divers Mahometan Merchants Sciots and other Merchants in Peace and Amity with this Imperial Port and other Merchant-Strangers do deny and refuse to pay the Right of Consulage wherefore it is Commanded That all the Merchandise which shall be Laden upon their Ships and have paid Custom be they Goods of whomsoever according to ancient Imperial Capitulations they shall pay the Right of Consulage to the Ambassador or Consul of England without any contradiction XLIII That English Merchants which Trade at Aleppo Silk to pay the Custom as Venetians and French and those under their Banner of all the Silk which they shall buy and Lade upon their Ships shall pay the Custom and other Duties as the French and Venetian Merchants do pay and not one Asper or Farthing more XLIV As the Ambassadors of the King of England which shall be Resident in this Imperial Court are the Representatives and Commissioners of the Person of his Majesty so the Interpreters are to be esteemed the Commissioners of the Ambassador therefore for such matter as the Interpreters shall Translate or Speak in the Name Interpreters to have Licence to speak the sence of the Ambassador or Consul or by the Order of the Ambassador it being found that that which they have Translated be according to the Will and Order of the Ambassador or Consul they shall be always free from any Imputation or Punishment And in case they shall commit any Offence our Ministers shall not put any of the said Interpreters in Prison nor beat them without knowledge of the Ambassador or Consul Druggermen dying c. In case any of the English Interpreters shall die if he be an Englishman all his Goods or Faculites shall be possessed by the Ambassador or Consul of England but if he shall be a Subject of our Dominion they shall be consigned to his next Heir and having no Heir they shall be taken into our Exchequer And as in this Particular so also in all other the above-mentioned Articles and Priviledges granted by our Forefathers of happy memory it is expresly Commanded and Ordained That all our Slaves shall ever obey and observe this Imperial Capitulation and that the Peace and Amity shall be respected and maintained without any violation whatsoever XLV Since which time of our Forefathers of famous memory No Command valid against the Capitulations and the grant of these above-mentioned Capitulations Articles and Establishment of Peace and Amity the said King of England having in the time of our Grandfather of happy memory Sultan Mahomet Han sent one his well desired Ambassador a Person of Quality to this high Port to Confirm this Peace Articles and Capitulations which Ambassador did declare That oftentimes there were to divers Persons Imperial Commands granted surreptitiously procured contrary to the Tenor and Articles of the Imperial Capitulations which being without our knowledge presented to our Judges and Governors and the Dates of such Commands being more fresh than those of our Imperial Capitulations the Judges and Ministers do put in Execution the private Commands prejudicial and contrary to these Imperial To the end therefore that for the time to come such Commands shall not be accepted of any but that the Imperial Capitulations might be always observed and maintained according to the sincere meaning the said Ambassador demonstrating the sincerity of his Majesty and his Request herein to our Imperial knowledge which was most acceptable In conformity thereunto it was expresly ordered That all such Commands which already have been or shall hereafter be granted which are or shall be repugnant to the Tenor of this Imperial Capitulation whatsoever such Commands shall be when Presented before our Caddees or other Ministers should never be excepted or put into Execution but that always the Tenor of the Imperial Capitulations shall be observed Such Commands to be taken away And whosoever shall Present such Command contrary to the Capitulations they shall be taken from him and in no wise be of any force or validity In which time also on the Part of our said Grandfather all the above-written Priviledges Articles and Capitulations were Accepted and Ratified and the Peace Amity and good Correspondence anciently Contracted was anew of him Confirmed and Established XLVI In the time of the Inauguration of Sultan Osman Han in the Imperial and high Throne the King of England did again send a famous and Noble Gentleman his Ambassador with Letters and Presents which were most acceptable And the said Ambassador desiring in the Name of his King and Lord that the ancient Capitulation Articles and Contracts granted in the days of our Forefathers should be of him renewed and confirmed and the ancient Peace and Amity anew fortified and established which his Request was to the said Sultan Osman most acceptable And the ancient Capitulations Articles Priviledges herein written and confirmed and the long since contracted Peace and Amity by him promised and accepted XLVII After whom in like manner in the days of Sultan Osman Han the King of England having again sent unto this high Port his Ambassador the Excellent and Honourable Sir Thomas Roe Knight with his Letters and Presents which were most acceptable and proffering in the Name of the King his Lord all good Terms of Friendship and good Correspondence And desiring that the ancient Capitulations and all the Articles from his Ancestors and from himself formerly granted to the English Nation might be anew confirmed and the Peace and League long since between both Parties contracted and ratified and that some other Articles very necessary might be added to the Imperial Capitulations and divers others already granted might be renewed amended and in a better Form explained which his Request and Demand was very acceptable unto him and in conformity thereunto the ancient Imperial Capitulations and all the Articles and other Priviledges in them often confirmed and the Peace Amity and good Correspondence contracted in the times of his Ancestors Grandfather and Father and himself confirmed were again by Sultan Osman then ratified established promised and accepted whereupon by him there was express Command given that for the time to come the Tenor of his renewed Capitulations should be of every one observed and that all men should be careful and respectful to the said Peace and Friendship established and contracted on both Parts and that no man should presume to violate or to do any Act contrary thereunto which Ambassador did often declare that the Caddees and other of our Ministers in many Places and Provinces contrary to the Imperial Capitulations and Will of the Imperial Majesty have imposed and laid divers Taxes Burdens and Moneys upon the said English Nation and those under their Banner for which cause as it is above declared it being found necessary to make additions of some new Articles in the said Imperial Capitulation of which the said Ambassador made declaration in Writing and presented the same to the Imperial Presence The said Sultan Osman
Han with his Imperial Hand and Seal did presently give express order and command That in the time to come all those Articles and Priviledges which were already in the Imperial Capitulations and those Articles which now are therein by our order newly added shall be of all our Subjects and Slaves duly obeyed and observed according to the sincere meaning of this our Imperial Capitulations XLVIII In as much as it is publickly known That certain Pyrates of Tunis and Algier contrary to our Imperial Capitulations Mind and Will do take and rob in the Seas the Ships Merchandise and Men Subjects to his Majesty of England and of other Kings and States in League with this our Imperial Port to the great Damage and Injury of the said English Nation We do Command Against the Pyrates of Barbary and by these Presents we do Ordain That several Imperial Commands be given for the entire restitution of all Goods and Merchandise to the English Nation so taken away And that all such English as have been taken and made Slaves or imprisoned by the said Pyrates shall be immediately set free And after the Date of this our Imperial Capitulations if it shall be known that the said Pyrates of Tunis and Algier shall rob them again and shall use and continue their outrages and will not restore their Goods and Men We do Command that the said Pyrates be not received into any Port of our Dominions especially into the Scales of Tunis Algier Modon or Coron Our Beglerbegs and other Ministers shall not suffer them to enter nor harbour nor receive them but the Beglerbegs Caddees or other Ministers shall persecute banish and punish them XLIX Being informed that in our Dominions many of our Customers and other Officers in Aleppo contrary to the Imperial Capitulations under colour of taking Custom and Rest upon Silk of the English Merchants have violently taken from the said Merchants a great Sum of Money And whereas in the Imperial Capitulations it is written No Rest to be taken that for Silk which the English shall buy in Aleppo they shall pay as the French and Venetian Merchants do and no more Notwithstanding the said Customers besides the Two and half per cent for Custom and Rest have taken from that Nation a great Sum of Money lately under Name of Rest wherefore we Command that this Business shall be examined and that the said Money be restored back and for the time to come the ancient Custom may be kept and that this Nation shall only pay as the French and Venetian do and that never be taken one Asper by Name of such Imposition L. Whereas the English Merchants Resident in Galata ordinarily buy divers Goods and Merchandise before they can Lade or send them away upon their Ships and do pay unto the Customers the Custom of the said Goods receiving a Bill or Acquittance to have paid the same and after carry the same Merchandise to their own Warehouses In the mean time before they can Load and send away the said Goods it happens that either the Customer dies or is removed from his Charge and the new Customers will not accept of the said Acquittances but pretend another Custom troubling and molesting of them many ways The Discharge of one Customer a sufficient Acquittance against him that succeeds Wherefore We do Command That of all the Merchandise which they shall buy it appearing really that he hath paid once his Custom the Customer shall accept of the said Acquittances and shall not demand of the Merchant a second Custom LI. It being usual to buy in Angora Chamblets Mohairs Silks and other sorts of Merchandise which they Transport to Constantinople and other Places of our Dominions and pay their Customs taking Acquittances for the same and so put the Goods into their own Warehouses And after being desirous to Ship them away the Customers do demand again the Custom Therefore for the time to come No Custom to be paid twice when the said Merchants shall desire to Lade such Goods and it be true that they have already paid their Custom of such Merchandise they shall not demand any second or new Customs Provided that the said Merchants do not mingle their Goods which have not paid Custom with those which have already paid Custom LII The English Merchants of all the Merchandise which they shall bring into our Dominions and of the Merchandise which they carry out of our Dominions as Silk Chamblets and other Goods having paid the Custom and not sold the Goods unto another And being afterwards to Ship it away for Scio Smyrna or any other Scale and the said Goods there arriving the Customers and Officers shall always accept of their Acquittances which they have in their hands and shall not take other Custom of their Merchandise LIII The English Merchants of all the Commodities which they shall bring to Constantinople or to any other Port of our Dominions and of all such as they shall Transport Mestaria to be paid at Galata the Mestaragi of Galata and Constantinople shall take their Mestaria or Brokidge according to the ancient Canon and Usance that is of such Merchandise as of old Custom was wont to pay it of such they shall onely take Mestaria but of such Merchandise as was not anciently accustomed to pay it shall not be taken Mestaria contrary to the ancient Canon No Duties to be raised above the accustomed Usance Farther upon the English Merchandise there shall not be made or laid any Impositions or other Duties nor from the said Nation shall not be taken one Asper more which shall be contrary to the ancient Canon and accustomed Usance LIV. The English Nation shall and may freely come into all the Ports of our Dominions to Negotiate and bring in Cloth Kersie Spice Tin Lead and all other Merchandise and no man shall do them any hindrance or molestation In like manner except only Goods prohibited they shall and may buy and Export all sort of Merchandise without the prohibition or molestation of any man and the Customers and other Officers the said Nation having paid their Custom according to this Imperial Capitulation and the ancient Use shall not demand of them any thing more In the time of the happy memory of my Uncle Sultan Murat Han the King of England sent his Ambassador Sir Sackville Crow Baronet with his Present and Letter which was received in good part and the time of his Embassie being expired Sir Thomas Bendish arrived to Reside at the Port with his Present and courteous Letter the which was in like manner well accepted And the said Ambassador having tendered the Imperial Capitulations formerly granted that according to the ancient Canon they might be renewed It is hereby again commanded that all the Points and particular Articles therein be observed and maintained LV. And because contrary to the sence and tenor of them No Goods to be forced violently out of the Ships the
shall exceed the value of 4000 Aspers shall always be heard and decided at our Imperial Port. XXV The English Nations Consul No Consul to be imprisoned nor dismissed c. or Resident in any Port of our Dominions being established by the Ambassador Resident for the English Nation our Ministers shall have no power to Imprison or Examine or Seal up their Houses nor to dismiss or displace them from their Charge and Office but in case of any Difference or Suit with the Consul there shall be made a Certificate to the Imperial Port to the end that the Ambassador may protect and answer for them XXVI When any Englishman The Goods of Englishmen dying not to Escheat c. or other under their Banner shall die in our Dominions with their Goods or Faculties or any thing that belonged unto them our Escheators Caddees or other Ministers upon pretence they are Goods of the Dead without any Owner shall not meddle take or seise any part thereof but they shall always be consigned and remaining to such other English as the Deceased shall by his Testament assign and if he died Intestate then the English Conful shall take and receive his Faculties and Goods and if there be no Consul the English Resident there shall take the Possession and in case there be neither Consul nor English the said Goods and Faculties whatsoever shall be received into the custody of the Caddee of that Place and having advised the English Ambassador thereof the said Caddee shall resign all the said Goods unto such Persons as the Ambassador shall send with Commission to receive them XXVII All these Priviledges and other Liberties granted to the English Nation and those who come under their Protection by divers Imperial Commands whether before or after the Date of these Imperial Capitulations shall be always obeyed and observed and shall always be understood and interpreted in favour of the English Nation according to the Tenor and true Contents thereof XXVIII Neither the Officer called the Cassam or Gatherer of the Caddees Duties in case of Death nor the Caddee In cases of Death the Caddee not to meddle shall pretend or take of the said English Nation any kind of Tenths or Casmets or Fee of Division XXIX The Ambassador of the King of England No Janizary c. to be imposed on us without our consent or Consul Residing in our Dominion shall and may take into their Service any Janizary or Interpreter at their own charge and choice and no Janizary nor other our Slaves shall put themselves or intermeddle with their Service against their liking or consent XXX The Ambassador of his Majesty of England and Consul and the English Nation Residing in our Empire for the use of their own Persons and Families For making Wine making Must or Wine in their own Houses none of our Ministers Caddees or Janizaries shall molest or hinder them or demand any Duties or Money or do them any violence or impediment XXXI In the Port of Constantinople Aleppo Alexandria Customs paid in one Port are not to be demanded in another Scio Smyrna and in other Parts of our Dominions the English Merchants having paid the Custom of their Merchandise according to the Tenor of the Imperial Capitulations no man shall molest or trouble or take from them any thing more and whatsoever Merchandise shall be loaden upon their Ships and brought in our Dominions and Landed at any Scale they being desirous to lade it again and to Transport it to any other Scale or Port the same Goods arriving in the second Place and Scale and being there unladen neither the Customer nor Farmers nor any other our Officers shall pretend or take again any Customs or Gabels of the said Merchandise that the said Nation may always freely and securely Trade and follow their Business XXXII Neither of the English Nation No Hassapie Duties nor of any Trading under their Banner there shall not be demanded nor gathered one Asper nor any Money in the name of Imposition Hassapie or Compositions for Flesh for the Janizaries XXXIII There having been in Times past a Difference between the Ambassador of the Queen of England and the French Ambassador both Resident in our Port about the Merchants of the Dutch Nation both which Ambassadors sent their Petitions to our Imperial Stirrup and made Request That the said Dutch Merchants coming into our Dominions should pass under their Banner which Request of both Ambassadors was granted under our Imperial Seal notwitstanding Sinan Bassa the Son of Cigala Captain of the Sea now deceased as Admiral and practised in Maritime Cases having advised the Imperial Majesty that it was fit and convenient that the Dutch Nation should be assigned to the Protection of the Ambassador of England and that it should be so written in their Capitulations which Opinion being by all the Viziers approved by Express Order and Imperial Authority it was Commanded That the Dutch Merchants of the Provinces of Holland Zealand Friezland and Guelderland that is All Strangers to come under the English Protection the Merchants of those four Provinces Trading in our Dominions shall always come under the Banner of the Queen of England as all other English do and that of all the Goods and Merchandise which they shall or do Import or Export to and from our Dominions in their Vessels they shall pay the Duties of Consulage and all other Duties to the Ambassador or Consul of the Queen of England and that never hereafter the French Ambassador or Consul shall insinuate nor intermeddle herein And accordingly it was Commanded that for the time to come it should be ruled and observed according to this present Capitulation After which there being arrived another Ambassador at this High Port sent from the King of England with Letters and Presents which were most acceptable the said Ambassador did make Request that certain other necessary Articles should be added and written in the Imperial Capitulations of which the first was As in Times past in the Days of one of our Forefathers of famous memory Sultan Soliman Han there was granted a certain Capitulation and Priviledge That the Merchants of the Spanish Nation Portugal Ancona Sevilla Florence Catalonia and all sorts of Dutchmen and other Merchant-Strangers might safely and securely go and come through all the Places of our Dominions and Trade and Traffick granting unto them moreover that in any part of our Empire they might establish their Consuls But it being that every Nation apart was not able to defray the Charges and Maintenance of a Consul it was then left to their will and choice to come under the Banner of such Ambassador or Consul as should best like them provided that it were an Ambassador or Consul of a King in Peace and Amity with our High Port upon which Grant and other Priviledges given them there were often granted divers Imperial Commands and Constitutions being so desired by Merchant-Strangers
Law hath made himself Pledge and Security the Debt shall not be demanded of the other which Article is already declared in the Capitulations LXIV Whereas sometimes an Englishman living in a Country to free himself from a Debt Bill of Exchange not accepted cannot be enforced draws a Bill of Exchange upon another Englishman who hath no Effects of his in his hands and the Person to whom the Money is payable being a Man of Power and Authority brings his Bill and contrary to the Law and the Capitulations demands and forces payment of the Bill In which case the Merchant accepting the Bill shall be obliged to satisfie it but not accepting of it he shall be liable to no farther trouble LXV And the Interpreters of the Ambassador of England being free by the Articles declared in the ancient Capitulations of all Angaria or Taxes Druggermen free of all Angaria and the Cassam by virtue also of this present Article when any of the said Interpreters die their Goods or Estate shall not be subject to the Custom but shall be divided amongst the Creditors and Heirs LXVI And the King of England being a true Friend to this our happy Port Ten of the Ambassadors Servants free of Harach To his Ambassador who Resides here ten Servants of what Nation soever shall be allowed free from Harach or Taxes or molestation of any man LXVII An Englishman turning Mahometan The Estate of Principals in the hand of a Renegade to be delivered to the Ambassador or Consul and having Goods or Estate in his hands belonging to his English Principals those Goods or Estate shall be delivered into the hands of the Ambassador or Consul that they may convey and make them good to the true Owners The late Ambassador of the King of England who Resided in our high Port being dead Sir John Finch Knight a prudent Man and one of the Council of Foreign Trade is appointed to succeed him in the Charge of the Embassy And notice being given to our Noble Presence that the said Ambassador was arrived with the Royal Letters and the usual Presents they were acceptable to us And the aforesaid Ambassador having made known to us that in the Capitulations already granted there were several Expressions so full of ambiguity that they needed further Explication and to this end having requested of us in the behalf of the King his Master that the Capitulations might be renewed and that such Explications and additional Articles as were necessary might be added to them the Request of the said Ambassador being made known to us we have consented to it And we do Command and be it Commanded That the Additions desired be added to the former Capitulations of which one is I. THE Nisani Sheriff that is the Imperial Command upon which was put the Hattersheriff that is the Hand of the Emperor Sultan Ibrahim Han whose Soul rest in Glory in the Year 1053. which Command declares that anciently the English Ships that came to Scanderoon did pay for every Cloth of London for the Custom of Scanderoon fourty Para's and for a Piece of Kersey six Para's and for every Bundle of Cony-Skins six Para's and for Tin and Lead for every Quintal of Damascus or Cantaro fifty seven Para's and a half for Custom which Goods afterwards arriving in Aleppo did pay for the Custom of Aleppo for every Cloth of London eight Para's for a Piece of Kersey eight Para's and one sixth for every Bundle of Cony-Skins eight Para's and one sixth for Tin and Lead for every Battman of Aleppo one Para for Custom And the said Nation buying Goods and Transporting them for what they bought in Aleppo and Exported did pay for raw Cloth of Linen or Chilis for Cordovans for Horasani Hindi for every Bale of each two Dollars and a half and for every Bale of Cotton-Yarn a Dollar and a quarter and for a Bale of Gauls a quarter of a Dollar and for every Bale of Silk ten Osmani of which fourteen makes a Dollar for Rhubarb and such like Drugs three Dollars for every hundred according to the estimate of the chief in that Art The said Goods carried to Scanderoon and there loaden upon their Ships did pay for Raw Linen Cloth or Chilis for Cordovans each a Dollar and a half the Bale for the Custom of Scanderoon for Hora sani Hindi and Cotton-Yarn three quarters of a Dollar the Bale for a Bale of Gauls one quarter of a Dollar for Rhubarb and like Drugs according to the esteem of Druggists three quarters of a Dollar the Bale and nothing more is to be or ought to be paid according to the tenor of this sublime Command And if the Tefterdar shall give any Command contrary to this let it not be obeyed but be esteemed invalid But let every thing be observed conformable to this Imperial Command and Imperial Capitulations II. The English Merchants for all Goods Exported or Imported paid Three per cent only and never ought to pay an Asper more it being so specified in the Imperial Capitulations But there having in the Scales of Constantinople and Galata arose Contrasts and Differences with the Customers concerning the Londra's or Cloth brought from London and other sorts of Cloth of the English Manufacture they shall pay according to the accustomed and ancient Canon and as they have always hitherto paid that is to say of full Aspers or short Money of which Aspers eighty make a Piece-of-eight and seventy a Lion Dollar Aspers one hundred fourty and four for every Piece of Cloth of English fabrick whether fine or course and of whatsoever Price and the Customer shall not demand more nor ought not to take more But the Cloth that comes from Holland and other Countries viz. Londrini Says and Scarlets and other sorts of Cloth not English fabrick shall pay for the future that which hitherto has been the accustomed Duty And at the Scale of Smyrna shall be paid according to the ancient Custom and Use of full Aspers or short Money of which Aspers eighty make a Piece-of-eight and seventy a Lion Dollar Aspers one hundred and twenty for every Piece of English Cloth whether fine or course whether Londra or not provided that it be of the fabrick of England And the Customer shall not demand nor ought not to take one Asper more and let no Innovation be made upon the Custom of the said Cloths III. The Capitulations being known which commands that the English having a Controversie the import of which is above four thousand Aspers that the Cause shall be brought to the Porta and tried no where else if at any time the Caddi or Ministers of any Place would detain any Merchant or hinder any Englishman that comes upon a Ship from prosecuting their Voyage by reason of any Money imposed upon them or pretended from them if the Consul of the Place will be Security to answer the Pretensions made before the Porta such Persons shall be free and
their Ships with such Goods and Merchandises which said Ships being laden and Customs paid for the Goods shall not be detained in Port upon any pretence whatsoever nor shall the Laders Merchants or Factors who bought and loaded the Goods aforesaid be questioned after the departure of the said Ships for any matter or thing whatsoever concerning the same VI. And to the end that the Officers and Ministers of all Cities Tables or Lists of the Duties to be put up Towns and Villages belonging to either may neither demand nor take from the respective Merchants and People greater Taxes Duties Stipends Recompences Gifts or any other Charges then what ought to be taken by virtue of this Treaty and that the said Merchants and People may know and understand with certainty what is ordained in all things touching this It is Agreed and Concluded That Tables and Lists shall be put up at the Doors of the Custom-houses and Registries of all the Cities Villages and Towns of or appertaining to one or the other King where such Rights and Excises or Customs are usually paid in which how much and of what quality such Rights Customs Subsidies and Payments either to the Kings or any the aforesaid Officers are allowed shall be put down in Writing declaring as well the Species of what is Imported as what is carried out And if any Officer or any other in his name upon any pretence whatsoever in publick or secret directly or indirectly shall ask or receive of any Merchant or other person respectively any sum of Money or other thing by the name of Right Due Stipend Allowance or Recompence though it be by the way of voluntary Donative more or otherwise then aforesaid the said Officer or his Deputy being in such manner guilty and convict before a competent Judge in the Country where the Crime is committed shall be put in Prison for three Months and shall pay thrice the value of the thing so received of which the half shall be for the King of the Country where the Crime is committed and the other half for the Denunciator for the which he may sue his Right before any competent Judge of the Country where it shall happen VII That it shall be lawful for the Subjects of the King of Great Britain All kind of Goods freely to be Imported into Spain to bring out and carry into Spain and all or any Lands and Dominions of the King of Spain where heretofore they have used Trade and Commerce and Trade there with all kind of Merchandise Clothes Manufactures and things of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Manufactures Goods Fruits and Kinds of the Islands Towns and Plantations to him appertaining and what shall have been bought by English Factors on this side or farther on the other side of the Cape of Buena Esperança without being enforced to declare to whom or for what Price they sell their said Merchandise and Provisions or being molested for the Errors of the Masters of the Ships or others in the Entry of the Goods and at their pleasure to return again out of the Dominions of the King of Spain with all or any Goods Estates and Merchandise to any of the Territories Islands Dominions and Countries of the King of England or to any other Place To pay onely for the Goods Landed paying the Rights and Tributes mentioned in the antecedent Chapters and the rest of all their Lading which is not brought to Land they may detain keep and carry away in their said Ship or Ships Vessel or Vessels again without paying any Right or Imposition whatsoever for it as if therewith they had never been within any Bay or Port of the Catholique King And all the Goods Prize Goods to be esteemed as English Estates Merchandise Ships or other Vessels with any things introduced into the Dominions or Places of the Crown of Great Britain as Prizes and judged for such in the said Dominions and Places shall be taken for Goods and Merchandise of Great Britain comprehended so by the intention of this Article VIII That the Subjects and Vassals of the Most Serene King of Great Britain may bring and carry to all and singular the Dominions of the King of Spain East-India Goods to be freely Imported into Spain any Fruits and Commodities of the East-Indies it appearing by Testimony of the Deputies of the East-Indy Company in London that they are of or have come from the English Conquests Plantations or Factories with like Priviledge and according to what is allowed to the Subjects of the Vnited Provinces by the Royal Cedulas of Contravando bearing date the 27. of June and the 3. of July 1663. and published on the 30. of June and 4. of July the same Year And for what may concern both the Indies and any other Parts whatsoever The English to have all Priviledges granted to the Dutch by the Treaty of Munster 1648. the Crown of Spain doth grant to the King of Great Britain and his Subjects all that is granted to the United States of the Low-Countreys and their Subjects in their Treaty of Munster 1648. Point for Point in as full and ample manner as if the same were herein particularly inserted the same Rules being to be observed whereunto the Subjects of the said United States are obliged and mutual Offices of Friendship to be performed from one side to the other IX That the Subjects of the King of Great Britain And to have all the Priviledges granted to the English residing in Andaluzia 1645. Trading Buying and Selling in any of the Kingdoms Governments Islands Ports or Territories of the said King of Spain shall have use and enjoy all the Priviledges and Immunities which the said King hath granted and confirmed to the English Merchants that reside in Andaluzia by his Royal Cedulas or Orders dated the 19. day of March the 26. day of June and the 9. day of November 1645. His Catholique Majesty by these Presents reconfirming the same as a part of this Treaty between the two Crowns And to the end that it be manifest to all It is consented That the said Schedules as to the whole substance thereof be passed and transferred to the body of the present Articles in the name and favour of all and singular the Subjects of the King of Great Britain residing and Trading in any Places whatsoever within His Catholique Majesties Dominions X. That the Ships or any other Vessels that shall belong to the King of Great Britain or his Subjects Navigating into the King of Spain's Dominions or any of his Ports shall not be visited by the Judges of Counterband or by any other Officer or Person by his own or by any other Authority nor shall any Souldiers English Ships how to be visited in Port. Armed men or other Officers or Persons be put on Board any of the said Ships or Vessels nor shall the Officers of the Custom-house of the one or the other Party search
to the Form which shall be inserted at the end of this Treaty whereby not only the Ships Lading but the Place to which she belongs and as well the Master and Owners Name as the Name of the Ship may appear by which means the quality of the Ship and her Master or Owner will be sufficiently known as also the Commodities she carries whether they be Contraband or not to the which Passports and Sea-Letters intire faith and credit shall be given so much the rather for that as well on the part of the King of England as of the King of Spain some Counter-signs shall be given if it shall be found necessary whereby their authenticalness may the better appear and that they may not be in any wise falsified XV. If any prohibited Merchandise or Goods shall be Exported from the Kingdoms Prohibited Goods Exported to be Confiscated Dominions and Territories of either of the said Kings by the respective People or Subjects of the one or the other in such case the prohibited Goods shall be onely Confiscated and not the other Goods neither shall the Delinquent incur any other Punishment except the said Delinquent shall carry out from the respective Kingdoms or Dominions of the King of Great Britain the proper Coin Wooll In case Coin Wooll or Fullers-Earth be Exported the Laws of the Country to take place or Fullers-Earth of the said Kingdoms or shall carry out of the respective Kingdoms or Dominions of the said King of Spain any Gold or Silver wrought or unwrought in either of which cases the Laws of the respective Countreys are to take place XVI That it shall be lawful for the People and Subjects of both Kings Ships to remain freely in each others Ports and depart again to have access to the respective Ports of the one and the other and there remain and depart again with the same freedom not onely with their Ships and other Vessels for Trade and Commerce but also with their other Ships fitted for War Armed and disposed to resist and engage the Enemy and arriving by stress of Weather to repair their Ships or furnish themselves with Provisions so that entring willingly they be not so numerous that they give just occasion of suspition to which end they are not to exceed the number of Eight nor continue in their Havens nor about their Ports longer time then they shall have just cause for the repair of their Ships to take in Provisions or other necessary things much less be the occasion of interrupting the free Commerce and coming in of other Ships of Nations in Amity with either King Concerning Men of War coming into Ports and when an unusual number of Men of War by accident shall come unto any Port it shall not be lawful for them to come into the said Ports or Havens not having first obtained permission of the King unto whom the said Ports do belong or the Governours of the said Ports if they be not forced thereinto by stress of Weather or other necessity to avoid the danger of the Sea and in such ease they shall presently acquaint the Governour or chief Magistrate of the Place with the cause of their coming nor shall they remain there any longer time then the said Governour or Magistrate shall think convenient or do any act of Hostility in such Ports that may prove of prejudice to the one or the other of the said Kings XVII That neither the said King of Great Britain nor the King of Spain by any Mandate general nor particular nor for any cause whatsoever shall Embarque or detain hinder or take for his respective Service No Merchants Pilots c. to be Pressed any Merchant Master of a Ship Pilot or Mariner their Ships Merchandise Clothes or other Goods belonging unto the one or the other in their Ports or Waters if it be not that either of the said Kings or the Persons to whom the Ships belong be first advertised thereof and do agree thereunto Provided that this shall not be construed to hinder or interrupt the ordinary course of Justice and Law in either Country XVIII That the Merchants and Subjects of the one and the other King their Factors and Servants Merchants Seamen c. to have liberty to carry Arms. as also their Ships Masters or Mariners may as well going as coming upon Sea and other Waters as in the Havens and Ports of the one and the other respectively carry and use all kind of Arms Defensive and Offensive without being obliged to Register them as also upon Land to carry and use them for their Defence according to the custom of the Place XIX That the Captains About Differences between Captains and Masters of Ships and their Men. Officers and Mariners of the Ships belonging to the People and Subjects of either Party may not commence an Action nor hinder or bring trouble upon their own Ships their Captains Officers or Mariners in the respective Kingdoms Dominions Lands Countries or Places of the other for their Wages or Salaries or under any other pretence Nor may they put themselves or be received by what pretext or colour soever into the Service or Protection of the King of England or King of Spain or their Arms but if any Controversie happen between Merchants and Masters of Ships or between Masters and Mariners the composing thereof shall be left to the Consul of the Nation but after such manner as he who shall not submit to the Arbitrement may appeal to the ordinary Justice of the Place where he is subject XX. And to the end that all Impediments be taken away Concerning Trading to Flanders and that the Merchants and Adventurers of the Kingdoms of Great Britain be permitted to return to Brabant Flanders and other the Provinces of the Low-Countries under the Jurisdiction of the King of Spain Forasmuch as it hath been thought convenient that all and any the Laws Edicts and Acts by which the Importation of Cloth or any Cloth or any other Woollen Manufacture of what kind soever Dyed or Undyed Mill'd or Unmill'd into Flanders or the other Provinces hath been prohibited be revoked and disanull'd and that if any Right Tribute Imposition Charge or Money hath been with permission or otherwise put upon Cloths or any of the aforesaid Woollen Manufactures so Imported except the ancient Tribute upon every piece of Cloth and proportionably upon every other Woollen Manufacture agreeable to the ancient Treaties and Agreements between the then Kings of England and the Dukes of Burgundy and Governours of the Low-Countries the same should be altogether void and no such Tribute or Imposition from henceforth imposed or put upon the said Clothes or Manufactures for no cause or pretext whatsoever And that all the English Merchants Trading in any of the said Provinces their Factors Servants or Commissioners should enjoy from henceforward all the Priviledges Exemptions Immunities and Benefits which formerly have been agreed and given by the
aforesaid ancient Treaties and Agreements between the then Kings of England and the Dukes of Burgundy and Governours of the Low-Countries It is therefore Agreed That Deputies shall be named by the King of Great Britain who meeting with the Marquess of Castelrodrigo or the Governour of those Provinces for the time being or any other Ministers of the King of Spain sufficiently authorised in this behalf shall friendly Treat and Conclude hereupon and also such further Priviledges Immunities and necessary Exemption suitable to the present state of Affairs shall be granted for the encouragement of the said Merchants and Adventurers and for the security of their Trade and Commerce as shall be agreed upon in a special Treaty that shall be made between both the Kings touching this Particular XXI The Subjects and Inhabitants of the Kingdoms and Dominions of the Most Serene Kings of Great Britain and Spain respectively Freedom of Trade to Places in Amity or Neutrality with either Party shall with all security and liberty Sail to and Traffick in all the Kingdoms Estates or Countries which are or shall be in Peace Amity or Neutrality with the one or the other XXII And they shall not be disturbed or disquieted in that liberty Not to be disturbed in that liberty by the Ships or Subjects of the said Kings respectively by reason of the Hostilities which are or may be hereafter between either of the said Kings and the aforesaid Kingdoms Countries and States or any of them which shall be in Friendship or Neutrality with the other XXIII And in case that within the said Ships respectively be found by the abovesaid means any Merchandise here under mentioned Contraband Goods and no other to be Confiscated being of Contraband and Prohibited they shall be taken out and Confiscated before the Admiralty or other competent Judges but for this reason the Ship and the other free and allowed Commodities which shall be found therein shall in no wise be either Seized or Confiscated XXIV Moreover for better prevention of the Differences which might arise touching the meaning of forbidden Merchandise and of Contraband It is Declared and Agreed What are Contraband Goods That under this Name shall be comprehended all Fire-Arms as Ordnance Musquets Mortar-pieces Petards Bombs Granadoes Fire-crancels Fire-balls Musquet-rests Bandeliers Gunpowder Match Salt-petre and Bullets Likewise under the Name of forbidden Merchandise are understood all other Arms as Pikes Swords Pots Helmets Backs and Breasts Halberds Javelins and such like Armour Under this Name is likewise forbidden the Transportation of Souldiers Horses their Harnesses Cases of Pistols Holsters Belts and other Furniture formed and composed for the use of War XXV Likewise Exceptions to the above-mentioned Article to prevent all manner of Dispute and Contention It is Agreed That under the Name of forbidden Merchandise and of Contraband shall not be comprehended Wheat Rye Barley or other Grains or Pulse Salt Wine Oyl and generally whatsoever belongs to the sustaining and nourishing of life but they shall remain free as likewise all other Merchandises not comprehended in the preceding Article and the Transportation of them shall be free and permitted although it be to the Towns and Places of Enemies unless such Towns and Places be Besieged and blocked up or surrounded XXVI It is also Agreed Goods belonging to either Party found on Enemies Ships to be Confiscated That whatsoever shall be found Laden by the Subjects or Inhabitants of the Kingdoms and Dominions of either of the said Kings of England and Spain Aboard the Ships of the Enemies of the other though it be not forbidden Merchandise shall be Confiscated with all things else which shall be found within the said Ships without exception or reserve XXVII That the Consul which hereafter shall reside in any of the Dominions of the King of Spain The power of the respective Consuls for the help and protection of the Subjects of the King of Great Britain shall be named by the King of Great Britain and he so named shall have and exercise the same Power and Authority in the execution of his Charge as any other Consul hath formerly had in the Dominions of the said King of Spain and in like manner the Spanish Consul residing in England shall enjoy as much Authority as the Consuls of any other Nation have hitherto enjoyed in that Kingdom XXVIII And that the Laws of Commerce that are obtained by Peace may not remain unfruitful as would fall out if the Subjects of the King of Great Britain when they go to come from or remain in the Dominions or Lordships of the King of Spain by reason of their Commerce or other Business Merchants not to be molested for Religion should be molested for case of Conscience therefore that the Commerce be secure and without danger as well upon Land as at Sea the said King of Spain shall provide that the Subjects of the said King of Great Britain shall not be agrieved contrary to the Laws of Commerce and that none of them shall be molested or disturbed for their Conscience so long as they give no publick scandal or offence And the said King of Great Britain shall likewise provide for the same reasons that the Subjects of the King of Spain shall not be molested or disturbed for their Conscience against the Laws of Commerce so long as they give no publick scandal or offence XXIX That the People and Subjects respectively of one Kingdom Merchandises to be paid for onely in such Coin as shall be agreed upon in the Dominions Territories Regions or Colonies of the other shall not be compelled to sell their Merchandise for Brass-metal-Coin or exchange them for other Coin or things against their will or having sold them to receive the payment in other Species then what they bargained for notwithstanding any Law or other Custom contrary to this Article XXX That the Merchants of both Nations and their Factors Servants and Families Commissioners or others by them employed as also Masters of Ships Pilots and Mariners may remain freely and securely in the said Dominions Kingdoms and Territories of either of the said Kings and also in their Ports and Rivers Merchants c. freely to enjoy their Houses Ware-houses c. And the People and Subjects of the one King may have and with all freedom and security enjoy in all the Lands and Dominions whatsoever of the other their proper Houses to live in their Warehouses and Magazines for their Goods and Merchandise which they shall possess during the time for which they shall have taken hired and agreed for them without any Impediment XXXI To employ such Proctors Agents c. as they shall think fit The Inhabitants and Subjects of the said Confederate Kings in all the Lands and Places under the Obedience of the one or the other shall use and employ those Advocates Proctors Scriveners Agents and Solicitors whom they think fit the which shall be left
taken which for this effect was exhibited unto me by William Bland dwelling in the City of Sivil who took it away again with him the 11. of April Anno 1645. Joseph de Pineda Notary Publick of the City of Sivil for the King Articles of Peace and Alliance between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. and the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Lewis XIV The Most Christian King Concluded the 21 31 day of July 1667. I. THat there be an Universal Peace and Amity restored Perpetual True and Sincere Peace and Amity between the Most Christian King and the King of Great Britain their Heirs and Successors and between the Kingdoms States and Subjects of both and that the same be so sincerely and seriously observed and kept that one shall promote the Honour and Advantage of the other And that a faithful Neighbourhood and secure observation of Peace and Friendship may flourish again on every side II. That all Enmities Hostilities Discords and Wars between the said Kings and their Subjects cease and be abolished Cessation of Hostilities so as they both do forbear and abstain hereafter from all Plundering Depredation Harm-doing Injuries and Infestation whatsoever as well by Land as by Sea and in Fresh-waters every where and especially through all Tracts Dominions and Places of eithers Kingdoms and Territories of what Condition soever they be III. That all Offences All Injuries to be forgotten Injuries Damages which either of the said Kings or their Subjects have suffered from the other during this War be buried in Oblivion so that neither in regard of them nor for the cause or pretence of any other thing neither Party nor the Subjects of either shall hereafter do or cause to be done or made any Hostility Enmity Molestation or Hindrance to the other by himself or by others secretly or openly directly or indirectly by colour of Right or way of Fact IV. That the use of Navigation and Commerce be free between the Subjects of both the said Kings Freedom of Trade and Navigation as it was anciently in the time of Peace and before the Denunciation of the late War so that every one of them may freely come into the Kingdoms Provinces Marts Ports and Rivers of either Party bringing their Merchandise and Conversing and Trading there without Molestation V. That all Prisoners on either side Prisoners released of what Degree Dignity or Condition soever be forthwith set at liberty without Ransom or any other Price of their Freedom Provided they pay what is lawfully due for Diet or other Cause VI. That all Proclamations and Acts which by reason of this War either Party hath published All Acts made against the liberty of Trade Revoked to the prejudice of either against the liberty of Navigation and Trade be abrogated on both sides VII That the Most Christian King shall with all speed or at the furthest within Six months to be reckoned from the Day of Subscribing this present Agreement Restitution of St. Christophers restore unto the King of Great Britain or unto such as to that purpose shall receive his Commands duely Passed under the Great Seal of England that part of the Isle of St. Christophers which the English possessed the First of January 1665. before the Declaration of the late War and to that end the said Most Christian King shall immediately upon the Ratification of the same Agreement deliver or cause to be delivered unto the said King of Great Britain or such Ministers of his as shall be thereunto appointed all necessary Instruments and Orders duely dispatched VIII But if any of the Subjects of the said King of Great Britain shall have sold the Goods which he possessed in that Island If any person have sold his Goods there he shall repay the Money before he be restored and the Price of the Sale hath been paid unto him he shall not be restored and put into possession of those Goods by virtue of the present Agreement before he hath actually paid back the Price or the Money he hath received IX But if it happen which yet is not known hitherto that the Subjects of the said Most Christian King are beaten out of the said Island of St. Christophers by the Subjects of the above-mentioned King of Great Britain before or after the Subscription of the present Agreement Nevertheless All things in that Island to be put in the same state as they were in 1665. things shall be restored unto that state and condition wherein they were in the beginning of the Year 1665. that is before the Declaration of the War now determining and the said King of Great Britain assoon as he hath notice thereof shall without any delay deliver or cause to be delivered unto the above-mentioned Most Christian King or his Ministers thereunto appointed all Instruments and Orders duely made which are necessary for that Restitution X. Also Restitution of Acadia to the French That the said King of Great Britain do likewise restore unto the said Most Christian King or unto such as to that purpose shall receive his Command duely passed under the Great Seal of France the Country which is called Acadia lying in North America which the said Most Christian King did formerly enjoy And to that end the said King of Great Britain shall immediately upon the Ratification of this Agreement deliver or cause to be delivered unto the said Most Christian King or such Ministers of his as shall be thereunto appointed all Instruments and Orders duely dispatched which shall be necessary to the said Restitution XI But if any of the Inhabitants of that Country called Acadia Such Inhabitants as shall desire to leave the Place may shall rather desire to be hereafter under the Dominion of the King of Great Britain it shall be lawful for such to depart within the space of One year to be counted from the Day of the Restitution of that Country and to sell alienate or otherwise dispose as they please their Lands Grounds Slaves and all their Goods moveable or immoveable and such persons as shall Contract with them for the same shall be forced to make good such Contracts by the Most Christian Kings Authority But if they shall rather choose to carry away with them their Money Housholdstuff Vessels Slaves and all their Moveables it shall be free for them so to do without any hindrance or molestation whatsoever XII Also the Most Christian King shall in like manner restore unto the King of Great Britain the Islands called Antigoa and Monsarat if they be in his power and any other Islands Countreys Reciprocal Restitution of Places taken Forts and Colonies which may have been gotten by the Arms of the Most Christian King before or after the Subscription of the present Treaty and which the King of Great Britain possessed before he
entred into the War with the States General to which War this Treaty doth put an end On the other side the said King of Great Britain shall after the manner aforesaid restore unto the above-mentioned Most Christian King all Islands Countreys Forts and Colonies any where situate which might be gotten by the King of Great Britains Arms before or after the Subscription of the present Agreement and which the Most Christian King possessed before the First of January 1665. XIII But if any of those Servants and Slaves that Served the English in that part of the Isle of St. Slaves and Servants may return to their Masters if not sold Christophers which belonged to the foresaid King of Great Britain as also in the Islands called Antigoa and Monsarat when they were taken by the Arms of the foresaid Most Christian King shall desire to return again unto the Subjection of the English yet without all force or constraint it shall be free and lawful for them so to do within the space of six Months to be reckoned from the Day on which the same Islands shall be restored But if the English before they went off of the said Islands sold some Servants and the Money was paid for them those Servants are not to be restored upon other Terms but that the Price be restored and repaid XIV In like manner Souldiers Labourers c. the same if some of the foresaid King of Great Britain's Subjects who were not reckoned amongst Servants and Slaves shall hire themselves in the quality of a Souldier a Labourer or under whatsoever other Title to the foresaid Most Christian King or any one of his Subjects that dwelleth in the foresaid Islands Covenanting for Wages by the Year the Month or the Day After the Restitution of the Island or Islands such hiring of ones self or Obligation is to cease Wages being received after the Rate of Labour already performed and it shall be free for them to return unto their Countrymen and live under the Dominion of the King of Great Britain XV. Whatsoever is resolved concerning the foresaid Islands Articles of Restitution to extend to all Places it is to be understood that it is in like manner resolved concerning all other Islands Forts Countries and Colonies and the Subjects and Servants living therein whom and which the above-mentioned Most Christian King shall have gotten by his Arms or shall get before or after the Subscription of this Treaty if so be the said King of Great Britain possessed them before he entred into the War with the States General which War is ended by this Treaty On the other side the same is also understood to be resolved in relation to those Islands Countries Forts and Colonies and Subjects and Servants living there who or which belonged unto the above-mentioned Most Christian King before the First of January 1665. and whom or which the above-mentioned King of Great Britain shall have gotten or shall get by his Arms before or after the Subscription of this Treaty XVI That all Letters as well of Reprizal Letters of Marque revoked as of Marque and Countermarque which hitherto have been granted on either Side for any Cause shall be and be held null and void Nor shall any the like Letters be hereafter granted by either of the said Kings against the Subjects of either unless it be first made manifest that Right hath been denied and unless he who desires Letters of Reprizal to be granted unto him do first draw and present his Petition to the Minister residing in the Name of that Kingdom against whose Subjects those Letters are desired that he within the space of four Months or sooner may enquire into the contrary or procure that Satisfaction be with all speed made from the Party offending to the Complainant Not to be granted but four Months after the denial of Justice But if that Kingdom against whose Subjects Reprizals are demanded have no Minister residing there Letters of Reprizal are not to be granted till after the space of four Months to be reckoned from the Day whereupon his Petition was made and presented to the King against whose Subjects Reprizals are desired or to his Privy Council XVII Then to cut off all matter of Quarrel and Contentions which might arise in regard of the Restitution of Ships Merchandise and other Moveables which either Party may complain to be taken and detained from the other in Countries and Coasts far distant after the Peace is concluded and before it be notified This Peace when to take effect All Ships Merchandise and other Moveables which shall or may be gotten by either Side after the Subscription and Publication of the present Agreement within the space of Twelve Days in the Neighbouring Seas within the space of Six Weeks from the said Neighbouring Seas unto the Cape of St. Vincent then within the space of Ten Weeks beyond the said Cape on this side of the Aequinoctial Line or Aequator as well in the Ocean and Mediterranean Sea as elsewhere Lastly within the space of Six Months beyond the Bounds of the foresaid Line through the whole World shall be and remain unto the Possessors without any exception or further distinction of Time or Place or any consideration to be had of Restitution or Compensation XVIII But if which God of his mercy forbid the Differences now Composed between the said Kings should at any time fester In case of a future War Six Months to be allowed the Merchants to Transport their Goods and break out again into open War the Ships Merchandise or any kind of Moveables of either Party which shall be found to be and remain in the Ports and under the Command of the adverse Party on either Side shall not be Confiscated or made obnoxious to any Inconvenience but the space of Six Months shall entirely be allowed to the Subjects of either of the said Kings that they may carry away and Transport the foresaid things and any thing else that is theirs whither they shall think fit without any molestation XIX Under this present Treaty of Peace shall be comprehended those who shall be named by either Party with common consent before the Exchange of Ratifications or within Six Months after Who shall be comprehended in this Treaty But in the mean time both Parties are well pleased that the King of Sweden as Mediator be comprehended and he is comprehended XX. Lastly Ratifications Exchanged The Solemn Ratifications of this present Agreement and Alliance made in due Form shall be delivered on both Sides and mutually and duely Exchanged at Breda within the space of Three Weeks to be reckoned from the Day of the Subscription Done at Breda the 21 31 day of July 1667. Articles of Peace and Alliance between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. and the Most Serene and
Mighty Prince Frederick III. King of Denmark and Norway Concluded 21 31 day of July 1667. I. FIrst It is Covenanted Perpetual Peace Concluded and Agreed That there be from this Day a perpetual firm and inviolable Peace between the Most Serene and Most Mighty Prince Charles the Second King of Great Britain and the Most Serene and Most Mighty Prince Frederick the Third King of Denmark and Norway between their Heirs and Successors and their Kingdoms Principalities Earldoms Islands Cities Forts Lands Subjects and Inhabitants of what State and Quality soever And so as to maintain and promote each others good no less then their own and to avert and hinder with all possible study the damage and destruction of one another And in this respect it shall be free for the Subjects of either King to exercise a mutual Navigation and Commerce without molestation and with their Merchandises to come to each others Kingdoms Provinces Marts Ports and Rivers and there to abide and Traffick II. At this present shall cease between the aforesaid Kings Hostilities to cease when and where and their Kingdoms Principalities Earldoms People and Subjects both by Land and Sea all Enmity War and Hostility that is to say in the Northern Ocean and in the Baltick Sea and the Channel within Twenty one Days from the Mouth of the said Straight or Channel to the Cape of St. Vincent within Six Weeks and then within the space of Ten Weeks beyond the said Cape on this side the Aequinoctial Line or Aequator as well in the Ocean as the Mediterranean Sea Finally within the space of Eight Months beyond the Bounds of the aforesaid Line all over the World without any exception or further distinction of Time or Place all Days Weeks and Months to be computed from the Subscription of the present Agreement Restitution of what shall be taken after these Terms respectively and the Publication of the fame here made at Breda And whatsoever shall be taken and seized after the aforesaid Days by either King or their Subjects to whom Commissions have been granted it shall be wholly restored back again to him or them from whom the same was taken and furthermore full Satisfaction shall be made for the Damages to him or them thereby arising or the Charges they have been at and every person herein offending shall be punished as his Offence deserves III. It is also Agreed and Concluded Injuries to be forgotten That all Differences on both Sides Suspitions and Ill-will both on the part of the Most Serene King of Great Britain and on the part of the Most Serene King of Denmark c. and likewise for singular the Ministers Officers and Subjects of them be buried and abolished by a perpetual Oblivion And further from this present shall expire be annulled and for ever cancelled all Damages Offences Injuries by Word or Writing that either the one has done the other or has been suffered by the one from the other from the very first beginning of the now ceasing War to this Day and the determined point of Time wherein all Dissentions Discords Differences and Enmities shall cease and be laid aside By name the Assault and Defence made at Bergen in Norway and in whole whatsoever either followed from thence or does thereon depend in such manner as that neither of the said Parties by reason of any Damage of this kind Offence or Charges do under any pretence whatsoever cause the other any trouble much less for this cause endeavour or attempt any kind of Hostility IV. All Prisoners on both Sides of whatsoever Fortune or Rank Prisoners to be released shall be forthwith set at liberty without any Ransom V. All Ships Goods or the like Concerning the Goods and Debts that have been Confiscated that in this turbulent Season in the heat of this very War between both the above-mentioned Kings and their Subjects have been taken by the one from the other or that either Party has Confiscated and Seized of the Goods and Pretensions of Persons or Subjects of the other Nation as also all the Expences of War on both Sides shall be compensated by a like mutual Abolition In such manner as are together comprehended in this Compensation those Debts of the Subjects of the King of Great Britain which have been on the part of Denmark Confiscated but in this sence That whatever Debts of this kind unto the Tenth Day of May Old Stile and Twentieth New Stile by virtue of Confiscation or Reprisals have been by Subjects paid and Received do remain utterly abolished and satisfied and that it be not lawful for the Creditors of such Debts for the future to pretend any thing upon this account much less to urge payment of such for any reason or under any pretence whatsoever But of such Debts as on the said Day have not been paid and received it shall be lawful for the Creditors Subjects of the King of Great Britain to demand and prosecute the Payment Abolition of a Debt due from Denmark to the Parliament of England by the ordinary way of Justice Excepting nevertheless 120000 Rixdollars more or less namely accruing from a certain Controversie which arose between Christian the Fourth of most glorious Memory King of Denmark and Norway and the Parliament of England by reason of sending Aid to Charles the First of most glorious Memory King of Great Britain for which the King of Denmark and Norway bound himself and gave his Bond to a Company of certain English Merchants Trading at Hamburgh and there either now living or that have heretofore lived which Claim of 120000 Rixdollars or thereabouts being Confiscate shall be now by virtue of the present Treaty accounted as null dead and utterly abolished in such manner that the Creditors of that Debt are not either now or at any time hereafter therefore to demand or pretend any thing In like manner as is also Covenanted and Agreed in most significant Words That no Pretension shall be at any time made by reason of such Ships and Goods so Seized and Debt or Money Lent in such manner as aforesaid Abolished and Confiscated but that all shall on both Sides by a Solemn Compensation be for ever accounted as null and void Yet so that Lands and immoveable Goods be not comprehended in the aforesaid Voidance and Annullation but that they be without any difficulty or impediment restored back to those who before the Denouncing of the present War were the Possessors and Proprietors of them VI. It is Covenanted and Agreed on both Sides That under the last mentioned Compensation neither Countries nor Islands nor Cities nor Forts nor Ports nor other like Places are to be understood But if it shall be found Restitution of Places That either Party during this War hath either taken any such in or out of Europe or may yet take within the time limited in the second Article whatsoever it be it shall be without any Compensation and
Loss together with all even the smallest things thereto appertaining forthwith restored to him whose it was before and in the same Condition wherein it was then when it was taken without tergiversation delay or any kind of pretence VII Under this present Treaty of Peace shall be comprehended those Who shall be comprehended in this Treaty who before the Exchange of Ratifications or afterwards within Six Months shall be by common Consent nominated by both Parties And as the Covenanting Parties do thankfully acknowledge the Friendly Offices and unwearied Endeavours whereby the Most Serene King of Sweden interposing his Mediation hath through the Assistance of God promoted and carried on this beneficial Work of Pacification unto the desired Conclusion So to testifie their like Affection It is Decreed and Covenanted by the common Consent of all the Parties That his above-mentioned Majesty of Sweden with all his Kingdoms Dominions Provinces and Rights be included in this Treaty and comprehended in the present Pacification after the best and most effectual manner that may be VIII Lastly These Articles to be observed by both Kings It is Concluded Covenanted and Agreed That the foresaid Most Serene and Most Potent Kings shall sincerely and bona fide observe all and singular the Articles contained and established in this present Treaty and shall cause the same to be observed by their Subjects and Inhabitants neither shall they directly or indirectly transgress them or suffer them to be transgressed by their Subjects or Inhabitants directly or indirectly And they shall Ratifie and Confirm all and every thing as they are above Covenanted Ratifications to be Exchanged by Letters Patents Subscribed with their Hands and Corroborated with their Great Seals conceived and written in sufficient valid and effectual Form and shall reciprocally deliver or cause the same to be delivered here at Breda bona fide really and effectually within the space of Four Weeks next ensuing the Date of these Presents or sooner if it may be done Breda the 21 31 day of July 1667. Articles of Peace and Alliance between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands Concluded the 21 31 day of July 1667. I. FIrst A firm Peace concluded That from this Day there be a true firm and inviolable Peace sincere Friendship a nearer and straiter Alliance and Union between the Most Serene King of Great Britain and the High and Mighty States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and the Lands Countries and Cities under the Obedience of both Parties wheresoever situate and their Subjects and Inhabitants of what Degree soever they be II. Also That for the time to come all Enmities Enmities to cease Hostilities Discords and Wars between the said Lord the King and the foresaid Lords the States General and their Subjects and Inhabitants cease and be abolished And that both Parties do altogether forbear and abstain from all Plundering Depredation Harm-doing Injuries and Infestation whatsoever as well by Land as by Sea and in Fresh-waters every where and especially through all Tracts Dominions Places and Governments of what Condition soever they be within the Jurisdiction of either Party III. Also Injuries to be forgiven That all Offences Injuries Damages Losses which His said Majesty and His Subjects or the foresaid States General and their Subjects have on either Side sustained during this War or at any time whatsoever heretofore upon what Cause or Pretence soever be buried in Oblivion and totally expunged out of Remembrance as if no such things had ever past Furthermore that the foresaid Peace Both Parties to keep what they have Friendship and Alliance may stand upon firm and unshaken Foundations and that from this very Day all Occasions of new Dissention and Difference may be cut off It is further Agreed That both thē Parties and either of them shall keep and possess hereafter with plenary Right of Sovereignty Propriety and Possession all such Lands Islands Cities Forts Places and Colonies how many soever as during this War or in any former Times before this War they have by Force of Arms or any other way whatsoever gotten and detained from the other Party and that altogether after the same manner as they had gotten and did possess them the 10 20 day of May last past none of the same Places being Excepted IV. Moreover Ships Goods c. to remain to the Possessors That all Ships with their Furniture and Merchandise and all Moveables which during this War or at any time heretofore have come into the Power of either of the forementioned Parties or their Subjects be and remain to the present Possessors without any Compensation or Restitution so as each one become and remain Proprietor and Possessor for ever of that which was so gotten without any Controversie or Exception of Place Time or Things V. Moreover That all Actions Suits and Pretensions whatsoever they be or in what manner soever they have been restrained circumscribed defined or reserved in any Articles of Peace or Alliance already made and especially in the fifteenth Article of that Treaty which was Signed in the Year 1662. which His said Majesty and the said States General or their Subjects may or would prosecute or move against one another about such matters or things as have happened during this War or in any former Times as well before as after the foresaid Treaty of 1662. until the Day of this present Alliance be and remain void obliterated and disannulled All Actions Suits and Pretensions renounced As His said Majesty and the said States General shall declare and they do hereby declare That by vertue of these Presents they will for ever totally renounce even as hereby they do renounce all such Actions Suits and Pretensions for themselves and their Successors so as in regard of them nothing more may or ought ever to be urged on either Side and nothing to be moved thereupon hereafter VI. But if after the 10 20 day of May Places taken since the 10 20 of May to be restored expressed in the precedent third Article or after the Peace is made or this Treaty Signed either Party shall intercept and get from the other any Lands Islands Cities Forts Colonies or other Places whatsoever all and every of them without any distinction of Place or Time shall be restored bona fide in the same state and condition wherein they shall be found to be at the Time whensoever it shall be known in those Places that the Peace is made VII But to avoid all matter of Strife or Contention hereafter that useth sometimes to arise concerning the Restitution or Liquidation of such Ships Merchandise and other Moveables as both Parties or either of them may pretend to have been taken or gotten in Places and Coasts
Great Britain and the said States General of the United Provinces by Letters Patents on both Sides Sealed with the Great Seal in due and authentick Form within Four Weeks next ensuing or sooner if it can be done and that within the said time the Ratifications on both Sides shall be Exchanged at Breda and that presently after the Delivery and Exchange of the same this Treaty and Alliance shall be published in such Form and Place as is usual Done at Breda the 21 31 day of July 1667. THE SEPARATE ARTICLE IF it happen that any Tapistry Hangings Carpets Pictures or Houshold-Furniture of what kind soever or Precious Stones Jewels Rich Curiosities or other Moveable Goods whatsoever belonging to the King of Great Britain either now are or hereafter shall be found to be in the hands or power of the said States General or of any of their Subjects the said States General do promise that they will in no wise protect the Possessors of any Moveables appertaining unto the said King which Goods may be taken from them in such manner that they who shall make difficulty to restore them freely may not be dealt withall by any means contrary to Equity and Justice And the said States do promise to use their most effectual Endeavours that a plain and summary way of Proceeding may be taken in this Affair without the ordinary Form and Method of Process usually observed in Courts and that Justice be administred whereby His said Majesty may be satisfied as far as possibly may be without the wrong of any one Also That if any of those who are guilty of that horrible Treason and Parricide committed upon King CHARLES the First of most blessed Memory and lawfully Attainted Condemned or Convicted of the same either now are in the Dominions of the said States General or shall hereafter come thither as soon as ever it shall be known or signified to the said States General or any of their Officers they shall be apprehended put into Custody and sent Prisoners into England or delivered into the hands of those whom the said King of Great Britain shall appoint to take charge of them and bring them home Done at Breda the 21 31 day of July 1667. His Majesties Declaration concerning the Restoring of all Places Forts c. which his Subjects shall have taken or recovered from the Dutch after the 10 20 day of May last past CHARLES the II. by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. We do hereby make known and testifie unto all and every person and persons whom it doth or may any way concern That whereas in the Treaty of Peace Concluded at Breda the 21 31 day of July 1667. between Us and the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands it is Agreed in the third Article That each Party is to hold and possess for the time to come with plenary Right of Sovereignty Propriety and Possession all such Lands Islands Cities Forts Places and Colonies as during this War or in any former Times before this War they have by force of Arms or any way whatsoever gotten or detained from the other Party after the very same manner as they had seized and did possess them on the 10 20 day of May last past not excepting any of the said Places And whereas furthermore for the avoiding of all matter of Strife and Contention which useth sometimes to arise by reason of Restitutions it is also Agreed in the sixth Article That if either Party shall intercept and get from the other any Lands Islands Cities Forts Colonies and other Places after the said 10 20 day of May last past all and every of the Premisses without any distinction of Time and Place are forthwith to be restored in the very same Condition wherein they shall be found to be at the time whensoever certain notice shall come to those Places that the Peace is renewed We do hereby Require and Command all Our Governors Officers Commanders and Souldiers both by Sea and Land of what Quality and Condition soever they be as well within Europe as without that they do not onely forbear and totally abstain from all Hostility according to the Tenor of the foresaid Treaty but also if at any time it shall happen or come to pass that any Lands Islands Cities Forts Colonies and other Places wheresoever situated shall be taken from the United Netherlanders or recovered from them and brought under Our Power after the expiration of the said 10 20 day of May That they restore them all without any delay or excuse unto those Persons who shall exhibit these Letters Patents in such Condition as they shall be found in at the Time when the renewing of the Peace shall be notified there without any Diminution Detraction Waste or Embezilment whatsoever upon pain of Our highest Displeasure Given at Westminster the Nine and twentieth day of July Old stile and Eighth day of August New stile in the Year of our Lord 1667. and of Our Reign the Nineteenth Articles of Navigation and Commerce between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands Concluded the 21 31 day of July 1667. WHereas by those Articles of Peace Preface Vnion and Alliance which are this Day Concluded between His Majesty the King of Great Britain and the States General of the United Provinces it is specially and carefully provided That all the dismal and calamitous effects of War may forthwith cease and that the Peace so much desired by all may be restored in all Kingdoms and Dominions of both Parties and unto all their Subjects and Inhabitants And the measure of Time and Affairs hath not permitted them to weigh in an equal Balance and thereby exactly to Adjust all and every thing and things which were to be observed and considered about the foresaid Articles especially about those which belong to the Rules of free Navigation and Trade and that it may be feared the Inhabitants and Subjects of both Parties may fall back again into new Quarrels and Dissentions and the Differences now Composed may bleed afresh if they be not bound up by some certain Laws about those things which concern Navigation and the 〈◊〉 Trade Therefore by the Mediation and Endeavâ—◠〈◊〉 the Swedish Ambassadors the forementioned 〈…〉 have further Agreed unto these Separate Art 〈…〉 I. THat all such Proclamations and Acts of State which either Party hath published All Acts c. contrary to the liberty of Trade abrogated by reason of this War to the prejudice of the other Party against the liberty of Navigation and Trade be abrogated on both Sides II. That for the Elucidation of that Act which the King of Great Britain caused to be published in the Year 1660. What Goods
therein contained and concluded shall be Confirmed and Ratified by the said King of Great Britain and the said States General of the United Provinces by Letters Patents of both Parties Sealed with their Great Seal in due and authentick Form within Four Weeks next ensuing or sooner if it may be and mutual Instruments shall be Exchanged at Breda within the foresaid time and the same shall be Published after the Delivery and Exchange thereof in the usual Form and Place Done at Breda the 21 31 day of July 1667. A Form of the Passports and Certificates that ought to be given in the Admiralty of France to the Ships and Barques that go out thence according to the Article of the present Treaty CAEsar Duke of Vendome Peer and Great Master Chief and Superintendant General of the Navigation and Commerce of France To all who shall see these Presents Greeting We do make known That we have granted leave and permission to _____ Master and Conductor of a Ship called _____ of the City of _____ of the Burthen of _____ Tuns or thereabouts being at present in the Port and Haven of _____ to go to _____ Laden with _____ after Search shall have been made of his Ship and he before his Departure shall make Oath before the Officers that Exercise the Jurisdiction of Maritime Causes That the said Vessel doth belong to one or more of his Majesties Subjects an Act whereof shall be put at the bottom of the Presents as also to keep and cause to be kept by those Aboard him the Orders and Rules of the Marine and shall put into the Registry the Roll Signed and Certified containing the Names and Surnames the Nativity and Habitation of the Men that are Aboard him and of all that shall Imbarque themselves whom he may not take on Board without the knowledge and permission of the Marine Officers and in every Port or Haven where he shall enter with his Ship shall make appear to the Officers and Marine Judges concerning the present Licence and shall make them faithful relation of what hath been done and hath passed during his Voyage and shall carry the Flags Arms and Colours both the Kings and Ours throughout his whole Voyage In witness whereof We have Signed these Presents and caused the Seal of Our Arms to be put thereunto and the same to be Countersigned by Our Secretary of the Marine the _____ day of _____ One thousand six hundred _____ Signed Caesar of Vendome And underneath By my Lord Matharel and Sealed with the Seal of the Arms of the said Lord Admiral A Form of the Act containing the Oath WE _____ of the Admiralty of _____ do certifie That _____ Master of the Ship named in the Passport above hath taken the Oath therein mentioned Made at _____ the day of _____ One thousand six hundred c. Another Form of the Certificates that ought to be given by the Cities and Sea-Ports of the Vnited Provinces to the Ships and Barques that go from thence according to the Article abovesaid TO the Most Serene Most Illustrious Illustrious Most Mighty Most Noble Honourable and Prudent Lords Emperors Kings commonwealths Princes Dukes Comties Barons Lords Burgomasters Sheriffs Counsellors Judges Officers Justices and Regents of all good Cities and Places as well Ecclesiastical as Secular who shall see or read these Presents We Burgomasters and Governors of the City of _____ do make known That _____ Ship-Master appearing before Us hath declared by solemn Oath that the Ship called _____ containing about _____ Lasts of which he is at present the Master belongeth to Inhabitants of the United Provinces So help him God And as we would willingly see the said Ship-Master assisted in his just Affairs We do request you all in general and particular that where the abovesaid Master shall arrive with his Ship and Goods it may please them to receive him courteously and use him in due manner suffering him upon the usual Rights of Tolls and other Charges in through and nigh your Ports Rivers and Territories permitting him to Sail Pass Frequent and Trade there where he shall think fit Which we shall willingly acknowledge In witness whereof We have caused the Seal of Our City to be thereunto put Articles touching Navigation and Commerce between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands Concluded at the Hague the 7 17 Febr. 1667 8. WHEREAS Preface by the Blessing of Almighty God for the mutual Safety of the two Parties as well as the common Good of Christendom a Perpetual Defensive Treaty was Concluded and Signed on the 23. day of January last past between the Most Serene and Most Potent Prince Charles the Second and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands with Stipulation of considerable Succours to be mutually given by the Parties as well by Sea as Land And whereas the said King and States did on the same Day and by another Instrument readily Enter into a Solemn Treaty and Agreement for Composing the Affairs of their Neighbours and restoring Peace to Christendom so as nothing seems now remaining that can at any time hereafter interrupt a Friendship and Alliance renewed with so equal Desires unless such Controversies as may otherwise hereafter happen to arise about determining the different sorts and natures of Merchandise which being left dubious and uncertain would give occasion to the further growth of such Differences And therefore that it may appear with what Sincerity and good Faith the said King and the said States desire to Preserve and Entertain not onely for the Present but to all Posterity the Amity they lately Contracted between them they have at last for the taking away all Grounds not onely of Differences and Misunderstandings but even of Questions and Disputes and so utterly to cut off the Hope and Expectation of those whoever they are that may think it their Interest by new Controversies to endeavour the disturbance or interruption of the said Peace mutually Agreed on these following Articles which are to be on both Sides and for ever observed as the Measure and Rule of such Maritime Affairs and mutual Settlement of Trade or at lest so long till by the joynt Consent of both Parties Commissioners be appointed and do meet in order to the framing a more full and ample Treaty concerning this Matter and the Laws and Rules of Commerce and Navigation as by farther Experience shall be found most advantageous to the common Good of both Parties I. ALL the Subjects and Inhabitants of Great Britain may with all safety and freedom English to Trade freely with any Country in Peace or Neutrality with them Sail and Traffick in all the Kingdoms Countries and Estates which are or shall be in Peace Amity or Neutrality with Great Britain without being
into the Registry a List Signed and Certified containing the Names and Surnames the Nativity and Habitation of the Men that are Aboard him and of all that shall Imbarque themselves whom he may not take on Board without the knowledge and permission of the Marine Officers and in every Port or Haven where he shall enter with his Ship shall shew the Officers and Marine Judges this his present Licence and having finished his Voyage shall make faithful relation of what hath been done and hath passed during all the time of his said Voyage and shall carry the Flags Arms and Colours of his Majesty throughout his whole Voyage In witness whereof We have Signed these Presents and caused the Seal of Our Arms to be put thereunto and the same to be Countersigned by Our Secretary of the Marine the _____ day of _____ One thousand six hundred _____ Signed And underneath By _____ and Sealed with the Seal of the Arms of the said High Admiral A Form of the Act containing the Oath to be taken by the Master or Captain of the Ship WE _____ of the Admiralty of _____ do certifie That _____ Master of the Ship named in the Passport above hath taken the Oath therein mentioned Given at _____ the day of _____ One thousand six hundred c. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our Hands The Form of the Certificates that ought to be given by the Burgomasters of the Cities and Sea-Ports of the United Provinces to the Ships and Vessels that go from thence according to the Eighth Article abovesaid TO the Most Serene Most Illustrious Most Mighty Most Noble Honourable and Prudent Lords Emperors Kings Commonwealths Princes Dukes Comtes Barons Lords Burgomasters Sheriffs Counsellors Judges Officers Justices and Regents of all Cities and Places as well Ecclesiastical as Secular who shall see or read these Presents We Burgomastersand Governors of the City of _____ do certifie That _____ Ship-Master appearing before Us hath declared by solemn Oath that the Ship called _____ containing about _____ Lasts of which he is at present the Master belongeth to Inhabitants of the Vnited Provinces So help him God And as we would willingly see the said Ship-Master assisted in his just Affairs We do request you and every of you where the abovesaid Master shall arrive with his Ship and Goods that you will please to receive him courteously and use him kindly admitting him upon paying the usual Dues Tolls and other Customs to enter into remain in and pass from your Ports Rivers and Territories and there to Trade Deal and Negotiate in any Part or Place in such sort and manner as he shall desire Which we shall most readily acknowledge in the like occasion In witness whereof We have caused the Seal of Our City to be thereunto put In Witness and Confirmation of all and every part whereof We the Commissioners of His said Majesty the King of Great Britain and of the said Lords the States General having sufficient Power given us thereunto have Signed these Tables and Sealed them with our Seals At the Hague in Holland the 17. of Febr. in the Year One thousand six hundred sixty eight De Gellicum B. d' Asperen John de Witt Van Crommon G. Hoolck V. Vnckell Jan. Van Isselmuden L. T. Van Starckenborck A Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between His Majesty of Great Britain c. and the Most Serene Prince the Duke of Savoy Concluded at Florence the 19th day of September 1669. The Instrument of Commerce with the Duke of SAVOY THe convenient Situation of the Port of Villa Franca in the Mediterranean Sea and the Capacity of the same together with the Security of it in all respects have been efficacious Motives to His Most Serene Highness the Duke of Savoy for the Exhibiting and Pronouncing the same Free to the whole World with a Belief that it might in time prove advantageous to the Publick and to His Royal Highness in particular But it so falling out that the vigour of things which are established by the best Counsel in process of time are rendred languid and subject to mutation It has therefore pleased His Royal Highness not only to reconfirm the Free State and Condition of his Port But over and above to offer the same to His Majesty of Great Britain c. encreased with new Priviledges and augmented with inviolable Capitulations To these Motives a most valid and reciprocal Inducement joyns it self To wit the Luxuriant Fertility of Soil which is obvious in the Kingdoms and other Plantations which are under the Dominion of His Majesty of Great Britain c. As also in the Dominions of His said Royal Highness which superfluity since it is so properly and naturally transmitted and emptied into the mutual Territories with the reciprocal fruit and advantage of the Subject 'T was easie for both Princes between whom there passed long since the Tyes of an Ancient Friendship confirmed by repeated Alliances and by late conjunction in Bloud to entertain thoughts of superadding the new Tye of mutual Commerce by which they might upon the score of advantaging their Subjects further Oblige and reciprocally Engage themselves to each other To this end and purpose it has pleased His Most Excellent Majesty by His Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England to constitute Sir John Finch Knight now Resident for His Majesty of Great Britain with the Great Duke of Tuscany His true and lawful Attorney with a Plenipotentiary Power as appears out of the Letters Patents themselves And to the same intent and purpose His Royal Highness has thought good to invest with the same Power and Authority Signor Joseph Maurice Philippone His Counsellor Auditor and Procurator General of His Revenue As is likewise apparent from the Letters Patents of His Royal Highness Both which Plenipotentiaries after several Meetings have finally Concluded as follows ARTICLES COVENANTED I. FIrst The Peace Confirmed Since Commerce was always the Companion of Peace That Peace which for many Years was never interrupted by War is now Ratified Established and Confirmed between the Most Potent Monarch CHARLES the Second King of Great Britain c. and His Royal Highness CHARLES EMANVEL the Second of that Name Duke of Savoy c. Both whose Subjects are obliged as well by Sea as Land upon all occasions to perform to each other all Actions of mutual Civility and Kindness II. Secondly It shall be permitted to English to Import freely all sorts of Goods and Land them without Confiscation or Imposition and lawful for all sorts and kinds of Ships and Vessels belonging to his Majesty the King of Great Britain c. or any of his Subjects to conduct and bring into the Ports of Villa Franca Nizza or S. Hospitio all things whatsoever or all kinds of Merchandise whether produced by Nature or made by Art in any part of the World All which things or Merchandise so brought shall freely and lawfully by the Captains or Masters or any
the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. And the Most Serene and Potent Prince Christian the Fifth by the Grace of God King of Denmark Norway c. Concluded at Copenhagen the 11th day of July 1670. I. THat there be between the two Kings their Heirs and Successors As also their Kingdoms Principalities Provinces Estates Counties Islands Cities Subjects and Vassals of what Condition Dignity and Degree soever by Land and Sea in Rivers Fresh-waters and all Places whatsoever as well in Europe as out of Europe now and for the time to come a sincere A perfect Peace and Friendship true and perfect Friendship Peace and Confederation So as that neither Party do any Wrong Injury or Prejudice to the Kingdoms Principalities Provinces and Estates or to the Inhabitants and Subjects of the other nor suffer any to be done by others as much as in him is But rather live as Friends together using each other with Good-will and Respect And promoting upon all Occasions the Interests and Advantages of each other and their Subjects as if they were their own And preventing and hindring with all their power by their Assistance and Advice any Damage Wrong and Injury that may be offered them II. Neither of the foresaid Kings and their Heirs shall consent to any thing that may be to the Prejudice or Detriment of his Allie Not to consent to any thing prejudicial to each other but if either of the Kings shall know that any thing is Proposed or is in Agitation or Contrivance or that will be Proposed Agitated or Contrived which may tend to the Detriment of the other He shall be obliged to signifie the same unto him without delay and in the mean time to hinder and prevent it by all ways possible III. The foresaid Kings for themselves Not to Assist each others Enemies if Aggressors their Heirs and Successors mutually do undertake and promise That they will not aid or furnish the Enemies of either Party that shall be Aggressors with any Provisions of War as Souldiers Arms Engines Guns Ships or other Necessaries for the use of War or suffer any to be furnished by their Subjects But if the Subjects of either Prince shall presume to act contrary hereunto then that King whose Subjects shall have so done shall be obliged to proceed against them with the highest severity as against Seditious persons and Breakers of the League IV. It is further Covenanted and Agreed To Assist Denmark if Invaded That if at any time hereafter any Prince or State shall Invade or by any Hostile way Attempt upon the Hereditary Kingdoms Provinces Counties Towns Islands Territories or Dominions of the King of Denmark which he now possesseth then the King of Great Britain shall Assist the said King of Denmark in time with such number of Land Forces and Ships of War against such Aggressor as shall suffice to repell the Force and as the State of the said Kings Affairs shall require Each Party to be comprehended in any Treaty made with others And the said King of Great Britain shall therefore with all his Power endeavour to hinder that by such Invasion or Disturbance the King of Denmark be not prejudiced in any wise in his Kingdoms Dominions or Rights And if the said King of Great Britain or the said King of Denmark shall Contract or make any League Alliance or Union with any other King Prince Commonwealth or State they shall respectively endeavour to comprehend therein each other and their Dominions as much as in them lies if they shall desire to be comprehended V. It shall be lawful for the Subjects of both Kings with their Commodities and Merchandise both by Sea and Land Freedom of Trade in time of Peace without Licence or Safe-Conduct general or special to come to the Kingdoms Provinces Mart-Towns Ports and Rivers of each other and in any Place therein to remain and Trade paying usual Customs and Duties Reserving nevertheless to either Prince his Superiority and Regal Jurisdiction in his Kingdoms Provinces Principalities and Territories respectively VI. It is notwithstanding Covenanted and Concluded English not to come to Prohibited Ports but by Licence or stress of Weather That the Subjects of the King of Great Britain shall in no wise come to the Prohibited Ports of which mention is made in precedent Treaties nor Colonies without the special Licence of the King of Denmark first desired and obtained unless they shall be compelled to make thither and enter therein by stress of Weather or pursuit of Pirates in which case neither shall it be lawful for them to buy or sell Nor the Danes to any of the Plantations As also in like manner the Subjects of the King of Denmark shall not come to the British Colonies unless by special Licence of the King of Great Britain first desired and obtained VII It shall be lawful for the Subjects of the Most Serene King of Denmark to bring into their own Stores and Warehouses in England Danes to bring in all things of their own Growth or Manufacture into England Scotland or Ireland and such as come from the Elbe Scotland and Ireland and other the Ports of the King of Great Britain in Europe such Commodities as now or hereafter shall be of the Growth and Production of the Estates Countries and Dominions subject to the King of Denmark or of the Manufacture thereof and likewise such as come from any part of the River of Elbe In like manner shall it be lawful for the Subjects of the King of Great Britain to Import and bring into Denmark The like liberty to the English in the King of Denmark's Dominions except Ports Prohibited Norway and all other Ports and Colonies not prohibited of the King of Denmark all kinds of Merchandise which now or hereafter shall be produced or made in the Kingdoms Countries and Estates under the Subjection of the King of Great Britain In case any Strangers have hereafter liberty to bring all sorts of Goods into Prohibited Ports both Parties respectively to have the same Priviledge But if at any time hereafter it be permitted to any Foreign Nations to bring all kinds of Commodities without exception into England Scotland and Ireland and other the Ports belonging to the King of Great Britain then the same also shall be lawful for the Subjects of the King of Denmark Which in like manner shall be permitted to the Subjects of the King of Great Britain upon the like occasion in the Prohibited Ports and Colonies of the King of Denmark VIII It is also Covenanted and Agreed The English to pay no greater Duries then other Strangers except the Swedes That the People and Subjects of the King of Great Britain Sailing to any the Hereditary Kingdoms Countries or Dominions of the King of Denmark or Trading in the same shall pay no more or greater Customs Tribute Toll
or other Duties nor in any other manner then the People of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries and other Strangers the Swede only excepted Trading thither and paying lesser Customs do or shall pay And in going returning and staying as also in Fishing and Trading and all other things shall enjoy the same Liberties Immunities and Priviledges which the People of any Foreign Country in the said Kingdoms and Dominions of the King of Denmark abiding and Trading do or shall enjoy And so on the other side Danes to pay no greater Custom in England then any other Strangers the People and Subjects of the King of Denmark shall have and enjoy the same Priviledges in the Countries and Territories of the King of Great Britain to wit That the People and Subjects of the King of Denmark Sailing to any the Kingdoms Countries or Dominions of the King of Great Britain or Trading in the same shall not pay any more or greater Customs Tributes Toll or other Duties nor in any other manner then the People of the Vnited Netherlands or other Strangers Trading thither and paying lesser Customs do or shall pay And in going returning and staying as also in Fishing and Trading and all other things shall enjoy the same Liberties Immunities and Priviledges which the People of any other Foreign Country in the said Kingdoms and Dominions of the King of Great Britain Abiding and Trading do or shall enjoy But so as that the Power of each King of Making or Altering Customs or other Duties as they shall see occasion in their respective Kingdoms Countries Dominions and Ports remain full and entire Provided the foresaid equality be strictly observed on both Sides in manner aforesaid IX It is also Covenanted Leave to bring all Goods into their proper Storehouses respectively That when the Subjects of either King have Imported their Commodities into the Dominions of the other have paid the usual Customs for them and undergone their Search it shall be free and lawful for them to bring their said Commodities into their own proper Storehouses and Cellars or into Places which they shall think most fit and convenient and there Store them Nor shall any Magistrate or Officer of any the Cities or Ports of either impose upon them any Cellars or Storehouses without their consent X. The Subjects of either Crown Trading upon the Seas Neither Party obliged to come into any Port where he is nor bound nor being forced in obliged to unlade or sell any part of his Goods and Sailing by the Coasts of either Kingdom shall not be obliged to come into any Port if their Course were not directed thither but shall have liberty to pursue their Voyage without hinderance or detention whithersoever they please Nor shall they being by Tempest forced into Port and there remaining be obliged to unlade their Cargo or to barter or sell any part thereof But it shall be lawful for them to dispose of it as they shall think fit and to do any other thing which they shall judge most for their advantage Provided nothing be done that may be to the defrauding of either Prince of his due Rights and Customs XI It is also Agreed That after any Planks Masts Concerning Timber prohibited to be Laden on Board any English Ship and other sorts of Timber have been once put on Board the Ships of the Subjects or People of the King of Great Britain they shall not be liable to any further Search But all Search or Scrutiny shall be made before And if then either Oaken or other prohibited Timber be found it shall be presently stopped and detained upon the Place before it be put on Board the Ships Nor shall the People of the said King of Great Britain or his Subjects be therefore molested in their Persons or Estates by Arrest or other Detention whatsoever But only the Subjects of the King of Denmark who shall have presumed to Sell or Alienate any the like prohibited Timber shall be punished in due manner And the People and Subjects of the King of Great Britain shall have possess and enjoy all and singular the Contents and Concessions of this Article without any Molestation or Interruption so long and for all such time as the Subjects or any of the People of the Vnited Netherlands shall hold possess and enjoy or might or ought to hold possess and enjoy the same or like Priviledges by any Treaty already made or to be made or by any Contract Agreement or Permission XII It is also Concluded and Agreed That all Ships belonging to the Subjects of the King of Great Britain English Ships passing the Sound to have the Benefit of deferring the Payment of their Custom till their return and Merchants in their Passage through the Sound under the Most Serene King of Denmark and Norway c. shall enjoy after the same manner the Benefit and Priviledge of deferring the Payment of their Customs until their return as they held and enjoyed in former years last preceding the late War But so nevertheless that the said Ships and Merchants bring with them Certificates under the Seal of the Officers of the said King of Great Britain deputed thereunto testifying the said Ships to belong to Subjects of the King of Great Britain And likewise that before their Passage they give sufficient and good Security for paying the same in Place convenient to the Collectors of the Customs of the said King of Denmark at their return or if they shall not return within Three Months time at the farthest if they do not pay the same at their said first Passage XIII And furthermore it is Agreed Goods Landed at Elsineure to be Transported elsewhere to pay no Duties but what the Dutch pay That whatsoever Merchandise the Subjects of the King of Great Britain shall Land at Elsignore and there lay in their Storehouses to no other end then to put on Board again entire and Transport them to other Parts they shall be obliged to pay only the same Duties for such Merchandise and no more then is wont to be paid in this case by the Dutch Nation or any other Strangers Which shall be reciprocally observed to the Subjects of the King of Denmark after the same manner in England XIV Also it is Agreed That the Ships and Subjects of the King of Great Britain shall have their Dispatch at Elsignore as soon as they arrive there English Ships and Subjects to be dispatched at Elsineure without delay no Ships of what Nation soever having preference before them in this behalf Except the Inhabitants of certain Places who have anciently held a Priviledge to that purpose and still do XV. If any Subject of either Prince shall happen to die in the Dominions or Territories of the other Either Princes Subject dying in the others Dominions his Estate to be preserved c. it shall be lawful for him to dispose of his Estate both Money and Goods in any
the Hegira One thousand eighty seven 1087. L. S. Bashaw L. S. Dey L. S. Divan L. S. Admiral Articles of Peace between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands Concluded at Westminster the 9 19 day of February 1673 4. I. IT is Concluded and Agreed A firm Peace That from this Day there shall be a firm and inviolable Peace Union and Friendship betwixt his Majesty the King of Great Britain and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the Vnited Provinces and betwixt all their Subjects whether within Europe or without in all Regions and Places whatsoever II. That this good Union betwixt the abovesaid King and the said States General may the sooner take its effect it is by them Agreed and Concluded All Hostilities and Letters of Mart to cease upon the Publication of this Treaty That immediately upon the Publication of this Treaty of Peace all Actions of Hostility shall on both Sides be immediately forbid and no Commission Instruction or Order privately or publickly directly or indirectly be on either Side given or countenanced for the Infesting Attaquing Fighting or Spoiling of each other their Dominions or Subjects but on the contrary all peaceable and amicable Comportments enjoyned to the Subjects of both Nations III. But in respect the Distances of Places are so different that the Orders and Commands of the respective Sovereigns cannot at the same time reach all their Subjects it hath been thought fit to appoint these following Limits for the committing any Acts of Hostility or Force upon each other When Hostilities shall cease in the several Parts of the World viz. That after the expiration of Twelve days next following the Publication of this Treaty no Hostility shall be acted from the Soundings to the Naz in Norway nor after the term of Six weeks betwixt the Soundings and Tangier nor after the term of Ten weeks betwixt the said Tangier and the Aequator neither in the Ocean Mediterranean or elsewhere nor after the term of Eight months in any part of the World And whatsoever Actions of Hostility and Force shall be committed after the expiration of the aforesaid terms upon colour of whatsoever former Commission Letters of Mart or the like shall be deemed as Illegal and the Actors obliged to make Reparation and Satisfaction and punished as Violators of the Publick Peace IV. That the aforesaid States General of the Vnited Provinces Article for Striking in due acknowledgment on their part of the King of Great Britain's Right to have his Flag respected in the Seas hereafter mentioned shall and do Declare and Agree That whatever Ships or Vessels belonging to the said Vnited Provinces whether Vessels of War or others or whether single or in Fleets shall meet in any of the Seas from Cape Finisterre to the Middle Point of the Land Van Staten in Norway with any Ships or Vessels belonging to his Majesty of Great Britain whether those Ships be single or in greater number if they carry his Majesty of Great Britain's Flag or Jack the aforesaid Dutch Vessels or Ships shall strike their Flag and lower their Top-sail in the same manner and with as much Respect as hath at any Time or in any Place been formerly practised towards any Ships of his Majesty of Great Britain or his Predecessors by any Ships of the States General or their Predecessors V. Whereas the Colony of Surinam Concerning Surinam and the Articles made upon the Surrender thereof 1667 betwixt William Biam then Governor thereof for his Majesty of Great Britain and Abraham Quirini Commander for the States General have in the Execution of them administred much occasion of Dispute and contributed much to the late Misunderstanding betwixt his Majesty and the said States General The Articles made by Colonel Biam to stand good to remove all Grounds of future Mistakes the said States General do by these Agree and Covenant with the said King of Great Britain That not only the fore-named Articles shall be Executed without any manner of Tergiversation or Equivocation but that likewise it shall be free for his Majesty to Depute one or more Persons thither English at Surinam to be permitted to leave the Place and bring away their Estates to see the Condition of his Subjects there and to adjust with them a Time for their Departure And that it shall be lawful for his Majesty to send one two or three Ships at one time and thereon to Embarque and carry away the said Subjects their Goods and Slaves And that the then Governor there for the States General shall not make or execute any Law whereby the buying or selling of Land paying of Debts or commutation of Goods shall be otherwise qualified to the English then it hath or shall be to all other Inhabitants of the Colony but that during their stay they shall enjoy the same Laws and Priviledges of suing for Debts and paying their Debts making Bargains and Contracts as hath been usually practised amongst the other Inhabitants And that whensoever his Majesty of Great Britain shall desire of the States General sufficient and authentique Letters to the Governor of the said Colony to suffer the said English to depart and permit the coming of the said Ships the said States General shall within the space of fifteen days after such Demand deliver unto whomsoever Deputed by his Majesty of Great Britain for that purpose full and sufficient Letters and Instructions to their Governor there for permitting the arrival of the Ships as well as the Embarquing of such of his Majesties Subjects as shall declare themselves willing to go away with their Goods and Slaves to be Transported where his Majesty shall direct VI. It is Agreed and Concluded Concerning the restitution of Places That whatever Country Island Town Haven Castle or Fortress hath been or shall be taken by either Party from the other since the beginning of the late unhappy War whether in Europe or elsewhere and before the expiration of the Times above limited for Hostility shall be restored to the former Owner in the same Condition it shall be in at the time of the publishing this Peace after which time there shall be no Plundering of the Inhabitants or demolishing of the Fortifications or carrying away the Artillery and Ammunition belonging to any Fort or Castle at the time of its having been taken VII That the Treaty of Breda made in the Year 1667 All preceding Treaties to continue in force as all other former Treaties Confirmed by the said Treaty be Renewed and remain in their full force and vigour so far forth as they contradict nothing in this present Treaty VIII That the Marine Treaty made at the Hague between the two Parties in the Year 1668 Marine Treaty of 1668
to continue in force for Nine months and the Consideration of a new one to be referred to Commissioners be continued for Nine months after the Publication of this present Treaty unless it shall be otherwise Agreed on by a subsequent Treaty and that in the mean time the Consideration of a new one be referred to the same Commissioners to whom the Trade in the East-Indies is referred in the subsequent Article But if such Commissioners within Three months after their first meeting shall not agree upon a new Marine Treaty In case the Commissioners shall not Agree within three months it shall be left to the Arbitration of Spain then that Matter shall also be referred to the Arbitration of the Most Serene Queen Regent of Spain in the same manner as the Regulation of the East-India Trade is referred to her Majesty in the said Article next following IX In respect that upon the mutual free Concerning a Regulation of Commerce in the East-Indies and undisturbed enjoyment of Trade and Navigation not onely the Wealth but the Peace likewise of both Nations is most highly concerned there ought nothing to be so much the care of both Parties as a just Regulation of Trade and particularly in the East-Indies and yet in respect that the weightiness of the Matter requireth much time to make firm and durable Articles to the Content and Security of the Subject on both Sides and on the other side the bleeding Condition of most part of Europe as well as of the two Parties concerned earnestly demand a speedy Conclusion of this Treaty the King of Great Britain is pleased to condescend to the Desires of the States General to have the Consideration of the same referred to an equal number of Commissioners to be nominated by each Party the said States General Engaging themselves to send those of their nomination to Treat at London with those to be nominated by his Majesty Commissioners to be sent to London to Treat about the same and this within the space of Three months after the Publication of this Treaty The number to be nominated by each to consist of six Persons And in case that after Three months from the time of their first Assembling they shall not have the good success to conclude a Treaty the Points in difference betwixt them shall be referred to the Arbitrement of the Most Serene Queen Regent of Spain who shall nominate eleven Commissioners and whatsoever the major part of them shall determine as to the remaining Differences shall oblige both Parties Provided still that they deliver their Judgment within the space of Six months from the day of their Assembling which shall likewise be within the space of Three months after the said Most Serene Queen Regent of Spain hath accepted of the being Umpire X. That whereas the Most Serene Queen Regent of Spain hath given Assurance to his Majesty of Great Britain 800000 Patacoons to be paid to his Majesty That the said States General should upon the making of the Peace pay unto his said Majesty the King of Great Britain the Sum of 800000 Patacoons The said States General do Promise and Covenant to pay the said 800000 Patacoons in this following manner viz. A fourth part as soon as the Ratification of this Treaty shall be mutually Exhibited and the rest the three ensuing Years by equal Portions XI The aforesaid Most Serene King of Great Britain and the said High and Mighty States General of the Vnited Provinces shall observe sincerely and bona fide all and singular the Matters Agreed and Concluded in this present Treaty and cause the same to be observed by their Subjects and Inhabitants nor shall they directly or indirectly violate any of them or suffer them to be violated by their Subjects or Inhabitants About the Ratification And they shall Ratifie and Confirm all and every thing as before Agreed by Letters Patents Subscribed with their Hands and Sealed with their Great Seals conceived and written in sufficient valid and effectual Form and shall deliver or cause the same to be delivered reciprocally within Four weeks after the Date of these Presents or sooner if it may be bona fide really and with effect XII Lastly And Publication Assoon as the said Ratifications shall have been duly and mutually Exhibited and Exchanged the Peace shall be Proclaimed at the Hague within Four and twenty hours after the Delivery and Exchange there made of the said Ratifications Done at Westminster the 9 19 day of February 1673 4. A Treaty Marine between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands to be observed throughout all and every the Countries and Parts of the World by Sea and Land Concluded at London the First day of December 1674. S.V. Article I. THat it shall and may be lawful for all and every the Subjects of the Most Serene and Mighty Prince English to Trade freely to all Places in Amity or Neutrality with the States the King of Great Britain aforesaid with all freedom and safety to Sail Trade and Exercise any manner of Traffick in all those Kingdoms Countries and Estates which are or at any time hereafter shall be in Peace Amity or Neutrality with his said Majesty So that they shall not be any ways hindred or molested in their Navigation or Trade by the Military Forces nor by the Ships of War or any other kind of Vessels whatsoever belonging either to the High and Mighty States General of the Vnited Netherlands or to their Subjects upon occasion or pretence of any Hostility or Difference which now is or shall hereafter happen between the said Lords the States General and any Princes or People whatsoever in Peace Amity or Neutrality with his said Majesty And likewise that it shall and may be lawful for all and every the Subjects of the said High and Mighty Lords the States General of the Vnited Netherlands Dutch to Trade freely to all Places in Amity or Neutrality with England with all freedom and safety to Sail Trade and Exercise any manner of Traffick in all those Kingdoms Countries and Estates which are or at any time hereafter shall be in Peace Amity or Neutrality with the aforesaid Lords the States So that they shall not be any ways hindred or molested in their Navigation or Trade by the Military Forces not by the Ships of War or any other kind of Vessels whatsoever belonging either to the Most Serene and Mighty King above mentioned or to his Subjects upon occasion or pretence of any Hostility or Difference which now is or shall hereafter happen between his said Majesty and any Princes or People whatsoever in Peace Amity or Neutrality with the said Lords the States II. Nor shall this freedom of Navigation and Commerce be infringed by
General shall complain of the unjustness of Sentences the said States will cause a Review and Examination thereof to be made in the Assembly of the States General that it may appear whether the Orders and Precautions prescribed in this Treaty have been observed and have had their due Effect and they will likewise take care that the same be fully provided for Goods not to be sold before Sentence or during the Review and that Right be done to the Party complaining within the space of Three months Nevertheless it shall not any ways be lawful to Sell or Unlade the Goods in Controversie either before the Sentence given or after it during the Review thereof on either Side unless it be with the consent of the Parties interessed XIII A Suit being Commensed between the Takers of Prizes on the one Part Sentence in case of Prizes being given for the Reclaimer shall be put in Execution notwithstanding the Appeal and the Claimers thereof on the other and a Sentence or Decree being given for the Party Reclaiming the said Sentence or Decree upon Security given shall be put in Execution notwithstanding the Appeal made by him that took the Prize which shall not be observed in case the Sentence shall be given against the Claimers XIV And whereas the Masters of Merchants Ships No Master or Mariner of a Ship taken to be used cruelly or tortured and likewise the Mariners and Passengers do sometime suffer many Cruelties and barbarous Usages when they are brought under the power of Ships which take Prizes in time of War the Takers in an inhumane manner Tormenting them thereby to extort from them such Confessions as they would have to be made It is Agreed That both his Majesty and the Lords the States General shall by the severest Proclamations or Placaets forbid all such hainous and inhumane Offences and as many as they shall by lawful Proofs find guilty of such Acts they shall take care that they be punished with due and just Punishments and which may be a Terror to others And shall Command that all the Captains and Officers of Ships who shall be proved to have committed such hainous Practises either themselves or by instigating others to act the same or by conniving while they were done shall besides other Punishments to be inflicted proportionably to their Offences be forthwith deprived of their Offices respectively If they have been Tortured the Ship and Lading shall be free And every Ship brought up as Prize whose Mariners or Passengers shall have suffered any Torture shall forthwith be dismissed and freed with all her Lading from all further Examination and Proceedings against her as well Judicial as otherwise XV. It is also Agreed Neither Parties Subjects to take Commissions from a third Party That the like severity of Punishments shall be inflicted upon those who contrary to the meaning of the One and twentieth Article of the Treaty of Peace Concluded at Breda shall take Commissions from Enemies to seise the Ships of either Allie or Party contrary to what is Provided in the said Article XVI Lastly To be Ratified within Two months It is Agreed and Concluded That this present Treaty and all and singular the things therein contained shall be with all convenient speed on both Sides Ratified and Confirmed and that the Ratifications thereof shall be within Two months from the Date hereof rightly and reciprocally Exchanged between both Parties And Copies to be sent to all Colonies c. And also that the said Treaty shall within One month after such Exchanging of the Ratifications be delivered in due and authentique Form to the Governors of the English East-India and Africa Companies and to the Directors of the Dutch East and West-India Companies and shall with the first Conveniency be also sent by his said Majesty and by the said Lords the States to their respective Governors and Commanders in Chief of their Colonies and Plantations in every Part of the World out of Europe to the end that it may be by them and all others within their Domions and under their Power punctually observed and fulfilled The Form of the Passport or Sea-brief to be asked of and given by the Lord High Admiral or by those to whom the Exercise of Admiralty-Jurisdiction is ordinarily committed or by the Mayor or other chief Magistrate or by the Commissioners or other principal Officers of the Customs in their respective Ports and Places within His Majesties Dominions to the Ships and Vessels Sailing out thence according to the Purport of the Fifth Article TO all unto whom these Presents shall come Greeting We _____ Lord High Admiral of _____ We _____ Lords Commissioners Executing the Office of the Lord High Admiral of _____ or We _____ Judge of the High Court of the Admiralty of _____ _____ or We _____ the Mayor or other Magistrate of _____ or We _____ Commissioners or principal Officers of the Customs in the City or Port of _____ Do Testifie and make known That _____ Master or Commander of the Ship called the _____ _____ hath appeared before Us and hath declared by solemn Oath That the said Ship or Vessel containing about _____ Tons of which he is at present Master or Commander doth belong to the Inhabitants of _____ within the Dominions of the Most Serene and Mighty Prince the King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. So help him God And in regard it would be most acceptable to Us that the said Master or Commander be assisted in his just and lawful Affairs We do request you and every of you wheresoever the said Master or Commander shall arrive with his Ship and the Goods Laden on Board and carried in her that you would please to receive him courteously and use him kindly and admit him upon paying the lawful and usual Customs and other Duties to enter into remain in and pass from your Ports Rivers and Dominions and there to enjoy all kind of Right of Navigation Traffick and Commerce in all Places where he shall think fit Which We shall most willingly and readily acknowledge upon all Occasions In Testimony and Confirmation whereof We have with Our Hand Signed these Presents and caused them to be Sealed with Our Seal Dated at _____ _____ in _____ the _____ day of _____ in the Year of our Lord _____ The Form of the Passport or Sea-brief to be asked of and given by the Burgermasters of the Cities and Ports of the United Netherlands to the Ships or Vessels Sailing from thence according to the Purport of the Fifth Article TO the most Serene most Illustrious most Mighty most Noble most Honorable and most Prudent Emperors Kings Governors of Commonweâ—lths Princes Dukes Earls Barons Lords Burgermasters Schepens Counsellors Judges Officers Justices and Rulers of all Cities and Places as well Ecclesiastical as Secular to whom these Presents shall be shewn We the Burgermasters and Rulers of the City of _____ do
Certifie That _____ Master or Skipper of the Ship _____ appeared before Us and declared by solemn Oath That the said Ship called the _____ containing about _____ Lasts of which he is at present Master or Skipper belongeth to the Inhabitants of the Vnited Netherlands So help him God And in regard it would be most acceptable to Us that the said Master or Skipper be assisted in his just and lawful Affairs We do request you and every of you wheresoever the said Master or Skipper shall arrive with his Ship and the Goods Laden on Board and carried in her that you would please to receive him courteously and use him kindly and admit him upon paying the lawful and usual Customs and other Duties to enter into remain in and pass from your Ports Rivers and Dominions and there to enjoy all kind of Right of Navigation Traffick and Commerce in all Places where he shall think fit Which We shall most willingly and readily acknowledge upon all Occasions In Testimony and Confirmation whereof We have caused the Seal of Our City to be hereunto put Dated at _____ in _____ the _____ day of _____ in the Year of our Lord _____ In Testimony and Confirmation of all and singular the Premisses We the Commissioners of his Majesty and the Lords the States General aforesaid being sufficiently Impowered thereunto have to these Presents Subscribed Our Names and Sealed them with Our Seals At London the First day of December 1674. Tho. Culpeper G. Downing Richard Ford Will. Thomson John Jollife John Buckworth J. Corver G. Sautyn Samuel Beyer And. Van Vossen P. Duvelaer M. Michielzen Explanatory Declaration upon certain Articles of the Marine Treaties Concluded between His Majesty and the States General of the Vnited Provinces Febr. 17. 1667 8 and Decemb. 1. 1674. WHereas some Difficulty hath arisen concerning the Interpretation of certain Articles as well in the Treaty Marine which was Concluded the First day of December 1674 as in that which was Concluded the 17th of Febuary 1667 8 between his Majesty of Great Britain on the one Part and the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries on the other relating to the Liberty of their respective Subjects to Trade unto the Ports of each others Enemies We Sir William Temple Baronet Ambassador Extraordinary from his said Majesty of Great Britain in the Name and on the Part of his said Majesty and We William Van Heuckelom Daniel Van Wyngaerden Lord of Werckendam Gaspar Fagel Counsellor and Pentioner of Holland and West-Friesland John de Mauregnault John Baron of Reede and Renswoude William de Haren Gretman of the Bilt Henry Ter Borgh and Luke Alting Deputies in the Assembly of the said States General for the States of Guelderland Holland Zealand Vtrecht Friesland Overissell Groningen and the Omlands in the Name and on the Part of the said States General have Declared as We do by these Presents Declare That the true Meaning and Intention of the said Articles is and ought to be That Ships and Vessels belonging to the Subjects of either of the Parties can and might from the Time that the said Articles were Concluded not only Pass Traffick and Trade from a Neutral Port or Place to a Place in Enmity with the other Party or from a Place in Enmity to a Neutral Place But also from a Port or Place in Enmity to a Port or Place in Enmity with the other Party whether the said Places belong to one and the same Prince or State or to several Princes or States with whom the other Party is in War And We declare That this is the true and genuine Sence and Meaning of the said Articles pursuant whereunto We understand That the said Articles are to be observed and executed on all occasions on the Part of his said Majesty and the said States General and their respective Subjects Yet so that this Declaration shall not be alledged by either Party for Matters which happened before the Conclusion of the late Peace in the Month of February 1673 4. And We do promise That the said Declaration shall be Ratified by his said Majesty and by the said States General and that within Two months or sooner if possible reckoning from the day and date of this Declaration the Ratifications of the same shall be brought hither to the Hague to be here Exchanged In witness whereof We have Signed these Presents at the Hague this 30th day of December 1675. L.S. W. Temple L.S. W. Van Heuckelom L.S. D. Van Wyngaerden L.S. Gasp Fagel L.S. Jo. Mauregnault L.S. John Baron van Reede vry Heer van Renswoude L.S. W. Haren L.S. H. Ter. Borgh L.S. L. Alting Capitulations and Articles of Peace between the Majesty of the King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as they have been Augmented and Altered in the Times of several Ambassadors ACcording to my Imperial Command let it be observed and let no Act be permitted contrary hereunto MAHOMET THE Command of this Sublime and Lofty Imperial Signature preserved and exalted by Divine Providence whose Triumph and Glory is renowned through all the World By the Favour of the Nourisher of all things and Mercy and Grace of the Merciful I that am the powerful Lord of Lords of the World whose Name is formidable upon Earth giver of all Crowns of the Universe Sultan Mahomet Han Son of Sultan Ibrahim Han Son of Sultan Ahmet Han Son of Sultan Mahomet Han Son of Sultan Murat Han Son of Sultan Selim Han Son of Sultan Soliman Han Son of Sultan Selim Han. To the Glorious amongst the great Princes of Jesus reverenced by the high Potentates of the People of the Messiah sole Director of the important Affairs of the Nazarene Nation Lord of the Limits of Decency and Honour of Greatness and Fame Charles the Second King of England and Scotland that is of Great Britain France and Ireland whose End and Enterprises may the Omnipotent God conclude with Bliss and Favour with the Illumination of his holy Will In Times past the Queen of the aforesaid Kingdoms sent divers of her esteemed Gentlemen and Persons of Quality with Letters and Ships to this Imperial High Port the Refuge of the Princes of the World and the Retreat of the Kings of the whole Universe in the happy Times of famous memory of my Ancestors now placed in Paradise whose Souls be replenished with Divine Mercy which Gentlemen and Presents were gratefully accepted making Declaration and offering in the Name of the said Queen an entire good Peace and pure Friendship and demanding that their Subjects might have leave to come from England into our Ports Our said Ancestors of happy memory did then grant their Imperial License and gave into the hands of the English Nation divers especial and Imperial Commands to the end that they might safely and securely come and go into these Dominions and in coming or returning either by Land or Sea in their Way and Passage
who of their own will elected to Trade under the Banner and Protection of the Ambassador and Consul of the King of England And whilst in all Scales and Ports in these Parts they had refuge to the Banner and Protection of the English Consuls It seemeth that the French Ambassador by some means having a new gotten into their Capitulations that the said Merchant-Strangers should come under their Banner did endeavour to force them in all Scales to their Protection for which cause the Controversie was again renewed and referred to our Divan or Great Council which after a due Examination and a new Election permitted to the will and choice of the said Merchants they again did desire to be under the Protection of the Ambassador of the King of England notwithstanding it being made known to the Imperial Port that as yet the French Ambassador did not desire to molest the said Merchants nor to force them under his Protection the first Article written in the French Capitulations that the Merchant-Strangers should come under their Protection was by the Imperial Command made void and annulled And to the end that according to the ancient Custom of the said Merchant-Strangers they should always come under the Banner and Protection of the Ambassador or Consuls of England and that never hereafter they should be vexed or troubled by the French Ambassador in this Point the said Ambassadors of his Majesty of England having desired that this Particular should be written and Enrolled in this new Imperial Capitulation this present Article was accordingly Inserted and by the Imperial Authority it is Commanded That for ever in time to come Merchants of the said Princes in the mentioned Form and according to this Imperial Command in their hand shall always be under the Banner and Protection of the Ambassador and Consuls of England XXXIV There shall never be permitted or granted any Imperial Commands contrary to the Tenor and Articles of this Imperial Command or Capitulation No Imperial Command contrary to these Articles to be granted nor in prejudice of this our Peace and Amity but in such occasion the cause shall first be certified to the Ambassador of England Residing at the Port to the end that he may answer and object any scandalous Action or other Pretence which might infringe the Peace and League XXXV The English Merchants of all the Merchandise which they shall bring or Transport in their Ships For enforcing Consulage having paid the Custom they shall also pay the Right of Consulage to the English Ambassador or Consul XXXVI The English Merchants Permission to Trade in all Parts of the Turks Dominions and all under their Banner shall and may safely throughout our Dominion Trade Buy Sell except only Commodities prohibited all sorts of Merchandise likewise either by Land or Sea they may go and Traffick or by the way of the River Tanais in Moscovia or by Russia and from thence may bring their Merchandize into our Empire also to and from Persia they may go and Trade and through all that part newly may go and Trade and through those Confines without the impediment or molestation of any of our Ministers and they shall pay the Custom and other Duties of that Country and nothing more XXXVII The English Merchants Three per Cent. Custom and all under their Banner shall and may safely and freely Trade and Negotiate in Aleppo Cairo Scio Smyrna and in all Parts of our Dominions and according to our ancient Customs of all their Merchandize they shall pay Three in the Hundred for Custom and nothing more XXXVIII The English Ships which shall come to this our City of Constantinople Vessels forced by Weather if by fortune of Seas or ill Weather they shall be forced to Coffa or to such like Port as long as the English will not unlade and sell their own Merchandise and Goods no man shall enforce them nor give them any trouble or annoyance but in all Places of danger the Caddees or other of our Ministers shall always protect and defend the said English Ships Men and Goods that no damage may come unto them and with their Money may buy Victuals and other Necessaries and desiring also with their Money to hire Carts or Vessels which before were not hired by any other to Transport their Goods from Place to Place no man shall do them any hindrance or trouble whatsoever XXXIX The English Nation Goods not Landed to pay no Custom of all the Merchandise which in their Ships shall be brought to Constantinople or to any other part of our Dominions which they shall not desire of their own accord to Land or Sell of such Goods there shall not be demanded or taken any Custom at arrival at any Port and having Landed their Merchandise and paid their Customs and other Duties they may quietly and safely depart without the molestation of any man XL. In regard English Ships coming into our Dominions Idem do use oftentimes to touch in some part of Africa and there take in Pilgrims and Mahometan Passengers to Transport them to Alexandria and arriving at that Port it seemeth that the Customers and other Officers do pretend to take Custom of all Goods which are found in their Ships before the Merchants are willing to Land any by occasion of which molestation they have forborn to Transport any Pilgrims And in like manner their Ships which come to Constantinople and carry divers Merchandise to Transport part thereof to other Places the Customers and Farmers would enforce to Land and pretend to take Custom thereof Wherefore we do Command That all the English Ships which with their Merchandise shall come into this Port of Constantinople Alexandria Tripoli of Suria Scanderoon or into any Port whatsoever of our Empire according to use they shall pay only Custom of such Goods which with their own will they shall design to sell and such other Merchandise as they discharge not from their Ships willingly our Customer shall not demand nor take Custom nor other Duties but they may Transport them whithersoever they please XLI And if it shall happen that any of the said English Nation Matters of Manslaughter or any under their Banner shall commit Manslaughter Bloodshed or any other like Offence or that there shall happen any Cause appertaining to the Law or Justice until the Ambassador or Consul shall be present to Examine the Cause the Judges nor other Ministers shall not Decide nor give any Sentence but such Controversie shall always be declared in the presence of the Ambassador or Consul to the end that no man be Judged or Condemned contrary to the Law and the Capitulations XLII Whereas it is written in the Imperial Capitulations that the Goods Landed out of any English Ship which shall come into our Dominions and pay Custom ought also to pay the Duty of Consulage to the English Ambassador or Consul Foreigners Consulage to be paid it seemeth that
at liberty to prosecute their Voyage and they that pretend any thing of them let them come to the Divan for to be judged and let the Ambassador defend them from those that come to demand but if the Consul will not be Security then let the Judge of the Place give Sentence IV. In Constantinople Scanderoon Smyrna and Cyprus and all other Ports and Scales of my Empire whatsoever English Ships shall arrive they shall pay three hundred Aspers for Anchorage or Port Charges and there shall not nor ought not to be taken or paid one Asper more V. An Englishman coming with Effects and turning Mussulman the Ambassador or Consul knowing that such Effects do belong to other English Merchants let all the Money and other Effects be taken out of the hand of such a Mussulman and consigned to the Ambassador to the end that he may transmit them to whom they do belong that by this means no Goods of other men may remain in the hands of such a Mussulman and let not this be hindred by the means of any Caddi or other Judges or Ministers VI. Any of the aforesaid English Nation buying Chamblets Moehairs or Grogran-Yarn in Angora or Begbazar if they will Export the said Goods from those Places after having paid Three per cent for the Custom of such Goods they Export let them not be molested for Skraz Batch that is for Passage or Exportation and there neither shall nor ought to be taken upon the account of any such Demand one Asper VII Any English Merchant being to receive from his Debtor any Sum of Money if the said Debt be recovered by the means and help of an Assistant or Chiaus he that recovers the Debt shall pay no more than what is paid to other Caddi's which is two Aspers only and not one Asper more VIII There passing good Correspondence between Us and the King of England out of regard of this good Friendship We do grant that two Ships lading of Figs Raisins or Currants may be yearly Exported for the use of his Majesty's Kitchin if there be not a dearth and scarcity of such Fruit in the Country which we allow to be bought with their Money that Export them at the Scale of Smyrna Salonica or any other Scale or Port of our Empire paying Three per cent Custom which being paid no person shall give to them that lade them any molestation or hindrance IX It being represented to Us that the English have been accustomed hitherto to pay no Custom nor Mezan for any Silk they bought in Smyrna that of Prussia and Constantinople excepted viz. for the Silk of Giorgia Persia or Armenia if really there is any such Use and Custom and the thing is not of prejudice to the Empire let there in Smyrna for the future be demanded neither Custom nor Mezan for the said Silk but to the English Merchants let all kindness be used and shown And the Ambassador having made instance to Us that the foregoing Articles might be put into the Capitulations his Request is granted and conformable to the former Imperial Sign and Capitulation let now in conformity of what was passed and of my Imperial Command be renewed and granted this present Imperial Capitulation which We command so long as Charles the Second King of England whose end may it terminate in happiness maintains good Friendship and Correspondence with Us according to what has been maintained with our Ancestors and to which We on our Part are not wanting with all tenderness entertaining this Friendship And we do Swear and Promise by Him that has Created the Heaven and the Earth and all the Creatures by the Creator the one God We do Promise that nothing shall be done contrary to this Imperial Capitulation and accordingly every one is to obey our Imperial Sign Given in the middle of the Moon Gemaziel Akir 1086. in the Imperial City of Adrianople being in the Month of September 1675. The Grand Signor writes above with his own Hand as follows Let every thing be observed in Conformity to Our IMPERIAL COMMAND and contrary to it let nothing be done A Treaty Marine between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. and the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Lewis XIV the Most Christian King Concluded at St. Germains in Laye the Twenty fourth day of February 1676 7. Artic. I. THat it shall and may be lawful for all and every the Subjects of the Most Serene and Mighty Prince the King of Great Britain aforesaid English to have freedom of Trade to all Places in Friendship or Neutrality with England with all Freedom and Safety to Sail Trade and Exercise any manner of Traffick in all those Kingdoms Countreys and Estates which are or at any time hereafter shall be in Peace Amity or Neutrality with his said Majesty So that they shall not be any ways hindred or molested in their Navigation or Trade by the Military Forces nor by the Ships of War or any other kind of Vessels whatsoever belonging either to the Most Christian King or to his Subjects upon occasion or pretence of any Hostility or Difference which now is or shall hereafter happen between the said Most Christian King and any Princes or People whatsoever in Peace Amity or Neutrality with the said King of Great Britain The like to the French Subjects And likewise that it shall and may be lawful for all and every the Subjects of the said Most Christian King with all Freedom and Safety to Sail Trade and Exercise any manner of Traffick in all those Kingdoms Countries and Estates which are or at any time hereafter shall be in Peace Amity or Neutrality with the aforesaid Most Christian King So that they shall not be any ways hindred or molested in their Navigation or Trade by the Military Forces nor by the Ships of War or any other kind of Vessels whatsoever belonging either to the King of Great Britain above mentioned or to his Subjects upon occasion or pretence of any Hostility or Difference which now is or shall hereafter happen between his said Majesty and any Princes or People whatsoever in Peace Amity or Neutrality with the said Most Christian King II. Nor shall this Freedom of Navigation and Commerce be Infringed by occasion or cause of any War To extend to all Commodities but Contraband in any kind of Merchandises but shall extend to all Commodities which shall be carried in time of Peace those only excepted which follow in the next Article and are comprehended under the name of Contraband III. Under this name of Contraband What Goods are Contraband or prohibited Merchandises shall be comprehended only Arms Pieces of Ordnance with all Implements belonging to them Fireballs Powder Match Bullets Pikes Swords Lances Spears Halberds Guns Mortar-Pieces Petards Granadoes Musquet-Rests Bandeliers Salt-petre Musquets Musquet-Shot Helmets Corslets Breastplates Coats
Rule of Justice and Equity by Judges beyond all Suspicion and not any ways concerned in the Cause under Debate And his Majesty of Great Britain and the most Christian King will likewise give strict Orders that all Sentences already given and which shall be hereafter given be according to the Tenor thereof duly put in Execution and obtain their Effect XII And whensoever the Ambassadors or other Publick Ministers of the King of Great Britain Residing in the Court of the most Christian King shall complain of the unjustness of Sentences which have been given concerning Ships or Merchandise taken at Sea In case of Complaint against Sentences upon Prizes the French King to cause the said Sentences to be Revised in his Privy Council and belonging to the Subjects of the King of Great Britain then the said most Christian King on Demand of the said Ambassadors or Ministers of the King of Great Britain shall cause the said Sentences to be Reviewed and Examined in his Privy Council and shall Confirm or Revoke the Sentences wheresoever given And likewise the said most Christian King shall take care that Right be done to the Party complaining within the space of Four Months to be accounted from the Day of making such Demand In like manner if the Ambassadors And the King of England to appoint Commissioners to the same purpose or other Publick Ministers of the most Christian King Residing in the Court of the King of Great Britain shall complain of the unjustness of Sentences which have been given concerning Ships or Merchandise taken at Sea belonging to Subjects of the said most Christian King the said King of Great Britain shall forthwith Commissionate under his Great Seal Nine of his Privy Council to Adjudge such Matters and to Confirm or Revoke the Sentences wheresoever given and the said Commissioners shall meet within the space of One Month from the Day of deliveirng the Complaint And likewise the King of Great Britain shall take care that Right be done the Party complaining within the space of Three Months to be computed from the first Day of the meeting of the said Commissioners XIII A Suit being Commenced between the Takers of Prizes on the one Part Sentence against a Privateer to be put in Execution notwithstanding his Appeal and the Claimers thereof on the other and a Sentence or Decree being given for the Party Reclaiming the said Sentence or Decree upon Security given shall be put in Execution notwithstanding the Appeal made by him that took the Prize which shall not be observed in case the Sentence shall be given against the Claimers XIV And whereas the Masters of Merchant Ships and likewise the Mariners and Passengers do sometimes suffer many Cruelties and barbarous Usages when they are brought under the power of Ships which take Prizes in time of War the Takers in an Inhumane manner tormenting them thereby to extort from them such Confessions as they would have to be made No Master or Seamen to be Tortured it is Agreed That both his Majesty of Great Britain and the most Christian King shall by the severest Proclamations or Edicts forbid all such hainous and inhumane Offences and as many as they shall by lawful Proofs find guilty of such Acts they shall take care that they be punished with due and just Punishments and which may be a terror to others and shall command that all the Captains and Officers of Ships who shall be proved to have committed such hainous Practises either themselves or by instigating others to act the same or by conniving while they were done shall besides other Punishments to be inflicted proportionably to their Offences be forthwith deprived of their Offices respectively Upon proof of Torture the Ship to be forthwith Discharged and every Ship brought up as Prize whose Mariners or Passengers shall have suffered any Torture shall forthwith be dismissed and freed with all her Lading from all further Examination and Proceeding against her as well Judicial as otherwise XV. It is also Agreed Those that take Commissions from the Enemies of either Party against the other to be punished That the like severity of Punishments shall be inflicted upon those who shall take Commission from Enemies to Seize the Ships of either Ally or Party XVI Lastly It is Agreed and Concluded This Treaty to be Ratified in Two Months That this present Treaty and all and singular the things therein contained shall be with all convenient speed on both Sides Ratified and Confirmed and that the Ratifications thereof shall be within Two Months from the Date hereof rightly and reciprocally Exchanged between both Parties Dated at St. Germains in Laye the Twenty fourth day of February in the Year of our Lord 1677. The Form of the Passport or Sea-brief to be asked of and given by the Lord High Admiral or by those to whom the Exercise of Admiralty-Jurisdiction is ordinarily committed or by the Mayor or other chief Magistrate or by the Commissioners or other principal Officers of the Customs in their respective Ports and Places within the Dominions of the King of Great Britain to Ships and Vessels according to the Purport of the Fifth Article TO all unto whom these Presents shall come Greeting We _____ Lord High Admiral of _____ We _____ Lords Commissioners Executing the Office of the Lord High Admiral of _____ or We _____ the Mayor or other Magistrate of _____ or We _____ Commissioners or principal Officers of the Customs in the City or Port of _____ Do Testifie and make known That _____ Master or Commander of the Ship called the _____ hath appeared before Us and hath declared by solemn Oath That the said Ship or Vessel containing about _____ Tons of which he is at present Master or Commander doth belong to the Inhabitants of _____ within the Dominions of the Most Serene and Mighty Prince the King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. So help him God And in regard it would be most acceptable to Us that the said Master or Commander be assisted in his just and lawful Affairs We do request you and every of you wheresoever the said Master or Commander shall arrive with his Ship and the Goods Laden on Board and carried in her that you would please to receive him courteously and use him kindly and admit him upon paying the lawful and usual Customs and other Duties to enter into remain in and pass from your Ports Rivers and Dominions and there to enjoy all kind of Right of Navigation Traffick and Commerce in all Places where he shall think fit Which We shall most willingly and readily acknowledge upon all Occasions In Testimony and Confirmation whereof We have with Our Hand Signed these Presents and caused them to be Sealed with Our Seal Dated at _____ the _____ day of _____ in the Year of our Lord _____ And the like Form of Passport mutatis mutandis shall be used by the
Friendship The English at all times to have liberty to go away with their Estates but likewise if any Breach or War happen to be hereafter between the said King of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Algiers the said English Consul and all other his said Majesties Subjects Inhabiting in the Kingdom of Algiers shall always and at all times both of Peace and War have full and absolute liberty to depart and go to their own or any other Country upon any Ship or Vessel of what Nation soever they shall think fit and to carry with them all their Estates Goods Families and Servants without any interruption or hindrance XIX That no Subject of his said Majesty English Passenger on Board a Ship in Enmity with Algiers not to be molested and so neither an Algerine on Board a Ship in Enmity with England being a Passenger and coming or going with his Baggage from or to any Port shall be any way molested or meddled with although he be on Board any Ship or Vessel in Enmity with Algiers And in like manner no Algerine Passenger being on Board any Ship or Vessel in Enmity with the said King of Great Britain shall be any way molested whether in his Person or in his Goods which he may have Laden on Board the said Ship or Vessel XX. That at all times when any Ship of War of the King of Great Britains English Admiral to be Saluted first carrying his said Majesties Flag at the Main-Top-Mast-Head shall appear before Algiers and come to an Anchor in the Road That immediately after notice thereof given by his said Majesties Consul or Officer from the Ship unto the Dey and Government of Algiers they shall in Honour to his Majesty cause a Salute of One and twenty Cannon to be Shot off from the Castles and Forts of the City and that the said Ship shall return an Answer by Shooting off the same number of Cannon XXI That presently after the Signing and Sealing of these Articles by the Bashaw All Injuries to be forgotten and Satisfaction to be made for Damages committed afterwards Dey Aga and Gover nors of Algiers all Injuries and Damages sustained on either Part shall be quite taken away and forgotten and this Peace shall be in full force and virtue and continue for ever And for all Depredations and Damages that shall be afterwards committed or done by either Side before notice can be given of this Peace full Satisfaction shall immediately be made and whatsoever remains in kind shall be instantly restored XXII That in case it shall happen hereafter that any thing is done or committed contrary to this Treaty This Peace not to be broken in case of any Contravenâ—â—on but Satisfaction to be first demanded whether by the Subjects of the one or the other Party the Treaty notwithstanding shall subsist in full force and such Contraventions shall not occasion the Breach of this Peace Friendship and good Correspondence but the Party injured shall amicably demand immediate Satisfaction for the said Contraventions before it be lawful to break the Peace and if the Fault was committed by any private Subjects of either Party they alone shall be punished as Breakers of the Peace and Disturbers of the Publick Quiet And Our Faith shall be Our Faith and Our Word Our Word Confirmed and Sealed in the Presence of Almighty God the Tenth day of April in the Year of our Lord Jesus Christ One thousand six hundred and eighty two And in the Year of the Hegira One thousand ninety three and the Eleventh day of the Moon Abril L. S. L. S. L. S. WHereas on the Tenth day of April 1682. there was a Treaty of Peace Concluded between the Most Serene King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Christian Faith c. and the Most Illustrious Lords the Bashaw Dey Aga and Governors of the City and Kingdom of Argiers to which Treaty there was annexed a Form of Passes for the Ships belonging to the Subjects of the said King of Great Britain It is hereby Agreed and expresly Declared That the said Form annexed to the said Treaty being no part thereof the Lords High Admirals or Commissioners of the Admiralty of his said Majesties Dominions are at full liberty in giving the said Passes to use the Form of Words hereunto annexed which shall be good and sufficient to all intents and purposes Confirmed and Sealed in the Presence of Almighty God the Fifth day of March in the Year of our Lord Jesus Christ One thousand six hundred eighty and two being in the Year of the Hegira One thousand ninety four and the Seventeenth day of the Moon Moolout L. S. L. S. L. S. Form of the Pass Suffer the Ship _____ to pass with her Company Passengers Goods and Merchandises without any Let Hindrance Seizure or Molestation the said Ship appearing unto Me or Us by good Testimony to belong to the Subjects of Our Sovereign Lord the King and to no Foreigners Given under My Hand or Our Hands and the Seal of My or Our Office of Admiral at _____ the _____ day of _____ in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred eighty _____ To all Persons whom these may concern By Command of _____ Note THat the late Commission of the Admiralty of England having been determined and the Administration of the Affairs thereof and particularly that of Signing Passes taken into his Majesties own Royal Hand the Form of the forementioned Pass has received the following Alterations Viz. JAMES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all Persons whom These may concern Greeting Suffer the Ship _____ to pass with her Company Passengers Goods and Merchandises Locus Sigilli without any Let Hindrance Seizure or Molestation The said Ship appearing unto Us by good Testimony to belong to Our Subjects and to no Foreigner Given under Our Sign Manual and the Seal of Our Admiralty at Our Court at _____ _____ this _____ day of _____ In the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred Eighty JAMES R. By His Majesties Command S. Pepys FINIS