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Six select Articles of Peace and Alliance be∣tween Charles the Second, King of Great Brettaign &c. and the States Gene∣rall of the Seaven United Provinces, taken out of the Treaty Concluded at Breda the 21. of July Old Stile, 1667.
III.
ALso, that all Offen••es, Injuries, Dammages, Losses, which His said Majesty and His Subjects, or the foresaid States General and their Subjects have on either side sustained during this Warr, or at any time whatsoever heretofore, upon what Cause or Pretence soever, be buried in Oblivion, and totally expunged out of Remembrance, as if no such things had ever past.
IV.
Moreover, that all Ships, with their Furniture and Merchandise, and all Moveables, which du∣ring this War, or at any time heretofore have come into the Power of either of the forementioned Parties or their Subjects, be and remain to the present Possessors, without any Compensation or Restitution; so as each one become and remain Proprietor and Possessor for ever of that which was so gotten, without any Controversion, or Exception of Place, Time, or Things.
V.
Moreover, That all Actions, Suits, and Pretensions, whatsoever they be or in what manner soever they have been restrained, circumscribed, defined or reserved in any Articles of Peace or Alliance already made, (and especially in the fifteenth Article of that Treaty which was Signed in the year 1662.) which His said Majesty and the said States General, or their Subjects, may or would prosecute or move against one another about such matter or things as have happened during this War, or in any former times as well before as after the foresaid Treaty of 1662, until the day of this present Alliance, be and remain void, obliterated and disannulled; As His said Majesty and the said States Generall shall declare, and they do hereby declare, That by vertue of these Presents, they will for ever totally renounce, even as hereby they do renounce, all such Actions, Suits and Pretensions for themselvs and their Successors, so as in regard of them nothing more may or ought ever to be urged on either side, and nothing to be moved thereupon hereafter.
VIII.
It is also Agreed, That under the foresaid Renunciation and Stipulation, all Letters whatsoever of Reprizal, Marq••e and Counter-Marque, both general and particular, and others of that kind, by vertue whereof any Hostility may be ex∣ercised for the future, ought also to be reckoned and comprehended; and by the Publick Authority of this Alliance they are inhibited and revoked. And if any persons of either Nation, after such Revocation, shall nevertheless, under pre∣tence or authority of such Letters or Commissions already revoked, design any new mischief, or act any Hostility, after the Peace is made, and the times specified in the seventh Article are elapsed; they are to be looked upon as disturbers of the Publick Peace, and punished according to the Law of Nations, besides an entire restitution of the thing taken, or full satisfaction of Damages, to which they shall be liable, notwithstanding any Clause whatsoever to the con∣trary, which may be inserted in the said Letters revoked as aforesaid.
XXIII.
That in case it happen during this Friendship, Confederacy and Alliance, any thing shall be done or attempted by any of the Subjects or inhabitants of either Party against this Treaty, or any part thereof, by Land, Sea, or Fresh-waters, That nevertheless this Amity and Alliance between the said Nations shall not thereby be broken or interrupted, but shall remain and continue in its full force; and that only those particular persons shall be punished, who have committed any thing contrary to this Treaty, by Land or Sea, or other Waters, in any part of Europe, or any places within the Straits, or in America, or upon the Coasts of Africa, or in any Lands, Islands, Seas, Creeks, Bays, Rivers, or in any places on this side the Cape of Good Hope, within Twelve Moneth space after Justice shall be demanded; And in all places whatsoever on the other side the Cape (as hath been abovesaid) within Eighteen Moneths next ensuing after demand of Justice shall be made in manner aforesaid. But in case the offenders against the Treaty do not appear, and submit them∣selvs to Judgement, and give satisfaction within the respective times above expressed, proportionable to the distance of the places, they shall be declared Enemies of both Parties, and their Estates, Goods, and Revenues whatsoever, shall be confiscated for due and full satisfaction of the injuries and wrongs by them offered; and their persons also, when they come within the Dominions of either Party, shall be liable unto such punishments as every one shall deserve for his respec∣tive offences.
XXXII.
It is also agreed, If at any time it happen (which God of his mercy forbid) that the Differences now composed between His said Majesty and the said States General, should fester, and break out again into open War, that then those Ships, Merchandise, or any kind of Moveables of either party, which shall be found to be and remain in the ports, and under the command of the adverse party on either side, shall not for all that be confiscated, or made obnoxious to any inconve∣nience; but the space of six moneths shall entirely be allowed to the Subjects and Inhabitants of either party, that they may have leisure to transport from thence the forementioned things, and any thing else that is theirs, whither they 〈◊〉〈◊〉 think fit, without any kind of Molestation.
Severall Arguments raised upon these Articles, and diverse objections thereupon answered in the 53. page hereafter following.