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their charters from all the foreigners for trading and buying 
pepper and buying other valuables, so shall ye trade with the 
English people and shall buy and sell. And the English people, 
if they desire protection in my country, whatever their desire 
may be, I approve of it? and if they desire to sail away from 
my country, I approve; let no one forbid them thus to sail. 
But if any one has avy claim upon them, or if they are indebted 
to anyone, let them not sail until they have paid or until the judge 
has decidea their cases; and when their cases are decided they 
may sail. Now as for this order which I command, for trading 
and buying and- selling with the valuables which they have 
brought to my country, let them no longer fear or suspect; and 
ye shall not take tithes from any of the merchants who are in 
their ships, nor from any of the English people. And as for all 
the English people who come to my country and anchor their 
ships in the sea of Acheen, and in Sumatra and in the countries 
subject to Acheen, if a storm comes down upon their ships, and 
they are afraid that their ships will be wrecked for the violence 
of the storm, should they desire to discharge all the ships’ cargo 
and request assistance from you, asking for small vessels and 
sampans to discharge all the valuables in the ships which are 
about to be wrecked for the violence of the storm, ye shall 
assist them to discharge their valuables as far as possible. 
And when their valuables reach the shore, ye shall restore the 
valuables to those that own them. If they voluntarily give 
you anything due to you for discharging the above-mentioned 
valuables, ye shall receive it. And if anyone of the English 
people shall die, and while he is sick unto death shall give an 
order to anyone to send his possessions and the possessions of 
the people whom he has brought, and shall order them to be 
delivered to his relatives and to the owners of the possessions, 
ye shall hold his Will valid. And if anyone of the English peo- 
ple shall die, his property shall go to some English merchant, 
or to some other merchant; the property shall be determined 
as belonging to the person, his associate in trade and prea 
and se'ling; ye shall give judgment according to the law of 
the country. And if any Englishmen go to law, their charges 
being one against the other or against some other person, ye 
shall give judginent according to the laws of the people of the 
country. 
