ST AME PAPER'S. 
ttade with the same liberty and se- 
curity from the places, ports, or 
havens of those who are enemies 
to both, or either party, without 
any opposition or disturbance what- 
soever, not only from the places 
ef the enemy afore-mentioned to 
neutral places, but also from one 
place, belonging to an enemy, 
whether they be under the juris- 
diction of the same prince, or 
under several; and it is hereby 
stipulated, that free ships shall 
also give freedom to goods, and 
that every thing shall be deemed 
free and exempt which shall. be 
found on board the ships belonging 
to the subjects of either of the con= 
tracting parties, although the whole 
lading, or any part thereof, should 
,appertain to the enemy of either; 
contraband goods being always 
excepted. It is also agreed, that 
the same liberty be granted to per- 
sons who are on board a free ship, 
so that although they may be ene- 
mies to either party, they shall not 
be made prisonets, or taken out of 
that free ship, unless they are sol. 
diers, and in aétual service of the 
enemies, 
16. This liberty of navigation 
and commerce shall extend to all 
kinds of merchandizes, excepting 
only those which are distinguished 
by the name of contraband; and 
under this name of contraband, or 
prohibited goods, shall be compre- 
hended arms, great guns, bombs, 
with their fusees, and the other 
things belonging to them, cannon. 
balls, gun.powder, match, pikes, 
swords, lances, spears, halberts, 
mortars, petards, grenades, salt- 
petre, muskets, musket-balls, buck. ’ 
lers, helmets, breast-plates, coats 
of mail, and the like kind of arms, 
proper forarming soldiers; musket- 
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rests, belts, horses with their furni- 
ture, and all other warlike instru- 
ments whatever. These merchan- 
dizes which follow, shall not be 
reckoned amongst contraband or 
probibited goods ; that is to say, 
all sorts of cloths, and all other 
manufactures woven of any wool, 
flax, silk, cotton, or any other 
materials whatever, all kinds of 
wearing apparel, together with all 
species whereof they are used to be 
made; gold and silver, as well 
coined as uncoined, tin, iron, lat- 
ten, brass, copper, coals; as also 
wheat, barley, and oats, and any 
other kind of corn and pulse; to- 
bacco, and likewise all manner of 
spices, salted and smoked flesh, 
salted fish, cheese and butter, beer, 
oils, wines, sugar, and all sorts of 
salt; and in general, all provisions 
which serve for the sustenance of 
life ; furthermore all kinds of cot. 
tony hemp, flax, tar, pitch, ropes, 
sails, sail-cloths, anchors, or any 
part of anchors, also ship-masts, 
planks and wood of all kinds, and 
all things proper either for building 
or repairing ships, and all other 
goods whatever which have not 
been worked into the form of any 
instrument prepared for war by land 
or by sea, shall not be reputed con- 
traband, much less such as have 
been already wrought and made up 
for any other use; all which shall 
be wholly reckoned amongst free 
goods; as likewise all other mer- 
chandizes and things which are 
not comprehended, and particularly 
mentioned in the foregoing enu. 
meration of contraband goods; so 
that they may be transported and 
carried in the freest manner by 
the subjects to both parties, even 
to places belonging to an enemy, 
such towns or places being only 
Uz excepted 
