royal blazon or coat of arms At the Court at WHITEHALL The Twenty sixth of March 1684.  

Present  
The Kings most Excellent Majesty,  
Lord Keeper  
Lord Precedent  
Lord Privy Seal  
Duke of Ormond  
Duke of Beaufort  
Earl of Huntingdon  
Earl of Bridgewater  
Earl of Peterborrow  
Earl of Chesterfield  
Earl of Clarendon  
Earl of Craven  
Earl of Aylisbury  
Earl of Rochester  
Mr. Secretary Jenkins  
Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer.   
HIS Majesty being desirous that the Treaties between Him and the Neighbouring Princes and States, His Allies, be duly Observed and Executed, and in no wise misconstrued in this juncture of time, is pleased to Declare, That the Clause in the latter end of the Fifth Article of His late Royal Proclamation, bearing Date at Newmarket the Twelfth of this Month, (Purporting, That the Goods or Merchandizes of His Own Subjects found in Prize-Ships brought up to His Majesty Ports, shall upon due Proof, be taken out and Restored to the true Proprietors) is to be understood, only of the Goods or Merchandizes of His Majesty's Subjects, taken in the Ships of such of His Allies, as being in War with others, have in the Treaties now Subsisting between His Majesty and them, no such Clause o● Provision as makes Free-Goods to become Unfree, when Laden and Take● in Unfree Ships; But as to those of His Majesty's Allies who by Treaty with Him have Stipulated and Agreed, That whatsoever Goods or Merchandise shall be found Laden by His Majesty's Subjects, upon any Ship whatsoever belonging to those with whom such Allies are in Hostility, may be Confiscated; It is His Majesty's meaning, That the Goods or Merchandizes of His Own Subjects so taken and brought up into Port, be not taken out of any Prize-Ship, or Restored to the Proprietors; But be left in the Power and Possession of the Captor, as well as the proper Goods of those he is in Hostility with, that shall be taken in the same Ship; And this His Majesty Commands to be strictly observed by His Officers in the Sea Ports of His Kingdoms and Dominions, whom it may or shall in any way concern.  
PHI. LLOYD.   

LONDON, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill Deceased: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1683.