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[illustration] seal of the CommonwealthBy the Lord Protector.
A Proclamation Of his Highness concerning a Cessation of all Acts of Hostility between the Com∣monwealth of England, and that of the United Provinces, and their respective people, and the restitution of all things taken and seized upon by either party after the fourth of this instant May.
OLIVER Lord Protector of the Com∣monwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereto belonging. Whereas the Commissi∣oners appointed by Vs to treat with the Am∣bassadors Extraordinary of the Vnited Pro∣vinces; and the said Ambassadors, by way of Explanation of the third of those Articles of Peace, lately concluded between this Com∣monwealth, and that of the Vnited Netherlands, and for removing all questions and differences which may arise thencefrom, Have agreed & con∣cluded the following Article, viz. That whereas in the third of those Articles of Peace, Union and Confe∣deration