572. A, D, 1674. 



on much the fame tooting as in that of Breda in the year 1667 ; with 

 this advantage, however, on his fide, that by the loth article the ftates 

 agreed to pay our king 800,000 patacoons (being near L20o,ooo ftei'- 

 Jing) towards the expenfe of this war ; which money came very feafon- 

 ably to him, who had hiviflied away in a fhameful manner the greateft 

 part of the money given by parliament for the v/ar. 



By the fourth article it was ftipulated, that all Dutch fliips, whether 

 fliips of war or others, whether in fquadrons or fingle fliips, which fliall 

 happen to meet any fliips or veflels whatfoever belonging to the king 

 of Great Britain, whether ene or more, carrying that king's flag called 

 the jack, in any of the feas from Cape Finifl:erre to the middle point of 

 the land Van Staten in Norway, fliall ftrike their topfail, and take down 

 their flag, in the fame manner, and with the like teftimony of refpe^t, 

 as has been ufually paid at any time or place heretofore by the Dutch 

 Ihips to thofe of the king or his an-cefliors. 



V) And whereas tiie agreement of the year 1667, for the furrender 

 of the colony of Surinam by King Charles's governor thereof to the 

 flates-general, has occafioned many quarrels and difputes, and has con- 

 tributed greatly to the mifunderfl:anding lately arifen between the king 

 and the fl^ates, the ftates-general now fl;ipulate that thofe articles fliall be 

 fully executed ; and that the king may fend commiflloners to examine 

 the condition of his fubjeds remaining there ; and may fend thither 

 two or three fliips to bring away his fubjec1:s, with their eflfefts and 

 flaves ; and till then that they be treated equitably in the fale of their 

 lands, payment of debts, and barter of goods. , 



VI) ' All lands, ifiands, towns, forts, &c. taken on both fides fince 

 ■^ the commencement of this war, ihall be refl:ored by either party in 

 •' the fame condition they then were. 



IX) ' Within three months after the proclamatian of this treaty the 

 ' fl:ates-general agree to fend to London a number of coramiflioners 



* equal to thofe of the king, to treat of the freedom of navigation and 

 ' commerce, more efpecially in the Eafl;-Indies ; and in cafe they fliall 



* not agree within three months, then the difputes fliall be referred to 

 ' the arbitration of the queen-regent of Spain.' 



Done at Wefl:minfi:er, 9th of February [N. S.] 1674. 



Another marine treaty was concluded on the ifl; of December 1674 : 

 and, 



By an explanatory declaration of both the marine treaties above- 

 named, and by another, ligned by Sir William Temple on one fide, at 

 the Hague, and by the flates-deputies on the other, on the 30th of De- 

 cember 1675, it is declared, ' that the true meaning and intention of 

 ' the faid articles is, and ought to be, that Ihips and velTels belonging to 



* ,the fubjeds of either of the parties can and might, from the time that 

 ' the faid articles were concluded, not only pafs, traffic, and trade, from 



