FOrasmuch as within these few dayes there haue been certaine infamous Libels full of malice and falshood spread abroad , and set vp in sundry places about the Citie and Court , tending to sedition , and dishonourable interpretations of her Maiesties godly Actions and purposes , and especially inuented of cankred malice colourably , to the destruction or ruine of some of good estimation and fidelitie to wards her Maiestie , by lewd persons not worthy to enioy the benefit of this her Maiesties quiet gouernment , no more then euill and corrupt limmes , which for lacke of speedie remedic may infect more of the body ; The sufferance whereof cannot but breed a further disorder to the good quietnesse of her Maiesties most peaceable gouernment . And because her Maiestie would haue such villanous , treasonable and seditious attempts both repressed and punished , and also would come to some certaintie for the discouering of the Authors thereof , whereby she would not enter into any scruple of suspition of any other manner of person then the offenders or their partners : Therefore her Maiestie willeth , that whosoeuer can , and will discouer the Authors or partners of those Libels , and will open it to her Maiestie , or to some Attendant about her Person , the same shall be rewarded in this sort : If the partie that shall discouer the same be vnder the degree of a Gentleman , he shall haue foorth with fortie pounds ; and if he bee a Gentleman , he shall haue one hundred pounds : And if hereafter it shall be prooued , that any person hath been in any wise priuie hereto , and shall not now very shortly after this Proclamation discouer it , the same shall at no time hereafter be thereof pardoned . And furthermore , her Maiestie chargeth all manner of persons that shall hereafter at any time finde any such seditious Billes , to bring the same to the Lord Maior of London , or to some speciall officer of London , or of any other Towne where such shall be found . And if the same shall be found in or about the Court , then to be secretly brought to some of her Maiesties Councellers , or other her faithfull seruants attendant about her Person , vpon paine , that if any bee found remisse herein , then the same to receiue such like punishment as the Author of sedicious Libels ought to doe . For her Maiestie cannot thinke that these things are so much giuen out in respect of any priuate persons as they are in contempt of the present gouernment and proceedings , wherein her Maiestie cannot but find her selfe touched .