HAuing taken into Our princely care & consideration , the maintenance and increase of the clothing of this our Kingdome , as the principall natiue commodity therof , whereunto there are principally incident two considerations : The one of the manufactures depending thereupon : and the other of the materials of wooll & woollen yarne , out of which the cloath is made and wrought : And being informed of the great and intollerable abuses of the Broggers , Forestallers & Ingrossers of wool , which partlie by neglect , & partly by color of licence haue not onlie bene cause of the high prices & dearth of Woolls , to the decay and discouragement of the Clothier , but also by their sundrie falcifications and corruptions in the mixtures of the said Wools , doe daylie both deceiue the Clotheir in that he buyes , and disable him to make his Cloth of that true and perfect making which he ought : Against which inconueniences there haue bene principally deuised and enacted two Statutes : The one in the eight yeare of the reigne of King Henrie the sixt , the fift Chapter ; and the other in the fift and sixt years of King Edward the sixt , intituled an Act limiting the times for buying and selling of Wools. Wee therefore out of Our Royall zeale to the common good of Our people , do by this Our Proclamation by the aduice of Our Priuie Council , publish and declare , and straightly charge and command , aswell our Treasurer of England , Chancellor of our Exchequer , & all other our Iudges , Barons of our Exchequer , our Attorney general , Our Iustices , Officers , and Ministers , according to the seuerall dueties of thier places , respectiuely : as also all Our subjects in generall , to vse their best care and diligence , that the said Statutes before mentioned , be duelie kept & obserued , & diligently and carefullie prosecuted and put in execution , vpon paine , not only of the penalties and forfeitures in the said Statutes conteined , but also of our high indignation , and such prosecution and censure as shall be fitt .