date of the faid bond, upon which the neceffary difpatches are to be given them. And the faid merchandize fhall be marked with the feals or marks of the farmers of the Millones where the faid duties were fecured, after which the faid goods may be transported to, and fold in the places where they are to be confumed, without paying any new duties of Millones. His Majefty alfo declares, that if, after the receipts are produced, any officer belonging to the farmers of the Millones fhould exact a fecond time the fame duties on the fame goods, or fhould oppose their paffage, tranfport, or fale, or occafion the leaft impediment, the faid officer fhall be fined 2,000 crowns, for the benefit of his Majefty's revenue.

Therefore, by virtue of these prefents, we do approve and ratify the treaty above written, as likewife the three articles, viz, the third, fifth, and eighth, as they are fet forth in this inftrument of ratification, and are to be taken as part of the faid treaty, and to have the fame force and effect as if they had been inferted therein: promifing and engaging our Royal word, that we will faithfully and religiously perform and obferve all and fingular the things agreed upon in this treaty, and that we will not fuffer the fame to be violated by any one, as far as lies in our power. For the greater teftimony and validity whereof, we have caused our great feal to be affixed to these prefents, which we figned with our Royal hand. Given at our caftle of Windfor the feventh day of February, 171, in the twelfth year of our reign. ANNE R.

ANNE, by the grace of God, Queen of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all and fingular to whom thefe prefents fhall come, greeting. Whereas the Right Reverend Father in God, our right trufty and well-beloved counsellor, John Bishop of Bristol, our ambaffador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, Dean of Windfor, and register of cur moft noble Order of the Garter, did on our part, together

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together with the plenipotentiaries of the moft Serene Catholic King, conclude and fign at Utrecht, on the

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2,5 day of December, 1713, a treaty of commerce between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain, and at the fame time a feparate article was concluded, made between the faid plenipotentiaries, who were feverally furnished with fufficient authorities, and is as follows:

Separate Article.

BY the prefent feparate article, which fhall be altogether of the fame validity and force as if it was inferted word for word in the treaty of commerce this day concluded, between their Royal Majefties of Great Britain and Spain, and shall for that end be ratified, as well as the said treaty; his Catholic Majefty confents, that it shall at all times hereafter be lawful for the Britifh fubjects, who fhall live in the Canary Islands, for the fake of their trade, to nominate fome one person, being a fubject of Spain, who fhall execute the office of judge confervator there, and fhall at the first inftance take cognizance of all caufes relating to the commerce of the British subjects; and his Royal Majefty promises, that he will grant commiffions to fuch judge confervator fo named, together with the fame authority, and all the privileges which the judges confervators have formerly enjoyed in Andalufia. And if the British fubjects fhall defire to have more judges of that fort there, or to change thofe that are appointed every three years, it fhall be allowed and granted them. His Catholic Majefty confents likewife, that appeals from the sentences of the faid judge confervator shall be brought before the tribunal at the council of war at Madrid, and no where else,

In witness whereof, we the under-written ambassadors extraordinary, and plenipotentiaries of her Sacred Majefty of Great Britain, and of his Sacred Catholic Majefty, have figned and fealed these prefents, at

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We having feen and confidered this feparate article, have approved, ratified, and confirmed, as we do by these presents approve, ratify, and confirm the fame, promifing and engaging our Royal word, that we will faithfully and inviolably keep all and fingular the things therein contained, and that we will not fuffer any thing to be done contrary thereunto. For the greater teftimony and validity whereof, we have figned this inftrument with our Royal hand, and caused our great feal of Great Britain to be affixed thereunto. Given at our castle of Windfor the feventh day of February, 171, in the twelfth year of our reign. ANNE R.

ANNE R.

ANNE, by the grace of God, Queen of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom thefe prefents fhall come, greeting. When we had determined to endeavour to put an end to this fo long and fo pernicious a war, amidst the great cares which we took upon us in reftoring the public tranquillity, we turned our thoughts in the first place to the renewal and strengthening of those most ftrict bands of friendship and correfpondence between us and our good brother Philip the Fifth Catholic King of Spain, which had fubfifted from the longeft date of time between the British and Spanish crowns, to the mutual benefit of both nations: wherefore we were pleased to appoint the fame minifters, who had fo long, and with fo good fuccefs, applied themselves in our name to promote and finish the most wholesome

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work of peace between the Christian Princes and States at Utrecht, to conclude and fign terms and conditions, as well of peace and friendship, as of commerce and navigation, between us and the faid Catholic King. Know ye, therefore, that we repofing very great confidence in the fidelity, induftry, and perfpicacity and experience in treating of affairs of the greatest importance, of the Right Reverend Father in God our right trusty and well-beloved counsellor John Lord Bishop of Bristol, keeper of our privy feal, Dean of Windfor, and register of our most noble Order of the Garter; and of our right trufty and right well-beloved coufin and counfellor Thomas Earl of Strafford, Viscount Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, and of Staineborough, Baron of Raby, lieutenant general of our armies, first commiffioner of our admiralty, knight of our moft noble Order of the Garter, and our ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Provinces; have nominated, made, and conftituted, as we do by these presents nominate, make, and constitute them our true, certain, and undoubted ambaffadors extraordinary, commiffaries, procurators, and plenipotentiaries, giving and granting to them, either jointly or feparately, all and all manner of power, leave, and authority, and our general as well as fpecial command (provided that our general command shall not derogate from or be contrary to our special command) to meet at Utrecht, or at any other place whatsoever, and have conferences with the ambaladors extraordinary and plenipotentiaries whom the faid Catholic King fhall depute on his fide, and provide with fufficient authorities, and of treating of, agreeing upon, and concluding, safe, firm, and honourable conditions of peace and friendfhip between us and the faid Catholic King, and of figning whatsoever fhall be fo agreed, for us, and in our name, and of making, delivering, and receiving reciprocally, all the necefiary inftruments of the things concluded, how many or whatsoever they are, and in general, of

doing and performing all things which they fhall judge to be any ways neceffary or convenient towards making and establishing conditions of peace and friendship, as aforefaid, in as ample manner and form, and with the fame force and effect, as we could do and perform the fame, if we ourfelves were prefent; promifing and engaging our Royal word, that we will approve and ratify all and every one of the articles, which by virtue of these presents shall be tranfacted, concluded, and figned by our faid ambaffadors extraordinary, commiffaries, procurators, and plenipotentiaries, jointly or feparately, in the form and manner wherein they are agreed. For the greater teftimony and validity whereof, having figned these prefents with our Royal hand, we have commanded our great feal to be affixed thereunto. Given at our palace at St. James's, the third day of May 1713, in the twelfth year of our reign.

DON PHILIP, by the grace of God, King of Caftille, Leon, Aragon, and both Sicilies, Jerufalem, Navarre, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Sardinia, Cordova, Corfica, Murcia, Jaen, the Algarves, Algezira, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, the East and Weft Indies, the islands and continent of the ocean, Archduke of Auftria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, and Milan, Earl of Apfburg, Flanders, Tirol, and Barcelona, Lord of Bifcay and Molina, &c. Whereas we have defired, and do defire, that our fubjects may be fet at eafe and reft, from the afflictions and calamities of fo long and bloody war, as this has proved to be, and that by putting an end to the deplorable effects thereof, they may come to enjoy that repose, fplendor, and profperity, which they earnestly wish for, and we ought to procure them; and confidering how much this common good will be fecured, by entering upon and concluding a treaty of commerce, between this crown and that of England, which may be of reciprocal advantage and convenience to the fubjects of

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