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Enforcing
Gun Salute
1673
Art. 22
Upon your
meeting with any ships within His Majestie’s seas belonging to any
foreign Prince of State, you are to expect that, in their passing by you,
they strike their topsail, and take in their flag, in acknowledgement of
His Majestie’s sovereignty in these seas.
And if you shall refuse to do it, or to offer to
resist, you are to use your utmost endeavors to compel them thereunto, and
in no ways to suffer any dishonour to be done to his Majesty.
And in case any of his Majestie’s subjects shall be
so far forgetful of their duty as to not striking their topsails as they
pass by you, when it may be done without the loss of the voyage, you are
to bring them to the flag, to answer his contempt, or otherwise to return
the name of the shipp and of the master unto me, as of also of the place
from whence, and the port to which she shall be bound.
And you are to make the master of her to pay charge
for shot you shall make at her.
And you are to further notice that, in his
Majestie’s seas, his Majestie’s shipps are in no ways to strike to
any.
And that in other parts no ship of his Majestie is to
strike her flag or topsail to any foreigner, unless such foreigner shall
have first struk, or at the same time strike her flag or topsail to his
Majestie’s ship, except in the harbor of some foreign Prince, or in the
read within shot of cannon of some foreign fort or castle, where the
captains of his Majestie’s ships are to conform to the custom of the
place, and to salute the forts in such manner as is usual and customary
for the ships of war of his Majestie or
other Princes in that place.
And for your better guidance in this Article you are
to take notice that his Majestie's seas do extend to Cape Finisterre.
Art. 26.
Upon your meeting with any foreign ship or vessel, you are to send
on board her some person, (for whose civil deportment we shall be
responsible), to see if there are any of his Majestie's subjects on board
her, contrary to his Majestie's proclaimation forbidding any of his
subjects to serve any foreign Prince or State.
And such as shall be found you are to cause to be
taken forth and disposed of in such sort that they may be forthcoming to
answer their contempt of his Majestie's said proclamation.
And you are to compel the master of the ship in which
they shall be found to pay their wages for the time they have served. |
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Gun Salute 1673
