WHereas We gaue Licence to Sir Walter Rawleigh, Knight, and [...] of Our Subiects with him, to vndertake a Voyage to the Cou [...]rey of Guyana, where they pretended great hopes & probabilities to m [...]e discouery of certaine Gold Mines, for the lawfull enriching of them [...]lues and these Our Kingdoms: Wherein We did by expresse limitat [...] and Caution restraine, and forbid them and euery of them, from a [...]empting any Acte of hostilitie, wrong, or violence whatsoeuer, vpon [...]ny of the Territories, States, or Subiects of any forraine Prince [...]th whom We are in amitie: And more peculiarly of those of our deare Brother the King of [...]paine, in respect of his Dominions and Interests in that Continent.

All which notwithstanding, we are since informed by a Common fame, that they, or some [...]them haue, by an hostile inuasion of the towne of S. Thome (being vnder the obedience of [...] deare Brother the King of Spaine) and by killing of diuers of the inhabitants therof, his S [...]ects, and after by sacking and burning of the said towne, (as much as in them for their owne pa [...]ay; malitiously broken and infringed the Peace and Amity, which hath been so happily estab [...]hed, and so long inuiolably continued betweene Vs and the Subiects of both Our Crownes.

We haue therefore held it fit, as appertaining neerely to Our Royall Iustice and Hou [...] eftsoones to make a publique declaration of Our owne vtter mislike and detestation of the s [...] insolences,[?] and excesses, if any such haue bene by any of Our Subiects committed: And for t [...] better detection and clearing of the very trueth of the said common fame; Wee doe hereby s [...]itly charge and require all Our Subiects whatsoeuer, that haue any particular vnderstandi [...] [...] notice therof, vpon their duety and alleagiance which they owe Vs, immediately after publi [...]tion of this Our pleasure, to repaire vnto some of Our Priuy Counsell, and to discouer and make knowne vnto them their whole knowledge and vnderstanding concerning the same, vnde [...]ing of our High displeasure and indignation; that Wee may thereupon proceede in Our P [...]ly Iustice to the exemplary punishment and coertion of all such, as shal be conuicted and found [...]ty of so scandalous and enormous outrages.

Giuen at Our Palace ⟨Manor⟩ of Greenwich, the ninth day of Iune, in the sixteenth yeere of Our Reigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the one and fiftieth.

God saue the King.