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A32167 Articles of peace & alliance between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles II, 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; Treaties, etc. England and Wales.; England and Wales. Treaties, etc. United Provinces of the Netherlands, 1667 July 31.; United Provinces of the Netherlands. Treaties, etc. England and Wales, 1667 July 31.; England and Wales. Treaties, etc. France, 1667 July 31.; England and Wales. Treaties, etc. Denmark, 1667 July 31.; Denmark. Treaties, etc. England and Wales, 1667 July 31.; United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal. 1667 (1667) Wing C2897; ESTC R13932 26,624 86

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Solemn Ratifications of this present Agreement and Alliance made in due Form shall be delivered on both sides and mutually and duly 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. FINIS ARTICLES OF PEACE ALLIANCE Between the most Serene and Mighty PRINCE CHARLES II. 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 the 21 31 day of July 1667. Published by His Majesties Command In the SAVOY Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 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 I. FIrst It is Covenanted 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 th●●●rt 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 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 dayes from the Mouth of the said Streight 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 Moneths beyond the Bounds of the aforesaid Line all over the World without any exception or further distinction of time or place all Dayes Weeks and Moneths to be computed from the Subscription of the present Agreement and the Publication of the same 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 That all Differences on both sides Suspicions 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 whatever 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 shall be forthwith set at liberty without any Ransom V. All Ships Goods or the like that in this turbullent 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 sense That whatever Debts of this kind unto the Tenth Day of May Old Stile and Twentieth New Stile by vertue 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 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 vertue 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
ARTICLES OF PEACE ALLIANCE Between the most Serene and Mighty PRINCE CHARLES II. 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 VNITED NETHERLANDS Concluded the 21. 31. day of July 1667. Published by His Majesties Command In the SAVOY Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 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 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 Countreys 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 Hostilities Discords and Wars between the said Lord the King and the foresaid Lords the States General and their Subiects and Inhabitants cease and be abolished And that both Parties do altogether for bear 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 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 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 the 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 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 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 themselvs and their Successors so as inregard 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 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 bonâ 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 far distant after the Peace is concluded and before it be notified unto those places It is Agreed That all such Ships Merchandise and other Moveables which may chance to fall into either Parties hands after the Conclusion and Publication of the present Instrument in the Channel or British Sea within the space of Twelve days and the same in the North Sea and within the space of Six weeks from the mouth of the Channel unto the Cape of St. Vincent as also within the space of Ten weeks beyond the said Cape and on this side the Equinoctial Line or Aequator as well in the Ocean and Mediterranean Sea as elsewhere and from thence within the space of Eight moneths beyond the terms of the foresaid Line throughout all the World shall be and remain unto the Possessors without any exception or further distinction of time or place or any regard had to the making of Restitution or Compensation VIII It is also Agreed That under the foresaid Renunciation and Stipulation all Letters whatsoever of Reprizal Marque and Counter-Marque both general and particular and others of that kind by vertue whereof any Hostility may be exercised for the future ought also to be reckoned and comprehended and by the Publick Authority of this Alliance they are inhibited and revoked And if any persons of either Nation after such Revocation shall nevertheless under pretence or authority of such Letters or Commissions already revoked design any new mischief or act any Hostility after the Peace is made and the times specified in the precedent seventh Article are elapsed they are to be looked upon as disturbers of the Publick Peace and punished according to the Law of Nations besides an entire Restitution of the thing taken or full satisfaction of Damages to which they shall be liable notwithstanding any Clause whatsoever to the contrary which may be inserted
in the said Letters revoked as aforesaid IX And whereas in Countreys far remote as in Africk and America especially in Guiney certain Protestations and Declarations and other Writings of that kind prejudicial to the Liberty of Trade and Navigation have been emitted and published on either side by the Governors and Officers in the Name of their Superiours It is in like manner Agreed That all and every such Protestations Declarations and Writings aforesaid be abolished and held hereafter for null and void and that both the above mentioned Parties and their Inhabitants and Subjects use and enjoy the same Liberty of Trade and Navigation as well in Africa as in America which hey used and enjo●ed or of right might use and enjoy at that time when the Treaty of the year 1662. was Subscribed X. Also That Prisoners on both sides one and all of what Degree Dignity or Condition soever they be shall be set at Liberty without ransom or any other price of their Freedom Provided satisfaction be made by them for Debts which they have contracted for Diet or any other lawful Cause XI That the said King of Great Britain and the said States General remain Friends Confederate United and Allied for the defence and preservation of the Rights Liberties and Immunities of either Ally and their Subjects against all whomsoever who shall endeavour to disturb the Peace of eithers State by Sea or Land or such as living within eithers Dominions shall be declared Publick Enemies to either XII That neither the said King of Great Britain nor the said States General shall Act Do Endeavour Treat or Attempt any thing against the other or the Subjects of either any where by Land or Sea or in any Ports Liberties Creeks or Fresh-waters upon any occasion whatsoever And that neither they nor the Subjects of either of them shall give afford or supply any Aid Counsel or Favour nor consent that any thing be Done Treated or Attempted by any other whosoever to the harm or prejudice of the other or the Subjects of either but shall expresly and actually oppose contradict and really hinder all whomsoever residing or dwelling in either the respective Dominions who shall act do treat or attempt any thing against either of them XIII That neither the said King nor the said Common-wealth nor any of the Subjects of either inhabiting or residing within their Jurisdiction shall cherish and assist the Rebels of either Party with any Succour Counsel or Favour whatsoever but shall expresly oppose and effectually hinder all persons abiding residing or dwelling in either of their Dominions from supplying or furnishing any of those foresaid Rebels by Sea or Land with any Succour or Assistance either in Men Ships Arms warlike Furniture or other prohibited Goods or with Money Provisions or Victuals And all Ships Arms warlike Furniture or other forbidden Goods also Money and Provisions belonging to any person or persons whatsoever which shall be supplied or furnished contrary to the meaning of this Article shall be confiscate and forfeited to that Party where the persons offending shall be And those who shall wittingly and willingly act commit attempt or advise any thing contrary to the sense of this Article shall be judged Enemies of both Parties and shall be punished as Traitors there where the Offence shall be committed But as touching the specification of Prohibited or Contraband Goods it shall be provided for hereafter XIV That the said King of Great Britain and the said States General shall mutually sincerely and faithfully as there is occasion assist each other against the Rebels of either by Sea or Land with Men and Ships at the cost and charges of the Parties who desire the same in such proportion and manner and upon such conditions as afterward shall be agreed and the present occasion shall require XV. That neither the said King nor the said Common-wealth nor the Subjects of either shall in any of their Jurisdictions Countries Lands Havens Sea-ports Creeks receive any Rebel or Rebels Fugitive or Fugitives of the other Party declared or to be declared nor shall give or yield unto such declared Rebels and Fugitives in the places aforesaid or elsewhere though without their Lands Countries Havens Sea-ports Creeks or Jurisdictions any Help Counsel Lodging Souldiers Ships Money Arms Ammunition or Victuals As also neither of the States shall permit that such Rebels or Fugitives be received by any person or persons within their Jurisdictions Countries Lands Sea-ports Havens Creeks nor suffer that any Help Counsel Lodging Favour Arms Ammunition Souldiers Ships Moneys or Provision be given or yielded to such Rebels and Fugitives but shall expresly and effectually oppose and really hinder the same XVI That in case either of them by their publick and authentick Letters shall make known and declare unto the other that any person or persons are or have been a Rebel or Rebels Fugitive or Fugitives and that they or any of them have been received or reside lie hid or seek shelter in their Jurisdictions Lands Countries Sea-ports or in any of them then that party who shall have received such Letters or to whom such notice shall be given or declaration made shall within the space of Twenty eight days to be accounted from the day that such notice was given be bound to Charge and Command such Rebel or Rebels Fugitive or Fugitives to withdraw and depart out of their Jurisdictions Lands Dominions Countries and every of them And in case any of the said Rebels or Fugitives do not withdraw and depart within Fifteen days after such Charge or Command so given then that they be punished with Death and loss of Lands and Goods XVII That no Rebel of the said King of Great Britain shall be received into any of the Castles Cities Havens Jurisdictions or other places Priviledg'd or not Priviledg'd which any person of what dignity or degree soever he be or shall be hath within the Dominions or Territories of the United Provinces by what right or title soever he doth or shall hold or possess the same nor be permitted to be received into or remain in them by any person of what quality or degree soever he be Neither shall the said States General permit or suffer that in any of the aforesaid places any Assistance Counsel or Favour with Ships Souldiers Money or Provision or in any other manner be given or afforded unto any such Rebel by any person of what degree or quality soever he be but shall openly and expresly forbid and effectually hinder the same And if any person or persons of what degree or quality soever they be dwelling or remaining within the Dominions of the said United Provinces or under their Command shall act any thing contrary to this Agreement That then all and singular such persons so doing shall for term of their lives respectively lose and forfeit all such Castles Towns Villages Lands and other places which they or any of them at that time have or pretend to have
by what right or title soever In like manner no Rebel of the said States of the United Provinces shall be received into any Castles Towns Havens or other places or any of them Priviledg'd or not Priviledg'd which any person or persons of what degree or quality soever they be and by what right or title soever he or they do or shall hold and possess within the Kingdoms or Dominions of His said Majesty of Great Britain Nor shall such Rebel be suffered to be received by any person or persons whatsoever or there to remain neither shall the King of Great Britain permit or suffer that any Counsel Assistance or Favour in any of the said Places with Ships Men Money Victuals or in any other manner be given or afforded unto any such Rebel by any such person or persons of what degree or quality soever they be but shall openly and expresly forbid and effectually hinder the same And in case any of the Subjects of the said King or within His Dominions shall do or attempt any thing against this Agreement That all and every persons so offending shall in like manner for their respective lives lose and forfeit all such Castles Cities Towns Lands and other places which they or any of them at that time hath or shall pretend to have by any right or title whatsoever XVIII That the said King of Great Britain and His Subjects and all the Inhabitants of His Majesties Dominions and also the said United Provinces and their Subjects and Inhabitants of what rank or condition soever they be shall be bound to use each other kindly and friendly in every thing so that they may freely and safely pass by Land or by Water into each others Countreys Cities Towns walled or unwalled fortified or not fortified and their Havens and all other their Dominions situate in Europe to continue and abide therein so long as they shall please and may there buy so much Provisions as are necessary for their use without any hindrance And that likewise they may Trade and Traffique in Goods and Commodities of all sorts as to them shall seem fit and them to Export and Import at their pleasure paying the usual Duties saving to each Countrey their particular Laws and Customs Provided that the Subjects and Inhabitants of either side exercising their Trade in each others Countreys and Dominions shall not be obliged hereafter to pay any more Customs Impost or other Duties then according to that proportion which other Foreign Nations Trading in the said places do usually pay XIX That the Ships and Vessels of the said United Provinces as well Men of War as others meeting any Men of War of the said King of Great Britain's in the British Seas shall Strike the Flag and Lore the Top-sail in such manner as the same hath been formerly observed in any times whatsoever XX. And for the greater Freedom of Commerce and Navigation it is Agreed and Concluded That the said King of Great Britain and the said States General shall not receive into their Havens Cities and Towns nor suffer that any of the Subjects of either Party do receive Pirates or Sea-Rovers or afford them any entertainment assistance or provision but shall endeavour that the said Pirates and Sea-Rovers or their Partners Sharers and Abettors be found out apprehended and suffer condign punishment for the terror of others And all the Ships Goods and Commodities Piratically taken by them and brought into the Ports of either Party which can be found nay although they be sold shall be restored to the right Owners or Satisfaction shall be given either to their Owners or to those who by Letters of Attorney shall challenge the same Provided the Right of their Propriety be made to appear in the Court of Admiralty by due proofs according to Law XXI It shall not be permitted to the Subjects of the said King of Great Britain and the Inhabitants of the Kingdoms and Countreys under His Obedience or to the Inhabitants and Subjects of the said United Provinces to do or offer any Hostility or Violence to each other either by Land or by Sea upon any pretence or colour whatsoever And consequently it shall not be lawful for the said Subjects or Inhabitants to get Commissions or Letters of Reprisal from any Prince or State with whom either of the Confederates are at difference or in open War and much less by vertue of those Letters to molest or damnifie the Subjects of either Party Neither shall it be lawful for any Foreign Private Men of War who are not Subjects to one nor the other Party having Commissions from any other Prince or State to Equip their Ships in the Harbours of either of the aforesaid Parties or to fell or ransom their Prizes or any other way to Truck as well the Ships and Goods as any other Lading whatsoever And it shall not be lawful for them to buy any Victual but what shall be necessary to bring them to the next Port of that Prince from whom they obtained their said Commissions And if perchance any of the Subjects of the said King of Great Britain or of the said States General shall buy or get to themselves by Truck or any other way such Ship or Goods which have been taken by the Subjects of one or the other Party in such case the said Subject shall be bound to restore the said Ship or Goods to the Proprietors without any delay and without any Compensation or re-imbursement of Money paid or promised for the same Provided that they make it appear before the Council of the said King of Great Britain or before the said States General that they are the right Owners or Proprietors of them XXII That in case the said King of Great Britain or the said States General do make any Treaty of Amity or Alliance with any other Kings Republicks Princes or States they shall therein comprehend each other and their Dominions if they desire to be therein comprehended and shall give to the other notice of all such Treaties of Friendship and Alliance XXIII That in case it happen during this Friendship Confederacy and Alliance any thing shall be done or attempted by any of the Subjects or Inhabitants of either Party against this Treaty or any part thereof by Land Sea or Fresh-waters That nevertheless this Amity and Alliance between the said Nations shall not thereby be broken or interrupted but shall remain and continue in its full force and that only those particular persons shall be punished who have committed any thing against this Treaty and none else and that Justice shall be rendred and satisfaction given to all persons concerned by all such who have committed any thing contrary to this Treaty by Land or Sea or other Waters in any part of Europe or any places within the Straits or in America or upon the Coasts of Africa or in any Lands Islands Seas Creeks Bays Rivers or in any places on this side the Cape of Good Hope
within Twelve Moneths space after Justice shall be demanded And in all places whatsoever on the other side the said Cape as hath been abovesaid within Eighteen Moneths next ensuing after demand of Justice shall be made in manner aforesaid But in case the offenders against this Treaty do not appear and submit themselves to Judgement and give satisfaction within the respective times above expressed proportionable to the distance of the places they shall be declared Enemies of both Parties and their Estates Goods and Revenues whatsoever shall be confiscated for due and full satisfaction of the injuries and wrongs by them offered and their persons also when they come within the Dominions of either Party shall be liable unto such punishments as every one shall deserve for his respective offences XXIV That the Subjects of the said King of Great Britain and those which are under His Jurisdiction may freely and securely travel in all the Provinces of the Low-Countreys and all their Dominions in Europe and through them by Sea or Land pass to other places there or beyond them and through all Quarters of the United Provinces Cities Forts or Garisons whatsoever which are in any parts of the United Provinces or elsewhere in their Dominions in Europe as well they themselves exercising Trade in all those places as their Agents Factors and Servants may go armed or unarmed but if armed not above Forty in a Company as well without their Goods and Merchandises as with them wheresoever they please The People also and Inhabitants of the United Provinces shall enjoy the same Liberty and Freedom in all the Dominions of the said King in Europe Provided that they and every of them do in their Trade and Merchandising yield Obedience to the Laws and Statutes of either Nation respectively XXV That in case the Merchant-Ships of the Subjects of either Nation shall by Storm Pirates or any other necessity whatsoever be driven into any Haven of either Dominion they may depart securely and at their pleasure with their Ships and Goods without paying any Customs or other Duties Provided they break no Bulk nor sell any thing nor shall they be subject to any Molestation or Search provided they do not receive on board any Persons or Goods nor do any thing else contrary to the Laws Ordinances or Customs of the places where they as aforesaid shall happen to arrive XXVI That the Merchants Masters and Seamen of either Party their Ships Goods Wares or Merchandises shall not be Arrested or Seised in the Lands Havens Roads or Rivers of the other to serve at War or any other use by vertue of any general or special Command unless upon an extraordinary necessity and that just satisfaction be given for the same but so as the same shall not derogate from the Seisures and Arrests duely made in the ordinary Courts of Justice of either Nation XXVII That the Merchants on both sides their Factors and Servants and also the Masters and other Seamen as well going as returning by Sea and other Waters as also in the Havens of either Party or going on Shore may carry and use for the defence of themselves and Goods all sorts of Weapons as well Offensive as Defensive but being come into their Lodgings or Inns they shall there lay by and leave their Arms until they be going on board again XXVIII That the Men of War or Convoys of either Nation meeting or overtaking at Sea any Merchants Ship or Ships belonging to the Subjects or Inhabitants of the other holding the same Course or going the same Way shall be bound as long as they keep one Course together to protect and defend them against all and every one who would set upon them XXIX That if any Ship or Ships of the Subjects or Inhabitants of either Nation or of a Neuter be taken by a third Party in the Harbours of either not being of the Subjects or Inhabitants of either Nation they in or out of whose Haven or Jurisdiction the said Ships shall be taken shall be bound to endeavour with the other Party that the said Ship or Ships be pursued brought back and restored to the Owners but all this shall be done at the charges of the Owners or whom it concerns XXX That Searchers and other like Officers on both sides shall regulate themselves according to the Laws of either Nation and shall not impose or demand more then they are allowed by their Commissions and Instructions XXXI That if any injury be done or practised by either Nation or the Subjects or Inhabitants of the same against the Subjects or Inhabitants of the other or against any of the Articles of this present Treaty or against common right yet nevertheless no Letters of Reprisal Mark or Countermark shall be granted by either side till Justice hath been first demanded according to the ordinary course of Law but in case Justice be there denied or delayed then that the said King of Great Britain and the said States General or Commissioners of that Nation whose Subjects and Inhabitants have suffered the wrong shall publickly require Justice from that other Party where as abovesaid it was denied or delayed or from that Power appointed to hear and decide such differences that there may be a friendly composure or due process of Law But if still there happen more delays and neither Justice be administred nor satisfaction given within three moneths after such demand that then Letters of Reprisal Mark or Countermark may be granted XXXII It is also agreed If at any time it happen which God of his mercy forbid that the Differences now composed between His said Majesty and the said States General should fester and break out again into open War that then those 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 for all that be confiscated or made obnoxious to any inconvenience but the space of six moneths shall entirely be allowed to the Subjects and Inhabitants of either Party that they may have leisure to transport from thence the forementioned things and any thing else that is theirs whither they shall think fit without any kind of Molestation XXXIII That they who have obtained private Commissions from either Party before they receive such Commissions shall give good and sufficient caution before the Judge of the Court where they receive such Commissions by responsible men who have no part or share in such Ships that they shall do no damage or injury to the Subjects or Inhabitants of either side XXXIV It is also agreed and concluded That the Subjects and Inhabitants of either Party shall always have free access to each others Sea-ports there to remain and from thence to depart with the same freedom and not only with their Merchant-Ships and Lading but also with their Men of War whether they belong to the said King or States General or
Tournois to answer every one by himself for the Miscarriages they may commit in their Courses at Sea and for their Captains and Officers violations of this present Treaty and of the Orders and Proclamations of His Majesty which shall be published by vertue and in conformity of the Regulation therein made upon pain of being cashiered and forfeiting the said Commissions and Licences Which shall in like manner be practised by the Subjects of the said States General 39. If it should happen that any of the said French Captains should make Prize of a Vessel laden with Contraband Goods as hath been said the said Captains may not open nor break up the Chests Males Packs Bags Cask and other Boxes or transport sell or exchange and otherwise alienate them until they have Landed in the presence of the Judges of the Admiralty and after an Inventory hath by them been made of the said Goods found in the said Vessels unless the Contraband Goods making but a part of the Lading the Master or Pilot of the Ship should be content to deliver the said Contraband Goods unto the said Captain and to pursue his Voyage In which case the said Master or Pilot shall by no means be hindred from continuing his course and the design of his Voyage 40. His Majesty being desirous that the Subjects of the said States may be used in all Countreys under his Obedience as favourably as his own Subjects will give all necessary Orders that Judgements and Decrees upon Prizes which shall happen to be taken at Sea may be given with all Justice and Equity by persons not suspected nor concerned in the matter under debate And His Majesty will give precise and effectual Orders that all Decrees Judgements and Orders of Justice already given and to be given may be readily and duly executed according to their forms 41. And when the Ambassadors of the said States General or any other of their Publick Ministers residing in His Majesties Court shall make complaint of the Judgements which shall be given His Majesty will cause a Review to be made of the said Judgements in his Council to examine whether the Order and Precautions contained in the present Treaty have been followed and observed and to provide for the same according to reason which shall be done within the space of three Moneths at the farthest Nevertheless neither before the first Judgement nor after it during the time of the Review the Goods and Effects which are reclaimed may not be sold or unladen unless it be with the consent of the Parties interessed to avoid the spoiling of the said Commodities if they be perishable 42. When Process shall be moved in the first or second instance between those that have taken the Prizes at Sea and the persons interessed therein and the said interessed persons shall come to obtain a favourable Judgement or Decree the said Judgement or Decree shall have its Execution upon Security given notwithstanding the Appeal of him that took the Prize But the same shall not hold on the contrary And that which is said in this present and in the precedent Articles for the causing of good and speedy Justice to be done unto the Subjects of the United Provinces in the matter of Prizes taken at Sea by His Majesties Subjects shall be understood and practised by the States General in regard of Prizes taken by their Subjects from those of His Majesty IIII. It is also Covenanted That these above-written Separate Articles and all and every thing 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 authentique 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 CEsar Duke of Vendome Peer and great Master Chief and Superintendent 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 Regisity the Roll signed 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 counter-signed by Our Secretary of the Marine the _____ day of _____ One thousand six hundred Signed Cesar 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 United 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 Common-wealths 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 Governours 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 FINIS