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<HEAD>HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOUS DECLARATION, For the Encouraging the Subjects of the <HI>&V;nited Provinces</HI> of the <HI>Low-Countreys,</HI> to Tran&s;port them&s;elves with their E&s;tates, and to &s;ettle in this His Maje&s;ties Kingdom of <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Publi&s;hed by the Advice of His Privy Council.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas His Maje&s;ty was Graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed, in His late Declaration of War again&s;t the <HI>States General</HI> of the <HI>United Provinces,</HI> of the 17. of <HI>March,</HI> 1671/2. among other things to De|clare, That if any of the <HI>Low-Countries</HI> Subjects, either out of affection to His Maje&s;ty, or His Government, or becau&s;e of the Oppre&s;&s;ion they meet with at home from their Go|vernours, &s;hould come into His Kingdoms, they &s;hould be by His Maje&s;ty protected in their Per&s;ons and E&s;tates: His Maje&s;ty continuing in the &s;ame Gracious Inclination towards all &s;uch of the Subjects of the &s;aid <HI>Low-Countries,</HI> as &s;hall de&s;ire to deliver them&s;elves from, the Calamity and Di&s;tre&s;s into which the ill Coun&s;els of &s;ome prevailing per&s;ons in the Government of tho&s;e Countries have ju&s;tly drawn them, hath thought fit in pur&s;uance of His &s;aid Gracious Intention, hereby further to Declare,</P>
<P N="1">I. That all &s;uch of the Subjects and Inhabitants of the <HI>United Provinces</HI> of the <HI>Low-Countries,</HI> of what Profe&s;&s;ion, Rank, or Condition &s;oever, as &s;hall de&s;ire to withdraw them&s;elves out of tho&s;e Countries, &s;hall have, and from hence|forth they have, by vertue of the&s;e Pre&s;ents, full Leave, Licence and Permi&s;&s;ion from His Maje&s;ty to Tran&s;port them|&s;elves, together with their Families, E&s;tates, Goods and Merchandi&s;es into this His Maje&s;ties Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> in what Ships or Ve&s;&s;els they &s;hall think fit, without Sei&s;ure, Confi&s;cation, Re&s;traint, Trouble or Mole&s;tation what&s;oever.</P>
<P N="2">II. That all &s;uch per&s;ons being arrived in this His Maje&s;ties Kingdom, &s;hall be free in their E&s;tates and Per&s;ons, with liberty to &s;ettle them&s;elves and families where they plea&s;e, and as they plea&s;e, and &s;hall have and enjoy full Liber|ty of Con&s;cience, as to matters of Religion and Wor&s;hip, together with all and &s;ingular the priviledges, Immunities and Advantages, enjoyed by, or belonging to, His Maje&s;ties Natural born Subjects of this His Kingdom; and par|ticularly not to pay, or be lyable to any Cu&s;toms, Payments, or Duties what&s;oever, other then are paid by His Maje&s;ties Natural born Subjects of this Kingdom.</P>
<P N="3">III. That for their greater &s;ecurity in this particular, His Maje&s;ty will at the next Meeting of the Parliament Pa&s;s a Bill for the Naturalizing &s;uch. Per&s;ons, their Children and Servants, and that in the mean time they &s;hall be immediately, and without delay made free Denizens of this His Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> without their Charge or Trouble.</P>
<P N="4">IV. All &s;uch Ships, Boats, Bu&s;&s;es, and Ve&s;&s;els what&s;oever, as do or &s;hall belong to any of the per&s;ons &s;o Tran&s;|porting them&s;elves as afore&s;aid, &s;hall be held and acounted as of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Built, and &s;hall have and enjoy the &s;ame and like Priviledges and Immunities in matters of Trade, Navigation and Cu&s;toms, to all Intents and Purpo&s;es, as if they had been Built in <HI>England,</HI> and did actually belong to His Maje&s;ties Natural born Subjects of this His Kingdom: And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall hereafter bring over to His Maje&s;ty any Ships of War belonging to the <HI>United Pro|vinces,</HI> every &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall forthwith have and receive to their own u&s;e one full moiety of the true value of &s;uch Ships, their Tackle, Guns, Ammunition, and Provi&s;ions.</P>
<P N="5">V. And for the greater encouragement of all &s;uch Seamen, Mariners, Fi&s;hermen, Shipwrights, Carpenters and other Artificers relating to Shipping or Sea-Affairs, as &s;hall de&s;ire to make u&s;e of this His Maje&s;ties Gracious Favour and Compa&s;&s;ion, His Maje&s;ty is plea&s;ed further to add, and accordingly He doth hereby Declare and Promi&s;e, That all &s;uch per&s;ons, and every of them &s;hall be and remain free an and exempt from any Pre&s;s.</P>
<P N="6">VI. And la&s;tly, His Maje&s;ty doth Declare, and Promi&s;e, That he will from time to time grant His free Pa&s;sports and Safe Conducts under His Royal Sign Manual, for the Per&s;ons, Families, Ships, Goods and Merchandi&s;es of all &s;uch as &s;hall thus de&s;ire to Tran&s;port them&s;elves; and if it be found nece&s;&s;ary, will appoint even Convoys to &s;ecure them and their E&s;tates in their Pa&s;&s;age, again&s;t what&s;oever force, violence or mole&s;tation: Further Promi&s;ing and Declaring, That in &s;upply of the want of &s;uch Pa&s;sports, where the parties might not have the Conveniency of Procuring them, His Maje&s;ty will give effectual Order, That what&s;oever Ships or Goods &s;hall at any time hereafter happen to be taken at Sea, being bound for any Port of this His Maje&s;ties Kingdom, and &s;hall truly belong to any per&s;on &s;o Tran&s;porting him&s;elf and his E&s;tate into this His Maje&s;ties Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> &s;hall forthwith, and without all delay be di&s;charged from any &s;uch Seizure Or Detention, and be immediatly re&s;tored to the Owners.</P>
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