Campveere Agreement 1676

Articles of Agreement for settling the Staple Port at Campheer
Ratified by the Convention. 9th July, and 12th October 1676

 

Parts of the 1676 Agreement

Dedication	Articles 1 - 6	Articles 7 - 13
Royal Commission	Articles 14 - 22	Articles 23 - 34
Commission by Royal Burghs and Veere	Articles 35 - 40	Confirmation

 

Articles 14 to 22

14. Fourteenthly. And for the better encouradgement of the navigation and trade of the Scottts nation it is by this article agreed that in case any ship or ships belonging to them be robbed, spoiled, or taken at sea by any inhabitant or others holding themselfs under the jurisdiction of the province of Zealand, the magistratts of this toun shall hereby be oblidge to endeavour (according to their power) that all such shipps or goods be againe restored with their intire loadnings or what shall be so robbed or taken, or els caus full satisfaction be given to the persone or persones so wronged propportionallie to the right value thairof, and shall caus the delinquents be punished according to the nature of the offence, but if so that the offendar duell under another jurisdiction, then the magistratts shall be oblidged by their pentionarij or others to require the restitution and satisfaction for the said damnage, and that at the coast and charge of the toun. And furder that all goods of ships cast away belonging to the merchand and factors of the Scotts staple that shall be saved by any inhabitant or other persone holding themselves under the jurisdiction of this toun or any way concealed or made away by them in any sorte, then the magistratts are hereby holden to use their pover and authoritie, to the end the saids goods or value thairof might be furthcomeing to the right owners, and the persones so offending to be severly punished for such their concealment and unjust detention, and also in case the saids goods shall happen to be taken up, concealed, or embazled be any persone or persones living without the jurisdiction of this toun, the magistratts shall use their best endeavour to gett the saids goods or their value againe restored to the right owners; and in case any shipp or shipps shall be in danger to be cast away in the passage leading to this toun, that then all possible and speedie help shall be imployed at te coast of thhe owner of the goods for preservation of the same.

15. Fyfteenthly. If in case of any of the inhabitants here being adebted to any of the staple shall come to obtaine letters or respyte of tyme or suritie de corpis or cessio bonorum, these of the nation shall be favoured and used in the same maner as any other creditor, induellar in this toun; and if it shall happen that any of the staple adebted to any induellar in this cuntrie, or ane induellar adebted to any of the staple, doe come to faill, if in that case it be fund necessar to appoynt a curator over his goods, then shall the magistratts with the conservator apon each syde choise a curator or overseer, who shall joyntly dispose and manadge the whole estate of the pairtie insolvent.

16. Sexteenthly. For the better secureing of the estate of any of the Scotts nation that shall happen to die on this toune, the magistratts is by this article holden to grant and agree unto those of the Scotts staple court that in any of their members hapning to die or depairt this life intestat, without making his last will and testament, then and in that case their goods and estate shall and must fall under the administration of the court of the lord conservator, in so mush that nether the magistratts nor the orphans court in this place shall have anything to doe with the saids goods or estates of the persons so dieing or exercise any authoritie thairupon.

17. Sevinteenthly. The magistratts doe by this article promise and consent that the conservator or his deputie shall and may use the prisson of this toun at their pleasure, furnished with all necessars thereto belonging, in which the conservator or his deputie shall and may caus to be imprisoned all such debtors, offenders, and evill doers of the Scotts nation, which the said conservator or his deputie may imprison, and againe enlarge out of the same at his or their pleasure, without contradiction or being oblidged to informe the toun magistratts therewith, and that the marshell, keeper of the prisone or his officers, be oblidged to give all due assistance to the said conservator or his deputie als often as he or they shall be thereunto requyred.

18. Eighteenly. And for the better secureing of the trade of the Scotts nation it is hereby agreed that the magistratts shall upon all fitting and convenient occasion in the tyme of warre and danger procure in the court of admirality in Zealand a weel furnished man of warre ane or mae (if need be) that may freely goe out in convoy of the ships belonging to the Scotts nation to any place or places within the river of Forth or any other place in the kingdom of Scotland, and there to stay and attend for the space of fourteen dayes for bringing back the saids shipps or others to this porte.

19. Nynteently. It is by this article agreed that the magistratts of this toun caus good and sufficient watch to be keeped in the streetts in the night tyme, especially in those places where the greatest pairt of the waire houses of the said staple court are, and shall also take care that the inhabitants and burgers of this toun shall carie and demean themselves peaceablie and in ane freendly maner to those who are members of the staple court. And furder the saids magistratts doe also consent by these presents that those of the Scotts staple may take in their service such ane doctor of phisik, chirurgian, barbor, and apothecary as they shall think good, without any contradiction, who may enjoy all such immunities and priviledges as be right and custome belongs to the doctors chirurgians duelling in this toun; all other doctors, apothercaries and chirurgians shall also be freely permitted to practise among all such of the Scotts nation as reseid here; also the magistratts doe grant to the barbor chirurgian of the Scotts nation a sufficient hous rent free. The magistratts are also holden by this article to provyde and appropriat to the use of these of the Scotts staple a convenient place from their merchands and factors, therin to aire and dry their sheep skinns, hyds, or other goods which may be in dainger to be damnified by watter or otherwayes; and also to affoord those of the Scotts nation a convenient place for their merchands and factors within or near the toun wherinto they may resorte for their bodilie recreation; and lykwayes libertie and freedom to the conservator his deputs, court officers, and merchants to fish, hunt, shoott and hauck in all places under the jurisdiction of this toun without lett, hinderance, or molestation, with the same freedom the magistratts themselves enjoy.

20. Tuentie. And in case (as God forbid) that by reason of any intestenwarr or plague, the people of the Scotts nation may not with securitie and saifftie to themselves frequent this toun then it shall be lawfull for them to transport themselves their goods and merchandise freely to any other toun or place they shall think fitt, provyded alwayes they pey befor their depairture what they shall be justly adebted to any inhabitant within this toun; and the magistratts is hereby holden oblidged to caus help and assist the said nation with shipps, hoyes, and all other things necessary for their transportation upon their reasonable charges; and in lykmaner the magistratts are by this article holden oblidged that if in case (which God prevent) any difference should aryse betuixt the King of Great Britann and the United Provinces, whereupon hostilitie and warre may ensue, in that case they are to give save and sure protection to all persons of the Scotts nation for sex moneths tyme aftir the publication of the said warre, according to the 32 article of the generall treatie betuixt the King of Great Britann and the States Generall, to the end that those of the Scotts nation may recover and gett in the debts dew to them and also pey what they may be owing to any of the inhabitants here, and therafter withdraw themselves to any other place they shall think fitt, the magistratts affording them the same assistance mentioned in the forrgoeing pairt of this article, and when the pestilence is over the Scotts nation to return againe to this toun.

21. Tuentie ane. That if any of the Scotts nation shall happen to marie with any woman in the Netherlands or within the toun of Campheer, and aftir the said mariadge reside here under the staple court, the said woman shall be holden to be under the government of the lawes of Scotland, and that she neither shall or may by contract of marriage or otherwayes detaine, keep, or dispose of her husbands goods to the prejudice of his lawfull creditors, bot concerning that she most be regulat according to the saids lawes of the kingdom of Scotland; and lykwayes that no persone, whither man or woman, depending on the Scotts staple, be permitted to dispone of their goods by testament or otherwayes contrare to the lawes of Scotland and staple court, and the tutors and curators of childreen in minoritie shall be regulat according to the saids lawes.

22. Tuentie tuo. And quheras the trade and commerce of the Scotts nation doeth consist not only in the importation but also in the exportation of goods and merchandices from these provinces in which the toun of Midleburgh is concerned, that the magistratts here may make the same known to the magistratts of Midleburgh, to the end that the conservator and others belonging to the Scotts staple court may be used in that toun with all kyndnes and freendly respect and with the same freedom and immunities that any free burgher here may there enjoy.