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Creekes, or other places of our Dominion, or so neere to any of 

 our sayd Ports or Hauens, as may be reasonably construed to bee 

 within that Title. Limit, or Precinct, there shall be no force, 

 violence, surprise, or offence suffered to be done either from Man 

 of warre to Man of warre, or Man of warre to Merchant, or Merchant 

 to Merchant of either party, but that all of what Nation soeuer, 

 so long as they shall bee within those our Ports and places of our 

 Jurisdiction, or where our Officers may prohibite violence, shall 

 bee vnderstood to be under our protection to bee ordered by course 

 of Justice, and be at peace each Avith other. 



And whereas some of the Men of warre of ech side haue vsed 

 of late, and it is like will vse in time to come, though not to 

 come within our Ports, because there they know wee can restraine 

 violence, yet to houer and hang about the skirts of our Ports, 

 somewhat to Seaboard, but yet so neere our coastes and the entrie 

 of our Harbours, as in reason is to be construed to be within the 

 extent of the same, and there to await the Merchant of the aduerse 

 part, and doe seaze and take them at their going out of our Ports, 

 which is all one in a manner, as if they tooke them within our 

 Port, and will bee no lesse hinderance to the trade of Merchants : 

 Our pleasure therefore and commaundement is to all our Officers and 

 Subiects by Sea and Land, That they shall prohibite, as much as in 

 them lyeth, all such houering of Men of warre of either side, so 

 neere the entrie of any of our Hauens or our Coastes, And that 

 they shall rescue and succour all Merchants, and others that shall 

 fall within the danger of any such as shall await our Coastes in so 

 neere places to the hinderance of Trade and Traffique outward and 

 homeward from and to our Kingdomes. And for the better in- 

 structions of our Officers in the execution of these two Articles, 

 Wee haue caused to be sent to them plats of those Limits, within 

 which we are resolued that these Orders shalbe obserued. 



And where it hath happened, and is like to doe often, that a 

 Ship of warre of the one side may come into some of our Ports, 

 where there shall bee a Merchant of the other side : In such case, 

 for the benefit and preseruation of the lawfull Trade of Merchants, 

 Our pleasure is, That all Merchants Ships, if they will require it, 

 shall bee suffered to depart out of the sayd Port, two or three 

 tydes before the Man of warre, to the intent that the Merchant 

 may bee free from the pursuite of his aduersary. And if it so 

 happen, that any Ship or Ships of warre of the one side, doe finde 

 any Ship or Ships of warre of the other side in any our Ports or 

 Roades aforesayd ; Like as our pleasure is that during their abode 

 there, all violence be forborne : So doe wee likewise commaunde 

 our sayd Officers and Subiects both on Sea and Land, That the 

 Ship of warre which came in first, bee suffered to depart a Tyde 

 or two before the other which came in last, And that for so long 



