Edwardo Hales Armigero Comissariis nostris ad exequend exercend ' dict' Officium locum Domini magni Admirali Angl ' Respective Assignat ' Deputat ' Nec non Commissariis nostris ad exequend ' excercend ' Dictum officium Locum dicti Magni Admir ' Angl ' Assignat ' Deputat ' pro tempore existen ' eorum quibuslibet Predilectis fidelibus Consiliariis nostris Leolino Ienkins Militi Legum Doctori in suprema Curia Admiralitatis nostr ' Angl ' Locum Tenenti Generali Commissario dicte Curi nostre Iudici Presidenti Ac primar ' Secretarior nostr ' uni Francisco North Militi Capital ' Iusticiario nostro de Banco Edwardo Seymer Armigero Classis nostre Thesauario Ac dilectis fidelibus nostris Capitali Iusticiario nostro ad placita c. Pro tempore existen ' Harbottle Grimston Baronetto Magistro Rotul ' Cur ' Cancellar ' Willielmo Mountague Capitali Baroni Scacarii nostri Hugoni Wyndham Mil ' uni Iustic ' de Banco Thomae Iones Mil ' uni Iustic ' Ad placita c. Willielmo Dolbin Mil ' alteri Iustic ' nostrorum Ad placita Thomae Raymond Mil alteri Iustic ' nostrorum Ad Placita Edwardo Atkins Mil ' uni Baronum Scacarii nostri Willielmo Gregory Mil ' alteri Baronum Scacarii nostri Iob Charleton Mil ' alteri Iustic ' de Banco Richardo Weston Mil ' alteri Baron ' Scacarii nostri Roberto Wiseman Mil ' ac Legum Doctor ' Alme Curie Cant ' de Arcubus London Officiali Principali Thomae Exton Mil ' Legum Doctor ' Advocato nostro Generali Iacobo Butler Mil ' uni 〈◊〉 Concill ' nostro Erudito in lege ac precharissime Consortis nostre Regine Attornato Iohanni Bramston Mil ' Balnei Vice Admirallo nostro Com' nostri Essexie Samueli Baldwin Mil ' uni servien ' nostror ' ad legem Robertus Wright Mil ' alteri servien ' nostror ' Francisco Brampston servien ' Ad legem Iohanni Coel Mil ' Cancellari nostri resâ—â—â—tive Magistris Tymotheo Baldwin Mil ' Cancellari nostri resâ—â—â—tive Magistris Edwardo Lowe Mil ' Cancellari nostri resâ—â—â—tive Magistris Samueli Clerke Mil ' Cancellari nostri resâ—â—â—tive Magistris Willielmo Cooke Mil ' Cancellari nostri resâ—â—â—tive Magistris Adamo Oatley Mil ' Cancellari nostri resâ—â—â—tive Magistris Iohanni Werden Mil ' Baronetto Roberto Southwell Mil ' Thomae Hayter Armiger ' 1 Classis nostro Rege Controtulatori Iohanni Tippetts Mil ' Classis nostri Commis ' Richardo Haddock Mil ' Classis nostri Commis ' Iohanni Narborrough Mil ' Classis nostri Commis ' Phineas Pett Mil ' Classis nostri Commis ' Iacobo Southern Ar ' Classis nostri Commis ' Willielmo Hickman Barron ' Ordinationum nostrar ' Commis ' Iohanni Chichley Mil ' Ordinationum nostrar ' Commis ' Christopohro Musgrave M. Ordinationum nostrar ' Commis ' Georgio Legg Ar ' Ordinationum nostrar ' Commis ' Thomae Allen Mil ' Baroneto Roberto Holmes Militibus Iohanni Holmes Militibus Iohanni Berry Militibus Iohanni Wetwang Militibus Willielmo Ienings Militibus Arthuro Herbert Armigero Willielmo Turnor Militibus Aldermanis Civitat ' nostr ' London Iosepho Sheldon Militibus Aldermanis Civitat ' nostr ' London Iacobo Edwards Militibus Aldermanis Civitat ' nostr ' London Iacobo Smith Militibus Aldermanis Civitat ' nostr ' London Georgio Treby Mil ' Civitatis nostri London Recordatori Edwardo Master Legum respective Doctoribus Willielmo Trumbal Legum respective Doctoribus Henricâ— Falconberge Legum respective Doctoribus Thomae Pinfold Legum respective Doctoribus Richardo Raynes Legum respective Doctoribus Willielmo Oldiis Legum respective Doctoribus Carolo Perrot Legum respective Doctoribus Roberto Thompson Legum respective Doctoribus Iohanni Edisbury Legum respective Doctoribus Carolâ— Hedges Legum respective Doctoribus Stephano Brick Legum respective Doctoribus Iohanni Brisbaâ—e Armiger singulis vestrum salutum Iacobo Hoare Armiger singulis vestrum salutum Petro Prich Armiger singulis vestrum salutum Rich Lloyd Finch C. The Precepts to the Sheriff of Surrey being Returned and the Juries Summoned appearing accordingly at the New-Hall on the 18th of February 1680. in the Court of the Marshalsea in Southwark SIR Lyonel Jenkins as President of the Court accompanied with Iudge Wyndham Iudge Jones Iudge Charleton and Iudge Raymond and Twenty six of the other persons nominated as Iudges in the said Commission Which being Read and the Charge given by Sir Lyonel Jenkins to the Iurors The Bill of Indictment was brought in against the said Prisoners for Piracy and Felony and found Billa vera by the Grand-Iury upon the Evidence of the Dutch Master and two of his Ships Company Then the Prisoners being all Arraigned pleaded severally not Guilty and put themselves upon God and their Country for Tryall The matters of Fact in Issue were proved that they had taken such a Ship and Goods in the said Warrants mentioned and it was insisted upon by the Advocate General and Councel for the King That the said Ship and Goods were taken Pyratically and Feloniously without any Legal Authority or Commission after two Treaties of State whereby they pretended the Letters Patents for Reprizal were extinguished and made null and void being so recited in a pretended Supersedeas under the Great Seal of England and likewise in the Kings Proclamation mentioning that the said Letters Patents and Commission for Reprizals were revoked before the said Ship was Seized It was also alleadged that there was not a due Entry made with Mr. Bedford the Register of the Admiralty of the Captains Ship Named the George Bona Adventura with the number of Men Guns and Provisâ—on and that Bulk was broken before Daniel Gyles the Marshal had Seized and taken the Galliot Hoy into his Custody and so insinuated to the Iury that they were to find the Piracy and Felony accordingly Unto which the Prisoners at the Bar and Mr. Carew who gave the Captain his Commission pleaded the Legality of the same with the Entry in due Form Which Commission being read in Court Caâ—ew Iustified that he Subscribed his Name and fixed his Seal under the appointment and Deputation following Indorsed upon an Authentick Copy on exemplification of the Letters Patents viz. I The within Named George Carew by vertue of the Power and Authority unto me given by the Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England of which this is an Authentick Copy Do for my self and on the behalf of all other persons Interessed therein Constitute and Assign Nominate and Appoint Compton Gwyther Gentleman to be Captain and Commander of the good Ship Named the George Bona Adventura of the Burthen of Eighty Tuns or thereabouts Equipped and furnished with Ten Guns and Sixty Men Victualled and to be Victualled from time to time during the space of Twelve Months by the Owners and Proprietors of the said Ship for the said Captain Gwyther to do execute and perform
Possession which was referred to the Committee of Foreign Plantations who found that by the Laws of Nations and of this Kingdom the Heirs and Assigns of Sir William Courten retained a Freehold in the said Island having no ways forfeited the same for any Offence Aud that the Patent to James Earl of Carlisle mentioning him to be Lord Proprietor of the said Island was declared void and against Law The Councel of Courten further affirming that no Soveraign Prince or State could Disseize a person of a Uacancy possest by him at his own proper Costs and Charges without manifest Injustice And that it was against the Honour and Prudence as well as the Iustice of a Nation to despoil any Subject that laid out himself for the good of his Country Yet no Restitution hath been made for the said Island and Plantations to the Heirs and Creditors of Courten either by the King or the Planters out of the Old Servile Rents of Sugar Cotton or Tobacco for every head due to the Original Proprietor or out of the four and half per Cent of all Goods Exported granted by the General Assembly of Barbadoes in lieu thereof to the Lord Willoughby and since Assigned to the King Secondly Concerning the Spoils and Depredations upon the two Ships the Bona Esperanza and Henry Bona Adventura in the East Indies particularly excepted for Reparation by the 15 th Article of the Treaty concluded at London the 4 th September 1662. no ways performed It was therefore thought necessary and convenient upon the farther Applications of the persons Interessed and Injured to the King and to the Parliament that a War should be declared against the States General of the United Provinces which was carried on at the vast Charge of the Kingdom His Majesty being Graciously pleased upon the entrance into that War to express himself in a Speech to both Houses of Parliament as follows The 24th of November 1664. Mr. Speaker ANd you Gentlemen of the House of Commons I know not whether it be worth My pains to endeavour to remove a vile Jealousie which Ill men scatter abroad and which I am sure will never sink into the breast of any Man who is worthy to â—it upon your Benches that when you have given me a Noble and proportionable Supply for the support of a War I may be induced by some evil Councellors for they will be thought to think very respectively of my own person to make a suddain Peace and get all that Money for my own private occasions But let me tell you and you may be most confident of it That when I am compelled to enter into a War for the Protection Honour and Benefit of my Subjects I will God Willing not make a Peace but upon the obtaining and securing those ends for which the War is entred into and when that can be done no good man will be sorry for the determination of it IN the Month of May following His Majesty out of a Iust sense of Sir William Courten's Sir Paul Pyndar's and their Partners Injuries Damages and Losses in their Shipe Goods and Commerce did in pursuance of His own Authority and Prerogative-Royal Grant a Special Commission for Reprizals under the Great Seal of England grounded upon the Law of Nations and the Laws and Statutes of this Realm to continue effectual in Law at all times until the sum of 151612 l. Sterling Money with incident Costs and Charges should be Recovered and Received as by the Letters Patents recited in the Plea to His Majesties Scire Facias brought in the High Court of Chancery remaining upon Record in the Petty-Bagg-Office hereafter set forth at large more plainly appears It is to be remarked that during the War several Dutch East-India Ships and other Merchant Ships were taken by the Kings Men of War and made Free Prize but no part thereof given towards the Bona Esperanza and Henry Bona Adventura although earnestly sought after Those Spoils of War the Sacred Returns due to the Injur'd and Oppressed the price of much Blood and Treasure spent in the Expeditions of Courten and his Partners were otherwise imployed Which lies heavy at the Doors of those that have eaten the Bread of the Fatherless and Widows for whom the Land Mourns IT is to be considered when the said Letters of Reprizal were put in Execution by Mr. Carew and his Associates in the beginning of the year 1666. The prosecution thereof was Arbitrarily suspended by Proclamation on the Tenth of August following without any Iudicial hearing their Seamen frequently taken away for the Kings Ships His Royal Highness and His Secretary also pretending that it was prejudicial to their Interest in obstructing ordinary Letters of Marque during the War Carew Committed to the Fleet by Order of the Council Board and Enlarged by the Dreadful Flames on the 2 of September following so that instead of a Remedy it proved a Grievance the Ships and Goods Reprized being not sufficient to repair one half of the Costs and Charges in Equipping out Frigots towards recovery of the Debt The Iniquity and Corruption of the Proctors and Common Claimers being such that discouraged all men concerned in that Affair of Reprizals which in the Nations of old were esteemed as Chattels Real and Sacred Decrees like the Laws of the Medes and Persians Nevertheless in the Month of June 1667. a Treaty was concluded at Breda wherein it was mentioned as it 's said that all Offences Injuries Losses and Damages should be buried in Oblivion and all Letters of Reprizal Revoked which Peace and Alliance continued for the space of four years The Dutch Trading in English Bottoms having a War with the French King Then His Majesty declared a second War in Conjunction with France against the States General which continued for the space of two years DUring which time the Proprietors and Creditors Revived their Demands and made fresh Applications to His Majesty in Council to be Relieved in a publick way whereupon several Orders were made at the Council Board That Instructions should be sent to the Embassadors and Plenipotentiaries for that purpose Which being delivered to the said George Carew with the Kings Letter to the said Embassadors in the Month of June 1672. Intimating that the Obligations of all past Treaties being Cancelled it was just and seasonable that provision should be made in the next Treaty for intire satisfaction of the Spoils and Damages of the two Ships Bona Esperanza and Henry Bona Adventura according to the Liquidation in the Letters Patents wherein the Debt was stated and confirmed under the Great Seal for Reparation as aforesaid But in the Month of August the States of Holland Apprehended the said Carew at the Hague notwithstanding his Passport from the Dutch Commissioners or Embassadors at Hampton-Court to Travel all parts of the United Netherlands and committed him and John Sherland to Prison and Condemned the said Carew for a Spie and an Enemy of their Country in obstructing the
Good Intelligence and Understanding between the Ministers of State of both Nations and would have Executed the said Sentence if Mr. John Van Watchtendunck Commissioner of the States General and Advocate Sass had not been Prisoners in the Tower for Crimes of a very High Nature where they continued Prisoners even as Carew and Shirland did during the War which ended in a Separate Peace excluding France concluded at London Feb. 9. 1663 4. Whereby the States General were to pay 800000 Pattacoons to the King of Great Brittain for Damages at four equal Payments in four years The first whereof was paid to Alderman Backwell upon Ratification of the Treaty to the Kings use and the other three were Assigned to the Prince of Orange for old Debts contracted between His Father and Grand-Father and the late King Charles The Bona Esperanza being left in Statu quo without any other regard WHereupon several Questions were propounded concerning the special Grant aforesaid for Reprizals Frist Whether in such a Case under those Circumstances the Debt of 151612 l. and Damages were extinguished or discharged Secondly Whether the Remedy could be taken away or the Patent made null and void without any Satisfaction or Reparation to the Persons Interessed and Injured Which Being Resolved by Councel Learned in the Laws on the Negative as follows As to the first That no Act of State unless by Parliament can bind the particular Right of the Subject without satisfaction first made and that the King could not Release or Discharge any one that had done a private Injury to a particular person but that still be might pursue his Right by way of Law Secondly That Letters of Reprizal granted of Common Right and not of Grace and Favour when once the Power is vested in the Subject pursuant to the Law without any other Limitation then until the Debt and Damages shall be Recovered and Received The same cannot be bound or suspended by any subsequent Act of the King without Reparation the Laws of England having so secured the Subject that it 's not in the Kings power to dispose of His Subjects Goods THe Arguments they used to make good their Assertions inter alia were that the Letters Patents before-mentioned was a Iudicial Act whereby there was granted and confirmed such a permanent and Legal Authority vested with an Interest in Law for satisfaction of the Debt of 151612 l. and not a bare Ambulatory and Temporary Authority or Commission recoverable at pleasure for that such special Grants are required in due form of Law after divers Proceedings Citations Admonitions and Chargable Process in making out the Debt and Damages that oftentimes exceede the demands before they can attain unto Letters of Reprizal Iudicially to remain upon Record until satisfaction and Reparation otherwise the Consequences in Cases of Spoils might prove dangerous and destructive to Civil Society and Commerce there being no other way or Remedy under Heaven left for Recovery and Reparations for Injuries Spoils and Depredations done to the particular Subjects of England since the old Writs De Arresto Facto super bonis Mercatorum alieni genium pro Transgr ' c. in the Register and F. N. B. were taken away by the Statute Laws of the Realm whereby Reprizals were to Issue forth without delay in lieu thereof for satisfaction of Wrongs Losses and Dammages and the Law must not in any Case be rendred ineffectual However upon these Considerations several Addresses were made by the Proprietors and Interessed Creditors to the King and the States General Respectively not omitting the Prince of Orange whose Fortunes were raised by the last War when he was restored to the Offices Honours and Profits of his Father and Grandfather through the Sweat Blood and Labours of English men to have some satisfaction out of the Eight hundred thousand Pattacoons or any other ways as might seem most expedient But nothing could be obtained no not so much as a Hearing of their Cause Then least a failer of Iustice in this Case should be urged by the Foraign Creditors of Courten in France and Flanders or brought as a President against England where there was always the severest profession of Iustice Three Ships were entred into the Admiralty Court by the Proprietors with the Commanders Names number of Men Guns and Provision to Reprize what they could of the said Debt and Dammages according to the purport and intent of the said Letters Patents But upon notice thereof to the States General they Interposed by their Embassador to obstruct the prosecution then a pretended Super Sedeas issued forth afterwards a Proclamation to hinder the due Proceedings at Law yet all this while no offer was made of any Satisfaction either by the States General or the Prince of Orange or by the King of England or any of their Ministers of State respectively Afterwards a Dutch Ship being Laden with Wine and Prunes was taken by one of the said Commanders near the Isle of Wight in the Mouth of December 1680. in order to a Condemnation towards the Debt and Dammages aforesaid Yet several persons were so Blood Thirsty Malicious and Ignorant in the Laws of England as to prosecute the said Commander and his Seamen apprehending them with Warrants which they procured in the Kings Name whereby they were Arrested as Pyrats and Felons the said Warrants being as follows in haec verba CHarles the second by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Marshal of our High Court of Admiralty of England And also to Daniel Giles Marshal of our Vice Admiralty of the Isle of Wight in the County of Southampton and to all Mayors Iustices of Peace Sheriffs Constables and other our Officers and Ministers whatsoever Greeting Whereas it hath appeared to Us in Council by the Examination and Confessions taken in the Isle of Wight before two of our Deputy Vice-Admirals and a publick Notary there That Compton Gwyther Commander of a small Vessel called the George Bona Adventura of about six and twenty Tons burthen Manned with Eleven men furnished with small Arms and Equip'd for taking any Ships Goods Moneys Merchandizes of the States General of the United Provinces by way of Reprizal by vertue of pretended Letters of Marque or Reprizal ☞ heretofore granted to Sir Edward Turnor Knight Deceased and George Carew Esq Did on the third or fourth of December instant near Dungeness in the dead of the Night and in a violent and Hostile manner Seiza on a Galliot Hoy called the Love of Rotterdam Burthen a hundred and sixty Tons Bastean Johnson Master laden with Wine and Prunes at Bourdeaux bound for Dort and by Force and Arms carried her into our said Isle of Wight where she now remains And that the said Daniel Giles our said Marshal hearing thereof in pursuance of our late Proclamation stopt the said Galliot Hoy and secured the said Compton Cwyther and his Company until he
should receive directions how to proceed in the matter And whereas the said Letters of Marque or Reprizal have not only been vacated by a Treaty of Peace made at Breda in the year one thousand six hundred sixty seven betwen Us and the States General But also superseded lately in due form under our Great Seal of England and since so declared by our Proclamation dated the six and twentieth day of August last We haue thereupon amongst other things the fifteenth instant by and with Assent of our Privy Councel ordered that our Trusty and welbeloved Sir Robert Holmes Knight Governour and Vice-Admiral of our said Island should cause the said Compton Gwyther and such of his Crew as are now in Custody to be brought up and delivered to our said Marshal of our said Court of Admiralty that they may be legally proceeded against as Pyrats These are therefore straightly to Charge and Command you that you forthwith receive and take into your Custody the Bodies of the said Compton Gwyther and his Company and them and every of them safely Conduct to our said Marshal of the said High Court of Admiralty whom we hereby straightly Charge and Command to receive and take into his Custody and him and them in such Custody safely to detain and keep until they shall thence by due Course and Order of our said Court of Admiralty be Delivered and set at Large And for so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant Dated under Seal of our said Vice-Admiral the three and twentieth of December in the two and thirtieth year of our Reigne c. To Mr. Daniel Gyles Marshal of the Vice Admiralty of Hampshire John Bowles Register This is a true Copy of the Warrant whereby I did on the first of this Month of January receive into my Custody from the forementioned Mr. Daniel Giles the Bodies of Captain Compton Gwyther William Coats Joseph Bullivant John Baxter Francis Wansell Francis Martin John Gibson and William Jones now Prisoners in the Marshalâ—eas Witness my Hand the 5 th of January 1680. William Joynes Carolus secundus dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Gulielmo Ioynes gen ' Supremae Curiae nostrae Admiralitatis Angl ' Marescal ejusque Deputato cuicunque ac omnibus aliis Officiariis Ministris nostris corum militibus salutem vobis conjunctim divisim Committimus ac firmiter injungendo Mandamus strictéque precipimus quatenus non omittatis propter aliquod libertatem vel Francheiss quin realiter Arrestatis seu Arrestari faciatis ubicunque invenientis quosdam Capitaneum Compton Gwyther Gulielmum Coates Iosephum Bullivant Iohannens Baxter Franciscum Wansell Franciscum Martin Iohannem Gibson Gulielmum Iones eorum Complices fautores Socios pro Nantis in Navicula quadam sive Hoy à Angl ' à Hoy cujus dictus Compton Gwyther est Capitanens se gerentis Piraticae suspectos Actae scilicet perpetratae super quadam Navicula sive Galliotta vocat ' the Love de Rotterdamo cujus Bastiansen Iohnson Denhinc est Magister Ad Williemum Bastiansen subditum Dominor ' ordinum Generalium Foederatraum Belgii Provinciarum spectan ' pertinen ' è Portu de Burdegaliâ in Regno Franciae versus Portum de Dodraco in Hollandia cum bonâ—s Mercibus pro Computo quorundam Mercatorum de Dordrato predict ' subditorum Dominor ' Ordinum pred' vel Incolarum Provinciarum uniti Belgii tendenum sed in Cursu suo mense Decembris ultimo preterit ' super alto mari dum erat in pace Dei optimi maximi nostra predict ' Capitaneum Compton Gwyther socios Piratice spoliata uti sub jurament ' in debita Juris forma prestit ' asleritur in Insula nostra vectis Modo existen ' dictosque Capitaneum Compton Gwyther Gulielmum Coats Iosephum Bullivant Iohannem Baxter Franciscum Wansell Franciscum Martin Iohannem Gibson Wilielmum Iones corum Complices sub sulâ—â— securo Custodiatis seu Custodiri faclatis arresto super Piratici Criminis predict ' suspitione donec quousque corum corpora habeantur coram nobis Justiciariis nostris Admiralitatis Angliae predict ' ad omnia singula Proditiones Felonias Murdra Homicidia Piratices Depredationes alia offensa delicta Maritima quaecunque audiend ' terminand ' assign ' prox ' Sessione Generali pro nobis Admiralitate nostra pred' in Burgo de Southwark in Comitat ' nostra Surriae tenend ' His quae ex parte nostri cum venerint objicienter personaliter respoâ—sur ' ulteriusque factur ' receptur ' quod justum fuerit in hac parte Mandantes in super omnibus singulis proceribus Justiciariis ad pacem Majoribus vici Comitibus Ballivis Marescallis aliisque Officiciariis Ministris nostris quibuscunque quodivobis verum cujuslibet in Executione praemissorum sint Auxiliantes in tendent ' favenâ—es pariter obedientes in omnibus per omnia prout decet sub paena Juris periculo incumbenâ— Dat' Londim in Curia nostra predict ' sub sigillo ejusdem magno quinto die Menfiâ— Ianuarii Anno Domini Stylo Angl ' 1680. Reginque nostri Tricesimo secundo Orlando Gee Regist. THis is a true Copy of the Warrant under the great Seal of the Admiralty which I received after Examination of some Witnesses here upon Oath William Joynes Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty THe Captain and Seamen being so Committed to Prison and Irons put upon them Sir Lyonel Jenkins at the instance of the Dutch Ambassador ordered Mr. Bedford to bind the Dutch Skipper in a Recoganizance of 500 l. to prosecute them as Felons and Pyrats upon the Statute of the 28 of Henry the 8 th Whereupon the Commission of Oyer and â—erminer was Granted under the Great Seal of England directed to the persons hereafter named for Trying of Criminals in the Admiralty dated 24 January 1680. The Names and Titles of the Judges in the said Commission of Oyer and Terminer PRocharissimo Consanguineo Concilar ' nostro Principi Ruperto Comiti Palatini Rheni duci Cambrie c. Vice Admiralla nostr ' Angl ' Predilectâ— fideli Conciliar nostr ' Daniel Finch Ar ' Comissariis nostris ad exequend exercend ' dict' Officium locum Domini magni Admirali Angl ' Respective Assignat ' Deputat ' Charissimo Consanguineo nostro Willielmo Vice Comiti Brunchard Comissariis nostris ad exequend exercend ' dict' Officium locum Domini magni Admirali Angl ' Respective Assignat ' Deputat ' Prelectis fidelibus nostris Thomae Littleton Baronetto Comissariis nostris ad exequend exercend ' dict' Officium locum Domini magni Admirali Angl ' Respective Assignat ' Deputat ' Thomae Meres Militi Comissariis nostris ad exequend exercend ' dict' Officium locum Domini magni Admirali Angl ' Respective Assignat ' Deputat ' Et