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III) The Catholic king yields to his Britannic majefty all his pretcn- 

 fions or demands in coniequence of the fliid afliento and annual fhip, as 

 well with regard to the articles already liquidated as to thofe which may 

 be either eafy or difficult to liquidate ; fo that no mention can ever be 

 made of them hereafter on either fide. 



IV) His Catholic majefty confents, that the Brrtifli fubjeds fhall not 

 be bound to pay higher or other duties, or upon other evaluations for 

 goods which they (hall carry into, or out of, the different ports of his Ca- 

 tholic majefty, than thofe paid on the fame goods in the time of King 

 Charles II of Spain, fettled by the cedulas and ordinances of that king 

 or his prcdecelTors. And though the favour or allowance called pie del 

 fardo be not founded upon any royal ordinance, neverthelefs, his Ca- 

 tholic majefty declares, that it (hall be obferved now, and for the future, 

 as an inviolable law : and all the above-mentioned duties fhall be exadf- 

 ed and levied, now and for the future, with the fime advantages and 

 favours to the faid fubjeds. 



V) His Catholic majefty allows the fubjeds of Britain to take and 

 gather fait in the ifland of Tortudos (in the Weft-Indies) without any 

 hinderance whatfoever ; as they did in the time of King Charles II. 



VI) He alfo confents that they fhall not pay anywhere higher or other 

 duties than thofe which his own fubjeds pay in the fame place. 



VII) His Catholic majefty grants, that they fliall enjoy all the rights, 

 privileges, franchifes, exemptions, and immunities whatfoever, which 

 they enjoyed before the laft war, by virtue of cedulas or royal ordinan- 

 ces, and by the articles of the treaty of peace and commerce made 

 at Madrid in the year 1667 ; and they fhall be treated in Spain in the 

 fame manner as the molt favoured nation ; and confcquently no nation 

 fliall pay lefs duties upon wool and other merchandizes which they fhall 

 bring into, or carry out of, Spain, by land *, than the faid fubjects 

 fliall pay upon the lame merchandizes, which they fliall bring in, or 

 carry out, by fea. And all the rights, privileges, franchifes, exemptions, 

 and immunities, which fliall be granted or permitted to any nation 

 whatever, fhall alio be grunted and permitted to the faid fubjeds : and 

 his Britannic majefty confents that the fame be granted and permitted 

 to the fubjeds of Spain ni liis Britannic majefty's kingdoms. 



VIII) His Catholic majefty promiles to ulc all poflible endeavours, on 

 his part, to abolifli all innovations for the future, which may have been 

 introduced into commerce. And his Britannic majefty likewile pro- 

 miles to ufe all poflible endeavours to abolilh all innovations, and to 

 forbear them for ilie future. 



IX) Their Britannic and Catholic majcfties confirm, by the prcient 

 treaty, the laft treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and all the other treaties there- 

 in confirmed, in all their articles and claules ; excepting thofe which 

 have been derogated from by the prefent treaty : as likewile the treaty 



* This claufc more cfpccially rcfpccls the French nation. A» 



