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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<FIGDESC>royal arms of England, circa 1675</FIGDESC>
<P>HONI &middot; SO<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> &middot; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> &middot; MAL &middot; Y &middot; PENSE</P>
<P>DIEV &middot; ET &middot; MON DROIT.</P>
</FIGURE> By the King. A PROCLAMATION Relating to the Articles concluded between His MAJESTY, and the Government of <HI>Algiers.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas by the late Articles of Peace concluded between His Maje&s;ty, and the Government of <HI>Algiers,</HI> His Maje&s;ty out of His Royal Care of the Per&s;ons and E&s;tates of His Sub|jects, did agree and provide, That none of His Subjects employ|ed or trading in any <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Ship or Ve&s;&s;el, &s;hould for the future be taken and &s;old as Slaves, or his or their Goods made Prize by any of the Subjects of the &s;aid Government of <HI>Algiers;</HI> And al&s;o, that any of His Maje&s;ties Subjects going in Foreign Ships, as Pa&s;&s;engers onely, and having Authentick Pa&s;sports te&s;tifying the &s;ame, &s;hould have the like freedom for their Per&s;ons and Goods aboard &s;uch Foreign Ships: And whereas His Maje&s;ty is informed, that divers of His Subjects, contrary to the effect and true meaning of the &s;aid Treaty, do take upon them to colour and conceal the Ships of Foreigners, with whom the &s;aid Government of <HI>Algier</HI> is in War, and to that end do ei|ther wholly Navigate the Ships of &s;uch Foreigners, or otherwi&s;e &s;erve in the &s;ame as Mari|ners or Souldiers: Which way of proceeding, as it doth for the pre&s;ent admini&s;ter ju&s;t cau&s;e of Complaint from the &s;aid Government of <HI>Algier,</HI> &s;o will it in a &s;hort time (if not prevented) indanger the Security intended by the &s;aid Articles for the Ships, Per&s;ons and E&s;tates of His Maje&s;ties Subjects: His Maje&s;ty doth therefore by this His Royal Proclamation, &s;trict|ly forbid all His Subjects, that they do not for the future Navigate the Ships or Ve&s;&s;els of any Foreigners in War with the &s;aid Government, nor pre&s;ume to &s;erve in the &s;ame either as Mariners or Souldiers. And His Maje&s;ty doth hereby further Declare, That if any Of|fenders contrary to this His Royal Proclamation, &s;hall be taken, His Maje&s;ty will not require any relea&s;e of their Per&s;ons or E&s;tates from the &s;aid Government of <HI>Algier;</HI> but that they mu&s;t expect to be excluded (as they were intended) out of the benefit of the &s;aid Articles; His Maje&s;ty al&s;o &s;trictly charging &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall hereafter go as Pa&s;&s;engers in Foreign Ships or Ve&s;&s;els, to take care that they have Pa&s;sports with them, &s;igned by His Maje|&s;ties proper Mini&s;ters in <HI>England,</HI> or His Mini&s;ters or Con&s;uls abroad, expre&s;&s;ing the Names of their Per&s;ons, and the Contents and Qualities of their Goods, at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI></HI>
<DATE><HI>this Two and twentieth day of <HI>December</HI> 1675. in the Seven 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, 1675.</P>
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