commonly called the Gospell and Epistel of the day, and to the Ten Comman­dements in the vulgar tongue, without exposition or addition of any manner sence or mea­ning to be applyed or added, or to vse any other manner of Publique prayer, Rite, or Ceremo­nie in the Church but that which is alreadie vsed and by lawe receiued, or the common Leta­ny vsed at this present in her Maiesties owne Chappell, and the Lordes prayer and the Creed in English vntill Consultation may be had by Parliament, by her Maiestie and her three estates of this Realme for the better conciliation and accord of such causes as at this present are mooued in matters and Ceremonies of Religion.

THE true aduauncement whereof to the due honour of almightie God, the increase of vertue and godlinesse with vniuersall charitie and concord amonges her people, her Ma­iestie most desireth, and meaneth effectually by all manner of meanes possible to procure, and to restore to this her Realme. WHEREVNTO as her Maiestie instantly requireth all her good faithfull and louing Subiects to bee assenting and ayding with due obedience, So, yf any shall disobediently vse themselues to the breach hereof, her Maiestie both must and will see the same duely punished both for the qualitie of thoffence, and for example to all others neglecting her Maiesties so reasonable Commandement.

YEVEN at her highnes Palais of Westminster, the xxvii. day of December, the first yeare of her Maiesties Raigne.

God saue the Queene.