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2. Because it appeareth that an especiall occasion of the mutuall 

 spoiles and acts of hostility executed by the said men of Warre 

 each upon other and sometimes upon his Ma^ 68 own Subjects, or 

 the Subjects of other Nations w ch are in Amity with the Soveraignes 

 of the Spoilers, ariseth from the opportunity w ch the said Men of 

 Warre have by continuing and abiding in havens, Sea-shoares or 

 Sea-Roades and other harbours of his Ma 1 ^ 68 Kingdomes, whence 

 they gett intelligence of ships and vessels outward and hitherward 

 bound, and accordingly assayle them, where it is most for their 

 advantage, to the great hindrance and interruption of free Com- 

 merce and Entercourse, His Ma*}' 68 Will and Pleasure is, That, for 

 the reasons aforesaid, noe shipps of Warre, belonging either to the 

 K. of Spaine, or any his Subjects, or to the said United Provinces, 

 or any of their Subjects shall be permitted or allowed to come, 

 enter, repaire, or arrive in or to any of his Ma^ 68 Towns, Citties, 

 Sea- Shores, Havens, Harbours, or Sea roades, whatsoever, or there 

 to abide and continue, except they happen to be constrained either 

 by force of Tempest, or buying of Victualls, or other things, or 

 for repairing of shipping, so that they doe no hostile act in the 

 said Places, but demeane themselves honestly and quietly as it 

 becometh Confederates and friends, and so as they stay and remaine 

 not in and about the said Ports any longer then shall be needfull 

 for reparation, and Provision of necessaryes. 



3. Albeit his Ma*y doth justly challenge Soveraignety and property 

 in all those his Seas farre beyond the limits hereafter to be 

 described and might with like Justice require from all persons using 

 those his seas a forbearance fro Injuryes and all hostile actions, 

 yet (in and through all the same) sodenly to tye the hands of his 

 friends and Allyes in open hostility each with other is not for some 

 reasons held convenient at this time. And therefore to avoyde 

 all difficulty es and Colour of Controversies that may be stirred con- 

 cerning the bounds and extent wherein his Maty now professeth to 

 yeild Peace and Security to his friends and neighbours, desiring the 

 same, his Ma*y purposeth to send Plotts of those limits to be 

 affixed in the most publique places of his chiefest Sea-Towns and 

 harbours. 



4. Because it is very like, that during the continuance of the 

 Warre betweene the K. of Spaine, and the United Provinces as is 

 aforesaid, each Party may gaine and acquire fro other in places out 

 of the aforesaid Limitts, ships, and goods, His Ma*y doth declare, 

 That as he will afford to the conquering Partyes, free passage 

 through his Seas for themselves, their ships and prizes, and like free 

 accesse and repaire to all his Ports and harbours, and safe aboad and 

 continuance in the same during their occasions, so his Ma*y shall 

 not understand it to be any breach of his Peace, or violation of 

 that Security w ch he intendeth to mainteine, if the enemyes of the 



