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<HEAD>&leaf; By the Queene.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas heretofore &s;undry wayes haue bene deui&s;ed to redre&s;&s;e the di&s;|orders among the Po&s;tes of our Realme in generall, and particularly to preuent the inconueniences both to our owne &s;eruice, and the law|full trade of the hone&s;t marchantes, by prohibiting that no per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, &s;hould take vpon them publiquely or priuately to procure, gather vp, receiue, bring in, or cary out, any Packets or letters to or from the Countreys beyond the Seas, except &s;uch our ordinarie Po&s;ts and Me&s;&s;engers for tho&s;e parties, as eyther by our Ma&s;ter of the Po&s;tes, or the Ma&s;ters of the Po&s;tes generall of tho&s;e Countreys re|ciproquely, &s;hould be found nominated for that kind of &s;eruice, or otherwi&s;e be able to &s;hewe &s;ufficient warrant for their voyages and di&s;patches vnder the hands of our principall Secretaries, any Amba&s;|&s;adours, or others &s;ufficiently authori&s;ed: which notwith&s;tanding, diuers di&s;auowed per&s;ons haue v&s;ed to intrude them&s;elues contrary to all good order. In con&s;ideration of which incoueniences pa&s;t, we doe hereby &s;traightly prohibite and forbid all per&s;ons what&s;oeuer, directly or indirectly to gather vp, receiue, bring in, or carie out of this Realme, any Letters or Packets, without the allowance or or|dinarie addre&s;&s;e and di&s;patch of the &s;ayde Ma&s;ters and Comptrollers of the Po&s;ts reciproquely, or their deputies, or &s;hall be &s;ufficiently authori&s;ed as is afore&s;ayde. And therefore our will and plea&s;ure is, that you the Lord Trea&s;ourer of England, and the Lord warden of the Cinque-Portes, together with our tru&s;tie and wel be loued &s;eruant Iohn Stanhop E&s;quire, Ma&s;ter and Comptroller generall of all our Po&s;tes, cau&s;e publique knowledge to be giuen hereof vnto all Merchants, both Strangers and o|thers of our Citie of London, and all others whom it may or ought to concerne, that neither they nor any for them doe hereafter take vpon them, openly or vnderhand to employ any di&s;auowed per&s;on in the carying of their Letters, but to v&s;e &s;uch onely as &s;hall be found lawfully appoynted for that &s;er|uice. To which effect al&s;o we do expre&s;&s;ely wil and command by the&s;e pre&s;ents, all Maiors, Sheriffes, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Bailiffes, and all &s;pecial Commi&s;&s;ioners, and more &s;pecially all Searchers, Cu&s;to|mers and Comptrollers of our Portes, and all other our Officers and Mini&s;ters where&s;oeuer in their &s;euerall iuri&s;dictions and offices, to make diligent &s;earch of all Males, Bougets, and other Cariages of all &s;uch di&s;auowed Curriers, Me&s;&s;engers, or &s;u&s;pected per&s;ons comming in or going out of the Realme with Packettes or Letters, and all such &s;o di&s;couered, to apprehend and &s;tay, keeping them in &s;afe cu&s;todie, vntill by the viewe of their writings &s;ent vp to our priuie Coun&s;aile, it be &s;eene and ad|ui&s;ed what &s;hall be further done with them.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Signed at our Mannor of Greenwich <DATE>the 26, day of Aprill, 1591. in the 33. yeere of our reigne.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
God &s;aue the Queene.</CLOSER>
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<P>Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Chri&s;topher Barker, Printer to the Queenes mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie.</P>
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