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A49237	The treaty of peace called the Pyrenaean Treaty, between the crowns of France and Spain concluded and signed by His Eminency Cardinal Mazarin and Dom Lewis Mendez de Haro, plenipotentiaries of their most Christian and G[C]atholick Majesties, the Seventh of November, 1659 / printed in Paris by His Majesties command, and now faithfully rendred English.; Treaties, etc. Spain, 1659 Nov. 7	France.; France. Treaties, etc. Spain, 1659 Nov. 7.	1659 (1659)	Wing L3140; ESTC R1302	50,216	44

THE TREATY OF PEACE CALLED THE Pyrenaean Treaty Between the CROWNS of FRANCE and SPAIN Concluded and Signed By his Eminency Cardinal Mazarin AND Dom Lewis Mendez de Haro Plenipotentiaries of their most Christian and Gatholick MAJESTIES The Seventh of November 1659. Printed in Paris by His Majesties Command and now faithfully rendred English LONDON Printed for T. Collins J. Wright T. Sawbridge and M. Pitt 1678. The Treaty of Peace between the Crowns of France and Spain concluded and signed by his Eminency Cardinal Mazarin and Dom Lewis Mendez de Haro Plenipotentiaries of their most Christian and Catholick Majesties in the Isle called of the Pheasants in the River of Bidassoa upon the Confines of the Pyrenaean Mountains the seventh of November 1659. LEWIS BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF FRANCE AND OF NAVARRA To all those who shall see the present Letters Greeting Whereas by vertue of the Powers respectively given by us and the most High most Excellent and most Potent Prince the Catholick King of Spain our most Dear and most Beloved good Brother and Uncle unto our most Dear and most Beloved Cosen the Cardinal Mazarin and to the Lord Dom Lewis Mendez de Haro and Gusman they have in the Isle called of the Pheasants in the River of Bidassoa upon the Confines of both the Kingdoms towards the Pyrenean Mountains the Seventh of the instant month of November concluded agreed and signed the Treaty of Peace and Reconciliation the tenor whereof is as followeth IN THE NAME OF GOD THE CREATOR To all present and to come Be it known That whereas a long and bloody War hath many years since caused great miseries and oppressions to be suffered by the People Kingdoms Countries and Dominions under the obedience of the most High most Excellent and most Potent Prince Lewis the XIV by the Grace of God most Christian King of France and Navarra and of Philip the IV by the Grace of God Catholick King of Spain In which War other Princes and Republicks their Neighbours and Allyes having also taken part many Towns and Countries of both the parties have been exposed to great evils miseries ruines and desolations And although at other times and by several ways diverse Overtures and Negociations for an accommodation have been made yet none of them through the mysterious secrets of the Divine Providence could take the effect most earnestly desired by their Majesties until at length that supreme God who hath in his hand the hearts of Kings and hath particularly reserved to himself alone the precious Gift of Peace hath had the goodness through his infinite Mercy to inspire at the same time both the Kings and so to guide and direct them that without any other interposition or motives but the only 〈…〉 of compassion they have had of the sufferings of their Good subjects and of a Fatherly desire of their good and relief and of the Peace of the whole Christendom they have found the means how to put an end to so great and long calamities to forget and extinguish the causes and the seeds of their divisions and to settle to the glory of God and the exaltation of our holy Catholick Faith a good sincere entire and lasting Peace and Fraternity between them and their Successors their Allyes and Dependants By means whereof the dammages and miseries suffered might quickly be repaired in all parts Which to attain unto both the said Lords and Kings having given order unto the most eminent Lord Messire Julas Mazarin Cardinal of the holy Roman Church Duke of Mayenne Head of the most Christian Kings Councils c. and unto that most excellent Lord the Lord Dom Lewis Mendez de Haro and Gusman Marquis of Carpier Earl-Duke of Olivares perpetual Governour of the Royal Palaces and of the Arcenal or Magazine of the City of Sevella great Chancellor perpetual of the India's one of his Catholick Majesties Council of State great Commander of the order of Alcantara Gentleman of his Majesties Chamber and Gentleman of his Horse these two first and principal Ministers to meet upon the Confines of both the Kingdoms towards the Pyrenaean Mountains as being the two persons who are best informed of their holy intentions of their Interests and of the most intimate secrets of their hearts and consequently the most able to find out the necessary expedients to end their differences and to that end having given unto them most large Powers the Copies whereof are inserted at the end of these presents both the aforesaid principal Ministers by vertue of their said powers acknowledged on both sides to be sufficient have granted established and concluded the following Articles I. FIRST it is concluded and agreed that for the future there shall be a good firm and lasting Peace confederation and perpetual alliance and amity between the most Christian and Catholick Kings their Children borne and to be born their Childrens Successors and Heirs their Kingdoms Dominions Countries and Subjects who shall love one another as good Brethren procuring with all their power the mutual good honor and reputation one of the other and shuning bona fide as much as in them shall lye the damage one of the other II. In consequence of that good re-union the Cessation of all manner of Hostility concluded and signed the eight day of May of this present year shall continue according to its tenor between the said Lords and Kings their Subjects Vassals and Adherents both by Sea and other Waters and by Land and generally in all places where the War hath been hitherto between their Majesties And if any new thing or ways of Fact should hereafter be attempted by the Arms or in any manner whatsoever under the name of the Authority of either of the said Lords and Kings to the prejudice of the other the dammages shall be presently repaired and things put again in the same state as they were in upon the eighth day of May aforesaid when the said suspension of Arms was agreed on and subscribed the tenor whereof ought to be observed until the publication of the Peace III. And for hindering lest the differences that might hereafter happen betwixt any Princes or Potentates in Alliance with the said Lords and Kings be able to alter the good correspondency a●● amity between their Majesties which every one of them is desirous to make so sure and lasting that no accident may disturb the same it hath been concluded and agreed that in case hereafter any difference should arise betwixt their Allies which might carry them to an open breach between themselves neither of the said Lords and Kings shall assault or disturb by his Arms the Ally of the other or shall give an assistance publick or private against the said Ally without first and afore all things treating in the Court of the other King by his Ambassador or some other particular person about the occasion of the said difference hindring as much as in them shall lye and by their authority the taking up

of Arms betwixt their said Allies until either by the judgment of both the Kings if their Allies will yield to their decision or by their interposition and authority they might have endeavoured an amicable composure of the said difference so that every one of their Allies be satisfied with it shunning on both sides the taking up of Auxiliary Arms. After which if the Authority of both the Kings or their Offices and interposition cannot produce the accommodation and the Allies do at last take the way of Arms every one of the said Lords and Kings shall be free to assist his Allie with his Forces without incurring thereby any breach betwixt their Majesties or any alteration of their Amity Each of the two Kings even promising in that case that he will not suffer that his Arms nor the Arms of his Allie should enter into any of the Dominions of the other King there to commit any hostility but that the quarrel shall be ended within the limits of the Dominion or Dominions of the Allies that shall fight together so that no warlike action or any other done in that conformity shall be deemed a breach of this present Treaty of Peace As likewise whensoever any Prince or State in Alliance with either of the said Lords and Kings shall be directly or indirectly assaulted by the Forces of the other King in what he shall hold and be possessed of at the subscribing of the present Treaty or what he ought to possess in consequence of it it shall be lawful to the other King to help or assist the assaulted Prince or State and yet whatsoever shall be done in conformity to the present Article by the Auxiliary Forces whilst they shall be in the service of the assaulted Prince or State shall not be deemed a breach of the present Treaty And in case it should happen that either of the two Lords and Kings should be first assaulted in what he now is possessed of or ought to possess by virtue of the present Treaty by any other Prince or State whatsoever or by many Princes and States in League together the other King shall not joint his Forces to the said assaulting Prince or State though otherwise his Ally nor to the said League of the likewise assaulting Princes or States as aforesaid nor shall give to the said Prince and State or to the said League any assistance of Men Money or Victuals nor passage or retreat in his Dominions to their Persons or Forces As for the Kingdoms Princes and States that are now in War with either of the said Lords and Kings and could not be comprehended in the present Treaty of Peace or that having been comprehended therein would not accept of it it hath been concluded and agreed that the other King shall not have power after the publication of the said Treaty to give them directly or indirectly any manner of assistance of Men Victuals or Money much less to the Subjects that might hereafter rise or revolt against either of the said Lords and Kings IV. All occasions of enmity or misunderstanding shall remain extinguished and for ever abolished and whatsoever hath been done or hath hapned upon occasion of the present Wars or during the same shall be put into perpetual oblivion so that for the future of neither side neither directly nor indirectly shall any inquiry be made for the same by Justice or otherwise under any pretence whatsoever nor shall their Majesties or their Subjects Servants or Adherents of either side shew any manner of remembrance of any offences or damages suffered during the War V. By means of this Peace and strict amity the Subjects of both sides whatsoever shall have liberty they observing the Laws and Customs of the Country to go to and fro to dwell trade and return into one anothers Country Merchandising or as they shall think best both by Land and by Sea or any other Fresh-waters to treat and trade together and the Subjects of the one shall be maintained and protected in the others Countreys as their own Subjects paying reasonably the Duties in all accustomed places and such others as by their Majesties and their Successors shall be imposed VI. The Towns Subjects Merchants and Inhabitants of the Kingdoms Dominions Provinces and Countreys belonging to the most Christian King shall enjoy the same Priviledges Franchises Liberties and Sureties in the Kingdom of Spain and other Kingdoms and Dominions belonging to the Catholick King as the English have by right enjoyed by the last Treaties made between the two Crowns of Spain and England and no greater Duties or Impositions shall be exacted of the French and other of the most Christian Kings Subjects either in Spain or any where else within the Lands or other places of the Catholick Kings obedience than have been paid by the English before the breach or than are paid at this time by the Inhabitants of the United Provinces of the Neatherlands or any other strangers that shall be there the more favourably intreated The same shall be done within the whole extent of the obedience of the said Lord the most Christian King unto all the Subjects of the said Lord the Catholick King of what Country or Nation soever they be VII In consequence of this if the French or any other of his most Christian Majesties Subjects are found in the said Kingdoms of Spain or upon the Coasts thereof to have shipped or caused to be shipped upon their Vessels in what manner soever it may be any prohibited goods to transport them out of the said Kingdoms the penalty shall not extend further than hath been heretofore practised in such cases towards the English or than it is at this time practised towards the Hollanders in consequence of the Treaties made with England or the United Provinces and all Inquiries or Processes hitherto made about the same shall remain null and be extinguished The same shall be observed towards the Towns Subjects and Inhabitants of the Kingdoms and Islands belonging to the said Lord the Catholick King who shall enjoy the same priviledges Franchises and Liberties throughout all the Dominions of the said Lord the most Christian King VIII All the French and other Subjects of the said Lord the most Christian King shall have liberty freely and without any hindrance to transport out of the said Kingdoms and Countries of the said Lord the Catholick King the proceed of the sale by them made of Corn within the said Kingdoms and Countries after the same manner as they wanted to do afore the War And the same shall be observed in France towards the Subjects of the said Lord the Catholick King IX Of neither side shall the Merchants Masters of Ships Pilots or Mariners nor their Ships Merchandises Commodities or other Goods to them belonging be arrested or seised on either by vertue of any general or particular Mandate or for any cause whatsoever of War or otherwise nor even under pretence of using them for the preservation and

to be of the Dependences of Ayre or St. Omer neither his said Catholick Majesty nor the Kings his successors shall have power at any time to fortifie the said Renty LIV. All Papers Letters and Documents concerning the Countreys Lands and Lordships that are to remain to the Lord the most Christian King by the present Treaty of Peace shall be furnished and delivered him bona fide within three months after the exchanging of the Ratifications LV. By vertue of the present Treaty all the Catalonians and other Inhabitants of the said Province as well Prelates Ecclesiastical persons Religious persons Lords Gentlemen and Burgesses as other Inhabitants both of the Towns and of the Country none excepted shall have power to re-enter and shall effectually re-enter and be left and established in the possession and peaceable enjoyment of all their goods Honours Dignities Priviledges Franchises Rights Immunities Constitutions and Liberties and shall never be prosecuted troubled or molested either in general or in particular upon any cause or pretence whatsoever for any thing done since the beginning of the present War Aud for that end his Catholick Majesty shall grant and cause to be published in good form his Declarations of Amnisty and Pardon in the behalf of the said Catalonians which publication shall be made upon the same day as the publication of the Peace in consequence of which Declarations it shall be permitted to all and any of them in particular either personally to return to their houses and to the enjoyment of their goods or in case they be willing to settle their habitation any where else out of Catalonia they shall have liberty to do it and to send into the said Country of Catalonia their Agents and Attorneys to take in their names and for them the possessions of the said goods to improve and administer the same receive the fruits and revenues and transport the same whether they shall please so that they shall not be obliged personally to go and do homage for the Lands and Manors whereunto their Attorneys shall have power to satisfie in their name And their absence shall not hinder their free possession and enjoyment of the said goods which they shall have also liberty and all faculty to exchange or alienate by sale gift or otherwise Yet upon that condition that those they shall so commit for the management and improvement of their said estates be not suspected to the Governours or Magistrates of the places where such Estates are scituated in which case the owners shall appoint other persons that be acceptable and no way suspected Yet it remaining at the will and power of his Catholick Majesty to prescribe the place of the abode to such of the said Catalonians whose return into the Country shall not be acceptable to his Majesty Yet so that the other liberties and priviledges granted unto them and which they enjoyed shall not be repealed nor altered As also it shall remain at the will and power of his most Christian Majesty to prescribe the place of abode to such of the County of Roussillon Appurtenances and Dependences who have retired themselves into Spain whose return into the said County shall not be acceptable to his Majesty Yet so that the other liberties and priviledges granted to the said persons shall not be repealed nor altered LVI The Testamentary Successions or any other Donations whatsoever between living persons or others of the Inhabitants of Catalonia and of the County of Roussillon mutually made to one another shall remain equally permitted and inviolable and in case about the said Successions Donations or other acts and contracts there should happen betwixt them any differences whereby they should be obliged to plead and go to Law Justice shall be done on both sides with equality and bonâ fide although they be under the obedience of the other party LVII The Bishops Abbots Prelates and others who have been promoted during the War to Ecclesiastical Benefices with approbation of our holy Father the Pope and by Apostolical authority dwelling in the lands of either of the parties shall enjoy the fruits rents and revenues of the said Benefices which shall be found to be within the limits of the lands of the other party without any trouble or molestation upon what causes reason or pretence soever And for that end they shall have power to appoint for the said enjoyment and receiving of the said fruits such persons as are not suspected having first obtained the good liking of the King or of his Officers and Magistrates under whose nomination the said fruits rents and revenues shall be found to be scituated LVIII Such Inhabitants of the principality of Catalonia or of the County of Roussillon who shall have enjoyed by donation or confiscation granted by either of the two Kings such goods or estates as were belonging to any persons of the contrary party shall not be bound to make any restitution to the owners of the said estates of the fruits by them received by vertue of the said donations or confiscations during the present War Provided that the effect of the said donations or confiscations do cease from the day of the publication of the Peace LIX Commissioners shall be appointed on both sides two months after the publication of the present Treaty who shall meet at such a place as shall be respectively agreed on there to end in an amicable way all such differences as might be yet betwixt both parties which Commissioners shall have care to see the subjects on both sides to be equally and well intreated and shall not suffer the one to re-enter into the possession of their Estates but at the same time when the other shall also re-enter into the possession of theirs As also the said Commissioners if it be so judged fit shall be injoined to make a just valuation on both sides of the estates of such as shall not be willing to return into the Country they have forsaken or of such as the two Kings shall not be willing to receive having prescribed unto them their abode somewhere else as aforesaid that the said valuation being made the same Commissioners might manage in all equity the exchanges and compensations of the said estates for the greater conveniency and with equal advantage to the interessed parties being careful that none be wronged And in a word the said Commissioners shall regulate all things concerning the commerce and the mutual frequentation of the Subjects on both parts and all such things as they shall think the most conducible to the publick utility and to the strengthening of the Peace And whatsoever hath been said in the four immediately foregoing Articles and in this concerning the County of Roussillon and the Inhabitants thereof ought in the same manner to be understood of the Viguery of Conflans and that part of the Country of Cerdana that may or ought by the present Treaty to remain in the propriety of his most Christian Majesty by the Declaration of