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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>A MEMORIAL</HI> Given in to the Senate of the City of <HI>Hamburgh</HI> in <HI>French</HI> faithfully Tran&s;lated into <HI>Engli&s;h</HI></HEAD>
<P>To their Magnificences the Burgo-Ma&s;ters, and to the Gentlemen-Coun&s;ellors of this City of <HI>Hamburgh.</HI></P>
<P>WE, the Under-Sub&s;cribers, <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> of His Maj&s;ty, The King of <HI>Great-Britain,</HI> have upon the Arrival of <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners</HI> from an <HI>Indian-Company</HI> in SCOTLAND, Repre&s;ented at two &s;everal Times, to your Magnificences and Lord&s;hips from the King Our Ma&s;ter, that his Maje&s;ty under&s;tanding that the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners Endeavoured to open to Them&s;elves, a Commerce and Trade in the&s;e Parts, by making &s;ome Convention or Treaty with this City, had Com|manded us mo&s;t Expre&s;ly to Notify to your Magnificences and Lord&s;hips, that if you enter into &s;uch Conventions with privat Men His Subjects, who have neither Credential Letters, nor are any other wayes Authorized by His Maje&s;ty; That His Maje&s;ty would Regard &s;uch Proceedings as an Affront to His Royal Authori|ty, and that He would not fail to Re&s;ent it. Your Magnificences and Lord&s;hips had the Goodne&s;s to An&s;wer us thereto by your Deputy, that you would no way enter into Commerce with the afore-mentioned <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners,</HI> nor Encourage them in any &s;ort. Notwith&s;tanding whereof, We the Sub&s;cribers do &s;ee with Di&s;|plea&s;ure, that without any regard to the Remon&s;trances made by Us in the Name of His Maje&s;ty; The Inhabitants of this City forbear not to make Conven|tions and Treaties with the &s;aid <HI>Comi&s;&s;ioners,</HI> who dare even Erect a <HI>Publick-Office</HI> to receive Sub&s;criptions as appears by rhe annexed Print. And it is not very Credi|ble that Strangers could &s;o openly Enterprize Matters of &s;uch Importance without being Supported by this Goverment: <HI>Wherefore,</HI> We make Our ju&s;t Complaints thereof to Your Magnificences and Lord&s;hips; Be&s;eeching you in the Name of the King Our Ma&s;ter to remedy in time that which is begun, and to do it &s;o Effect|ually as to prevent any Con&s;equences it may have, capable to di&s;turb the Freind|&s;hip and good Corre&s;pondence which We would Cultivate between <HI>England</HI> and the City of <HI>Hamburgh.</HI> We wait Your Magnificences and Lord&s;hips Aa&s;wer in Writing to be tran&s;mitted to His Maje&s;ty Our Ma&s;ter. And We are.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Magnificences and Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble Servants, The Knight RYCAUT Re&s;ident for His Maje&s;ty the King of <HI>Great-Britan</HI> in the City of <HI>Hamburgh.</HI></SIGNED>
<SIGNED><HI>CRESSETT,</HI> His <HI>Britannick Maje&s;ties</HI> Envoy Extraordinary at the Courts of <HI>Lunenburgh,</HI> and his Plenipo|tentiary at the Treaty of <HI>Pi|nenberg.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Done at <HI>Hamburgh</HI> <DATE>the 7^t^h of <HI>April</HI> 1697.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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