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state_n	general_n	province_n	unite_a	3,519	5	10.5869	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32266	His Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, January 24, 1673/4 as also, a letter from the States General of the United Provinces, to His Majesty the King of Great Britain, &c., January 14/24, 1673/4 : together with certain proposals from the said States-General to His Majesty, concerning a peace.	Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.	1674 (1674)	Wing C3056; ESTC R540	4,888	15

the two Nations The matter being thus nothing remains but the perfecting a Work already so advanced and whether Your Majesty desires the thing may be done at London or Cologne The whole Negotiation if Your Majesty pleases will onely consist in putting the Project we send Your Majesty into the form of a Treaty hoping that Your Majesty will not suffer the quiet of Your People and the good of Your Kingdoms to depend upon particular Interests of the Crown of France which continues Entirely to stop the Conferences at Cologne by refusing to give Passports to the Duke of Lorrains Ministers and to receive him into the Negotiation of the Peace in which he must necessarily be admitted in virtue of the Treaties concluded between his Imperial Majesty the most serene King of Spain and us without other aim but of engaging Your Majesty further and further in this sad War so destructive to all Europe the continuing whereof may have so ill Consequences And as the Offers we here make to Your Majesty are real and sincere we are ready to Execute them bona fide if Your Majesty be pleased to Conclude a Treaty of Peace with us without dependance upon Forreign Interests which can onely make this Negotiation ineffectual We have many things to add in answer to the Complaints without ground made by the Lord Keeper of us in his Speech and to the unjust Interpretations he makes of our Conduct But as we are willing to believe and flatter our selves with the hopes that what we offer here to Your Majesty will give you an entire satisfaction and put an end to our unhappy Differences We believe it better to forget and pass over whatever there might be of Animosities and sharpness then longer to keep open the Wounds we desire to heal In the mean while in expectation of Your Majesties answer we pray to God c. Hague January 24th 1674. CERTAIN PROPOSALS FROM THE STATES-GENERAL OF THE UNITED PROVINCES TO HIS MAJESTY OF Great Britain C. Concerning a PEACE THat the Treaty of Breda be Confirmed and Renewed and the Marine Treaty made at the Hague in the year 1668. Article 1. It is also agreed That the Ships and Vessels belonging to the United Provinces as well Men of War and Ships of Defence as others whether they be single or in Fleets which shall happen to meet the King of Great Britain's Men of War in the British Seas whether they also be single or more in number provided they carry the Kings Flag shall strike their Flag and lower their Topsail And the said States of the United Provinces shall order all the Commanders of their Ships and Fleets fully and bona fide to comply with this Article Article 2. And to the end that the Security of the mutual Friendship between the said King and tho said states-States-General their Subjects and Inhabitants may be the more sincerely observed and that all occasions of future Differences and Contentions may be taken away It is also agreed That certain convenient Laws concerning Trade and Commerce be established which may reduce the Navigation and Commerce of both Parties in the Indies and other places out of Europe to an exact and reciprooal Rule and limit the same within certain Laws to be perpetually observed And because this matter seems of too great difficulty to be out of hand perfected both Parties consent it shall be deferred to a more opportune occasion and that Commissioners be nominated within the space of Three Moneths after the Conclusion of this Peace without further delay who shall meet at London and agree upon some certainty as well concerning the designing and circumscribing within a certain bound the Kinds of Merchandises as concerning Laws of Navigation and Commerce and define the same with new and mutual Articles of Convention but upon condition that this whole matter shall be transacted in an amicable way and manner Article 3. And that this Peace Friendship and Confederation may be established upon a firm and unshaken Foundation and that from this day all occasions of new Differences and Disputes may be taken away It is further agreed That whereas the Colony of Surinam has been acquired by the said States-General by Right of War upon certain Articles agreed upon between Captain Abraham Quirini and William Biam March the sixth in the year 1667. And that by the Fifth Article of the same it is agreed That in case any of the Inhabitants of the said Colony should desire then or afterwards to remove from the said Colony elsewhere they should have liberty freely to Sell their Estates and Goods and that the Governour in such case should take care to Provide a conveniency of Transportation for them and their Goods at a moderate Rate And also by the Nineteenth Article of the said Agreement that the Governour Quirini should give Letters of safe Conduct and Passports to such who should have a mind to go away and that they might carry their Slaves with them Provided still that they should be obliged to depart and Sail together with our people And whereas the said King of England judges and believes that the said Articles have not been well observed and that divers English Inhabitants remain there who still desire to leave the Place with their Goods in pursuance of the said Articles The said States-General do by these Presents promise That they will most sincerely and bona fide take care that the said Articles and what was agreed upon at the Congress held afterwards at London concerning the Execution of them and the Orders from the said States-General in pursuance thereof be speedily executed and complied with and that also the space of Three Moneths shall be allowed to the said Inhabitants for the Selling of their Estates according to the Tenor of the said Articles and their Transportation at a moderate Rate whither they will and that they shall be permitted to carry away their Slaves with them Article 4. It is also Agreed and Concluded That if either Party shall during this War have Taken or Possessed themselves of any Countries Islands Towns Forts Colonies or other Places belonging to the other Party all and every of the same without any distinction of place or time shall be immediately and bona fide Restored in the same Condition they shall happen to be in when notice shall come of the Conclusion of this Peace to those Places Article 5. And to the end that all occasions and causes of new Questions Pretensions and Actions may be quite Rooted out of what sort soever they be or by what Name or Pretext soever Claimed and that the Foundations they seem to Stand upon may be wholly Destroyed and Removed The said states-States-General Promise to Pay to His Majesty Eight hundred thousand Patacoons which Sum the said states-States-General of the United Netherlands have for certain Reasons Promised to Pay by a Treaty made in the year 1673 between the King of Spain and them the said States and which the Ambassadour of the said King has offered in their Name to the King of Great Britain the said Sum to be Paid at certain days as follow●●● viz. A Fourth part thereof assoon as the ●●●●fications shall be exhibited and the Rest 〈◊〉 Three ensuing years by equal Portions FINIS