BEtween the Ilands of Palma, and Teneriffe, this Piratick Tragedy had its beginning, as appears by the Depoſitions of thoſe Wittneſſes in the Margent: Bowers. Harpley. Tuskin. Teat. •… n Jopp. ••… nphrie which remain upon Record in the Regiſter of the high Court of Admiralty of England: They being firſt Legally Sworn, and examined after due intimation thereof, firſt given to the French Ambaſſador, and publique notice thereof by way of General monition Firſt hung on the Royall Exchange in London, according to Law, and the accuſtomed practice in ſuch Caſes.

Theſe ſaid Wittneſſes thus duely Sworn, and examined, do depoſe, and fully prove as followeth,

1. That the ſaid Ship the Endeavour did belong in property and actuall poſſeſſion to Robert Oxwicke and Company, Marchants of London: and by them built in the River of Thames.

2. That the ſaid Ship was laden in Teneriffe, with 313 Pipes of Canarie Wines, by Evan Pugh and others, Factors and Agents for Richard Baker, and Company, Marchants of London: and for their ſole and proper accompt: and the ſaid Ship was by them freighted of the aforeſaid Owners in London, to go for Teneriffe, and from thence to return for London.

3. That the ſaid Ship being there ſo laden for the accompt aforeſaid, did therewith ſet Sayle from Teneriffe, and as ſhe was Sayling in her direct and peaceable Courſe for the Port of London, were mett withall by four French Ships, under the Command of Giles de la Roach: who in an hoſtile manner aſſaulted them, and violently ſeized ſurprized, and took the ſaid Ship Endeavour, with all her lading, on the 21th of November 1655. Engliſh Stile.

4. That after they had the ſaid Ship and her lading in their poſſeſſion, then they put the Engliſh Maſter and Mariners under cloſe reſtraint, uſing them moſt inhumanly and barbarouſly.

5. That there being 3 other ••••• ſh Ships 〈…〉 or in View at the time when the French, ſeized on the Ship Endeavour and 〈…〉 g, (w 〈…〉 the ſaid Fren •• 〈…〉 medling) they were de 〈…〉 f 〈…〉 of the ſaid 〈…〉 • ndeavou • 〈…〉 Mari 〈…〉 ſurprized the Ship Endeavour and her 〈◊〉 and ſuffered the other Engliſh Ships to eſcape unmoleſted? The ſaid de la Roach, and other the French Commanders anſwered that they had no Commiſſion for what they had already done in taking the Endeavour, nor againſt any Engliſh Ships: and although they had mett with divers other Engliſh Ships, yet they had not medled with any of them, nor would they have ſeized on the Ship Endeavour, had not her lading conſiſted in Wines, which was ſo neceſſary for their Voyage for Madagaſcar or the Red Sea.

6. That the ſaid de la Roach and others of the French did ſay that they had ſtayed ſeverall daies in Rochel in expectation to have had letters of Marque againſt the Engliſh, but could obtain none, becauſe that the Peace was concluded between France and England: and ſaid, that their Owners and Imployers, viz. the Marſhall de Mill Ree in France, was Rich and able enough, and that he ought to pay and make ſatisfaction to the Engliſh for the ſaid Ship and her lading.

Thus, as before, themſelves confeſſed this ſpoyle to be an Act of Pyracy, having no Commiſſion, ſo now they do as plainly acknowledge that ſatisfaction ought to be made, and that by the Marſhall de Mill Ree.

7. That the ſaid de la Roach and Company did neaver-the-leſs moſt ravenouſly plunder the ſaid Engliſh Mariners, taking away all the goods they had in the ſaid Ship, to the utter ruine of themſelves their Wives and Children at home, (and to fill up the meaſure of their deteſtable proceedings by leaving no one circumſtance of the worſt of Pirates unatempted,) they refuſed (more like infidels then like Subjects to the Chriſtian King) to ſet the now diſtreſſed Engliſh on any Chriſtian ſhoar, leaſt they might get to England, and ſo the truth might come to light. For when theſe miſerable Engliſh implored the ſaid de la Roach and other the French Commanders the favour of being landed on ſome of the Canarie Ilands (that being alſo contrary to common • umanity denyed,) and when afterwards on their knees with infinite of tears, they beſeeched the like favour of being put on the Ilands of Cape de Verde, anſwer was again made them moſt churliſhly, and peremtorily, that they ſhould not be ſet on any Chriſtian ſhoar, becauſe they ſhould not return for England (as they ſaid) to tell tales.

8. That after this, in order to deſtroy the ſaid Engliſh and to deprive them of their lives, and to do it without appearance of direct Murther, (as theſe mercileſs French ſuppoſed) having beaten ſtript and moſt barbarouſly uſed the ſaid Engliſh, they landed the Maſter and thirteen more of the Engliſh on the Guinea ſhoar amongſt the Barbarous Negroes; leaving them no other ſuſtenance then one hundred weight of Bisket duſt, and one Pipe of Wine, (leaſt otherwiſe their expected Ruine by death might not be lingering enough,) where they remained fifteen weeks in moſt eminent hazard, and continual Jeopardy of their lives, expoſed to nakedneſs, famine, and to the fury of the Barbarians: till by a moſt miraculous providence they were reſcued from death by an unexpected and unuſuall opportunity of tranſportation in that place, in a Flemiſh Veſſel, To the Glory of God, and the perpetual ſhame of theſe inhumane French-men.

9. That having ſo landed, the ſaid Engliſh Maſter and 13 more of the Engliſh, two of the Engliſh Mariners being part of many more of the Engliſh which the ſaid de la Roach and the French did carry away in their French Ships, did afterwards in another place in Guinea caſt themſelves by night into the Sea through a Port-hole, and ſo moſt ſtrangely eſcaped, and afterwards by as wonderfull a providence theſe two arived alſo in England.

10. Thus much beſides the ſum of 16587 lb. for the loſs hereby ſuſtained by the Engliſh, the teſtimony of the ſaid wittneſſes doth clearly and authentically prove: nor is it to be omitted that theſe French-men alſo confeſſed that they were ordered by their Imployers, for to have gone for Lixboa, to have taken in Wines for their Proviſſions, for which purpoſe they carried Credits: but being impeded by contrary winds, they reſolved to go for the Canaries, in expectation to be ſupplyed thereabouts: it being the ſeaſon of the Year when Wines were uſually Shipt off from thence.

To this may be added, that neither the ſaid de la Roach, nor any of his company or imployers did ever afterwards (as by law they ought • o have done) bring the Maſter of the Endeavour, to the French Admiralty or 〈…〉 of the Comp •• y, or in 〈…〉 vall and judication cauſe any examination to b • taken of the 〈◊〉 •• gliſh (ſo Piratically ſurpriſed) 〈…〉 any thing to be Judicially done about 〈…〉 their 〈…〉 o direct and preſcribe, upon pain of loſs and Corp •••• puniſhment 〈…〉 it is 〈…〉 they acted like moſt Notorious Pirates, both a parte ante, by attempting this Vyolent aſſault after that the Peace was Concluded, and without Commiſſion as by their own Confeſſion: and like Notorious Pirates a parte in, by the ſeizure, Plundering and Barbarous uſage of the Engliſh: and like Notorious Pirates a parte poſt, by not bringing it to any Court of Juſtice for a legal Triall and Judication, as the Law of all Nations received requires, and alſo as by the ſaid Articles of Peace they ought to have done.

The Peace between England and the French King was Concluded and Publiſhed the 3d of November 1655. New Stile, as appears by the date of the very Articles of that Peace; and this Piracy was Committed the 21th of November, Engliſh Stile. The proofes of all which, together with a true tranſcript and exemplication of the teſtimony and depoſition of the aforeſaid Witneſſes, were by ſpecial order, and from the high Court of Admiralty, on behalf of the ſaid Engliſh (ſo robbed and deſpoyled) tranſmitted to Paris, where by order of the Kings Councel, they were there tranſlated into French in the Year 1656.

In September 1656. and in June 1657. Oliver late Projector, wrote and ſent ſpeciall letters to the French King, and to Cardinal Mazarine, preſſing for Juſtice to be ſpeedily adminiſtred in this deplorable caſe; the like letters were writ and ſent by Thurloe to the Engliſh Agent Lock-hart, preſſing him alſo to uſe all poſſible means by urgent interceſſion for the ſame, according to the Articles of Peace between England and France, whereby it was Capitulated and agreed, that in all ſuch Caſes Juſtice ſhould be effectually adminiſtred within three Moneths.

Whereupon the ſaid Agent Lockhart interpoſed when our ſaid Proofes and Petitions were preſented in the Councel in France; yet they would not admit them, till they had given advice thereof to the Marſhall de Mill Ree, and received his Anſwer thereto. At laſt after ſome Moneths fruitleſs attendance we were permitted to proceed in the Courſe of Juſtice, and they made a Decree, that the ſaid Marſhall de Mill Ree ſhould Appear by ſuch a certain time ſet and limitted: notwithſtanding which, neither he in his own Perſon, nor any other for him Appeared; whereupon we obtained a ſecond Decree from the French King and his Councel, dated 27 January 165 • . That the ſaid Marſhall ſhould yet have two moneths time more, to make his appearance for his defence, before Judgment ſhould be given: and on the 20 th of F • bruary following we cauſed the ſaid Decreeſ to our great expence and hazard to be ſignified and notified to the ſaid Marſhall de Mill Ree, And on the 8th of May following, it was certified us by the Notarie of the Councel, that neither he, nor any for him had appeared but ſtood out in contempt to both the ſaid Decrees of the King and his Councell in France.

Whereupon the ſaid Agent Lockhart, again moſt urgently preſt for a hearing, and for ſentence, which according to Juſtice and their own Laws they ought to have given: But it was the firſt of September following 1657. ere the Court could be prevailed with, to hear the Cauſe. And then their Sentence was only this viz. That they, (viz. the Court) ſhould write to their French King to beſeech his Majeſty, that he would write to the Marſhall de Mill Ree.

The ſixth of October following, the Maſter of Requeſt was ſent by order of the Councell of France, into Brittany to recover our Montes of the Marſhall de Mill Ree; whence returning the ſecond of January 1657/8. re infecta Offered the ſaid Agent Lockhart for our uſe the ſum of 8000 Piſtols by way of Compoſition.

Thus having been at vaſt expence and charge in proſecution of this buſineſs in France, and all our Endeavours (through the intereſt and petency of the ſaid Marſhall) rendered Eluſorie, and to no purpoſe: no Juſtice to be there had (notwithſtanding the ſadneſs and equity of our Caſe) we were neceſſitated to have recourſe again to the uſurping Powers then in England, and ſolicited them for Letters of Marque againſt the French by way of Compenſation and ſatisfaction for this wrong, according to the ſaid Articles of Peace, and the Law of Nations.

Whereupon order being given the • 5 of March 1658. to the high Court of Admiralty to Examine and peruſe our Proofes, Papers and Proceedings in this Caſe, and to report their opinion upon the whole matter. They did upon long and ſerious debate and deliberation of all the Circumſtances in Fact at laſt Report and unanimouſly certifie▪ that we ought to have from the ſaid French full Reſtitution for the ſaid Ship and Lading, for the Principle and Dammages 16587 lb Ster •• ng▪ The ſaid report ſaying That it was a Tort and fowl ſpoyle done and committed, contrary to the ſaid Trea • y of Peace • h • Law of Nations▪ and Common Right,

When they had notice in France that we were Soliciting in England for Letters of Marque againſt them▪ and • hat the Court of Admiralty were ordered to Report the State of the caſe▪ and how Barbarouſly and Cruelly they had uſed the Engliſh. Then we received advice from Paris of certain other ſtrange and illegall proceedings there; (which to omitt would be a favour they have forfeited) and to the end that the World may know of ſuch their un-nationall illegalities, we have thought i • Conſonant to the 〈…〉 at ••• liſh it in •••• ſſimis verbis.

〈…〉 〈…〉 wed Advice 〈…〉 . From our Correſ ••••• nts there reſiding for this affair in th • ſe words, viz. There is a Decree againſt you h 〈…〉 nd Mounſieur Petit our Ambaſſadors Agent, deſired to have it out, but they will not give it: th • •… aſter of Requeſt hath been made againſt you, yet he ſaith he is not ſatisfied in it.

And by another of the 26th of the ſame moneth, in theſe words, viz. It is true that they have Condemned your Ship as Prize, but how the Condemnation is, I know not: for they will not give it out; by which you may perceive their Juſtice (or rather Injuſtice.) And the Reporter Buſherat (much againſt the intereſt of the Engliſh) confeſſed to Mr. Petit, and Mr. Morrel, that it was not done according to a Legall courſe of Juſtice.

And by another of the 16th of June, in theſe words, viz. Your Councellor hath Petitioned the Court for a Copy of your Papers, and of the Sentence; but it is denyed, ſaying, that they are in ſeverall mens hands, and that we could not have them.

And by another of the 27th of July, in theſe words, viz. That the Papers cannot be got, unleſs the Powers (then uſurping in England) make it their requeſt. Beſides▪ it was alſo adviſed, that the French Secretary of State hath forty Thouſand Livers ſtock with the Marſhall de Mill Ree, in that unluckie Madagaſcar deſigne.

We had an Agent in Paris no leſs then nigh four years Attending and Soliciting this buſineſs, who never had the leaſt notice, Summons or Monition, (as by Law he ought to have had,) that any Sentence was to be given, neither were our Procurator nor our Councell ſo much as Summoned to appear, or heard to ſpeak in the cauſe, at the time of ſuch their Sentence. So that if any ſuch were at all it was done Secretly, Surreptiouſly, and Clandeſtinely, (and as ſuch it is void and null in Law) when for two years before we were moſt urgently and inſtantly preſſing dayly the Court for a hearing, and for Juſtice, but could obtain neither.

Of all which their proceedings, we the Engliſh were neceſſitated to complain to the powers then here uſurping; who (upon the 10 th of June 1658.) peruſed the aforeſaid Report from the ſaid High Court of Admiralty of England. And it was ordered, that Thurloe ſhould (together with his Letters) ſend Copies of the ſaid report, both to the French Ambaſſador, and to the ſaid Agent Lockhart, preſſing them to renew their Addreſſes, that (notwithſtanding the pretended Sentence given in Paris) full and ſpeedy ſatisfaction might be made to the afflicted Engliſh complaynants, which being writ, ſent, and delivered accordingly, the ſaid Agent Lockhart wrote thereupon to Count Bryene (the Secratary of State in France) with intimation that Letters of Reprizal would be iſſued for the relief of the Engliſh; in caſe ſatisfaction were not otherwiſe ſpeedily made them.

The ſecond of December following, relation being made by Thurloe (to the new uſurping powers here) how that he had ſent letters with the coppies of the Report of the Court of Admiralty (in conformity to the former order of the 10 th of June paſt) and had deſired the French Ambaſſador, and the Agent Lockhart to make their earneſt addreſſes that ſatisfaction ſhould be forthwith made to the aforeſaid Engliſh: and yet notwithſtanding the ſame was not done. It was ordered that letters of Reprizall ſhould be granted to the ſaid Engliſh for reparation of their ſaid loſſes, againſt the French, in caſe ſatisfaction be not given them, by, or before the firſt of March next, untill which time, and no longer the iſſuing thereof is to be reſpited and forborn: whereof the ſaid Thurloe was again ordered to give notice to the Lord Ambaſſador Bourdeaux, and alſo to the Agent Lockhart, that they might Communicate the ſame to the French King.

Thurloe having accordingly wrote and ſent intimation to the ſaid French Ambaſſador, and to the ſaid Agent Lockhart of the aforeſaid order, how that letters of Reprizall would be iſſewed (in caſe ſatisfaction ſhould not be made to the Engliſh) by or before the firſt of March then next enſuing.

Whereupon the ſaid Agent Lockhart having recourſe to the Cardinal and to the Secretary Count Bryene about it, and complayning of their illegal Sentence given, without having given the Engliſh ſo much as notice that the cauſe was to be heard or ſentenced▪ (a thing never before heard of:) The ſaid Secratary made reply and promiſed both A •• vocation of the Sentence unduly paſt to the prejudice of that cauſe, and ſatisfaction to be given to the Engliſh within 15 daies, which appears by the Certificate under the hand of the ſaid Lockhart, dated the 13 th of June 1659.

And by another Certificate of his the ſaid Lockhart, dated the 10 th of March 1659/60. how that at his being in St. John de Luz, in complyance of an order from the Rump Parliament, the ſaid Cardinal Mazarine promiſed him that the buſineſs ſhould be diſpatched aſſoon as he and the Councell mett, and that full ſatisfaction ſhould be given to the Engliſh. But to this day the Engliſh have not received a penny, to the utter ruine and decay of many of his Majeſties good Subjects, their Wives and Children.

We cannot 〈…〉 eal, but here inſert the Declaration upon Oath of Thomas Atkinſon, one of the Engliſh Marriners of the Ship Endeavour, who with many more of the Engliſh of the ſaid Ships Company, the ſaid de la Roach and Company carried away in their French Ships.

Neither can we omitt the ſetting down alſo, the Declaration upon Oath of John Stone, chief-mate of the Engliſh Ship Adventure, whereof Joſeph Tayler was Commander.

That as they were Sayling from the Eaſt India to London, in the moneth of April 1656. they mett with one of the four Ships belonging to the Marſhall de Mill R • e. And after they had haled them, and told them that they were of Rochel, and that there was Peace between France and England, and that both were joyned in a War againſt Spain, and deſired the Engliſh to come aboard their French Ship, which the Engliſh refuſing to do, the French ſhot at the Engliſh, and after two daies fight, were left by them, ſeeing that none of thei • •… Ships appeared, having before loſt company. By the fight the Engliſh had above a 1000 lb. dammage.

THE PREMISES CONSIDERED. It is moſt Evident and Notorious, that the ſaid Ship and Lading in property, and in right, belong only to Subjects of his Moſt Exellent Majeſty: that they being in the quiet and peaceable poſſeſſion thereof, were Deſpoyled, Robbed, and Piratically diſpoſſeſſed thereof, in an Hoſtile manner, though in a time of Peace, by the ſaid de la Roach and Company, all Subjects of the French King.

That thoſe Ravenous Captors have by their own confeſſion, concluded themſelves under the horrid guilt of Piracies, not only by acknowledging they had no Commiſſion for what they did, but alſo by declaring their knowledge of the Peace then concluded between England and France: whence their guilty Conſciences could not be tongue-tyed from confeſſing that the Marſhall de Mill Ree (their Principal Owner and Imployer) ought to make ſatisfaction to the Engliſh.

That not contented with the ſpoyle and depradation they had Committed on the goods and intereſt of the Innocent Engliſh, they afterwards proceeded to extend and exerciſe their Diaboliſmes and Infernall Cruelties on their Perſons alſo; and having what adventures they had, they kept them under cloſe reſtraint, and treating them moſt inhumanly and barbarouſly: not ſuffering them to Land on any Chriſtian ſhoar, though begd on their knees with floods of Teares; and having thus farr proceeded in their Cruelties againſt the ſaid diſtreſſed Engliſh, they do then ſtripp them of their wearing Apparell, and inſteed thereof give them many and many a ſtripe, beating and moſt doggedly affronting them with all manner of additional aggravations of miſery: In the next place they Landed the Engliſh Maſter with 13 more of his Mariners on the Coaſt of Guinea among the Barbarous Negroes, expoſing them to Nakedneſs, and Famine, by leaving with them juſt no more ſuſtenance then what might ſerve to multiply the terrors of Death, by antedating the fear of death: and others of the ſaid diſtreſſed Engliſh did afterwards caſt themſelves through the Port-hole of the Ship, into the more mercifull Ocean, to avoid their Barbarous uſage aboard of their French Ships.

And thus, having expoſed ſo many of the Engliſh to the mercy of the Barbarians, leaving them only ſtripes for Rayment and Teares for Food: they now proceed in their miſchevious malice againſt the reſidue of the Engliſh Mariners, of the ſaid Ship Endeavour, and had reſolved to have ſent them to Arabia, there to have ſold them for Slaves, had not the Almighty by contrary Winds counter-manded their helliſh deſigne, and ſo in mercy gave a check to their unlimitted reſolves; which ſlavery though they providently eſcaped, yet afterwards all of them, ſave one, (which was as a reſerve of Providence on purpoſe to bear witneſs of the Truth) by theſe unparalled Barbariſmes periſhed, ſome in Irons ſtarved to death (as the Chief-mate of the Endeavour) and others famiſhed through the extremity of thoſe wants, and Barbarous uſages, dyed by thoſe intollerable hardſhips of thoſe inhumane French-men: who not ſatisfied with ſo ſtately a Ship as the Endeavour was, nor with ſo rich a Lading as ſhe had, nor with the more precious blood of ſo many Engliſh as Sayled in her, did yet after all this upon their ſurprizal of another Engliſh Ship caſt no leſs then 18. of her Engliſh Mariners into the Sea, plundered her Lading, and ſo fired the Ship, and many moneths after attempted to have taken alſo the Ship coming from the Eaſt India aforeſaid.

Having treated of the matter of Fact: wee beſeech your Majeſty to take a ſhort review of the proceedings of the French in order to ſatisfaction; for though the loſs which the Engliſh ſuſtained amounted to no leſs then 16587 lb. (beſides the Lives of ſo many Engliſh Subjects) and that the ſaid de la Roach nor any of the French ever bring the ſaid Ship and Lading to any Tribunal for Juſtice, in order to a Legall Judication; inſomuch that the Engliſh were for prevention of Famine, to many Widdows, and Fatherleſs Children at home, (as before had happened to their Husbands and Parents abroad) neceſſitated to make their application to the Powers then uſurping in England, and having procured examinations to be taken upon oath of the whole matter of Fact in due form of Law did Tranſmitt them to Paris, where they were Tranſlated into French, by the French Kings order: whereupon the ſaid uſurping Powers in England ſent their ſeveral ſpeciall letters to the French King and Cardinal Mazarine, inſtantly preſſing for ſpeedy Juſtice on the behalf of the Engliſh; with like letters to their Agent Lockhart, to Solicite moſt earneſtly at the Court of France; which he did accordingly, though Ineff •• tually: For notwithſtanding all this, ſuch was the power, prevalency, and intereſt of the ſaid Marſhall de Mill R • e at the Court of France, who ſlighting the Decrees of the Court made for his Appearance, ſtood out in peremptory Contempt of the ſaid Court, and Appeared not. At length after years attendance ſpent in Soliciting his buſineſs, that unparralled order (Evaſion or Deluſion) was made by the Supream Court of France requeſting that his Majeſty would write to the Marſhall de Mill Ree, we had thus a Cypher Inſtead of Juſtice from the French, and no more in point of ſatisfaction for the Engliſh. And all this, notwithſtanding the ſaid de la Roach had confeſſed that the ſaid Marſhall de Mill Ree ought to pay for the Ship and Lading; yea, and the Marſhall himſelf had alſo ſaid that he muſt pay 16000 lb. for the ſame. And the Secratary of State did promiſe that the Engliſh ſhould have full ſatisfaction within 15 daies. And the Cardinal promſed both in Paris and again afterwards in St John de Luze, that the Engliſh ſhould be forthwith paid, as by the aforeſaid Agent Lockharts Certificates.

Now foraſmuch as the oppreſſed Engliſh, for the moſt ſad and weighty reaſons aforeſaid, were neceſſitated to have recourſe to the Powers then uſurping in England, for letters of Marque and Reprizall, againſt the French, upon this their denyall of Juſtice, according to the Articles of Peace, and the Law of Nations, the diſtreſſed Complaynants in behalf of themſelves and a great number of poor Widdows, and Fatherleſs Children, ſo made and undone by the ſaid French. Humbly Imploring his Majeſties Gracious Pardon, for their enforced and neceſſitated addreſs to the ſaid uſurping Powers, do now (as Loyall Subjects to his Moſt Sacred Majeſty,) fly to his Royall Perſon, and his Regall Authority, (as next under God, the only Sanctuary of his diſtreſſed People,) and to his Majeſties Two Houſes of Parliament, as the Supream Councel and Judicature of theſe his Majeſties Dominiors for ſpeedy Juſtice in this moſt deplorable Caſe, againſt the French, that they may be Required forthwith to render to the oppreſſed Complainants full and effectual ſatisfaction for the Principal, with Intereſt, together with all Coſts and Dammages ſuſtained by the ſaid Engliſh, by reaſon of the ſaid ſpoyle and depredation unjuſtly Committed by the ſaid French, as alſo by reaſon of the ſaid denyall of Juſtice, ſubſequent to that ſpoyle, whereby the French are ſtrengthned, the Engliſh weakned, Pyrates countenanced, Trade diſcouraged, much Engliſh-Innocent Blood exhauſted, Free-Subjects of England by Forrayners Enſlaved: the Articles of Peace Violated, and the Law of God, of Nature, and of Nations contemned and deſpiſed: that ſo the great ſufferings of theſe his Majeſties oppreſſed Subjects may at laſt by a meet and equivalent reparation and ſatisfaction be Ballanced according to Juſtice, and Equity: And that in caſe they ſhall on his Majeſties demand of Juſtice, ſtill (as formerly) deny it, that then according to their own Articles of Peace and the Law of Nations, his Sacred Majeſty would be Graciouſly pleaſed to cauſe Letters of Marque or Reprizall upon this Specia • l Caſe to iſſue againſt the French, or ſuch other courſe to be taken as to his Majeſty ſhall ſeem expedient, for the relief and ſatisfaction of his Poor, Diſtreſſed, Suffering Subjects, in a Cauſe ſo Juſt, ſo Deplorable, ſo Loudly Crying for Juſtice, ſo Emphatically pleading for Pitty and Commiſeration. And the Complaynants, your Majeſties ever Loyal Subjects ſhall ever Pray, that he by whom Kings Raign, and Princes Rule. would ſtill preſerve your Sacred Majeſty, as his Anointed, ever under a Guard of Angels, Bleſs you in your Government, and in both your Houſes of Parliament, Enthrone you in the hearts and affections of all your Majeſties Subjects in all your Dominions, for many years here, and in the preſence of Angels and Glorified Spirits in the Kingdome of Heaven to all Eternity hereafter.