privy council, thought fit to declare his royal
will and pleasure, and it is hereby declared
and ordered, that the said islands of Ferroe
and Iceland, and the settlements on the coast
of Greenland, and the inhabitants thereof,
and the property therein, shall be exempted
from the attack and hostility of His Majesty’s
forces and subjects, and that the ships belonging
to the inhabitants of such islands
and settlements, and all goods being of the
growth, produce, or manufacture, of the said
islands or settlements, on board the ships
belonging to such inhabitants, engaged in a
direct trade between such islands and settlements
respectively and the ports of London
or Leith, shall not be liable to seizure and
confiscation as prize.
“ His Majesty is further pleased to order,
with the advice aforesaid, that the people of
all the said islands and settlements be considered,
when resident in His Majesty’s
dominions, as stranger friends, under the
safeguard of His Majesty’s royal peace, and
entitled to the protection of the laws of the
realm, and in no case treated as alien
enemies.
<e His Majesty is further pleased to order,
with the advice aforesaid, that the ships of
the united kingdom, navigated according to
law, be permitted to repair to the said
islands and settlements, and to trade with the
inhabitants thereof.
iC And His Majesty is further pleased to
order, with the advice aforesaid, that all His
Majesty’s cruisers and all other his subjects
be inhibited from committing any acts of
depredation or violence against the persons,
ships, and goods of any of the inhabitants of
the said islands and settlements, and against
any property in the said islands and settlements
respectively.
“ And the right honorable the lords commissioners
of His Majesty’s treasury, His
Majesty’s principal secretaries of state, the
lords commissioners of the admiralty, and
the judge of the high court of admiralty, and
the judges of the courts of vice-admiralty,
are to take the necessary measures herein, as
to them shall respectively appertain.”
(Signed)
<£ W . F awkener. ”