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<FIGDESC>arms of Charles II</FIGDESC>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
</FIGURE> By the King. A PROCLAMATION Enjoyning the Ob&s;ervance of the Peace betwixt His Maje&s;ty and the States General of the <HI>&V;nited Netherlands.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas by the Treaty of Peace concluded at <HI>Breda,</HI> in the year One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred &s;ixty &s;even, betwixt His Maje&s;ty and the States General of the <HI>United Netherlands,</HI> It is expre&s;ly provided in the One and Twentieth Ar|ticle, That it &s;hould not be permitted to His Maje&s;ties Subjects, and the Inhabitants of the Kingdoms and Countreys under his Obedience, or to the Inhabitants and Subjects of the <HI>United Provinces,</HI> to do or offer any Ho|&s;tility or Violence to each other, either by Land or by Sea, upon any pretence or colour what&s;oever, and that by con&s;equence, it &s;hould not be lawful for the &s;aid Subjects or Inhabitants to get Commi&s;&s;ions or Letters of Reprizal from any Prince or State with whom either of the Confederates &s;hould be at difference, or in open War, and much le&s;s by vertue of tho&s;e Letters to mole&s;t or damnifie the Subjects of either Party; Neither &s;hould it be lawful for any Forreign private Men of War, not being Subjects to the one, or the other Party, having Commi&s;|&s;ions from any other Prince or State, to equippe their Ships in the Harbours of either of the afore&s;aid Parties, or to &s;ell or ran&s;om their Prizes, or any other way to truck either the Ship or Goods, or any other Lading what&s;oever; &amp; it &s;hould not be lawful for them to buy any Victual, but what &s;hould be nece&s;|&s;ary to bring them to the next Port of that Prince from whom they obtained the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ions: And if perchance any of the Subjects of His Maje&s;ty, or of the States General, &s;hould buy or get to them&s;elves by Truck or any other way, &s;uch Ship or Goods which have been taken by the Subjects of the one or the other Party, in &s;uch ca&s;e the &s;aid Subject &s;hould be bound to re&s;tore the &s;aid Ship or Goods to the Pro|prietors without any delay, and without any Compen&s;ation or Reimbur&s;ement of Money paid or promi|&s;ed for the &s;ame; Provided that they make it appear before the Council of His Maje&s;ty, or before the &s;aid States General, That they are the right Owners or Propietors of them, as appears by the &s;aid Treaty, which is renewed by the Seventh Article in the late Treaty of Peace betwixt His Maje&s;ty and the &s;aid States, concluded at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> in <HI>February</HI> la&s;t, and now remains in full force. Neverthele&s;s, His Maje&s;ty has been informed, That divers of His Subjects do pre&s;ume to accept of Commi&s;&s;ions of War, and Letters of Marque and Reprizal, contrary to the tenour and true intent of the &s;aid Treaties of Peace; which undue practice, if not &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, may produce great di&s;turbance to the Trade and Peace of this Kingdom: For the timely prevention whereof, and to the intent that none of His Maje&s;ties Subjects may pretend Ignorance of the &s;aid Treaties in this particular, His Maje&s;ty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, has thought fit by this His Royal Proclamation to publi&s;h the &s;ame to be as is before recited: And doth hereby &s;traitly Command and Require, That no Per&s;on what&s;oever do pre&s;ume to accept of, or exe|cute any Commi&s;&s;ion of War, or Letter of Marque or Reprizal from any Prince or State that now is, or hereafter &s;hall be at difference, or in open War with the &s;aid States General of the <HI>United Netherlands,</HI> but that all His loving Subjects, according to their Duty, do inviolably ob&s;erve that Peace and Vnion which is by the &s;aid Treaties e&s;tabli&s;hed betwixt His Maje&s;ty and the &s;aid States General, upon pain of being proce&eacute;ded again&s;t with that &s;everity which they will de&s;erve, that &s;hall endeavour to involve this Kingdom in a War.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI></HI>
<DATE><HI>the Twenty eighth day of <HI>September</HI> 1674. in the Six and twentieth Year of Our Reign.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by the A&s;&s;igns of <HI>John Bill</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;topher Barker,</HI> Printers to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty. 1674.</P>
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