WHereas We haue taken into Our Princely consideration the manifold benefits that redound to this Kingdome , by the Manufacture of Woollen Clothes , and the Transportation , and Venting thereof in Forraine parts : And finding , how much good gouernment , and managing the said Trade in an orderly way , will conduce to the increase and aduancement of the same : Wee , for the better setling of order therein for the time to come , haue thought fit , with the aduice of Our Priuie Councell , to declare Our Royall pleasure herein : And doe therefore hereby strictly will and command , that no person or persons , Subiect or Subiects , of this Our Realme of England , shall at any time from , and after the Feast of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Mary now next comming , Shipp , Transport , Carry , or Conuey , or cause to bee Shipped , Transported , Carried , or Conueied , either from Our City and Port of London , or from any other City , Towne , Port , Hauen , or Creeke of this Our Realme of England , by way of Merchandise , any white Clothes , coloured Clothes , Clothes dressed , and died out of the Whites , Clothes called Spanish Clothes , Bayes , Kerseys , Perpetuanoes , Stockings , or any other English Woollen commodities , vnto any the Cities , Townes , or places in Germany , or the seuenteene Prouinces of the Netherlands , saue onely , and except to the Mart , and Staple-Townes of the Fellowship of Merchant-aduenturers in those parts for the time being , or to one of them .

And further , to the end that the said Trade may be hereafter reduced and continued in an orderly and well gouerned course ; We doe hereby declare Our Royall pleasure to be ; That the Fellowship of Merchant-aduenturers , shall admit into the freedome of their said Trade , all such Our Subiects dwelling in Our City of London , and exercised in the profession of Merchandise , and not Shop-keepers , except they giue ouer their Shops , as shall desire the same , for the Fines of fifty pounds apeece , if they shall take their Freedome before the Feast of Saint Iohn the Baptist now next comming : And that the said Fellowship shall likewise receiue , and admit into their Freedome , such Our Subiects of the Out-ports of this Our Kingdome , as being exercised in the Trade of Merchandise , shall desire the same , paying them fiue and twenty pounds apeece for their Fine or In-come ; if they shall take their said Freedome before Michaelmas next : And that the sonnes , and seruants of such as shall be so admitted , as aforesaid , shall pay to the said Fellowship at their seuerall admissions thereinto , the summe of twenty nobles apeece : And that all such persons , as shall not accept , and come into the said Freedome before the dayes herein prefixed , shall pay the double of the Fines before limited respectiuely , in case they shall afterwards desire to be admitted into the said Fellowship .

And Our further will and pleasure is , and We do hereby command and inhibit all , and euery Our Subiects , not being free of the said Fellowship of Merchant-aduenturers , that they , or any of them , shall not presume to Trade in any of the forenamed Commodities into any of the parts , or places of Germany , or the Low-countreys , from , or after the said Feast of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Mary next ensuing , vpon paine of Our high displeasure , and of such punishments , as Our Court of Star-chamber , whom We especially charge with the execution of Our Royall pleasure herein , shall thinke fit to inflict for such contempts .