they have figned them with their own hands. Done at London the 11th of April, 1661.

[The following is printed from the copy published by authority in 1686.]

Articles of Peace and Alliance between the Moft Serene and Mighty Prince, Charles the Second, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. and the High and Mighty Lords, the States General of the United Netherlands, concluded the 3 Day of July, 1667.

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I. FIRST, that from this day there be a true, firm, and inviolable peace, fincere friendship, a nearer and ftraiter alliance and union between the Moft Serene King of Great Britain, and the High and Mighty States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the lands, countries, and cities under the obedience of both parties, wherefoever fituate, and their subjects and inhabitants, of what degree foever they be.

II. Alfo, that for the time to come, all enmities, hoftilities, difcords, and wars, between the faid Lord the King, and the forefaid Lords the States General, and their fubjects and inhabitants, ceafe and be abolifhed; and that both parties do altogether forbear and abstain from all plundering, depredation, harm-doing, injuries, and infeftation whatsoever, as well by land

as by fea, and in fresh-waters, every where; and efpecially through all tracts, dominions, places, and governments (of what condition foever they be) within the jurifdiction of either party.

III. Also, that all offences, injuries, damages, loffes, which his faid Majefty and his fubjects, or the forefaid States General and their fubjects, have on either fide fuftained during this war, or at any time whatsoever heretofore, upon what caufe or pretence foever, be buried in oblivion, and totally expunged out of remembrance, as if no fuch things had ever past.

Furthermore, that the forefaid peace, friendship, and alliance may stand upon firm and unfhaken foundations, and that from this very day all occafions of new diffention and difference may may be cut off; it is further agreed, that both the parties, and either of them, fhall keep and poffefs hereafter, with plenary right of fovereignty, propriety, and poffeffion, all fuch lands, islands, cities, forts, places, and colonies (how many foever) as during this war, or in any former times before this war, they have by force of arms, or any other way whatsoever, gotten and detained from the other party, and that, altogether after the fame. manner as they had gotten and did poffefs them the day of May last past, none of the fame places being excepted.

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IV. Moreover, that all fhips, with their furniture and merchandize, and all moveables, which during this war, or at any time heretofore, have come into the power of either of the forementioned parties, or their fubjects, be and remain to the prefent poffeffors, without any compenfation or reftitution; fo as each one become and remain proprietor and poffeffor for ever of that which was fo gotten, without any controverfy, or exception of place, time, or things.

V. Moreover, that all actions, fuits, and pretenfions, whatsoever they be, or in what manner foever they have been reftrained, circumfcribed, defined, or re

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ferved, in any articles of peace or alliance already made (and especially in the fifteenth article of that treaty which was figned in the year 1662) which his faid Majefty and the faid States General, or their fubjects, may or would profecute or move against one another about fuch matters or things as have happened during this war, or in any former times, as well before as after the forefaid treaty of 1662, until the day of this prefent alliance, be and remain void, obliterated, and difannulled; as his faid Majesty and the faid States General shall declare, and they do hereby declare, that by virtue of these prefents they will for ever totally renounce, even as hereby they do renounce, all fuch actions, fuits, and pretenfions, for themselves and their fucceffors, fo as in regard of them nothing more may or ought ever to be urged on either fide, and nothing to be moved thereupon hereafter.

VI. But if after the day of May, expreffed in the precedent third article, or after the peace is made, or this treaty figned, either party fhall intercept and get from the other any lands, iflands, cities, forts, colonies, or other places whatsoever, all and every of them, without any diftinction of place or time, fhall be restored bona fide in the fame ftate and condition wherein they shall be found to be at the time whenfoever it shall be known in thofe places that the peace is made.

VII. But to avoid all matter of ftrife or contention hereafter, that useth fometimes to arife concerning the reftitution or liquidation of fuch fhips, merchandize, and other moveables, as both parties, or either of them, may pretend to have been taken or gotten in places and coafts far diftant, after the peace is concluded, and before it be notified unto thofe places; it is agreed, that all fuch fhips, merchandize, and other moveables, which may chance to fall into either party's hands after the conclufion and publication of the prefent inftrument, in the Channel or British fea, within the space

of twelve days, and the fame in the North fea; and within the space of fix weeks, from the mouth of the Channel unto the Cape of St. Vincent; as alfo within the space of ten weeks beyond the faid Cape, and on this fide the Equinoctial Line or. Equator, as well the ocean and Mediterranean fea, as elfewhere; and from thence within the fpace of eight months, beyond the terms of the forefaid Line, throughout all the world, fhall be and remain unto the poffeffors, without any exception or further diftinction of time or place, or any regard had to the making of reftitution or compen→ fation.

VIII. It is alfo agreed, that under the forefaid renunciation and ftipulation, all letters whatfoever of reprifal, marque, and counter-marque, both general and particular, and others of that kind, by virtue whereof any hoftility may be exercifed for the future, ought also to be reckoned and comprehended; and by the public authority of this alliance they are inhibited and revoked. And if any perfons of either nation, after fuch revocation, fhall nevertheless, under pretence or authority of fuch letters or commiffions already revoked, defign any new mifchief, or act any hoftility, after the peace is made, and the times fpecified in the precedent feventh article are elapíed, they are to be looked upon as difturbers of the public peace, and punished according to the law of nations, befides an entire reftitution of the thing taken, or full fatisfaction of damages, to which they fhall be liable; notwithstanding any claufe whatfoever to the contrary, which may be inferted in the faid letters revoked as aforefaid.

IX. And whereas in countries far remote, as in Africa and America, efpecially in Guinea, certain proteftations and declarations, and other writings of that kind, prejudicial to the liberty of trade and navigation, have been emitted and published on either fide by the governors and officers in the name of their fuperiors; it is in like manner agreed, that all and every fuch proteftations,

tations, declarations, and writings aforefaid, be abolifhed, and held hereafter for null and void; and that both the above-mentioned parties, and their inhabitants and fubjects, ufe and enjoy the fame liberty of trade and navigation, as well in Africa as in America, which they used and enjoyed, or of right might use and enjoy, at that time when the treaty of the year 1662 was fubfcribed.

X. Alfo, that prifoners on both fides, one and all, of what degree, dignity, or condition foever they be, fhall be fet at liberty, without ranfom, or any other price of their freedom; provided fatisfaction be made by them for debts which they have contracted for diet or any other lawful cause.

XI. That the faid King of Great Britain, and the faid States General, remain friends, confederate, united, and allied, for the defence and prefervation of the rights, liberties, and immunities of either ally and their fubjects, against all whomfoever, who fhall endeavour to difturb the peace of either's ftate by fea or land, or fuch as living within either's dominions, fhall be declared public enemies to either.

XII. That neither the faid King of Great Britain, nor the faid States General, fhall act, do, endeavour, treat, or attempt any thing against the other, or the subjects of either, any where, by land or fea, or in any ports, liberties, creeks, or fresh-waters, upon any occafion whatsoever; and that neither they, nor the fubjects of either of them, fhall give, afford, fupply any aid, counsel, or favour, nor confent that any thing be done, treated, or attempted by any other whofoever, to the harm or prejudice of the other, or the fubjects of either; but fhall exprefsly and actually oppofe, contradict, and really hinder all whomfoever, refiding or dwelling in either the refpective dominions, who fhall act, do, treat, or attempt any thing against either of them,

XIII. That