WHereas it is found meete and expedient, vpon weighty consi­derations mooued to His Maiestie, by the intervention of some of His friends, to lay aside Hostility with the King of Spaine, and so to remooue by faire and peaceable meanes the cause of the Warre, which hath bred interruption to the Amity betwixt the two Crownes, vpon assurance giuen His Maiestie hereof by that King, His most Excellent Maiestie hath condescended to renew the ancient Amity, and good Intelligence betwixt the two Crownes, their Realmes, Countreys, Dominions, Vassals and Subiects, And doeth accordingly make knowen to all His louing people, that the sayd Peace and Friendship being so established, not onely all Hostilitie and Warre is to cease on both sides from henceforward, But also the former Trade and Commerce, as it stoode in the vse and obseruance of the Treatie, made by His Maiesties blessed Father, is restored and confirmed betweene the sayd Kings, their Kingdomes, Territories, and Subiects aswell by Land as Sea and Fresh Waters.

Which His Maiestie hath thought fit to declare vnto all manner of His Subiects, of whatsoeuer estate they be, strictly charging and commanding them to obserue and accomplish all that hereunto belongeth, As it is certainely promised to bee published on the side of the King of Spaine, the Date these Presents.

Giuen at His Maiesties Palace of Westminster, the fift day of December, in the sixt yeere of His Maiesties Reigne.

God saue the King.