Treaty of Peace and Alliance between England and the Netherlandstheir dominions in Europe, to continue and abide therein so
long as they shall please, and may there buy so many provisions
as are necessary for their use, without any hindrance : and that
likewise they may trade and traffic in whatever sorts of goods
and commodities shall seem to them fit, and may import and
export them at their pleasure, paying the usual duties, but sav-
ing all the laws and statutes of both countries ; provided never-
theless, that the subjects and inhabitants of either side exercis-
ing their trade in each other’s countries and dominions shall
not be obliged hereafter to pay any more customs, dues,
imposts, or other duties than in that proportion which other
foreigners trading in the said places pay....
- Also, that in case it shall happen that during this league,
friendship, and alliance, anything shall be done or attempted by
any of the subjects or inhabitants of either party against this
treaty, or any part thereof, by sea, land, or fresh waters, that nev-
ertheless this amity, league, and alliance between the said
nations shall not thereby be interrupted or broken, but shall
remain and continue in its full force ; and that only those par-
ticular persons shall be punished, who have offended against
this treaty, and none else ; and that justice shall be rendered, and
satisfaction given to all persons concerned, by all those that have
committed anything contrary to this treaty, on land or sea, or
other waters, in any part of Europe, or in any places within the
Straits of Cadiz, or in America, or upon the coasts of Africa, or
in any lands, islands, seas, creeks, bays, rivers, or in any places on
this side the Cape of Good Hope, within the space of a year after
justice shall be demanded ; and in all places whatsoever beyond
the said Cape (as aforesaid) within eighteen months after justice
shall be demanded in the manner aforesaid. But in case the
offenders against this treaty shall not appear, nor submit them-
selves to judgment and give satisfaction within the respective
times above fixed proportionable to the distance of the places,
they shall be declared enemies of both parties, and all their
goods, estates, and revenues shall be confiscated for due and full
satisfaction of the injuries inflicted by them ; and their persons
also, when they come within the power of either party, shall be
liable unto such punishments as each may deserve for his
respective offense. - Also, it is agreed and concluded between the said lord
King of Great Britain, and the said Lords States of the United
Netherlands, that the island of Pulo Run shall be restored to his
said Majesty, or to those whom he shall appoint for this purpose
by a commission under the great seal of England ; and [it shall
be restored] so soon as any one provided with such a commis-
sion shall arrive there and demand the said restitution ; and in
order that the restoration may be effected with the more ease
and certainty, commissions necessary for that end shall be deliv-
ered unto him from the States General and the Netherlands
India Company, immediately after the ratification of this treaty.
And [it is agreed] that by the restitution of the said island of
Pulo Run, all actions and pretensions wherein the subjects of
either party think they have right for losses, injuries, and
offenses committed upon each other in India, and taken notice
of in England before January 10/20, 1658/9 (with this excep-
tion, that they who say they have suffered loss in two ships, to
wit, the Bonaventureand the Bona Esperanza,may prosecute the
suit already begun), shall cease, be extinguished, and annulled
in the manner following :
That all offenses, injuries, and losses (except those before
excepted) which one party has suffered, or can in any way pre-
tend to have suffered from the other in the East Indies, whereof
any notice shall have been given to the English at London, or
to the Netherlanders at the Hague, before the twentieth of Jan-
uary, 1659, new style, or the tenth of January, 1658, old style ;
but in other parts of the world on this side the Cape, any
actions or things whatsoever that happened before the publi-
cation and notice of the peace concluded between both
nations on March 4/14, 1653/4, shall remain utterly cancelled
and extinguished, so that neither party shall trouble the other
on account of any such damage, offencs, injury, or detriment
(except the before excepted) but there shall be and remain a
perfect abolition of all and every one of them, and all suits and
actions upon such account shall be void and null: but other
damages, offenses, injuries, and detriments, which the English
nation, either upon public or private account, can affirm to
have fallen or have been brought upon them by the govern-
ment of the United Netherlands, or by the companies or pri-
vate persons subject to that government, as on the other side
what the United Netherlanders can upon public or private
account pretend to have fallen or been brought upon them by
the government of the English, or by the companies or private
persons subject thereunto, in the East Indies, after January
10/20, 1658/9, or at least whereof there was no notice at Lon-
don or at the Hague before that day ; and in other parts of the
world after the publication and notice of the aforesaid peace of
the year 1653/4, without any further distinction or exception
of persons, place, or time, shall be submitted, as by this treaty
they are submitted, unto the examination, arbitration, and
decision of commissioners or arbitrators, after the manner and
under the conditions following :
That commissioners be appointed only for matters past, but
not at all for matters to come, which may happen after the day
whereupon this treaty is concluded ;
That their commission, directed unto past things only, as has
been already said, is not to contain any general clause, but is to
be expressly confined and limited to a special catalogue, which
shall be annexed unto the commission, so that they may by no
means take cognizance of any other thing besides the actions set
down in that catalogue ;
But that they may mutually agree thereupon, a catalogue
shall be made by each party and interchangeably delivered, so
that it may be properly and duly examined by either side ; and if
there be found in either of the catalogues any things whatsoever
relating to the East Indies which were known in London before
January 10/20, 1658/9, as to actions of the English, or at the
same time at the Hague as to actions of the United Provinces, or
which happened in other parts of the world before the