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<P>A BOOK OF THE Continuation <HI>of</HI> Forreign Pa&s;&s;ages.</P>
<P><HI>That is,</HI> Of the Peace made between this Common-wealth, &amp; that of the united Provinces of the Netherlands, with all the Articles of that Peace. <HI>Apr.</HI> 5. 1654.</P>
<P><HI>And the</HI> Articles of Peace, Friend&s;hip and Entercour&s;e agreed between <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Sweden,</HI> in a Treaty at <HI>&V;p&s;all. May</HI> 9. 1654.</P>
<P><HI>As al&s;o</HI> The &s;ub&s;tance of the Articles of the Treaty of Peace betwixt <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France.</HI> Given at White Hall the 20 of <HI>Novemb:</HI> 1655.</P>
<P><HI>From Generall</HI> Blakes <HI>Fleet,</HI> The Turks in <HI>Argier</HI> do con&s;ent to deliver up all the Engli&s;h &s;laves, and de&s;ire a firme Peace for ever: And in <HI>Tunnis</HI> Road we battered their Ca&s;tle of <HI>Porta-ferina,</HI> and &s;et on fire their fleet in the Har|bour. <HI>Apr.</HI> 9. 1655.</P>
<P><HI>MOREOVER, An attempt on the I&s;land of</HI> Jamaica, <HI>and taking the Town of St.</HI> Jago de la viga, <HI>beating the Enemy from their Forts and Ordnance, being a body of</HI> 3000 <HI>men, and &s;o took po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the I&s;land,</HI> May 10 1655. <HI>With a full De&s;cription thereof.</HI></P>
<P>With a true Narrative of the late Succe&s;&s;e which it hath plea&s;ed God to give to &s;ome part of the Fleet of this Common-wealth, the Speaker, the Bridg-water, the Plimouth Frigots, again&s;t the King of <HI>Spains</HI> We&s;t India Fleet: the value of what is taken and pose&s;&s;ed by the calculation of the Spaniards about nine millions of pieces of eight, and 350 pri&s;oners, and all this with|out the lo&s;&s;e of one ve&s;&s;ell of the Engli&s;h, 1656.</P>
<Q><P>He hath &s;hewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the Heathen,</P>
<BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 111.6.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>M. S.</HI> for <HI>Thomas Jenner</HI> at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange. 1657.</P>
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<HEAD>A <HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> of the Peace made between this Common-wealth, and that of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.</HEAD>
<P>_HIS Highne&s;&s;e the Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> con&s;idering how nece&s;&s;ary it is not onely to pre&s;erve Peace and Quiet at home, but as far as in him lies, to live in Amity and Friend&s;hip with his Neighbours, hath by the ble&s;&s;ing of God, with the advice of his Councell made and concluded a Peace, &V;nion, and Confederation to continue for ever, between this Common-wealth of the one part, and that of the &V;nited Provinces of the Low-Countries of the other part; their Lands, Countries, Cities, Towns, Dominions, Territories, Places and People, by Sea, Land, Fre&s;h waters, and el&s;ewhere; by the which Peace it is agreed, That all Enmity, Hostility, Di&s;cord and War between the
<PB N="2" REF="3">&s;aid Common-wealths, their People and Subjects &s;hall cea&s;e, and all injuries and wrongs what&s;oever done &s;ince the <HI>18</HI> of <HI>May, 1652.</HI> &s;hall cea&s;e and be forgotten, except &s;uch depre|dations as &s;hall be committed by either &s;ide in the&s;e Seas after <HI>12</HI> days, from the date of the&s;e pre&s;ents, and in all o|ther places on this &s;ide the Cape of St. <HI>Vincent,</HI> after &s;ix weeks; and from thence, within the <HI>Mediteranean</HI> Sea, and to the <HI>Aequinoctial Line,</HI> after ten weeks; and beyond the <HI>Aequinoctiall Line,</HI> after the &s;pace of <HI>8</HI> Months, or immediately after &s;ufficient notice of the &s;aid Peace given in tho&s;e places. And that the people and Inhabitants of each party re&s;pectively, of what condition or quality &s;oever they be, &s;hall treat each other with love and friend&s;hip, and may freely and &s;ecurely come into, and pa&s;&s;e through each others Countries, Towns, Villages and Precincts, and there &s;tay and abide, and from thence depart again at their plea&s;ure, with|out any hinderance and mole&s;tation, and likewi&s;e trade and have eommerce, and generally doe u&s;e, and exerci&s;e all other things (ob&s;erving the Laws and Cu&s;tomes of each place re|&s;pectively) as freely, fully and &s;ecurely as they might have done in time of Peace: Whereof all per&s;ons what&s;oever in the&s;e Nations of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> are to take notice, and conforme them&s;elves accordingly. </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at White Hall</HI> <DATE><HI>this 26 of</HI> April, <HI>1654.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>O. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Articles of Peace, <HI>abreviated,</HI> April <HI>5. 1654.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">I. IT is agreed, concluded, and accorded, that from this day forward there &s;hall be a true, firm and inviolable Peace, betwixt the Common-wealth of <HI>England,</HI> and the States Generall of the United Pro|vinces of the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> and the re&s;pective Lands, Countries, and Cities, without di&s;tinction of places, under their obedience.</P>
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<P N="2">II. That from henceforth all enmity, ho&s;tility, di&s;cord and War betwixt the &s;aid two Common-wealths, their People and Subjects, &s;hall cea&s;e, by Sea, Land, and fre&s;h-waters.</P>
<P N="3">III. All offences, injuries, charges, and damages, which either party hath &s;u&s;tained by the other, &s;ince the 18 (<HI>alias</HI> 28) of <HI>May,</HI> 1652. &s;hall be taken away and forgotten. And all actions for the &s;ame &s;hall be held and reputed voyd and null.</P>
<P N="4">IV. All Pri&s;oners of both &s;ides, of what condition, or in what&s;oever places they be, &s;hall be &s;et at liberty.</P>
<P N="5">V. The two Common-wealths &s;hall remain con|federate friends, joyned, and allied together for the defence and pre&s;ervation of the Liberties and Free|dome of each again&s;t all whom&s;oever, or be declared Enemies to the Freedome and Liberty of the people living under either of the &s;aid Governments.</P>
<P N="6">VI. Neither of the Common-wealths &s;hall make, doe, act, treat of, or attempt any thing again&s;t the o|ther, or the people of either, in any place either at Land or Sea, upon any occa&s;ion what&s;oever. Nor that either of them, or the people of either, give, yield, or afford any aide, coun&s;el, favour, or a&s;&s;ent that any thing &s;hall be done, treated of, or attempted by any other whom&s;oever, to the injury and wrong of the other, but &s;hall expre&s;ly contradict, gain&s;ay, oppo&s;e, and really hinder all whom&s;oever, that act, do, treat of, or attempt any thing again&s;t either of the Com|mon-wealths.</P>
<P N="7">VII. Neither of the Commonwealths, or the peo|ple abiding, inhabiting, or dwelling within either of them re&s;pectively, &s;hall yield, give, or afford any aid coun&s;el or favour to the Enemies or Rebels of either, but &s;hall expre&s;ly, really, and with effect hinder either
<PB N="4" REF="4">of them from giving any aide or a&s;&s;i&s;tance, by Men Shipping, Arms, Ammunition, Money, Victualls, or otherwi&s;e by Sea or Land, and all &s;uch Ships or per|&s;ons what&s;oever, that &s;hall be made u&s;e of, contrary to the intent of this Article, &s;hall be forfeited to the re|&s;pective Commonwealths, and the per&s;ons imployed therein, declared Enemies to both Commonwealths, and &s;uffer the penalties of Trea&s;on where the offence was committed. And to the end there may be a &s;peci|fication made of what Goods &s;hall be deemed prohi|bit, or contraband, Commi&s;&s;ioners may in conveni|ent time be appointed to determine herein. Provi|ded that this extend not to the impeachment of any thing contained in the pre&s;ent Article.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. The two Common-wealths &s;hall truly and &s;incerely a&s;&s;i&s;t each other as need &s;hall require, again&s;t the Rebels of either, at Sea and Land, at the co&s;ts and expences of the party requiring the &s;ame, upon &s;uch conditions as the two States &s;hall agree.</P>
<P N="9">IX. That neither of the Common-wealths &s;hall receive any per&s;on or per&s;ons, that are Enemies to the other, nor afford any aid, coun&s;el, lodging, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> but &s;hall expre&s;ly and effectually, oppo&s;e and hinder the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="10">X. That if either Common-wealth &s;hall by their publick Letters &s;ignifie to the other, any per&s;ons to be, and have been their Enemies, that they re&s;ide, be hid, or &s;helter them&s;elves in their Juri&s;dictions, that Common-wealth receiving &s;uch Letters, &s;hall within 28 dayer charge &s;uch Enemy to depart their Juri&s;di|dictions, and if they &s;hall not depart within 15 days, to be puni&s;hed with death, and lo&s;&s;e of lands &amp; goods.</P>
<P N="11">XI. No Rebel of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> &s;hall by any be received into any place of the United
<PB N="5" REF="4">Provinces: And if any per&s;on under their power, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> the contrary, &s;uch per&s;on &s;hall forfeit and loo&s;e their Ca&s;tles, Towns, which they &s;hall at &s;uch time have or pretend to have. And no declared Enemy of the United Provinces &s;hall be received into any places holden or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed in <HI>England,</HI> but they &s;hall hinder the &s;ame, and in ca&s;e of contempt, forfeit the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="12">XII. Both Common wealths &s;hall treat on both &s;ides with all love and friend&s;hip, and come by water or land to each Havens, with freedome, and continue there as long as they plea&s;e, and trade in any goods, paying Cu&s;tomes, &s;aving always all and &s;ingular the Lawes and Ordinances of either Common-wealth re&s;pectively.</P>
<P N="13">XIII. The Ships and Ve&s;&s;els of the United Pro|vinces, meeting any the Ships of War of this Com|monwealth in the Britti&s;h Seas, &s;hall &s;trike their Flag and lower their Top-&s;aile.</P>
<P N="14">XIV. Neither of the &s;aid Common-wealths &s;hall receive into any of their Havens, or give affi&s;tance or relief unto any Pirates or Sea-Rovers, but &s;hall cau&s;e them to be apprehended, all &s;hips taken, &s;hall be re|&s;tored to the right owners, or made good to them.</P>
<P N="15">XV. That if either Common-wealth, &s;hall here|after make any Treaty with any other Nation, the one &s;hall give notice to, and comprehend the other, if they de&s;ire it.</P>
<P N="16">XVI. If during the Amity, any thing &s;hall be acted again&s;t this Treaty, it &s;hall not be hereby inter|rupted, or broken off, onely tho&s;e particular per&s;ons who have offended, &s;hall be puni&s;hed, and &s;atisfaction made to all per&s;ons concerned, after 12 month de|manding thereof, in any part of <HI>Europe,</HI> within the Straights of <HI>Gilbralter,</HI> in <HI>America,</HI> upon the Coa&s;ts of
<PB N="6" REF="5"><HI>Africk,</HI> or on this &s;ide the Cape of Good Hope, and beyond the &s;aid Cape within 18 months, and in ca&s;e the offenders &s;hall not &s;ubmit them&s;elves to Ju&s;tice, they &s;hall be declared Enemies to both Common-wealths, their E&s;tates confi&s;cate, and per&s;ons liable to &s;uch further puni&s;hments, as their offence &s;hall de&s;erve.</P>
<P N="17">XVII. The people of the Common-wealth of <HI>England,</HI> may freely, unmole&s;ted, and &s;ecurely travell in and through the Countries of the United Provin|ces in <HI>Europe,</HI> in them, or beyond them, to follow their Traffick in all places there; as al&s;o their Factors or Servants, armed or unarmed; but if armed, not a|bove 40 men in company. And the people the Uni|ted Provinces of the <HI>Netherlands</HI> may injoy the &s;ame liberty in the Common-wealth of <HI>England</HI> in <HI>Europe,</HI> they conforming to the Laws thereof.</P>
<P N="18">XVIII. If the Merchant Ships of one or the other &s;ide, &s;hall through Tempe&s;t, Pirats, or any other ne|ce&s;&s;ity, be driven into the Ports of either, it &s;hall be free for them to depart without payment of any Cu|&s;tomes, or other duties; provided they break not bulk, or expo&s;e any thing to &s;ale.</P>
<P N="19">XIX. The Merchants, Ma&s;ters, Pilots, or Marri|ners, of either Common-wealth, their Ships or Mer|chandizes &s;hall not be &s;eized or arre&s;ted in the Lands, or Rivers of the other, for any warlike or other &s;er|vice, except upon inevitable nece&s;&s;ity, and ju&s;t &s;atis|faction for the &s;ame; provided that hereby &s;hall not be excluded the Arre&s;ts and Seizures in the ordinary way of Law of each Common-wealth.</P>
<P N="20">XX. The Merchants on both &s;ides, and the Ship|ma&s;ters, may by Sea and Land, carry all &s;orts of Arms for defence and offence; but being come to their
<PB N="7" REF="5">Inns, &s;hall lay down their Arms, and &s;o leave them till they return on board again.</P>
<P N="21">XXI. The Men of War of either Commonwealth, meeting or overtaking any Merchants Ship belong|ing to the other, or holding both one cour&s;e, &s;hall take them under their protection, and defend them again&s;t all attempts.</P>
<P N="22">XXII. If a Ship of either Common-wealth, or a Newrer, &s;hall be taken in the Havens of either by any third party; they, in or from who&s;e Haven the &s;aid Ships &s;hall be taken, &s;hall endeavor the re-taking of the &s;aid Ship, at the charge of the proprietors.</P>
<P N="23">XXIII. That Searchers on both parts, &s;hall regu|late them&s;elves according to the Laws of each Com: and not levy or take more they are allowed.</P>
<P N="24">XXIV. In ca&s;e wrong be done, again&s;t any the Articles of this Treaty, no Letters of Reprizall, Mark or Countermark &s;hall be granted, till fir&s;t Ju&s;tice be &s;ought, and in ca&s;e Ju&s;tice be refu&s;ed or delayed, and no &s;atisfaction made within 3 months, then Letters of Reprizall, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> may be granted.</P>
<P N="25">XXV. All per&s;ons going to Sea, having particu|lar Commi&s;&s;ions, &s;hall put in &s;ecurity to doe no wrong to either &s;ide.</P>
<P N="26">XXVI. Free acce&s;&s;e &s;hall be granted to each others Ports, with Merchants Ships, and Men of war, &s;o they exceed not the number of 8 Ships of War, nor &s;tay longer then for the reparation of their Ships; and if any greater number, then it is not lawfull to make entrance without fir&s;t obtaining leave from the Go|vernor, and make no longer &s;tay then he &s;hall permit, and during their &s;tay &s;hall commit no ho&s;tile act, or do any thing to the prejudice of the &s;aid Ports.</P>
<P N="27">XXVII. The Lords of the United Provinces &s;hall
<PB N="8" REF="6">take care that Ju&s;tice be done on the Authors of the Murther of the Engli&s;h in <HI>Amboyna.</HI></P>
<P N="28">XXVIII. Whereas certain Engli&s;h Ships and Goods have been &s;eized and detained within the Do|minions of the King of <HI>Denmarke,</HI> &s;ince <HI>May</HI> 18. 1652. the States Generall have oblidged them&s;elves, That re&s;titution &s;hall be made of all the Engli&s;h Ships and Goods detained yet in <HI>&s;pecie;</HI> together with the true and ju&s;t price of &s;uch as are &s;old, imbezled, or otherwi&s;e di&s;po&s;ed of, within 14 days after the arrival of the Merchants for the receiving of them. And al&s;o that Damages be given for the lo&s;&s;es &s;u&s;tained by the Engli&s;h, by rea&s;on of the &s;aid detention, according to what &s;hall be arbitrated by <HI>Edw: Win&s;low, James Ru&s;&s;el, John Beex, Wil: Vander Cruy&s;&s;en,</HI> on the part of the Lord Protector, and the States Generall, to examine the demands of the Merchants; and to meet at <HI>Gold&s;miths</HI> Hall, <HI>London,</HI> June 27. and make Oath before the Judges of the High Court of Admiralty, that they will proceed without re&s;pect to any particular inte|re&s;t what&s;oever. And the 1 of <HI>Aug:</HI> next, unle&s;&s;e they agree upon Sentence &s;ooner, be &s;hut up in a Chamber by them&s;elves without fire, candle, meat, drink, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> till &s;uch time as they come to an agreement, and the award &s;hall be Obligatory to both parties. And the States Generall do firmly Oblige them&s;elves to per|form the &s;ame, to pay &s;uch &s;um of money here at <HI>Lon|don,</HI> as the &s;aid Arbitrators &s;hall a judge to be paid for the u&s;e of the &s;aid Owners, as the L: Protector &s;hall nominate within 25 dayes after the adjudication made, and the States Gen: &s;hall pay at <HI>London</HI> the &s;um of 5000 <HI>l. &s;ter.</HI> towards the Charges of the Merchants, Ma&s;ters, or their A&s;&s;igns, for their Journy to <HI>Denmark,</HI> and the &s;um of 20000 Rix Dollars, to &s;uch per&s;ons as
<PB N="9" REF="6" MS="y">his Highne&s;&s;e &s;hall appoint, within 6 days after their arrivall there. Which &s;aid &s;ums &s;hall be accounted in part of payment of &s;uch &s;um, as &s;hall be &s;o awarded. And that &s;ecurity &s;hall be given by &s;ufficient men li|ving in <HI>London,</HI> binding them&s;elves in 140000 <HI>l. &s;terl.</HI> that re&s;titution &s;hall be made according to the pre|mi&s;es: and that the 20000 Rix Dollars &s;hall on their part be duely performed. And if all the Conditions be not really performed, then the &s;aid &s;um of 140000 <HI>l. &s;terl.</HI> &s;hall be paid to &s;uch per&s;ons as his Highne&s;&s;e &s;hall nominate, that the Merchants lo&s;&s;es may be &s;atisfied.</P>
<P N="29">XXIX. The States Gen: have undertaken the re|&s;titution of the Ships and Goods, and the &s;ame being performed, all que&s;tions, &s;trifes, and wrongs between the &s;aid Common-wealth and King &s;hall cea&s;e and be for ever forgotten, and &s;hal be as a friend comprehen|ded and included in this Treaty &amp; Confederation.</P>
<P N="30">XXX. That at the time of the delivery of the In|&s;truments of Ratification, four Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall be nominated on both &s;ides to meet here at <HI>London, May</HI> 18. to examine and determine all the lo&s;&s;es and injuries which either &s;ide alleges to have &s;u&s;tained from the other &s;ince the year 1611. unto <HI>May</HI> 18. 1652. as well in the <HI>Ea&s;t-Indies,</HI> as in <HI>Greenland, Mu&s;covy, Bra|&s;il,</HI> or any other place. And if the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall not within 3 months come to an agreement, the differences &s;hall be &s;ubmmitted to the judgement and arbitration of the Prote&s;tant Cantons of <HI>Switzerland,</HI> who by an In&s;trument for this purpo&s;e, &s;hall be de&s;i|red-to take upon them that Arbitration, and appoint like Commi&s;&s;ioners impowred and in&s;tructed to give finall judgement thereupon within 6 months after the expiration of the 3 months; and what&s;oever the
<PB N="10" REF="7">major part of them &s;hall award, &s;hall oblige both par|ties, and be performed accordingly.</P>
<P N="31">XXXI. It is agreed, That both parties &s;hall well and truly perform, and cau&s;e to be performed, this pre&s;ent Treaty.</P>
<P N="32">XXXII. The States General do by the&s;e pre&s;ents, firmly oblige them&s;elves, that all and &s;igular whom, &s;hall at any time elect, con&s;titute, or appoint, Capt. Gen. <HI>Stadtholder,</HI> Commander of their Army, or Ad|miral of any of their Fleets, &s;hall confirm by Oath this Treaty, all the things therein contained, and &s;hall promi&s;e to perform and keep the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="33">XXXIII. La&s;tly, it is agreed that the pre&s;ent Trea|ty &s;hall within 15 days next, be confirmed and ratified in due and authentick form, by the &s;aid L: Protector, and the &s;aid States Gen: of the United Provinces, by their Letters, Patents under their Great Seals, and that In&s;truments of Ratification &s;hall be delivered in|terchangeably, within the time afore&s;aid. And fur|thermore that this Treaty and Con&s;ederation &s;hall immediately after delivery of the In&s;truments, be pubi&s;hed, according to the u&s;uall &s;olemnity, and in the places accu&s;tomed; and that all Acts of Ho&s;tility &s;hall cea&s;e on both &s;ides from that time.</P>
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<HEAD>Articles of Peace, Friend&s;hip and Entercour&s;e concluded and agreed between <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Sweden.</HI> May <HI>9. 1654.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">I. THat from henceforth there be and remain a good, firm, &s;incere and perpetual Peace, Amity, Allyance and corre&s;pondence between the Protector and Commonwealth of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI>
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</FIGURE> and the Queen and Kingdome of <HI>Sweden,</HI> and all and &s;ingular their Dominions, Kingdoms, Countries, Pro|vinces, I&s;lands, Plantations, Lands, Cities, Towns, People, Citizens, and generally all their Subjects and Inhabitants, &s;o that each part treat and u&s;e the other with all reall friend&s;hip and affection.</P>
<P N="2">II. The &s;aid Confederates their People, Subjects and Inhabitants &s;hall, as opportunity is offered, take care of, and promote the welfare each of other. And &s;hall adverti&s;e each other, upon knowledge thereof, of all imminent dangers, plots, and con&s;piracies of Enemies again&s;t the other; and, as much as in them lies, oppo&s;e, and hinder the &s;ame. Neither &s;hall the one Confederate, either by him&s;elf, or any el&s;e, treat of, act, or attempt any thing to the prejudice and di&s;|advantage of the other, his Lands or Dominions, in
<PB N="12" REF="8">what&s;oever place, whether at Sea or Land; nor &s;hall any way a&s;&s;i&s;t the Rebells or Enemies of the other, to the damage of the Confederate, nor receive, or enter|taine within his Dominions, any Rebell or Traytor, who &s;hall attempt any thing again&s;t the others State, much le&s;&s;e afford them any Council, help or favour, or permit it to be done by any of his Subjects, People and Inhabitants.</P>
<P N="3">III. The &s;aid Protector and Commonwealth, and the &s;aid Queen &amp; Kingdome &s;hall take diligent care, That, as much as in them lies, all impediments and ob&s;tacles be removed, which have hitherto interrup|ted the freedome of Navigation and Commerce, as well between both Nations, as with other People and Countries within the Dominions, Lands, Seas and Rivers of either. And &s;hall &s;incerely endeavor to a&s;&s;ert maintain, defend and promote the afore&s;aid Liberty of Navigation and Commerce again&s;t all the Di&s;turbers thereof, by &s;uch ways and means, as either in this pre&s;ent Treaty, or hereafter &s;hall be agreed upon. Neither &s;hall they &s;uffer, that either by them|&s;elves, their Subjects and People, or through their default, any thing be done or committed contrary hereunto.</P>
<P N="4">IV. That either of the afore&s;aid Confederates their People and Subjects, may without any &s;afe con|duct, licence, generall or &s;peciall freely and &s;ecurely go and enter by Land or Sea, in and to the Kingdoms, Countries, Provinces, Lands, I&s;lands, Cities, Villages, Towns, whether walled or unwalled, fortified, or o|therwi&s;e, Havens and what&s;oever Dominions of the other, and there &s;tay and from thence return or pa&s;&s;e through; and in the &s;ame places, upon ju&s;t prices to procure, and have provi&s;ion of Victuals, for their u&s;e
<PB N="13" REF="8">and &s;u&s;tenance and to be u&s;ed with all friendly Offi|ces. And that either Confederate, their People and &s;ubjects may trade and have commerce in all places where commerce hath hitherto been exerci&s;ed, in what Goods and Merchandi&s;es they plea&s;e, and may freely import and export the &s;ame, paying the Cu|&s;toms which are due, and conforming them&s;elves to the Laws and Ordinances of the &s;aid Commonwealth and Kingdome, whether the &s;ame re&s;pect Trade or any other right; which pre&s;uppo&s;ed, the People, &s;ubjects and inhabitants of both Confederates, &s;hall have and enjoy in each others Kingdoms, Countries, Lands and Dominions, as large and ample privileges, Relaxations, Liberties and immunities, as any other Foreiner at pre&s;ent doth, or hereafter &s;hall enjoy there.</P>
<P N="5">V. No Merchants, Captains, and Ma&s;ters of Ships, Mariners, nor any other Per&s;ons, Ships, Goods, or Merchandize belonging to either Confederate &s;hall upon any publique, or private account, by virtue of any Edict Generall or &s;peciall, within any the Lands, Havens, Sea roads, Coa&s;ts, or Dominions of the other, for any publick &s;ervice, or expedition of war, or any other cau&s;e, much le&s;&s;e for any private u&s;e, be &s;eized, embargued, arre&s;ted, forced by violence, or be any way mole&s;ted or injured, provided onely &s;uch arre&s;ts as are conformable to ju&s;tice and equity be not here|by prohibited, &s;o be it they are made according to the ordinary cour&s;e of Law, and not granted upon private affection, or partiality, but are requi&s;ite for the admini&s;tration of right and ju&s;tice.</P>
<P N="6">VI. In ca&s;e any of the Ships of either Confederate, whether of War or Merchants, belonging to the &s;ub|jects &amp; People of either, be by occa&s;ion of Tempe&s;ts,
<PB N="14" REF="9">pur&s;uit of Pyrates and Enemies, or any other urgent nece&s;&s;ity con&s;trained to put into each others Havens, Roads or &s;hores, they &s;hall be received there with all kindne&s;&s;e and humanity, and enjoy all friendly pro|tection, and be permitted to refre&s;h them&s;elves and procure at a rea&s;onable price, all things needfull for their &s;u&s;tenance, reparation, or u&s;e. Neither &s;hall they be hindred from going out of the &s;aid Ports or Roads, at their plea&s;ure, without paying any cu&s;toms or du|ties. Provided they do nothing contrary to the Laws Ordinances and Cu&s;toms of the place, which the &s;aid Ships &s;hall enter into or abide in.</P>
<P N="7">VII. In like manner, if any Ship or Ships whether publick or private, belonging to either Confederate, their People and Subjects, &s;hall within any the Coa&s;ts or Dominions of the other, &s;tick upon the &s;ands, or be forced to lighten their burden, or be wrack'd, or &s;uffer any damage, all friendly help and reliefe &s;hall be given them upon a competent reward. And what|ever &s;hall be remaining of the goods thrown over|board or after &s;hipwrack, or any other damage &s;u&s;tai|ned, &s;hall be kept in &s;afe cu&s;tody, and re&s;tored to the Owner, or whom the &s;aid Owner &s;hall appoynt.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. In ca&s;e the People and Subjects on either part, whether they be Merchants, Factors, or Ser|vants, Ma&s;ters of Ships, Mariners, or &s;uch others, who travell and inhabit within the Dominions of the o|ther, or tho&s;e who act on their behalfe before any Court of Judicature, for recovery of their Debts, or for other lawfull occa&s;ions, &s;hall &s;tand in need of the Magi&s;trates help, the &s;ame &s;hall be readily, and accor|ding to the equity of their Cau&s;e, in friendly manner granted them, and Ju&s;tice &s;hall be admini&s;tred to them without long and unnece&s;&s;ary Delays. Neither
<PB N="15" REF="9">&s;hall they be any way mole&s;ted upon any pretence in the Di&s;patch of their Affairs, in their Journeying, Bargaining, and Receiving the Price of their Commo|dities, but that all Love and Friend&s;hip be extended towards them. And it &s;hall be free for them on both &s;ides, in their pa&s;&s;age to and again, in each others Coa&s;ts, Ships, Havens, and Publick Places, to wear about them Arms for their proper defence, &s;o be it they give no ju&s;t &s;u&s;pition to the Governour or Ma|gi&s;trate of the place, of any de&s;ign again&s;t the publick or private peace. But he e&s;pecially who behaves and demeans him&s;elfe &s;oberly and inoffen&s;ively, &s;hall be protected from all injury, violence &amp; mole&s;tation.</P>
<P N="9">IX. The &s;aid Confederates, and all and &s;ingular their People and Subjects, may buy and export out of all the Countries, Dominions and Kingdomes of the other, all kind of Armour and Provi&s;ion of War, and may &s;afely and freely put in with their Ships, and ar|rive at each others Ports, Havens and Shores, and there &s;tay, and thence depart, they carrying them|&s;elves peaceably, and conformably to the Laws and Cu&s;tomes of the re&s;pective places, and not di&s;turbing the freedome of commerce therein. In like manner the Ships of War &s;hall have free acce&s;&s;e to the Ports of either, there to &s;tay, and come to anchor, but not in &s;uch numbers as &s;hall occa&s;ion manife&s;t &s;u&s;pition, without the leave and con&s;ent of that Confederate fir&s;t obtained, to whom the Port belongs, unle&s;s com|pelled thereto by tempe&s;t, force, or danger of the Sea, in which ca&s;e they &s;hall &s;ignifie to the Governor, or chief Magi&s;trate of the Place, the cau&s;e of their Arri|vall, and &s;hall continue there no longer then the &s;aid Governor &s;hall permit. Ob&s;erving always the Laws afore&s;aid, and &s;uch as &s;hall hereafter be agreed upon.</P>
<PB N="16" REF="10">
<P N="10">X. The Subjects and Inhabitants of the Queen and Kingdome of <HI>Sweden,</HI> may &s;afely and freely travell in <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Dominions thereof, and pa&s;&s;e through the &s;ame by Sea or Land, to any other Nations freely to traffick and have com|merce with them in all &s;orts of merchandize, and to import and export the &s;ame. And the People of the &s;aid Commonwealth &s;hall enjoy the &s;ame freedome in the Kingdomes, Dominions and Territories, of the Queen and Kingdome of <HI>Sweden.</HI> Provided, the Laws, Ordinances, and particular rights of each Nation, concerning Trade and Commerce be ob&s;erved, on both &s;ides.</P>
<P N="11">XI. Although in the preceeding Articles of this pre&s;ent Treaty, it be forbid to either Confederate to yield any aid or a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the Enemies of the o|ther; yet it is not to be &s;o under&s;tood, as if either Confederate having no War with the Enemies of the other, might not &s;aile to, or traffick with the &s;aid Enemies, notwith&s;tanding the other Confederate be in actuall war with them; But it is onely provided, That till a more particular agreement be made con|cerning this matter, no goods called goods of <HI>Contra|banda,</HI> a Catalogue and Specification of which &s;hall be made within 4 months after the date hereof, &s;hall be carried to the Enemies of each other without peril in ca&s;e they be taken, of being adjudged lawful prize without hope of Re&s;titution.</P>
<P N="12">XII. But le&s;t &s;uch Navigation and Entercour&s;e of the one Confederate, his People &amp; Subjects by Land or Sea, with other Nations, during the War of the o|ther Confederate, &s;hould redound to the prejudice of the other Confed: And le&s;t goods of Enemies, &s;hould pa&s;&s;e concealed under the name of Friends; for the
<PB N="17" REF="10">removall of all &s;u&s;pition and prevention of fraud herein, it is agreed, That all Ships, Waggons, Wares and men, belonging to either Confederate, &s;hall in their pa&s;&s;age, have Letters of &s;afe conduct, commonly called Pa&s;&s;e-ports, and Certificates &s;igned by the Go|vernour, or chief Magi&s;trate of the Province or City, from whence they come; Of which Letters and Cer|tificates &s;uch forms &s;hall be ob&s;erved as &s;hall be mu|tually concluded upon, within the &s;pace of 4 months, next after the date hereof. And where&s;oever any the Merchandize, goods, ve&s;&s;els, or men belonging to ei|ther, their People and Subjects, &s;hall be met with either in open Sea, or in any Channel, Haven, Road, Land, or any other place by the Ships of War, publick or private, or by any the People, Subjects and Inha|bitants of the other, or &s;hall happen to be in one place with them, they producing their Letters of &s;afe Con|duct and Certificates afore&s;ad, &s;hall have nothing fur|ther exacted of them, no &s;earch made, either of Goods, Ve&s;&s;els or Men, much le&s;&s;e &s;hall they receive any da|mage, injury or mole&s;tation; but &s;hall be &s;uffered to pa&s;&s;e on with freedome to pur&s;ue their occa&s;ions. And if any People and Subjects of either &s;hall do, or commit any thing contrary to the proper &s;en&s;e of this pre&s;ent Article, either Confederate &s;hall take care that &s;evere puni&s;hment be inflicted on the Offenders, and cau&s;e full and &s;peedy &s;atisfaction to be made to the parties wronged, for all Co&s;ts and Damages.</P>
<P N="13">XIII. In ca&s;e it &s;hall hereafter happen, that du|ring this Amity and Confederation, any of the Peo|ple or &s;ubjects of either, &s;hall act or attempt any thing again&s;t the &s;ame or any part thereof, either by Land, Sea, or other waters, this Amity, Confederation and Allyance, &s;hall not be thereupon interrupted or bro|ken
<PB N="18" REF="11">of, but &s;hall remain and continue &s;till in full force and virtue. Onely in &s;uch ca&s;e the particular per&s;ons which have offended, &s;hall be puni&s;hed, and no o|thers; And that Ju&s;tice &s;hall be done and &s;atisfaction made to all per&s;ons injured, within 12 months after Demand thereof. And in ca&s;e the Per&s;ons &s;o offen|ding as afore&s;aid &s;hall not appear and &s;ubmit them|&s;elves to Ju&s;tice, and make &s;atisfaction within the &s;aid Term, the &s;aid Per&s;ons &s;hall be declared enemies to both States, and their e&s;tates, goods and effects what&s;oever, &s;hall be confi&s;cated &amp; employed to a due and full &s;atisfaction for the wrong by them done. And their per&s;ons &s;hall be lyable to further puni&s;hment when they &s;hall come within the power of either State, as the quality of their offence &s;hall de&s;erve. And that &s;peedy re&s;titution and &s;atisfaction be made for the lo&s;&s;e and dammage which either part hath &s;u&s;tained from the other, during the War betwixt <HI>England</HI> and the United Provinces.</P>
<P N="14">XIV. This pre&s;ent Treaty and Confederation &s;hall in nothing derogate from any preeminence, right or Dominion of either Confederate within any his own Seas, Channels or Waters, but that they have and retain the &s;ame, in as full and ample manner as they have had, or as of right belongs to them.</P>
<P N="15">XV. It being the primary intent of this League and Amity, that each Confederate their People and Subjects might enjoy &s;uch Navigation and Com|merce, as is de&s;cribed in the foregoing Articles, with|in the <HI>Balticke, Sound, Northern, Western,</HI> and <HI>Briti&s;h Seas, Mediterranean</HI> and <HI>Channel,</HI> and other the Seas in <HI>Europe;</HI> Therefore all &s;incere endeavor &s;hall be u&s;ed on both &s;ides by common advi&s;e, aid and a&s;&s;i&s;tance, that the afore&s;aid mutuall Liberty of Navigation and
<PB N="19" REF="11">commerce, be e&s;tabli&s;hed, promoted, and as occa&s;ion is, defended again&s;t all the Di&s;turbers thereof, who &s;hall go about to interrupt, prohibit, hinder or re|&s;train and limit the &s;ame to their own will and plea|&s;ure, in prejudice of the &s;aid Confederates. And ei|ther part &s;hall with all willingne&s;&s;e or readine&s;s, pro|mote the good and prevent the hurt each of other; Saving the Treaties which either Nation hath made with other Kingdoms, Commonwealths &amp; Nations. And neither Confederate &s;hall hereafter make any League or Agreement in prejudice of this pre&s;ent, with any other People or Nation without the privi|ty and con&s;ent of the other, or if any &s;uch Agreement be hereafter made, the &s;ame &s;hall be reputed null and voyd, and give place to this pre&s;ent Treaty. But as for the manner of giving aid and a&s;&s;i&s;tance each to o|ther for the defence of this League and of the Liberty of Commerce and Navigation, a more particular a|greement, as need &s;hall require, &s;hall be made there|upon accommodated to the Circum&s;tances of time and other affairs.</P>
<P N="16">XVI. For what concerns other Commodities, which Ships of War may enjoy, and the Laws by which they &s;hall regulate them&s;elves when they ar|rive in each others Ports and Harbors: and for what concerns commerce to be exerci&s;ed in <HI>America;</HI> as al&s;o the advantages of the <HI>Herring,</HI> and other Fi&s;heries, the erecting Staples for Trade, and other Things and Conditions which &s;hall be found requi&s;ite for the better clearing of the foregoing Articles, Re&s;olution &s;hall be had therein according to what &s;hall be agreed upon in a di&s;tinct and peculiar Treaty or Contract.</P>
<P N="17">XVII. Whatever is agreed on in the foregoing Articles &s;hall be in force and vertue from this pre&s;ent
<PB N="20" REF="12">time, and be truly ob&s;erved on both &s;ides by all &s;uch as are within each others Allegiance. And for the further Confirmation thereof, &s;hall be &s;ub&s;cribed, &s;igned and ratified by the Protector of the Common|wealth of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Do|minions thereto belonging, in the name of his High|ne&s;s and the &s;aid Commonwealth, and by her Maje&s;ty of <HI>Sweden,</HI> under the handwriting and Seals of their &s;aid Highne&s;&s;e and Maje&s;ty, within four months next en&s;uing the Date of the&s;e Pre&s;ents.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="proclamation">
<HEAD>A <HI>PROCLAMATION</HI> of the Peace made between this Commonwealth, and <HI>France.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>OLIVER</HI> Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> &amp;c.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P> Whereas by the ble&s;&s;ing of God, we have, with the advi&s;e of our Council, made and concluded a Treaty of Peace, friend&s;hip, and amity between this Commonwealth on the one part, and <HI>France</HI> on the other, their Lands, Cities, Towns, Dominions, Terri|tories, Places, and People, by Sea, Land, fre&s;h-waters, and el&s;e where; and whereas by the &s;aid Treaty of Peace all Acts of Ho&s;tility are to cea&s;e on both &s;ides immediatly after pub|lication thereof, as well upon the Sea, as at Land, Rivers, and fre&s;h-waters, and whatever &s;hall be taken by the one from the other after the &s;aid Publication, &s;hall well and truly be restored, and all Letters of Marque and Repri&s;all to be recalled and made voyd, We have thought fit to make Pub|lication, as we doe by the&s;e pre&s;ents, of the afore&s;aid Treaty and Agreement; and do hereby &s;trictly charge and require all per&s;on and per&s;ons, of what degree, quality and condition they, or any of them be, belonging to this Commonwealth, to take notice thereof, and conform them&s;elves accordingly,
<PB REF="12">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>portrait enclosed in an oval inscribed in Latin: Louis XIV, by the grace of God most Christian king of Gaul and Navarre; below the oval and its rectangular frame, a tree bearing arrows and other weapons (center) bordered by a Latin motto and flanked by more weapons to the left and right</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>LODOVICVS XIIII.D G. GALLIA ET NAVARRAE REX CHRISTIANISS.</HEAD>
<Q>VIRTVTI DAMNOSA QVIES</Q>
</FIGURE>
<PB N="22" REF="13">And in further performance of the &s;aid Treaty on our part, we do by the&s;e pre&s;ents require and enjoyn all Ships of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">, and others belonging to the State, or particular per&s;ons &s;et forth upon private Commi&s;&s;ions, or otherwi&s;e, to ob&s;erve the &s;aid Agreement. And to the end none may pretend igno|rance thereof, the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Admiralty are here|by required to give effectuall notice of the premi&s;es to all the Ships of War of this Commonwealth, either at Sea or in Port. And the Judges of the High Court of Admiralty are al&s;o by virtue of the&s;e pre&s;ents forthwith to call in, upon their &s;everall Securities given in that Court, all &s;uch Ships as have been &s;et forth upon private Commi&s;&s;iions again&s;t any of the People or Subjects of <HI>France.</HI> </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>White hall</HI> <DATE>this <HI>20.</HI> day of <HI>November, 1655.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="articles">
<HEAD>Here followeth the &s;ub&s;tance of the Articles of the Treaty of Peace betwixt <HI>England</HI> &amp; <HI>France.</HI> Nov: <HI>20. 1655.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">I. THat henceforth there be a firm Peace, Amity, and League betwixt the Commonwealth of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the Kingdome of <HI>France,</HI> and betwixt all the Countries, Dominions, Cities, and Places, within the Dominion of either, and that the People and Subjects of both Nations may freely have recour&s;e unto all Ports and Havens, without prejudice.</P>
<P N="2">II. That neither part &s;hall hereafter directly or indirectly a&s;&s;i&s;t &s;uch as are already declared Rebells or their Adherents; and in ca&s;e either part do make a Peace with &s;uch as are already their declared Ene|mies, that part which &s;hall &s;o make Peace &s;hall not give any aid or a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the &s;aid Enemies again&s;t the other part.</P>
<P N="3">III. That all Ho&s;tility &s;hall cea&s;e henceforth both
<PB N="23" REF="13">by Sea and Land, and all Commi&s;&s;ions and Letters of Marque or Repri&s;all, i&s;&s;ued out on both &s;ides again&s;t the People and Subjects of either, be recalled. And what&s;oever &s;hall be taken on either &s;ide, after the publication of the pre&s;ent Treaty, it &s;hall be re&s;tored. And if any injury be done by the People of the one State to the People of the other, no Letters of Marque or Repri&s;all, &s;hall be i&s;&s;ued out, till ju&s;tice be fir&s;t de|manded; and in ca&s;e Ju&s;tice cannot be had after the due ways of demand made, then Letters of Marque or Reprizall may be granted, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="4">IV. That freedome of Trade be maintained in all places, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> betwixt the People on both &s;ides; Pro|vided that the u&s;uall Cu&s;tomes be paid, and the Laws and Statutes of each State be ob&s;erved.</P>
<P N="5">V. That the People of the Commonwealth of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland, &amp;c.</HI> &s;hall have liberty to vend all Manufactures of Wool and Silk made within the &s;aid Commonwealth in any place of the Dominion of <HI>France,</HI> notwith&s;tanding any Law, Edict, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to the contrary. Provided, that the 13 Article of the Treaty made between <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France, Anno</HI> 1606. concerning Clothes ill made, be kept and ob&s;erved; And that the Subjects of <HI>France</HI> may have free leave to vend all Wines of the growth of <HI>France,</HI> in all ports and places of the &s;aid Common|wealth, notwith&s;tanding any Law or Statute, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to the contrary.</P>
<P N="6">VI. That the Rates of Cu&s;toms, which are to be paid by the Merchants on both &s;ides, &s;hall be hung up in a Table in the publick places at <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Roven,</HI> and in other Cities of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> as need &s;hall require.</P>
<P N="7">VII. That whereas &s;ome payments and privileges
<PB N="24" REF="14">are claimed by &s;ome Cities and places, as due unto them, in the Dominions on either &s;ide, the Magi|&s;trates and Officers in all Cities &s;hall take care that no more be exacted than what is due.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. That the payment called in Engli&s;h <HI>Head|mony,</HI> in French <HI>Du Chief,</HI> exacted hitherto by cu|&s;tome without Law in &s;ome Ports of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> &s;hall no more be paid by the People of either State, at their entrance or departure.</P>
<P N="9">IX. The French Merchants trading in <HI>England</HI> &s;hall not be compelled to put in any other caution for the vending of their Commodities, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> be&s;ides their caution upon Oath, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="10">X. That French Ships may have &s;afe recour&s;e to the Key of <HI>London,</HI> and all other Ports of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland, &amp;c.</HI> there to take in their lading without mole&s;tation, and they &s;hall not be compelled to unlade into other Ve&s;&s;ells. And the Ships of <HI>Eng|land</HI> &s;hall enjoy the like liberty in all the Ports of <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P N="11">XI. That the Merchants Ships of <HI>England,</HI> trading to <HI>Bourdeaux,</HI> &s;hall not in their pa&s;&s;age up the River of <HI>Garunne,</HI> be compelled to unlade their Guns, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> at the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Blaye.</HI></P>
<P N="12">XII. That the Merchants and any other People of the afore&s;aid Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> may by Will and Te&s;tament di&s;po&s;e of their Commodities, money, hou&s;hold&s;tuffe, Debts, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> within all parts of the Dominion of <HI>France,</HI> according to their plea|&s;ure. And whether they die te&s;tate or inte&s;tate, their heirs or executors &s;hall enjoy, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> according to the Laws of <HI>England,</HI> in what part of <HI>France</HI> &s;oever they &s;hall happen to die; and this notwith&s;tanding the Law commonly called <HI>Droict d'Aubeyne.</HI> The like
<PB N="25" REF="14">liberty and privilege is to be enjoyed by the Subjects of <HI>France</HI> in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="13">XIII. That the Inhabitants of the I&s;les of <HI>Jer&s;ey</HI> and <HI>Guern&s;ey</HI> &s;hall enjoy the &s;ame privileges and im|munities in <HI>France</HI> as the French do in tho&s;e I&s;lands, the u&s;uall Tributes and Cu&s;tomes being paid on both &s;ides.</P>
<P N="14">XIV. That for the more ea&s;ie prevention of Pira|cies, and injuries to Ships by Rovers at Sea, all Cap|tains and Ma&s;ters in any Men of War, or Ships be|longing to the People of either State, &s;hall before they &s;et out of any Port within the Dominion of ei|ther put in &s;ecurity for their good behaviour at Sea, and that they will not take or &s;eize, nor otherwi&s;e hinder or injure the people and goods of either. And if tho&s;e who are appointed to take the Security, &s;hall neglect it, or not take good &s;ecurity, they them&s;elves &s;hall make recompence for &s;uch damages as &s;hall be done.</P>
<P N="15">XV. That for the &s;pace of 4 years &s;ucceeding the Ratification of the pre&s;ent Treaty, all Ships belong|ing to the Subjects and People of either State trading in the <HI>Mediterranean,</HI> and in the Ea&s;tern Sea or Ocean, &s;hall be free and have their lading free, although they carry goods in them, yea Grain or Pul&s;e, which be|long to Enemies; except neverthele&s;&s;e all prohibi|ted and Contraband goods, that is to &s;ay Gunpowder, Guns, Pi&s;tols, and all &s;orts of Arms, Munition, Hor&s;es and Warlike Provi&s;ion, nor &s;hall they tran&s;port men for the &s;ervice of the Enemies of either State, in ca&s;e the Ships, Provi&s;ion and Goods &s;hall become Prize; which &s;hall be &s;everely put in execution al&s;o again&s;t &s;uch as &s;hall carry Corn or Victualls for relief of places be&s;ieged by either State.</P>
<PB N="26" REF="15">
<P N="16">XVI. That both Parties &s;hall expre&s;ly charge their Sea Commanders, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> That they doe not any way prejudice or hinder the People of either State in their Ships, Ve&s;&s;els, Goods or Merchandize, but dili|gently ob&s;erve this Treaty; And that tho&s;e who violate it, &s;hall be&s;ide the undergoing of Corporall puni&s;hment, repaire the Damages, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And that &s;uch men of War, as being de&s;igned Convoy to Merchant men, &s;hall meet with Ve&s;&s;ells belonging to either State, be obliged to defend them again&s;t any that &s;hall offer violence, &s;o long as they hold the &s;ame cour&s;e together.</P>
<P N="17">XVII. The &s;eventeenth Article enjoyneth the copying out and &s;ecuring of Books of Accounts, Pa|pers, Bills of lading, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> That &s;hall be found in any Ships, belonging to the People of either State, that may happen to be made Prize by any of the Sea Commanders of either Party, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="18">XVIII. The eighteenth concerns &s;uch Comman|ders, Ma&s;ters, Mariners and Seamen, taken in Ve&s;&s;els that &s;hall be made Prize as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P N="19">XIX. That neither of the Confederates &s;hall har|bour or permit their People to harbour any Pyrates or Robbers, nor to a&s;&s;i&s;t or &s;upply them, but rather endeavor to apprehend and bring them to their de|&s;erved puni&s;hment, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="20">XX That neither of the &s;aid Parties doe permit that the Ships or Goods belonging to either people, which &s;hall at any time be taken by the Rebells of ei|ther, upon pretence, or by vertue of any Commi&s;&s;ion what&s;oever, and be brought into the Ports or Places of either Dominion, be alienated from the right Ow|ners, but they &s;hall be detained and laid up &s;afe, that no part of them peri&s;h or be imbeli&s;hed, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<PB N="27" REF="15">
<P N="21">XXI. That if the People of either part &s;hall be driven by Tempe&s;t, fear of Enemies, or any other dan|ger, into the Ports of either Nation, they &s;hall depart free without paying any Cu&s;tome or Tribute, provi|ded they neither buy nor &s;ell there, &amp; do at their fir&s;t coming give an Account of their Arrivall to the Ma|gi&s;trate of the Place.</P>
<P N="22">XXII. That the People of the &s;aid Common|wealth may freely Trade in all Kingdoms, Domini|ons and Territories, that are in Amity or Neutrality with the &s;aid Commonwealth, and not be hindred or injured by the &s;ubjects of the &s;aid King, although there &s;hould be an enmity and Ho&s;tility betwixt the &s;aid King, and tho&s;e Kingdomes, Dominions and Territories, or any of them. The &s;ame is to be ob|&s;erved in like manner, on the &s;aid Commonwealths part towards the &s;ubjects of <HI>France.</HI> Provided that neither of them do Trade to any port or Town be&s;ie|ged by either party, nor carry any prohibited Goods unto &s;uch places as are in ho&s;tility with either, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="23">XXIII. That inpartial Ju&s;tice be done to the peo|ple of either, according as by the rule of Law &amp; Equi|ty in all Cau&s;es depending on eithers Dominion, and that all Sentences, and former Bargains and agree|ments, made by the people of either, for their own advantage, do &s;tand good, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="24">XXIV. And fora&s;much as &s;ince the year 1640 many prizes have been taken, and many damages done by the people of each nation to one another, it is a|greed, That there Commi&s;&s;ioners be nominated im|mediately after the Ratification of the pre&s;ent Trea|ty, with power to examine, e&s;timate, and clear &s;uch Prizes and Lawes, and determine the compen&s;ation and &s;atisfaction for them, according to the demands,
<PB N="28" REF="16">which &s;hall be produced and exhibited before them, by their people on either part, within three months time, to be accounted after the publication of this Treaty; For which purpo&s;e the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners are to meet within &s;ix weeks after publication, in the City of <HI>London,</HI> and to determine the &s;aid Con|trover&s;ies within five months next following. And if within &s;ix months they &s;hall not agree, then the &s;aid controver&s;ies &s;hall be referred to the arbitration of the republick of <HI>Hamburgh,</HI> to be determited with|in four months time next after, who are de&s;ired to ap|point Commi&s;&s;ioners to give Judgment upon the premi&s;es, and what&s;oever they &s;hall determine &s;hall be binding to both Parties, and &s;hall be performed within 6 months next following. And if the&s;e &s;hall not determine the &s;aid Controver&s;ie, then no man &s;hall be mole&s;ted thereupon, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="25">XXV. That the Controver&s;ie betwixt both par|ties touching the Forts of <HI>Pemtacoet, St. John,</HI> and <HI>Port Royal,</HI> lately taken in <HI>America,</HI> and the goods found in them, be referred to the afore&s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners and Arbitrators mentioned in the fore-going Article.</P>
<P N="26">XXVI. That if there &s;hould happen to be a war be|twixt the &s;aid Commonwealth and Kingdome, the Merchants living in Towns and Cities &s;hall have &s;ix months time after the declaring of the War to &s;ell and tran&s;port their Goods and Comodities, and if any da|mage or injury be done them by the people of either part, they &s;hall have recompence and &s;ati&s;faction gi|ven them.</P>
<P N="27">XXVII. If it &s;o fall out, that during this League and Amity any thinge &s;hall be done by any of the people on either &s;ide, contrary thereto, this League and Amity &s;hall notwith&s;tanding remain entire, and
<PB N="29" REF="16">retain its full force, but the per&s;ons &s;o offending &s;hall be puni&s;hed and &s;ati&s;faction given to all parties con|cerned, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="28">XXVIII. That this Treaty &s;hall within 15 daies next following be confirmed and ratified under the great Seal of both Nations, and the in&s;truments be delivered on both &s;ides, and afterwards this pre&s;ent Treaty &s;hall be publi&s;hed in the accu&s;tomed place and manner.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A Relation of Gen: <HI>Blakes</HI> engagement with the <HI>Turks</HI> in <HI>Tunnis:</HI> And of their &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion in <HI>Argier.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="illustration"><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>two sailing ships in battle, with a smaller boat in the foreground</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Tunnis</HI> Road, <DATE><HI>April</HI> 9. 1655.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>AFter the <HI>Turks</HI> in <HI>Tunnis</HI> had given us an un&s;ati&s;|fied an&s;wer, we &s;ailed to them again, and arrived
<PB N="30" REF="17">at <HI>Porta Ferina</HI> the 3 of <HI>April;</HI> when we came there the Officers met, and we &s;ought to the Lord by Prayer, after which the Officers met in Coun&s;el, and that day it was unanimou&s;ly re&s;olved by the Generalls and Captains, to &s;et upon the Turks Ships there the next day, and to burn them. On the 4 of <HI>April</HI> we cau&s;ed the Turks to flie before us, their Ca&s;tle of <HI>Porta Ferina</HI> we battered, their &s;trong Town and hou&s;es of &s;tone we did beat about their ears: By break of day the whole fleet weighed anchor; The <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> Frigot went fir&s;t in, after her the <HI>Kent,</HI> the <HI>Taunton,</HI> the <HI>Fore|fight,</HI> the <HI>Amity, Prince&s;&s;e-Maria, Pearl, Mearmaid,</HI> and <HI>Merlin</HI> followed, and came to anchor neer the Turks 9 Ships who lay clo&s;e to the Ca&s;tle and Forts by it: Then came in the <HI>Andrew</HI> our Vice-Admirall, and the <HI>Plimouth,</HI> after them the <HI>George, Worcester, &V;nicorn, Bridgwater,</HI> and <HI>Succe&s;&s;e,</HI> the&s;e all anchored ju&s;t again&s;t the Body of the Ca&s;tle within musket &s;hot, and began to play our broad &s;ides of Guns at the Ca&s;tle, which we plyed very thick for 4 or 5 hours; In the mean while our other Frigots &s;ent their boats aboard the Ships to endeavor the firing of them, which by the ble&s;&s;ing of God was done by 11 a clock; we had hot work of it, for their Ships lay within Pi&s;toll &s;hot of the &s;hore, and all the Coa&s;t was lined with Musketeirs, and about 60 pieces of Ordnance mounted upon the Ca&s;tle. The mo&s;t men &s;lain were in the Boats going aboard their Ships, which was by &s;mall &s;hot, 30 is the mo&s;t to be &s;lain in the whole Fleet, and about 80 wounded; which con&s;idering the &s;trength of the Place, and the many advantages the Turks had upon us, was but a &s;mall number. We are now in <HI>Tunnis</HI> Road, and Generall <HI>Blake</HI> hath &s;ent once more a &s;hore, but what will be done we know not.
<PB N="31" REF="17"></P>
<P><HI>April</HI> 10. 1655. The Turks in <HI>Argier</HI> do con&s;ent to deliver up all the Engli&s;h that they have &s;laves, to Generall <HI>Blake,</HI> and declare that they de&s;ire a Confir|mation of the Peace with <HI>England,</HI> and that the Lord Protector will &s;end a Councill to them, to make a firm Peace with them for ever. And it is believed that <HI>Tripilo</HI> will do the like.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD TYPE="illustration"><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>portrait of Pope Alexander VII (?)</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></HEAD>
<HEAD>To our Venerable Brethren, The Patriarchs, Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Clergi-men, Religious, and all the Faithfull ones of Christ belonging to the Catholick Church.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>ALEXANDER VII. <HI>POPE.</HI></SIGNED>
<SALUTE>VEnerable Brethern, beloved Sons, greeting, and Apo&s;tolicall Benediction.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>While from the height of our Apo&s;tolick Dignity we look round a|bout us, and &s;ollicitou&s;ly &s;urvey the State of Things
<PB N="32" REF="18">throughout the World, as &s;ubjected to our Care and Charge, the Affairs of Chri&s;tendom appear to be in a very &s;ad and lamentable condition; for &s;trangers make &s;poil of the Portion of the Lord, and his heri|tage, ca&s;ting out tho&s;e that are indeed his Children. Tho&s;e Nations, which out of our Fatherly love and tenderne&s;&s;e, we had a de&s;ire to take into our bo&s;om, that is to &s;ay, into the bo&s;om of true Religion, and mo&s;t affectionately to embrace them, even they en|deavor to rend and tear this very bo&s;ome in pieces; and making their way from the remote&s;t parts of &s;ea and land, have invaded the Flock of Chri&s;t. Yea and Catholick Princes di&s;agreeing bend their Forces a|gain&s;t them&s;elves, and (which is a Judgement that God threatned heretofore again&s;t our Enemies, and them that ri&s;e up again&s;t us) they devour one ano|ther, and are made drunk with their own Blood, as it were with new wine. Whil&s;t in time pa&s;t, we were &s;ilently bewayling the&s;e things with our &s;elf, it &s;ee|med good to him, who works things great and in|comprehen&s;ible without number, to call us, unwil|ling and trembling, to the Goverment of the Church; and to lay this immen&s;e burthen upon us, enough to make the &s;tronge&s;t &s;houlders to &s;hrink. What our &s;orrow hath been, we have te&s;tified by tho&s;e publick prayers, which we enjoyned in all parts, as &s;oon as we were advanced to the Supremacie; as al&s;o by tho&s;e Letters which we &s;ent to our mo&s;t dear Sons, not onely to the Illu&s;trious <HI>Ferdinand</HI> of <HI>Hungary</HI> and <HI>Bohemia</HI> King, and Roman Emperor Elect, but al&s;o to the 2 Kings, and which with griefe of heart we wrote a &s;econd time, when we perceived our mo&s;t deadly Enemy de&s;igning ruine and de&s;truction to all <HI>Europe,</HI> by di&s;tre&s;&s;ing the mo&s;t renowned Republick,
<PB N="33" REF="18">to the end that we might turn them from mutuall di&s;cords, again&s;t &s;o dangerous an Adver&s;ary; and now al&s;o we &s;end againe, admoni&s;hing them, that whil&s;t their Armies are at a &s;tand, during this winter &s;ea&s;on, they would u&s;e their utmo&s;t endeavor to &s;ettle Peace. Let all the&s;e things bear witne&s;&s;e for us, that &s;eeing there remains no hope to mittigate &s;o great and &s;ore evills, &s;ave onely in common concord, it is the main care that takes up our Mind night and day, to in&s;inuate it into the hearts and affections of all men. But becau&s;e this is not to be effected by humane &s;trength and earthly wi&s;dome, but ought to be ex|pected from him as his gift, upon whom re&s;ts the di&s;cipline of our Peace, who takes away the Spirit of Princes, and rebuketh the Sea, and it is Still; there|fore doe you <HI>(Venerable Brethren, and Beloved Sons)</HI> &s;trive as much as in you lies, not onely by your en|deavour, &s;tudy, Coun&s;el, duties, and Authority, but al&s;o rent your hearts in prayer, in tears, in fa&s;tings, and Alms deeds, take ye the Cen&s;or of Incen&s;e, that is, the prayer of the Saints; and &s;tand ye in the gap be|twixt the Fire, and the people that are ready to be con&s;umed. You who are &s;et to be watchmen upon the walls of <HI>Hieru&s;alem,</HI> cry aloud night and day, and be ye the Appea&s;ers of divine wrath and vengeance. Empty out the Cup of Fury and de&s;truction, the Cup of angui&s;h and of tribulation without mixture, with which we have been drunken. We for our part, to whom Chri&s;t thought not his &s;heep &s;afely commit|ted, till we were again and the third time admoni&s;hed in <HI>Peter</HI> touching the greatne&s;&s;e of his Love, to whom alone it is given to enter the Sanctuary, and to pre&s;ent the prayers of the people to God before the Altar, conceive it our duty with all diligence
<PB N="34" REF="19">to labour, that the Lord may not be angry, and &s;ay, <HI>I &s;ought a man to make up the Breach, and to plead with me for the earth, that I might not de&s;troy it, and I found him not, therefore have I powred out mine indignation upon them.</HI> For this is the property of divine vengeance, that he who is the mo&s;t high, is then mo&s;t ea&s;ie to be entreated, and returns to gentlene&s;&s;e and mercy, that is, to his own nature, when he draweth the &s;word with his mighty Arm and &s;trong hand, to the end that he may &s;trike. Let your Feet be the Feet of tho&s;e that bring the glad Tidings of the Go&s;pell of Peace, that the Bowes and Arrows may be broken in pieces, and that God may command the winds, and cau&s;e Peace and Tranquility; which by your a&s;&s;i&s;tance e&s;pecially we de&s;ire to obtain, and doe mo&s;t affectionately confer upon you our Apo&s;toli|call Benediction.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Rome,</HI> in St. <HI>Mary</HI> the Greater, under the <HI>&s;eal-ring of the Fi&s;her,</HI> <DATE>the 20 of <HI>September,</HI> 1655. In the fir&s;t year of our Popedom.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>NATALIS RONDININ&V;S.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>A Letter concerning the manner of the Queen of <HI>Swedens</HI> renouncing her Religion, and imbracing the Popi&s;h, written by an eye-witne&s;&s;e, </HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>at <HI>In&s;pruck</HI> in <HI>Tiroll, <DATE>October 26. 1655.</DATE></HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>I Shall acquaint you with the manner of the en|trance of the Queen of <HI>Sweden</HI> into this City. The Archduke of <HI>Tirol</HI> having many months &s;ince been adverti&s;ed of the Queens intention, to pa&s;&s;e through this City, re&s;olved to give her an extraordinary noble entertainment. To this end he &s;ent Letters to all the
<PB N="35" REF="19">Gentry and Nobility in this Country, and to his Friends in the parts adjacent, to wait upon him in their bravery at his Court on Saturday la&s;t. In the evening the Archduke having intelligence that the Queen would lodge within 9 mile of this City, took Po&s;t with his brother the Archbi&s;hop, and a dozen Gentlemen, and onely ki&s;t her hands, bidding her welcom into his Dominions, and returned back hi|ther the &s;ame night. The next day, being Sunday, about 4 in the afternoon, 12 of the Archdukes Trum|petters, and mo&s;t of the afore&s;aid Nobility and Gen|try rode before him, the Archdutche&s;s, which is the Duke of <HI>Florence</HI> his Si&s;ter, being carried after him in a rich Sedan, the re&s;t of the Gentry about and behind her; then followed his Guard on Hor&s;back, being 50 Firelocks, his ordirnary Guard with Halberts &s;tan|ding on each &s;ide of the way: and in this equipage he met the Queen about a mile from the City; about 20 yeards before he came at her he light off his hor&s;e, and &s;he out of her Sedan, and &s;aluted one another; and &s;o in the former manner, with Trumpets, Drums, and other loud Mu&s;ick very fine, &s;he entred the City.</P>
<P>The next day I &s;aw her at dinner onely with the Archduke, his Lady, and Brother, which was very magnificent: I made account to have &s;een her at &s;upper, but &s;he &s;upped privately; yet being at the Court, I was told, That the Queen the next day would make open profe&s;&s;ion of the Catholick Faith in the Franci&s;cans or Archdukes Chappell, which not onely I, but all her Prote&s;tant Servants much admired at, and would not believe; but it proved true: For on the Wedne&s;day between a 11 and 12 of clock, &s;he was led to the afore&s;aid Church
<PB N="36" REF="20">by the Archduke, attended by the company afore|&s;aid, and &s;eated upon a Canopy on the left hand be|fore the High Alter; below her, a little toward her right hand, was the Archduke, and his Lady, and Brother; and over again&s;t them the Spani&s;h Amba&s;|&s;ador in a Chair by him&s;elfe; all the Quire being hung with Crim&s;on Velvet, and the ground covered with red Serge: Then Mr. <HI>Hol&s;tenius,</HI> who was &s;ent as the Popes Nuntio, &s;tood at the right &s;ide of the Al|tar, and &s;aid, That Pope <HI>Alexander</HI> the VII, having under&s;tood that <HI>Chri&s;tina</HI> Queen of <HI>Sweden,</HI> being en|lightned by the Holy Gho&s;t, had intent to put her &s;elf into the bo&s;om of the Church, had &s;ent his Letters to te&s;tifie his Approbation of her de&s;ires, and to receive her with his Apo&s;tolicall Benediction, therefore he was there to know, whether it were true or not; up|on which &s;he made an&s;wer, that it was &s;o. Then he gave the Popes Letter to a Prie&s;t that &s;tood by, who red it aloud to the effect above&s;aid; the Letter being read, Mr. <HI>Hol&s;tenius</HI> de&s;ired that in Te&s;timony of the truth, &s;he would make Profe&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid Catholick Apo&s;tolick, and Roman Faith, and &s;wear to keep it upon the Holy Evangeli&s;ts, before the Archduke and the Spani&s;h Amba&s;&s;odor, which &s;he did, and ki&s;&s;ed the Book. Then was a Chair for <HI>Hol&s;tenius</HI> to &s;it in, and a Cu&s;hion laid at his Feet, upon which the Queen kneeled, and he making the &s;ign of the Cro&s;&s;e over her head, and embracing her &s;houlders, &s;aid, That he did receive her into the Catholick Church, and by virtue of Order from the Holy Father, Pope <HI>Alexander</HI> the VII, and from power given by Chri&s;t, who&s;e Vicar he was, he did ab&s;olve her from all her &s;ins that &s;he had committed, In the Name of the Father, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Then were certain &s;hort Prayers &s;aid (or rather &s;ung) in
<PB N="37" REF="20">Latine for her; after which, High Ma&s;&s;e was &s;ung, and then a Prie&s;t made a Sermon in Dutch, his Text was out of the <HI>P&s;alms. Hear O my Daughter, incline al&s;o thine ear, forget al&s;o thy people and thy Fathers hou&s;e; &s;o &s;hall the King have plea&s;ure in thy Beauty.</HI> Then was <HI>Te Deum</HI> &s;ung with mo&s;t excellene Voices; and fifty peeces of Ordnance di&s;charged, and &s;o &s;he retur|ned home as &s;he came.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="profession">
<HEAD TYPE="illustration"><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>portrait of Christina, Queen of Sweden (?)</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></HEAD>
<HEAD>The Profe&s;&s;ion of Faith of <HI>Chri&s;tina</HI> Queen of <HI>Swedland,</HI> as it was publiquely Sworn unto at <HI>In&s;pruck.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Sect.</HI> 1. I Doe firmly admit and embrace Apo&s;toli|call and Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Traditions, and the other Ob&s;ervances and Con&s;titutions of the Church. Al&s;o I admit the holy Scriptures according to that
<PB N="38" REF="21">&s;ence which our holy Mother the Church, to whom it belongs to judge of the true &s;ence and interpreta|tion of holy Scriptures, hath held, and doth hold: neither will I ever take and interpret it but according to the unanimous con&s;ent of the Fathers.</P>
<P><HI>Sect.</HI> 2. I doe profe&s;&s;e al&s;o that there be truly and properly &s;even Sacraments of the new Law in&s;tituted by our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and nece&s;&s;ary to the &s;alva|tion of mankind, though all be not nece&s;&s;ary for every man; that is to &s;ay, Bapti&s;m, Confirmation, the Euchari&s;t, Penance, Extream unction, Order, and Matrimony; and that they confer grace: and of the&s;e Bapti&s;m, Confirmation and Order cannot be reiterated without Sacriledge: Al&s;o the received and approved Rites of the Catholick Church u&s;ed in the &s;olemn admini&s;tration of all the afore&s;aid Sacra|ments, I receive and admit.</P>
<P><HI>Sect.</HI> 3. All and every the things which are de|fined and declared in the holy Councill of <HI>Trent</HI> concerning Originall &s;inne and Ju&s;tification I em|brace.</P>
<P><HI>Sect.</HI> 4. I profe&s;&s;e al&s;o that in the Ma&s;&s;e there is offred unto God a true, proper, and propitiatory Sa|crifice for the quick and dead: and that in the mo&s;t holy Sacrament of the Euchari&s;t, there is truly, re|ally, and &s;ub&s;tantially, the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and there is made a conver&s;ion of the whole &s;ub&s;tance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole &s;ub|&s;tance of the wine into the Blood, which conver&s;ion the Catholick Church calls Tran&s;ub&s;tantiation: I confe&s;&s;e al&s;o that under either &s;ole &s;pecies, all and whole Chri&s;t, and a true Sacrament is received.</P>
<P><HI>Sect.</HI> 5. I doe hold there is a Purgatory, and that
<PB N="39" REF="21">Souls therein detained, are holpen by the &s;uffrages of the faithfull. Al&s;o, that the Saints reigning with Chri&s;t, are to be wor&s;hipped and prayed unto, and that they offer prayers to God for us, and that their Relicks are to be wor&s;hipped: I mo&s;t firmly avouch that the Images of Chri&s;t, and of the mother of God, always a Virgin, and of other Saints al&s;o, are to be had and retained, and that due honor and veneration is to be given them. Al&s;o I affirm that the power of Indulgences was left by Chri&s;t in the Church, and that the u&s;e of them is mo&s;t whol&s;ome to Chri&s;tian people.</P>
<P><HI>Sect.</HI> 6. I acknowledge the holy Catholick and Apo&s;tolick Roman Church Mother and Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e of all Churches, and I promi&s;e and &s;wear true obedience to the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome,</HI> &s;ucce&s;&s;or to St. <HI>Peter</HI> Prince of the Apo&s;tles, and Vicar of Je&s;us Chri&s;t: I doe like|wi&s;e undoubtedly receive and profe&s;&s;e all other things delivered, defined, and declared by the &s;acred Canons and Councills oecumenicall and particularly by the holy Councill of <HI>Trent;</HI> and withall I do con|demn, reject, and anathematize all things that are contrary thereunto, and all Here&s;ies what&s;oever the Church hath condemned, rejected, &amp; anathematized. And I do promi&s;e, vow and &s;wear, that I will be care|full to hold and confe&s;&s;e con&s;tantly (with Gods help) this true Catholick Faith, out of which no man can be &s;aved, which at this pre&s;ent I do willingly profe&s;s and truly holds; and al&s;o as far as I am able, that by tho&s;e who are under me, or over whom by rea&s;on of my charge, I &s;hall have care it be held taught and profe&s;&s;ed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>CHRISTINA R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="40" REF="22">
<HEAD>A brief De&s;cription of the I&s;land of <HI>Jamaica,</HI> and a Relation of po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the Town of St. <HI>Jago de la Viga,</HI> with the Routing the Ene|mies from their Forts and Ordnance, and ta|king the &s;aid I&s;land, <HI>May 10. 1655.</HI></HEAD>
<P>COncerning <HI>Jamica</HI> or <HI>Jamaica,</HI> we find the&s;e fol|lowing pa&s;&s;ages heretofore. In the Navigation of <HI>Chri&s;topher Columbus, cap.</HI> 98. <HI>Tandem Admirans devenit ad In&s;ulam, quam In&s;ulam Jamicam, &amp;c.</HI> The Admirall at length came to an I&s;land which the In|habitants call <HI>Jamica:</HI> This I&s;land is as fruitfull as any place near the Sea coa&s;ts or within the Land.</P>
<P>In <HI>Peter Martyr, dec.</HI> 3. <HI>l.</HI> 9. <HI>E&s;t his Au&s;tralior Jamai|ca, &amp;c. Jamaica</HI> is a little more Southerly then <HI>Cuba</HI> and <HI>Hi&s;paniola;</HI> it is a plea&s;ant and fruitfull I&s;land, mo&s;t happy in the fertility of &s;oil, and it hath but one Mountain, and is mo&s;t fit for &s;owing.</P>
<P>And <HI>Dec.</HI> 1. <HI>l.</HI> 3. <HI>Hanc in&s;ulam Siciliam longiorem latioremque praedicat:</HI> It is &s;aid that this I&s;land is greater then <HI>Sicily.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bartholomeo de las Ca&s;as,</HI> who was a Bi&s;hop in tho&s;e parts, in his Book of the Cruelties of the Spaniards in the Indies, writes thus: The Spaniards went over the I&s;le of St. <HI>John</HI> and to the end of <HI>Jamaica,</HI> which were like Gardens for Bees, 1509. &s;etting before them the &s;ame end which they had in <HI>Hi&s;paniola,</HI> and committing the like robberies and crimes, adjoyning thereunto many great and notable cruelties, killing,
<PB REF="22">
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<FIGDESC>map of the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and many smaller islands, and some of the surrounding coastlines (tip of Florida, north coast of South America, and a bit of the east coast of southernmost North America)</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>
<PB N="42" REF="23">burning, ro&s;ting, and ca&s;ting them to the dogs; fur|thermore, afterwards oppre&s;&s;ing and vexing them in their Mineralls and travell, unto the rooting out of tho&s;e poor innocents, which were in the&s;e two I&s;les by &s;upputation 600000 &s;ouls, yea I believe they were then a million.</P>
<P>And Dr. <HI>Heylin</HI> in his De&s;cription of the American I&s;lands, &s;aith of <HI>Jamaica,</HI> It is in length from Ea&s;t to We&s;t about 50 leagues, and in breadth 20, the whole compa&s;&s;e e&s;timated at 150. The middle of it under the 18 Degree of Northern latitude: of a rich Soil, abundantly provided of all things nece&s;&s;ary, well &s;tocked with cattell, and no le&s;&s;e plentifully &s;tored with mo&s;t &s;orts of fruits, which either indu&s;try or na|ture have &s;upplyed it with; great &s;tore of Cotton|wool, and &s;uch a bundance of Jaccu (a Root where|of the Savages once made their bread) that it was deemed the Granary of the neighboring I&s;lands.</P>
<P>The I&s;land <HI>Jamaica</HI> belongeth properly to the Duke of <HI>Veragus,</HI> who is lineally de&s;cended from <HI>Christopher Columbus,</HI> the Di&s;coverer of the Indies, and not to the Duke of <HI>Medina,</HI> as was by &s;ome con|ceived.</P>
<P>The chief Ports of this I&s;land are (1) <HI>Caguaya</HI> which &s;erves to the Town of St. <HI>Jago de la Vega,</HI> or St. <HI>James</HI> of the Plains, from whence it is about two leagues di&s;tant.</P>
<P>The &s;econd Port of any note on that South&s;ide, is <HI>E&s;quyvel,</HI> which is about three leagues di&s;tant from the former towards the We&s;t, which though the Chan|nell be, as of the former, difficult to find, is within a commodious Haven; and in re&s;pect of an Arm of
<PB N="43" REF="23">the Sea which affords the Commodity of building of Shipping; within it is of &s;ingular commodity to the I&s;land. This Arm of the Sea extends it &s;elfe a full league within the Land, where it admits into it a &s;mall fre&s;h Brook, called <HI>Ell Rio de la Puente,</HI> which ari&s;ing within two leagues of the Town of St. <HI>Jago,</HI> and pa&s;&s;ing plea&s;antly through the <HI>Savanas,</HI> is recei|ved by the Arm before de&s;cribed, which is called <HI>Guavayera.</HI> The Land between the Town of St. <HI>Jago</HI> and this place, is for the mo&s;t part open, and <HI>Savana</HI> land, well &s;tored with cattell and hor&s;es. From thence to <HI>Maccario,</HI> which is about &s;ix leagues di&s;tant the Coa&s;t, is good and fit for Anchoring; but affords no Port or Harbour nearer then <HI>Panda Botellio,</HI> which is a round Mountain, about a league to the We&s;t of which, a River called <HI>Mantine&s;&s;e</HI> di&s;charges it &s;elfe into the Sea: This River ari&s;es about a league, or a league and halfe with the land, and abounds in fi&s;h, and is well &s;tored with cattell, upon the neighbour|ing <HI>Hatos,</HI> and <HI>Savanas</HI> of <HI>Tama</HI> and <HI>Guatibacoa.</HI> Thence pa&s;&s;ing along this Coa&s;t, the next place of goodne&s;&s;e of Land, or conveniency of Anchoring. And about eight leagues di&s;tant from <HI>Peccaria,</HI> is <HI>Punta de la Go&s;tus,</HI> which is in the Hato of <HI>Perada,</HI> which is one of the be&s;t and large&s;t pieces of <HI>Savana</HI> of the whole I&s;land, it being four leagues in length and more.</P>
<P>From <HI>Pereda</HI> to <HI>Elconde,</HI> another little Port is five leagues, between which two places falls into the Sea the great River <HI>Caphana,</HI> which ari&s;ing in the Moun|tains, pa&s;&s;es through <HI>Savanas</HI> of the &s;ame name, well &s;tored with cattell; and leaving the open land about a league from the Sea, runs through wooddy and manguey, or mountainous grounds, and is from the
<PB N="44" REF="24">very <HI>Savana,</HI> of depth &s;ufficient for mo&s;t ordinary Ships, but narrow, as being over grown by the Man|groves, for want of u&s;e or clearing; yet contains in the narrowe&s;t about &s;ixty or &s;eventy foot of breadth. At the mouth this River receives into it certain large Brooks of fre&s;h water; but of no other con&s;ideration then for fi&s;hing onely, whereof it affords a plentifull commodity. The mouth of this River, by rea&s;on of the &s;malne&s;&s;e of its fall, is barred with the &s;ands, &s;o that unle&s;&s;e at &s;ome times of con&s;iderable flouds, it hath not depth above four foot upon the Bar, but without is Anchoring good enough in the open Road, but harbour none at all.</P>
<P>Next about two leagues di&s;tant, is <HI>El Eaido,</HI> which is a <HI>Hata,</HI> having &s;ome &s;mall <HI>Savanas,</HI> but very great plenty of cattell abiding in the Woods, which the Spaniards call <HI>Ganadus Siniarones,</HI> or wild cattell, as being not marked, nor belonging to any certaine proprietor, other then the chief Lord and owner of the <HI>Hato.</HI> In this <HI>Hato</HI> is a &s;mall Port called <HI>Puto del Conde,</HI> of no great value or con&s;ideration.</P>
<P>Thence to <HI>Punto Negrillio,</HI> is no other Port or Har|bour what&s;oever; but pa&s;&s;ing by land, is a <HI>Hato</HI> cal|led <HI>Cabnico,</HI> large and well &s;tored with cattell, both wild and tame.</P>
<P>Thence next is called the <HI>Savana</HI> of the Sea, which reaches to the Cape <HI>Negrillio.</HI> From the <HI>Puerto de Cuguaya</HI> towards the Ea&s;t, is the <HI>Hato de Loguany,</HI> which is at the Ea&s;t &s;ide of the Port it &s;elfe, and pre|&s;ents to the Harbour a large and well &s;tored <HI>Savana,</HI> with an Arm of the Port extending to it, commodi|ous for the building of Shipping, there being &s;tore both of Cedars and other &s;ort of Timber convenient for that purpo&s;e.</P>
<PB N="45" REF="24">
<P>Next Ea&s;tward Land to this of <HI>Lyguany,</HI> is <HI>Lezania,</HI> a narrow tract of plantable land between the &s;ea and the mountain, containing &s;ome &s;mall Savanas, but no habitation, nor any Cattell but wild, and is about two leagues in length.</P>
<P>Then is the <HI>Hato Ayala</HI> full of tame cattle, and hath much commodity of planting, or erecting of Sugar Engenios of water, by rea&s;on of two convenient Ri|vers which it hath running through, is fit for that purpo&s;e; but is dangerou&s;ly open to the incur&s;ion of Pirats, who there have too much commodity of landing in two &s;mall Cores or Bighs of Land, the one of which is called <HI>los Anaones,</HI> towards the We&s;t of this <HI>Hato,</HI> and to the Ea&s;t <HI>la Cruz del Padre.</HI></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Severall &s;orts of Wood in this Country.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Grandillio,</HI> of a reddi&s;h black colour, and heavy as Ebony, u&s;ed much in the&s;e parts for bed&s;teads.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Cedar,</HI> the be&s;t in all the Indies, u&s;efull for all purpo&s;es, as Oake in <HI>England.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Cawobena,</HI> a Tree of &s;ix fathome about, a fine red, excellent good for beds, tables, or buildings.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>Cittano,</HI> of a yellow colour, a fathome about, excellent for dying, called in Engli&s;h, yellow Fu|&s;tick.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>Bra&s;il,</HI> and <HI>Bra&s;iletto,</HI> excellent for dying, &s;old in the&s;e parts at one pound &s;eventeen &s;hillings and &s;ix pence <HI>per</HI> hundred.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. <HI>Guaicum,</HI> good for bed&s;teads, bowls and chairs, and Phy&s;icians u&s;es, three foot over, &s;old at <HI>Cartha|gena</HI> for two &s;hillings <HI>per</HI> pound.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="section">
<PB N="46" REF="25">
<HEAD>The Country affords &s;everall Fruits.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Pepper &s;melling like Cloves, the North &s;ide of the I&s;land is full of it, wild, good for Chocolatto, &s;old here at &s;ix pence <HI>per</HI> pound. The Leaf di&s;tilled, makes excellent good water, much e&s;teemed by the Spaniards at <HI>Carthagena.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Pyne, the be&s;t that ever was eat, in &s;ea&s;on al|mo&s;t all the year long, &s;old at &s;ix pence <HI>per</HI> piece.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Ni&s;pero, e&s;teemed the be&s;t fruit in the Indies by the Spaniards, in &s;ea&s;on in <HI>July</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Mame&s;appole, ta&s;tes like Marmalet, in &s;ea&s;on part of <HI>June, July,</HI> and <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Avocatas, a whol&s;ome plea&s;ant fruit; in &s;ea|&s;on in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> &s;old for eight pence <HI>per</HI> piece.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. Cocao, in great plenty, of which they make Chocolatto, &s;old ordinarily for three &s;hillings <HI>per</HI> bu&s;hell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. Catrao, a very &s;weet lu&s;cious fruit, green of colour, and much like a Mulberry in &s;hape and bigne&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. Limes, Limons, Oranges, Guavers, Bonana's, Plantan's, Papaas, Melons of all &s;orts, and very good Cucumbers, Gourds, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and the large&s;t Potatoes ever eye beheld.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. Tobacco, which at <HI>Carthagena</HI> bears the be&s;t Rate there.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. Indico.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letters">
<PB N="47" REF="25">
<HEAD>The &s;ub&s;tance of divers Letters from the Generalls and Commi&s;&s;ioners in the We&s;t-Indies to his Highnes, to the effect following.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Aug: 8. 1655.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>WE left <HI>Barbadoes</HI> the la&s;t of <HI>March,</HI> and came to St. <HI>Christophers,</HI> where we found a Regiment formed, which we received into our company, not &s;taying to anchor. Thence pa&s;&s;ing forward, we came in &s;ight of <HI>Sancta Luz, Porto Rico,</HI> and &s;ome other I|lands, and on ther 3 of <HI>April</HI> arived before <HI>Sancto Do|mingo,</HI> part of our forces landing within &s;ix miles of the Town, without any oppo&s;ition, but the main of the Army landed near 40 miles beyond it, contrary to what was intended; which fell out in re&s;pect of the ab&s;ence of the Pilot, who being &s;ent out to di&s;|cover, returned not in time. This occa&s;ioned a very long march for the Army through Woods and nar|row Lanes, and all without any guide; which with the heate of the weather, and want of water, put the Army into &s;ome weakne&s;&s;e and di&s;temper, and made them very unfit for &s;ervice. The Souldiers likewi&s;e &s;tragled from their Colours to gather Oranges, Lem|mons, Pines, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> the extraordinary eating whereof put many of them into the Flux, and Feavers. In this condition we advanced near the Town, where our forelorn, being &s;urpri&s;ed by an Ambu&s;h, and their Leader Adjurant Generall <HI>Jackson</HI> running away, were put to a retreat by 300 men; and there Major Generall <HI>Heans</HI> keeping his ground, was &s;lain. This Ambu&s;cado was afterwards routed by &s;ome of the Sea-men, who came up to relieve the Forlorn. <HI>Iack|&s;on</HI> was ca&s;hiered for cowardize, and had his &s;word broken over his head.</P>
<PB N="48" REF="26">
<P>After this, the Army retreating for &s;ome refre&s;h|ment, it was thought mo&s;t convenient by the Officers, and mo&s;t for the &s;ervice, to leave that Iland (the Ar|my being weakned by their afore&s;aid long march) and to attempt the Iland of <HI>Iamaica:</HI> And having &s;hipped the Army, we arived there uppon the 10 of <HI>May,</HI> and took the Town of <HI>St. Iago de la Vega,</HI> having beat the Enemy from their Forts and Ordnance, who were got together in a body, con&s;i&s;ting of about 3000 men. And from this place nothing did divert our fir&s;t atrempt, but that it had not a name in the world; for we find the Country equall, if not &s;upe|riour to <HI>Hi&s;paniola,</HI> and in four miles march here, we &s;aw more Cattle and Plantations then in fourty in <HI>Hi&s;paniola,</HI> and a better aire; and the &s;cituation there|of much more advantagious to all purpo&s;es. We are now getting hor&s;es, whereof there are great a|bundance in the I&s;land to make Troopers and Dra|goons, to pur&s;ue the Enemy, who are fled unto the Woods, and endeavour to get away into the I&s;land of <HI>Cuba,</HI> twenty leagues from this; for prevention whereof we have laid &s;ome Frigots in the way. The Fleet got &s;afe into the Harbor, which is indeed a very &s;afe and gallant one for riding in all winds. We find here Ebony in great plenty, &s;tore of large Cattle, and Timber in abundance for &s;hipping, and &s;ome &s;hips on the &s;tocks in building; the Ground very Fertile, and full of brave Plains and Rivers. There is like|wi&s;e great &s;tore of Salt-Peter, which &s;ome men among us, who are Powder men of <HI>London,</HI> doe affirme, may be had as good and as plentifully, as in any place in the world, and in three years time they will under|take to &s;erve <HI>England</HI> with it, woods and Rivers for carriage being ea&s;ie here, with choice places to erect
<PB N="49" REF="26">Mills. We want onely workme, &s;ome of our men are already beginning to Plant.</P>
<P>We lo&s;t in <HI>Hi&s;paniola</HI> between two and three hun|dred men by &s;ickne&s;&s;e and Skirmi&s;hes with the ene|my, and killed in the Woods by the Cow-killers, as they were &s;tragling to gather fruit. The Town where our Army is, is a well built Town of Stone and Brick, above two miles about, and is able to Quarter 20000 men.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Septemb: 23. 1655.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>Came the following Intelligence touching Gen: <HI>Pen,</HI> Gen: <HI>Venables,</HI> and our affairs in the We&s;t-Indies.</HEAD>
<P>GEnerall <HI>Pen</HI> arrived at the <HI>Spit</HI>-head near <HI>Port&s;|mouth</HI> from <HI>Jamaica,</HI> with part of the Fleet, the 31 of the la&s;t month, having left a very good Squa|dron behind him in tho&s;e Seas, and being come as far as the <HI>Havana</HI> in the I&s;land of <HI>Cuba,</HI> the Ship <HI>Paragon</HI> fell on fire by negligence, and &s;o peri&s;hed in the Sea, blowing up many of the men that were in her. The &s;aid Gen: <HI>Pen</HI> is not yet come to <HI>London,</HI> but hath &s;ent hither Letters which he brought from Gen: <HI>Venables.</HI> There are 20 &s;ail returned, and 13 left behind: And that notwith&s;tanding &s;ome di&s;couragements at fir&s;t in that part of the world, yet now our men are well accommodated, and doubt not but to bring good ad|vantage to the Commonwealth by their Expedition.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Letter from Gen: <HI>Venables</HI> to a per&s;on of Honour.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Honourable Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SInce my la&s;t of the &s;ixth of this in&s;tant, we have taken &s;ome pri&s;oners of the enemy; the re&s;t con|tinue in the Mountains, wanting hou&s;es, bread, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>
<PB N="50" REF="27">willing to &s;ubmit, if not overawed by a few among&s;t them, yet we hope to make them good Subjects, mo&s;t of them being <HI>Portugais,</HI> and &s;hall endeavour to gaine them by our civility. That which we mo&s;t want for the pre&s;ent, is bread and Bandry, there being not much <HI>Ca&s;ava</HI> in the Country, and of that the enemies &s;teal a &s;hare, but we &s;hall be planting more of that, and hope our Friends will give us a &s;upply a&s;&s;oon as may be. There be &s;ome con&s;iderations and expedi|ents which will be &s;ent into <HI>England,</HI> not yet fully re|&s;olved upon; and I am not able now to enlarge, ha|ving quite &s;pent my &s;pirits; but this I&s;land <HI>Jamaica,</HI> for Commodities, Aire, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and in &s;cituation for other purpo&s;es, exceedeth <HI>Hi&s;paniola,</HI> in the judge|ment of,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE> <SIGNED><HI>your very obliged Servant,</HI> ROB: VENABLES.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>Here followeth another Letter from the Fleet in <HI>Jamaica</HI> Harbour, concerning our Affairs in the We&s;t-Indies.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>June 25. 1656.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>IN the la&s;t to you dated the 12 of <HI>March,</HI> by the conveyance of the <HI>Grantham,</HI> we intimated the de|parture of &s;ome Frigats for the Maine, which &s;ince returned with Intelligence onely of 7 &s;hips in the Harbour of <HI>Carthagene.</HI> A few dayes after, A Council of War was called, and it was thought expedient to move upon &s;ome de&s;igne for the advantage of the Commonwealth rather than lie &s;till in Harbour. In order to which, eleven of the be&s;t &s;ailing Frigats in the Fleet were cho&s;en out for the effecting of our purpo&s;e (the Admiral him&s;elf to command in chief.)
<PB N="51" REF="27">The Port we were bound for, proved to be <HI>Rio de la Hache,</HI> a Town about 30 Leagues to the Ea&s;tward of <HI>Sancta Martha.</HI> We landed 500 Seamen a mile We&s;t|ward of the Town, where they &s;aluted us from the Fort &s;tanding to the Ea&s;tward with three great &s;hot, but did no execution; whereupon we marched boldly forward, and by the advantage of &s;ome hou&s;es near adjoyning, we got thither, and played our &s;mall &s;hot into the Fort &s;o fa&s;t, that they &s;oon de&s;erted their great Gunns, and begged for Quarter, which was pre&s;ently granted; the Fort was 19 foot high, with a Bre&s;t-work on the top, and 4 bra&s;&s;e Guns mounted: The Inhabitants had &s;ent away all their Goods by their Negroes upon their fir&s;t e&s;piall of us, which was 5 hours before we landed. We &s;tayed there 3 or 4 days, and &s;ent &s;everall Parties up into the Country in que&s;t of the Enemy, but took none &s;ave one Frier, and &s;ome Spani&s;h women and Ne|groes. In the mean time, &s;everall came down with Flags of Truce, and gave us notice, that the Gover|nour of the place would come and compound for them&punc; but they failed at the prefixed time; where|fore Orders were given for carrying aboard the Spa|ni&s;h pri&s;oners (women excepted) and the Town to be immediately fired, and our Forces drawn off.</P>
<P>After all matters were di&s;patched here, we &s;et &s;ail to <HI>Sancta Martha</HI> to review our former &s;poiles. We drew out the &s;ame party, and went on &s;hore, no Ene|my oppo&s;ing, mo&s;t per&s;ons of Quality being fled to <HI>Carthagene</HI> for &s;ecurity. We &s;oon left the place after we had watered; and e&s;pying a Saile at Sea, in few hours we came up with her, and found her to be a Spani&s;h Prize laden with Oyle, Olives, Wine, Stuffs, to a good value.</P>
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<P>Then we moved towards <HI>Carthagene</HI> to &s;hew our &s;elves; we lay there one day, and then 8 of the Fleet departed for <HI>Jamaica,</HI> leaving three of us behind in our former &s;tation, 6 leagues Ea&s;tward of <HI>Carthagene.</HI> In their way they cha&s;ed another Ship laden with Cocoes, and took her, and have &s;ent the Fruit to the Lord Protector: it is good to make Chocolette, which is a great Drink in the&s;e Countries.</P>
<P>We that were behind after the re&s;t of the Fleet, two Evenings together near Sun-&s;et, made another Saile; but night approaching, we lo&s;t &s;ight of her, and the next day &s;aw her at Anchor under <HI>Carthagene</HI> wall. We attempted to bring our Ships near her; but they di&s;covering our intents, haled her a&s;hore, cutting their Cables; &s;o that we being Ships of great burthen, had not depth of Water, be&s;ides the danger of the Forts. We gave the Town a &s;trong Alarm, coming within &s;hot, but they fired no Guns. So we left our cha&s;e, and with the advantage of a We&s;terly wind (which is not u&s;uall here) we got up as high as <HI>Sancta Martha,</HI> and &s;o &s;tood over for <HI>Jamaica,</HI> leaving the other two Ships behind, where they cha&s;ed another Ve&s;&s;ell into the &s;hore, which &s;uffered &s;hipwrack there, laden with Tobacco, Hides, and Cocoes.</P>
<P>Severall Gentlemen from the Governour of <HI>Mevis</HI> have been here to view this I&s;land of <HI>Jamaica,</HI> in or|der to their Tran&s;planting, who approve of the Ground very well, and are upon their Return with three of the States &s;hips, to fetch the Governor, and their Families, and E&s;tates.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="narrative">
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<HEAD>A true Narrative of the late Succe&s;&s;e which it hath plea&s;ed God to give to &s;ome part of the Fleet of this Common-wealth, upon the Spani&s;h Coast, again&s;t the King of <HI>Spains</HI> We&s;t-India Fleet, in its return to <HI>Cadiz;</HI> being the &s;ub&s;tance of &s;everall Letters writ and &s;ent by the Generalls of the Fleet. <HI>Octob: 4. 1656.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="illustration"><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>battle between sailing ships</FIGDESC>
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<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Letter of Capt: <HI>Stayner,</HI> Commander of the Speaker Frigat, to Gen. <HI>Blake,</HI> and Gen. <HI>Montagu.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>AFter my &s;ervice pre&s;ented to your Honors, the&s;e are to acquaint you, that upon the 8 in&s;tant at night it blew hard We&s;terly, by means whereof we
<PB N="54" REF="29">with our Squadrons (onely the <HI>Providence</HI> was gone to water) weighed out of the Bay of <HI>Cadiz</HI> and plyed to Sea; in the evening we e&s;pied eight Sail &s;ome five or &s;ix leagues to the We&s;twards of <HI>Cadiz,</HI> we u&s;ing the be&s;t means we could to meet with them the next day, which we did. It being little wind at N.E it was nine of the clock before we came up with them, but having a fre&s;h gale in the night, all but we and the <HI>Bridgwater</HI> were to the Leeward, and could not come to us. But when we came to the Fleet, it proved to be the Spani&s;h Fleet come from the We&s;t-Indies, which were four of the King of <HI>Spains,</HI> three Mer|chant-men, and one Prize which they had taken by way of the We&s;tern I&s;lands being a Portugall, which were eight in all: We engaged the Fleet, but being within four leagues of <HI>Cadiz,</HI> could not &s;tay for our &s;hips, but we, the <HI>Bridgwater,</HI> and <HI>Plymouth,</HI> engaged them, and had a &s;harp di&s;pute &s;ome of us; but the Admirall being the &s;malle&s;t &s;hip, we &s;leighted her, for we conceived there was &s;ome Pollicy u&s;ed in the Flag, by which means their Admiral and the <HI>Portugall</HI> Prize got into <HI>Cadiz;</HI> the Vice-Admirall and one more we &s;unk, and burnt two: We took one, the Captain of her, which we have on board, &s;aith &s;he hath in her two Millions of &s;ilver; the Vice-Admi|rall had as much, I doe believe. The <HI>Plimouth</HI> cha&s;ed another, who ran a&s;hore between S. <HI>Peters</HI> and <HI>Cape Degar,</HI> but it &s;eems by the pri&s;oners information &s;he had no &s;ilver in her; the &s;hip we took was as good as all the Fleet be&s;ides: the other that Captain <HI>Harman</HI> hath taken is very rich, but little &s;ilver in her. Both the Prize and our &s;hip are &s;orely wounded both in Ma&s;t and Hull. The Commanders advi&s;e me not to take the &s;ilver out of her, I doe intend to take further
<PB N="55" REF="29">advice about it; there is no News, onely the Fleet I believe will follow us. The Gallies came out be|cau&s;e of the riches and di&s;ability of our &s;hips: we will come towards you except your Honours &s;end further orders, for we are in no capacity to &s;tay here. I &s;hall leave two or three of the be&s;t &s;ayling &s;hips off the Cape, and I and the re&s;t will come to <HI>Lisbone,</HI> where I hope to find your Honours. There is the <HI>Nova Spaniola</HI> Fleet at the <HI>Havana,</HI> but when they will come home is not known. This is all, onely there is lo&s;&s;e of men in &s;ome &s;hips, the number I know not. I am,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Honors most humble Servant,</HI> Ric: Stayner.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>From on board the</HI> Speaker, <HI>in haste,</HI> <DATE>Sept. 9. 1656.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>The Letter of Gen. <HI>Blake,</HI> and Gen. <HI>Montagu</HI> to his Highne&s;&s;e the Lord Protector.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Highne&s;&s;e.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>BEing out of water, and our Victualls almo&s;t &s;pent, and having not heard from your Highne&s;&s;e, &s;ince the receipt of your commands by the Griffin, we found it requi&s;ite to &s;aile for this place, with the grea|te&s;t part of the Fleet, as well to recruite our wants, as to be in a way of further order. Accordingly we arrived here on the 11 in&s;tant, and the 17 following in the night received the enclo&s;ed Account from the Commander of the Squadron left before <HI>Cadiz,</HI> which we humbly pre&s;ent to your Highne&s;&s;e; ho|ping we &s;hall be &s;hortly able to informe your High|ne&s;&s;e more particularly thereof, having &s;ent out what Frigots we could, as well to reinforce the Guard
<PB N="56" REF="30">before <HI>Cadiz,</HI> as to &s;ecure the Prizes hither to us. In the mean time, the Providences that have come to our knowledge concurring to bring the&s;e &s;hips into our hands, doe very much convince us it is of God in more than an ordinary manner; and we tru&s;t it will by the &s;ame good hand be &s;anctified unto us. We humbly take leave and remain,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Highnes very faithful and obedient Servants,</HI> Robert Blake. E: Mountagu.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>From on board the</HI> Na&s;eby <HI>in the Bay of</HI> Wyers, <DATE>Sept. 19. 1656.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>An Account touching the great De&s;truction befallen the <HI>Spaniards</HI> in the We&s;t-Indies.</HEAD>
<P>THE elde&s;t &s;on of the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Badex</HI> (who was taken pri&s;oner by our Fleet in the Spani&s;h Vice-Admirall, as they came with their Silver from the We&s;t-Indies) being examined, &s;aith upon his Examination: That above five months &s;ince, pre|&s;ently after his Father and Family departed out of <HI>Lima</HI> in <HI>Peru,</HI> there hapned a fearfull Earthquake and mo&s;t miraculous Raine of fire from heaven in <HI>Peru,</HI> in&s;omnch that the whole City of <HI>Lima</HI> is &s;wallowed up and de&s;troyed, and al&s;o the City of <HI>Calao;</HI> in which places there peri&s;hed above twelve thou&s;and Spaniards, and (to &s;ee the great di&s;tingui&s;hing hand of God) not above one hundred Indians with them. In that City al&s;o, <HI>viz. Lima,</HI> the King of <HI>Spain</HI> hath lo&s;t by the Earthquake, one hundred Millions of Silver ready wrought up. Moreover, the famous
<PB N="57" REF="30">Mines and Mountains of <HI>Poto&s;i</HI> (out of which they digged their Silver) are de&s;troyed in a wonderfull manner, &s;o that there is no more of Hills to be &s;een, but all plaine, nor is there any further po&s;&s;ibility of having Gold or Silver in <HI>Peru.</HI> Some of the Spani&s;h them&s;elves doe acknowledge, that this de&s;olation and de&s;truction hath befaln the Spaniards for the Cruelties by them acted upon the poor Indians, they not &s;paring even tho&s;e Indians among them who profe&s;&s;ed the Roman Catholick Religion, in&s;omuch that the mi&s;erable Creatures being beyond mea&s;ure oppre&s;&s;ed, and grieved with their &s;ufferings, cryed to Heaven for vengeance again&s;t them. Never was there a more terible vi&s;ible hand of God in judgment upon any people &s;ince the time of <HI>Sodome</HI> and <HI>Gomor|rah.</HI> Great is the Lord, marvellous are his doings, and to be had in reverence of all the Nations round about.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="narrative">
<HEAD>Here followeth the Narrative of the great Succe&s;&s;e given by God to a few of our Ships again&s;t the King of <HI>Spains</HI> We&s;t-India Fleet.</HEAD>
<P>SEven Ships in the &s;ervice of the King of <HI>Spain</HI> (being four of the Kings own Fleet, and three Merchants) coming from the We&s;t Indies, mo&s;t of them richly laden with Gold Silver, Pearl, and other Commodities, <HI>viz.</HI> The Admirall, <HI>Don Marque&s;&s;e Del porto</HI> Generall; The vice Admirall a Gallion, <HI>Don Franci&s;co De E&s;quevel</HI> Commander; The Rere Admirall a Gallion, <HI>Don Franci&s;co Del Hayo</HI> Comman|der, a &s;hip commanded by Captaine <HI>John Rhodrignes Caldron,</HI> a &s;hip Commanded by Capt. <HI>John De la Tour,</HI>
<PB N="58" REF="31">another &s;mall man of war, and a Ve&s;&s;ell of Advice from the <HI>Vice Roy</HI> of <HI>Mexico</HI> to <HI>Spain:</HI> They did in fifty eight days proceed &s;o far as within a few leagues of <HI>Cadiz,</HI> without making Land or touching at any place during the voyage, having in their way betwixt the We&s;tern I&s;lands and <HI>Ma&s;&s;agam</HI> in <HI>Affrick,</HI> &s;eized upon a &s;mall <HI>Portugall</HI> as Prize, by whom receiving a fal&s;e information, that the <HI>Spaniards</HI> had beaten the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Fleet from off their Coa&s;t, a month before; they &s;ayled with much confidence towards <HI>Cadiz</HI> as not expecting oppo&s;ition.</P>
<P>The greate&s;t part of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Fleet, were at this time gone to the Bay of <HI>Wyers</HI> in <HI>Portugall</HI> (where they arrived the eleventh of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t) to recruit their wants, and to be in a way of further Orders, the Generalls leaving behind them a Squadron of &s;ix or &s;even Ships (to have an eye upon <HI>Cadiz</HI>) under the command of Captain <HI>Stayner,</HI> Captain of the <HI>Speaker</HI> Frigot: which Squadron on the eight of <HI>September</HI> la&s;t, plying to Sea, being forced thither by a &s;trong We&s;terly winde, did at the evening of the day Di&s;cover the &s;aid Spani&s;h Fleet, five or &s;ix Leagues to the We&s;tward of <HI>Cadiz;</HI> And the ap|proach of the night denying opportunity of pre&s;ent action, they endeavoured to fall in with them the next day, which accordingly they did about nine of the clock in the morning (they &s;eeming to the Spa|niards to be Fi&s;her-boats) But there being a fre&s;h Gale that night, all but three of the Squadron were to the Leeward, and could not pre&s;ently come in, and finding it to be the Spani&s;h Fleet come from the Indies, the <HI>Speaker,</HI> the <HI>Bridgwater,</HI> and the <HI>Plymouth</HI> Frigots (not thinking it advi&s;eable to &s;tay for the re&s;t of the &s;quadron, they being within 4 leagues of <HI>Cadiz</HI>)
<PB N="59" REF="31">engaged with the Fleet, and a &s;harp di&s;pute there was betwixt them: The Admirall being a &s;mall &s;hip, and it being conceived that the placing of the Flag upon her, might be in pollicy to divert them from attending the Ships of better value, they &s;ligh|ted her, and &s;uffered her (with the <HI>Portugall</HI> Prize) to go into <HI>Cadiz</HI> Bay, where (its &s;aid) &s;he was run on &s;hore and &s;unk, being reported to have in her Six hun|dred thou&s;and pieces of Eight: The Vice Admirall (being reported to have Six hundred thou&s;and pieces of Eight; be&s;ides in Jewells and Plate, upon the ac|compt of the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Badex,</HI> to the value of five hundred thou&s;and pieces of Eight) having fought &s;ix hours, was taken by our Ships, and after &s;et on fire by the Spaniards them&s;elves, and &s;o burnt down, and &s;nnk, in her were de&s;troyed one hundred and ten men, the principalle&s;t of whom was the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Badex,</HI> who with his wife and elde&s;t daughter were burnt: The Rear Admirall was taken and remains in our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion: The &s;hip under the command of Captain <HI>John Rodrignes Caldron,</HI> which was &s;aid to have in her Sugar, Tobacco and Plate, to the value of Six hundred thou&s;and pieces of Eight, was taken, and in the bringing off was by an accidentall fire burnt and &s;unk: The &s;hip under the command of <HI>De La Tour,</HI> twelve thou&s;and We&s;t India Hides, and &s;ome quantities of Sugar, is taken and in our po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ion: The &s;mall Man of War (having in her the like lading with the la&s;t mentioned) and the Advice Ve&s;&s;ell being of no force or lading, are &s;aid to e&s;cape into <HI>Gibralter.</HI></P>
<P>The value of what is taken and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, is not ju&s;tly known; but by the Calculation of the Spani|ards there are taken and lo&s;t about Nine Millions of
<PB N="60" REF="32">pieces of Eight: be&s;ides the &s;aid Ships and their La|ding, there are many pri&s;oners taken, three hundred and fifty being found in the Rear Admiral, and about Ninety &s;aved out of the Vice Admirall, among&s;t whom there are the Elde&s;t Son, a younger &s;on, and two daughters of the &s;aid Marque&s;s of <HI>Badex,</HI> as al&s;o <HI>Don Diego De Villa Alva,</HI> the Governour of the <HI>Havana,</HI> and &s;everall others of quality, and Merchants.</P>
<P>And all this was done without the lo&s;&s;e of one Ve&s;&s;ell of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> &s;o it plea&s;ed the wi&s;dome of God, to chu&s;e to effect &s;o great a work, by a little force: As al&s;o by &s;uffering the Enemy to be fooli&s;h|ly en&s;nared into a pre&s;umptious confidence, by an Enemies information, on which they &s;o relyed, that they neglected the haling of a Ve&s;&s;ell which came from St. <HI>Lucaz,</HI> and might have informed them of the truth.</P>
<P>By this <HI>Narrative</HI> we &s;ee that the Lord who&s;e right hand hath been heret ofore &s;o glorious in power, for the help of his poor people in the&s;e Nations, in the time of their &s;adde&s;t dangers, when their Enemies at home expected to have &s;atisfied their Lu&s;ts in their ruine, hath again appeared on their behalfe in this day of their need by blowing with his winds, and cau&s;ing the Sea to cover their Enemies abroad, &s;o that they have &s;unk as Lead into the mighty waters, which gives abundant cau&s;e to &s;ay, <HI>who is like unto the Lord,</HI> for he hath triumphed Gloriou&s;ly; and as the Eminency of this Mercy, in weakning the com|mon Enemy of Religion (the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> with whom this Commonwealth is engaged in a ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary war) and in encouraging and &s;trengthning the hands of his Servants, in a vigorous pro&s;ecution of that engagement, is much heightned by the freenes of <GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="1+ pages"></P>
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