ABSTRACT
Whereas the Queen’s majesty, tendering the good and welfare of her own natural subjects, greatly distressed in these hard times of dearth, is highly discontented to understand the great number of Negroes and blackamoors which (as she is informed) are crept into this realm … who are fostered and relieved here, to the great annoyance of her own liege people who want the relief which these people consume … hath given especial commandment that the said kind of people shall be with all speed avoided and discharged out of this her majesty’s dominions …
