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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32181	Articles of peace, commerce, & alliance, between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain concluded in a treaty at Madrid the 13/23 day of May, in the year of our Lord God, 1667 / translated out of Latin.; Treaties, etc. Spain, 1667 May 23	England and Wales.; Philip IV, King of Spain, 1605-1665.; Spain. Treaties, etc. England and Wales, 1667 May 23.	1667 (1667)	Wing C2911; ESTC R8549	20,515	48

ARTICLES OF Peace Commerce Alliance Between the CROWNS OF Great Britain AND SPAIN CONCLUDED In a Treaty at MADRID the 13 23. day of May in the Year of our LORD GOD 1667. Translated out of Latin 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 Commerce and Alliance between the Crowns of Great Britain and Spain I. FIrst It is Agreed and Concluded That from this day forward there shall be between the two Crowns of Great Britain and Spain a General Good Sincere True Firm and Perfect Amity Confederation and Peace which shall endure for ever and be observed inviolably as well by Land as by Sea and Fresh-waters and also between the Lands Countries Kingdoms Dominions and Territories belonging unto or under the obedience of either of them And that their Subjects People and Inhabitants respectively of what condition degree or quality soever from henceforth reciprocally shall help assist and shew to one another all manner of Love good Offices and Friendship II. That neither of the said Kings nor their respective People Subjects or Inhabitants within their Dominions upon any pretence may in publick or secret do or procure to be done any thing against the other in any Place by Sea or by Land nor in the Ports or Rivers of the one or the other but shall treat one another with all Love and Friendship and may by Water and by Land freely and securely pass into the Confines Countries Lands Kingdoms Islands Dominions Cities Towns Villages wall'd or without wall fortified or unfortified their Havens and Ports where hitherto Trade and Commerce hath been accustomed and there trade buy and sell as well of and to the Inhabitants of the respective Places as those of their own Nation or any other Nation that shall be or come there III. That the said Kings of Great Britain and Spain shall take care that their respective People and Subjects from henceforward do abstain from all Force Violence or Wrong and if any injury shall be done by either of the said Kings or by the People or Subjects of either of them to the People or Subjects of the other against the Articles of this Alliance or against common Right there shall not therefore be given Letters of Reprisal Matque or Counter-marque by any of the Confederates until such time as justice is sought and followed in the ordinary course of Law But if justice be denied or delayed then the King whose People or Inhabitants have received harm shall ask it of the other by whom as is said the justice shall have been denied or delayed or of the Commissioners that shall be by the one King or the other appointed to receive and hear such Demands to the end that all such differences may be compounded in friendship or according to Law But if there should yet be a delay or justice should not be done nor satisfaction given within six months after having the same so demanded then may be given Letters of Reprisal Marque or Counter-marque IV. That between the King of Great Britain and the King of Spain and their respective People Subjects and Inhabitants as well upon Sea as upon Land and Fresh-water in all and every their Kingdoms Lands Countries Dominions Confines Territories Provinces Islands Plantations Cities Villages Towns Ports Rivers Creeks Bayes Streights and Currents where hitherto Trade and Commerce hath been accustomed there shall be free Trade and Commerce in such way and manner that without safe Conduct and without general or particular Licence the People and Subjects of each other may freely as well by Land as by Sea and Fresh-water Navigate and go into their said Countries Kingdoms Dominions and all the Cities Ports Currents Bayes Districts and other places thereof and may enter into any P●rt with their Ships laden or empty Carriage or Carriages wherein to bring their Merchandise and there buy and sell what and how much they please and also at just and reasonable rates provide themselves with provisions and other necessary things for their subsistence and voyage and also may repair their Ships and carriages and from thence again freely depart with their Ships Carriages Goods Merchandise and Estate and return to their own Countries or to such other Place as they shall think fit without any Molestation or Impediment so that they pay the Duties and Customs which shall be due and saving to either side the Laws and Ordinances of their Country V. Item It is likewise agreed That for the Merchandises which the Subjects of the King of Great Britain shall buy in Spain or other the Kingdoms or Dominions of the King of Spain and shall carry in their own Ships or in Ships hired or lent unto them no new Customs Toll Tenths Subsidies or other Rights or Duties whatsoever shall be taken or encreased other then those which in the like case the Natives themselves and all other strangers are obliged to pay and the Subjects aforesaid buying selling and contracting for their Merchandises as well in respect of the Prices as of all Duties to be paid shall enjoy the same priviledges which are allowed to the natural Subjects of Spain and may buy and lade their Ships with such Goods and Merchan● 〈◊〉 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 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 vertue 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 aswell 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

any part of their Goods and Merchandises in any Port or Haven being consigned with the rest to other Places within or without the said Dominions shall not be obliged to register or pay the Rights of any other Goods or Merchandise then of that which they shall unlade in the said Port or Haven nor be const●a●ned to give Bond for the Goods they shall carry to other Places nor any other security if it be not in case of Felony Debt Treason or other capital Crime XII Whereas the one moity of the Custom of all Forraign Goods and Merchandise imported into England is allowed and returned back to the Importer if the said Goods be exported out of the said Kingdom within twelve moneths after their first Landing upon Oath made that they are the same Goods which paid Custom inwards and that if they be not re-shipt within the said twelve months yet they may at all times be exported without paying any Custom or Duty outwards It is therefore agreed That if any the Subjects of the King of Great Britain shall hereafter Land any Goods or Merchandise of what growth or nature soever they be in any of the Ports of his Catholique Majesty and having entred them and paid the Custom which by this Treaty ought to be paid and shall afterwards desire to transport them or any part of them to any other Place whatsoever for a better Market it shall and may be lawful for him or them so to do freely without paying or being demanded any other Custom or Duty at all for the same he or they making Oath if required thereunto that they are the same Goods for which Custom was paid at their Landing And in case that the Subjects People and Inhabitants of the Dominions of either part shall unlade or have in any City Town or Village respectively any Goods Merchandises Fruits or Estates and have paid the Customs due according to what hath been declared and after that not being able to put them off shall resolve to remit them to some other City Town or Village of the said Dominions they may not only do it without difficulty or impediment and without paying other Rights then what were due at their Entry but likewise the Custom or Rights shall not be paid again in any other part of the said Dominions bringing Certificates from the Officers of the Custom-house that they were paid before in the due form And the chief Farmers and Commissioners of the King of Spain's Rents in all Places or some other Officer or Officers to be appointed for that purpose shall at all times permit and suffer the Transportation of all such Goods and Merchandises from place to place and give sufficient certificate to the Owners thereof or their Assignes of their having paid their Custom at their first Landing whereby they may be carried to and Landed at any other Port or Place of the said Jurisdiction free from all Duties or Impediments whatsoever as aforesaid saving always the Right of any third Person XIII That it shall be lawful for the Ships belonging to the Subjects of the one or other King to anchor in the Roads or Bays of either without being constrained to enter into Port and in case they be necessitated to enter thereinto either by distress of weather fear of enemies Pirates or any other accident in case the said Ships be not bound to an Enemies Port and carrying thither Contraband Goods whereof without some clear proof they shall not be questioned it shall be lawful for the said Subjects to return to Sea freely when they please with their Ships and Goods so as they do not break bulk or expose any thing to sale and that when they cast anchor or enter the Ports aforesaid they be not molested or visited and it shall suffice that in this case they shew their Passports or Sea-papers which being seen by the respective Officers of either King the said Ships shall return freely to Sea without any molestation XIV And if any Ship or Ships belonging to the Subjects and Merchants of the one or the other entring into Bayes or in the open Sea shall be encountred by the Ships of the said Kings or of Privateers their Subjects the said Ships to prevent all disorders shall not come within Canon-shot but shall send their Long-Boat or Pinnace to the Merchant-Ship and only two or three men on board to whom the Master or Owner shall shew his Passports and Sea-Letters according 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 signes 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 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 only 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 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 to have access to the respective Ports of the one and the other and there remain and depart again with the same freedom not only 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 and when an unusual number of Men of War by accident shall come unto any Port it shall not