A PLACAT Of the High and Mighty Lords the State's General of the United Netherlands; Containing a sharp Prohibition to the Inhabitants of these Lands, and also concerning the Navigation and Commerce of the Neutrals to the Havens of France and England, and also Goods of Contrabande, and Assurances of Ships and Goods belonging to the Subjects of the Kings of France and Great Britain. THe State's General of the United Netherlands, to all those who shall see or hear read these Presents, Greeting, Do make it known that since the Kings of France and Great Britain have found good to declare and begin a War against us, contrary to all right and reason, we are therefore necessitated according to the Law of Nature and the Right of Nations, to take up Arms, as well for the necessary Resistance of the aforesaid hostile proceed, as for Redress and Reparation of the damages and losses thereby unjustly sustained; and consequently on our side likewise to enter into an open Rupture against the aforesaid Kings; And further we to the aforesaid end, and especially for so much as in us is, to prevent all further mischief from that side, are obliged and holden according to our power, and as far as it may be without prejudice to our Allies, Friends, and Neutrals, according to the Law of Nations, to intercept and hinder the aforesaid Kings from the Commodities and Provisions with which they might be able to do further injury to the State of these Lands, and the good Inhabitants of the same. SO IT is that we have found good, and judge it necessary to Ordain, and sharply to forbid all those who are under our Obedience, and friendly to advertise and warn all other Nations who are in Alliance, Friendship or Neutrality with this State: And we do Ordain, forbidden, and warn respectively by these, I. FIrst, That from this time forward none of the Subjects of these Lands shall transport out of these Lands, or out of any other Lands, Kingdoms, Places or Towns, carry or transport directly or indirectly to any Havens, Islands, Towns or Places of France, England, Scotland or Ireland, or others under the Obedience of the aforesaid Kings of France and Great Britain, any Wares, Goods or Merchandise of what sort, quality, or nature the same may be, none excepted; or also to hold in any manner any correspondence and communion with the Inhabitants of France and England aforesaid, or those that belong to them, by Letter or otherwise tending to the Prejudice of these States; and also that no man in the World, although Stranger and no Inhabitant of these Lands shall without these Lands transgress that which is aforesaid, upon pain to be punished therefore, without any connivance, as an Enemy of these States, and further upon the Forfeiture of all the Ships and Goods which we can find, that have been designed to be conveyed to France or England aforesaid, or other Places aforesaid, or the value thereof, in case they be already carried out, or cannot otherwise be come at. II. And whereas according to the duty of all lawful Superiors, we are obliged to protect and defend our good Inhabitants and Subjects with all possible means against Force and Oppression, we cannot according to common Right and the Practice of all Nations, be obliged to suffer that the aforesaid Kings, or their Subjects should be supplied by any one in the world with such Necessaries and Materials wherewith they may apparently be enabled to offend us and our Inhabitants; therefore we would by these have all our Allies, Friends and Neutrals, and generally all People and Nations to be advertised, and seriously entreated and warned, that during the present Differences between this State, and the aforesaid Kings of France and Great Britain, that they will not send out, carry, or transport from any Lands, Kingdoms, Places or Towns, directly or indirectly to any Havens, Towns or Places of France, England, Scotland or Ireland, or others under the obedience of the said Kings. any Ammunition of War, or other Materials useful to the setting out of Ships, of what name, sort, quality, condition or nature, soever they may be, none excepted, because our meaning is to take and confisque for good Prize, the aforesaid Materials for War, and Ships, which shall be found to be laden to be carried thither contrary to this our Advertisement and Ordinance. III. And to prevent the aforesaid Transportation with the better security, and to provide in special that no Victuals, Materials for War or Ships may be carried out of these Provinces under false pretences: So shall no man from henceforward lad in these Lands, or cause to be shipped, any kind of Victuals, or any of the aforesaid Materials, to be carried or transported to any of the Lands, Towns, or Places of the Allies, Friends or Neutrals of this State, without having first obtained the special consent of the Court of Admiralty; in whose District, such Lading or Shipping shall be done, and over and above the payment of the Lands Duty, shall have put in sufficient Caution of twice the Value of the Goods to be transported, that they shall be carried and unladen in no other place than in the Kingdoms, Havens, Towns and Places of the aforesaid Friends, and in no manner directly or indirectly, at any Places of France, England, Scotland, and Ireland, or others under the obedience of the aforesaid Kings, and that within a certain convenient and sufficient time to be expressed in the Passport, according to the Condition and Distance of the Places, to deliver over Certificate, or other sufficient Evidence to make it appear that all the aforesaid Victuals or Materials have been unladen and landed in the whole at the Place for which they were declared and entered to be carried to, or in case of faileur, and that the aforesaid expressed time shall be passed, the Surety for the aforesaid double value of the exported Victuals or Materials of War and Shipping shall be presently taken in Execution for the Sums they were taxed and valued at, at the Time of giving the Caution. iv Further we do order all our Inhabitants and Subjects, and do advertise and warn all our Allies, Friends or Neutrals, and generally all People and Nations that will sail from this State to any Kingdoms, Lands, Towns or Places lying East, West, or Northward, or would come from thence hither to keep the Open Sea, because we understand and declare by these that all the Ships that shall be found upon the Coast of France, England, Scotland, or Ireland, or other Lands, Islands, or Places under the Obedience of the Kings of France and Great Britain, and especially within the Banks and shallow Waters along their Coasts; and whereas they cannot but be suspected to have designed something against this our Ordinance and Advertisement, therefore if they shall be laden either in whole or part with any Ammunition of War, or Materials for Ships, they shall be taken by the Captains and Officers of War and Privateers of these Lands, and sent in to be sentenced by the Lords of the Admiralty in such manner as is expressed in the second Article, unless the aforesaid Ship were forced thither by Storm or other great Necessity; and shall be so judged by the Lords of the Admiralty from the Circumstances which shall be made to appear to them. V And further the better to prevent and defend against all deceit which may be designed against this Ordinance and Advertency; We charge and command by these all Skippers and Merchants being Inhabitants of these Lands, or who sail their Ships and Goods from these Lands; and we advertise and warn all others of what Nation soever they be, or from whencesoever they shall come, not to lad or cause to be laden any Goods, Wares and Merchandise in their Ships, or to carry or cause them to be carried otherwise than with one sort of Sea-Brief, due Passport, full Charter-party, Bill of Lading, Freight-Advice, and Convoy-Brief, or such other Dispatches as are required to the Lading and Exporting of the same, according to the Laws and Placats of the places, where the Goods, Wares, and Merchandise shall be laden; because we shall hold for forfeited, and do from this time forward declare for good Prize all the Ships together with the Goods, Wares, and Merchandise laden in them, in which there shall be found more than one Sea-Brief, Charter-party, Double Freight-Briefs, Bills of Lading or other Dispatches, and likewise all the Ships and Goods which shall not be furnished as they ought with the aforesaid required Dispatches. VI To the end that all the Officers and Commanders of the Ships of War, as well of the States as of particulars set out by our Authority, may be assured that the Ships which they shall meet at Sea may be intended for none of the aforesaid Havens, Towns and Places of France, England, Scotland and Ireland, or others under the obedience of the aforesaid Kings of France and Great Britain, with Ammunition of War or Materials for Shipping, the aforesaid Captains may seize all Ships in Sea of whom they have any Suspicion, and require of them their Sea-Briefs, Passports, Charter-parties, and Bills of Lading; for evidence to what Place the Ship belongs, where and at what Place the Lading was made, whereof the Lading consists, and at what Place it was to be unladen; which having been shown them, and it being found that the aforesaid Ships were not intended with any Materials of War or Shipping for any Haven or Place under the Command of the aforesaid Kings of France or Great Britain, they shall let the said Ships pass free without hindrance; but if the contrary shall be found by the dispatches, or otherwise; they shall bring up such Ships, with their Lading, in sure Custody, and take into their hands, all the Dispatches they found in the said Ships, and which shall be shown them, & shall cause to be put in writing, in the best form; also what the Ships and Seamen shall have at that time declared, both in regard of the intended Voyage, and also concerning the condition of the Ship, and Lading; and shall cause the Ships to sign it, that it may be sent up, and delivered over, together with the aforesaid dispatches found; and the Ship, and her Lading, to the Lords of that Admiralty from whence the taker was set forth. VII. Further it is also our meaning, that all the penalties here before decreed, shall take effect, and be executed against our Inhabitants Offenders, whether they be Merchants, Shippers or others, whoever they may be, with Confiscation of the Ships, and the Goods laden in them; or a part of them in the case afore recited, or otherwise, if they be not to be come at; with a pecuniary Fine to the value of them; each in their respect; in case of their return into these Lands: or, if otherwise the opportunity shall happen, that it shall be understood, and made appear, that they have acted contrary to this our Advertisement, and Order, in any point, they shall be punished, as if they had been taken in the fact, and brought in from the Sea, by the aforesaid Ships of War; or otherwise arrested, and taken here at Land, by other of the Land Officers. VIII. And to the end, that no just reason of Complaint may be given to any Kings, Republics, Princes, Potentates, or Towns, in alliance with these States, by the Execution of this our Ordinance, and Advertisement; We do charge and command very expressly by these, all our chief, and other Officers at Sea, as well of Ships of War of the State; as of particular Ships set out for War by our direction, to regulate themselves punctually, according to the Obligations, and Treaties concerning this thing, which are already made, or shall be made by us, with other Kings, Republics, Princes, Potentates, and Towns; ordering to that purpose, our Lords of the Admiralty particularly to advertise, and instruct, as they ought to do, all the Captains of War thereof, that do sail out their respective Districts. IX. The Judicature of the Transgression of this our Ordinance, shall belong to the Court of Admiralty, in whose District the Offence shall be discovered, or from whence the Captain that took the Ship in Sea did set forth. X. But in case the said Transgressor's shall not be found in the fact, but may afterwards be accused thereof, than the Cognisance thereof shall belong to the Lords of the Admiralty, or the ordinary Judges; before which the Suit shall be first commenced; and to the end that all the Officers, and also all others, who lay the welfare of this State to heart, and are enemies to such Contraventions, may the more actually endeavour, that this Ordinance may every where, and by every one be punctually observed, and the Offenders punished according to the Contents hereof to the example of others; all the Moneys that shall come to be raised by Confiscation or otherwise out of this our Ordinance; shall be applied as usually all Fines, Mulcts, and Confiscations, by the Placats of their respective Provinces of these United Netherlands; are applied and distributed; to wit, one third part to the profit of the taker, or Informer; whether he be a sworn Officer of the Land, or not; one third part to the profit of the Officer, who shall make the Challenge and Execution; and the remaining third part to the profit of the Public. XI. But what concerns the Ships and Goods, which shall be taken at Sea, by any of the Ships of War of this State, or by any particulars, with Commission of Reprisal, and by them brought up, upon account of Transgression against this our Ordinance, and Advertisement; and upon the Prosecution, Confiscated, and declared good Prize, by the Lords of the Admiralty, the sharing of that shall be according to the Instructions, Placats and Ordinances thereof, heretofore made, or to be made. XII. To the end that all Ships, and Goods, which, for the Offences committed against these our Ordinances and Advertisements, shall be taken, kept and sent up, may be duly delivered over into the hands of the said Lords of the Admiralty, We do by these very expressly command, that all the Takers of the same, and all others whom it may concern, shall regulate themselves precisely, according to our Placat of Decemb. 1, 1640. made against the disorderly plundering and taking of Ships, with warning, that the Penalties established by the said Placat, shall be surely executed against all those who shall have attempted any thing contrary to this Prohibition. XIII. And to the end that we may prevent on the one side, that the loss which must fall upon the Offenders against this Ordinanee, by the Confiscation of their Ships, and Goods, may not come, by means of assurance, to redound to the loss of any the Inhabitants of these Provinces; and that on the other side, the faculty of the French and English Navigation and Commerce may, as much as possible, be disturbed. So it is, that we do very expressly ordain by these, not only that none of the Inhabitants aforesaid shall further any Goods, or Ships, belonging to the Subjects of the aforesaid Kings of France and Great Britain, nor assure directly or indirectly, by themselves or any other, either within these Lands or without, any Ships, and Goods going or freighted to any Haven, Towns, or Places of France and England, Scotland, Ireland, or others, under the Obedience of the aforesaid Kings, or coming from the said Havens, Towns, or Places; nor shall they give or take any Ranversals, thereby to make this our Placat Illusory, whether it be directly or indirectly, or under what pretence soever it shall be done, under the penalty that there shall be forfeited such sum as shall be assured by the Assurers; and that the same shall take place, and full effect, as well in regard of making the assurance, as of giving the Ranversal to be applied, and executed as aforesaid; and the Officers that shall be found to have been negligent therein, shall be arbitrarily punished, both by being deprived of their Service or otherwise, as shall be found to belong to the condition of the offence. And to the end that no man may pretend hereafter ignorance hereof; We desire, and entreat the Lords, the States, the Committee of Council, the deputed States of the respective Provinces of Guelderland, and the Earldom of Zutphen, Holland, and West- Friezland, Zealand, Utvitcht, Friezland, Overyssell, together with the Towns of Groningen, and Ommeland and all other Justices, and Officers of the same; That they forthwith every where make known this our Ordinance, by publishing and affixing it in all places where it shall be needful, and where usually such publication and affixing is done; We charge, and command further the Lords of the Admiralty, the Advocate fischal, together with the Admirals, Vice-admirals', Captains, Officers, and Commanders; as also the Commissaries, and Searchers, as well in the Seaports, as elsewhere, to observe, and cause to be observed, this our Ordinance, proceeding and causing proceeding to be made against the Offenders of the same, without connivance, favour, dissimulation, or collusion; for we have found this to be needful for the Service of the Land. This done, established, renewed, and exemplified in the Assembly of the aforenamed State's General, in the Hague the 14th. of April 1672. attested J. Van Gent, Vt. under-written by the Order of the same, signed Gasp. Fagel, upon the space was impressed a Seal of their High and Mightiness upon a red Wafer covered with a jaged Paper. PLACCAET, Van de Hooge Mogende Heeren Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, houdende scherp verboodt jegens de Ingesetenen der felver Landen; end voorts raeckende de Navigatie end Commercie van de Neutralen op de Havenen van Vankrijck end Engelandt; als meed de Waren van contraband, end de Asseurantien van Schepen end Goederen de Subjecten van de Koningen van Vranckeriick end van Groot Britannien toe-behoor-ende. DE Staten Generael der Vereenigde Nederlanden, Allen den geenen die dese jegenwoordige sullen sten oft hooren leesen, Saluyt. done te weren, Dat nademael de Koningen van Vrankriick end van Groot Brittaunien goedt gevonden hebben on's buyten alle recht en redenen den Oorlg te verklaren en aen te done: Why derhalven genootsaeckt ziin geworden, naer de Wet der nature, end it recht der Volckeren, de Wapenen aen te nemen, so tot afgeperste teghenstant van de voorsz vyandtlijcke procedurens, als tot redress end reparatie van de verongelijckingen en schaden daer door onrechtvaerdeleck geleden, end dien volgende van onser zyde meed tegens hoogstgemelte Koningen te treden in openbare rapture. End nademael Why ten voorsz eind, end well voornamentlick am so veel in On's , alle verdere of breuck van die zyde voor te komen, verobligeert en gehonden ziin, naer On's bermogen, end so berre het buyten verongelijckinge van onse Geallieerden, Vrunden end Neutralen, naer it Volckeren recht, geschieden kan, hoogst-ghemelte Koningen te benemen end te verhinderen de commoditeyten end behoeften, daer meed de self den Staet deser Landen, end de goede Ingesetenen van dien verder of breuck soude konen doen. SO IST, Dat Why goetgevonden end noodich geacht hebben, allen den geenen die onder onse gehoorsaemheydt ziin staende, te ordonneren, end well scherpelick te verbieden, oock in it urundtlick 't adverteren end te waerschouwen alle andere Natien met desen Staet in verbondt, urundtschap oft neutraliteyt staende, gelijck Why ordonnerens, verbieden, end waerschouwen respective by desen. I. EErstelick, dat van nu voortaen niemant van d' Ingesetenen deser Landen hem sal hebben te vervorderen vyt dese Landen, of oock vyt eenige andere Landen, Koningriicken, Plaetsen oft Steden te vervoeren, oft transporterens, directelick oft indirectelick, na eenige Havenen, Eylanden, Steden oft Plaetsen van Vranckrijck, Engelandt, Schetlant oft Yerlandt, oft anderens, onder de gehoorsaemhendt van de meer-hoogst-gem: Koningen van Vrankrijck en Groot Brittannien staende, eenige Waren, Goederen oft Koopmanscoppen, van wat soorte, qualiteyt oft nature de self oock sudden mogen wesen, geene vytgesondert, oft oock eenige correspondentie end gemeenschap met d' Inwoonderen van Vranckriick end Engelandt voornoempt, oft hare onderhoorigen, door Brieven oft andersints, streckende tot nadeel van desen Staet, te houden, in eeniger manieren. Dat oock niemant ter Werelt, all ho well e'en Vreemdelingh, end geen Ingesetenen deser Landen zijnde, hem it geene voorsz is, vyt dese Landen sal hebben t'onderwinden, op poene van daer over als Vnanden van den Staet, sunder eenige conniventie ghestraft te word, end voorts open verbeurte van alle de Schepen end Goederen, die men bevinden sal, dat gepoocht word naer Vranckrijck oft Engelandt voornoemt, oft andere Plaetsen als vooren, bervoert de word, oft de waerde van dien, by so verre de self albereydts vytgevoert, oft andersints niet te bekomen sullen wesen. II. End nademael Why vaer de plicht van alle wettige Oderheden, als schuldigh ziinde, hare goede Ingesetenen end Onderdanen, met alle moghelicke middelen voor gheweldt end overlast te behoeden, end te beschermen, niet en konnen oock volgens het gemeyne recht, end de practijcque van alle Volckeren, niet gehouden zyn te ghedogen, dat de hooghstgedachte Koningen oft haer Subjecten, van yemandt ter Wereldt werden gesuppediteert soodanighe behoeften van Materialen, daer meed de self evidentelick soude werden ghesterckt, omme on's, end onse goede Ingesetenen te beledigen, So willen Why by desen allen Onse Geallieerden, Vrunden end Neutralen, end generalick alle Volckeren end Natien gheadverteert, end well ernstigh versoeht end vermaendt hebben, haer niet te willen vervorderen, geduyrende de jegenwoordige differenten tusschen desen Staet end de hooghst-ghedachte Koningen van Vranckrijck end Groot Brittannien opgeresen, te voeren oft te transporteren vyt eenige Landen, Koningrijcken, Plaetsen of Steden, directelick oft indirectelick, na eenige Havenen, Steden oft Plaetsen van Vranckrijck, Engelandt, Schotlandt oft Yerlandt, oft anderens, onder it gebiedt van de meer-hooghstgemelte Coningen staende, eenige Munitie van Oorloge, oft eenige Materialen, dienende tot vytrustinge van Schepen, ho die genaemt, van wat soorte, qualiteyt, conditie oft nature die oock souden mogen ziin, geenige van de self vytghesondert, alsoo Why ghemeynt ziin voor goeden prinse end verbeurt te houden de voorsz Oorlogh end Scheeps-behoeften, die contrary dese onse advertentie en ordonnantie bevonden sullen werden geladen te ziin, am derwaerts gevoert te word. III. End omme de voorsz toevoer des te met seeckerheydt te beletten, end insonderheydt te voorsien, dat vyt dese Provincien, onder valsche pretexten geen toevoer als boven van levens middelen, Oorlogh oft Scheeps-behoeften en kome te geschieden: Soo en sal niemandt voortaen hire te Land moghen laden, oft done schepen eenigerhande Viures, oft eenige van de voorsz behoeften, omme na eenige Landen, Steden, oft Plaetsen van de Geallieerden, Vrunden oft Neutralen van desen Staet getransporteert, oft vervoert te word, sunder daer toe alvooren te hebben bekomen speciael consent van de Raden ter Admiraliteyt, in welckers districte soodanige lading oft inschepinge geschieden sal; end boven the betalinge van sh' Landts gerechtigheden, de sullen hebben gesteldt suffisante cautie voor tweemael de waerde van de vyt te voeren Goederen, dat die op geen andere, als op der voorschreve Vrunden Rijcken, Havenen, Steden end Plaetsen, end geensints directelick of indirectelick, op eenige Plaetsen van Vranckrijck, Engelandt, Schotlandt, Yerlandt, oft anderens onder it gebiedt van de hooghst-ghemelte Coningen ziinde, sullen word gevoert, end gelost, end dat binnen seeckeren tijdt in het daer toe te veerleenen Passport, na gelegentheydt end distantie van de plaetsen, te expresseren, behoorlick end den Rechten ghenoegh ziinde, by over te leveren Certificatien, oft andere ghenoeghsame bewysen, sullen done blijcken that alle de voorsz Viures oft behoeften in it geheel, ter plaetses daer op die verklaerdt end aenge given zijn, vervoert te sullen word, gelost end aen Landt opgeslagen sullen wesen, oft that by gebreecke van dien, end den voorsz ge-expresseerden tijdt overstreecken zijnde, de Cautionaris voor de voorsz dubbelde waerde van de vytghevoerde Viures, oft Oorlogh end Scheeps-behoeften sulcks als die ten tide van de te stellen cautie ghetaxeert end ghewaerdeert sullen ziin, aenstondts ge-executeert sal word. iv Ordonneren voorts allen onsen Inghesetenen end Onderdanen, adverteren end vermanen allen onsen Geallieerden, Vrunden oft Neutralen, end generalick alle Volckeren end Natien, willende varen na eenige Kijcken, Landen, Steden oft Plaetsen van desen Staet, host, West oft Noordtwaerts gelegen, oft die van daer herwaerts aen sudden willen komen, te kiesen end te houden de ruyme Zée, alsoo Why verstaen end verklaren by desen, that alle Schepen die op de Kusten van Vranckrijck, Engelandt, Schotlandt, oft Yerlandt, oft andere Landen, Eylanden, end Plaetsen, onder it gebiedt van de hoogstgemelte Koningen van Vrankrijck end van Groot Brittannien zijnde, end voornamentlick binnen de Bancken end ondiepten langhs de self gelegen, gevonden sullen word, end die alsoo niet buyten suspitie sullen zijn van tegens dese onse Ordonnantie end advertentie yet voor te hebben, so wannéer die in it gheheel oft ten devil met eenige Ammunitie van Oorloge oft Scheeps-behoeften geladen sullen ziin, by de Capiteynen end andere Officieren van Oorloge, oock Commissie-vaerders deser Landen aengheaelt, end opghesonden sullen word, omme daer over by de Raden ter Admiraliteyt te word gesententieert in manner als in it twede Articul hire voorens staet ghe-expresseert, ten beware nochtans de self Schepen aldaer ghedreven end geraeckt mochten zijn door storm, oft andere swaren noodt, end dat het self by de opgemelte Raden ter Admiraliteyt vyt de circumstantien, in dier voegen opgenomen, end geoordeelt sal konnen word. V En am wyders te alle bedrog, it welk tegens dese Ordonnantie end advertentie voorgenomen soude mogen word, voor te komen, end te verhoeden; Belasten end beveelen Why midts desen alle Schippers end Koopluyden, Inghesetenen deser Landen zijnde, oft hun Schepen end Goederen vyt dese Landen vytvoerende; adverterens end vermanen voorts alle anderen, van wat Natie die oock zijn, oft van waer die komen sullen, egeene Goederens, Waren oft Koopmanschappen in hare Schepen te laden, oft te done laden, de self te vervoeren, oft done vervoerens, anders dan met eenderhande Zée-brieven, gehoorliicke Pasporten, volkomen Certe-portyen, Cognossementen, Vracht, Advis end Convoy-brieven, oft diergelijcke andere bescheyden, als na de Wetten end Placcaten van de Plaetsen daer de Goederen, Waren end Coopmanschappen, ingeladen sullen zijn, tot der selver inladinghe end vervoeringhe word gerequiereert, alsoo wy voor verbeurf sullen houden, end van nu af aen voor goeden prinse verklaren alle de Schepen, midtsgaders d'ingeladen Goederens, Waren end Coopmanschappen, daer van dat mere als e'en Zee-brief, party, dobbele Vrachtbrieven, Cognoscementen, of andere bescheyden ghevonden sullen word, midtsgaders oock alle de Schepen end Goederen die met de voor-verhaelde gerequiererde bescheyden niet va behoorens versten sullen wesen. VI Ten eind oock alle de Officieren end Bevelhebberen van Schepen van Oorloge, so van den Staet, als van particulieren op onse bestellinge vytgerust, verseeckert mogen zijn, dat de Schepen die sy in Zee sullen komen te rencontreren, op gene der voorsz Havenen, Steden end Plaetsen van Vranckriick, Engelandt, Schotlandt end Yrelandt, oft anderens onder it ghebiedt van de hooghst-gemelte Coninghen van Vranckrijck end van Groot Brittannien staende, met eenige Ammunitie van Oorloge oft Scheeps-behoeften, mogen hebben gemunt, So sullen de voornoemde Capiteynen in Zee alle Schepen, daer op eenige suspitie sal vallen, mogen aendoen, end de self afvorderen hare Zee-brieven, Passeporten, Certe-partyen end Cognoscementen, tot blijck waer het Schip soude mogen t'huys behoorens, waer, end op wat plaetse de lading zy geschiet, waer in des selves lading bestaet, end op wat plaetse de ontladinge sal hebben te ghestchieden, welcke aen haer vertoont ziinde, end bevonden wesende, that de voorsz Schepen met geeve Oorlogh oft Scheeps behoeften naer eenige Havenen of Plaetsen onder it gebiedt van de hooghst gemelte Coningen van Vranckrijck end van Groot Brittannien zijnde, hebben gemunt, sullen sy de self ury end onverhindert lateen passeren, maer so haet contrary van dien by de self bescheyden, oft andersints mochte word bevonden, so sullen sy de soodanige Scheppen, met hare ingeladene Goederens, in goede verseeckeringe hebben op te brengen, end on der haer bewaringe t'aenvaerden alle de bescheyden, die in de self Schepen gevonden, end aen haer vertoont sullen zijn, oock it geen de Schipper end it vorder Scheeps' Volck, so ten reguarde van haer voorbebbende raise, als oock aengaende de gelegentheydt vaned Schip end lading, te dier tijdt sullen hebben verklaerdt in de beast form by gescrifte done stellen, end by den Schipper done onderteeckenen, omme nevens de voorsz ghevonden bescheyden, met haet Schip, end des selves lading, aen de Raden ter Admiraliteyt daer den Veroberaer vytgevaren sal zjin, opgesonden end overgelevert te word. VII. Vorders is meed onse meyninge, that oock alle de poenen bier vooren gestatueert, effect forterens end ge-executeert word sullen, tegens onse Ingesetenen, Overtreders, ' te zy Koopluyden, Schippers oft andere, wiede self oock sudden mogen wesen, met confiscatie van de Schephen, en van de ingeladen Goederens, oft e'en gedeelte van dien an voeghen hire vooren verhaeldt, oft an, dersints so de self niet voor hauden sullen zijn, met pecuniele boeten, ter concurrentie van de waerde van dien, elcx in hun regard, in ghevalle t'haerder aenkomste in dese Landen, oft oock andersints de ●●elegentheydt daer toe gebooren zijnde, sal vernomen end bewesen werden, dat sy dese onse advertentie end Ordonnantie in eenige poincten sullen hebben gecontravenieert, even geliick of sy op it feyt behonden, end by de voorsz Schepen van Oorloge daer over vytter Zee opgebracht, of andersints hire te Land by andere 's Landts Officieren achterhaelt end betrapped waren geworden. VIII. End ten eind door d'executie van dese onse Ordonnantie end advertentie geene rech●veerdige redenen van klachten mogen werden gegeven aen eenige Coningen, Republijcquen, Princen, Potentaten oft Steden, met desen Staer in Alliantie oft Verbondt staende, so belasten end beveelen Why well expresselick by desen alle onse Hooften end andere Officieren ter Zee, so over Schepen van Oorloge van den Staet, als over Schepen by particulieren op onser bestellinge ten Oorlog vytgerust, gesteldt, haer punctuelick te reguleren naer de Verbonden end Tractaten by on's desen aengaende met andere Koningen, Republijcquen, Princen, Potentaten end Steden albereydts gemaeckt, oft noch te maecken. Ordonnerende ten selven eind onse Raden ter Admiraliteyt, alle Capiteynen van Oorloge, vyt hare respective districten vytvarende, daer van particulierlick te adverteren, end t' instrueren, als naer behoorens. IX. End salde judicature over de transgressie deser onser Ordonnante toekomen de Raden ter Admiraliteyt, in welckers districte de contraventien sullen word overdeckt, of well de Capiteynen die d'acterhalinge in Zee sullen komen te done, vytgevaren sullen zijn. X. Doch by so verre de voorsz Transgresseurs niet op het feyt bevonden, maer naemaels daer over geaccuseert mochten word sal als dan de kennisse daer of toekomen de Raden van de Admiraliteyt, oft ordinaris Rechters, voor den welkin de self eerst in recht betrocken sullen word. End en eind alle de Officieren midtsgaders allen anderen die den welstandt van desen Staet ter heart soude mogen gaen, en Vyanden van de socdanige contraventien ziin, des te blytiger mogen let, dat dese Ordannantie oock alomme, end vy e'en yeder punctuelick word geobserveert end de Contraventeurs na den inhouden deser, andere ten exemple gestraft, So sullen alle de peninghen, die by confiscatie, als andersints, vyt dese onse Ordonnantie komen te resulteren geappliceert werden, so als gewconlick alle penen, mulcten end confiscatien, by Placcaten vande respective Provintien deser Vereenighde Nederlanden, geappliceert end verdeylt werden, te weten▪ e'en derde part ten profijite van den Aenhoelder oft Aenbrenger, ' tzy de self in eedt end bedieninge van it Landt soude mogen zijn, host niet, een derde●part ten profijte van den Officier die de calangie end executie sal hebben gedaen, end haet resterende dehde-part ten profijte van de gemeene saecke. XI. Maer belangende de Schepen end Goederen, die by eenige Schepen van Oorloge van desen Staet, oft van éenighe particuliere Commissie-ofte Retorsie-vaerders, in Zee achterhaelt end van daer, ter saecke van contr ventien teghens dese onse Ordonnontie end advertentie begaen, opgebracht, end vervolgens door de ghemelte Raden ter Admiraliteyt verbeurt, en van goeden prinse vertklaert sullen word, daer van sal de ver deylinge geschieden, volgens d' Instructien, Placcaten end Oordonnantien daer van hire bevoorens gemaeckt, oftenoch te macchen. XII. Ten eind oock alle Schepen end Goederen, die ter oorsaecke van de contraventien tegens dese onse Ordonnantien end advertentie begaen sullen werden, achterhaelt, aenghehouden, end hire te Land oyghebracht aen handen van de gemelte Raden behoorlick overgelevert mogen werden, so lasten wy by desen well expresselick, that de Aenhaeldees van de self sich precise sullen hebben te reguleren, oock alle die het self aengaen mochte, done reguleren na onsen Placcate open den eersten December 1640. tegens het onordentelick plonderen end veroveren van soodanige Schepen ge-emaneerr, met waerscouwinge, dat de poenen by haet voorsz Placcaet gestatueert, severliick sullen werden ge-executeert, tegens alle de géene die contrary het voorsz Verbodt yets geattenteert sullen hebben. XIII. End ten eind aen de e'en zyde mach word voorgekomen, dat de schade die by confiscatie van de voorsz Schepen end Goederen op de Contraventeurs van dese onse Ordonnantie moet vallen, niet door middle van asseurantie en kome te redunderen, tot schade van eenige andere Ingesetenen deser Provintien, end dat aen de ander zyde de faculteyt van de Fransche end Engelsche Navigatie end Commercie, so uéel doenlick werde besnoeyt. SO IST, Dat wy well expresselick ordonnerens by desen, niet alleen that sich niemandt van de Inghesetenen voornoemt en sal hebben te bevorderen éenighe Goederen oft Schepen de Subjecten van de hooghst gemelte Koningen van Vrankrijck end van Groot Brittannien toe behoorende, nochte oock éenige Schepen end Goederen gaende, oft beuracht naer eenige Havenen, Sieden oft Plaetsen van Vrankhijck end Gogelandt, Scotlandt, Yerlandt oft anderens, onder it gehiedt van de hoogst gemelte Koningen staende oft oock van de felve Havenen, Steden oft Plaetsen komende te verasseureren, directelick oft indirectelick, selver of door yemandt anders higher te Land, of daer buyten, op wat manner het self oock soude mogen geschieden, nemaer oock het given end ontfangen van renversalen, am daer door desen onsen Placcate illusoir te maecken, it zy meed directelick of indirectelick, onder what pretext sulcx oock soude moghen geschieden, op pene dat verbeurt sal ziin, end werden soodanighe somme, als by de Asseuradeurs sal wesen verseeckert, end that it self so well ten reguarde van it deen van de asse●rantie als van t'geven van renversalen plaetse hebben, en effect sorteren sal, it appliceren end te executeren als vooren. End sullen d'Officieren die daer inn bevonden sullen word naelatich geweest te zijn, daer over arbitralick werden gecorigeert, oock met privatie van haer bedieningen, of anders, so als nae gelegentheydt bevonden sal word te behooren. End ten eind niemant hire van eenige ignorantia ●emaels kome te pretenderen, Ontbieden end verloecken wy de Heeren Staten, Gecommitteerde Raden, end Gedeputeer de Staten van de Provincien respective van Gelder an'dt end it Graefschap Zutphen, Holandt end West-Viseslandt, Zeelandt, Vtrecht, Vtse●land, Overyssel, mitigader Stadt Groningen end Ommelanden, end allen anderen justicieren end Officieren van de self, dat sy dese onse Ordonnantie van stouden aen alomme done verkondigen, publicar●●: end affigerens in allen plaetsen daer suix nodich w●sen sal, end men gewoon is soodanighe publicatie end affixie te doen. Lasten end beveelan vooirs da Raden ter Admiraliteyt, de Advocaten ●scaels, mit●gaders Admiraels', Vice-Admiraels, Capiteynen Offcieren en B●velhebbe ren, als meed de Commissarisen en Commisen ter recharche, so in de Zeegaten als ●wers, dese onse Ordonn●ntie te achten volgen, end done achtervolgen prrcederende end doende procederen regens de Contraventeurs van dien, sunder ●ooghsuychinge, saumur, dissimulatie oft verdrach, want wy sulx alsoo tem●diencte van den Land bevonden hebben noodigh te zijn. Aldus gedaen, geatresteert gerenoveert en geampiteert ter Vergaderinge van de hoogh-gemelts Staten Generael. In den Hage den veertienden April 1672. Was geparapheert, J. van Gent, Vt. Onderslondt. Ter Ordonnantie van de self. Geteeckent, Gasp. Fagel. Zijnde on't spatium gedruckt het Cacht van ha●● Ho. Mog. oppeen rooden Owel, overdeckt met e'en Papieren Rupte. In the Hague Printed by Jacobus Scheltus Printer to the High and Mighty Lords the State's General, dwelling in the Inner Hoff, Anno 1672. IN s' GRAVENHAGE, By Jacobus Scheltus, Drucker van de Hoogh Mog. Heeren Staten Generael, woonende op het Binnen-Hoff. Anno 1672.