**  5.  The  merchants,  masters  of  ships,  pilots,  seamen,  and  others,
their  ships,  merchandise,  and  aH  goods  in  general  of  the  said  con-
federates and  their  subjects  and  inhabitants,  shall  not  be  appre-
hended or  detained  in  the  lands,  ports,  shores,  harbours,  or  domi-
nions whatsoever  in  alliance  with  the  other,  for  any  public  use,
expedition  of  war,  or  other  cause,  much  less  for  any  private  man's
use  by  virtue  of  any  edict,  general  or  special ;  neither  shall  they  be
molested  or  constrained  by  violence  or  injury  or  anything  of  that
kind :  provided  that  arrests  be  not  prohibited  if  they  are  made  ac-
cording to  the  ordinary  form  of  law,  justice,  and  equity ;  they  shaU
not  neglect  the  punishment  of  any  for  private  affection.
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vexatious)  transaction  of  this  great  affair  for  near  five
months  together,  aU  bitter  oppositions,  canning  prac-
tices, and  perplexed  difficulties   being  removed  and

"  6.  And  if  one  or  more  sbips  of  the  subjects,  citizens,  or  inhabi-
tants, be  they  of  war  or  of  burden  and  private  men's,  shall  be  forced
by  tempests,  or  pursued  by  pirates  and  enemies,  or  any  urgent  neces-
sity  to  the  harbour  or  shores  of  the  other  confederate,  and  be  forced
to  call  for  protection,  they  shall  be  received  there  with  all  benignity,
humanity,  and  friendship,  and  at  no  time  to  be  hindered,  and  all
victual,  reparation,  and  things  fit  for  use  at  the  ordinary  price ;  they
shall  not  be  prohibited  to  depart  or  go  out  of  the  port  or  harbour
by  any  pretence  whatsoever,  as  long  as  they  have  not  committed
anything  against  the  statutes,  ordinances,  and  custom  of  the  place
where  their  ships  are  brought  and  where  they  shall  sojourn.
