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elfe without paying the new impoft, unlefs it be to France, after Spain 

 fliall have adjufted her differences with that crown. 



VI) There (hall be no interruption of commerce in either country 

 on account of difference in rehgion. 



VII) The effeds of perfons dying in either country fhall be carefully 

 kept for their executors or adminiftrators. 



VIII) Six months time fhall be allowed, in cafe of a rupture, for 

 meixhants in either country to remove their effeds. 



IX) The (hips of neither conrrading party fliall be detained in the 

 ports of the other country, nor be made ufe of for war, without their 

 refpedive fovereign's confent. [Fcedera, V. xvi, p. 579.] 



In confequence of this treaty King James incorporated a company of 

 merchants for an exclufive trade to Spain and Portugal ; but this mono- 

 poly being found to be very prejudicial to commerce, was in the follow- 

 ing year fo ftrongly remonflrated againfl b)^ the houfe of commons, that 

 the patent was revoked, and the trade to thofe countries left free to all 

 as before, by ad of parliament. [3 Jac. /, c. 6.] 



The king gave licence to Sir Edward Michelborne and his aflbciates, 

 to go with their fliips on the difcovery of Cathaia, China, Japan, Corea, 

 and Cambaya, and the ifles thereto belonging, and to trade with the faid 

 countries and people (not as yet frequented and traded unto by any of 

 our fubjeds or oeople) without interruption, any reflraint, grant, or 

 charter to the contrary notwithflanding. {Fcedera, V. \.v\, p. 582] This 

 licence was diredly contradidory to the following claufe in Queen Eli- 

 zabeth's charter of incorporation to the Eaft-India company, viz. ' None 



* of the queen's ftibjeds but the company, their fervants or afligns, fliali 



* refort to India, without being licenced by the company, upon pain of 

 ' forfeiting fliips, cargoes,' &.c. Yet he and Captain John Davis went 

 this year with one fliip and a pinnace to Bantam, but (according to Pur- 

 chas) performed nothing memorable. 



The Englifli Eafl:-India company fent out four fliips under Sir Henry 

 Middleton. At Bantam he loaded two fliips with pepper, going with 

 the other two to the ifles of Banda, famous tor the trade of nutmeg and 

 mace. At Amboyna, fo eminent for cloves, he loaded a good quantity ; 

 and there he found the Dutch at war with the Portuguefe about the fo- 

 vereignty of that important ifland. In their return homeward one of 

 their fliips was lofl;, but the other three got fafe home in the year 1606. 



The following record fliews the very great difference of times and 

 feafons then and now. Its title is. Cotnmijfio pro tobacco, wherein King 

 James fets forth, that whereas tobacco being a drug of late years found 

 out, and brought from foreign parts in fmall quantities, was taken and 

 ufed by the better fort, both then and now, only as phyfic, to preferve 

 health, but is now at this day, through evil cuftom and the toleration 

 thereof, exceflively taken bv a number of riotous and diforderly perfons 

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