I.I. By the Major : Whereas diuers good acts and ordinances haue heeretofore bene made, aswell by publique proclamations, as other waies: for the restraning the great abuses daily committed and vsed in brewing and vttering of extraordinary strong ale and beere, of fifteene shillings and sixteene shillings the barrell, in such vnvsuall and strange manner, ... as is fit to be reformed: ... which in no wise is to bee suffered.