FOOTNOTES:

[1] The second Navigation Act of 1663, cited as 15 Chas. II, ch. 7, printed in Statutes of the Realm, vol. 5, p. 449.

[2] Ordered published by the Council, November 24, 1675 (Acts of Privy Council, i, 638).

[3] The above three acts are (1) "An Act for the Encourageing and increasing of Shipping and Navigation," 12 Chas. II, ch. 18, of the year 1660, printed in Statutes of the Realm, v, 246; (2) "An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England, and for Regulating the Plantation Trade," 22-23 Chas. II, ch. 26, of the year 1670, printed in Statutes of the Realm, v, 747; and (3) "An Act for the incouragement of the Greeneland and Eastland Trades, and for the better secureing the Plantation Trade," 25 Chas. II, ch. 7, of the year 1672, printed in Statutes of the Realm, v, 792. For a general description of the Navigation Acts, see Channing, History of the United States, ii, 27; Channing's "Navigation Laws" in Amer. Antiquarian Society Proceedings, vi, 160; and Beer's "Commercial Policy of England toward the American Colonies," in Columbia University Studies, ii, pt. 2. The acts themselves are reprinted in MacDonald's Select Charters.

[1676, April 1.]

[Concerning Passes for Ships.]

BY THE KING.

A PROCLAMATION

Concerning Passes for Ships.

Charles R.

His Majesty (with the Advice of His Privy Council) doth by this His Royal Proclamation publish and declare, That all Passes for Ships Entred out for the East or West Indies, or the parts of Africa beyond Cape Verde, which were granted before the date hereof, shall determine upon their return, and being unladen in some Port of England or Wales, or at the Town of Berwick upon Tweed; And that all Passes by vertue of any other Treaties then those of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoly,[1] for Ships Entred for the Mediterranean Sea, or Trading there, granted before the 25^th of March 1675, shall determine at Michaelmas 1676. And that all such Passes for such Ships, granted after the 25^th of March 1675, and before the date of this Our Royal Proclamation, shall determine on the 25^th day of March 1677. And that if any of the said Ships shall be in any Port of this Kingdom, or in any Member or Creek thereof, at the time of the publishing of this Our Royal Proclamation, their Passes shall be then void; And if any of the said Ships shall happen to come into any Port of England, after the publishing of this Our Royal Proclamation, and before the expiring of the said Periods, and unlade, their Passes shall thereupon determine; And also that all Passes granted to Ships Entred to any other part of the World, or Coastwise, such Passes shall determine on the 29^th day of September 1676. And hereof all persons concerned are to take notice at their perils.

Given at Our Court at Newmarket the First day of April 1676. In the Eight and twentieth year of Our Reign.

God save the King.

London, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1676.

1 p. folio. Copies in Antiq., Bodl., B. M., Crawf., Dalk., Guild., P. C., P. R. O., Q. C., and T. C. D. Printed in "London Gazette," No. 1084.