A. D. 1660. 



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or plantations in thofe parts, and navigated as in the firfl claufe 

 above *.' ' 



IV) ' No goods or commodities of foreign growth, produdlion, or 

 manufadure, which fliall be brought into England, Ireland, Jerfey, or 

 Guerniey, &c, other thai:i in fliips built and navigated as aforefaid, 

 fhall be {hipped from any other place but the place of their growth, 

 producftlon, or manufafture, or from thole ports where they can only 

 be, or ufually have been, brought, under forfeiture of fliip and 

 goods -|-.' 



V) ' Such faked fifli, train-oil, and whale-fim, (as have been ufually 

 caught, &c. by the Englifh or Irifli) not caught, cured, &c. by Eng- 

 liHi or Irifh, nor imported in veilels truely Englifh, and navigate as 

 above fhall pay double aliens cuftoms.' 



VI) ' No goods or pro\ ifions fliall be carried coafl-wife, from one Eng- 

 lifl) port to another, in vt-fTels whereof any ftranger, not naturalized, is 

 owner, in whole or in part, and which flaall not be navigated as be- 

 fore.' 



VII) ' No goods of the growth, &c. of Ruflia, as alfo no mafl?, timber, 

 or boards, foreign fait, pitch, tar, rofin, hemp, flax, raifins, figs, prunes, 

 olive-oil, corn, lugar, por-afli, wines, vinegar, and ipirits, fhall be im- 

 ported in any fliips but fuch whereof the true owners are Englifli, and 

 navigated as aforefaid : nor any currants, or other goods, of the 

 Turks dominions, but in Engliih-built fliips, and navigated as afore- 

 faid ; excepting only fuch foreign Ihips as are of the built of that coun- 

 try of which the fald goods are the growth, &c. or of fuch port where 

 the forefaid goods can only be, or moft ufually are, firft lliipped for 

 tranfportation ; and whereof the mafter and three fourths of the mari- 

 ners at leal! are of the faid country or place.' 



VIII) ' To jjrevent the colouring or concealing of aliens goods, all 

 the foreign goods before-named, which fliall be henceforth im- 

 ported Into England in fliips not belonging to England, and not navi- 

 gated as aforefaid, fliall be deemed aliens goods, and ihall pay all llran- 

 gers cuftoms and port-dues.' 



IX) ' Fo prevent the like frauds In colouring the buying of foreign 

 fliips, no ix)relgn-built fhip fhall enjoy the privileges of one belonging 

 to England, till firft the owners make it appear that they are not aliens: 

 and they fhall fwear that they gave a valuable confideration (to be 

 then fpecified) for fuch fliip, and that no foreigner has any fliare 



* This claufe feciired the Eail-Indla, Guinea, 

 and Levant companies, and alf i the American co- 

 lonies, from foreign fhips. A. 



f So lately as about the year 1755, twelve 

 fhips trom Appcnradc in Denmark were guilty of 

 » breach of this claufe, i^y iiringing timber to 

 iuYerpouI, not of the growth of Denmark, and 



v/ere oblli'td to compound for their delinquency :_ 

 as Wire alio two otiicr fhips from the fame port- 

 next year for timber brought into L,eith. So ne- 

 cefTury is it for merchants to be acquainted with: 

 th,: mercantile l.uvs of the countries they ptO£o!e; 

 to trade to. A. 



