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HEREAS the trade to and from Africa is very advantageous to Great Britain, and necessary for the supplying the plantations and colonies thereunto belonging with a sufficient number of negroes, at reasonable rates; and for that purpose the said trade ought to be free and open to all his Majesty's subjects; therefore be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,

That it shall and may be lawful for all his Majesty's subjects to trade and traffick to and from any port or place in Africa, between the port of Sallee in South Barbary, and the Cape of Good Hope, when, and at such times, and in such manner, and in or with such quantity of goods, wares, or merchandizes, as he or they shall think fit, without any restraint whatsoever, save as is here in after expressed.