The Queenes Maiestie being giuen to vnderstand, that diuers Souldiers vpon the dissoluing of the Campe at Tilberie in the countie of Essex, haue in their way homeward solde diuers their Armors and weapons, which haue bene deliuered vnto them by the Officers of those Counties where they haue bene leuied and set out: and besides the sale of their said Armour and weapons, haue most falsely and slaunderously giuen out, that they were compelled to make sale of them for that they receiued no pay, which is most vntruely reported. For remedie where­of, her Highnesse doth straightly charge and commaund all her good and louing Subiects, not onely to forbeare hereafter to bye any such Armors and weapons as shall be offred vnto them to be solde by any of the said Souldiers: but also immediatly vpon any such offer, to take and apprehend the said Souldier, and to deliuer him or them into the hands of the next Constable, charging him by vertue of this Proclamation in her Maiesties name, to carrie him to the next Gaole, and shall see him committed, there to remaine without bayle or maineprise, vntill there shall be some generall order taken for the punishment of the saide parties. And further her Maiesties pleasure is, that such of her Subiects as haue since the dissoluing of the said Campe, bought any of the said Armour & weapons before the publishing of this present Proclamation, shall within two dayes after the publishing thereof, present vnto the Maior, or any other chiefe Officer of that Citie, Towne, or place where the said Armour hath bene bought, the saide Armour and weapons so by them bought: and shall by their corporall othe declare vnto the sayde Maior, or chiefe Officer, what summe or summes of money they haue paide for the saide Armour and weapons, and of whome the same was bought, or of what band the partie was that solde the same, to the ende there may some order be taken for the re­stitution of such summes of money as haue bene by them disbursed. And in case any of her Maiesties Subiects shall be by any meanes detected and proued to haue transgressed against the true meaning of this her Highnesse Proclamation, either in not confessing & bringing in to the Officers aforesaid such Armors as they haue bought in maner aforesaid, or in buying hereafter any the said Armors to be offered as aforesaide vnto them: or in not ap­prehending any the foresaid Souldiers offring the sale of their Armors: her Highnesse meaning is (besides her heauie displeasure to be therefore susteined) that euery such transgressor shall suffer for his offence, not only im­prisonment, but such further punishment in body or by sine, as by her Maiesties priuie Counsell shall be thought meete. The one moitie of the said fine to be to the vse of the detecter of the said Offender, and the other moitie to be imployed in prouision of corne poulder, to the publique benefite of the Countie where the sayde Detecter shall dwell. And to the ende this Proclamation may take the better effect, her Highnesse pleasure and commaunde­ment is, that all Iustices of peace, and other inferiour Ministers in their seuerall diuisions of their Counties, make all diligent enquirie of all offences and Offenders against the true meaning of this present Proclamation.

Giuen at he Maiesties Manour of Saint Iames, the fiue and twentieth day of August. 1588. In the thirti­eth yeere of her Maiesties reigne.

God saue the Queene.