A. D. 1674. 573 



* a neutral port or place to a place in enmity with the otlicr party, or 



* from a place in enmity to a neutral place ; but alfo from a port or 

 ' place in enmity to a port or place in enmity with the other party, 



* whether the faid places belong to one and the fame prince or (late, or 

 ' to feveral princes and ftates, with whom the other party is in war : 

 ' and we declare that this is the true and genuine fenfe and meaning 



* of the faid articles : and we do promife that the faid declaration fliall 



* be ratified by his faid majefty and by the faid Hates-general *. 



Part of the fecret article of the foregoing treaty of peace is as fol- 

 lows, viz. ' neither of the faid parties fhall give leave, nor confent, that 



* their fubjeds or inhabitants flfall give any aid, favour, or counfel, di- 

 ' redly or indiredly, by land or fea, nor fliall furnifli, nor permit their 

 '-fubjeds or inhabitants to furnifli, any fhips, foldiers, feamen, viduals, 



* money, inib-uments of war, &c. to the enemies of either party.' 

 The old ill-judged affair of prohibiting new buildings in London was 



once more revived, an order of council being publiHied for profecuting 

 all fuch as had ereded houfes on new foundations in the fuburbs and 

 vicinity of London : by which, all that was probably intended, was to 

 bring fonie money into the impoveriflied and bankrupt exchequer. 



So vaft was our commerce with Holland at this time, that after a 

 great frofl:, in this year 1674, when the waters were open, there failed 

 out of the harbour of Rotterdam 300 fail of Englifh, Scottifli, and Irifli, 

 fliips, all at once, with an eaflerly wind. [Ker of Kerjland's Memoirs, 

 F. ii.] 



The Dutch Wefl-India company's exclufive grant now expiring, the 

 ftates-general renewed the fame, exclulive of all other Dutch inhabit- 

 ants, to trade to Africa and the Wefl-Indies, any otherwife than in the 

 name of that company, whofe limits were defined to be from the tropic 

 of Cancer to the ibuth latitude of ^^ degrees, including all the iflands 

 within thofe boundaries, both on or near the African and American 

 coafts. Provided, however, that if the Eaft-India company fliall oc- 

 cupy the iflands fituated within thofe limits between Africa and Ame- 

 rica, from Alcenfion fouthward, before this company fliall fo do, then 

 the Eafl-India company fliall have an exclufive patent for thofe iflands, 

 &c. 



And it feems, the Dutch Wefl-India company do to this day grant li- 

 cences to private adventurers to trade within thofe limits, from which 

 emoluments they are partly enabled to make a fmall dividend to the 

 partners. 



* This declaration has given rife to all the com- to protefl them from our cruifeis. The Britidi 



plaints of the Dutch, on account of our making court and the Dutch differ widely in their cxpla- 



•prize of their (hips laden with French property in nations of this explanatory declaration, which rC' 



the years 1757-8-9, which tliofe Dutch Ihips were quires a frcdi treaty to explain it. ^. 

 intended to convey fate to and frooi France, and 



