WHereas a Peace hath been treated and concluded at Breda, betwixt His Majesty and the French King, and the Ratifications thereof exchanged, and publication thereof there made the fourteenth day of this instant August: In conformity whereunto, His Majesty hath thought fit hereby to command, that the same be published throughout all His Majesties Dominions.

And His Majesty doth declare, That all Ships or other moveable Goods what­soever, which shall appear to be taken from the Subjects of the French King; after the twenty sixth of this instant August, in the neighbouring Seas, That is to say, in the Channel, the Seas betwixt England and Ireland, as also in the North Seas and the Baltick; After the twenty fourth of September next ensuing, from the said neighbouring Seas to the Cape St. Vincent; After the twenty second of October next, from the said Cape St. Vincent to the Equinoctial Line, aswell in the Ocean as in the Mediterranean, and elsewhere; And lastly, after the fourteenth day of February next ensuing, on the other side of the aforesaid Line, throughout the whole World, without any exception or distinction of time or place, or with­out any form of Process; Shall immediatly and without any damage, be restored to the Owners, according to the said Treaty. And hereof His Majesty willeth and commandeth all His Subjects to take notice, and to conform them­selves thereunto.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the twenty fourth day of August, one thousand six hundred and sixty seven, and of Our Reign the nineteenth year.