A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1580. 



and cattels, and that no man shall hurt them, but they 

 may buy and sell without any hinderance, and observe 

 the customes and orders of their owne countrey. 

 [II. i. 144.] 2 Item, if the aforesaid people and marchants shalbe 

 at any time in the course of their journeis and dealings 

 by any meanes taken, they shall be delivered and inlarged, 

 without any excuse or cavillation. 



3 Item, if their ships purpose to arive in any of our 

 ports and havens, it shalbe lawfull for them so to do in 

 peace, and from thence againe to depart, without any let 

 or impediment. 



4 Item, if it shall happen that any of their ships in 

 tempestuous weather shall bee in danger of losse and 

 perishing, and thereupon shall stand in need of our helpe, 

 we will, and commaund that our men and ships be ready 

 to helpe and succour them. 



5 Item, if they shalbe willing to buy any victuals for 

 their money, no person shall withstande them, but they 

 shall buy the same without any disturbance to the 

 contrary. 



6 Item, if by any casualtie their shippes shall bee 

 driven on shoare in perill of shipwracke, our Begs and 

 Judges, and other our Subjects shall succour them, and 

 such wares, and goods of theirs as shall bee recovered 

 from the losse, shall bee restored to them, and no man 

 shall wrong them. 



7 Item, if the people of the aforesayd Queene, their 

 interpreters and marchants, shall for trafique sake, either 

 by lande or Sea repaire to our dominions paying our 

 lawfull toll and custome, they shall have quiet passage, 

 and none of our Captaines or governours of the Sea, and 

 shippes, nor any kinde of persons, shall either in their 

 bodies, or in their goods and cattels, any way molest them. 



8 Item, if any Englishman shall grow in debt, and so 

 owe money to any other man, and thereupon doth absent 

 himselfe that he can not be found, let no man be arrested 

 or apprehended for any other mans debt, except he be the 

 surety. 



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