And whereas by the sixth Article of the Treaty, between the Emporour his late Maj[es]ty King William the Third, and the Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces concluded at the Hague the seventh day of September Anno Dno. 1701 : It is agreed and declared to be lawfull for his Royall Maj[es]ty of great Brittain and the said Lords the States Generall by com[m]on advise and for the benefit and inlargement of the navigation of and Commerse of their subjects to seize by their forces what lands and citys they can belonging to the Spanish dominions in the Indies; and that whatsoever they take shall be their own.