WHere of late vpon diuers great considerations , the Quenes moste excellent Maiestie , by her proclamation did prohibite the transportation into this Realme ( vntyl a tyme , as it appeareth by the sayd proclamation ) of any wares or commodities out of the lowe Countries , beyond the Seas . For that as it hath appeared to her Maiestie , by letters and message lately sent to her from her deare Cosin the Duchesse of Parma , Regent in the saide lowe Countries , that it is doubted by the Marchauntes residyng in those Countryes , if any vessell laden from thens to passe into Fraunce , Spayne , or Portingale , should by wynde or other necessary cause , be forced to enter into any Porte of this Realme for succour , without dischargyng or puttyng to vent any of their marchandizes , whether in those cases her Maiesties intention was or is , that the same shoulde be stayed and deteyned . Her Maiestie geueth all persons to vnderstand , that although by many hard , vnseasonable , and vncurteous proceadynges in these lowe Countryes and other where , agaynst the entercourse , and to the purpose of subuertyng of all her Subiectes hauntyng those Countryes , she hath ben prouoked to do more for her Subiectes , then hitherto she hath done : Yet hauyng no maner of intention to impaire the amitie betwixt her and the Kyng of Spayne her good brother , but rather to fortifie and increase it , she neuer ment nor now meaneth , that any maner of person transporting out of the said low Countries , in any vessell , any wares to be discharged in any other Countrey , out of England , and yet by occasion necessarily forced to come with the sayd vessell into any Porte of this Realme , shal be impeched or molested for so doyng , except the same shal also vnlade or discharge any their wares or marchaundizes to thintent to be put to sale , or otherwise distributed in this Realme by waye of traffique or marchaundize . And so her Maiestie wylleth her intention and meanyng , to be by all maner her subiectes vnderstanden , & fauourably interpreted , towardes the subiectes of the Kyng of Spaine , or of any other Prince or Potentate , so occasioned to come into any Port or Creeke of her dominiers .

Geuen at our Manour of Richmone the .xi. day of May , the sixth yere of our raigne . 1564.