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By the Lord Protector.  
WHereas by the thirtieth Article of the Peace lately made and concluded between his Highness the Lord Protector of the commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Lords the state's General of the United Provinces, It is concluded and agreed, That four Commissioners shall be nominated on both sides to meet here at London, upon the eighteenth day of May one thousand six hundred fifty and four, Old Style, who shall be authorized to examine and determine all the Losses, and Injuries which either allege to have sustained from the other, since the year one thousand six hundred and eleven, unto the eighteenth of May one thousand six hundred fifty and two, as well in the East Indies, as in Greenland, Muscovy, Brazeel, or in any other place; the particulars of all which shall be delivered in to the said Commissioners before the said eighteenth of May one thousand six hundred fifty and four. And whereas in pursuance thereof Commissioners are respectively named, viz. John Exton, William Turner, Doctors of Law, William Thompson, and Thomas Kendal, Merchants, on the part of the English; And Adryan Van almond, Christian Van Rodenbure, Lodovick Howens, James Oysel, on the part of the people of the United Provinces, who not being able to meet so soon as the said eighteenth day of May, It was mutually agreed, That the said meeting should be deferred unto the thirtieth of the same month of May, and that the particulars of the said Demands on either part may be delivered in at any time before, or upon the thirtieth of May next, and that the same being delivered in before, or upon the said day, should be as effectual as if they had been exhibited upon the eighteenth day of May aforesaid. Which last Agreement his Highness hath Commanded by these presents to be made public, To the end all persons concerned may take notice thereof, and deliver in their Demands unto the Commissioners accordingly. The place of whose meeting is appointed to be at Guild-Hall upon the thirtieth of May aforesaid.  
Given at Whitehall the 24. of May, 1654.   

London, Printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the LORD PROTECTOR, MDCLIV.