Note 1 — 1676, April 1.

Two treaties had been recently entered into, viz.: "Articles of Peace between Great Britain and Tunis, concluded October, 1662. Renewed and confirmed February 4, 1674/5," and "Capitulations and Articles of Peace between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire, September, 1675" (Several Treaties of Peace and Commerce, London, 1686, pp. 157, 203. See also Playfair's Scourge of Christendom, pp. 115-119). One of the clauses of these treaties required that all Englishmen traveling in foreign ships should be provided with passports. A proclamation of December 22, 1675, ordered that all passes issued before 1675 should expire on May 1, 1676, and that all new passes, except those for Guinea or the East or West Indies, should be in force for only one year. Another proclamation of January 28, 1676, explained that the passes referred to as expiring on May 1 concerned only the Mediterranean trade (see proclamation calendared in Lord Crawford's Tudor and Stuart Proclamations). The proclamation above printed was issued to determine the expiration of passes granted for the English colonial trade.