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A DECLARATION OF THE Parliament, of the Commonwealth OF ENGLAND, Relating to the Affairs and Proceedings between this <HI>Commonwealth</HI> and the States General of the United Provinces of the <HI>Low-Countreys,</HI> and the pre&s;ent Differ|ences occca&s;ioned on the <HI REND="smallCaps">States</HI> part.</P>
<P>And the <HI REND="smallCaps">Answer</HI> of the <HI>Parliament</HI> to Three <HI REND="smallCaps">Papers</HI> from the Amba&s;&s;adors Extraordinary of the <HI>States General,</HI> upon occa&s;ion of the late Fight between the <HI>Fleets.</HI></P>
<P>With a <HI REND="smallCaps">Narrative</HI> of the late Engagement betvveen the Engli&s;h and Holland <HI REND="smallCaps">Fleet.</HI></P>
<P>As al&s;o</P>
<P>A <HI>Collection</HI> of the Proceedings in the Treaty between the Lord <HI REND="smallCaps">Pauw,</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary from the <HI>States General</HI> of the United Provinces, and the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI REND="smallCaps">England.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Friday the Ninth of <HI>Iuly,</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Parliament, <HI>That no per&s;on what&s;oever, with|out particular Licen&s;e from the Parliament, do pre&s;ume to Print the Declaration (Entituled,</HI> A Declaration of the Parlia|ment of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> Relating to the Affairs and Proceedings between this Commonvvealth and the States General, <HI>&amp;c.) Nor any the Papers therewith printed, other then the Printer to the Parliament.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Iohn Field,</HI> Printer to the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> 1652.</P>
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<HEAD>A <HI>Declaration</HI> of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> Relating to the Affairs and Proceedings between this Commonwealth and the States General of the United Provinces of the <HI>Low-Countries,</HI> and the pre&s;ent Differences occa&s;ioned on the States part.</HEAD>
<P>_IF the Sufferings of the People of the United Provinces under the heavy yoke of their Oppre&s;&s;ions, before their Deliverance from the &s;ame by the Mercy of God be remembred, and the Principles and Spirit which then acted in them, and the ready and con&s;tant Help which they have had in all times from this Nation, and that with no &s;mall Expence of Engli&s;h Blood and Trea&s;ure, the Returns which they have made towards this Commonwealth will hardly be believed.</P>
<P>It is not intended to be very particular in mention|ing the &s;tate of the Affairs of this Commonwealth as it &s;tood when oppre&s;&s;ed by a Tyrant, they were nece&s;|&s;itated to flie to Arms for Defence of their Lives and E&s;tates, becau&s;e in Parliament they did but a&s;&s;ert and de&s;ire the Setling of their Ju&s;t and Native Liberties, wherein by &s;o many Wonders, in &s;o many &s;ignal Bat|tels, by &s;uch a Series of Providence in <HI>England, Ire|land</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> the Lord was plea&s;ed to ble&s;s a poor handful, who approved them&s;elves faithful to that Cau&s;e.</P>
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Neither is that Endeavor to divide them in the me|morable year of Forty eight, to be omitted; nor the great Preparations made again&s;t this Nation in the year One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and fifty, which nece&s;&s;itated their Proceedings in <HI>Scotland,</HI> being refu&s;ed Satisfa|ction for fore-pa&s;t Wrongs; and denied A&s;&s;urance of Peace from them, who had received the Declared Enemy of this Commonwealth from the <HI>United Pro|vinces,</HI> where that mi&s;chievous Contrivement was hatched again&s;t <HI>England,</HI> and from whence their Ene|mies had much open and &s;ecret A&s;&s;i&s;tance by the Inte|re&s;t of the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> and others, even at a time when that Prince and his Adherents were contriving, as was mo&s;t probable, to erect a Tyranny upon tho&s;e Countreys; and to reduce them to their former Bond|age, of which he mi&s;&s;ed but narrowly, e&s;pecially in his Attempt upon <HI>Am&s;terdam;</HI> which things are better known there then here, and are not the purpo&s;e of this Declaration.</P>
<P>Neither is it plea&s;ant to remember that cruel and bloody Bu&s;ine&s;s of <HI>Amboyna</HI> towards the Engli&s;h, for which no Satisfaction at all hath been given, though often demanded in that Ca&s;e, and in others not un|like it.</P>
<P>But &s;uch was the Affection of this Nation towards the People of the United Provinces, and to the E&s;ta|bli&s;hment of Liberty, and the Advantages of Traffique and Strength to both; but above all, to the Advance|ment of the True Prote&s;tant Religion which both pro|fe&s;s, and which in humane probability would receive the greate&s;t Growth by their Friend&s;hip; and ob&s;er|ving in &s;ome of the Governors and People of tho&s;e
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Countreys an Affection to this Cau&s;e, and particularly expre&s;&s;ed by them in their free Contribution for the poor Prote&s;tants in <HI>Ireland;</HI> that &s;o &s;oon as the Affairs here came by the Ble&s;&s;ing of God to any con&s;i&s;tency, the Parliament did &s;end a Re&s;ident to the States Ge|neral, who expre&s;ly refu&s;ed to receive him, as them|&s;elves very well know.</P>
<P>The Affairs here being yet further pro&s;pered by the Almighty, and the Affection and Judgement the &s;ame &s;till in re&s;pect of their Neighbors, the Parliament &s;ent again, and joyned with their Re&s;ident there another worthy Per&s;on Dr. <HI>Dori&s;laus,</HI> who were in&s;tructed and enabled to &s;ee if by any good means a right Under|&s;tanding might be had; but one of the&s;e Publique Mi|ni&s;ters, Dr. <HI>Dori&s;taus,</HI> being come upon this publique Imployment to the <HI>Hague,</HI> the place of Re&s;idence of the States General; was there mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly and openly Murthered; of who&s;e A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination the world will judge as of an Action mo&s;t abhorred, again&s;t all Rules of National Intercour&s;e, and even Humanity it &s;elf; and how little was done there to Attache the Mur|therers while&s;t the bu&s;ine&s;s was fre&s;h, or hath been done &s;ince, though often called upon from hence, they well know, and mu&s;t be here remembred.</P>
<P>On the other &s;ide, the States having formerly &s;ent their Amba&s;&s;adors, the Lords, <HI>Borele, Renzwo</HI> and <HI>Joa|kimi</HI> into <HI>England,</HI> in the time of the late Troubles, pretending all good Offices, which proved to be a Cor|re&s;pondence with the Enemy, and a Means of A&s;&s;i&s;ting them again&s;t tho&s;e to whom they were &s;ent; This, with Reproaches by them ca&s;t upon the Parliament, was the work of tho&s;e Amba&s;&s;adors; for which, how
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lyable &s;oever by the practice of Nations they left them|&s;elves, yet not the lea&s;t Incivility was offered to them, but their Demeanor made known to their Superiors, and Repairation de&s;ired, but none vouch&s;afed.</P>
<P>After the&s;e Pa&s;&s;ages, when it had plea&s;ed God to put a full End to the trouble&s;om Affairs in <HI>England,</HI> not one Gari&s;on upon the firm Land being in the Enemies hands, nor any Force on foot, but all reduced to Peace and Settlement, the Affairs of <HI>Ireland</HI> in a good con|dition, mo&s;t of the Towns and Cities there in the Par|liaments power, and their Affairs in <HI>Scotland</HI> not un|pro&s;perous, when there was much le&s;s cau&s;e to apply to the States, for any need the Parliament had of their A&s;&s;i&s;tance, or if they &s;hould have looked upon them|&s;elves and their Neighbors, as other States u&s;e to do; yet &s;till retaining the former Principles of Affection and Judgement of the great Concernment an Union between the two Commonwealths would be to the upholding of the Prote&s;tant Intere&s;t, &s;o much de&s;igned upon by the Enemies thereof, and unto common good and Liberty.</P>
<P>The Parliament did &s;end a Solemn Emba&s;&s;y to the States General, the Amba&s;&s;adors Enabled and In&s;tru|cted to endeavour to Compo&s;e former Differences, and to effect a firm and &s;trict Union, as far as might be con|&s;i&s;tent with Rea&s;on and Ju&s;tice, and the Honor of this Nation, and be for Mutual good; Nay, they can &s;ay, That tho&s;e Amba&s;&s;adors from hence were Impowered to make &s;uch Tenders unto, and Agreement with the States, as would have demon&s;trated the Affection of this Commonwealth to the Good of the people of the Uni|ted Provinces, the &s;ame as to them&s;elves.</P>
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How unheartily and dilatorily they were dealt with in relation to their Errand, whereby the Emba&s;&s;y was rendred of no effect; how un&s;afe (to &s;ay no more) they were in their Per&s;ons during their aboad in the Nether|lands, what Indignities were offered to them and their Followers, and unpuni&s;hed; and at who&s;e Door the fault hereof doth lie, is too apparent. But the&s;e En|deavors for Friend&s;hip, by this delay and Aver&s;ne&s;s on the States part, becoming fruitle&s;s, the Honor of this Commonwealth in the Per&s;ons of their Amba&s;&s;adors wounded, and their de&s;ires of Amity thus &s;leighted, the Amba&s;&s;adors were recalled home.</P>
<P>By this appears what hath been done to procure a firm League and Amity with the United Provinces, and what hone&s;t and &s;incere Endeavors have been on the Parliaments part to effect it, who in the mean time proceeding on to conflict with tho&s;e Difficulties which Providence called them unto in <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the &s;ame gracious hand of God which had gone along with them, having brought their Affairs in <HI>Ireland</HI> to &s;o good a pa&s;s, as that little remained there to be done; and pro&s;pering the War in <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;o, as that Countrey being in a maner quitted to them; and the Scoti&s;h Army under the Command of <HI>Charls Stuart,</HI> Son of the late King, marching into <HI>England,</HI> was to|tally defeated at <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> and almo&s;t all of them kil|led or taken, except him&s;elf and &s;ome few others hard|ly e&s;caping.</P>
<P>Then and not before, the States General thought fit to &s;end an Emba&s;&s;y to this Commonwealth, which was received with &s;uch willingne&s;s and Affection, as might te&s;tifie for them, they &s;tood fixed to their for|mer Principles.</P>
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As the Treaty went on, having &s;ome rea&s;on to avoid Dilatorine&s;s and to de&s;ire Certainty, when Po&s;itive Demands were pre&s;&s;ed to the States Amba&s;&s;adors, they were evaded in things not of the harde&s;t Re&s;oluti|on, with Allegations of want of Power, though their Commi&s;&s;ion &s;hewed no &s;uch Re&s;traint: yet to obtain further Power&punc; Returns mu&s;t be made to their Superi|ors; and before An&s;wers could be had, the Provincial States mu&s;t be A&s;&s;embled, which gave &s;mall grounds of any real intendment of a firm Peace and Amity.</P>
<P>During the time of Treaty al&s;o, whil&s;t at the fir&s;t their Amba&s;&s;adors Debates &s;eemed to &s;eek no better Props then of Ingenuity and Rea&s;on, the Amba&s;&s;adors of the States acquainted the Parliament, that one hun|dred and fifty Ships of War were intended to be &s;et out by their Superiors, be&s;ides tho&s;e of their Navy then abroad; and all the&s;e pretended for more &s;ecurity of the Sea; and con&s;ervation of the Trade and Navigation of the United Provinces, but not to offend <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Whether this were done to Amu&s;e the Parliament or to Denounce again&s;t them, is to the States be&s;t known, and the Grounds of tho&s;e extraordinary and great Preparations, when they had no Enemy at all in the&s;e Seas.</P>
<P>To the&s;e things the Parliament made no other An|&s;wer, but quietly intended a Provi&s;ion for their own ju&s;t Defence, in ca&s;e any &s;hould Invade them. Never|thele&s;s, not altering their Re&s;olutions more or le&s;s as to the things to be in&s;i&s;ted upon or granted, having made Ju&s;tice and Honor, and a mutual Good, in pre&s;er|vation and &s;aving of each Rights to other, the rule to &s;teer their Actions by, who were mo&s;t willing to come
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to a happy Clo&s;e of this Treaty, and were not, to their knowledges, wanting in any thing which might te&s;tifie their reality to fini&s;h the &s;ame.</P>
<P>In the mean time the States go on with their Prepa|rations at Sea, appoint their &s;everal Rendezvouz of their Fleet tending to a Conjunction of all into one, under the Command of him whom they call Lieu|tenant Admiral <HI>Trump;</HI> what his Intentions or In&s;tru|ctions were, his own Deportment and &s;ome precedent Actions will demon&s;trate.</P>
<P>Particularly, when among&s;t others, one of their Ships being met by a man of War under the Com|mand of Captain <HI>Yong,</HI> was in a friendly maner &s;um|moned to give the u&s;ual Re&s;pect to the Ships of War of this Nation, which another of his Company had done before, and which hath been accu&s;tomed not onely as a civility and re&s;pect, but a principal Te&s;timo|ny of the unque&s;tionable Right of this Nation to the Dominion and Superiority of the adjacent Seas, ac|knowledged generally by all the Neighbor-States and Princes, and particularly by them&s;elves and their Pre|dece&s;&s;ors, be&s;ides many mo&s;t authentique Records and other undeniable Proofs, together with a con&s;tant Pra|ctice in Confirmation thereof: Yet he refu&s;ed, affirm|ing that if he did it, he &s;hould lo&s;e his Head.</P>
<P>Not long after this en&s;ued that Action of <HI>Trump,</HI> the particulars whereof are &s;et down in the <HI>Narrative</HI> herewith Printed; by which that Ho&s;tile and injurious Act appears to have been done again&s;t Neighbors in Amity, who have &s;o often and earne&s;tly de&s;ired and te&s;tified their willingne&s;s to firm and continue the &s;ame: and this al&s;o vailed with, and in the mid&s;t
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of a Treaty of Peace offered by them&s;elves.</P>
<P>Accompanied al&s;o with &s;uch Arrogancy &amp; Inju&s;tice, not onely to the denying of &s;o unque&s;tionable a Right, but U&s;urping upon the &s;ame; and in pro&s;ecution of that Injury without any provocation, &s;eeking out the Ships of this Commonwealth in their own Seas, upon their own Coa&s;t, in their own Road, there falling upon them, be|ginning a War, and thus endeavoring the De&s;truction of their Men and Ships, even to the beating them out of the Sea, and utter Subver&s;ion of the Naval Power and Trade of this Commonwealth, had not God by his goodne&s;s turned the &s;hame thereof upon the heads of tho&s;e who were the wrong Doers.</P>
<P>After this long Patience of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> and after the&s;e high Injuries and Provocations thus forced upon them, the Succe&s;s at Sea not an&s;wer|ing Expectation, it plea&s;ed the States General to &s;end another Amba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary to the Parliament; who, as the former Amba&s;&s;adors a little before his coming had done, laboured to excu&s;e their Superiors from having any Intention, or giving any In&s;truction to Warrant this Dealing; which, notwith&s;tanding the Preparations, the returning from another Cour&s;e and &s;eeking out the Parliaments Ships in their own Roads, and there falling upon them without the lea&s;t Provoca|tion, as before is mentioned, was yet by the Amba&s;|&s;ador called an Accident, and a thing done by meer Chance, the Action in the name of his Superiors utter|ly di&s;claimed, yet the Imployment and the Agent con|tinued by them and reinforced.</P>
<P>And when the clear truth of this unworthy Fact, bearing in it &s;elf part of the Proof thereof, by the Fleet
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under the Command of <HI>Trump,</HI> coming purpo&s;ely in|to the Road of <HI>England</HI> unto their Fleet; and the re&s;t thereof being atte&s;ted, not onely by many eye-wit ne&s;&s;es, Engli&s;hmen, but al&s;o by divers Officers, and others of the Netherlands taken in the Fight, who con|cur fully in the Te&s;timony; yet a long and intricate way of Examination thereof is propounded, a Ce&s;&s;a|tion of acts of Offence and Ho&s;tility in the mean time de&s;ired, and a new Proceeding upon the old long Trea|ty entred into by the former Amba&s;&s;adors; that time being thus gained, an addition of &s;trength might there|with be provided.</P>
<P>The Powers of this Amba&s;&s;ador being de&s;ired to be &s;een, none but his Credential Letters, and &s;ome Pa&s;&s;es for his Tran&s;portation were produced; but no power to Treat and Conclude with the Parliament, for which material Point he re&s;orted to the Powers of the for|mer Amba&s;&s;adors, who had Commi&s;&s;ion to Treat and conclude upon the former Negotiation, and owned this al&s;o; and although they came upon the general bu&s;ine&s;s of the Treaty of Alliance between the two Commonwealths, and the Lord <HI>Pauw</HI> came upon a par|ticular Action done after that Treaty begun and pro|ceeded in; yet &s;uch was the continued de&s;ire of the Par|liament, if po&s;&s;ible, to compo&s;e the &s;aid late Differen|ces in a Friendly way, that they proceeded to treat with the Lord <HI>Pauw,</HI> waving the pre&s;ent Di&s;pute upon his want of Powers.</P>
<P>And when nothing in Particular was tendred by the Amba&s;&s;ador, but the Generals before recited; and a Propo&s;al, That the Parliament would make their De|mands to him; they were contented, not in&s;i&s;ting upon
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the di&s;advantage thereof, to make their Demands un|to the Amba&s;&s;ador for Satisfaction for Wrongs pa&s;t, and Security for the future, which are herewith likewi&s;e Printed; whereby it was put into the Hands of the Am|ba&s;&s;ador, to come to an Agreement upon the Demands of Satisfactions to be by both Parties moderated and a&s;&s;erted, as was propounded to him in another Paper; and upon &s;uch Agreement for Satisfaction (the Demand for Security being left to after con&s;ideration) to have a Ce&s;&s;ation of all acts of Ho&s;tility and Offence as he de|&s;ired, and the Parliament was thus willing to a&s;&s;ent unto.</P>
<P>But in&s;tead of drawing towards any &s;uch Agreement, or endeavoring to come to Particulars therein as was offered; the Amba&s;&s;ador was not plea&s;ed at all to &s;e|cond or pur&s;ue his former earne&s;t de&s;ire of a Ce&s;&s;ation, though it were thus in his own Power to accompli&s;h, but wholly declined the &s;ame; and for him&s;elf and the other Amba&s;&s;adors, de&s;ired &s;peedy Audience to take their leaves, and to depart into their own Countrey, being expre&s;ly commanded (as they affirmed) &s;o to do; and in that they were not denyed any Re&s;pect or Ac|commodation, nor u&s;ed, during their abode here, as the Publique Mini&s;ters of this Commonwealth had been in the United Provinces; and by this Departure, they were plea&s;ed to put a period both to the one and the other Treaty.</P>
<P>At their la&s;t Audience in Parliament, much was re|cited of the &s;ame matter contained in their former Pa|pers; and as to that which they then urged concerning acts of Ho&s;tility not looked for, neither at any time before declared; and that their Ships (brought into the
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Ports of <HI>England,</HI> and there detained of late again&s;t their thought, and before any Declaration of Ho&s;ti|lity i&s;&s;ued out, and whereof the Commanders are un|ware and guiltle&s;s, having not given the lea&s;t, nor to no body occa&s;ion of Di&s;putes) might be relea&s;ed; the Parliament therein need but refer to the Narrative by them publi&s;hed, and delivered to the Amba&s;&s;adors of the Lords the States General, before the arrival of the Lord <HI>Pauw,</HI> and &s;een by him at his fir&s;t coming.</P>
<P>And although that fir&s;t Breach and high injury done by <HI>Trump</HI> was on the Parliaments part altogether un|de&s;erved and unlooked for, yet after the &s;ame commit|ted, a Pro&s;ecution again&s;t the Wrong-doers could not in probability but be looked for from the Parties inju|red, to whom no Satisfaction hath yet been offered; unle&s;s the Parliament &s;hould quietly and tamely have laid them&s;elves down at the feet of tho&s;e who have thus endeavored the Ruine of them, and have betray|ed into tho&s;e hands the Rights and Safety of the Peo|ple of this Nation, which few would have e&s;teemed agreeable to the great Tru&s;t in them repo&s;ed.</P>
<P>By the&s;e Proceedings faithfully repre&s;ented to the view of the World, it will be more then evident with what Affection and Con&s;tancy the Parliament have la|bored for the Friend&s;hip of the United Provinces: how carefully they avoided all Differences and Occa&s;ions of a War between the Nations, though all &s;uch Overtures of Amity and neare&s;t Alliance have been rejected.</P>
<P>At la&s;t, when this Commonwealth was a&s;&s;aulted and invaded, their Ships torn, their Men &s;lain, without the lea&s;t colour of any Offence given; upon which At|tempts and the Con&s;equences thereof had the &s;ame
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&s;ucceeded, not onely the Rights, Honor and Traffique, but even the very Being of this Commonwealth had been highly endangered; The Parliament held it their Duty, thus compelled and nece&s;&s;itated into a mo&s;t un|welcome War begun upon them, to defend them&s;elves; and while&s;t a ju&s;t Satisfaction and Security cannot otherwi&s;e be had, To endeavor the gaining thereof by &s;uch ways and means wherewith the Lord &s;hall enable them.</P>
<P>And herein, as the Parliament doth re&s;t abundantly comforted in the Integrity of their own Proceeding, and faithful Di&s;charge of their Duty, &s;o they a&s;|&s;ure them&s;elves that all indifferent per&s;ons will enter|tain this clear Te&s;timony of the Ju&s;tne&s;s of their Cau&s;e; for the i&s;&s;ue whereof they depend not upon any Policy or &s;trength of Man, but onely upon the Goodne&s;s and A&s;&s;i&s;tance of that Righteous God who hath hitherto in &s;o wonderful a maner appeared for them, and who ne|ver failed tho&s;e that &s;eek him, and with uprightne&s;s and &s;incerity of Heart attend upon him.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen: Scobell Cleric. Parliamenti.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The <HI REND="smallCaps">Answer</HI> of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> to Three Papers pre&s;ented to them by the Councel of State, from the Amba&s;&s;adors Extraordinary of the Lords the States General of the <HI>United Provinces,</HI> upon occa&s;ion of the late Fight between the Fleets.</HEAD>
<P>THe Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> calling to minde with what continued De|mon&s;trations of Friend&s;hip and &s;incere Affections, from the very beginning of their inte&s;tine Troubles they have proceeded towards their Neighbors of the <HI>United Provinces,</HI> omitting nothing on their part that might conduce to a good Corre&s;pondence with them, and to a growing up into a more near and &s;trict Union then formerly, Do finde them&s;elves much &s;urprized with the un&s;utable Returns that have been made there|unto, and e&s;pecially at the Acts of Ho&s;tility lately committed in the very Roads of <HI>England</HI> upon the Fleet of this Commonwealth, the matter of Fact whereof &s;tated in clear Proofs, is hereunto annexed; Upon &s;erious and deliberate con&s;ideration of all, and of the &s;everal Papers delivered in by Your Excellen|cies to the Councel of State, the Parliament thinks &s;it to give this An&s;wer to tho&s;e Papers:</P>
<P>The Parliament, as they would be willing to make a charitable Con&s;truction of the Expre&s;&s;ions u&s;ed in the &s;aid Papers, endeavoring to repre&s;ent the late Engage|ment of the Fleets to have hapned without the know|ledge, and again&s;t the minde of Your Superiors; So when they con&s;ider how di&s;agreeable to that profe&s;|&s;ion
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the Re&s;olutions and Actions of Your State and their Mini&s;ters at Sea have been, even in the mid&s;t of a Treaty offered by them&s;elves, and managed here by Your Excellencies, the extraordinary Preparations of One hundred and Fifty &s;ail of Men of War, without any vi&s;ible occa&s;ion, but what doth now appear (a ju&s;t ground of Jealou&s;ie in Your own judgements, when Your Lord&s;hips pretended to excu&s;e it) and the In&s;tru|ctions them&s;elves given by Your &s;aid Superiors to their Commanders at Sea, Do finde too much cau&s;e to be|lieve, That the Lords the States General of the <HI>United Provinces</HI> have an Intention, by Force to u&s;urp the known Rights of <HI>England</HI> in the Seas, to de&s;troy the Fleets that are, under God, their Walls and Bulwarks, and thereby expo&s;e this Commonwealth to Inva&s;ion at their plea&s;ure, as by this late Action they have attem|pted to do: Whereupon the Parliament conceive they are obliged to Endeavor, with Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance, as they &s;hall have opportunity, To &s;eek Repairation of the Wrongs already &s;uffered, and Security that the like be not attempted for the future.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s, with this minde and de&s;ire, That all Differences betwixt the Nations may (if po&s;&s;ibly) be peaceably and friendly compo&s;ed, as God by his Pro|vidence &s;hall open a way thereunto, and Circum&s;tances &s;hall be conducing to render &s;uch Endeavors le&s;s dila|tory, and more effectual then tho&s;e of this kinde here|tofore u&s;ed have been.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="narrative">
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<HEAD><HI>A Narrative of the late Engagement between the Engli&s;h Fleet under the Command of General</HI> Blake, <HI>and the</HI> Holland <HI>Fleet under the Command of Lieutenant Admiral</HI> Trump <HI>near</HI> Dover.</HEAD>
<P>UPon Tue&s;day the Eighteenth of <HI>May</HI> 1652. in the morning, General <HI>Blake</HI> being gone to the We&s;t|ward as far as <HI>Rye</HI> Bay eight days before with twelve or thirteen Ships, leaving Major <HI>Bourn</HI> in the <HI>Downs</HI> with eight Ships onely, there appeared upon the back&s;ide of the <HI>Goodwin</HI> a <HI>Holland</HI> Fleet of Men of War con&s;i&s;ting of two and forty Ships, one whereof had a Flag on the main-top-Ma&s;t head, the re&s;t Jacks and Ancients; and being come unto the South-&s;ands head, two of them bore up towards the Engli&s;h Ships in the <HI>Downs,</HI> where|upon Major <HI>Bourn</HI> &s;ent out the <HI>Greyhound</HI> to examine them, and to know the rea&s;on of their &s;o near approach; who an&s;wering, That they had a Me&s;&s;age to the Com|mander in chief in the <HI>Downs,</HI> were permitted to come in; and having &s;aluted the Flag, the two Captains na|med <HI>Ty&s;on</HI> and <HI>Aldred</HI> came Aboard the &s;aid Major <HI>Bourn,</HI> and acquainted him that they were &s;ent by <HI>Van Trump</HI> to let him know that he had been Riding about <HI>Dunkirk</HI> with his Fleet, where by rea&s;on of foul Wea|ther they had lo&s;t many of their Cables and An|chors, and the wind being Northerly, were driven fur|ther
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to the Southward then they intended, which <HI>Van Trump</HI> thought fit to &s;ignifie to prevent any mi&s;appre|hen&s;ions or Jealou&s;ies. And having &s;aid this, and re|ceived for an&s;wer, That the Reality of what they &s;aid would be&s;t appear by their &s;peedy drawing off from this Coa&s;t, they departed to their Fleet; and immediately upon their arrival with them, the whole Fleet &s;tood up to <HI>Dover,</HI> and came to an Anchor within little more then &s;hot of the Ca&s;tle the &s;ame day in the afternoon. Upon their coming before <HI>Dover</HI> Ca&s;tle, and Riding there with Flag in the Main-top, without &s;aluting the Ca&s;tle, the Ca&s;tle made three &s;hot at them; notwith|&s;tanding which, the Dutch Admiral kept up his Flag, and rode there at Anchor until the next day noon, and exerci&s;ed his Mu&s;quetiers, by di&s;charging Volleys of &s;mall &s;hot many hours together. Upon Wedne&s;day about twelve a clock the Dutch Fleet weighted Anchor and &s;tood off towards <HI>Calice</HI> &s;ome four Leagues into the South-ea&s;t; about the &s;ame time the Engli&s;h Fleet un|der General <HI>Blake</HI> coming from the We&s;t towards the <HI>Downs</HI> di&s;covered them, and &s;uppo&s;ed by their cour&s;e they had been going back; Major <HI>Bourn</HI> likewi&s;e was in fight, coming from the <HI>Downs</HI> to joyn with General <HI>Blake:</HI> About an hour or two after, the <HI>Holland</HI> Fleet altered their cour&s;e, came back again, made all the Sail they could, and bore directly with General <HI>Blake, Van Trump</HI> the headmo&s;t with his Flag in the Main-top; and being come within &s;hot, the General &s;hot a Gun at his Main-top, and then two &s;ingle &s;hot more: whereupon <HI>Trump</HI> &s;hot a &s;ingle &s;hot through the Generals Flag and then immediately gave the fir&s;t Broad-&s;ide and took in his Pendants, and hung out his Red Flag under
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the <HI>Holland</HI> Colours, which was the &s;ignal on their part for the whole Fleet to ingage, and &s;o the Fight began, which happened between four and five a clock in the af|ternoon, and contiued until nine of the clock. In the Fight the Engli&s;h took two of the <HI>Holland</HI> Fleet, one whereof having &s;ix foot water in the Hold they left, ta|king the Captain and Officers aboard, the other being a Ship of thirty Guns. General <HI>Blake</HI> lay all night where the Fight began, or near thereabouts, and the Holland Fleet was e&s;pyed about four Leagues di&s;tant towards the Coa&s;t of <HI>France</HI> next morning.</P>
<P>The truth of this Relation appears in the Letters of General <HI>Blake,</HI> Major <HI>Bourn,</HI> and others in the Action, by the Examinations of the Dutch Captains, and other Officers taken in the Fight; the In&s;tructions given to the Dutch Captains and Commanders, and other Pa|pers, all which are hereunto annexed.</P>
<P>And whereas <HI>Van Trump</HI> in the accompt he gives of this Action, makes the occa&s;ion of his coming back upon the Engli&s;h Fleet, the guarding of &s;ome Mer|chant men richly laden from the <HI>Streights,</HI> which had been in fight with &s;ome of our Friggots: That action is &s;et down in a Letter written by Captain <HI>Yong</HI> (here|unto al&s;o annexed) whereby the occa&s;ion, beginning and ending thereof is declared. And be&s;ides, tho&s;e very Ships which he pretends to come to protect or re|&s;cue, upon Saturday before had pa&s;t by General <HI>Blake,</HI> and were gone to the Ea&s;tward.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="proceedings">
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<HEAD>A Collection of the Proceedings in the Treaty between the Lord <HI REND="smallCaps">Pauw,</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary from the States General of the Vnited Provinces, and the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="speech">
<HEAD>The Lord <HI REND="smallCaps">Pauw</HI>'s Speech at his Audience before the <HI REND="smallCaps">Parliament,</HI> the Eleventh of <HI>Iune,</HI> 1652.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Publique Te&s;timonies and manife&s;t Tokens of a &s;incere Benevolence, pure Love and true Friend&s;hip, which the Univer&s;al State and Sub|jects of the United Provinces have always &s;hewed to the Engli&s;h People, and principally to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> now pro&s;perou&s;ly and happily Governing, are &s;o notorious and known to the whole Chri&s;tian World, that no body can doubt of it; much le&s;s of a true Faith and long u&s;ed Ob&s;ervation of Friend&s;hip, of the States General of the United Provinces.</P>
<P>But, fora&s;much as by rea&s;on of the Variety and In|con&s;tancy of Worldly things, &s;ometime happen tho&s;e things which do dark the Exterior Face with Clouds, and are like to &s;hew a Di&s;traction of mindes: But when the&s;e things are prevented by time, and all Contrarieties taken away, they will &s;erve more to con&s;erve and con|firm,
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then to di&s;&s;olve the Bonds of mutual Friend&s;hip: Therefore it hath plea&s;ed the States General of the United Provinces, my Superiors; notwith&s;tanding they doubt not of the &s;ingular Wi&s;dom and Diligence of their Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;adors here, &s;taying about great and weighty Bu&s;ine&s;s, to &s;end me in an extraor|dinary Emba&s;&s;age to the Parliament of the Common|wealth of <HI>England,</HI> To pre&s;ent clearly and &s;incerely their Wi&s;hes for the Publique Safety and happy Go|vernment thereof; with proffer of all their good Of|fices, as I, being &s;o lately come from their Honorable A&s;&s;embly, can te&s;tifie out of my certain knowledge, That nothing is more in their Hearts and Wi&s;hes, Then that not onely a firm and con&s;tant Friend&s;hip be Reli|giou&s;ly kept between both States; but that it may daily grow, and by all means be con&s;olidated, and no|thing may happen which may break or any way di&s;turb the Bars of mutual Safety, Profit and Friend&s;hip, be|tween &s;o Neighbor Nations: And that therefore they have received with great A&s;toni&s;hment and &s;orrow of Heart the News, of what, contrary to all expectation, hath lately happened between the Admirals of both Commonwealths. But fora&s;mcch as this unlooked for and unexpected ca&s;e might not onely rai&s;e new Trou|bles, but al&s;o give occa&s;ion of Su&s;pition, as if the pre&s;ent Treaty for a mutual Alliance, and a &s;traighter Corroboration of the old Friend&s;hip, was not earne&s;tly pro&s;ecuted, and therefore we &s;hould labor in vain to come to a happy end: My Superiors have not thought ami&s;s, but rather convenient, even nece&s;&s;ary, that at this time and upon this unhappy ca&s;e fallen out, I &s;hould above the ordinary u&s;e and cu&s;tom, and there|fore
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&s;uperabundantly, (&s;eeing that by rea&s;on of my Office I have been in all their Coun&s;els) repre&s;ent open|ly and &s;incerely to the Parliament of the Common|wealth of <HI>England,</HI> all the Particulars which have happened, as well before as after that Fact, as they are come to their knowledge, to remove all things out of the way which might breed any grudge or breach of Friend&s;hip between both States, or cau&s;e the lea&s;t di|&s;turbance or delay to the Treaty.</P>
<P>Therefore, by virtue of the Credential Letters of the &s;aid General States, and in their name I do Prote&s;t and Declare to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> That they have never entertained in their thoughts, never acted, much le&s;s commanded any thing which might offend the Dignity of this Com|monwealth, le&s;&s;en the common Friend&s;hip and good Corre&s;pondence which hath endured for &s;o many years, or under any pretence what&s;oever &s;ow any &s;eed of Mi&s;under&s;tanding; But rather that the &s;aid States have intended with all their hearts, and endeavoured by all their power, That the &s;aid Friend&s;hip and Alli|ance might be perfected in the be&s;t way, and &s;peedily, and might be &s;olemnly e&s;tabli&s;hed for ever for the Safety and Advantage of both Commonwealths. It is very true that a great Fleet hath been prepared in the Low Countreys, but that the States General have by the continual Complaints of their Subjects been forced to con&s;ent to it, is al&s;o a thing mo&s;t certain and known; as al&s;o, that they have Ordered, That notice thereof &s;hould be given to the &s;aid Parliament; which was done and &s;ignified to no other intent, then that the Subjects of the United Provinces which had &s;uffered great Da|mages
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at Sea, and lo&s;t &s;everal &s;hips, &s;hould be &s;ecured and protected by ju&s;t and ordinary means; and that no Wrong or Offence &s;hould be offered to any, much le&s;s to undertake any Di&s;pute again&s;t the Fleet and Ships of the &s;ame Parliament upon the Controver&s;ies and Differences of the Sea. All which being done and per|formed in that maner, and neverthele&s;s being acciden|tally hapened of both &s;ides a great Debate and Con|trover&s;ie between both Fleets, the States General have thought fit to acquaint the Parliament of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> with the Relation &s;ent to them in writing by their Admiral, and approved and witne&s;&s;ed by their Cap|tains and other faithful per&s;ons, That the Admiral <HI>Trump,</HI> more by nece&s;&s;ity then other rea&s;ons, is come nigh the Fleet of this Commonwealth, and hath fir&s;t &s;ent his civil Salutation to the Commander <HI>Bourn;</HI> and having afterwards met accidentally with the Ad|miral <HI>Blake,</HI> put out his Boat to &s;end &s;ome Deputies unto him, and to Declare the Rea&s;ons of his coming, and be&s;ides that, commanded to take down his Flag; but when he &s;aw, that he again&s;t all expectation was unhappily &s;aluted by him with a Broad-&s;ide, and there|upon he di&s;charged his Guns, not to offend but to de|fend him&s;elf; and that from thence by meer accident, rather then purpo&s;ely, was ari&s;ed a Fight among&s;t tho&s;e Fleets, which by the Lords Ble&s;&s;ing &s;hortly after was ended: Which, fora&s;much as it was begun by an un|expected Salutation, and not continued with earne&s;t|ne&s;s by ours, nor done or committed by Alienated mindes, or any Rea&s;ons known before, but by Chance; Therefore the States General do friendly de&s;ire, That the <HI REND="smallCaps">Parliament</HI> of the Commonwealth of
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<HI>England</HI> will be plea&s;ed to believe and be per&s;waded, That nothing was done with a con&s;ulted purpo&s;e or foregoing Command, but meerly by a ca&s;ual Chance, and perhaps by rea&s;on of the Fragility and Incon&s;tance of the worldly things; and &s;o much the more direct their Coun&s;els and Commi&s;&s;ions thither, That all Ob|&s;tacles, Offences, and further Wrongs may with all &s;peed be removed out the way and prohibited, as the States General on their part are prompt and ready to apply convenient Remedies. They judge that it concerneth much the whole Chri&s;tian world, and prin|cipally the States of the Reformed Churches abroad, That tho&s;e Mi&s;under&s;tandings do not grow greater be|tween the&s;e Commonwealths, and that between Neighbors, partakers of the &s;ame Faith, &s;hould ari&s;e any Di&s;&s;ention which &s;hould di&s;turb, interrupt the com|mon and nece&s;&s;ary Commerce, and give occa&s;ion, as well to their known as to their &s;ecret Enemies, to lay waits, or to draw into diver&s;e parts tho&s;e Common|wealths ready to be United in a common Alliance; and by &s;uch means removing from them&s;elves the &s;eat of Calamities and War, to bring (which God forbid) it to their own de&s;truction: To prevent &s;o great a danger, and that the evil may not &s;pread further, I am com|manded by times to propound, and do all my be&s;t, That by convenient means there may be a &s;peedy Com|po&s;ure made of what is pa&s;t; and that there may be Or|der taken, That hereafter &s;uch unlucky and unhappy Ca&s;es happen no more between the Fleets of both Commonwealths, wherein they De&s;ire, the Dignity and the Honor of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England</HI> may be con&s;erved.</P>
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Whereas then the States General do herewith open|ly Declare to the &s;aid Parliament, That they de&s;ire in|tirely, That all offices of Friend&s;hip and Benevolence may be continued, the contrary may be prevented; and that the Councels of all &s;ides may be directed to the de&s;ired end and conclu&s;ion of the mutual Confedera|cy; therefore, I do earne&s;tly intreat, That it may plea&s;e the &s;aid Parliament to hear and under&s;tand me without any delay, by their Deputies or Coun&s;el of State, and proceed without intermi&s;&s;ion in the ju&s;t and amicable former Tran&s;actions, to bring the principal Bu&s;ine&s;s to an end and conclu&s;ion, as the Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;adors of the States have Charge and are ready to do.</P>
<P>In the &s;ame time I do return my Thanks for the &s;ingular Favor done to my Lord <HI>Neuwport,</HI> in granting him &s;ome days ago one of the Parliaments &s;hips for his return into the Low Countreys; and the &s;aid Lord be|ing a Member of the States of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Friezland,</HI> I am charged to de&s;ire him to &s;tay here, to communicate Coun&s;els and return with me, which I hope will not be di&s;plea&s;ing to the Parliament, to who&s;e Benevolence I with all Re&s;pect recommend me and all my Offices.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>A Tran&s;lation of the Letters Credential to the Lord <HI REND="smallCaps">Pauw.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>The States General of the <HI>United Provinces</HI> of the Low-Countreys;</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>WHereas We have found convenient, even very ne|ce&s;&s;ary, in the pre&s;ent Condition of the Affairs in <HI>Europe,</HI> to &s;end to the Parliament of the Common|wealth of <HI>England,</HI> the Lord <HI>Adrian Pauw</HI> Knight, Lord of <HI>Heem&s;tede, Hogersmilde, Rietwijck</HI> and <HI>Nieu|werkerk,</HI> Coun&s;ellor Pen&s;ionary of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Friezland,</HI> and Ordinary Deputy in Our A&s;&s;embly, from the &s;aid Province, as Our Extraordinary Amba&s;|&s;ador; having made election of his Per&s;on, as of one, of which, for his rare Qualities and long Experience, We make a high e&s;teem, and have a great Confidence; being well acquainted with our good and &s;incere In|tentions, which have no other Aime, then the Main|taining, Increa&s;ing, Confirming and Strengthning more and more the good Amity, Corre&s;pondence and Alliance between both Nations and States, grounded upon common Intere&s;ts of Religion, of State and Commerce; having &s;uch Confidence of his Ability, Prudence, Fidelity and Diligence, that we do refer Our &s;elves to him to expre&s;s them <HI>viva voce,</HI> to the &s;aid Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England;</HI> and chiefly, the Zeal that We do continue to have for all what may concern the common Good and Security of both Nations: Wherefore We intreat with earne&s;tne&s;s and with all Our Affection, the &s;aid Parliament of the
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Commonwealth of <HI>England</HI> by the&s;e Pre&s;ents, That they be plea&s;ed to give a favorable Audience to the &s;aid Our Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador, and to give him ab&s;olute Credence as to Our &s;elves, in all that he &s;hall &s;ay and propound of Our part in this pre&s;ent condition of the Affairs of both Commonwealths. </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Done at the <HI>Hague</HI> in <HI>Holland,</HI>
<DATE>the Fourteenth of <HI>June,</HI> One thou|&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty two.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER TYPE="direction"><HI>To the Parliament of the Commonwealth of</HI> England.</TRAILER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="speaker's report and Parliamentary order">
<OPENER><DATELINE>Friday <DATE>the 11^t^h of <HI>June,</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Mr. Speaker <HI>by way of Report, acquaints the Parlia|ment with what was delivered by the Lord</HI> Pauw <HI>Amba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary from the Lords the States General of the</HI> United Provinces, <HI>at his Audience in the Hou&s;e this day, and pre&s;ented the Paper delivered in by the &s;aid Lord Amba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary, and the Tran&s;|late thereof in Engli&s;h, which was this day read.</HI></P>
<P>Ordered by the Parliament, <HI>That the&s;e Papers be referred to the Councel of State; And that it be likewi&s;e referred to the &s;aid Councel, to hear what the &s;aid Lord Amba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary hath further to &s;ay, and to Treat with him; they holding clo&s;e to the former An|&s;wers and Declarations the Parliament hath made, and report it to the Parliament with all &s;peed.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="speech">
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<HEAD>The Lord <HI>Pauw</HI>'s Speech at his Audience in the Councel of State.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas it hath plea&s;ed my Lords the States Ge|neral of the United Provinces to &s;end me, be|&s;ides their Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;adors, in the &s;ame quality, to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England;</HI> and having ye&s;terday had the Honor to De|clare in their full A&s;&s;embly the true &s;ubject of my coming, and the &s;incere Intentions of my Superiors: Therefore, I think it to be my duty to appear likewi&s;e before this Honorable Councel to pre&s;ent my Creden|tial Letters, and wi&s;h your Honors all felicity and good &s;ucce&s;s in the direction and managing of &s;o great Af|fairs as are to them committed by this great Common|wealth. And as I have Declared unto the &s;aid Parlia|ment, &s;o do I likewi&s;e Declare again with truth and certain knowledge, That my Lords the States General have always had, and have at this pre&s;ent more then at any time before, a very great de&s;ire to maintain, in|crea&s;e, and keep faithful the good Friend&s;hip, &s;traight Alliance, and perfect Corre&s;pondence which hath &s;o long endured between both Nations and States, where|of there hath been heretofore many notorious and ma|nife&s;t te&s;timonies: It is mo&s;t con&s;tant, That my Su|periors have nothing more in their hearts, then to &s;ee a fini&s;hing and conclu&s;ion of the Treaty of Alliance be|tween both Commonwealths; to the end, That there|by a &s;traighter Union and brotherly Concord may be
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e&s;tabli&s;hed, to &s;ubvert and de&s;troy all Plots and Divi|&s;ions which would trouble and much endanger the one and the other, as al&s;o make them le&s;s con&s;iderable to the Chri&s;tian world. This is (my Lords) the very aim of the Enemies of the Reformed and Orthodox Reli|gion, making a certain account, That they will be able by &s;uch a Di&s;agreement and Divi&s;ion, not onely to weaken both States, but to bring them al&s;o to the ut|mo&s;t extremities. But both People being ble&s;&s;ed by the Lord with that precious gift of the true Religion, and wonderfully provided, be&s;ides the Spiritual, with Temporal Benedictions, by the benefit of Navigation and Commerce in all parts of the World: and my Lords the States General, judging that the fir&s;t ought nece&s;&s;arily to be con&s;erved, and the other be looked to, the Religion maintained, and the State &s;ecured, did believe, That all tho&s;e Inconveniences can be no bet|ter prevented, then by joyning the Souls and Goods of both Commonwealths, and by this means make them able, with Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance, to &s;hun all Michinations to the contrary. Therefore, the unexpected news of the meeting of the two Fleets, and the Offences given of both &s;ides hath brought no &s;mall Trouble among&s;t the General States, who have thereupon judged mo&s;t ne|ce&s;&s;ary to di&s;patch extraordinarily and &s;peedily to in|form the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and this Honorable Councel, and to perform &s;uch Endeavors, made choice of me that have been admit|ted in both A&s;&s;emblies of the States General and of tho&s;e of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Friezland,</HI> and acquainted with their mo&s;t important and mo&s;t &s;ecret Coun&s;els and Deliberations, to witne&s;s here with mo&s;t certain
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knowledge of the matter, and no le&s;s truth and faith|fulne&s;s, That no Deliberation was made, no Re&s;olution taken, no Commi&s;&s;ion directly or indirectly given to di&s;plea&s;e in any ways the Commonwealth of <HI>England</HI> to offend them, and much le&s;s to &s;et upon their Fleet or Ships; but that on the contrary, there was Com|mand given to deal with them in all places as with the be&s;t Friends, and to &s;hew them all kinde of Favor and Courte&s;ie. And as in the &s;aid unhappy meeting things have been on both &s;ides otherwi&s;e, and very un|warily acted, whereof I made ye&s;terday a large Relation, which I do not intend to mention again at this pre&s;ent, nor to revive that which ought to be buried and entire|ly forgotten. Notwith&s;tanding, having under&s;tood out of the la&s;t. An&s;wer delivered to our Amba&s;&s;adors, that there is a Satisfaction demanded for what is pa&s;t, and Security for the future; And my Lords the States conceive it to be nece&s;&s;ary, That all Mi&s;-under&s;tanding and Mi&s;-con&s;truction of what is lately pa&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid Encounter may be taken away, and both States &s;ecu|red from the like Inconvenients hereafter; As al&s;o, that it be proceeded without delay in the continuating and perfecting the Treaty of Alliance &s;o far advanced already: And moreover, That it be con&s;idered of the mo&s;t convenient and rea&s;onable Means which may re|move the &s;hadows of all Su&s;pition and Mi&s;tru&s;t; and that &s;uch Orders be made which the Fleets &s;hall be bound to follow hereafter; to which purpo&s;e I have &s;ufficient In&s;tructions from my Superiors. I de&s;ire therefore that it may plea&s;e Your Honors to commit &s;ome of the Members of this Honorable Coun&s;el, with whom I may, as &s;oon as is po&s;&s;ible, begin, continue and
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fini&s;h that which may &s;erve to the Satisfaction of both States, and removing of all Differences: To which I mu&s;t adde here, That my Superiors did never pre|tend nor &s;hall pretend to di&s;pute the Honor and Dignity of this Commonwealth, which they repute the Fir&s;t and mo&s;t con&s;iderable in <HI>Europe;</HI> and wi&s;h that by an Union of the&s;e two formidable States, they might &s;ecure them both, pre&s;erve them from the Con&s;pi|rations of their Enemies, and &s;ettle by a perfect In|telligence and Confidence their common Peace and Safety. In the mean time I pray yours Honors, That it may plea&s;e you by your wi&s;e direction, to order as &s;peedily as is po&s;&s;ible, that the evil may not by rea|&s;on of this unhappy accident proceed any further, by committing new Offences, Pur&s;uits, or taking of Ships, but that all Attempts and &s;uch Actions may be inter|dicted and &s;topped, and not by making the wound wider, even uncurable, to expo&s;e our &s;elves to the will and plea&s;ure of our Enemies; being confident, that we &s;hall be able to finde convenient Remedies to remove friendly and happily the pre&s;ent Differences, to the Confu&s;ion of tho&s;e who wi&s;h and expect it otherwi&s;e. I &s;hall be exceedingly beholden to this Honorable Councel, if your Honors grant me a &s;peedy An&s;wer upon the&s;e, that I may without intermi&s;&s;ion begin &s;o Worthy, Profitable and Nece&s;&s;ary work; commend|ing my &s;elf in the mean time with all Re&s;pects to your Honors Favor.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Pronounced in the Councel of State of the Par|liament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI>
<DATE>the 22/12 of <HI>June,</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Monday the</HI> 14^t^h <HI>of</HI> June, 1652.</DATE>
At the Councel of State at <HI>White-Hall.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>IN pur&s;uance of an Order of Parliament of the</HI> 11^t^h <HI>of</HI> June, 1652. <HI>The Councel hath appointed the Lord Commi&s;sioner</HI> Whitlock, <HI>Lord Commi&s;sioner</HI> Li&s;le, <HI>Lord Vi&s;count</HI> Li&s;le, <HI>Lord Chief Ju&s;tice</HI> St. John, <HI>Mr.</HI> Bond, <HI>Mr.</HI> Scot, <HI>Colonel</HI> Purefoy, <HI>Sir</HI> Henry Vane, <HI>Sir</HI> William Ma&s;ham, <HI>Colonel</HI> Martin <HI>and Colonel</HI> Mor|ley, <HI>or any three or more of them to be Commi&s;sioners, to meet with the Lord</HI> Pauw, <HI>Extrordinary Amba&s;&s;ador to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of</HI> England, <HI>from the States General of the United Provinces, to re|ceive from his Excellency &s;uch Overtures as he &s;hall plea&s;e to make in writing, and to Confer and Treat with him thereupon, and make Report thereof to the Councel; and that they do meet with the &s;aid Lord Amba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary, at Four of the Clock this Afternoon, in the u&s;ual place for the purpo&s;e afore&s;aid, and &s;o from time to time as there &s;hall be occa&s;ion: And that Sir</HI> Oliver Fleming <HI>Knight, Ma&s;ter of the Ceremonies, do &s;ignifie the &s;ame unto his Lord&s;hip, and attend him to the place appointed.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ex: <HI>Jo: Thurloe,</HI> Clerk of the Councel.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Monday</HI> 14. June, 1652.</DATE>
At the Councel of State at <HI>White-Hall.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Ordered,</P>
<P><HI>THat the Commi&s;sioners appointed to Treat with the Lord</HI> Pauw, <HI>Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the Uni|ted Provinces, Do demand of the &s;aid Lord Amba&s;&s;ador, a &s;ight of the Powers &amp; Authorities given to him by his Su|periors to treat and conclude upon &s;uch matters and things as he hath to offer; and acquaint him, That the Parliament De&s;ires, That all &s;peed and expedition may be u&s;ed on his Excellencies part in this pre&s;ent Treaty de&s;ired by him|&s;elf; a&s;&s;uring his Lord&s;hip, That nothing &s;hall be want|ing on the part of the Councel of State which may be any way conducing to bring the &s;ame to a &s;peedy i&s;&s;ue.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ex: <HI>Jo: Thurloe,</HI> Clerk of the Councel.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="summary of speech">
<HEAD><HI>A Summary of what the Lord</HI> Adrian Pauw, <HI>Ex|traordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the States General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low Countries, hath propounded to the Deputies of the Honorable Coun|cel of State of the Parliament of</HI> England, <HI>the</HI> 24 / 14 <HI>of</HI> June, 1652.</HEAD>
<P>THe &s;aid Lord Amba&s;&s;ador having heretofore abun|dantly Declared, That the States General (as it
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will be found and always appear) have no ways deli|berated, neither in publique nor in private, much le&s;s given any Charge, Order or Commi&s;&s;ion for commit|ting the lea&s;t Offence again&s;t the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> their Fleets, Ships, Of|ficers or Subjects, but rather they &s;hould be met with the u&s;ual Civilities and Kindne&s;&s;es, and with the ordi|nary Expre&s;&s;ions of Friend&s;hip; therefore none can any wi&s;e call into que&s;tion their &s;incere Intentions for the maintaining and increa&s;ing the ancient and com|mon Amity.</P>
<P>For the &s;ame rea&s;on, That cannot be imputed to the &s;aid States General which hapned lately between both Fleets, nor &s;hould thence ari&s;e any Di&s;content or Offence, nor any cau&s;e of attempting again&s;t their Sub|jects, being a thing directly contrary to the ancient Friend&s;hip and Corre&s;pondence between both Nati|ons: And the &s;aid Encounter having hapned by meer Chance and without any de&s;ign, the &s;aid Lord Am|ba&s;&s;ador hath propounded, Whether it were not better to lay a&s;ide that which is pa&s;&s;ed, in &s;o much that it &s;hould be taken of both &s;ides as a thing not done, and &s;o all be left as before; and that there might a &s;peedy order be taken for the redre&s;s of what hath been done &s;ince, in &s;uch &s;ort, as no External nor Internal mark may remain of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s, if the plea&s;ure of this Honorable Councel is otherwi&s;e, although the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador hath plainly and &s;incerely related all which is come to the knowledge of his Superiors concerning what is pa&s;&s;ed, having received (as al&s;o the other Amba&s;&s;adors) be&s;ides the former Informations, before his departing,
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&s;everal remarkable and con&s;iderable Atte&s;tations <HI>in probanti forma,</HI> and hath heard that there are here quite other and contrary Informations, whence it doth appear, That the parties are di&s;agreeing in their Evi|dences, and &s;o it is a hard matter to judge clearly of the Fact.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador therefore hath thought fit to propound, That the things pa&s;&s;ed &s;hould be more exactly examined, and nece&s;&s;ary Informations made by either of the parties, or conjunctim by both; that after certain knowledge gotten, the truth may be di&s;|covered by Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;pecially deputed of both &s;ides upon this matter, to know which of the two hath made the fir&s;t attempt, and given cau&s;e to the follow|ing Di&s;orders.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador doth Declare, That if it may appear that the Admiral of the States General hath made the fir&s;t A&s;&s;ault, he &s;hall not onely be di&s;owned in the like ca&s;e, and his Fact di&s;approved of by the &s;aid States General, as having tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed again&s;t their Or|ders and Commi&s;&s;ion, but they &s;hall al&s;o cau&s;e him to be puni&s;hed for the &s;ame, according to the importance of his Attempt, for having di&s;obeyed their Commands, and chiefly for having given ju&s;t cau&s;e of Offence to their good Friends and Neighbors: de&s;iring al&s;o of this Honorable Councel, that if on the contrary it be found true by the Informations, That the Admiral of the Commonwealth of <HI>England</HI> hath given occa&s;ion to the &s;aid Encounter, and hath the fir&s;t A&s;&s;aulted, it be likewi&s;e Declared, That the Parliament will in that ca&s;e di&s;own the &s;aid Admiral, and command the &s;ame puni&s;hment to be put upon him.</P>
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It is to be believed, That the &s;incere Intentions of the States General will not onely appear, and all &s;u&s;pi|tions be taken away, but that the means of a ju&s;t Repa|ration and nece&s;&s;ary &s;atisfaction will be ea&s;ily found, other States and Commonwealths having taken the &s;ame cour&s;e and followed the &s;ame method with good &s;ucce&s;s, whereof the Lord Amba&s;&s;ador hath produced divers examples.</P>
<P>And to the end that the like Inconveniences may no more happen hereafter, the Lord Amba&s;&s;ador hath Declared, That the States General have never had the lea&s;t intention, nor have yet any at this time, to le&s;&s;en in no ways the Honor and Dignity of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England;</HI> but that they have given command heretofore, as al&s;o &s;ince the late un|happy Accident, new Order, That upon meetings and &s;alutings of the Fleets or Ships of War, concerning the &s;triking down of the Flag, and what belong to it, there &s;hould be the &s;ame Honor done to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England</HI> as was formerly done during the other Government, hoping by this means to give and receive content reciprocally.</P>
<P>And as it is mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary to confirm the mutual Friend&s;hip between both Nations, That the negotia|tion of the Treaty between both Commonwealths be advanced and brought to an end as &s;oon as can be, the &s;aid Lord Amba&s;&s;ador hath repre&s;ented and earne&s;tly de&s;ired, That &s;ince the Lords Extraordinary Amba&s;|&s;adors have after divers Conferences, by their la&s;t Re|mon&s;trance, manife&s;ted their Superiors Intention con|cerning the &s;aid Treaty, it &s;hould al&s;o plea&s;e the Honor|able Councel to expre&s;s and &s;ignifie theirs clearly, that
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it may appear what Differences are yet to be reconciled, that all Difficulties may be removed, to come the &s;oon|er to a good, firm and la&s;ting Conclu&s;ion, by which the mindes may be on both &s;ides pacified, and an ever|la&s;ting and undi&s;&s;oluble good Intelligence e&s;tabli&s;hed. Moreover, the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador hath in&s;tantly de&s;ired; That all ways of Fact and Offences be inhibited and &s;topped by Order of the Honorable Councel, and chiefly, That the Per&s;ons, Ships and Goods of the Subjects of the United Provinces, as well Military as others, be indifferently freed and relea&s;ed from their Re&s;traint and Detention, and all that have been or are by Force detained, be &s;et at Liberty; and that the In|nocents may receive no more hurt or trouble, as we are ready and re&s;olved to do the &s;ame of our part.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Lord Amba&s;&s;ador hath al&s;o de&s;ired it may plea&s;e the &s;aid Honorable Councel to make known to him, without lo&s;s of time, their good Intentions and Re&s;olution upon what is above&s;aid; and chiefly upon the Continuation of the Treaty begun, the Ce&s;&s;ation of all ways of Fact upon the relaxation of the Ships detained and arre&s;ted per&s;ons and goods of the Sub|jects of the United Provinces, &s;eeing he hath lo&s;t no time to Declare &s;incerely from his Superiors, and a&s;&s;ure the &s;aid Honorable Councel of the continuation of their good Affection and perfect Friend&s;hip.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>14^t^h <HI>of</HI> June, 1652.</DATE> At the Councel of State at <HI>White-Hall.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>THat the Commi&s;sioners appointed to Treat with the Lord</HI> Pauw, <HI>Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador from the United Provinces, do in&s;i&s;t upon a &s;ight of his Autho|rities before they proceed to this Treaty.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="paper">
<HEAD>A Paper from the Lord <HI>Pauw</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>the</HI> 15^t^h <HI>of</HI> June, 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE><HI>To the Right Honorable, The Councel of State of the Commonwealth of</HI> England.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the States Ge|neral of the United Provinces having had the Honor to come twice in Conference with your Ho|nors Commi&s;&s;ioners, and there to propound &s;everal things concerning the quality he cometh in, and the re-e&s;tabli&s;hing the good Friend&s;hip and perfect In|telligence of both Nations, intreated this Honorable Councel, That it may plea&s;e your Honors to con&s;ider what the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall Report, that he may receive a &s;peedy and favorable An&s;wer, as al&s;o be ex|cu&s;ed for making &s;o much in&s;tance, &s;eeing that he is forced to it by the conjuncture of &s;uch pre&s;&s;ing Af|fairs, and for timely preventing of the inconvenients which might follow.</P>
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Whereupon a Conference being had, the Lord <HI>Pauw,</HI> to manife&s;t his Powers to Treat and Conclude, in&s;i&s;t|ed on his Credentials and three Pa&s;&s;es granted to him, the Copies whereof were by him delivered in, and are as followeth:</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SIGNED>The States General of the United Netherlands,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all tho&s;e that &s;hall hear the&s;e Pre&s;ents read, or &s;ee, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>KNow ye, That we do expedite &s;everal Affairs of Importance, found good to di&s;patch into <HI>Eng|land</HI> the Lord <HI>Adrian Pauw</HI> Knight, Lord of <HI>Heem&s;ted, Hogersmilde, Ritwick, Newkerk,</HI> Coun&s;ellor Pen&s;ioner of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Frie&s;land,</HI> Deputy Ordinary of the &s;aid Provinces to our A&s;&s;embly, and for this pre&s;ent our Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador; Therefore we do herewith Command and Require all Lieutenants, Ad|mirals, Vice Admirals, Commanders and Captains of the Ships of War of the&s;e Countreys hereunto Ordain|ed, or by his Excellency to be Ordained and Com|manded, That they &s;hall in their re&s;pective Ships Re|ceive and Tran&s;port the Baggage of the &s;aid Lord of <HI>Heem&s;ted</HI> into <HI>England,</HI> and to do therein all what our &s;aid Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of them &s;hall require, Accommodating him during his &s;aid Pa&s;&s;age in their &s;aid Ships, and Re&s;pecting him according to their duty: And having landed our &s;aid Lord Extraordinary Am|ba&s;&s;ador with his Train and Goods in <HI>England,</HI> to do and perform further what they already may be com|manded, or may yet be willed, as &s;hall be required at the hands of tho&s;e that it concerns; Of all which the &s;aid
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Lieutenants, Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Commanders and Captains &s;hall not fail, under pain to incur our highe&s;t Indignation.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Done in the <HI>Hague</HI> under Our Seal Paraphure, and the Signiture of our Clerk, <DATE>this 14^t^h <HI>June</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed, <HI>BO&V;CHORST.</HI></SIGNED>
<SIGNED>By the Order of the High Lords, the States General, Signed, <HI>B. R&V;YSCH.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SIGNED>The States General of the <HI>United Low-Countreys,</HI> </SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all tho&s;e that &s;hall &s;ee or hear the reading of the&s;e, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>KNow ye, That having found good, for the di&s;patch of Affairs of Importance, to di&s;patch into <HI>Eng|land</HI> the Lord <HI>Adrian Pauw</HI> Knight, Lord of <HI>Heem|&s;ted, Hogersmilde, Ritwick, Newkerk,</HI> and Coun&s;ellor Pen&s;ioner of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Frie&s;land,</HI> Deputy Or|dinary of the &s;aid Provinces in our A&s;&s;embly, going in an Extraordinary Emba&s;&s;y, We therefore Will and Command thereupon all Lieutenants, Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Commanders and Captains of the Ships of War of the&s;e Countreys, That they take in and Tran&s;|port the Baggage and Goods of the &s;aid Lord our Am|ba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary, in their re&s;pective Ships, and Tran&s;port the &s;ame over into <HI>England,</HI> in maner as the &s;aid Lord Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador &s;hall de&s;ire to Tran&s;port, and as his Lord&s;hip &s;hall command and de|&s;ire;
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Accommodating al&s;o his Lord&s;hip on &s;hip-board, and u&s;ing all Re&s;pect to the &s;aid Extraordinary Amba&s;|&s;ador, his Train and Baggage; and having landed them in <HI>England,</HI> to do further as they &s;hall be commanded, or already are commanded, or may yet be command|ed, as appertaineth to all that it concerneth of all the &s;aid Lieutenants, Vice-Admirals, Commanders and Captains which &s;hall not perform their Duty, &s;hall be puni&s;hed according to our highe&s;t Indignation.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given in the <HI>Hague</HI> under our Catchet or Seal Para|phure and &s;ign of our Clerk on <DATE>the Fourteenth day of <HI>June,</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Signed, <HI>BO&V;CHORST.</HI></SIGNED>
<SIGNED>By the Order of the &s;aid High and Mighty Lords States General, Signed, <HI>B. R&V;YSCH.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng">
<OPENER><SIGNED>The General States of the United Provinces of the <HI>Low-Countreys,</HI></SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To all that &s;hall &s;ee the&s;e Pre&s;ents, Greeting;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas, for the common good of Chri&s;tendom, and for the advancement of Affairs of great Con&s;ideration, Importance and Con&s;equence, we have found good to &s;end towards the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England</HI> the Lord <HI>Adrian Pauw</HI> Knight, Lord of <HI>Hem&s;ted, Hoger&s;mild, Rietwick, Niewer|kirk, &amp;c.</HI> Counceller Pen&s;ioner of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Freizland,</HI> Deputy in Ordinary from this Province
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in our A&s;&s;embly, in quality of our Extraordinary Am|ba&s;&s;ador, requiring all Lieutenants, Governors, Chiefs, Colonels, Captains, and Men of War, Guards of Bridges, Ports and Pa&s;&s;ages, all places; and be&s;ides, all other Ju&s;tices, Officers and Subjects of the &s;aid Com|monwealth of <HI>England,</HI> to &s;uffer him with his Train, Servants, Followers, Goods and Baggage, to go, pa&s;s and repa&s;s freely, and without trouble both by water and land, without doing him, or giving him, and &s;uf|fering to be given him, made or done, any trouble, hinderance or di&s;turbance: But rather, all aid, help, favor and a&s;&s;i&s;tance nece&s;&s;ary and requi&s;ite, and that we would acknowledge the &s;ame mo&s;t willingly in time and place.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the <HI>Hague</HI> in our A&s;&s;embly under our Seal Paraphure and &s;igning of our Clerk,
<DATE>the Four|teenth of <HI>June,</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>Was Marked</HI> <SIGNED>A. BOUCHORST.</SIGNED>
<HI>And lower it was Written,</HI>
<SIGNED>By Order of the &s;aid States General was Signed, B. RUYSCH.</SIGNED>
With the Signet of the &s;aid General States in red Wax.</CLOSER>
</LETTER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="order">
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Tue&s;day the</HI> 15^t^h <HI>of</HI> June, 1652.</DATE> At the Councel of State at <HI>White-Hall.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Ordered,</P>
<P><HI>THat Report be made to the Parliament of what the Coun&s;el have Ordered and Directed touching the Conference with the Lord</HI> Pauw, <HI>Extraordinary Am|ba&s;&s;ador from the Lords the States General, and of the Papers by him delivered to the Commi&s;sioners of the Coun&s;el, That by the&s;e Papers it not appearing to the Councel that the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador hath any power to Treat or Conclude; The Coun&s;el have thought fit humbly to pre&s;ent and &s;ubmit the whole to the Con&s;ideration of the Parliament for their Judgement thereupon.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="translation of letter">
<HEAD>Tran&s;lation of the Letter of the Lord <HI>Pauw</HI> to the Lord Pre&s;ident of the Councel of State.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HAving communicated to my Lords the Amba&s;|&s;adors Extraordinary of the United Provinces to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> what pa&s;&s;ed in my Audience and Conference with the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Councel of State, and having &s;hewed unto them the In&s;tructions and Orders of my Superiors, they have thought fit to addre&s;s the in|clo&s;ed Paper to my Lords of the &s;aid Coun&s;el of State: But for as much as Sir <HI>Oliver Flemimg</HI> Ma&s;ter of the
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Ceremonies hath &s;ignified unto me, That their Excel|lencies had thought fit to make a Report of the whole Bu&s;ine&s;s to the Parliament this morning, I judged it convenient to intreat your Excellency, That the &s;aid Paper may be put into the hands of the Reporter, to be communicated (as well as the other Propo&s;itions and Papers) to my Lords of the Parliament: Praying God (my Lord) to ble&s;s the&s;e Affairs for his Glory and the Pro&s;perity of both Nations, I will remain ever</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>The <HI>16/26 June.</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Your Excellencies mo&s;t humble Servant,</HI> <HI REND="smallCaps">Adrian Pauw.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER TYPE="direction"><HI>For my Lord the Earl of</HI> Pembroke <HI>and</HI> Montgomery, <HI>Pre&s;ident of the Coun|cel of State of the Commonwealth of</HI> England.</TRAILER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="paper">
<HEAD>The Paper of the Three Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;adors, mentioned in the former Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI REND="smallCaps">My Lords,</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Lord <HI>Adrian Pauw,</HI> Lord of <HI>Heem&s;ted,</HI> Am|ba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary of the <HI>United Provinces</HI> of the Low-Countreys, having communicated to us what pa&s;&s;ed at the Conferences with the Commi&s;&s;ion|ers; And having &s;hewed unto us his In&s;tructions, and all the Orders of the Lords States General of the &s;aid <HI>United Provinces,</HI> We would not omit to a&s;&s;ure your
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Excellencies, that we have found the whole in as good Form and as Valid as can be de&s;ired; And we are very well content, by vertue of the Powers which have been given us and exhibited and approved, to obliege our &s;elves and &s;ub&s;cribe what&s;oever the &s;aid Lord of <HI>Heem|&s;ted</HI> hath Tran&s;acted and Negotiated in Pro&s;ecution of the &s;aid Orders; As al&s;o what&s;oever he may Tran&s;act or Negotiate as above, either by him&s;elf or joyntly with us, as &s;hall be thought mo&s;t conducing to the better perfecting of the Treaty of Alliance between the Commonwealth of <HI>England</HI> and the United Pro|vinces of the <HI>Low-Countreys.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given <DATE>the 26^t^h of <HI>June,</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="Parliamentary resolution">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Thur&s;day the 17^t^h of <HI>June,</HI> 1652. </DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<OPENER>Re&s;olved upon the Que&s;tion by the Parliament,</OPENER>
<P><HI>THat upon Con&s;ideration of the Report made from the Councel of State, the Parliament doth think fit and order, That the Councel of State do proceed with the Lord</HI> Pauw, <HI>Amba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary from the Lords the States General of the</HI> United Provinces, <HI>ac|cording to former Directions.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="paper">
<PB N="46" REF="24">
<OPENER>A Paper received from the Lord <HI REND="smallCaps">Pauw,</HI>
<DATELINE><DATE>17 <HI>Iune,</HI> 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>To the Right Honorable, The Councel of State.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Amba&s;&s;ador Extraordinary of the States Ge|neral of the United Provinces of the <HI>Low-Coun|treys,</HI> finde him&s;elf nece&s;&s;itated to Demand mo&s;t in|&s;tantly another Audience of the Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Honorable Councel, and that as &s;oon as po&s;&s;ible may be, as well to receive from them the mo&s;t de&s;ired An&s;wer upon tho&s;e things that he hath already pro|pounded in the la&s;t Conferences, as al&s;o to make to their Honors, according to the expre&s;s Charge he hath from his Superiors, others Overtures upon things of &s;o high Concernment, that they can &s;uffer no Delay; Therefore he de&s;ireth earne&s;tly, That this ju&s;t Demand be as &s;oon as can be granted unto him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="translation of paper">
<HEAD>A Tran&s;lation of the Paper of the Lord Amba&s;&s;ador <HI REND="smallCaps">Pauw,</HI> 17 June, 1652.</HEAD>
<P>THe Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the United Pro|vinces hath repre&s;ented to the Lords Commi&s;&s;ion|ers of the Honorable Councel of State, in the third Conference held this day, as followeth:</P>
<P>That the States of the United Provinces have &s;hew|ed them&s;elves, and are yet re&s;olved to remain fa&s;t to the Amity and intimate Corre&s;pondence with this Commonwealth, as they have yet of late made it ap|pear,
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by granting, during the&s;e falling out, to the Com|pany of Engli&s;h Merchants Adventurers &s;etled in <HI>Hol|land,</HI> all the Security and Protection that they have de&s;ired, even with this annexed Promi&s;e, To continue in the &s;ame good will towards them, though the Di&s;temper &s;hould proceed further.</P>
<P>That which hapned about <HI>Dover</HI> or the <HI>Downs</HI> &s;hould not breed a general Quarrel between the two States, but that the &s;ame Mi&s;chance &s;hould be taken for a per|&s;onal action, for which tho&s;e are to an&s;wer who &s;hall be found to have exceeded their Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>And to the end that this Bu&s;ine&s;s might be compo|&s;ed according to the Fact, and the nece&s;&s;ary &s;atisfaction done, That it were mo&s;t fit and expedient to have it examined by Commi&s;&s;ioners deputed of both &s;ides, to have that per&s;on puni&s;hed which &s;hall be found guilty according to the u&s;e and Maxims of all States and Commonwealths, by which means, their quiet and tranquility, as well within as without with their Neigh|bors, is con&s;erved.</P>
<P>Moreover, That the Ships of War meeting at Sea, and behaving them&s;elves as before and during the time of the former Government, there &s;hall be there upon no more di&s;pute hereafter.</P>
<P>And that when the Confederation now to be done &s;hall be concluded, according to the earne&s;t de&s;ire of the States General, the Friend&s;hip between both States and their Subjects &s;hall be more perfect, per|manent, confident and inviolable; and the truly Or|thodox Religion, which they by Gods &s;pecial favor do profe&s;s, &s;hall have a mo&s;t potent and &s;ure pro|tection.</P>
<P><PB N="48" REF="25">
The &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador having again propounded the afore&s;aid means, and having added to them &s;everal Rea&s;ons and Arguments of great Strength, hath de|&s;ired to be informed thereupon of the intent of the Ho|norable Councel of State, offering to an&s;wer and give &s;atisfaction upon the remaining Difficulties.</P>
<P>Or otherwi&s;e, That it might plea&s;e the Lords Com|mi&s;&s;ioners to confer with him upon that matter, or to propound on their part what they may finde to be rea|&s;onable and ju&s;t to compo&s;e &s;peedily that unhappy Accident, promi&s;ing to contribute of his &s;ide all that &s;hall any ways be in his power, with his mo&s;t earne&s;t Intreaties, That the Honorable Councel might be without delay acquainted withal, and that the time and pre&s;ent Affairs might be &s;o well husbanded, that the Bu&s;ine&s;s might be compounded by convenient ways, and without interruption of the publique Peace and further exacerbation of the Mindes and Spirits of both Nations. All which the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador hath recommended and offered with much Affection to pre|vent all Provocations and Inconvenients.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD><HI>The An&s;wer of the Councel of State to the Summary of the Lord</HI> Adrian Pauw, <HI>Extraordinary Am|ba&s;&s;ador of the States General of the Vnited Pro|vinces, pre&s;ented to the Councel the 24/14 of this in&s;tant</HI> June.</HEAD>
<P>WHat the thoughts and judgement of the Par|liament have been concerning the late Inten|tions
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of the Lords your Superiors, and the late Actings of your Fleet within the very Roads of <HI>England;</HI> your Excellency hath under&s;tood by the Parliaments An|&s;wer given unto the three Papers of the Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;adors of your State before your Excellencies arrival here; which An&s;wer, together with the &s;tate of the Fact, and the Examinations thereupon had, and then given in, your Lord&s;hip takes notice of in your Papers now before the Councel; neither doth any cau&s;e appear to vary from that Judgement upon any thing &s;ince offered by your Excellency. And &s;ince the At|tempt made by the Fleet of the United Provinces, with the Preparations thereunto (all projected and acted by way of &s;urpri&s;e and in a time of Treaty) had the &s;ame prevailed, would have highly hazarded the &s;afety of <HI>England.</HI> It cannot &s;tand with rea&s;on, That this Commonwealth after &s;uch a Warning and great Pre|&s;ervation (which they owe onely to God) &s;hould leave it &s;elf naked and expo&s;ed to the like danger for the fu|ture, or &s;uffer it &s;elf in a ca&s;e &s;o evident and notorious, under pretence of more &s;olemn Examinations, or from examples of other States which &s;uit not with this ca&s;e, to be diverted from applying Remedies agreeable to the nature of this evil. And therefore the Councel can|not admit of what is propounded by your Excellency, either as to the pa&s;&s;ing by what is done, or attending the way of Examinations mentioned in your Papers, which to them &s;eem needle&s;s, dilatory, and impra|cticable.</P>
<P>Touching the overture of re-admitting the late Treaty begun by the other Lords Amba&s;&s;adors Extraordinary of your Nation, after &s;o high a breach thereof, we
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conceive it cannot be &s;ea&s;onable until the Wound now under Cure be througly clo&s;ed and healed.</P>
<P>And whereas your Excellency hath thought fit frequently to a&s;&s;ert the amicable Minde and Intentions of the Lords your Superiors towards this Common|wealth, and hath given in&s;tances of &s;ome late Or|ders and Acts tending to the expre&s;&s;ion of the &s;ame; &s;pecially concerning the Honor and Re&s;pect to be paid unto this Commonwealth at Sea (being the ancient and undoubted Right of this Nation) and granting of the Protection de&s;ired by the Engli&s;h Merchants now at <HI>Rotterdam:</HI> The Parliament hath not been want|ing on their part from time to time to manife&s;t their de&s;ires of Amity with the United Provinces of the <HI>Low Countreys,</HI> nor to afford unto the people thereof re&s;iding here all nece&s;&s;ary Protection though unde|&s;ired; Neverthele&s;s, in the pre&s;ent po&s;ture of Affairs it cannot rea&s;onably be expected, That this State &s;hould forbear the pro&s;ecution mentioned in the Par|liaments &s;aid An&s;wer for the ends therein expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>White-Hall,</HI> <DATE>19. June, 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="translation of paper">
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<HEAD>A Tran&s;late of a Paper of the Lord Amba&s;&s;a|dor <HI>Pauw</HI> of the 1/22 July June, de&s;iring a Confe|rence with the Commi&s;sioners of the Councel of <HI REND="smallCaps">State.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Right Honorable Councel of State.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the United Pro|vinces, having 29^t^h / 19^t^h of this in&s;tant about the Even|ing, received by the hands of Sir <HI>Oliver Fleming</HI> the An&s;wer which the Honorable Councel of State hath been plea&s;ed to give him, upon the Summary of tho&s;e things by him propounded the 24^t^h / 14^t^h, He findeth him&s;elf bound to Demand mo&s;t in&s;tantly another Conference with the Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Councel, that he may explain unto them more particularly and more fully his Superiors Intentions, and the better perform the Duty of his Office.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="paper">
<HEAD>Another Paper of the Lord <HI REND="smallCaps">Pauw</HI> of the 21^t^h of <HI>Iune,</HI> 1652.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Honorable Councel of State.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the United Pro|vinces having the 29^t^h / 19^t^h of <HI>June</HI> in the Evening &s;ome|thing late, received by the hands of Sir <HI>Oliver Fleming,</HI> the An&s;wer which the Honorable Coun&s;el hath been plea&s;ed to give him upon the Summary of the things propounded the 24^t^h / 14^t^h of the &s;ame Moneth.</P>
<P><PB N="52" REF="27">
He hath thought him&s;elf bound for the better per|formance of the Duty of his Imployment, to a&s;&s;ert again here ingeniou&s;ly as he hath done before, accord|ing to the Notice and Knowledge he hath of the mo&s;t intimate Deliberations and Con&s;ultations of the States General his Superiors, That they having no ways pro|pounded, deliberated nor re&s;olved to give any Su&s;pi|tion, or the lea&s;t occa&s;ion of Offence again&s;t the Fleet or Ships of this Commonwealth: He did believe, That it would have been &s;ufficient to take away all conceits of the contrary; He hath al&s;o truly repre&s;ented the Ac|cident happened between the two Fleets by <HI>Dover</HI> or the <HI>Downs,</HI> as it came to the knowledge of his Supe|riors by &s;incere Atte&s;tations of tru&s;ty and blamele&s;s Per&s;ons: And hath, to avoid all further Conte&s;tations, in &s;tead of in&s;i&s;ting upon tho&s;e Proofs, opened a way by which the true and infallible Knowledge of the &s;ame might have been found out, and by that means the &s;a|tisfaction done that could be lawfully pretended.</P>
<P>Therfore that mi&s;chance cannot be any ways imputed to his Superiors, who never had the lea&s;t thought, nor in any &s;ort contributed towards the Infraction of the Friend&s;hip, which hath always been mo&s;t dear to them, and le&s;s towards the Interruption of the Treaty of Confederation; for the perfecting of which they have had, and have &s;till here their Extraordinary Amba&s;|&s;adors.</P>
<P>That may &s;ufficiently appear by the firm and con|&s;tant Re&s;olution of his Superiors, that have never been wlling to grant any Letters of Mart or Repri&s;al upon the continual Complaints and reiterated Petitions, even the Importunities of the Per&s;ons intere&s;&s;ed in the
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&s;hips taken, arre&s;ted and confi&s;cated here, for fear of giving any occa&s;ion of Di&s;content to this Common|wealth.</P>
<P>The &s;ame is clearly &s;een by the Protection granted to the Engli&s;h Company &s;etled at <HI>Rotterdam</HI> (though <HI>ex &s;uperabundanti,</HI> and they had no need of the &s;ame) to expre&s;s more &s;pecially their good Intentions, the which may be al&s;o ju&s;tified by all their actions; none of this State having yet to this pre&s;ent received the lea&s;t Damage, Offence or Injury for all the &s;aid Proceed|ings; even our &s;hips of War having rather &s;uffered them|&s;elves to be brought into the Ports of <HI>England,</HI> and there to be detained, then endeavored to defend them|&s;elves again&s;t tho&s;e whom they have always made ac|count to be their good Friends, as having never heard of any publication to the contrary.</P>
<P>And to make that Te&s;timony of Friend&s;hip the more Authentical to this Commonwealth, His Superiors have &s;ent a &s;econd extraordinary Emba&s;&s;age, to di&s;abu&s;e all tho&s;e that might be pre-occupated or mi&s;-informed, and to help the furthering and perfecting of the &s;aid Treaty.</P>
<P>But in ca&s;e all tho&s;e Overtures and means of Recon|ciliation be rejected, and it be re&s;olved here to make u&s;e of tho&s;e ways, which in &s;tead of a&s;&s;waging &s;hall in|crea&s;e the evil, and which being again&s;t all Maxims of all States and Commonwealths (who never give their Judgement upon Signs, Pre&s;umptions and Su&s;pitions, but upon Infallible and Unrepreachable proofs, and as clear as the Sun is at noon, and who during a Treaty do always command mo&s;t &s;trictly a ce&s;&s;ation of all ways of Fact) &s;hall the more &s;urprize my Superiors, and cau&s;e
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&s;trange Alarms to their Peoples, by making tho&s;e &s;uffer which are guiltle&s;s and come from far, who never had the lea&s;t &s;u&s;pition or heard the lea&s;t rumor of a falling out between both States.</P>
<P>Whereupon, the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;adors mu&s;t needs be very much &s;urprized and &s;orry, de&s;iring, That the &s;aid Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners be plea&s;ed (that no way for a happy Agreement may be neglected) to propound for on their part &s;ome other expedients (&s;eeing they have expre&s;&s;ed in their la&s;t An&s;wer given to the other Extra|ordinary Amba&s;&s;adors, <HI>That the mo&s;t &s;weet ways will be always the mo&s;t plea&s;ing to them)</HI> which may be fit, &s;atisfactory and convenient to compo&s;e as &s;oon as can be that unhappy Bu&s;ine&s;s, and re&s;tore all things in their fir&s;t temper.</P>
<P>And that in the mean time they be al&s;o plea&s;ed to inhibit all ways of Fact, and to give Order, That the Ships detained may be &s;peedily &s;et at liberty, praying very earne&s;tly the Honorable Councel to explain their minde thereupon, as al&s;o to give an An&s;wer upon the la&s;t Articles of the Paper exhibited the 27/17 of <HI>June,</HI> to make him the more able to contribute his be&s;t Offices for the good and &s;trengthning of the two Common|wealths.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>This 21 June / 1 July 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="paper">
<PB N="55" REF="28">
<HEAD>Another Paper of the Lord <HI>Pauw 23 June,</HI> 1652.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Honorable Councel of State.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the United Provinces con&s;idering the importance of the Af|fairs now in hands, and the eminent dangers that threat|en both States, is forced to be importunate with your Honors, in recommending mo&s;t earne&s;tly the care of your An&s;wer upon his la&s;t Conference, and intreating you with all his Affections, That the &s;ame may be a convenient and lawful means to a&s;&s;way the Differences and re&s;tore the Union and perfect Intelligence be|tween both Commonwealths and their reciprocal Subjects.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>This 23 June / 3 July 1562.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>The An&s;wer of the Parliament to that part of the Paper given in by the Lord <HI>Pauw,</HI> whereby he de&s;ires the Commi&s;sioners of the Councel to propound what they &s;hall think rea&s;onable and ju&s;t to compo&s;e &s;peedily the pre&s;ent Differences between this Commonwealth and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Friday the</HI> 25^t^h <HI>of</HI> June, 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P N="1">THat the Lords the States General of the United Provinces do pay and &s;atisfie unto this Common|wealth
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the Charges and Damages this State hath &s;u|&s;tained and been put unto, by the Preparations of the &s;aid States General, and their Attempts this &s;ummer; the Particulars whereof &s;hall be in due time produced.</P>
<P N="2">II. That upon the Payment of the Sum to be agreed up on as afore&s;aid, for Charges and Damages, or &s;ecu|ring the &s;ame to the &s;atisfaction of the Parliament, there &s;hall follow immediately thereupon a Ce&s;&s;ation of all Acts of Ho&s;tilility, and the Ships and Goods ta|ken &s;ince the late Differences &s;hall be relea&s;ed.</P>
<P N="3">III. The two former Propo&s;itions being a&s;&s;ented unto, and put in Execution, the &s;ecurity for the time to come, which the Parliament does expect, is by both States contracting a firm Alliance, and Con&s;i&s;tency of Inte|re&s;t for the good of both; which the Parliament of <HI>England</HI> is willing on their part by all ju&s;t Ways and Means to endeavor.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="order">
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Friday</HI> 25^o Junii, 1652.</DATE> At the Councel of State at <HI>White-Hall.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Ordered,</P>
<P><HI>THat the Commi&s;sioners appointed formerly to meet and Treat with the Lord</HI> Pauw, <HI>Extraordinary Am|ba&s;&s;ador of the</HI> United Provinces, <HI>Do deliver unto the &s;aid Lord Amba&s;&s;ador the An&s;wer of the Parliament of
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the</HI> 25^t^h <HI>of</HI> June <HI>in&s;tant, to that part of the Paper pre|&s;ented unto them by the Councel, from the &s;aid Lord</HI> Pauw, <HI>whereby his Lord&s;hip doth de&s;ire the Commi&s;sion|ers of the Councel to propound what they &s;hould think rea&s;onable and ju&s;t, to compo&s;e &s;peedily the pre&s;ent Dif|ferences between this Commonwealth and the Lords the States General of the</HI> United Provinces.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ex: <HI>Jo: Thurloe,</HI> Clerk of the Councel.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="paper">
<HEAD>A Paper of the Lord <HI>Pauw, 26 Iune,</HI> 2652.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Right Honorable Councel of State.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the <HI>United Pro|vinces,</HI> having ye&s;terday had a Conference with the Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Coun&s;el, and received from them two Papers upon the &s;ame Subject; He de|&s;ireth earne&s;tly they will be plea&s;ed to give again order without lo&s;s of time, for a new Conference with the &s;aid Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners, that &s;ome things may be better explained and cleared of both &s;ides, and a &s;pee|dy Compo&s;ure made of the Bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>This 26 June / 6 July 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="paper">
<PB N="58" REF="30">
<HEAD>Another Paper of the Lord <HI REND="smallCaps">Pauw,</HI> the &s;ame day.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Honorable Councel of State.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the <HI>United Pro|vinces</HI> hath propounded at a Conference held the 26 of June / 6 of July 1652 with the Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Councel of State the following Articles.</P>
<P>That the States General having been forced for the Rea&s;ons already alledged, to make extraordinary Pre|parations at Sea, have been put to exceeding great Charges, which do continue yet at this pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>That their Subjects, be&s;ide the extream great Lo&s;&s;es they have had heretofore at Sea, have received very great ones by the Letters of Mart granted as well a|gain&s;t the French as again&s;t the &s;aid Subjects of the <HI>United Provinces,</HI> and upon &s;ome other pretences.</P>
<P>That the State and their &s;ubjects have &s;uffered much, and received great Damages of late by the taking and &s;poiling of &s;everal Ships of War, and by the Arre&s;ting of all the Merchants &s;hips.</P>
<P>And that if it &s;hould be thought of a Reimbur&s;ing of the charges &amp; damages, they &s;hould be weighed of both &s;ides one again&s;t the other, and that it &s;hould be con&s;i|dered, whether they have not been greater on the <HI>Uni|ted Provinces</HI> &s;ide.</P>
<P>However there mu&s;t a rea&s;onable E&s;timation be made, and the Bu&s;ine&s;s not referred to aproduction of Accounts, which requireth a long Examination.</P>
<P>And if the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners be plea&s;ed to cau&s;e that E&s;timation to be made in moderate Terms on
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their part, it will appear from thenee whether there is at this &s;ide any willingne&s;s or intent to Compound the things pa&s;&s;ed according to rea&s;on and friendly, or whether there is a De&s;ign to propound things impo&s;&s;i|ble and unfea&s;ible.</P>
<P>As concerning the Confederacy between both Com|monwealths, and the mutual Help a&s;&s;i&s;ting one an|other again&s;t tho&s;e that &s;hall offend or a&s;&s;ault them, the other Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;adors have made the true Intentions of their Superiors known thereupon, and are ready to go on in the &s;ame Negotiation, and to bring it to an end without lo&s;s of time.</P>
<P>If the &s;aid Lords Commi&s;&s;ioners do think fit that the &s;aid Confederacy &s;hould be more ample and more &s;trict, that will not onely be more plea&s;ing to the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador, but he al&s;o entreateth very earne&s;tly, that he may be clearly informed thereupon.</P>
<P>Putting at the &s;ame time into con&s;ideration, whe|ther it will not be mo&s;t convenient, even mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary to give order, That the Fleets do not come near nor en|gage any more one with the other; the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador fearing much it &s;hould &s;oon be commanded otherways at the other &s;ide, chiefly if the above&s;aid Order be not &s;peedily given here.</P>
<P>And de&s;iring moreover, That the Ships which are arre&s;ted may be &s;peedily relea&s;ed, and that no Prize may be longer detained, to the end that the Mindes be|ing &s;omething pacified, they may be rather invited by mutual Friend&s;hip and Love, and of their own accord, then brought by con&s;traint to unite again by an undi&s;|&s;oluble Confederacy.</P>
<P>As al&s;o, That the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador may receive up|on
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the&s;e &s;o &s;peedy and &s;o favorable a Declaration, that he may with more hope of &s;ucce&s;s u&s;e his Endeavors with his Superiors, and effect what in this conjuncture of time and Affairs, is mo&s;t expedient and nece&s;&s;ary, and that he may do it without delay, according to the Expre&s;s Order he hath from his &s;aid Superiors, which he is bound to follow exactly.</P>
<P>The Councel of State having con&s;idered of the Paper this evening delivered in by their Commi&s;&s;ioners from the Lord <HI>Pauw</HI> Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the Lords the States General of the United Provinces, and finding therein no clear or direct An&s;wer to the la&s;t Paper of Demands tendered unto his Excellency in the name of the Parliament, They do de&s;ire a &s;peedy and po&s;itive An&s;wer thereunto, at lea&s;t unto the fir&s;t Article thereof, e&s;pecially, becau&s;e that being a&s;&s;ented unto, the Councel might &s;peedily apply them&s;elves to a rea&s;onable and moderate a&s;certaining the &s;um; to the end, That immediately upon performance of the &s;e|cond Article, all acts of Ho&s;tility might be forborn, and re&s;titution made of the Ships and Goods detained. The third Article in the nature thereof not requiring &s;o pre&s;ent a Tran&s;action.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>White-Hall,</HI> <DATE>26. June, 1652.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Ex: <HI>Jo: Thurloe</HI> Clerk of the Councel.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>A Paper from the Lord</HI> Pauw <HI>the 17^t^h of</HI> June, 1652.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the thrice Illu&s;trious Councel of State;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the United Pro|vinces having con&s;idered the An&s;wer delivered un|to him ye&s;terday at evening by Sir <HI>Oliver Fleming</HI> up|on the Con&s;iderations heretofore by him propounded, doth mo&s;t in&s;tantly crave, That it may plea&s;e this thrice Illu&s;trious Councel of State to grant him one other Conference this afternoon, that he may more particularly deduct the Intentions of his Superiors, and withal likewi&s;e &s;atisfie both their Excellencies and his own duties.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed, <HI>Adrian Pauw.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>This 27 June / 7 July 1652.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Another Paper of the Lord <HI>Pauw,</HI> 27^t^h <HI>June,</HI> 1652.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Right Honorable, The Councel of State.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WHile the Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the Uni|ted Provinces was bu&s;ied about the writing of the An&s;wer upon the Paper delivered to him ye&s;terday very late by Sir <HI>Oliver Fleming</HI> from this Honorable Councel, he was to his great grief informed, That this
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Commonwealths Fleet was gone to Sea to execute &s;ome de&s;ign.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador hath al&s;o by &s;everal Letters received Order from his Superiors, That in ca&s;e he could not obtain, by all po&s;&s;ible endeavors, the Ce&s;&s;a|tion of acts of Ho&s;tility, he &s;hould with all &s;peed re|turn back again into the <HI>Low-Countreys</HI> to acquaint them with his Negotiation.</P>
<P>And as the &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador can advance no further in the &s;aid Negotiation of which he was charged to give an Account to his &s;aid Superiors with all &s;peed, he therefore de&s;ireth to be admitted to morrow to take his leave of this Honorable Councel, to go over as &s;oon as can be in the &s;hip of War whereof <HI>John Verhaef</HI> is Captain, who was commanded to bring him hither and back again; and that he may have a Letter or a Pa&s;s of the Honorable Coun&s;el, to be tran&s;ported over without any hinderance or trouble, and without being mole&s;ted or arre&s;ted by the Parliaments Ships.</P>
<P>The other Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;adors having in the mean time informed and &s;hewed him that they had received the like Order and Command, have intreated him to demand in their name, That they may al&s;o at the &s;ame time to morrow have Audience to take their leave of this Honorable Councel; as al&s;o be provided of &s;uch Ships as they &s;hall have need of for the Tran&s;|port of their Per&s;ons, Train and Baggage; as al&s;o with &s;uch Pa&s;&s;es as &s;hall be nece&s;&s;ary for the &s;ecurity of their Pa&s;&s;age.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador de&s;ireth, That he may re|ceive a &s;peedy An&s;wer upon the&s;e, being a thing of very great Importance.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>27^t^h June, 1652.</DATE>
At the Councel of State at <HI>White Hall.</HI></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>UPon Con&s;ideration of the Report made of the Paper delivered in to the Commi&s;sioners this evening by the Lord</HI> Pauw, <HI>Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador from the</HI> United Provinces, <HI>The Councel hold them&s;elves ob|liged to repre&s;ent the &s;ame to the Parliament, which they &s;hall do upon</HI> Tue&s;day <HI>morning at their fir&s;t &s;it|ing, and in the mean time can give no other An&s;wer to the &s;aid Lord amba&s;&s;ador upon this &s;ubject.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ex: <HI>Jo: Thurloe</HI> Clerk of the Councel.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Paper of the Lord <HI>Pauw</HI> of the 28^t^h <HI>Iune,</HI> 1652.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Right Honorable Councel of State.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;ador of the United Pro|vinces having &s;een the An&s;wer of the Honorable Councel given upon his Propo&s;ition made ye&s;terday, hath thought fit to Declare again, That his Intention is to do his be&s;t when he &s;hall be arrived in his Coun|trey, That upon the Overtures made to him, or can be yet made, there may be &s;uch convenient means and fit expedients found, chiefly to make all mi&s;apprehen&s;ions
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and alienations of mindes, as well as all Acts of Ho|&s;tility cea&s;e; That a fair Agreement upon the Bu&s;i|ne&s;s pa&s;&s;ed, and con&s;equently a firm Union and Confe|deracy between both States, as al&s;o a good &s;ettlement between both Nations may en&s;ue, from which their own Pro&s;perity and Happine&s;s may flow, and all Incon|veniences be prevented for the future.</P>
<P>And as his Re&s;olution is godly, Hone&s;t; and if it &s;ucceedeth, mo&s;t conducing to the common &s;afety; as al&s;o, that it mu&s;t be &s;peedily, and before things pro|ceed further, put in execution.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador de&s;ireth, That it may plea&s;e to the Honorable Councel to weigh all the&s;e, and to Order, That all may be done that may be for that purpo&s;e, towards the promoting of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And as the time is mo&s;t precious, it will be very nece&s;&s;ary, That he may &s;peedily be admitted to his Audiences; as al&s;o, he may &s;oon have the fit Expediti|ons concerning the Ship that brought him, and &s;tayeth for his return at <HI>Grave&s;end,</HI> to bring him back again into the <HI>Low-Countreys,</HI> with the Pa&s;s he hath demand|ed for his &s;ecurity, and to avoid all misfortunes that might meet him at Sea.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Amba&s;&s;ador doth wholly per&s;wade him|&s;elf, that the Honorable Councel will be plea&s;ed to give Order, That in con&s;ideration of his Quality, he be u&s;ed in the &s;ame maner at his departure and taking of his leave, as he hath been at his coming and recepti|on, for which favor he thanketh the Honorable Coun|cel mo&s;t kindly.</P>
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<HEAD>Another Paper of the &s;ame Date.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Right Honorable Councel of State.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Extrordinary Amba&s;&s;ador hath thought fit to propound here, whether this Honorable Councel could not approve, That after his Report made to the Lords the States General his Secretary, or &s;ome other faithful per&s;on, &s;hould be &s;ent to maintain and foment the mutual Corre&s;pondence, and deliver as well as re|ceive from both States, what may &s;erve to the com|pounding of things pa&s;&s;ed, and to the re-e&s;tabli&s;hing of the Union and Confederacy.</P>
<P>And whether to this end the Honorable Councel would be plea&s;ed to command &s;uch Pa&s;&s;es to be grant|ed, by vertue of which, he might freely and &s;afely come back and &s;tay here, as long as the Parliament of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> or the Lords States General may finde it convenient.</P>
<P>Or otherwi&s;e, That it may plea&s;e to the Honorable Councel to name or denote here, &s;ome body that be agreeable to them, and fit to receive the Letters that might be written upon that &s;ubject, and to &s;olicite the An&s;wers thereunto.</P>
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<HEAD>A Paper of the three Amba&s;&s;adors, dated 28 <HI>Iune,</HI> 1652.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Councel of State of the Commonwealth of <HI REND="smallCaps">England.</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas we the Amba&s;&s;adors of the Lords States of the United Provinces of the Low Countries, by their la&s;t Letters have received Order, without any delay, to make ha&s;te again to our Countrey, and there to give an accompt of what we have here done; We therefore do earne&s;tly pray this Senate to &s;uffer us, that we take, as it befits us, leave of this mo&s;t Illu&s;trious A&s;&s;embly, and may have &s;hips that may conveniently &s;erve for our own Tran&s;portation, and for that of our Train and Goods; and be&s;ides, That &s;uch &s;afe Con|ducts or Pa&s;&s;es be granted us that may make our Jour|ney &s;afe. Here are &s;ome of our &s;hips ready, <HI>viz.</HI> Captain <HI>Jaep den Boer,</HI> with three &s;maller Ve&s;&s;els of the City of <HI>Dort.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed, I: <HI>Cats. G: Schaep. Vandeperre.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>The Lord</HI> Pauw's <HI>Speech in Parliament, at his taking leave,</HI> 30. June, 1652.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honorable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries, have fir&s;t &s;ent their Extraordi|nary Amba&s;&s;adors to the Parliament of the Common|wealth of <HI>England,</HI> to do their earne&s;t endeavors for the &s;trengthning and confirming of the ancient Amity and Friend&s;hip between both Nations, and for the E&s;tabli&s;hing of an everla&s;ting Alliance between both States, and to bring tho&s;e things to a happy conclu&s;ion for the common Utility and Security; and afterwards the Lord <HI>William Newport,</HI> a Member of the States of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>We&s;t Friezland,</HI> to take away &s;ome Doubts, and to witne&s;s more fully of the good Inten|tions of our Superiors concerning the Treaty of Con|federacy.</P>
<P>At la&s;t it hath plea&s;ed the &s;aid Lords States to pre|pare, &s;ome few days ago, a new Extraordinary Em|ba&s;&s;age to the &s;aid Parliament, and to give me that Imployment, with an expre&s;s Command to bear again over and above, witne&s;s of their faithful dealing, and of their mo&s;t &s;incere intention towards this Common|wealth; and to di&s;&s;olve and remove all the &s;trange and unthought of accidents, and all the &s;toppings and hin|derances thereby cau&s;ed and oppo&s;ed to their good in|tent; by which means, I might by all my endeavors promote to a happy Conclu&s;ion, the Treaty of Alliance already begun.</P>
<P>To what end it hath been propounded among&s;t other
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things, That there &s;hould be an Enquiry and Exami|nation made by fit per&s;ons of both Commonwealths, of all what lately pa&s;&s;ed as was done between the two Fleets without any De&s;ign, but by meer chance, and a ju&s;t and lawful Satisfaction &s;tated: For we do witne&s;s and prote&s;t before God and all the Chri&s;tian world, as well as in the pre&s;ence of the Parliament of the Com|monwealth of <HI>England,</HI> That the States have not had the lea&s;t minde of Offending or Troubling this Com|monwealth, much le&s;s of committing any Ho&s;tility again&s;t them; but rather that they have had nothing more in their hearts then to Entertain and Maintain with this State all true Friend&s;hip and firm Peace; even to come to a &s;tricter Union and Confederacy with them.</P>
<P>But as it hath unhappily happened, That after ex|traordinary Pains taken, and all the be&s;t Endeavors done of all &s;ides to con&s;erve the common Quiet, and remove all hindrances, both Emba&s;&s;ages have not one|ly mi&s;&s;ed their Ends, but that to the contrary, not onely great Troubles have been given, extraordinary Lo&s;&s;es have been cau&s;ed, but huge Dangers; as al&s;o Acts of Ho&s;tility not looked for, neither at any time before de|clared, are threatned from the Engli&s;h Fleet to the States of the <HI>United Provinces.</HI></P>
<P>Both Emba&s;&s;age hath thought fit to prevent the en|&s;uing Evils, and upon a Bu&s;ine&s;s &s;o unu&s;ual, to return into their own Countrey to give an Accompt of their Negotiation to their Superiors, and to be acquainted with their further Commands.</P>
<P>To that end we do pre&s;ent our &s;elves together to the Supream Authority of this Commonwealth, declare,
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That we have a Command to return back, and that we are ready to rake our Journey.</P>
<P>We have given notice to the Honorable Councel of State of this Commonwealth, of tho&s;e things that are nece&s;&s;ary to us for our Tran&s;port, according to our Quality and the &s;ea&s;on, and do look and wait for an An&s;werthereupon, hoping that the nece&s;&s;ary Expeciti|ons &s;hall be done.</P>
<P>In the mean time we cannot be wanting to our Du|ty; but are forced again to de&s;ire mo&s;t earne&s;tly; That all our &s;hips that have been brought into the Ports of <HI>England,</HI> &amp; there detained of late again&s;t our thoughts, and before any Declaration of Ho&s;tility i&s;&s;ued our, and whereof the Commanders are unawares and guiltle&s;s, having not given the lea&s;t, nor to no body occa&s;ion of Di&s;pute; may be relca&s;ed and &s;uffered to go freely, with their officers, mariners, merchandizes, packs and loads, and the whole company, and to perform their Journcy without any Wrong or Injury; which we do pretend to be due to our old Friend&s;hip, to the Right of Nati|ons, and have been ob&s;erved between Chri&s;tian Peo|ples, as well as we hope to have it granted by the Ju|&s;tice and Equity of this Great and mo&s;t Honorable A&s;&s;embly.</P>
<P>Furthermore, We do intreat with all our hearts the great God of Heavens, who is the Author and Pro|moter of Peace and Concordance, That he will be plea|&s;ed to afford &s;uch thought and coun&s;el to the Parlia|ment of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> as may tend to the mutual Peace of both States, to the con&s;ervation of the Chri&s;tian Reformed and Orthodox Religion, which hath no better Foundations then upon Peace,
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and can never better thrive and flouri&s;h then by Peace, and will without any doubt be afflicted and de&s;troyed by our Troubles and falling out; As al&s;o that be will in his Mercy prevent the De&s;tructions and Mi&s;eries of Wars, and be&s;tow abundantly his Heavenly Ble&s;&s;ings upon both Commonwealths; We &s;hall end upon the&s;e Wi&s;hes. And being commanded to Repair in ha&s;te into our countrey, we &s;hall with all thankful Acknowledge|ment for all Favors done to us, as well as with all due Re&s;pects, take our leave of this mo&s;t Honorable and Supream A&s;&s;embly of the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> with confidence that they will not deny us tho&s;e things which we have already expre&s;&s;ed, and are granted eve|ry where to the Amba&s;&s;adors for their quality and &s;e|curity.</P>
<P><HI>Pronounced and delivered to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of</HI> England, <HI>the 30. June / 20. July 1652 by the Extraordinary Amba&s;&s;adors of the States General of the</HI> United Provinces.</P>
<P>We do be&s;ides deliver a Petition put into our hands by the Dutch Merchants, De&s;iring they may enjoy the &s;ame Security and Protection which hath been lately granted in the be&s;t Form to the Engli&s;h Merchants in our Provinces.</P>
<P>We de&s;ire al&s;o at la&s;t, That be&s;ides the two Dutch Men of War, there &s;hould be another of tho&s;e that are in the <HI>Downs</HI> granted to us for our Pa&s;&s;age, &s;eeing we are a very great Company, wherein are &s;ome Wo|men of Quality, with much Carriage, which will put us to great Inconveniences, be&s;ides the heat of this &s;ea|&s;on, except we be fitted with the &s;aid &s;hin.</P>
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