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Item, Agreed, that, at the time of the deliverie of the instruments of Ratification, four Commissioners shall bee nominated on both sides to meet here at London, upon the eighteenth day of May next old style, who shall bee autheri∣zed and impowred, as also by these presents they are authorized and impowred to examin and determin all the losses & iniuries which ei∣ther side alleges to have sustained from the o∣ther since the yeer one thousand six hundred and eleven, unto the eighteenth day of May, 1652 old style, as well in the East. Indies, as in Groen∣land, Muscovy, Brazeel, or in any other place: the particulars of all which are to be delivered into the Commissioners nominated as above, before the said eighteenth day of May under this restriction, that after the said day presired no new allegations shall bee admitted. And if the above-said Commissioners shall not within three moneths space, to bee accounted from the said eighteenth day of May, come to an agree∣ment, concerning the differences aforesaid deli∣vered in writing and expressed in particular. That in such case the aforesaid differences shall be submitted, as by these presents they are sub∣mitted, to the judgement and arbitration of the Protestant Cantons of Swisserland, who by an Instrument for this purpose (the form of which is already agreed upon) shall bee desi∣red to take upon them that Arbitration, and ap∣point Page  311like Commissioners impowred and instructed to give final judgment thereup∣on within six moneths next following after the expiration of the three moneths a∣foresaid. And whatsoever the said Com∣missioners or the major part of them, shall award and determin within the said six mo∣neths, shall oblige both parties, and be per∣formed accordingly.