KING HENRY IV.'S AGREEMENT a.d. 



1405. 



Dordract aforesaide : at the which time and place, or at 

 other times and places, in the meane space, as occasion 

 shall serve, by both parties to be limited and assigned, 

 or else within one yeere after the said first day of the 

 moneth of May next ensuing bee expired : the hurt and 

 damaged parties generally before-mentioned, shall have 

 performed unto them a convenient, just, and reasonable 

 reformation on both partes. Provided alwayes, if within 

 the terme of the saide yeere, some convenient, just, and 

 reasonable reformation bee not performed unto the parties 

 injuried, and endamaged, which are generally above [I. 164.] 

 mentioned : that then, within three whole moneths after 

 the foresaid yere shall expired, the Prussians shall depart 

 out of the realmes and dominions of the saide Soveraigne 

 Lorde the king of England, together with their mar- 

 chandize, and with other goods which they shal have 

 gotten or bought, within the space of the foresaide 

 three moneths : and that the English men also are 

 likewise in all respects bounden to avoid and (no 

 lawfull impediment hindering them) to withdrawe them- 

 selves and to depart out of the territories and dominions 

 of the saide Master generall, without all molestation, 

 perturbation, and impediment whatsoever, none other 

 intimation or admonition being necessarie in this regard. 



Howbeit least that by the robberies and piracies of 

 some insolent and perverse people, matter should be 

 ministred unto the said lord the Master generall, of 

 swarving from the faithfull observation of the foresaide 

 agreements, or (which God forbid) any occasion bee given 

 him of not observing them : it is also decreed by the 

 often above mentioned Ambassadours and messengers, 

 that if the goods and marchandize of any of the saide 

 lorde Master generall his subjectes whatsoever shall be 

 from hencefoorth unjustly taken upon the Sea, by any 

 English Pirates, and shalbe caried into the realme of 

 England, and there received, that the Governours and 

 keepers of portes, and of other places (with whatsoever 

 names they be called) at the which portes and places 



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