DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   royal blazon or coat of arms  
By the Lords Justices, A PROCLAMATION For Publishing the Peace between His Majesty and the French King.  


Tho. Cantuar.  
J. Summer,  
C. Sunderland,  
Dorset▪  
Romney,  
Oxford▪    
Whereas a Peace hath been Treated and Concluded, at His Majesty's Royal Palace at Reswick, the Tenth Day of September last, between His Majesty and the French King, and the Ratifications thereof hath been since Exchanged, in Conformity thereunto, We have thought fit hereby to Command, that the same be Published throughout all His Majesty's Dominions. And We do hereby Declare. That all Ships, Merchandizes, and other Movable Goods whatsoever, which have been, or shall be taken from the Subjects of the French King, after the two and twentieth of September last in the British and North Seas: After the Two and twentieth of this instant October from the said British and North Seas as far as the Cape St. Vincent; After the Ninteenth of November next ensuing, beyond the said Cape St. Vincent on this side the Aequinoctial Line or Aequator, as well in the Ocean and Mediterranean Seas, as elsewhere; And lastly, after the Tenth of March next ensuing, beyond the said Line throughout the whole World, without any Exception or Distinction of Time or Place, and without any form of Process, shall immediately, and without Damnage, be Restored to the Owner according to the said Treaty. And hereof all His Majesty's Subjects are hereby Required to take Notice, and to Conform themselves hereunto accordingly.  
Given at the Court at Whitehall the Eighteen day of October, 1697. In the Ninth Year of His Majesty's Reign.  
God save the KING.   

Printed at London, and reprinted at Edinburgh, By the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His Most Excellent Majesty, 1697.