4o6 A. D. 1659, 



nance in each fliip ; and 4 other fhips of 100 to 120 tons each, carry- 

 ing 100 or 120 men, and 16 cannon in each fliip : and fuppUed with 

 all fuitable (lores by the fender, and with three months provilions ; but 

 afterwards, during the war, they fliall be fupplied, &c. by the party 

 whom they are fent to aflift. 



XIV) The king of Great Britain's fubjeds fhall not refort to the 

 ports of the king of Denmark prohibited by former treaties, without 

 the fpecial licence of his Danifli majefly afked and granted, unlefs com- 

 pelled to it by ftorm : in which laft cafe they fhall by no means trade 

 there. 



XV) Ships and merchandize wrecked on the coafts of either con- 

 tratfting party may be freely claimed by the proper owners ; and the na- 

 tives of thofc coafts fliall not injure nor obflruft them, but fliall rather 

 be ready to allift them, being paid for their trouble. 



XIX) And becaufe the illands of Orkney and of Shetland cannot 

 well be omitted to be mentioned in this treaty, it is now agreed, that, 

 during the lives of both kings, and the life of the longefl liver of them, 

 nothing fliall be moved or treated of concerning them ; faving always, 

 neverthelefs, the rights or pretenfions of their iWceflors. 



XX) Nothing in this treaty fliall derogate from former ones, unlefs 

 where exprefsly repealed by the prefent treaty. [F^iic'/a, P\ xx. p. 336.] 



King Charles being at York, on the 9th of April 1639, go^'^g ^^ ^^P~ 

 prefs the Scottifh rebellion, he found himfelf obliged, in order to quiet 

 the minds of his people, to publifli the following proclamation, for re- 

 voking many of his illegal grants and monopolies, viz. 



Whereas divers grants, licences, privileges, and commillions, had 

 been procured from him, on pretences for the common good and profit 

 of his fubjecfs, which fince, upon experience, have been found to be 

 prejudicial and inconvenient to his people, and in their execution have 

 been notorioufly abufed : he is now pleafed, of his mere grace and fa- 

 vour, with the advice of his privy council^ to declare thefe following to 

 be utterly void and revoked, viz. 



* A commiflion touching cottages and inmates.' This was granted 

 lafl year, to compound with all fuch as had built cottages, without four 

 acres of land annexed to each of them ; and with fuch as fuffered in- 

 mates, or more families than one, to refide in any of the faid cottages. 



* A, commiffion touching fcriveners and brokers. 



* For compounding with offenders touching tobacco,' 



i. e. fuch as fold it without the king's flamp. 

 ' For compounding with offenders for tranfportation 

 of butter beyond fea,' without his flamp and li- 

 cence. 



* For compounding v/itli oflenders for importing or 



ufing logwood. 



