the Fort in Vierboet at the end of the Western Sluse near the mouth of Newport-Heven and one part of the Fort of Nieuven Dame built upon the Eastern Sluse with the Piers of the said Haven being kept in repair by those of Furnes were within the Territory and Jurisdiction of the Castellany of Furnes and that consequently they belonged to his Most Christian Majesty And his Catholick Majesty's Ministers held the contrary that they did not and whether they did or did not that it ought to suffice that since the said Fortifications were made as well with respect of the Castellany of Furnes as to the Town of Newport his Catholick Majesty being a Soveraign Prince might incorporate and appropriate the said parts thereof to the Haven and Fortifications of Newport and by that means make them inseparable from that Town It is agreed That the said Sluses and other parts of the Fortifications of Newport above-mentioned shall remain to his Catholick Majesty as well as the Town it self without any Pretensions ever to be made to the same by his Most Christian Majesty by reason of the Town and Castellany of Furnes being his or otherwise And for the draining of the Waters of the Castellany of Furnes it shall be continued and his Catholick Majesty shall enjoy the same in manner and form as hath been used till now XI The said Most Christian King shall retain continue seized of and actually enjoy the whole County of Burgundy commonly called the Franche Comte and the Towns Places and Countries thereto belonging together with the Town of Bezancm and the Liberties thereof and the Towns of Valenciennes and its Dependances Bourbain and its Dependances Conde and its Dependances though heretofore pretended to be a Member of the Castellany of Aeth Cambruy and Cambresis Aire St. Omer and their Dependances Ipre and its Castellany Warwik and Warneton upon the Lys Poperinghen Bailleul and Cassel with their Dependances Bavay and Maubeage with their Dependances XII The said County of Burgundy the Towns Places and Countries thereto belonging together with the Town of Bezancon and the Liberties thereof as also the said Towns and Places of Valenciennes Bouchain Conde Cambray Aire St. Omer Ipres Warwik and Warnoton Poperinghen Bailleul Cassel Bavay and Moubeage their Bayliffwicks Castellanies Governments Provostships and Territories Demesnes Lordships Appurtenances Dependances and all thereunto annexed by what Names soever called with all the Men Vassals Subjects Towns Boroughs Villages Hamlets Forests Rivers plain-Plain-Countries Salt-Pits and all other things whatsoever thereunto belonging shall remain by vertue of the said present Treaty of Peace to his Most Christian Majesty his Heirs Successors and Assignes irrevocably and for ever with the same Rights of Soveraignty Propriety Regality Patronage Guardranship and Jurisdiction Nomination Prerogative and Preheminence over Bishopricks Cathedral Churches and others Abbies Priories Dignities Curacies and all other Benefices whatsoever within the compass of the said Countries Places and Bayliffwicks so yielded up of what Abbies soever the said Priories hold Lands and have dependance upon and all other Rights that heretofore belonged to the Catholick King though not particularly here expressed So that his Most Christian Majesty shall not in time to come be troubled or molested by any means whatsoever in right or in deed by the said Catholick King or his Successors or any the Princes of his Family or by any other or for any cause or pretence with relation to the said Soveraignty Propriety and Jurisdiction appeal possession and enjoyment of all the said Countries Towns and Places Castles Lands and Lordships Provostships Demesnes Castellanies and Bayliffwicks of all the said Places and of all things whatsoever thereunto belonging And to this end the said Catholick King for himself his Horis Successors and Assignes doth renounce quit-claim yield up and transfer as his said Plenipotentiaries in his Name by this present irrevocable Treaty of Peace have renounced given up and for ever transferr'd in favour and to the behoof of the said Most Christian King his Heirs Successors and Assignes all the Rights Actions Pretensions Rights of Royalty Patronage Guardianship Jurisdiction Nomination Prerogatives and Preheminencies over Bishopricks Cathedral Churches and all other Benefices within the compass of the said Places Countries and Bayliffwicks yielded up of what Abbies soever the said Priories held Lands and had dependance upon and in general without any reservation or with-holding all other Rights that the said Catholick King his Heirs and Successors have and challenge or may have and challenge for any cause or upon any occasion whatsoever over the said Countries Places Castles Forts Lands Lordships Demesnes Castellanies and Bayliffwicks and over all Places thereunto belonging as aforesaid any Laws Customs or Constitutions to the contrary notwithstanding though confirm'd by oath From all which and all derogating Clauses of derogatories it is expresly derogated by this present Treaty in order to the said Renunciations and Sessions which shall be valid and take place without any derogation from a general Clause by a particular specification or from a particular by a general one and for ever excluding all exceptions on what Rights Titles Cause or pretence soever grounded And the said Catholick King declareth consenteth willeth and intendeth that the Men Vassals and Subjects of the said Countreys Towns and Lands yielded to the Crown of France as aforesaid shall be and remain discharged and absolved from hence forward and for ever from the Faith Hommage Service and Oath of Allegiance that all and every of them may have taken or made to himself or to the Catholick Kings his Predecessors together with all obedience subjection and vassalage that they are owing to him by reason thereof it being the intention of the said Catholick King that the said Faith Hommage and Oaths of Allegiance shall be void and of no force as if they never had been taken or made XIII And whereas his Most Christian Majesty hath declared by the Conditions of Peace which he offered that he was willing to restore the Town of Charlemont or in lieu thereof that of Dinant at his Catholick Majesties choice upon condition that his said Catholick Majesty would charge himself to obtain from the Bishop of Liege the Session of Dinant and that the Emperor and Empire should consent thereunto His Catholick Majesty has chosen to retain the Town of Charlemont as heretofore and consequently doth oblige himself and promise to obtain from the Lord Bishop and Chapter of Liege an Authentick Session of the said Town of Dinant and the Emperors and Empires assent within a year to be computed from the day of the date of the Ratification of the Treaty of Peace which shall be betwixt the Emperor and the Most Christian King And in case his said Catholick Majesty shall not be able to obtain the said Sessions of the Bishop and Chapter of Liege and Emperor and Empires assent he obligeth himself and promiseth immediately after the expiration of the said Term to cause the
Sieur Comte D' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of his Orders the Sieur Colbert Knight Marquiss of Croissi Councellor in ordinary in his Counsel of State and the Sieur Mesmes Knight Comte D'Avaux Councellor also in his Counsels and the said States General the Heer Hierosme Van Beverning Baron of Teylingen Curator of the University of Leyden late Councellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces the Heer Wilhem van Nassau Heer van Odyke Cortgene and first noble and representative of the nobility in the States and Councel of Zeland and the Heer Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Bildt Deputies in their Assemblies on the behalf of the States of Holland Zeland c. Which Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries duely instructed with the good intentions of their Masters were to repair to the said Town of Nimeguen where after a mutual communication of their plenary powers the copies whereof are inserted word for word at the end of this Treaty it was agreed upon Conditions of Peace and Friendship according to this ensuing Tenour viz. I. There shall be for the future betwixt his Most Christian Majesty and his Successors Kings of France and Navar and his Kingdoms on the one part and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys on the other part a good firm faithful and inviolable Peace and all Acts of Hostility of what kind soever shall hereafter cease and be forborn betwixt the said King and the said Lords the States General as well by Sea and other waters as by Land in all their Kingdoms Countreys Lands Provinces and Seignories and for all their Subjects and Inhabitans of what Quality or Condition soever without exception of Places or Persons II. And if any Prizes are taken on either side in the Baltcik Sea or the North Sea from Terneuse to the channel 's mouth within the space of four weeks or from the said mouth of the channel to the Cape of St. Vincent within the space of six weeks and further in the Mediterranian Sea and as far as the Aequinoctial within the space of ten weeks and beyond the Line and in all parts of the World within the space of eight months to be computed from the day on which the Peace shall be published at Paris and at the Hague the said Prizes and the dammages that shall happen on either side after the Terms prefixt shall be brought to account and whatever shall have bin taken shall be restor'd with recompence for the dammages that shall have happned thereby III. There shall be moreover betwixt the said King and the said Lords the States General and their Subjects and Inhabitants mutually a sincere firm and perpetual friendship and good correspondence by Sea and Land in all things and in all places within Europe and without and no resenting of the offences or dammages that have been received either in time past or by reason of the said Wars IV. And in vertue of this Friendship and Correspondence as well his Majesty as the said Lords the States General shall faithfully procure and further the good and prosperity of one another by all Support Aid Counsel and real Assistances upon all occasions and at all times and shall not consent for the future to any Treaties or Negotiations that may be to one anothers damage but shall break them off and give notice of them to one another with care and sincerity as soon as ever they come to their knowledge V. They that have had any of their goods seized and confiscated by reason of the said War their Heirs or Assigns of what Condition or Religion soever shall enjoy such goods and take them into possession of their own private authority and by vertue of this present Treaty without standing in need to have recourse to Law and that notwithstanding any appropriations to the Exchequer engagements gifts in writing sentences preparatory or definitive given by default and contumacy in the parties absence or without their being heard Treaties Accords and Transactions and any Renunciations that may have been made at such transactions to exclude the right owners from any part of such goods and all and every the goods and rights which according to this present Treaty shall or ought to be restor'd on either side to the first Proprietors their Heirs and Assigns may be sold by the said Proprietors without obtaining any particular Licence so to do and likewise the Proprietors of such Rents as shall be setled by the Exchequers in lieu of goods sold as also of such Rents and Actions as stand on charge in the Exchequers may respectively dispose of the Propriety thereof by sale or otherwise as of their other proper goods VI. And since the Marquisate of Bergenopzome with all the Rights and Revenues thereunto appertaining and generally all the Lands and Goods of Monsieur le Comte D'Auvergne Colonel General of the Light Horse of France that were under the power of the said States General of the United Provinces have been seized and confiscated by reason of the War to which the present Treaty ought to put a happy end it is agreed that the said Sieur Compte D'Auvergene shall be restored to the possession of the said Marquisate of Bergenopzome it's appurtenances and dependances and also to all the rights actions privileges usages and prerogatives that he enjoy'd at the time when the War was declar'd VII Each shall continue seized of and shall actually enjoy the Countreys Towns Places Lands Islands and Seignories within Europe and without which they now hold and possess without being disturb'd or molested directly or indirectly in any manner whatsoever VIII But his Most Christian Majesty willing to give back to the Lords the States General his Principal Friendship and to give them a singular proof therof upon this occasion will immediately after the exchange of the Ratifications put them into possession of the Town of Maestricht with the Comte of Uronof and the Comtez and Countreys of Fauquemond Aalhem and Rolleduc beyond the Maes together with the Villages of Redemption Banc d' St. Servais and whatever is belonging to the said Town IX The said Lords the States General promise that what ever concerns the exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion and such as profess it enjoying their Goods shall be re-established and maintained in the said Town of Maestricht and it's dependances in the same state and in such manner as was regulated by the Capitulation made in the year 1632 and that such as shall have been endowed with any Ecclesiastical goods Canons Places Parsonages Provostships and other Benefices shall continue setled in them and enjoy them without any contradiction X. His Majesty restoring to the said Lords the States General the Town of Maestricht and Countreys thereunto belonging may yet take and carry away all the Artillery Powder Bullets Provisions and other War-like Ammunition that shall be found there at the time of it's Restitution and they that his Majesty shall have
Swedish Interest nay not when the Matter of the Restitution of the places which should serve as a Bar was Debated And it is somewhat surprizing that the foresaid Ambassadors should positively affirm in the said Memorial that his Majesty did never Condescend to the Restitution of Places to the King of Spain unless it were in Consideration of an equal Restitution which should be made to the King of Swedes Advantage since the Original and the very words of the said Conditions do expresly import that those Places ought to serve as a Boundary to the Spanish Netherlands upon which the King of Great Britain the States General and the other Neighbouring States of the said Countreys have so much insisted and that his Most Christian Majesty would Surrender them with this Prospect and on such Conditions that the King of Spain should yield up in Exchange all those Places which are likewise specified in the said Conditions and that the aforesaid Restitution to the King of Spain should also be one part of the Satisfaction due to their Lordships without any manner of Limitation nor be directly nor indirectly tied to give any manner of Satisfaction to the Swedish King and it is very Clear that the French Ambassadors are themselves Convinced of this since that they confess in the said Memorial that his Most Christian Majesty did not in the least pretend that They or the King of Spain ought to joyn their Forces with his to Repossess the King of Swedes with those Territories and Places that he had lost Grounding it only upon the account of the Retention of them in regard that in the Conditions of the General Peace the Swede's Satisfaction is mentioned in the first Article and that before all others without considering that this intire and full Satisfaction of the Swede cannot by any means be Applicable to their Lordships who had never conquer'd or carried any Place that belonged to that Crown and that it is very Irregular to pretend to Charge them with a Restitution who never took any thing and have no manner of Possession that even they would draw a Consequence from so General and Ambiguous a proposition to all particular Conditions which in pursuance of that proposition are expressed by very different ways and Stipulations no otherwise than if they would deduce the same Consequence from that which is after mentioned concerning the Princes of Strasburg and Fustemberg viz That their Interests ought to make up one of the first points of that Peace it being however an Affair that concerns none of the Confederates the Emperor excepted and that particularly too Nor besides have the Ambassadors considered that his Majesty by his Letters of the 18th of May and 1st of June did explain himself so clearly and so positively that he was Content provided the States General did on their part Conclude and Sign the Peace and that he would always agree to the Conditions profered to the King of Spain they only promising not to Assist their Allies that are willing to continue the War against his Majesty or his Confederates so that the Conditions offered as well to the King of Spain as their Lordships ought to be performed though the other Allies will not Concur in the making of a Peace not only when the King of Swedes should be re-established and receive Satisfaction but when they had promised the said Neutrality The Lords the States General desire servently and Cordially that the War in the Northern parts should be ended by convenient means but his Most Christian Majesty and the King of Swedes not being able to Agree upon Conditions with the Allies of their Lordships they will look upon the Continuation of the War with great Dissatissaction but yet in the interim they are apt to believe that the French Ambassadors are mistaken when they would Infer from thence That his most Christian Majesty might lawfully make use of the Territories and Places belonging to the King of Spain and their State to make a more advantageous War They call his Countreys and Territories their own because that according to the Treaty of Peace they ought to belong to them by the same right as the other Lands and Provinces which beyond all controversie appertain to them It is very certain that the Countrey of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg may be infested and also those belonging to the Bishop of Munster more commodiously by those Countreys which the States General at present possess but as his most Christian Majesty did never pretend and his Ambassadors would do ill to pretend that his Majesty might lawfully make use of their Territories and Places to that purpose nor can they pretend any more that his Majesty can make use of those Places which he hath engaged to restore having reserv'd no such kind of Right to himself nor any thing whatsoever in order to such a design but onely the said Neutrality of the Parties contracting with him it being observable that nothing in the world can be more opposite to the Neutrality than to grant one Party the power to employ those Territories and Places to infest and indemnisie the other Parties nor more prejudicial to the Interests of their Lordships than thereby to bring upon themselves the mischiefs and inconveniences of a War in their Neighbourhood and even to their very Frontiers so that in lieu of enjoying the sweetness and effects of a Peace and being ascertain'd of a Boundary for their security and repose they shall find themselves destitute on one side and infested by a thousand inconveniencies on the other What the French Ambassadors say farther in that Memorial merits 2 very particular reflection that their Sentiments in the present case are conformable to the practise in all other Treaties it being very notorious that when there is a General Treaty made all the Contractors ought to have satisfaction which cannot be applied to the case in hand His most Christian Majesty having thought good to enter into a particular Negotiation with the King of Spain and the States General without sharing with the other Allies which would not concur therein T is true that if the King of Spain or the States General should not perform the Conditions of such a General Treaty but fail therein his most Christian Majesty might justly demand the effect of the Conditions agreed unto but these two Powers being altogether disposed to satisfie in all and by all which they are engaged to on their behalf his Majesty cannot have the least pretence that they should be frustrated of the accomplishment of what should be promised them by particular Treaties and upon consideration whereof they should set their hands Over and above that his Majesty having put into the first Article of his Propositions the entire satisfaction the Swede should have which is now made the ground of all the present difficulties explains himself in the same Period by these words That without them he could not conclude upon all the rest Whence it
sure and honourable Peace we embrace it from this day forward and if France will make a Peace with his Majesty we believe he is altogether ready to accept it so it be founded upon Reason and the good union which will always keep him inseparable from the fortune of his Allies Finally We pray God to inspire always the Lords the States General with Counsels worthy their moderation and the consideration which they ought to have for those whom themselves have drawn into the perils of the present War and to bless their Designs and Advances for the security of the general Quiet of all Christendom A Declaration of the Ambassador of the Elector of Brandenburg on Munday the 20th of June 1678. THE Ambassador of Brandenburg says That it was evident that his Electoral Serenity his Master before the Most Christian King took up Arms against their Hi. and Mi. the States General failed not to do all he could to divert him and that likewise since the fire of this War has been kindled he has desired nothing more earnestly than to see it quench'd as soon as might be and the publick repose every where establish'd and that it was upon the sole consideration of promoting the Peace that his Electoral Serenity entred into such strict Bonds with his Allies and especially with their Hi. and Mi. that he hath expos'd and sacrific'd his Person and Estates for that and hath enjoyn'd his Plenipotentiaries at this Congress and renews his Orders time after time to labour for a Peace with their utmost endeavours according to the Alliances betwixt the Confederates which prescribe a method to be observed for obtaining a general Peace that was agreed on joyntly by them all That their Excellencies the Ambassadors of their Hi. and Mi. alledged two days since that their Lordships the States both in respect of the condition of their own Provinces and that of others find themselves at present reduced to a necessity of making a Peace with France whether they will or no. That at the same time to observe their Alliances they express a desire to have their Allies joyn with them in it but that withal they think themselves necessitated for the saving their Common-wealth from the shipwrack that threatens it to make a Peace alone or without the Confederates in case they cannot accept the Conditions that France hath prescribed that thereupon they required the resolution of their Allies with all speed that they might take their Measures thereby at the Consultation that is to be held this Week at the Hague The Plenipotentiary Ambassador of his Electoral Serenity says to it That he knows not what resolution his Master will take for that he could not receive Instructions from him in so short a time upon the Declaration which the Most Christian King delivered on the first of this Month of June to the Heer Ambassador Van Beverning That in the mean time he partly explain'd himself as to his own private Sentiment in the Memorial of the 10th of June which he presented to the Ambassadors of their Hi. and Mi. and that he doubted not but they made all due and fitting Reflexions thereupon That for the rest he was fully perswaded though some unconquerable necessity might dispence with the States General or should oblige them to depart from any point of their Alliance with his Electoral Serenity that yet they will always proceed in it with such caution and sincerity as the foundation may subsist notwithstanding and his Electoral Serenity be at no prejudice nor the band of their friendship and good understanding to be weakned The said Ambassador added two Points requiring the said Lords the States to consider them when they should take this matter into consideration The one That France in the Project of Peace which its Ambassadors proposed here doth not mention any Conditions upon which it is willing to make a Peace with his Electoral Serenity whereas on his behalf there have been Proposals made to that end both with relation to France and Sweden insomuch that he knows not yet whether France will make any Peace with himself or no. The other That the Conditions propos'd in that Project with relation to Sweden were so abject and even so contrary to what their Hi. and Mi. have engaged themselves to procure his Electoral Serenity that it must be believed that France is not willing that a Peace should be made with Sweden inasmuch as their Hi. and Mi. that see there is no room left for his Electoral Serenity to enter into the Peace in conjunction with themselves Finally The said Ambassador promiseth to communicate the resolution of his Most Serene Master upon the said Declaration of France as soon as he shall receive it referring himself for other matters to his said Memorial A Declaration of the Ambassador of Prince Charles of Lorrain at a Conference Extraordinary of the Allies at Nimeguen the 20th of June 1678. THis Declaration could not be opened at large because the President Canon had only formed the Idea of it in his mind and return'd but the night before from the Hague he alledged that Journey as an excuse for his not having been present at the last Conference saying that he went to deliver the Lords the States General a Letter from his Master Then he enlarged upon the injustice of the Alternatives that were proposed by France as Conditions of Peace The first demanding a Country 35 miles in length and 16 or 18 in breadth with 26 Cities upon it and 600 Burroughs and Villages The other depriving him of his Capital City and the convenience of communication with his own Country by pretending to pass through some of the best of his High-ways That both these Conditions were equally hard he demonstrated by the Election that was left his Master to chuse either For the avoiding such Imperious Laws he referr'd himself to the Alliances made between their Imperial and Catholick Majesties their Lordships the States General and his late Uncle and renewed since with his own person with all possible extension and withal recommended himself to the friendship and protection of all his Allies concluding with a formal protestation that he would resolve rather to live banish'd from his Country and entirely to maintain the Justice of his Title and have his Allies that had contracted with him continue under their absolute Engagements than ever to return upon such hard Conditions and so scandalous to his Birth and his undoubted Right of Succession never having deserv'd so ill of France as to be used so cruelly A Letter from the Lords the States General to Mons the Duke of Luxemburg the 22. of June 1678. SIR WE have seen with an equal mixture of joy and reverence by the King's Answer of the first of this Month from his Camp at Wetteren which the Heer Van Beverning delivered us from his Majesty his sincere intentions to put an end to the present War by a Peace In pursuance whereof to shew the like