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WHereas upon Complaint of the several Injuries , Affronts and Spoils done by the East and West-India-Companies , and other the Subjects of the United Provinces , unto and upon the Ships , Goods and Persons of Our Subjects , to their grievous Damages , and amounting to Vast Summs ; Instead of Reparation and Satisfaction which hath been by Vs frequently demanded , We found that Orders had been given to de Ruyter not onely to abandon the Consortship against the Pirats of the Mediterranean Seas ( to which the States General had invited Vs ) but also to use all Acts of Depredation and Hostility against Our Subjects in Africa . We thereupon gave Order for the deteining of the Ships belonging to the States of the United Provinces , their Subjects and Inhabitants ; yet notwithstanding , We did not give any Commission for Letters of Marque , nor were there any Proceedings against the Ships deteined , until we had a cleer and undeniable Evidence that de Ruyter had put the said Orders in Execution , by seizing several of Our Subjects Ships and Goods . But now since finding by these fresh Injuries and Actings of theirs , and the intelligence We have had of their great Preparations for War , and their Granting of Letters of Marque against Our People , that both Our Forbearance , and the other Remedies We have used to bring them to a compliance with Vs , have proved ineffectual , and that they are Resolved what they have done by Wrong , to maintain by Arms and War against Vs ; We have thought fit , by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council , to Declare , and do hereby Declare to all the World , That the said States are the Aggressors , and that they ought in Iustice to be so looked upon by all Men ; so that as well Our Fleets and Ships , as also all other Ships and Vessels that shall be Commissionated by Letters of Marque from Our dear Brother the Duke of York , Lord High Admiral of England , shall and may lawfully fight with , subdue , seize , and take all Ships , Vessels and Goods belonging to the said States of the United Provinces , or any of their subjects or Inhabitants , within any their Territories . And We do hereby Command , as well all Our Own Subjects , as advertise all other persons , of what Nation soever , not to transport or carry any Souldiers , Arms , Powder , Ammunition , or any other Contraband Goods , to any of the Territories , Lands , Plantations or Countries of the said States of the United Provinces ; Declaring , That whatsoever Ship or Vessel shall be met withal , Transporting or carrying any Souldiers , Arms , Powder , Ammunition , or other Contraband Goods , to any of the Territories . Lands , Plantations or Countries of the said States of the United Provinces , the same being taken , shall be Condemned as good and lawful Prize . And We do further Declare , That whatsoever Ship or Vessel , of what Nation soever , shall be met withall , having any Goods , Merchandises , or any number of Persons in her belonging to the said States of the United Provinces , or any of their Subjects or Inhabitants , the whole , being taken , shall be adjudged as good and lawful Prize . As likewise all Goods and Merchandises , of what Nation soever , whether of Our Own , or of Foreigners , that shall be Laden aboard any Ship or Vessel , that shall belong to States of the Vnited Provinces , or any of their Subjects , or any inhabiting with them , and shall be taken , the whole shall be Condemned as good and lawful Prize ; Except the said Ship or Vessel has Ours , or Our dear Brothers Letters of Safe Conduct granted to them . And to the end that due Intimation and Publication of this Our Declaration may be made , and Publick Notice thereof be taken ; It is our Will Pleasure , That this Our present Declaration shall be published in due and usual Form. At the Court at Whitehall , February 22. 1664. Richard Browne , Clerk of the Council . London , Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker , Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty , 1664.