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dominion and profit. And so we do humbly conclude this point, 

 with advice, that all such licenses as shalbe granted, be rated accord- 

 ing to the tonne or burden of the vessells, so to be licensed. 



Touching that of the Wafting of Merchants strangers shippes 

 that shall passe through yo r Majesty's seas, we are cleere of opinion 

 that yo r M. ought to have a profit by it, seeing that they are 

 thereby preserved from oppression and ruine. But we are not of 

 opinion that this profit should arise by way of a generall Imposi- 

 tion vpon all that passe : for that wold, doubtlesse, draw a iust 

 complaint and clamor from yo r neighbour Princes and their subiects. 

 But that it should be taken of such as shall desire waftage, w ch yo r 

 M. may direct not to be denyed to any of what Christian nacion 

 soever that shall demande it, not being men-of-warre. 



And because it wilbe a difficult matter to expresse in any 

 Commission or Instructions a certain somme or duety to be taken 

 of every ship so wafted, for that som shippes are rich, others of 

 lesse value; som will require a short waftage, others a longer. 

 Therefore we are of opinion, that for the value, much is to be 

 left to the discretion of yo r Majesty's Generall and commanders, 

 and that som honest hable men may be employed to keepe bookes, 

 and to receave the moneyes of all those waftings w c ^ shall occurr, 



and be accomptable and answerable for the same. [5 Feb. 1636 . 

 Copy by Windebank.] 



APPENDIX K. 



(P. 389.) 



ABSTRACT OF THE THIRTY -SIX ARTICLES PROPOSED BY. 

 THE DUTCH TO ST JOHN AT THE HAGUE, 1651. 



State Papers. Foreign. Treaty Papers (Holland), No. 46. 1651. 



A BRIEFE Narrative of the Treatie at the Hague betweene the 

 hono ble Oliver S* John, Lord Chiefe Justice of the Court of 

 Cofnon Pleas, and Walter Strickland Esq. Embassado rs extra- 

 ordinary of the Parliament of the Cofhonwealth of England, to 

 the great Assembly of the States Generall of the United Pro- 

 vinces begun upon the 20th of March 1650 [1651] and continued 

 vntill the 20th of June 1651 and then broke of re infecta. 



A Drafte of the Treatie which is to be made and entred into with 

 the extraordinary Ambassado rs of the Republique of England. 



