by the king, a proclamation for suspending the execution of a commission of reprizal granted unto sir edmond turner and george carew, on behalf of themselves and others england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing c estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. 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"given at our court at whitehall the tenth day of august, . in the eighteenth year of our reign." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; 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and therewith by force of arms to set upon take , and apprehend any of the ships , goods , and merchandises of the states general of the united provinces , or any of their subjects inhabiting within any of their dominions or territories , or within any particular state within those provinces , wheresoever the same shall be found : and that the same being so taken , should be brought into some port within our realms or dominions , and there inventoried , and upon due proceedings to he thereupon had in our court of admiralty , should be adjudged as lawful prize to the said sir edmond turner and george carew : which said commission was to remain in full force , until the said sir edmond turner and george carew , their executors , administrators and assigns should by vertue thereof have seized and recovered from the said states general or their subjects , one hundred fifty one thousand six hundred and twelve pounds , as in and by the said commission , relation being thereunto had , more at large it doth and may appear . since the granting of which said commission , divers great and notable misdemeanours have been committed by the said sir edmond turner and george carew , and their assigns , in the execution thereof , by seizing upon the ships and goods belonging to the subjects of such princes and states as are now in amity and alliance with vs , and by neglecting to proceed in our court of admiralty , as by the said commission they ought to have done ; by reason whereof , and of several other indirect and illegal proceedings , it is found to be very prejudicial to our service to permit or suffer any further execution of the said commission , until some further consideration can be thereof taken . we have therefore thought fit by the advice of our privy council to declare , and do hereby publish our royal will and pleasure , that the said commission , and all and every the powers and authorities therein granted , shall be , and are hereby suspended . and we do hereby straitly charge and command the said sir edmond turner , george carew , and their assigns , and every of them , and all captains and officers of ships , and all other seamen and mariners whatsoever , that they or any of them do not presume to put in execution the said commission , or any part thereof , or to be aiding or assisting unto any person or persons in the premises , until our pleasure shall be further known , upon pain of being proceeded against as pirates , and prosecuted with the utmost severity of our laws for presuming to break this our royal command . given at our court at whitehall , the tenth day of august , . in the eighteenth year of our reign . god save the king. printed by john bill and christopher barker , printers to the kings most excellent majesty , . reasons for granting letters of mart to trading ships humbly offered to the honourable house of commons. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) reasons for granting letters of mart to trading ships humbly offered to the honourable house of commons. england and wales. parliament. house of commons. sheet ([ ] p.). s.n., [london? : ?] place and date of printing from wing ( nd ed.). reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng privateering -- great britain -- early works to . great britain -- foreign relations -- france -- early works to . france -- foreign relations -- great britain -- early works to . broadsides -- london (england) -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion reasons for granting letters of mart to trading ships . humbly offered to the honourable house of commons . that the french king forces his subjects merchant ships to take commissions instead of denying them , and spain and holland grant them freely ; being of opinion , that they are serviceable to themselves and allies , and hurtful to none except their enemies . that the french letter of mart ships have done us more damage in our trade than their men of war ; and such of our merchant ships and gallies that have been so lucky to obtain commissions , have done very good service , by taking in the mediterranean only many rich prizes from the french , to the value of at least one hundred thousand pounds within these last six months . that upon the incouragement of having letters of mart , which were not denied till lately , the merchants have built many very fine frigats and gallies , the better to annoy the enemy , and secure their own trade , which was before in a great measure lost in several places , and now thereby partly regain'd ; but should not the commissions already granted , which are expired or expiring ( for they last but for one voyage , which is also esteemed hard ) be removed , and new ones granted to the frigats and gallies lately built , it will be a great hinderance to their hopeful way of recovering our trade , and also a discouragement to the merchants and marriners . that in regard merchant ships of all other nations in war have commissions , our commanders and sea-men are unwilling to go to sea without being upon equal terms with them : for without commissions they dare not seize a french ship , though she falls in their way , for fear of being afterwards retaken by the french , and hanged for pirates . besides , commissions encourage the men the better to defend their ships ; for who will fight , when if they should overcome they dare not seize ? that such ships as have commissions are obliged to give or l. security to perform their instructions , and particularly to carry one half of their compliment land-men , which raises a great number of sea-men for his majesties service ; and their prizes pay considerable customs and fifths to the crown , besides the gain it brings to the concerned and nation in general ; for each prize is a double gain to us , in regard the enemy looses as much as we get . the objection that hath been made against granting commissions is , that some of these commission ships have committed irregularities . to which is answered , that there hath been several hundred commissions granted since the war , and it s believed there never was fewer irregularities committed by such a great number of ships as by those , if any at all . but with submission , suppose one in a hundred of them have broken their instructions , ( though we know of none ) it would be severe for all the rest to suffer for their faults , when they may be so easily punished for it . die martis, october, . the lords and commons in parliament having received certain notice of a cessation of arms concluded with the rebells in ireland, ... england and wales. parliament. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e ba thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) die martis, october, . the lords and commons in parliament having received certain notice of a cessation of arms concluded with the rebells in ireland, ... england and wales. parliament. sheet ([ ] p.) printed for edward husbands, london : october . . title from caption and first lines of text. an order of parliament "that all merchants who shall be willing to set out ships at their own charge, shall have letters of mart to take all the ships, goods, and merchandize of any persons in arms against the king and parliament.". order to print signed: h: elsynge, cler. parl. d. com. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng privateering -- england -- th century -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no die martis, october, . the lords and commons in parliament having received certain notice of a cessation of arms concluded with the r england and wales. parliament. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion die martis , october , . the lords and commons in parliament having received certain notice of a cessation of arms concluded with the rebells in jreland , and of a purpose to send an army from thence into this kingdom against the forces of the king and parliament , for the maintenance of the popish hierarchy , and the utter ruine of religion in all his majesties dominions , if god prevent not . it is ordered , that all such merchants , and others who shall be willing to set out ships at their own charge , shall have letters of mart to take all the ships , goods , and merchandize , of any person or persons whatsoever in arms against the king and parliament , and not within the protection of parliament , or that shall be ayding or assisting to the rebells of that kingdom , or of any other in arms against the parliament in either of the kingdoms of england , scotland , or jreland ; and the committee of the admiralty are required to grant commissions to such persons accordingly . ordered that this order be printed and published , and set upon the exchange . h : elsynge , cler. parl. d. com. london , printed for edward husbands , october . . an act for restraining and punishing privateers and pyrates new york (state) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing n estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) an act for restraining and punishing privateers and pyrates new york (state) p. william bradford, [new york : ] caption title. imprint from wing. at head of title: province of new-york, anno regni gulielmi & mariae, regis & reginae angliae, scotiae, franciae & hiberniae quinto. reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng pirates -- new york (state) -- early works to . privateering -- new york (state) -- early works to . new york (state) -- history -- colonial period, ca. - -- sources. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion province of new-york , ss . anno regni gulielmi & mariae , regis & reginae , angliae , scotiae , franciae & hiberniae , quinto . an act for restraining and punishing privateers and pyrates . whereas nothing can more contribute to their majesties honour than such articles as are concluded and agreed on in all treaties of peace , should by all their majesties subjects according to their duty , be most inviolably preserved and kept , in and over all their majesties dominions and territories . and whereas against such treaties of peace made between their majesties and their allies , several of their majesties subjectts do continually sail under commissions of forreign princes and states , contrary to their duty and good allegiance , and by fair means cannot be restrained from so doing ▪ be it therefore enacted by the governor , council and assembly , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same , that from and after publication hereof , it shall be fellony for any person which now doth or hereafter shall inhabit in or belong to this province ▪ to serve in america in an hostile manner under any forreign prince , state or potentate in amity with their majesties , without special lisence for so doing , under the hand and seal of their maiesties governor or commander in chief of this province for the time being ▪ and that all and every such offender and offenders , contrary to the true intent of this act , being thereof duely convicted in their majesties court of judicature within this province ( to which courts authority is hereby given to hear and determine the same , as other cases of fellony ▪ ) shall suffer pains of death , without benefit of clergy . provided nevertheless that this act , nor any thing therein contained , shall extend to any person or persons , which now are or have been in the service or imployment of any forreign prince , state or potentate whatsoever , that shall return to this province , and leave and desert such service and imployment , before the first day of september next ensuing , rendring themselves to their majesties governour or commander in chief for the time being ▪ and giving such security as he shall appoint for their future good behaviour , and also that they shall not depart this province without the lisence of their majesties governour or commander in chief . and for the better and more speedy execution of justice upon such who having committed pyracies , fellonies , and other offences upon the sea , shall be apprehended in or brought prisoners to this province . be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , that all fellonyes , pyracies , roberies , murders , or confederacies committed , that hereafter shall be committed upon the sea , or in any haven , creek or bay , within the jurisdiction of the admirality , shall be enquired , tryed , heard , determined and judged in such form as if such offence had been committed in and upon the land , and to that end and purpose commissions shall be had under their majesties seal of this province , directed to the judge or judges of the admirality of this province for the time being , and to such other substantial persons , as by their majesties governour or commander in chief of this province , for the time being ▪ shall be named or appointed ; which said commissioners , or such a quorum of them , as by such commission shall be thereunto authorized , shall have full power to do all things in and about the enquiry , hearing , determining , adjudging and punishing of any of the crimes and offences aforesaid , as any commissioners appointed by commission under the great seal of england , by virtue of a statute made in the twenty eight year of the reign of king henry the eight , are impowered to do and execute within the kingdom of england ▪ and that the said offenders which are or shall be apprehended in or brought prisoners to this province , shall be lyable to such order , process , judgment and execution , by virtue of such commission to be grounded upon this act , as might be awarded or given against them , if they were proceeded against within the realm of england , by virtue of any commission grounded upon the said statute . be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , that all and every person or persons that shall any way knowingly entertain , harbour , conceal , trade , or hold any correspondence by letters , or otherwise , with any person or persons that shall be deemed or judged to be privateers , pyrates , or other offenders within the construction of this act , and shall not readily endeavour , to the best of his and their power , to apprehend , or cause to be apprehended such offender or offenders , shall be lyable to be prosecuted against , as accessaries and confederate , to suffer such pains and penalties , as in in such case by law is provided . and for the better and more effectual execution of this act , be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , that all commission officers , in their several precincts within this province , are hereby required and impowered , upon his or their knowledge , or notice given , that any privateers , pyrates , or other persons , suspected to be upon any unlawful design , are in any place within their respective precincts , to raise and levy such number of well armed men , as he or they shall think needfull , for the seizing , apprehending , and carryinig to goal all and every such person and persons , and in case of any resistance , or refusal to yield obedience to their majesties authority , it shall be lawful to kill or destroy such person or persons . and all and every person or persons that shall oppose or resist , by striking or firing upon any of the commanded parties , shall be deemed , taken and adjudged fellons , without benefit of the clergy . and every such officer that shall omit or neglect his duty herein , shall forfeit fifty pounds currant money of this province for every such offence , to be recovered in any of their majesties courts of record within this province , by bill , plaint or information , wherein is no essoyn , wager of law or protection shall be allowed , one moiety thereof to be to their majesties , their heirs and successors , for and toward the support of the government of this province , and the contingent charges thereof , and the other moiety to the informer . and all and every person and persons that upon orders given him or them , shall refuse to repair immediately , with his or their arms well fixed , and amunition , to suth place or places as shall be appointed by any super officer or officers , and not readily obey his or their commands , in the execution of the premises , shall be lyable to such fine or corporal punishment as shall be awarded against them within the courts to which the recognizeance of the fact doth belong . finis . by the king. a proclamation for repealing and making voyd of all letters of marque or reprisall, and commissions of that nature, granted before the first of iuly, in the th yeare of his majesties raigne. england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles i) this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing c thomason .f. 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) by the king. a proclamation for repealing and making voyd of all letters of marque or reprisall, and commissions of that nature, granted before the first of iuly, in the th yeare of his majesties raigne. england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles i) charles i, king of england, - . sheet ([ ] p.) by leonard lichfield, printer to the university, printed at oxford : . with engraving of royal seal at head of document. dated at end: given at our court at oxford, the . day of december, in the twentieth yeare of our reigne. reproduction of the original in the british library. eng privateering -- england -- early works to . prize law -- great britain -- early works to . great britain -- history -- civil war, - -- early works to . a r (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no by the king. a proclamation for repealing and making voyd of all letters of marque or reprisall, and commissions of that nature, granted bef england and wales. sovereign a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - paul schaffner sampled and proofread - paul schaffner text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion royal blazon or coat of arms c r honi soit qvi mal y pense by the king . ¶ a proclamation for repealing and making voyd of all letters of marque or reprisall , and commissions of that nature , granted before the first of iuly , in the th yeare of his majesties raigne . whereas at severall times before the first day of july in the eighteenth yeare of our raigne , severall letters of marque or reprisall and commissions of that nature , have been granted to severall persons under our great seale of england , or under the seale of our admiralty , giving them power thereby to set forth to sea one or more shippe or shippes equipped , victualled and manned in warlike manner , and therewith to take , seize , or surprize the ships goods and merchandizes of such persons , countryes , or states as are limited or mentioned in the said commissions , for the satisfaction and reimbursment of such person or persons to whom such commissions were granted , of and for the losses and dammage which they had susteined at sea or in forreigne parts ; and in particular such letters of marque or reprizall , or a commission of that nature , was granted before the said first day of july , unto one gregory clements of london merchant , and his partners or associates . and whereas the said gregory clements , his partners or associates , and others to whom such letters or commissions have bin granted as aforesaid , have had sufficient time to recover their losses , and as we are credibly informed , have seised , and taken the ships , vessells , goods , and merchandizes of diverse subjects of our friends and allies , and have received full satisfaction for their losses , and do shelter themselves under the power of the rebells , which are now in armes against us , so that there is no meanes open for examination of what goods , or merchandizes have come to their hands , or have bin taken or seised by them , and yet still they endeavour to make further use of those commissions , or letters of marque or reprisall ; wee do therefore by this our proclamation , publish and declare our will and pleasure to bee , to repeale , revoke , determine , and make voyd , all letters of marque or reprisall , and all commissions of that nature , for letting forth any shippe or shippes , and taking of prizes , granted at any time since the beginning of our raigne , before the said first day of iuly , in the said eighteenth year of our raigne , to the said gregory clements , his partners or associates , or to any other person or persons , or to any corporation or body-politique whatsoever , upon any pretence or suggestion whatsoever ; and that all such commissions , and letters of marque or reprisall granted within the time aforesaid , and the force and effect of the same , be from henceforth revok'd , repeal'd , and absolutely voyd and determined ; and accordingly we do hereby revoke , repeale , determine , and make voyd the same ; and we do hereby further publish & declare , that all prizes which shall at any time hereafter be taken , & all acts whatsoever which shall at any time hereafter be done or acted , by or under colour or pretence of any such commission , letters of marque or reprisall , granted within the time aforesaid , shall be taken , deemed and adjudged as illegall and voyd , and without warrant or authority , and the person or persons which shall take , act , or doe the same to be punishable , as if such commissions , letters of marque or reprisall , had never bin made or granted , any clause , matter , or thing contayned in any such commission letters of marque or reprisall to the contrary here of not withstanding . given at our court at oxford , the . day of december , in the twentieth yeare of our reigne . god save the king . printed at oxford , by leonard lichfield , printer to the vniversity . . the case of sir john lambert, bar. samuel shepheard, and john james david, merchants of london. humbly offered to the consideration of this honourable house, for relief. lambert, john, sir, d. or . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) the case of sir john lambert, bar. samuel shepheard, and john james david, merchants of london. humbly offered to the consideration of this honourable house, for relief. lambert, john, sir, d. or . shepheard, samuel. david, john james. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [s.l. : ?] date of publication suggested by wing. reproduction of original in: sutro library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng tariff on wine -- great britain -- early works to . privateering -- great britain -- early works to . broadsides -- england -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the case of sir john lambert , bar. samuel shepheard , and john james david , merchants of london . humbly offered to the consideration of this honourable house , for relief . sir john lambert , bar. samuel shepheard , and john james david , bought of henry bray and john bowden , twenty three tuns and a quarter , of french prize wine , taken by the success privateer of guernsey , lying at penryn near falmouth ; and accepted bills of exchange for l . drawn by the collectors there , for the customs thereof ; and shipped twenty one tuns and three hogsheads of the said wine , on board a coaster , called the new topsham , william dair master , bound for the port of london , who sailed from falmouth with her majesty's tin vessels , having for convoy the dover and sunderland men of war. yet notwithstanding the convoy , the said vessel called the new topsham , which had on board twenty one tuns , and three hogsheads of the said wine , was in the night , off beachy-head , taken by a french privateer , and carryed into calice , and there sold . whereupon the merchants above , applyed to be relieved from the payment of the said bills of exchange , because the said wine never came to port , but were taken and carryed into calice , and there sold , as aforesaid ; and therefore did no ways supply the market , or hinder other importation , to the prejudice of her majesty's customs . but the duties of the said wines being appropriated to the use of the war , they have not been able to obtain further than time to pray a bill or clause for their relief . and therefore they humbly hope this honourable house will , in consideration of the hardship of their case , discharge the said bills of exchange , and not suffer them to pay custom for goods which never came to port ; or give them leave to import wines custom - free , to the same value with those lost , as is allowed where goods are exported that never reach their port , in which case , the merchant hath always been suffered to export custom-free , to the same value . by the council of state. a proclamation. whereas the council of state is given to understand, that divers of the english, and other of the people and subjects of this commonwealth have of late received, and taken from, and under several foreign kings, and princes, potentates, or states, sea commissions, or letters of reprizal, marque or countermarque ... england and wales. council of state. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text in the english short title catalog (thomason .f. [ ]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing e thomason .f. [ ] this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; : f [ ]) by the council of state. a proclamation. whereas the council of state is given to understand, that divers of the english, and other of the people and subjects of this commonwealth have of late received, and taken from, and under several foreign kings, and princes, potentates, or states, sea commissions, or letters of reprizal, marque or countermarque ... england and wales. council of state. sheet ([ ] p.) printed by abel roper and tho. collins, printers to the council of state, london : [ ] title from caption and opening lines of text. date of publication from wing. annotation on thomason copy: "april ". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng privateering -- england -- early works to . great britain -- history, naval -- th century -- early works to . a (thomason .f. [ ]). civilwar no by the council of state. a proclamation. whereas the council of state is given to understand, that divers of the english, and other of the p england and wales. council of state. a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion ❧ by the council of state . a proclamation . whereas the council of state is given to understand , that divers of the english , and other of the people and subjects of this commonwealth have of late received , and taken from , and under several foreign kings , princes , potentates , or states , sea commissions , or letters of reprizal , marque or countermarque , containing therein powers to seize and surprize at sea , or in ports , ships , vessels , and goods of such people and countryes as are therein named , and by colour thereof have gone forth to sea with ships and vessels of war , and made seizures and surprizals of merchants , and other ships , and goods , and disturbed the trade both of the people of these nations , and of other nations in friendship , allyance , and confederacy with this commonwealth , whereof grievous complaints do arise ; the council of state finding it necessary , according to the trust reposed in them , to discourage and discountenance all such undue courses , surprizals , and proceedings , and to put an absolute restraint on all the people and subjects of this commonwealth , from receiving any such foreign sea commissions , from or under any forreign princes , states , or potentates whatsoever , or making any manner of use of any such already received ; do therefore , and for prevention of all depredations , and undue surprizals at sea , or in ports , by pretence or colour of such forreign powers , or sea commissions , and for the encouragement and security of merchants ships , and of the freedome of trade and navigation , strictly enjoyn and require all and every the people and subjects of england , scotland , and ireland , and the dominions and territories thereunto belonging , that they , nor any of them , in their , or any other name or names , directly or indirectly , do or shall receive , or take , or make use of any sea commission whatsoever , or by what name soever called , thereby to infest the seas , or seize , or surprize any merchants ships , or goods , or other ships , vessels , or goods whatsoever , or in any wise to hinder or disturb the freedome of trade , or free course of shipping or navigation , and do expresly forbid all and every the people and subjects of these nations and territories , that neither under pretence of removing their habitations into any other places , or subjecting themselves voluntarily to the obedience or subjection of any forreign princes or states , nor under any other colour whatsoever ( their native subjection , as born within these nations , dominions , and territories , being a permanent and perpetual subjection upon them ) they or any of them do presume to violate , or infringe this injunction , or to take , receive , make use of , exercise , or put in ure by him or themselves , or any others imployed by or under them any forreign sea commission , or commissions granted by , or derived from , or under any forreign king , prince , commonwealth , state , or potentate whatsoever , for the seizing or surprizing of ships , vessels , or goods at sea , or in ports , creeks , harbours , or places whatsoever , nor any wayes to infest the seas , or hinder or disturb trade or navigation , or the open and free passage thereof , under the pain and peril of being arrested , proceeded against , and punished in the hitch-court of admiralty according to the rights of nations , laws of the sea , and course of admiralty : and the council of state do will and require the said court of admiralty to do speedy iustice therein , and to inflict such penalties & punishments upon all & every the transgressors & offenders in the premises as may by law & the course of the sea , & of the admiralty be inflicted in such cases , and to cause the same to be duly executed ; & also to order , award , & decree ( & that in the most summary way that by the rules of iustice may be ) full & plenary restitution , dammages , and reparation , to all and every the people , and friends , and allyes of these nations , that shall by colour or pretence of any such foreign sea-commissions , have any their ships , vessels , or goods , seized , surprized , imbrzelled , detained , or any ways indamaged , or their course of navigation or free-passage upon the seas , or from port to port disturbed or hindred , or be in any manner of way dampuified or prejudiced : and whatsoever ships or vessels they be belonging to any of the people or friends , or allyes of this nation , that upon pretence of any such foreign sea-commissions , bring ( though unduely ) seized , or surprized , shall be either voluntarily or otherwise , brought , or driven , or come into any harbour , creek or port of these nations , the same shall presently by the officers of , or in such ports or harbours , or the next officers that may seize the same , be seized , detained , put under and into the cognizance and iurisdiction of the said court of admiralty , without suffering or permitting any bulk to be broken , or sale or other disposition of all or any part to be made , but to be kept intire for the said court of admiralty to do right and speedy iustice thereupon ; and to make such orders , plenary restitutions , and reparations , for the good and benefit of the people , and friends , and allyes of these nations , the true and first owners , or lawful possessors of the said surprized ships , vessels , or goods , as by the laws of the sea and admiralty , and rights of nations in such cases may be done ; condemning the said undue seizors and spoylers , according to the exigence of law , and putting the laws in due execution against them . and to the end that this proclamation may be openly known , and be obeyed , and take place , and that none may pretend ignorance thereof , the council of state do order and command , that it be printed ; and published by the sergeant at arms , and sound of trumpet , at the royal exchange london , at the time of concourse of merchants there , and severall copies to be affixed upon the pillars of the said exchange to be read and taken notice of by all concerned . fryday , april . . at the council of state at whitehall . ordered , that this proclamation be forthwith printed and published . april . william jessop , clerk of the council . london , printed by abel roper and tho. collins , printers to the council of state . by the king, a proclamation for recalling and prohibiting sea-men from the service of foreign princes and states and that no prizes taken from the dutch by vertue of portugal commissions be brought into his majesties ports. england and wales. sovereign ( - : charles ii) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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"given at our honour of hampton-court the twentieth day of june, , in the fourteenth year of our reign." reproduction of the original in the huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng privateering -- england. great britain -- history, naval -- stuarts, - . great britain -- history -- charles ii, - . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king. a proclamation for recalling and prohibiting sea-men from the service of foreign princes and states , and that no prizes taken from the dutch by vertue of portugal commissions , be brought into his majesties ports . charles r. whereas the kings most excellent majesty hath been advertised that great numbers of mariners and other sea-faring men , his majesties natural born subjects , many of them , by occasion of the late disbanding , and some others before , have betaken themselves to the services of foreign princes and states , to the great disservice of his majesty and their native countreys ; and whereby his said majesty and his realms are unfurnished of men of their sort and calling , if there shall be cause to use them : therefore for redress thereof at present , and preventing the like for the future , the kings most excellent majesty by this his royal proclamation , with the advice of the lords of his majesties most honourable privy councel , doth will , and strictly charge and command all and singular masters of ships , pilots , mariners , sea-men , ship-wrights , and other sea-faring men whatsoever , and wheresoever , being his majesties natural born subjects , who are in the service of any foreign prince or state , or do serve in any foreign ships or vessels , that forthwith they do withdraw themselves , and depart from such foreign services , and return home to their native countreys , and lawful vocations . and further , his majesty doth hereby prohibit and forbid all and singular masters of ships , pilots , mariners , sea-men , ship-wrights , and other sea-faring men whatsoever , being his majesties natural born subjects , from entring themselves , and doth hereby streightly charge and command them , and every of them from henceforth , to forbear to enter themselves into pay , or otherwise betake themselves to the service of any foreign princes or states , or to serve in any foreign vessel or ship , without licence had and obtained in that behalf . to all which his majesty doth and will expect due obedience and conformity ; and doth hereby publish and declare , that the offenders to the contrary shall not only incur his majesties just displeasure , but be proceeded against for their contempt , by seizure of their goods , persons and estates , wheresoever they shall be found , and otherwise , according to the utmost severities of law. and further , his majesty doth hereby authorize and command all and every the captains , masters , and other officers serving or imployed in any of his majesties ships or vessels at sea , to stop and make stay of all and every such person and persons as shall endeavour to transport or enter themselves into the service of any foreign prince or state , contrary to the true intent and meaning of this his majesties royal proclamation ; and also to seize upon , take , and bring away all such mariners , sea-men , and other persons aforesaid , as shall be found to be imployed or serving in any ships or vessels , of , or belonging to any foreign prince or state , or to any merchant , or other person or persons , other then to his majesty , or to his subjects . and whereas his majesty is advertised from his good brother the king of portugal , that he hath revoked and annulled all commissions and letters of marque or reprisal by him given to any persons whatsoever , either his own subjects or strangers , against the states general of the united provinces and their subjects ; therefore the kings most excellent majesty doth hereby straitly charge and command all and singular his governours , officers and ministers of his towns , forts , castles , and ports , and other his loving subjects whom it may any way concern , not to suffer or permit any persons whatsoever , whether his majesties own subjects or strangers , by vertue or pretence of portugal commissions , to bring into his majesties harbours , any ships , vessels , or prizes taken from the said states general or their subjects , upon pain of being severely punished . given at our honour of hampton-court , the twentieth day of june , . in the fourteenth year of our reign . god save the king. london , printed by john bill and christopher barker , printers to the kings most excellent majesty . . a proclamation for the more effectual reducing and suppressing of pirates and privateers in america james r. england and wales. sovereign ( - : james ii) approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a proclamation for the more effectual reducing and suppressing of pirates and privateers in america james r. england and wales. sovereign ( - : james ii) james ii, king of england, - . sheet ([ ] p ) printed by charles bill, henry hills, and thomas newcomb ..,. london : / . reproduction of original in huntington library. at head of title: by the king. broadside. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng pirates -- america -- legal status, laws, etc. -- sources. privateering -- america -- sources. broadsides - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - stephanie batkie sampled and proofread - stephanie batkie text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion by the king , a proclamation for the more effectual reducing and suppressing of pirates and privateers in america . james r. whereas frequent robberies and piracies have been , and are daily committed by great numbers of pirates and privateers as well on the seas as on the land of and in america , which hath occasioned a great prejudice and obstruction to the trade and commerce as well of our subjects , as of the subjects of our allies , and hath given a great scandal and disturbance to our government in those parts . and whereas we being resolved to take some effectual course for the putting an end to all such outragious insolencies , have therefore thought it requisite to send a squadron of ships into the parts aforesaid , under the command of our trusty and welbeloved servant sir robert holmes , knight , our governor of our isle of wight , and have otherwise given him all necessary powers for suppressing of the said p●rates and privateers , either by force , or assurance of pardon , and have constituted and appointed the said sir robert holmes our sole commissioner in that affair ; now to the end that this our royal purpose may be the better put in execution , and that none of the said offenders may have any cause of excuse or pretence left for want of a due advertisement of our intended mercy and clemency towards them , upon their withdrawing themselves from their said wicked and piratical courses for the future : we are graciously pleased hereby to promise and declare , that in case any such pirate or privateer pirates or privateers shall within the space of twelve months next ensuing the date of this our proclamation , either in person , or by their agents surrender , or become obliged to surrender him or themselves unto the said sir robert holmes , or any other person or persons appointed by him , or such other person or persons as in case of his death shall be further constituted and appointed by us , within any of our said islands , plantations , colonies , or 〈…〉 or land , lying between the tropiques of cancer and capricorn in america , and in case any pirate or privateer , pirates or privateers shall within the space of fifteen months next ensuing the date of these presents , surrender , or become obliged to surrender him or themselves to the said sir robert holmes , or any others appointed as aforesaid , in any other parts of america , or within our kingdom of england , and shall give sufficient security to be approved of by the said sir robert holmes , or in case of his death , by such other person or persons as shall be further appointed by us , for his or their future good behaviour , we will , upon such humble submission , and after such security given , grant unto such pirate or pirates , privateer or privateers , our gracious , full and ample pardon for all piracies or robberies committed by him or them upon the sea or land before the date of these presents . and we do hereby straightly charge and command all and singular our admirals , uice-admirals chief governours , captains , commanders , mariners , seamen , and all our officers and ministers of and in all and every our said islands , plantations , colonies , and territories whatsoever , and of all and every our ships of war and other uessels , and all other our officers and subjects whatsoever , not only to be aiding , favouring and assisting in their several places and stations , unto the said sir robert holmes , and such other person or persons as shall be appointed as aforesaid in and for the more effectual reducing and suppressing of all manner of pirates and privateers within the limits and parts aforesaid , or any of them , but also ( upon the producing a certificate or instrument under the hand and seal o● the said sir robert holmes , or such other person as in case of his death shall be further appointed by us , signifying that an● pirate or privateer , pirates or privateers hath or have surrendred him or themselves unto the said sir robert holmes , or su●● other person or persons appointed as aforesaid , and given security for their future good behaviour according to the tenor of these presents ) to permit and suffer the said person or persons lawfully to pass and travel either by sea or land , wit●out any let , hindrance or molestation whatsoever , to or from any of our said islands , plantations or colonies , or int● our kingdom of england , as soon as conveniently may be , in order to his or their receiving our full and gracious pardons aforesaid , and that in the mean time no indictment , process , or other proceeding shall be had in any of our courts of ●●cord , or elsewhere , against any such person or persons producing such certificate or instrument , for any piracy or robbery b● him or them committed as aforesaid , before the date of these presents . provided always , that if any of the said offender or ●ffenders whatsoever shall after the publishing of this our proclamation , in contempt thereof , and of our princely mercy and clemency to them hereby offered , wilfully and obstinately persist in their piracies , robberies and outragious practices , or shall ●ot surrender themselves in manner aforesaid ; then we do hereby expresly direct and command , that all and every such pers●● and persons shall be pursued with the utmost severity , and with the greatest rigour that may be , until they and every of them ●e utterly suppressed and destroyed ; we declaring it to be our royal purpose and resolution , that they and every of them ●●all from thenceforth be finally excluded and debarr'd from receiving any further favour or mercy . and lastly we do hereby 〈◊〉 , annul and make void all proclamations by us formerly issued touching the premisses herein above mentioned , or 〈◊〉 them . given at our court at whitehall this twentieth day of ●anuary , ● . in the third year of our reign . god save the king . london , printed by charles 〈…〉 to the kings most excellent majesty . ●