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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

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Prince of his house or any other whatsoever under any pretence or occasion that may happen in the said soveraignty propriety jurisdiction prerogative possession and enjoyment of all the said Countreys Towns Places Castles Lands Lordships Provostships Dominions Chastellenies and Bailiwicks and of all the places and other things depending of them And for that effect the said Lord the Catholick King for himself and for his Heirs Successors and Assigns doth renounce unto quit yield and transport as his Plenipotentiary in his name by the present irrevocable Treaty of Peace hath renounced to quitted yielded and for ever transported in the behalf and to the benefit of the said Lord the most Christian King his Heirs Successors and Assigns all the rights actions pretensions regalities patronage wardianship jurisdiction nomination prerogatives and preheminences upon the Bishopricks Cathedral Churches and other Abbies Priories Dignities Parsonages and any other Benefices whatsoever within the precincts of the said Countreys places and Bailiwicks so yielded of what Abbies soever the said Priories do hold or depend And generally without retaining or reserving any thing all other rights which the said Lord the Catholick King or his Heirs and Successors have and pretend or may have and pretend for what cause occasion soever upon the said Countreys places Castles Forts Lands Lordships Dominions Chastellenies and Bailiwicks and upon all the places depending of them as aforesaid Which together with all the Men Vassals Subjects Boroughs Villages Hamlets Forrests Lands and other things whatsoever depending of them without keeping or reserving any thing the said Lord the Catholick King both for himself and for his Successors doth consent to be from this time forth and for ever united and incorporated to the Crown of France all Laws Customs Statutes Constitutions made to the contrary even such as may have been confirmed by Oath in any wise notwithstanding To which and to all clauses derogatory to former derogatory clauses it is expresly derogated by the present Treaty for the effect of the said renuntiations and cessions which shall be valid and shall take place the particular expression or specification not derogating to the general nor the general to the particular and excluding for ever all exceptions upon what right title cause or pretence soever they may be grounded And the said Lord the Catholick King doth declare consent will and understand that the men vassals and subjects of the said countries towns and lands yielded to the Crown of France as aforesaid be and remain quitted and absolved from henceforth and for ever of the faith homage service and oath of fidelity they all or any of them may have done to him or to his predecessors the Catholick Kings and withall of all obedience subjection and vassallage which they for that cause might owe unto him The said Lord the Catholick King Willing that the said faith and homage and oath of fidelity become and remain void and of none effect as if they had never been taken XLII And as concerning the countries and places taken by the Arms of France during this War towards Spain As it had been formerly agreed by the Negotiation begun in Madrid in the year 1656. upon which this present Treaty is grounded that the Pyrenean Mountains which antiently had divided the Gauls from Spain should also make henceforth the division of both the said Kingdoms It hath been concluded and agreed that the Lord the most Christian King shall remain in possession and shall effectually enjoy the whole County and Viquery of Roussillon and the County and Viquery of Conflans the countries towns places castles burroughs villages and places which make up the said Counties and Viqueries of Roussillon and Conflans And to the Lord the Catholick King shall remain the County and Viquery of Cerdana and the whole principality of Catalonia with the Viqueries places towns castles burroughs hamblets places and countries that make up the said County of Cardena and the principality of Catalonia Provided that if there be found any place of the County and Viquery of Constans onely and not of Roussillon that be in the said Pyrenean Mountains toward Spain it shall likewise remain to the Catholick Majesty As likewise if any place be found of the said County and Viquery of Cardena onely and not of Catalonia that be in the said Pyrenean Mountains towards France it shall remain to his most Christian Majesty And that the said division might be concluded commissioners shall be presently appointed on both sides who shall together bona fide declare which are the Pyrenean Mountains which according to the tenor of this Article ought hereafter to divide both Kingdoms and shal mark the limits they ought to have And the said Commissioners shall meet upon the place at the furthest a month after the subscribing of the present Treaty and within the space of another month after ought to have concluded the matter and declared with common consent the premises Provided that if then they cannot agree among themselves concerning it they shall presently send the grounds of their opinions to the two Plenepotentiaries of both the Lords and Kings who taking notice of the difficulties and differences happened thereupon shall conclude the business betwixt them So that it shall not be suffered that Arms be taken up again about the same XLIII The whole County and Viquery of Roussillon County and Viquery of Conflans except the places that shall be found to be situate in the Pyrenean Mountains towards Spain in the manner aforesaid according to the Declaration and Agreement of the Commissioners that are to be appointed for that purpose as also that part of the county of Cerdana that shall be found situate in the Pyrenean Mountains towards France according unto the same Declaration of the commissioners the countries towns places castles that make up the Vigueries of Roussillon and Conflans and part of the county of Cerdana in the manner aforesaid Appurtenances Dependences and Annexes with all the Men Vassals Subjects Borroughs Villages Hamblets Forests Rivers Lands and any other things whatsoever depending of them shall remain irrevocably and for ever by the present Treaty united and incorporated to the crown of France to enjoy the same by the said Lord the most Christian King his Heirs Successors and Assigns with the same Rights of Soveraignty Propriety Regalities Patronage Jurisdiction Nomination Prerogatives and Preheminences upon the Bishopricks Cathedral Churches and other Abbeys Priories Dignities Parsonages or any other Benefices whatsoever being within the limits of the said county of Roussillon Viguery of Conflans and part of the county of Cerdana in the manner aforesaid except as to Conflans what shall be found to be in the Pyrenean Mountains towards Spain of whatsoever Abbeys the said Priories be holding and depending and all such other Rights formerly belonging to the said Lord the Catholick King though not here particularly mentioned And that his most Christian Majesty shall never hereafter be troubled or molested
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
Bar Countries Towns and places making up the same as well that part thereof as doth hold from the Crown of France as that which might be pretended not to hold of it LXIV Thirdly Except the County of Clermont and the Dominion thereof and the places Provostships and Lands of Stendy Dun and Jametz with the whole Revenue thereof and the Territories belonging to them Which Moyenvie Dukedom of Bar therein comprehended the part of the place and Provostship of Merville which part as it hath been said before did belong to the Duke of Bar Places County Provostship Lands and Dominions of Clermont Stenay Dan and Jametz with their Appurtenances Dependencies and Annexes shall remain for ever united and incorporated to the Crown of France LXV The said Duke Charles of Lorrain afore his re-establishment into the Dominions aforesaid and afore any place be restored unto him shall give his consent to the tenour of the three immediately foregoing Articles And to that effect shall deliver to his most Christian Majesty in the most valid and authentick form his Majesty might desire the Acts of his renunciation and cession of the said Moyenvie Dukedom of Bar therein comprehended the part of Merville both the part holding and pretended not to hold of the Crown of France Stenay Dun Jametz the County of Clermont and the Dominion thereof Appurtenances Dependencies and Annexes And the said Duke not his successours either now or ever hereafter shall pretend or demand any thing of the price the late King Lewis XIII of glorious memory had bound himself to pay unto the said Duke for the said Dommion of the County of Clermont by the Treaty made at Liverdun in the Month of June 1632. because the Article containing the said Obligation hath been annullated by the subsequent Treaties and again afresh in as much as need might be is wholly annullated by this present Treaty LXVI His most Christian Majesty in restoring unto the said Duke Charles the places of his Dominions as aforesaid shall leave therein except only in such as are agreed to be demolished all the Artillery Powder Bullets Arms Victuals and Ammunitions of War that are in the Magazines of the said places without imbezling weakning and damnifying the same in any manner whatsoever LXVII Neither the said Duke Charles of Lorrain nor any other Prince of his House or of his adherents and dependents shall have power to remain in Arms but both the said Duke and the other aforesaid shall be bound to disband their Forces at the Publication of the said Peace LXVIII The said Duke Charles of Lorrain afore his re-establishment into his Dominions shall likewise prepare an Act in good form unto his most Christian Majesty that he doth desist and give over all Intelligences Leagues Associations and practises he hath or may have with any Prince State and Potentate whatsoever to the prejudice of his Majesty and the Crown of France And that for the future he will give no retreat into his Dominions to his enemies Rebels or suspected Subjects and will not permit any Levies there nor gathering of Souldiers against his Service LXIX The said Duke Charles shall likewise give afore his re-establishment an Act in good form unto his most Christian Majesty whereby he shall bind himself both for himself and all the Dukes of Lorrain his Successours to grant at all times without any difficulty under what pretence soever the same might be grounded free passage upon his Dominions both to such persons and forces Horse and Foot whom his said Majesty and the Kings of France his Successours shall have occasion to send into Alsatia or to Brisac and Philipsbourg as often as he shall be desired of it by his said Majesty and his said Successours and to cause Victuals Lodgings and other necessaries to be afforded unto the said forces in his said Dominions by way of Estap the said forces paying their expences at the ordinary rate of the Country Provided they be but meer passages at regular marches and reasonable journeys without so journing in the said Dominions of Lorrain LXX The said Duke Charles afore his re-establishment into his Dominions shall put into the hands of his most Christian Majesty an Act in good form and satisfactory to his Majesty whereby the said Duke shall oblige himself for himself and for all his Successours to cause the Farmers and Administrators of the Salt-pits of Rosieres Chasteau-Salins Dieuze and Marsal which his Majesty doth restore unto him by the present Treaty to afford unto his Majesty all such quantity of Measures of Salt as shall be necessary for furnishing all the Salt Store-houses that ought to be filled for the use and ordinary consumption of his Majesties Subjects within the three Bishopricks of Metz Thoul and Verdun Dukedom of Bar and County of Clermont Stenay Jametz and Dun at the same rate for each measure of Salt as the said Duke Charles was wonted to afford it to the Store-houses of the Bishoprick of Metz in time of Peace during the last year of the said Dukes possessing his whole Dominions and neither he nor his Successours shall have power to raise the price of the said measures of Salt LXXI And because since the time the late most Christian King of glorious memory hath conquered Lorrain by his Arms a great number of the Subjects of that Dukedom have served their Majesties in consequence of the Oaths of Fidelity their Majesties have desired of them it hath been agreed That the said Duke shall not like them nor use them the worse for it but shall consider and use them as his good and faithful Subjects and shall pay them off such Debts and Rents whereof his Dominions may be charged Which his Majesty doth so particularly desire that had it not been for the assurance his Majesty takes of the Faith the said Duke will engage to him for that purpose his Majesty would have never granted him so much as he doth by the present Treaty LXXII It hath been farther agreed that the said Duke shall not have power to alter any thing in the Provisions of the Benefices granted by the said Lords and Kings untill the day of the present Treaty and that such as have been provided shall remain in the peaceable possession of the said Benefices wherein the said Duke shall not disturb or molest them nor have power to turn them out of their possession LXXIII It hath been further agreed that the Confiscations given by his Majesty and his Father the late King of the Estates of such as were in armes against him shall be of force as to the enjoyment of the said Estates untill the day of the date of the present Treaty and such as have enjoyed the same by vertue of the said Gifts shall not be troubled nor molested for the same in any wise and for no cause whatsoever LXXIV It hath been further agreed that all Proceedings Judgments and Arrests issued by the Council Judges and other Officers of his most