ARTICLES OF PEACE, ENTER­COVRSE, AND Commerce, Concluded in the names of the most high and mighty Kings, and Princes IAMES by the grace of GOD, King of great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. And Philip the third, King of Spaine, &c. And Albertus and Isabella Clara Eugenia, Archdukes of Austrice, Dukes of Burgundie, &c. In a Treatie at London the 18. day of August after the old Stile in the yeere of our Lord God 1604. ¶ Translated out of Latine into English.

IMPRINTED AT LON­don by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. ANNO 1605.

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¶ The Commissioners for the most renowned King of great BRITAINE, &c.
  • THOMAS Earle of Dor­set, Baron of Buckhurst, high Treasurer of Eng­land.
  • CHARLES Earle of Not­tingham, Baron Howard of Ef­fingham, chiefe Iustice, and Justice itinerant of all Forrests on this side Trent, high Admirall of England, and Captaine generall of the Na­uies, and Seas of England, Jre­land, and the Jles, and Dominions thereof.
  • [Page]CHARLES Earle of Deuon­shire, Baron of Mountioy, Lieute­nant in the Kingdome of Jreland, Master of the Ordinance, Gouer­nour of the Towne, Jland, & Castle of Portesmouth, Knights of the most honourable order of the Garter.
  • HENRY Earle of Northamp­ton, Lord Howard of Marnehill, Lord Warden, and Admirall of the Cinque Ports.
  • ROBERT Lord Ʋicount Cran­borne, Lord Cecill of Esenden, Prin­cipall Secretary, Master of the Court of Wardes, and Liueries. All Lords of his Maiesties Priuie Counsell.
¶ Commissioners for the King of Spaine, &c.
  • IOHN DE VELAS­CO Constable of Castile, and Legion, Duke of the Citie of Frias, Earle of Haro, Lord of the Townes of Ʋil­lalpand, and Pedraça de la Sierra, Lord of the house of Ʋelasco, and of the seuen Jnfants of Lara, great Chamberlaine vnto PHILIP the Third, King of Spaine, &c. Coun­seller of State and Warre, President of Jtalie.
  • IOHN BAPTISTA DE TASSIS, Earle of Ʋilla Mediana, Gentleman of the Kings Chamber, and Postmaster generall in the King­doms & dominions of the said King.
  • [Page]ALEXANDER ROVI­DIVS Professor of the Law in the Colledge of Millaine, and Senator of the Prouince of Millaine.
¶ Commissioners for the Archdukes.
  • CHARLES Prince, and Counte of Aremberge, Knight of the order of the Golden fleece, Counseller of State; and Admirall generall to the said Archdukes.
  • IOHN RICHARDOT Knight, President of the Priuie Counsell, and Counseller of State.
  • LODOVIKE VERREI­KEN Knight, Principall Secretary, and Audienciarie.

❧ Articles of the Treatie.

FIrst it is con­cluded, and ac­corded, that from this day forward, there shall bee a good, sincere, true, firme, and perfect Amitie, League, & Peace, to endure for e­uer, and inuiolably to bee obserued and kept, as well by Land as Sea, and fresh wa­ters, betwixt the most renowned King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. And the most renowned King of Spaine, &c. And the most renowned Archdukes [Page]of Austrice, Dukes of Burgundie, &c. and their Heires and Successours whomsoeuer, their Kingdomes, Countreys, Dominions, Lands, Peoples, Liegemen, and Subiects now being, or which hereafter shall be, of what­soeuer condition, state, or degree they are or may be, so as the said Vassals and Subiects from henceforth are each of them to fauour other, and to vse one another with all kind and friendly offices.

II.

ANd that from henceforth all Hostilitie, and enmitie shall cease, and all offen­ces, iniuries or damages which either part (in time of the troubles) hath susteined by the other, shalbe taken away and forgotten, in such sort, as that hereafter neither partie against other, for, or vpon occasion of any damages, offences, depredations or spoyles past, may pretend any matter, but that there shall be a perfect abolition of all and euery of them vntill this present day: and that all acti­ons for the same shall be held and reputed to be extinguished, excepting onely such depre­dations [Page]as haue beene committed since the xxiiij. of April 1603. (because of these an ac­count is to be made:) And each partie shall hereafter abstaine from all depredations, of­fences, and spoiles as well by Sea as Land, and fresh waters, in whatsoeuer the Kingdomes, Dominions, Places, or Gouernments of the other: neither shal the aforesaid Princes con­sent, that any of the grieuances before men­tioned, be done by any of their Vassals, Inha­bitants, or Subiects: and they shall also cause restitution to be made of all depredations and spoiles which hereafter shall be committed, and of the damages growing by meanes thereof.

III.

ITem, that none of the forenamed Prin­ces, their Heires, or Successors whosoeuer, by himfelfe or by any others, shall doe, treat, or attempt any thing against the other, or against their Kingdomes, Lands or Domi­nions whatsoeuer in any place, on Land or Sea, or in the Ports, or fresh waters, by pre­tence of any cause, or vpon any occasion; nei­ther [Page]any of them shall giue assistance or con­sent vnto any Warre, Counsell, Attempt, or Treaties, had, made, or to be made in the pre­iudice of either, or against the other.

IIII.

ITem, that neither of the former parties, shall themselues giue, or shall consent to be giuen, by any of their Vassals, Subiects, or Inhabitants, aide, fauour, or counsell, directly or indirectly, on Land, Sea, or fresh waters: nor shall supply and minister, nor consent to be supplyed and ministred, by their said Vas­sals, Inhabitants and Subiects, vnto the Ene­mies or Rebels of either part, of what nature or condition soeuer they be, (whether they shall inuade the Countreys and Dominions of either of them, or withdraw themselues from their obedience and subiection) any Souldiers, prouision of Victuals, Monies, In­struments of Warre, Munitions, or whatso­euer other aide else to maintaine Warre.

V.

ANd furthermore, the foresaid Princes shall renounce, as by the tenor of these Presents euery of them hath, and doth renounce, whatsoeuer League, Confedera­tion, Capitulation, and Intelligence made by what manner soeuer, in the preiudice of the one, or the other, which doth or may repugne against this Peace, and Concord, and all, and singuler the Contents thereof: all which and euery of them, so farre as they doe con­cerne the effect aforesaid, they shall adnull, and make void, and declare to be of no force, or moment.

VI.

ITem, it is agreed and accorded, that the said most renowned Kings, and Arch­dukes, shall take care, that their Subiects shall from henceforth abstaine from all force, and wrong doing, and that they likewise shall reuoke all Commissions, and Letters of Reprisall, and Mart, or otherwise conteining Licence to take Prizes, of what condition, or [Page]kinde soeuer they are, being to the preiudice of the one, or other of the said Princes, or of their Subiects, whether the same haue beene giuen, or graunted by them vnto Subiects, or Inhabitants, or vnto Strangers, and shall declare the same to bee void, and of no force, as by this Treatie of Peace they are declared so to be; And whosoeuer shall do any thing to the contrary, he shall be punished not on­ly criminally according to the merit of his of­fence, but shall also be compelled to make re­stitution, and satisfaction for the losses to the parties damnified, requiring the same.

VII.

ITem, as concerning the towns of Flushing, Brill, Ramekins, and other Forts and places thereunto appertaining, in which the garri­son Souldiers of the renowned King of Eng­land, Scotland, &c. doe now remaine, for as much as the renowned King of England, &c. affirmeth that by contracts heretofore made, betweene Queene ELIZABETH of most happie memorie, (vnto whom his Maiestie in his Kingdomes doth succeed) and the States [Page]of the vnited Prouinces of the low Coun­treyes, he standeth in such sort bound, not to redeliuer the said Townes, Forts, and places to any others, then vnto those who deliue­red the same for Caution, as that by the said Contracts, his Maiesties Faith, and Honour, (which he resolueth religiously to keepe to­wards all persons) being engaged, it is not free for him now to restore those places vnto the Archdukes; yet, in the word of a King, he doeth promise to enter into Treatie here­after with the said States, wherein his Maie­stie will assigne a competent time vnto them, to accept and receiue Conditions, agreeable to Iustice, and equitie, for a pacification to be had with the most renowned Princes his deare Brethren: which if the States shall re­fuse to accept, his Maiestie from thenceforth, as being freed from the former Conuentions, will determine of those Townes according as hee shall iudge it to bee iust, and honou­rable, wherein the said Princes his louing Brethren, shall find, that there shall bee no want in him of those good offices which can be expected of a friendly Prince.

VIII.

ITem, that the said most renowned King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. will command, as hee seriously promiseth shall be commanded, that his garrison Soul­diers vpon what cause or pretext soeuer, shall not serue, succour, victuall, or furnish with Artillerie, Gunpowder, Bullets, Saltpeter, or any other Munition, or assistance for Warre, the Hollanders, or other enemies of the King of Spaine, and the Archdukes: neither that they shall giue vnto them Aide, or doe any hostile Acte against the said King of Spaine, and Archdukes, or their Subiects: As also on the part of the King of Spaine, and the Arch­dukes, no hostile Acte shall be committed, or done against the said garrison Souldiers, or against the most renowned King of Eng­land, &c. or his Subiects.

IX.

ITtem, it is agreed and accorded, that be­tweene the most renowned King of Eng­land, Scotland, &c: and the most renow­ned [Page]King of Spaine, &c. and euery of their Vassals, Inhabitants, and Subiects, as well by Land, as Sea, and fresh Waters, in all and sin­guler their Kingdomes, Dominions, Islands, and other Lands, Cities, Townes, Villages, Hauens, & Streights of the said Kingdomes, and Dominions, there be, or may bee free Commerce, in which before the Warres there hath bene Commerce, like, and accor­ding to the vse and obseruance of the ancient Leagues, and Treatises, before the Warre, in such sort, and manner, as that without any safeconduct, or other Licence generall, or speciall, the Subiects of the one, or other King may freely, aswell by Land as by Sea, and fresh Waters, goe, enter, and saile, in and to the said Kingdomes, and Dominions, and all the Cities, Hauens, Shores, Sea rodes, and Streights thereof and put themselues into whatsoeuer Hauens of the same, where be­fore the Warre there hath bene Commerce, like, and according to the vse, and obseruance of the ancient Leagues, and Treatises before the Warres, with Carriages, Horses, Bur­dens, Ships aswell laden, as to bee laden, to [Page]bring in Merchandizes, and there to buy, or sell as much as they will, and in the same pla­ces vpon iust prices to procure, and haue pro­uision of Victuals for their sustenance, and Voyages, and likewise as occasion shall re­quire, to repaire such shipping and carriages, as either appertaine vnto them in propertie, or else they haue hired or borowed, and from thence also with their Merchandizes, Goods, and other commodities whatsoeuer, (the Cu­stomes, and Tolles, as they are presently ra­ted according to the Ordinances of the pla­ces being paid) they may with like freedome depart, and goe to their owne Countreyes, or any other places at their pleasure without let or impediment.

X.

ITem, it is likewise agreed and accorded, that it may bee lawfull, to haue accesse vn­to the Ports of the said Princes, and there to make stay, and from thence with the same libertie to depart, not onely with their Ships of Merchandises, and burthen, but also with other shipping furnished for Warre, and pre­pared [Page]to withstand the force of enemies: Whether they shall arriue there, either by force of tempest, or for repairing their Ships, or for prouision of victuals, so as they exceed not the number of sixe, or eight Ships, when they come in of their owne accord, nor that they continue, nor make stay in the Hauens, or about the Ports longer then they shall haue iust cause for the repaire of the same shipping, or for prouision of other necessa­ries, lest they should bee any occasion of In­terruption vnto the free Commerce and en­tercourse of other friends and Nations in a­mitie: And whensoeuer any greater number of Ships of warre then is before specified, shal haue occasion of accesse into those Ports, then shall it not bee lawfull for them to make any entrance without the priuitie and con­sent of the Prince. Prouided also that they doe no hostile acte, within the said Ports, to the preiudice of the Princes, but demeane themselues there quietly, as friends and con­federates, with speciall Caution euer to bee had, that vnder the colour and pretext of Commerce, no warlike aide, prouision of [Page]victuals, or of armes, or of munition or other such like materials for the Warres, be carried by the Subiects, Vassals, or Inhabitants of those Kingdomes, to the commoditie or be­nefit of the enemies of the one or other King. And whosoeuer shall attempt to the contra­rie, shall bee punished with those sharpe paines and punishments, vsed to be inflicted vpon seditious persons and breakers of Faith and Peace. Prouided also, that the Subiects of the one, in the Dominions and Territo­ries of the other, be not worse handled, then the naturall Subiects in their sales and con­tracts for their Merchandises, as wel in respect of the prises, as otherwise, but that the Con­dition of Forreiners be equal and like herein, vnto natural Subiects: Notwithstanding any Statutes or Customes to the contrarie.

XI.

ITem, it is agreed and accorded, that the most renowned King of England, Scotland &c. shall prohibite, and after the confir­ming of these present Articles, by Proclama­tion forthwith prouide, that no one of his [Page]Subiects, Inhabitants, or Vassals shall lade, or carie ouer by any meanes directly, or indi­rectly in his owne name, or in the name of any others, neither shall lend his Ship or o­ther vessell for carriage, or vse his name for the transporting or conueying of any Ships, Merchandises, Manufactures, or any other thing, out of Holland, and Zeland into Spaine, or other the Kingdomes and Domi­nions of the King of Spaine, or the Arch­dukes, neither shall carrie in his Ships, any Holland, or Zeland Merchant vnto the said Ports, vpon perill of his Maiesties indignati­on, and other punishments vsually inflicted on the contemners of his Highnesse com­mandements. And to the effect that fraude (which through the likenesse of Merchan­dise might happen) bee the better auoyded: It is also prouided in this present Article, that the Merchandises to be carried, and conuey­ed out of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to the Kingdomes and Dominions of the King of Spaine and Archdukes, shall bee Registred and Sealed with the Seale of the Towne or Citie from whence they shall bee laden, and [Page]that they being so Registred and Sealed, shal without any difficultie or question whatsoe­uer, bee reputed, and held for English, Scot­tish, and Irish Merchandises, and so respec­tiuely according to the Seale or Marke, bee allowed and admitted: Alwayes excepted, that in case of fraude, proofe shall be admit­ted, without stay notwithstanding or let of the course or venting of the Merchandises in the meane time: And touching such Mer­chandises, as shall not be Registred nor Sea­led, the same are to bee Confiscated and ta­ken for good Prize: And likewise all Hollan­ders and Zelanders, which shall bee found in the same Ships, may also bee taken and de­tained.

XII.

ITem, it is agreed that English, Scottish, and Irish Merchandises may be conueyed, and transported out of England, Scotland, and Ireland into Spaine, and other of the Kingdomes of the King of Spaine, (before mentioned) without the payment of the Im­position of thirtie in the hundred, lately im­posed; [Page]but paying onely the Custome and Tolles vsually required, before the said Im­position of thirtie in the hundred.

XIII.

ITem, it is likewise agreed, that for the Mer­chandises. which English, Scottish, and Irish Merchants shall buy in Spaine, or o­ther the Kingdomes of the sayd King of Spaine, and shall carrie in their owne Ships, or in Ships hired, or lent vnto them (except as before hath bene said the Ships of Hollan­ders and Zelanders) they shall pay onely such Tolles as were accustomed to bee paide before the Imposition of thirtie in the hun­dred, yet so as they conuey and carrie the same goods and Merchandises to the King­domes of the said most renowned King of England, Scotland &c. or to the Ports of the Prouinces, being in obedience to the Arch­dukes. And for the more suretie that fraude bee not committed herein, and that the said Merchandises bee not transported to other places and Kingdomes, and especially into Holland or Zeland, it is concluded, that the [Page]said Merchants shall binde themselues, at the time that they doe lade their Ships in Spaine, or in the other Kingdomes and Dominions of the said King of Spaine aboue declared, be­fore the Magistrate of the place in which they shall lade, to pay the said Imposition of thir­tie in the hundred, in case they carrie the same goods and Merchandises to other Do­minions and Countries: And to obtaine also within the space of twelue moneths follow­ing, a Certificate from the Magistrate of the places, where they shall discharge or vnlade the same goods, testifying their discharge to haue beene either in the Kingdomes and Do­minions of the King of England &c. or in the Ports of the Prouinces vnder the obedience of the said Archdukes: vpon the exhibiting whereof, the Obligations concerning those matters shall be deliuered vp, vnto the brin­gers of the same Certificates.

XIIII.

ANd also that the sayd most renowned King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. shall prohibite soone af­ter [Page]the confirming of this accord, that none shall exporte any merchandize out of Spaine, or other Kingdomes of the King of Spaine, to be caried to other places then to his Ma­iesties Kingdomes, and the sayd Portes of Flanders, vpon penaltie of confiscation of all their merchandises, to the vse of the said King of England, &c. to be paide into his Ma­iesties Exchequer: of which merchandises, or the value thereof, one halfe is to bee giuen to the Informer, (the imposition of thirtie in the hundred being first deducted) to bee payed to the Ministers and Deputies of the King of Spaine, and the proofes lawfully re­ceiued in Spaine, and transmitted into Eng­land in authenticall fourme, are to bee cre­dited.

XV.

ITem, that the Magistrates of the sayde townes or Cities of his Maiesties King­domes, which shall make Certificates of the vnlading of shippes, and are to giue te­stimony of the registring of the merchandi­ses, shal not commit any fraud therein, vnder [Page]perill of indignation of the Kings Maiestie, and paine of losse of their offices, and other more grieuous punishments at the Kings pleasure. This declaration being added, that when the King of Spaine and Arch­dukes shall agree with the French King, or with any other vpon the last Placard of thirty in the hundred, and the Commerce betwixt them be restored, then it shall bee lawfull to the Subiects of the sayd most re­nowned King of England, Scotland, &c. to transport their merchandises to the King­domes and Dominions of him, or them vnto whom Commerce shall be restored without the payment of thirty in the hundred, but onely paying the Tolles and Customes vsed and payed before the sayd imposition.

XVI.

THat which hath before been expressed, concerning the free Commerce gran­ted vnto the Subiects of the said renow­ned kings, is to be vnderstood to bee like­wise agreed on, for the Subiects of the most renowned King & Princes, the king of Eng­land, [Page]Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. and the Archdukes, to wit, that in all places whatsoe­uer, their Subiects are bound reciprocally, to respect & to fauour ech other, and by mutu­all kinde offices friendly to intertaine the one the other, and that by land, sea, and fresh waters, without any safe conduct or other licence generall or speciall, they may vnto the saide Kingdomes, Dominions, Lands, Villages, Towns, Cities, Sea shores, Hauens, Sea rodes whatsoeuer, freely, safely, securely, come, enter, sayle, carie and recarie their mer­chandises, buy, and sell, remaine, abide, and conuerse in the same, so long as it shall please them, any kinde of prouision for victuall, and things necessary for sustenance, and for voiages at iust & reasonable prices, and there repaire also (as occasion shall require) their shipping, and cariages, whether the same be their owne, or whether they be hired or bor­rowed: As also to depart from thence with like libertie, with merchandises, goods, and other things whatsoeuer (the Customes and Tolles according to the Statutes of those pla­ces being payd) and to dispose and follow [Page]their businesses freely, and to returne at their owne pleasure, either into their owne Coun­treys, or to any other place, without any impediment or let, so as the Subiects of the most renowned King of England, &c. vse not the shipping of the Hollanders, or the vnited Prouinces, and bring not into the Prouinces of the Archdukes any of the manufactures of Holland, or of the vnited Prouinces bought wheresoeuer, neither any other thing, for which there was paid in Holland any tribute, nor that they transport any thing from the Archdukes Prouinces, vnto them of those Prouinces vntill a pacification be accorded: Nor that they receiue any the goods or Hol­landers, or of those other places vnited into their ships, nor trust any of their owne goods in the ships of Hollanders, nor fraudulently by lending their names, colour the goods of any Hollander, or other of the vnited Prouin­ces: for that if any thing be committed to the contrary, and the same be found, it shall bee held for iust and lawfull Price.

XVII.

ANd the aforesaid Prouisoes are not only to bee vnderstood of ships laden or to be laden in cause of Commerce, but also of shippes of Warre which the said Princes haue or shall haue armed to represse the At­tempts of their Enemies: insomuch as that it may be lawfull for such Ships of warre, not exceeding the number before mentioned, if they happen to be constrained either by force of tempest, or for buying of Victuals or other things, or for repaire of shipping, to vse the same libertie in arriuing, staying, and depar­ting: so that they doe no Hostile acte in the said Ports, but demeane themselues honest­ly and quietly, as it becommeth confederates and friends: and so that they stay and re­maine not in, or about the same Ports any longer then shall bee needfull for reparation and prouision of necessaries, that thereby they be not a hinderance or interruption to the free Commerce and Entercourse with o­ther Nations that are in Amitie and Friend­ship: but where occasion shall fall out of ar­riuall [Page]of any greater number of Shipping then before specified, it shall not bee lawfull for them to enter, but with the knowledge and allowance of the Prince.

XVIII.

ANd as the saide Kings and Archdukes doe religiously promise, that they will not at any time yeeld any Warlike suc­cour to any of the others enemies, so it is pro­uided that their Subiects, or the inhabitants in their Realmes, of what nation or qualitie soeuer they be, may not vnder colour of En­tercourse and Commerce, nor vpon any o­ther colour or pretence giue any ayde or helpe to the enemies of the sayd Princes, or of either of them, or conferre, or supplie them with money, prouisions of victuals for warre, Amour, Municion, Ordinance, Artillerie, or other warlike prouision, and those which shall do the contrary, are to take knowledge, that they shall bee punished with the seuere punishments accustomed to be inflicted vp­on breakers of League, and seditious per­sons.

XIX.

AND that also greater benefite may through this Concord come vnto the Subiects of the most renowned King of England, Scotland, &c. and of the Arch­dukes, it is accorded and concluded, that the said most renowned King of England, &c. and Archdukes ioyntly and seuerally, will doe their endeuours, that their Subiects haue not the passages stopped or letted vnto any of their Ports, Kingdomes and Dominions, that thereby they bee not hindered, freely and without impediment to come and goe, with their Shipping, Merchandise, and Car­riages (the ordinarie Customes and Tolles being paide) to al the said Ports, Kingdomes, and Dominions: and with the like libertie (when it shall seeme so good vnto them) with other Merchandises from thence to depart.

XX.

BVt as concerning the ancient Treatises of entercourse and Commerce, whereof di­uers are extant, betwixt the Kingdomes [Page]of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions of the Dukes of Burgundie, and Princes of the Low Countreyes, which not­withstanding during the late troubles haue beene intermitted, and peraduenture in some parts impaired; it is agreed by way of proui­sion, That they shall retaine and haue their auncient forte and authoritie, and that they shall bee vsed on both parts, as they were be­fore the Warres: And if it happen that ei­ther by both partes or any one part any breach thereof be alleadged, or that the Sub­iects shall complaine that the Conuentions are not obserued, or that more grieuous bur­dens then were accustomed are imposed on them, there shall bee Deputies appointed on either part which may meete, and calling vn­to them (if neede be) Merchants experienced in such matters, may friendly Treate, and e­qually renew, and restore such things, as shal bee founde either to haue slipped out of course, or to haue beene changed by the in­jurie of time, or by corrupt custome and vse.

XXI.

ANd for that the rights of Commerce which doe ensue by Peace ought not to be made vnfruitfull, as they would be if the Subiects of the most renowned King of England, Scotland &c. whilest they haue re­course to and from the Kingdomes and Do­minions of the said King of Spaine and Arch­dukes, and do remaine there for Commerce, should bee molested in the cause of Consci­ence: therefore to the intent their Traffique may be safe, and without danger, as well on Land as on Sea, the said renowned King of Spaine, and Archdukes shall take care, and prouide, that for the said cause of Consci­ence they shall not be molested, nor inquie­ted in vsing their Trade and Commerce, so as they giue not scandall vnto others.

XXII.

ITem, that if it happen any goods or Mer­chandises prohibited to be carried, or con­ueyed out of the Kingdomes and Domini­ons of the said most renowned Kings and [Page]Archdukes, by the Subiects of the one or of the other, that in such case the person onely offending shall incurre punishment, and the goods onely prohibited shalbe Confiscated.

XXIII.

ITem, that the goods of the Subiects dying within the Kingdomes or Dominions of either, shall be conserued to the right heires and successours of the deceased, the right of a third Person alwayes reserued.

XXIIII.

ITem, that the Graunts and Priueledges gi­uen by the Princes to Merchants of either of the Kingdomes comming to their said Kingdomes, and which Priueledges through the Warres haue ceased, shall from hence­forth wholly bee reuiued and haue their full force and strength.

XXV.

ITem, if it shall happen hereafter, (which God forbid) that any displeasure doe arise, betweene the said most renowned Kings, [Page]the King of England, Scotland, France, and Ire­land, &c. And the King of Spaine, or the Archdukes, whereby danger might grow of the interruption of entercourse and Com­merce, then the Subiects of either Prince are thereof so to be admonished, as that they may haue sixe Moneths from the time of the monition, to transport their Merchandises without any arrest, disturbance, or hurt in the meane season, to be done or giuen vnto them either in their persons or Merchandises.

XXVI.

ITem, that none of the foresayd Princes shall imbarge or stay for their prouision in warre, or for any other seruice, to the pre­iudice of the owners, the ships of the Sub­iects of any of the others, being in their Ports, or waters, vnlesse the Prince of those parties to whom the ships doe appertaine, shall first be admonished thereof, and shall also yeeld his consent thereunto.

XXVII.

ITem, it is accorded, that if during this Peace and Amitie, any thing happen to be [Page]attempted, committed or done, against the force and effect thereof, by land, sea, or fresh waters, either by any of the said Princes their Heires and Successors, their Vassals, Sub­iects, or Allies comprehended in this League, or of any the Heires or Successours of those Allies their Subiects, or Vassals, yet notwith­standing this Peace and Amitie, shal remaine in his strength and vertue, and the attemp­ters, and such as doe offend therein onely, and no other, shall bee punished for their attempts.

XXVIII.

ITem, that such as haue beene taken in warre, and are Captiues on either part, although they be condemned to the Gal­leys shall be released and dismissed, the char­ges of the diet of such as are not in the Gal­leys being first discharged, and the ransomes of such as haue before agreed for the same, being by them payed.

XXIX.

ITem, it is concluded, that all ciuill acti­ons, which at the time when the last warres began, were of validitie, and of force, may [Page]yet bee exercised and pursued, notwithstan­ding any lapse of time during the same war, so as no preiudice shall bee vnderstood to haue growen vnto them, by the continuance of the warre, those onely excepted which are already come to the Exchequer or Princes Treasurie.

XXX.

ITem, if any controuersie happen to bee moued in the Kingdomes and Dominions of the one or other of these Princes, by any person not being Subiect to the same Prince, for, or vpon occasion of any depredations or spoyles committed, the cause is to be remit­ted to the Iudge of the iurisdiction, vnder that Prince against whose Subiect or Sub­iects the suite is commenced.

XXXI.

ITem, that if the Hollanders and other con­federate States, will accept of conditions of pacification with the most renowned Archdukes, or their Successors, through the meanes of the most renowned king of Eng­land, &c. the sayd Archdukes and their Suc­cessors, [Page]will alwayes willingly hearken vnto that which shal be proposed therein, and will desire that by the helpe of the sayd most re­nowned King of England, &c. they may bee brought to embrace equall cōditions, wherin they shal wel vnderstand, how much the said Archdukes doe attribute vnto the authority of the most renowned King of England, &c. their louing brother.

XXXII.

ITem, it is concluded and accorded, that in this present Treatie of peace, there bee comprehended the Adherents, friends, and confederats, of the forenamed Princes: That is to say, on the part of the most renow­ned King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. Rodulphe Romane Emperour, with the Archdukes of Austrice, and the E­lectors of the Empire, together with the States, and Cities of the Empire, the Duke of Lorrain, the duke of Sauoy, the dukes of Brun­swicke, Lunenburg, Meckleburg, Wirtemberg, the Landgraue of Hesse, the Marquesse of Ba­den, the duke of Pomerane, the Prince of An­halt, [Page]the Earle of East-freisland, the Cantons of Heluetia, and the Grisons, the Haunse-cities; The French King, the King of Poland, and Swethland, the King of Denmarke, the duke and State of Venice, the duke of Holst, the duke of Florence.

XXXIII.

ON the part of the King of Spaine and Archdukes, Rodulphe Romane Empe­rour, and his Brethren, and other Prin­ces, Archdukes of Austrice, Princes of the Empire, the Electors, Cities, and States sub­iect to the Empire, the French King, the King of Poland and Swethland, the King of Den­marke, the duke and State of Venice, the duke of Sauoy, the duke of Bauire, the duke of Cleue, the duke of Holstein, the duke of Lor­raine, the duke of Parma and Placentia, with his Brother, the Cardinall, the Bishop and Prouince of Liege, the duke of Florence, the duke of Mantua, the duke of Mutina, and Regium, the duke of Vrbine, the Confederats and Cantons of the Heluetians, and Grisons, the Cities of the Haunse, the Earles of East­friesland [Page](without notwithstanding any pre­iudice of the right by the King of Spaine, and Archdukes pretended for their States) the duke and Common wealth of Genua, the Common wealth of Lukes, the Principall of the House of Columna, the Prince of Oria, the Principall of the house of Vrsine, the duke of Sermoneta, the Lord of Monacho, the Earle of Mirandula, the Marques of Massa, the Earle of Sala, the Earle of Colorno.

XXXIIII.

ITem, it is likewise accorded and conclu­ded, that the saide most renowned Kings and Princes, IAMES by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ire­land, &c. And PHILIP King of Spaine, &c. Albert and Isabella Clara Eugenia, Arch­dukes, &c. shall sincerely, and faithfully ob­serue and keepe, and procure to be obserued and kept, by their Subiects, and Inhabitants, all and singuler the Capitulations in this pre­sent Treatie accorded, and concluded, nei­ther shall they directly or indirectly infringe the same, or consent that the same shalbe in­fringed, [Page]fringed, directly, or indirectly, by any of their Subiects or Inhabitants, and they shal ratifie, authorise and confirme, all and singular the Conuentions as before accorded and conclu­ded by Letters Pattents, subscribed with their owne hands, and sealed with their great Seales in sufficient, auaileable, and effectuall forme, and the same so formed and made, shall vpon the first occasion deliuer or cause to be deliuered faithfully, really, and effectu­ally; And they shall make the like promise to obserue all and singular the premisses, in the word of a King and Prince, and shall also sweare to obserue and performe the same by oath vpon the holy Euangelist, (whensoeuer they shall, by either part be thereunto requi­red.) And the said Kings and Archdukes shall take care that this present Peace and Amitie be published in places accustomed, so soone as conueniently the same may be.

❧ Articles concerning Merchandize of high Ger­manie to be transported into Spaine, free of the Imposition of 30. in the 100.

THE more to expresse obser­uance towardes the most re­nowned King of England, &c. and for the commoditie of his Maiesties Kingdomes, the Il­lustrious and excellent the Constable of Ca­stile, &c. Procurator speciall of his Cath. Ma­iestie, hearing how much the Subiects of the most renowned king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, doe desire to be permit­ted to vent the merchandise of Germanie in Spaine, doeth by these presents promise, that it shall be lawfull for the sayd Subiects of the most renowned King of England, &c. to conuey merchandise out of high Germanie, being subiect to the Imposition of thirtie in the hundred, and which without payment of the sayd Imposition could not be caried into Spaine, and the same merchandise hauing [Page]first been conueyed into England, and there discharged, & customed, from thence after to be transported into Spaine, or other the Do­minions of the King of Spaine, without pay­ment of thirtie in the hundred, so as the said merchandise hath payd nothing to the Hol­landers, and Zelanders, and other enemies of the King of Spaine, and the Archdukes: and so as they be conueyed in the proper ships of the most renowned King of England, &c. or his Subiects, and not in others of any other Prince, or Nation, or of other whomesoeuer. And to the effect that fraude herein may bee auoyded, the Merchandises of high Germa­nie, which are to bee transported foorth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to the King­domes and Dominions of the King of Spaine and the Archdukes, shall bee Registred and marked with the Seale or Marke of the Towne from whence they shall bee laden, and certified by a Certificate from the Magi­strate of the said Towne or Citie, testifying that the said Merchandises were discharged in England, Scotland or Ireland, and that they haue paide Custome there, as well vpon pe­rill [Page]of the Kings Maiesties indignation, as also vpon paine of losse of their Offices and o­ther more grieuous punishments, to bee in­flicted at the Kings pleasure, vpon the Magi­strates of the Townes and Cities of the Kingdomes, of the said most renowned King of England, &c. which are to certifie the vnlading of Ships, and to testifie of the Re­gistring thereof, if they shall herein commit any fraude.

II.

ITem, that whatsoeuer merchandizes of high Germany, shall not bee discharged in England, Scotland and Ireland, and yet shall be conueyed into Spaine, and other King­doms of the King of Spaine as such merchan­dises, shall be confiscated, and bee reputed as good Prize.

¶ Three Articles concer­ning a moderation to be had in the proceedings of the Inquisition, toward the Kings Maiesties Sub­iects, in SPAINE.

FIrst, if they haue exceeded in any thing before their entrance into Spaine, they shall not be called in­to the INQVISITION for the same, neither shall bee molested for any of those things so committed, out of Spaine, neither shall any Account for the same bee demaunded of them.

II.

ALso if they will not enter into the Churches, no man shall compell them thereunto, but if they doe enter into the same, they shall per­forme those dueties & reuerence, which are vsed towards the holy Sacrament of the Altar being there, and if they shall see the holy Sacrament comming towards them in any streete, they shall doe reuerence by bowing their knees, or else to passe aside by some other streete, or turne into some house.

III.

ANd if any of the said persons being Masters, or Masters Mates, or any other Officers of ships, which bee not their owne, doe exceed in any matter herein, the INQVISITION proceeding against them by Office, is onely to se­quester their owne proper goods, and are to leaue free the ships and all other goods not be­longing to the Offenders; the same is to be vnderstood for the Traders and Factors.

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