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<P>A DECLARATION Of Her Sacred Maje&s;tie OF SWEDEN, Concerning the &s;etling of CON|VOYS about <HI>Gothemburg.</HI></P>
<P>Given at <HI>Stockholm</HI> the 16^t^h of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1653.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>W. D.</HI> 1653.</P>
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<HEAD>A DECLARATION of her Sa|cred Maje&s;tie of <HI>Sweden,</HI> concer|ning the &s;etling of CONVOYS about <HI>Gothemburg.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Stockholm</HI> <DATE>the 16^t^h of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WEE CHRISTINA by the Grace of GOD, Queen of the <HI>Swedes, Gothes</HI> and <HI>Vandales,</HI> great Prince&s;s of <HI>Finland;</HI> Dutche&s;s of <HI>Ea&s;tland, Carelen, Bremen, Verden, Stetin, Pomeren, Ca&s;|&s;uben,</HI> and <HI>Venden;</HI> Prince&s;s of <HI>Ru|gen;</HI> Ladie of <HI>Ingermanland</HI> and <HI>Wi&s;|mar;</HI> do make known, That where|as mo&s;t grievous complaints have &s;everal times com to us, from diver&s; of our Dominions and Kingdoms; how <HI>viz.</HI> the means of livelyhood of our Kingdom, and of our faith|ful Subjects, are intercepted; but e&s;pecially, how the liber|tie of Maritim Navigation beeing di&s;turbed, they are forced at this time to &s;u&s;tein all kindes of lo&s;&s;es, dammages and dangers, partly by Pirats, who, under pretence of the di|&s;turbance of a publick War, beeing often altogether un|known, do infe&s;t the Seas with a promi&s;cuous and undi&s;|cerning &s;torm; partly by other Frigots, who, under diver&s; &s;orts of Commi&s;&s;ions, and covering them&s;elves under the co|lor of a pro&s;ecution of a lawful Enemie, do often invade and &s;poil in open Sea, and in their free cour&s; the Merchant &s;hips of our Subjects, and do take and carrie away many of them; which afterwards, contrarie to all moderation, bee|ing
<PB N="2" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 51 -->deteined, are much mi&s;u&s;ed. Therefore, both the equitie and the faithfulne&s;s of Roial Protection (on which our faith|ful Subjects do repo&s;e their tru&s;t and relief) requiring it, wee have therein diligently u&s;ed our endeavors for the utter re|moving of &s;uch damages and hinderances from our King|dom, and the Subjects thereof; Which troubles, as from the beginning of this dangerous War by Sea, between the Com|mon-wealths of <HI>England,</HI> &amp; of the <HI>&V;nited Provinces</HI> of the <HI>Ne|therlands,</HI> wee did ea&s;ily fore-&s;ee &s;hould happen to &s;uch as go to Sea; &s;o wee then u&s;ed our due and provident care, not onely be|times to remove the &s;ame, but further al&s;o wee freely and &s;eri|ou&s;ly did &s;trive, by amicable waies, to quench the burning flames of that bloodie War. Moreover, as to this day wee have been willing carefully and &s;incerely to maintein the amitie, which hath been of old between our Kingdom of <HI>Sweden</HI> and the Confederate and friendly States, &s;o wee hope to have &s;till the &s;ame confidence of mutual amitie equally en|terteined between them. And therefore, lea&s;t Wee, or our faithful Subjects, &s;hould have that Character put upon us, as if, under pretence of amitie and free Navigation, wee would cover the &s;hips and goods of one or the other of the two Common-wealths in enmitie, and thereby give occa|&s;ion to the &s;u&s;pitions objected to Us and our Subjects; by rea&s;on of which, many of our &s;hips, not onely of &s;uch as &s;ailed to any one of the &s;aid re&s;pective Enemies, but al&s;o of &s;uch as were bound for neutral places, have been interrupt|ed: And in particular, lea&s;t our &s;hips and goods, and of our faithful Subjects, have rea&s;on to fear the violence and force either of the Pirats, or of the Frigots afore&s;aid; Wee could finde no better, nor more convenient waie, to provide unto the &s;incere integritie and &s;ecuritie of our &s;aid &s;hips, then by commanding a Squadron of our men of War to attend and remain in &s;om of our Ports towards the We&s;t, e&s;pecially at <HI>Gothemburg,</HI> which &s;hall have a more accurate in&s;pection, for the preventing of all frauds; and accordingly &s;hall law|fully defend, in their free cour&s;, all our &s;hips and goods again&s;t all unju&s;t attempts. For which end, and that this our de&s;ign might bee the better &s;ignified and promoted, wee de&s;ire that the under-written Articles might bee taken for a
<PB N="3" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 51 -->rule, by &s;uch as are concerned therein; and do graciou&s;ly command all &s;uch as are bound to obey our will, to ob&s;erv the &s;ame, without any kinde of neglect.</P>
<P N="1">1. Our men of War, which upon occa&s;ion &s;hall bee by us appointed for the fore&s;aid Convoys, &s;hall abide at <HI>Gothem|burg,</HI> or thereabouts; that, when required, they might bee ready to conduct, through the We&s;tern Seas, the Merchant's &s;hips, which &s;hall com out of the <HI>Sound,</HI> and &s;hall have need of their Convoy.</P>
<P N="2">2. When any Merchant-Ship &s;hall com and de&s;ire the &s;aid Convoy, the &s;ame &s;hall be &s;trictly vi&s;ited, lea&s;t any other Ships or goods, but &s;uch as properly belong to our Subjects, or per|haps to &s;uch as are neutral, might bee received under the pro|tection of our Convoys. For which end, all the Pa&s;&s;es and Certificates of the Merchant's goods &s;hall bee diligently exa|mined, and a &s;trict inquirie made, by the Admiral, or the chief Commanders of the &s;aid Convoys. And in particular if it happen's that &s;om neutral Towns &s;hall de&s;ire their Ships and Goods to &s;ail under our Convoys, wee can &s;ee no &s;ufficient rea&s;on, why wee &s;hould deny it: But yet in that ca&s;e, they &s;hall bee obliged to give full and &s;ufficient &s;ecuritie to our &s;aid Convoys, by the Te&s;timonial Letters of the Magi&s;trates of the Towns, from whence they &s;et forth, concerning the proprietie of the Ships and goods, lea&s;t, under the &s;aid Ships and goods of the &s;aid Towns, any fraud lie hid and covered; becau&s; the Officers of our &s;aid Men of War &s;hall have &s;uch a care, that if they meet at Sea with any Fleet, either great, or &s;mall, they might have a cleer and &s;incere an&s;wer to give them.</P>
<P N="3">3. If any be &s;o bold, again&s;t this our &s;evere Command, to abu&s;e any of our Convoys, thereby intending to cover his frauds, and the &s;ame, either pre&s;ently after, or afterwards in progre&s;s of time, &s;hall happen to com to knowledg, the &s;aid goods and wares, or their true value, without any mitigation, &s;hall bee forfeited to us and to our Crown, if the &s;aid goods, or the defrauder him&s;elf, or any part of his other goods, then, or|hereafter at any time, be found in our Kingdoms, Dominions, or Ports. And further, the Skipper, if hee bee convicted to have been con&s;cious of the fraud, &s;o that hee bee not able to cleer him&s;elf of it, be&s;ides the goods &s;o concealed, &s;hall lo&s;e the
<PB N="4" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 52 -->part, hee may have in the Ship; or if hee hath none, then hee &s;hall bee arre&s;ted, until he redeem's him&s;elf with 500 crowns.</P>
<P N="4">4. If our &s;hips of Convoy do meet perchance with, ei|ther many, or few, or one Ship, of what&s;o&euml;ver Nation they might bee, they &s;hall bee bound to require nothing el&s; of them, but good corre&s;pondence; to declare all manner of friend&s;hip with any of them; and to take heed, not to give any lawful or ju&s;t cau&s; of mi&s;-under&s;tanding or quarrel. And wee are further content, that if any Fleet of men of War doth, in a ju&s;t manner, require it of them, they might &s;hew our Powers or Pa&s;&s;es, and declare what Ships have been received under the protection of their Convoy. But, by all decent way, they &s;hall decline, either to bee them&s;elvs, or any in their compa|nie, particularly &s;earched; but, as they are gon out with full &s;ecuritie, le&s;t any fraud &s;hould bee concealed; &s;o likewi&s;e wee de&s;ire they might bee credited, that they might go on in their Voyages, without let or mole&s;tation, with all the Ve&s;&s;els in their companie.</P>
<P N="5">5. If our Convoys meet with any Caper, and bee not trou|bled by him, they &s;hall forbear to meddle with him. But, if they ob&s;erv him to intend any violence, wee will have our Men of War diligently to mark from whence &s;uch Caper did &s;et forth, and then &s;eriou&s;ly to warn him of the debate and accu&s;ation like to in&s;ue before his own Magi&s;trate. And if for all that hee doth not de&s;i&s;t, and if nece&s;&s;itie forceth there|unto, Ours &s;hall, as much as in them laie, by force repul&s; violence, both from them&s;elves, and from their companie.</P>
<P N="6">6. As wee finde that no lawful &s;u&s;pition can bee had of our free Ships, when they are once pa&s;t the Channel between <HI>England</HI> and <HI>France;</HI> &s;o wee will not have our Men of War to conduct them farther then the Ports within the &s;aid Chan|nel. In particular, for &s;om &s;pecial cau&s;es, wee will have our Men of War now at the begining, to direct &s;pecially their Convoys to &s;uch Ports, as are neutral in this War between <HI>England</HI> and the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> until wee do otherwi&s;e declare our minde thereupon: But yet &s;o, as it might bee free to a|ny of our Subjects to go either into <HI>England</HI> or into the <HI>Ne|therlands</HI> to exerci&s;e their free Commerce, if without our fur|ther Convoy they will do it.</P>
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7. When our Men of War &s;hall have &s;o &s;afely brought the &s;aid Merchant-Ships through the &s;aid Channel, and left them in &s;afetie, they &s;hall indeavor forthwith to return to <HI>Gothem|burg:</HI> Or, if there bee any Ship that bee willing to return into the We&s;tern Seas, they &s;hall ex&s;pect them at <HI>Ro&s;cow</HI> in lit|tle <HI>Brittany</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> and having examined the &s;ame, after the waie before pre&s;cribed, they &s;hall bring them back again &s;afe.</P>
<P N="8">8. That a more exact regard might bee had of the time when our Men of War &s;hall bee bound to &s;et forth from <HI>Go|themburg</HI> for Convoys; Wee thought fit that at lea&s;t the &s;ame bee don once in a month, when there &s;hall bee any Ship rea|dy to bee conducted. But otherwi&s;e when&s;o&euml;ver 10 Mer|chant-Ships &s;hall bee ready at <HI>Gothemburg</HI> to bee convoyed, they &s;hall do it without regarding the time. And in particu|lar, they &s;hall ob&s;erv this, that when the number of Merchant-Ships is le&s;s then 10, they onely &s;hall want one Ship of Convoy; but if they bee above 10, to the number of 20, two Ships of Convoy &s;hall bee granted them. And, if there bee yet more in number, the Admiral &s;hall power to deter|mine how many Convoys they &s;hall have.</P>
<P N="9">9. Becau&s; hereby wee onely intend to provide to the &s;e|curitie of the navigation of our faithful Subjects; therefore our will is, that all &s;uch as do inhabit our Dominions, King|doms, or Provinces, who are willing to enjoy the free navi|gation towards and through the We&s;tern Seas to neutral places, &s;hould forbear, during the pre&s;ent un&s;afetie at Sea, ra&s;hly to go further then <HI>Gothemburg,</HI> but &s;hould remain there and look for Convoys; that &s;o much the better wee might undertake their protection. And if any, &s;lighting this our gracious precaution, doth put him&s;elf in danger, hee is to ex&s;pect to bee brought by us to condign puni&s;h|ment for his temeritie.</P>
<P N="10">10. La&s;tly, that the charges required for the maintaining of our &s;aid Men of War, bee not meerly and &s;olely born by Us and our Crown, and yet not becom grievous to tho&s;e who &s;hall make u&s;e of the &s;aid Convoys, wee have thought good to impo&s;e a certain Tax, which wee will &s;hortly pu|bli&s;h, with our gracious Command, that who&s;o&euml;ver &s;hall bee
<PB N="6" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 53 -->willing to u&s;e the &s;aid Convoys, might paie the &s;ame in our Chamber of Duties at <HI>Gothemburg;</HI> which don, they &s;hall not bee further mole&s;ted.</P>
<P>And therefore hereby wee do friendly, and as it be|cometh, intreat both the afore&s;aid Common-wealths now in publick War, and all our Friends and Allyes, that, &s;eeing wee hereby &s;trive, as much as in us lie's, to hinder and prevent all kindes of fraud and collu&s;ion, which might hap|pen by occa&s;ion of our free navigation, wherein wee &s;eek for nothing el&s;, but what may bee admitted in all natural E|quitie and Rea&s;on, they would mutually vouch&s;afe to i&s;&s;ue out more &s;erious and full Commands to all their Officers and Servants, both by Sea and by Land, as al&s;o to all private Men of War, that go under their Commi&s;&s;ions, or are any waie &s;ubject unto them, not to undertake any thing again&s;t our Men of War or friendly Convoys and their companie, but what may bee agreeable to the confidence of a mutual friend&s;hip; the which wee ex&s;pect, and are willing freely to acknowledg by the &s;ame waie. And as to tho&s;e who are bound to obey our Commands, and are willing &s;trictly to ob&s;erv them, wee &s;everely command them, &s;pecially the Ad|mirals and Captains of our &s;aid Convoys, and any other be|longing to them, as well Merchants, as Skippers and others, who intend to injoy this our gracious protection, or any way do apply them&s;elvs thereunto, to bee diligently cautious, before all things, not to give the lea&s;t appearance of fraud or collu&s;ion, nor to give occa&s;ion of any ju&s;t quarrel ari&s;ing from thence; but to bee punctually obedient to this our gracious Ordinance; as they do tender the avoyding of our Royal revenge. In witne&s;s whereof, wee have &s;et our hand, and cau&s;ed our Royal Seal to bee put to the&s;e pre&s;ents. Dated at our <HI>Ca&s;tle</HI> of <HI>Stockholm</HI> the 16. of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1653.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>CHRISTINA. <HI>Locus Sigilli.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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