HIs Maistie, in His Princely wisedome and proui­dence, foreseeing that the Intercourse of Trade, betweene His High­nesse Subiects, and the Subiects of the King of Spaine and the Arch­duchesse, within any of their Dominions, cannot but be full of perill and danger in these times; Doth hereby straitly charge and command, That none of His Maiesties Subiects, of this His Realme of England, shall haue or vse, any Intercourse of Trade or Commerce, within any of the Dominions of the said King of Spaine or Archduchesse, vpon paine of Confiscation of all their Ships wherewith they shall so Trade, and of all the Ordnance, Tackle, Goods, and Merchan­dize, of, and in those Ships, to His Maiesties vse, which shall bee found and taken within any of His Maiesties Ports, or in any of the Ports of the said King of Spaine or Archduchesse, or vpon the mayne Seas, or within any Creeke thereof, either outward, or homeward bound, vpon any Voyage for Trade or Commerce, vnto their, or either of their Dominions: And this to continue and be obserued, vntill his Maiestie declare His pleasure to the contrary.

Giuen at His Maiesties Honour of Hampton Court, this 24. of December. 1625.

God saue the King.