Empire Burgovia and of the Upper and Lower Lusatia Lord of the March of Sclavonia of the Port of Naon and the Salt-Pits on the one part and the most Serene and Mighty Prince and Lord LEWIS the xiv the Most Christian King of France and Navar on the other part Their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties have desired nothing more passionately than the prevention of the desolation of so many Countreys and the further effusion of Blood by restoring a Peace never to be broken It hath by the Blessing of Almighty God been at length brought to pass that by the endeavours of the most Serene and Mighty Prince and Lord Charles the second King of Great Britain Who being received as a General Mediator by all the Parties hath in these difficult Conjunctures of Christendom to his immortal Glory with indefatigable care employed his utmost Offices and Counsels for the Publick Tranquility and General Peace Their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties have agreed that the Congress for treating the Peace should be held here at Nimeguen in Guelderland In which place Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries in due form authorized having appeared on both sides viz. on the part of the Emperor the most Reverend Illustrious and Excellent Lords John Bishop of Gurgg Prince of the Sacred Roman Empire and Counsellor to his Imperial Majesty as likewise Francis Udalrick Count of the sacred Roman Empire of Khinscky Chemitz and Tettau Lord of Klumetz Counsellor to his Imperial Majesty of his Bed-Chamber Lord Lieutenant Assistant of the Royal Provincial Court President for Appeals and Lord Steward of the Royal Court in the Kingdom of Bohemia and Theodore Athletus Henry Stratman of his Imperial Majesty's Autick Council And on the part of the Most Christian King the most Illustrious and Excellent Lords Godfrey Count D' Estrades Marshal of France Knight of his Majesties Orders Viceroy in America Governor of the City and Fort of Dunkirk and the Places thereupon depending Charles Colbert Kt. Marquiss of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary to the Most Christian King and John Anthony de Mesmes Kt. Count d' Avaux one of his Most Christian Majesties Privy Council after having humbly implored the assistance of Almighty God and in due form presented and shewn their Commissions the Copies whereof are word for word inserted in the end of this Treaty with the Interposition and Pains of the most Illustrious and Excellent Lords Lawrence Hyde Esq Sir William Temple Baronet and Sir Leoline Jenkins Kt. Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty of Great Britain who from the year 1675. until this present have with great impartiality Industry and Prudence performed the Office of Mediators in order to the restoring the Publick Tranquility to the Glory of God and Welfare of Christendom they have mutually agreed on the following Conditions of Peace and Friendship I. First That there be a Christian Universal true and Sincere Peace and Friendship between their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties their Heirs and Successors Kingdoms and Provinces as also between all and every the Confederates of his said Imperial Majesty more particularly the Electors Princes and States of the Empire comprehended in this Peace their Heirs and Successors on the one part and all and every the Confederates of his said Most Christian Majesty comprehended in this Peace their Heirs and Successors on the other Which said Peace and Friendship shall be so sincerely observed and improved that each party shall promote the Honour Advantage and Interest of the other And there shall be so perpetual an Oblivion and Amnesty of all Hostilities committed on each side since the beginning of the present Troubles that neither Party shall upon that or any other account or pretence give nor cause or suffer to be given hereafter to the other any Trouble directly or indirectly under colour of Law or way of Fact within or without the Empire any former agreements to the contrary notwithstanding But all and every the injuries Violences Hostilities Dammages and Charges sustained on each side by Words Writing or Deeds shall without respect of Persons or things be so entirely abolished that whatsoever may upon that account be pretended against the other shall be buried in perpetual Oblivion II. And forasmuch as the Peace concluded the 24th day of October 1648. at Munster in Westphalia is to be the Foundation and Basis of the present Friendship and Publick Tranquility The said Peace shall from henceforth be restor'd in all and every it's Points and remain in full force and vigour as if the same were word for word inserted herein except in such Points as are derogated from it by this present Treaty III. And whereas in vertue of the said Peace of Munster his Most Christian Majesty had Right to keep a Garrison in the Fortress of Philipsburg for it's Protection and that the said Fortress hath during this War been taken by the Emperor's Arms and the Castle and Town of Friburg by the Arms of France Their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties have agreed concerning those Places in manner following IV. His Most Christian Majesty as well for himself as his Heirs and Successors doth for ever renounce and quit to his Imperial Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Right of Protection maintaining a Garrison and all other things which belonged unto him with relation to the Fortress of Philipsburg in vertue of the Treaty of Munster Reserving nothing under any pretence or Title to himself his Heirs and Successors or the Kingdom of France upon the said Fortress the Forts adjoyning to it and erected as well on this as on the other side of the Rhine any Laws Constitutions and Statutes or other things whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding all and every of which are expresly derogated from by this present Treaty V. In like manner his Imperial Majesty doth as well for himself as his Heirs and Successors and the whole House of Austria renounce and for ever quit to his Most Christian Majesty his Heirs and Successors the Castle and Town of Friburg together with the 3. Villages of Lehn Mezhauzen and Kirchzart thereunto belonging with their Districts as they appertain to the Community of the said Town of Friburg together with all Propriety Superiority Right of Patronage Sovereignty and other things whatsoever which belonged unto him with relation to Friburg Reserving to himself his Heirs and Successors or the Empire no Right or Claim thereunto under any Title or Pretence whatsoever any Laws Constitutions Statutes or any thing to the contrary notwithstanding all and every of which are expresly derogated from by this present Treaty Provided still that the Priviledges and Immunities formerly obtained of the House of Austric for the said City remain inviolate as also the Right of Episcopacy Revenues and other Emoluments be reserved to the Bishop and Church of Constance VI. His Most Christian Majesty shall as often as he has occasion without any hindrance or molestation have a free and easy passage from
Burgovia and of the Upper and Lower Lusatia Lord of the Marck of Sclavonia of the Port of Naon and the Salt-Pits on the one part and the most Serene and Mighty Prince and Lord Charles King of Suedes Goths and Vandals Great Prince of Finland Duke of Schonen Estotiland Lieftland Carelia Bremen Ferden Stetin Pomerania Cassubia and Vandalia Prince of Rugen Lord of Ingria and Wismar and also Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleves and Berghen on the other part His Imperial and his Royal Majesty of Sueden have desired nothing more passionately than the preventing the further desolation of so many Countreys and Effusion of Blood by restoring a Lasting Peace It hath by the Blessing of Almighty God been at length brought to pass that by the Endeavours of the most Serene and Mighty Prince and Lord Charles the Second King of Great Britain Who being received as General Mediator by all the Parties hath in these difficult Conjuncture of Affairs in Christendom to his Immortal Glory with indefatigable pains employed his utmost Offices and Counsels for the Publick Tranquility and General Peace His Imperial and his Royal Majesty of Sweden have agreed That the Congress for treating the Peace should be held here at Nimeguen in Guelderland In which Place Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries in due form authorized having appeared on both sides viz. on the part of the Emperor the most Reverend and the most Illustrious and Excellent Lords John Bishop of Gurck Prince of the Sacred Roman Empire and Counsellor to his Imperial Majesty as likewise Francis Udalrick Count of the Sacred Roman Empire of Khinschy Chinitz and Tettau Lord of Klumetz of his Imperial Majesties Privy Council Chamberlain Lord Lieutenant one of the Judges of the Royal Provincial Court President for Appeals and Lord Steward of the Royal Court in the Kingdom of Bohemia and Theodore Athletus Henry Stratman of his Imperial Majesty's Aulick Council And on the part of the King of Sweden the most Illustrious and Excellent Lords Benedict Oxenstiern Earl of Korshorlm and Wasa free Baron in Mohrby and Lindholm Lord of Kapuria and Kattila Senator to his Majesty and the Kingdom of Sweden and President of the Chief Court of Judicature at Wismar also as Chief Judge of Ingria and Kexholm and John Paulin Olivencrans Lord of Ulffhol and Hofmanstorp Counsellor in Chancery to his Sacred Majesty of Sweden Secretary of State and Judge of the Territory of Widloe after having humbly implored the Assistance of Almighty God and in due form exchanged and shewn their Commissions the Copys whereof are word for word inserted in the end of this Treaty by the Intervention and means of the most Illustrious and Excellent Lords Lawrence Hyde Esquire Sir William Temple Baronet and Sir Leoline Jenkins Kt. Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries for his Majesty of Great Britian who from the year 1675. until this present have with great Impartiality Diligently and Wisely performed the part of a Mediator in order to the restoring the Publick Tranquility to the Glory of God and Welfare of Christendom they have mutually agreed on the following Conditions of Peace and Friendship I. There shall be a Christian Inviolable and Perpetual Peace and a true and Sincere Friendship between His Imperial Majesty the German Empire and all and every of their Allies comprehended in this Peace and their respective Heirs and Successors on the one part and his Majesty and the Kingdom of Sweden and their Allies comprehended in this Peace and their respective Heirs and Successors on the other and therefore all acts of Hostility shall forthwith cease throughout all and every the Kingdoms States Dominions and Countreys of both Parties wheresoever Situate and between all and every their Subjects and Inhabitants of what Degree soever they be so as that neither Party hereafter do any wrong or unkindness to the other privately or openly directly or indirectly by himself or by others but rather promote the Advantage Honour and Interests of the other to the end that a faithful Neighbourhood and mutual Offices of Friendship and Peace may remain and for ever continue between them II. And for greater Security hereof it hath been thought fit by both Parties that there be a Perpetual Oblivion and Amnesty of all Enmities or Hostilities committed on each side since the begining of the present Troubles in what place or manner soever so that neither Party shall upon that nor any other Cause or Pretence whatsoever do and give nor cause or suffer to be done and given to the other any Hostility Trouble or Molestation in their Persons Estates Rights or Security by himself or by others openly or privately directly or indirectly under colour of Right or way of Fact within or without the Empire any former Agreements to the contrary notwithstanding But all and every the Injuries Violences Hostilities Prejudices Losses and Charges sustained on each side as well before as during the War by Words Writing or Deeds shall without respect of Persons or things be so entirely abolished that whatsoever the one part may upon that account pretend against the other shall be buryed in perpetual Oblivion Likewise all and every the Vassals and Subjects of both Partys shall enjoy this Amnesty and have the benefit and effect of it so that none of them shall be rendred culpable endammaged or prejudiced for having taken part with the one or the other from being fully restored to the same Condition as to Honours and Goods that he was in immediately before the War III. According to this Foundation of an Universal and unlimited Amnesty and to the end a more certain Rule of Friendship and Peace may be setled between the Parties it hath been by mutual Consent agreed between them That the Peace Concluded at Osnabrug in Westphalia on the 24th Octob. 1648. shall remain the Basis and Rule of the present Pacification in such manner that it shall be restored to its first Force and Vigour and inviolably kept hereafter and continue as it was before the present War a Pragmatick Sanction and Fundamental Law of the Empire whereby the Parties shall stand bound and obliged to each other any Acts Decrees Commands or Alterations made upon occasion of the War to the contrary notwithstanding IV. And for the greater strength of this Friendship and nearer Union Neither of the Parties shall have any Treaties contrary to this Nor shall hereafter give their Consent to any Treaty or Negotiation tending to the Dammage or Prejudice of the other but rather shall oppose the same Nor shall either of them afford any succours by Soldiers Arms Ammunition Ships Mariners or other things appertaining to War or Subsidies in money to prosecute it directly or indirectly either on publick or private account to the present or future Enemys of the other Nor supply them or direct that they be supplyed with any Quarters or Accommodation within the Dominions of the Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden saving the Article of
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-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
Licensed January 16th 1678 9. Roger L'Estrange A COLLECTION Of all The ACTS MEMORIALS LETTERS That pass'd in the Negotiation of the PEACE With the TREATIES Concluded at NIMEGVEN Translated from the French Copy Printed at Paris with Privilege The Articles of Peace between the Emperor and the French King and those between the Emperor and the King of Sweden Translated from the Latin Copy Printed at Nimeguen LONDON Printed by H. Hills and are to be sold by Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-head in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1679. THE CONTENTS HIs Majesties Letter to the States-General of the United-Provinces pag. 6 A Letter from the States-General of the United-Provinces to the Most Christian King p. 8 The Kings Answer to the Letter of the States-General of the United-Provinces p. 9 The Memorial which the King Ordered to be delivered to the Sieur Van Beverning Ambassador Extraordinary from the States-General of the United-Provinces to his Majesty p. 10 The Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States-General c. to the Duke De Villa Hermosa of the 27th of May. p. 12 A Declaration given by the Spaniards containing their consent to the Conditions proposed by his Majesty in order to a Peace p. 14 A Declaration on the behalf of the King of Denrnark p. 16 A Declaration on the behalf of the Elector of Brandenburg upon the Subject of the Peace p. 20 A Declaration on behalf of the Emperor p. 22 A Letter from the States General of the United-Provinces to the King Written at the Hague the 22. of June 1678. p. 27 The King's Answer to the Letter of the States-General of the United-Provinces Written from St. Germain the 30th of June 1678. p. 28 An Extract of the Resolution of their Lordships the States of Holland and Friesland at their meeting on the 11th of July 1678. p. 31 A Memorial of the French Ambassadors delivered the 17. July 1678. to the Ambassadors of the States-General of the United-Provinces of the Low-Countreys p. 36 A Memorial delivered to the Plenipotentiaries of France by the Nenipotentiaries of Holland July the 26th 1678. p. 41 A Memorial delivered to the Plenipotentiaries of France by the Plenipotentiaries of Sweden July the 27th 1678. p. 59 The second Memorial of the Ambassadors of France given into the Ambassadors of the States-General 29th of July 1678. p. 62 A Memorial given in by the Ambassadors of the States-General to the Ambassadors of France the 4th of August 1678. p. 65 The third Memorial of the Ambassadors of France given in to the Ambassadors of the States General of the United-Provinces the 6th of August 1678. p. 69 A Memorial given by the Ambassadors of Sweden to the Ambassadors of France this 9th of August 1678. p. 70 The Treaty made and passed between the Commissioners deputed on behalf of the King and those deputed likewise on behulf of the Catholick King and of the States-General of the United-Provinces of the Low-Countreys about the demenour of the Troops and Garrisons of both sides in the said Low-Countreys till the Ratisitations of the Treaty of Peace are Exchanged The 19th of August 1678. p. 75 Treaties of Peace and Commerce Navigation and Marine betwixt France and the States-General of the United-Provinces of the Low-Countreys concluded at Nimeguen the 10th of August 1678. p. 80 The Ratification of the Treaty of Peace by the States-General p. 91 Here follows the Tenour of the Power of his Majesties said Ambassadors p. 93 The Tenour of the Power of the said Ambassadors of the States General of the United-Provinces p. 96 A separate Article concerning the Prince of Orange p. 98 The Ratification of the separate Article concerning the Prince of Orange by the States-General p. 101 A Treaty of Commerce Navigation and Marine betwixt France and the States-General of the United-Provinces of the Low-Countreys p. 103 A Formulary for Pass-Ports and Letters to be granted by the Admiralty of France to Ships outward bound in pursuance of an Article of this present Treaty p. 122 Another form of Letters to be granted by the Sea-Port-Towns of the United-Provinces to Ships and Barks outward bound in pursuance of the aforesaid Article p. 124 Here follows the Tenour of his Majesties said Ambassadors Power p. 125 Here follows the Tenour of the Power of the said Lords the Ambassadors Extraordinary of the Lords the States of the United-Provinces p. 127 A separate Article concerning the Imposition of Fifty Sols per Tun upon Stranger 's Ships sailing out of Ports in France p. 131 The States General 's Ratification of the Treaty of Commerce p. 134 By the King's Order p. 136 By the King's Order The Provost of Paris Or Lieutenant Civil p. 137 A Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States-General of the United-Provinces to the Duke de Villa Hermosa of the 8th of May. p. 138 Answer of the Duke de Villa Hermosa of the 9th of May to the Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States-General of the United-Provinces of the 8th of May. p. 140 A Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States-General c. to the Duke de Villa Hermosa c. of the 14th of May. p. 141 The Answer of the Duke de Villa Hermosa of the 16th of May to the Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States-General c. p. 144 A Declaration of the Emperor's Ambassadors at a Conference Extraordinary of the Allies at Nimeguen the 20th of June 1678. p. 145 A Declaration of the Ambassadors of Spain at an Extraordinary Conference of the Allies the 20th of June 1678. p. 148 A Declaration of the Ambassadors of Denmark at an Extraordinary Conference of the Allies at Nimeguen the 20th of June 1678. p. 149 A Declaration of the Ambassador of the Elector of Brandenburg on Munday the 20th of June 1678. p. 152 A Declaration of the Ambassador of Prince Charles of Lorrain at a Conference Extraordinary of the Allies at Nimeguen the 20th of June 1678. p. 155 A Letter from the Lords the States-General to Mons the Duke of Luxemburg the 22. of June 1678. p. 156 A Memorial presented to his Majesty of Great Britain at London by Mons de Borgomanero c. the 5th of June 1678. p. 157 A Remonstrance of the Ambassadors of the Elector of Brandenburg to the Ambassadors of the Lords the States-General concerning the present Affairs of the Treaties of Peace Given at Nimeguen this 31. of July 1678. p. 158 The Protestation of the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the King of Denmark the Elector of Brandenburg c. against the separate Peace of the States-General of the United-Provinces Made the 10th of August 1678. at Nimeguen p. 162 A second Protestation of the Ambassadors and Plempotentiaries of the King of Denmark of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg c. Made the 18th of August 1678. at the Hague c. p. 167 A Memorial of the Ambassadors of Denmark and of the Elector of Brandenburg given in to those of the
King of Spain of the 22. of August p. 169 A Letter of the Ambassadors of the Lords the States-General of the United-Provinces of the Low-Countreys to the Lords Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of France for an Explanation of the 13th Article of the Treaty of Peace p. 174 The Answer of the Lords Ambassadors of France to the Ambassadors of the Lords the States-General of the United-Provinces in Explanation of the 13th Article of the Treaty of Peace p. 175 The Ratification of the Explanation of the thirteenth Article of the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Holland p. 177 A separate Article for a general indemnification of the Subjects both of France and Holland p. 178 The Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain Concluded at Nimeguen the 17th day of September 1678. p. 181 The Power of the Lords Ambassadors of his Most Christian Majesty p. 204 The Powers of his Catholick Majesty's Ambassadors p. 206 Articles of Peace between the Emperor and the French King Concluded and Signed at Nimeguen the 5th day of February 1679. p. 212 Articals of Peace between the Emperor and the King of Sweden Concluded and Signed at Nimeguen the 5th day of February 1679. p. 230 A PROJECT OF Conditions of Peace HIs Majesties inviolable fidelity in adhering to his Alliances hath induced him never to listen to any Proposals of Peace other than such as shall give a full and perfect satisfaction to the King of Sueden which likewise having been absolutely promised to his Majesty by the King of Great Britain who was earnest to gain this point both for him and for the States General he now likewise makes it the first Article that he insists upon and without which he cannot come to any conclusion upon the rest And because the Interest of the Duke of Gottorp is so united to that of Sueden that it makes a part of the Treaty of Copenhagen for the performance of which his Majesty gave his Garranty to that Crown his Majesty desires that he may now likewise be comprehended within this Treaty upon such terms as shall be satisfactory to himself As for the Prince and Bishop of Strasburgh the King doth precisely insist upon the restitution of that Prince and of all his Family to all their Estates Goods Honours and Prerogatives and particularly upon the restitution of his Brother Prince William of Furstemburg whose Liberty must be provided for by one of the first Articles of the Peace For what concerns the Empire as his Majesty doth still continue in the same intention which he has expressed for its Peace that he has been troubled to see it disturbed that it was with much trouble of mind he found himself compelled to carry the War thither so he does yet adhere to these publick Declarations which he has so often made That he will insist onely upon the restoring of the Treaties of Westphalia in all their points and to have them once more to be the means of restoring Peace to Germany Which induces him to offer this Alternative to the Emperor Either that the Emperor shall restore Philipsburg and have Friburg restored to him or else keep Philipsburg and let his Majesty continue in possession of Friburg without making any the least alteration in the other matters contained in the said Treaties As for what concerns Spain since its Interest appears to be the most considerable in this War and both England Holland and some Estates bordering upon Flanders have further express'd their desire that that Crown should retain such a Frontier in the Low-Countreys as might be able to make that a Bar which they judge is so very important to their safety his Majesty has been pleased at the instance of the King of Great Britain to agree to the means for the setling it And upon this consideration it is as his Majesty declared himself to that Prince that he has offered already and doth yet offer to restore to Spain those following Places Viz. The Place of Charleroy Limburg and its Appurtenances Binch and the Provostship thereof Aeth and its Chastellany Oudenard and its Chastellany there Courtray and its Chastellany the Verge of Menin onely excepted Gand and its dependances St. Guillain but with its Fortifications rased For so many Places of importance and which his Majesty has taken so much care and been at so great expence to Fortifie he requires in exchange that the King of Spain quit his right to those Places which his Majesty hath possessed himself of in this last War All Franche Compte The Town of Valenciennes and its Dependances Bouchain and its Dependances Conde and its Dependances Cambray and Cambresis Air St. Omers and their Dependances The Town of Ipre and its Chastellany The Places of Werwick and Werneton on the River Lis. Bavay and Maubeage with their Dependancies Poperingue Bailleul and Cassel with their Dependances In a word that he quit his Right to all such Places and Countreys as his Majesty hath now in his possession excepting those before mentioned which his Majesty is willing to restore to Spain The Town of Charlemont or in lieu thereof the Towns of Dinant and Bouvines upon condition that he at the choice of the King of Spain will charge himself that the Bishop of Liege shall quit his right to Dinant and that the Emperor and Empire shall give their assent thereunto By this means the Spanish Frontier in the Netherlands would for the future begin from the Sea to the Meuse Newport Dixmude Courtray Oudenard Aeth Mons Charleroy and Namur As for the Articles which concern the States General they are so very favourable that they cannot but conclude that his Majesty doth fully purpose to receive them into the former Friendship after the Peace shall be concluded His Majesty is willing to restore them Maestricht and to agree to the Treaty of Commerce in such form as it was framed at Nimeguen with the Sieur Beverning And to the end his Majesty may give the World the utmost testimony of his sincere intentions for the Peace his Majesty notwithstanding any reason that might induce him to continue in possession of Lorrain is willing that Prince Charles be restored to it upon one of these two Alternatives of which he gives him his choice First That he be restored according to the Articles expressed in the Pyrenaean Treaty without any change or alteration in any of them Or secondly That he be restored generally to his whole Estate except the Town of Nancy which his Majesty will retain with plenary Right of Sovereignty and excepting such a way as was agreed upon at the Treaty of 1661. to pass from the Frontiers of France into Alsatia and all such ways as shall be necessary to pass from France to Nancy and from Nancy to Metz Brisac and Franche Compte upon condition nevertheless that to make him some compensation for the Town of Nancy his Majesty shall resign to him that of Toul considerable for its extent and situation and much more
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
ought to be inferred without all manner of dispute that he would not desist in case of a General Treaty but that it was not intended to apply it to the case of particular Conventions which is now in question The Allegations which are made to this Proposal of the Pyrenaean Treaty and the example of Verceil the restitution whereof the King of Spain hath promised are not at all applicable here for that Places was in his own hands and he might dispose of it as he thought good but in our case they have not onely not demanded any restitution either from the King of Spain or the States General as indeed it could not justly be required of them because they were not all possessed of any thing that appertained to the Swede his most Christian Majesty proposing no other matter to them but the Neutrality onely and there might on the contrary be drawn a solid Argument from the same Treaty of the Pyrenaeans to justifie what is at present pretended to concerning the Evacuation alledging that his most Christian Majesty hath consented to the restitution of the Places to Spain notwithstanding the continuation of the War between that Crown and Portugal T is true that in the project of Treaties there is no mention at all made of the Time when the Places should be restored but it is certain and notorious that the Consequence of a Treaty is the immediate Exchange of Ratifications after which full satisfaction ought to be given to all that is promised and agreed unto without any limitation of time and to that end there can be nothing applied more Authentick than what his Majesty was pleased to alledge in his last Letter of the 30th of June pass'd where he says That it is the usual custom in all Treaties for all things to continue in the state they are in till the Peace be absolutely consummated by Exchange of Ratifications and the Publication of them and that consequently it were directly contrary to that usage for his Majesty to pretend to detain the places after the Ratifications duly Exchanged and the Publication made Their Lordships may dispense with the Discourse of the Conduct of his Majesties Army in the Spanish Netherlands after the return of Monsieur de Lanoy who brought back his Majesty's Answer of the 30th of June made to theirs of the 22d of the same month but in the mean time they afflict themselves not without reason because that by all these difficulties so ill grounded the Conclusion and Signature of the Treaties hath been retarded and even refused when as their Ambassadors did duly present themselves to those of his most Christian Majesty according to their promise because that their Lordships could by no means endure that the King of Spain no more than they themselves to their extreme prejudice should be disappointed in the principal effect of Peace namely of the Evacuation of the said Places and consequently of the Boundary which his Majesty had so frequently and solemnly assured them Their High and Mighty Lordships sincerely declare that they desire nothing more cordially than to see the Peace established between his Majesty the King of Spain and their own State joyntly together with all the Confederates that will subscribe it and that they are willing and ready also to cause the Treaties to be Concluded and Signed But we cannot justly desire of them that the said Evacuation should depend upon the success of Affairs and a Restitution and Satisfaction which according to all humane apprehension will not be regulated but by the success of the War the Accidents and Chances whereof are always exposed to incertainty T is further to be taken into consideration that the King of Sweden has not to this hour given any order for the satisfaction of their High and Mighty Lordships in regard of the just complaints and excessive damages of their Subjects nay not so much as to renew and re-establish their ancient Amity with them but contrarily daily add new prejudices to their Negotiation by Acts of Hostility directly contrary to the Treaties provisionally established And as his Majesty ought rationally to expect from the Lords the States General that they should ever look upon his Royal Word as firm and inviolable they cannot be persuaded that he would by any means whatsoever alter the Conditions which he hath proposed by so remarkable a Change and are so much the more assured thereof in that their Ambassadors at London having represented to his Majesty of Great Britain the scruple of this new upstart Difficulty his Majesty did answer them with assurance that there should be no stop upon it and thereby they have been strongly persuaded that this delay was to be imputed not to his Majesties Sentiments but to the persuasion of those who desire not a Peace but that however they hope his Majesty according to the greatness of his Generosity will take off that Delay As to the Proposition the French Ambassadors made in their Memorial the Lords the States General do consider it two very different ways either as an Expedient to accommodate the Affairs of the Northern Powers by amicable means or else to employ their Forces to oblige their Allies to return the King of Sweden their Conquests obtain'd during this War As to the first they doubt not that the French Ambassadors are sufficiently persuaded with what servor they desired to see the accomplishment of a General Peace and they shall never be better satisfied in any thing than in seeing it concluded and that they will always continue to interpose and use their utmost endeavours to obtain a Benefit so much desired intreating his Majesty that he will please to furnish them with means in order thereunto their Ambassadors being fully informed of their good intentions without being obliged to the Evacuation of Places But if it be his Majesties inclination to engage them in pursuance of that proposition to violence and constraint they find themselves obliged to say That they understand no manner of â—â—â—ity therein and that it is diametrically opposite to what his Majesty did himself judge reasonable and that they can by no means subscribe it not being able at all to prevail with themselves but by force they must engage their Allies with whom they have been concern'd in the same Obligations to restore what they have taken from the Swedish King and so consequently must be necessitated to take up Arms against their Friends and Confederates a thing altogether unheard of and which cannot justly be required of them his Majesty having several times declar'd that as for himself and his Allies and in confideration of their Mighty Lordships and theirs he onely demanded the Neutrality before-mention'd And thus the Lords the States General do assure themselves that the French Ambassadors as well as all those that are not prepossess'd will be convinced that their Lordships are no way in fault if the Peace be not immediatly Concluded and that the obligation to the Retention
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
appointed for this purpose may if they please make use of the Boats and Carriages of the Countrey for two months time and shall have free passage by Water and Land for the carrying away the said Ammunition And the Governors Commanders Officers and Magistrates of the said Town shall give them all the facilities they can for the carriage and conduct of the said Artillery and Ammunition Also the Officers Soldiers Men of War and others that shall leave the said Place may take thence and carry away all their moveable Goods but it shall not be lawful for them to exact any thing from the inhabitants of the Town of Maestricht or it's neighbourhood nor to do any hurt to their houses or carry away any thing belonging to the said inhabitants XI All Prisoners of War on both sides shall be delivered without distinction or exception and without paying any ransom XII The raising of contributions demanded by the Governour of the Town of Maestricht of the Countreys subjected shall continue for all that shall become due till the Ratification of the present Treaty and such Arrears as shall remain shall be paid within three months after that at convenient times for which a valuable caution shall be given in some Town within his Majesties Dominion XIII The said Lords the States General have and do promise not only to maintain a perfect Neutrality without being at Liberty to assist directly or indirectly the enemies of France or it's Allies but also to garrant all such engagements as Spain shall enter into by the Treaty that is to be betwixt Their Most Christian and Catholick Majesties and especially that whereby the Catholick King shall be held to the same Neutrality XIV If through inadvertence or otherwise there happen any want of due observance of this present Treaty or other inconvenience relating thereunto on the part of his said Majesty or of the Lords the States General and their Successors this Peace and Alliance shall remain in full force notwithstanding so as no breach of friendship or of good correspondence shall ensue thereupon but such contraventions shall be speedily repaired if they shall be occasioned by any particular Subjects faults those Subjects only shall be punished XV. And for the better securing Commerce and Friendship hereafter between the Subjects of the said King and those of the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys it is agreed and accorded that in case there shall be in time to come any interruption of friendship or that a breach shall happen between the Crown of France and the said Lords the States General of the said United Provinces which God forbid then six months after such breach shall always be allowed to the Subjects of both parties to retire with their effects and transport them whithersoever they think fit which also they shall be permitted to do as likewise to sell or transport their goods and moveables with all freedom so as no hindrance shall be given to them nor any proceedings be to seize their effects much less to secure their Persons XVI As for the pretences and interests that concern the Prince of Orange upon which there has been a separate Treaty and Agreement by an Act this day Signed the said writing and all the Contents of it shall be effectual and shall be confirmed fulfill'd and executed according to the Form and Tenour thereof neither more nor less than if all it's points in general and every one of them in particular were word for word inserted into this present Treaty XVII And as his Majesty and the Lords the States General acknowledge the powerful Offices that the King of Great Brittain has incessantly imploy'd by his Counsels and good Advertisements for the publick Weal and Repose so it is agreed on both sides that his said Majesty of Great Brittain and his Kingdoms be comprehended by name within this present Treaty according to the best form that may be XVIII Within this present Treaty of Peace and Alliance shall be comprehended on the part of the said Most Christian King the King of Sweden the Duke of Holstein the Bishop of Strasburg and Prince William of Furstemburg as interessed in the present War And there shall likewise be comprehended if they will themselves the Prince and Crown of Portugal the Duke and Seignorie of Venice the Duke of Savoy the Thirteen Cantons of the Ligue-Switzers and their Allies the Elector of Bavaria Duke John Frederick of Brunswick Hanover and all Kings Potentats Princes and States Towns and particular Persons to whom his Most Christian Majesty shall grant at their request to be comprehended within this Treaty on his part XIX And on the part of the Lords the States General the King of Spain and all other their Allies that within six weeks to be computed from the exchange of the Ratifications shall declare their acceptance of the Peace as also the Thirteen laudable Cantons of the Ligue-Switzers and their Allies and Confederates the Town of Embden and moreover all Kings Princes and States Towns and particular Persons to whom they shall grant at their request to be comprehended on their part XX. The said King and the said Lords the States General do consent that the King of Great Brittain as Mediator and all other Potentats and Princes that shall be willing to enter into the like engagement may give his Majesty and the said States General their promise and tie themselves to garrant the performance of all that is contain'd in this present Treaty XXI This present Treaty shall be Ratified and Approved by the said King and the said Lords the States General and each parties Letters of Ratification shall be delivered in proper due form within the Term of six weeks or sooner if it may be reckoning from the day of Signing In witness whereof We the aforesaid Ambassadors of his Majesty and of the Lords the States General by virtue of our respective powers have on their behalfs Signed these presents with our ordinary Seals and have set our Coats of Arms to the same At Nimeguen the 10th of August in the year of our Lord 1678. Le Ma' D' Estrades H. Beverning Colbert W. van Nassaw De Mesmes W. Haren WE liking well the aforesaid Treaty of Peace in all and every the points and Articles therein contained and declared have for our Selves our Heirs Successours Kingdoms Countreys Lands Lordships and Subjects accepted approved ratified and confirmed and do Accept Approve Ratifie and Confirm the same and do promise upon the Word and Faith of a King to keep and observe the whole inviolably without ever acting to the contrary directly or indirectly in any sort or kind whatsoever and thereto we oblige and morgage all and every our goods that are or shall be In witness whereof we have Signed these presents with our own hand and have made our Seal to be set thereto Given at St. Germain en Laye the 18th day of August in the year of Grace one thousand six
hundred seventy and eight and of our Reign the thirty sixth Signed Lewis By the King And underneath Arnauld The Ratification of the Treaty of Peace by the States General THe States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys To all that shall see these presents Greeting Having seen and examined the Treaty of Peace and Friendship made and concluded at Nimeguen the 10th day of August 1678. By the Sieur Comte D' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of the Orders of the Most Christian King the Sieur Colbert Marquiss of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in his Councel of State and the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d'Avaux Counsellor likewise in his Councels Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty at the meeting at Nimeguen in the name and on the behalf of his said Majesty and by the Heer Hierosme de Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University at Leyden late Counsellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces the Heer Wilhem van Nassaw Heer van Odyke Cortgene c. first noble and representative of the Order of the Nobility in the States and at the Councel of Zeland and the Heer Wilhem van Haren Grietman du Bildt Deputies in our Assembly on behalf of the States of Holland Zeland and Friesland our Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries at the said Assembly at Nimeguen in our Name and on our behalf by vertue of their full respective powers Having likewise seen and examined the Letter which our said Ambassadors and Plenipotenries wrote to the said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty the sixteenth day of the said month of August and the answer that the said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of his said Majesty returned thereunto concerning the explanation of the thirteenth Article of the said Treaty as also the Act of the 15th of September this present year by which his said Majesty declared his good liking of the explanation which his said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries made upon the thirteenth Article of the said Treaty of Peace of which Treaties Letters Acts and Powers the Tenour is as followeth In the Name of God the Creator To all c. page And forasmuch as the Contents of the said Treaty import that the Letters of Ratification shall be delivered on both sides in due and proper form within six weeks or sooner if it may be from the day of Signing We willing to give proofs of our sincerity and to discharge the promise which our Ambassadors made for us have agreed approved and Ratified the said Treaty and every Article thereof above transcribed and do Agree to Approve Ratifie and Confirm the same by these presents promising Faithfully and Sincerely to keep maintain and inviolably to observe the same in every point according to the Form and Tenour thereof without ever acting contrary thereunto directly or indirectly in any manner or kind whatsoever In Witness whereof we have made these presents to be Signed by the President of our Assembly and Countersigned by our Principal Register and our great Seal to be put thereto Given at the Hague the 19th day of Sept. in the year 1678. D. van Wyngaerd By order of the said Lords the States General H. Fagel Here follows the Tenour of the Power of his Majesties said Ambassadors LEWIS by the grace of God King of France and Navar To all that shall see these presents Greeting As we wish for nothing with greater ardency then to see the War that at present afflicts Christendom end in a good Peace and that by the Care and Mediation of our most dear and most beloved Brother the King of Great Brittain the Town of Nimeguen has been agreed upon by all the parties for the place of Conference We out of this same desire to put a stop as far as in us lies to the desolation of so many Provinces and the shedding of so much Christian blood Declare that confiding entirely in the Experience Ability and Faithfulness of our most dear and well beloved Cosen the Sieur Comte d' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of our Orders of our faithful and well beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquess de Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in our Councel of State and of our faithful and well beloved the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor also in our Councels by reason of the advantagious tryal that we have made of them in divers Embassies and considerable Employments wherein we have entrusted them both within our Kingdom and without For these reasons and other good considerations us thereunto moving We have Appointed Ordained and Deputed and by these presents Signed with our hand do Appoint Ordain and Depute the said Sieurs Marshal d' Estrades Marquess de Croissy and Comte d' Avaux and have given unto them and do hereby give full Power Commission and special Order to repair to the Town of Nimeguen in quality of our Ambassadors Extraordinary and our Plenipotentiaries for the Peace and to Confer there either directly or by the interposition of Ambassadors Mediators respectively received and agreed to with all Ambassadors and Ministers of our most Dear and great Friends the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys and of their Allies being all qualified with sufficient Powers and there to Treat upon means for the determining and appeasing the differences that cause the War at this day And our said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries all three together or two of them in absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or one of them in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment may agree and conclude thereon and Sign a good and sure Peace and generally may do Negociate Promise and Agree whatever they shall think necessary for the said Peace with the same authority that we should do or might do if we were there present in Person although some things should happen that might require more particular instructions than are contain'd in these presents Promising on the Faith and Word of a King to hold firm and fulfil whatever by the said Sieurs Marshal de' Estrades Marquess de Croissy and Comte d' Avauz or by two of them in the absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or by one onely in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment shall have been stipulated promised and agreed and to cause our Letters of Ratification to be dispatched within such time as they shall have promised in our Name to exhibit them For such is our pleasure In witness whereof we have caused our Seal to be set to these presents Given at St. Germain in Laye the Twenty third day of December in the year of Grace one thousand six hundred seventy and five and of Our Reign the Three and thirtieth Signed Lewis and upon the fould by the King Arnauld and sealed with the great Seal in yellow Wax The Tenour of the Power of the said Ambassadors
of the States General of the United Provinces THe States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys to all that shall see these presents Greeting As we desire nothing with greater ardency than to see the War that at this present oppresseth Christendom end in a good Peace and since by the care and mediation of the Most Illustrious King of Great Britain the Town of Nimeguen has been agreed to by all parties for a place of Conference We desiring as far as in us lies to put a stop to the desolation of so many Provinces and the shedding so much Christian blood have been willing to contribute thereto whatever lies in our power and to that end have deputed to that Assembly some Persons of our own body who have given manifold proof as well of their knowledge and experience in publick Affairs as of their affection for the good of our State and since the Heeren Hierosme van Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University of Leyden late United Provinces Wilhem van Nassaw Heer van Odyke Cortgene c. first noble and representative of the Order of the Nobility in the States Councel of Zeland and Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Bildt Deputed to our Assembly on the behalf of the States of Holland Zeland and Friezland have Signalized themselves in many important employments in our service wherein they have given instances of their fidelity presence of mind and readiness in the managment of Affairs For these causes and other good considerations us thereunto moving we have appointed ordain'd and deputed the said Heeren Van Beverning Van Odyke and Van Haren and do appoint ordain and depute them by these presents and have given them and do hereby give them full Power Commission and special Order to repair to the Town of Nimeguen in quality of our Ambassadors Extraordinary and our Plenipotentiaries for the Peace and there to Confer either directly or by the interposition of Ambassadors Mediators received and agreed to respectively with the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty and his Allies being qualified with sufficient powers and there to Treat upon means for the determining and appeasing the differences that occasion the War at this day and our aforesaid Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries all three together or two of them in absence of the third by reason of sickness or other impediment or one onely in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment may agree and conclude thereupon and Sign a good and sure Peace and generally may act negotiate promise and agree what ever they shall think necessary in order to the said Peace and generally may do whatever we our selves might do if we were there present even in such things as might require more particular power and instructions than are contained in these presents And we do promise truly and faithfully to like well and hold for firm and stable whatever by the said Heeren our Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries or by two of them in case of sickness absence or other impediment of the third or by one onely in absence of the other two on the like occasion of sickness or other impediment shall have been stipulated promised and agreed and to cause to be dispatched our Letters of Ratification within such time as they shall have promised in our name to exhibit them Given at the Hague in our Assembly under our great Seal Signed by the President and with the sign of our Principal Register this fourth day of January in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and six Signed J. Bootsma And on the fould By Order of the said Lords the States General Signed H. Fagel And sealed with the great Seal with red Wax A separate Article concerning the Prince of Orange LEWIS by the grace of God King of France and Navar to all that shall see these presents greeting Since our most dear and wel-beloved Cosen the Sieur Comte d' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of our Orders our faithful and wel-beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in our Councel of State and our faithful and wel-beloved the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor also in our Councels our Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries by vertue of the plenary powers which we had given them have Concluded Agreed and Signed on the tenth day of this month at Nimeguen with the Sieur Hierosene van Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University at Leyden heretofore Counsellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys the Sieur Wilhem van Nassaw Heer van Odyke Cortgene and first noble and representative of the Nobility in the States and at the Councel of Leyden and the Sieur Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Bildt Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of our most Dear and great Friends the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys qualified likewise with plenary powers this Article in Tenour as followeth viz. As in pursuance of the War which for some years has hapned betwixt the Most Christian King and the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys his Majesty caused to be seized all things belonging to the Prince of Orange as well the Principality of Orange as other his Lands and Seignories lying in France and granted the Revenues thereof to Monsieur the Comte d' Auvengne who enjoys the same at present and since by the grace of God a Peace is setled by the Treaty this day concluded and so all the angry effects of War ought to cease his Majesty hath promised to the said Prince and doth promise by this separate Act that immediately after the Ratifications exchanged his Majesty will take off the said Seizure and cause the said Prince to be restored to the possession of the said Principality and of the Lands which belong to him in France Franche Comte Charleroy Flanders and other Countreys depending upon his Majesties Rule and to all his rights actions priviledge usages and prerogatives in such estate and manner as he enjoyed the same till he was dispossess'd by reason of the present War Nimeguen the 10th day of the month of August in the year 1678. Marshal D' Estrades H. Beverning Colbert W. de Nassaw De Mesmes W. Haren WE well liking the separate Article aforesaid in all and every point thereof have by these presents Signed with our hand allowed approved and ratified and do allow approve and Ratifie the same promising upon the Faith and Word of a King to fulfil observe and cause to be observed the same truly and faithfully without ever suffering any thing to be acted directly or indirectly to the contrary thereof for any cause or upon any occasion whatsoever In witness whereof we have Signed these presents with our hand and have caused our Seal to be put thereto Given at St. Germain in Laye the 18th day of August in the year of Grace One thousand
six hundred seventy eight and of our Reign the Thirty sixth Signed Lewis and underneath was Signed By the King Arnauld The Ratification of the separate Article concerning the Prince of Orange by the States General THe States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys To all that shall see these presents Greeting Since besides the Treaty of Peace made and concluded at Nimeguen on the 10th day of the month of August 1678. There was likewise made a separate Article by the Sieur Comte d' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of the Orders of the Most Christian King the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in his Councel of State and the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor likewise in his Councels Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty at the Assembly at Nimeguen in the name and on the behalf of his said Majesty and by the Sieur Hierosme de Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University of Leyden heretofore Counsellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces the Sieur Wilhem van Nassaw Heer van Odyke Cortgene and first Noble and representative of the Order of the Nobility in the States and at the Councel of Zeland and the Sieur Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Bildt deputies in our Assembly on the behalf of the States of Holland Zeland and Friezland our Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries at the said Assembly at Nimeguen in our name and on our behalf by vertue of their respective plenary powers of which separate Article the Tenour is as followeth viz. A separate Article concerning the Prince of Orange since in pursuance of the War c. page We have Agreed Approved and Ratified and do by these presents Agree Approve and Ratifie the said separate Article and that it be inserted into the aforesaid Treaty of Peace and Friendship promising to keep maintain and inviolably to observe all that is therein contained without ever acting directly or indirectly to the contrary under any pretence whatsoever In witness whereof we have caused these presents to be Signed by the President of our Assembly and Countersigned by our principal Register and our great Seal to be set thereto Given at the Hague the 19 th day of September 1678. D. van Wyngaerd By Order of the said Lords the States General H. Fagel A Treaty of Commerce Navigation and Marine betwixt France and the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys Concluded at Nimeguen the 10th of August 1678. LEWIS by the grace of God King of France and Navar To all such as shall see these presents greeting Since our most dear and wel-beloved Cosen the Sieur Comte d' Estrades Marshal of France Knight of our Orders our faithful and wel-beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquiss of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in our Councel of State and our faithful and wel-beloved the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor also in our Councels our Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries by vertue of the plenary powers which we had given them have Concluded Agreed and Signed on the tenth day of this month in the Town of Nimeguen with the Heer Hierosme van Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University at Leyden heretofore Counsellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys the Heer Wilhem van Nassaw 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 Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of our most Dear and great Friends the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys instructed likewise with plenary powers a Treaty of Commerce Navigation and Marine in Tenour as followeth viz. The Treaty of Peace which has this day been concluded betwixt the most Christian King and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces putting an end to all the Subjects of discontent which for some time had altered the affection which his Majesty following the example of the Kings his Predecessors hath always had for their good and prosperity and the said Lords the States General entring again into the same desire which they have heretofore testified for the greatness of France and into sentiments of a sincere acknowledgment for the obligations and considerable advantages which they have heretofore received from it there is reason to believe that this good understanding betwixt his Majesty and the States General can never be disturbed But as his Majesty will not omit any thing that may strengthen it and the said States General being less desirous to perpetuate it have thought that there was no better and more certain means than to establish a free and perfect correspondence between the Subjects on both Sides and to this end to regulate their particular interests in matters of Commerce Navigation and Marine by the most proper Laws and Conventions for preventing all inconveniencies that might weaken the said good correspondence his Majesty aforesaid to satisfie the desire of the said States hath ordained the Sieur Comte d' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of his Orders the Sieur Colbert Marquiss of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in his Councel of State and the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor also in his Counsels to be his Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries at the Assembly of Nimeguen and the said Lords the States General the Heer Hierosme van Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University at Leyden late Counsellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces the Heer Wilhem van Nassaw Heer van Odyke Cortgene and first Noble and representative of the Order of the Nobility in the States and Councel of Zeland and the Heer Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Bildt deputed to their Assembly on behalf of the States of Holland Zeland and Friezland to confer and agree by vertue of their powers respectively to be produced the copy whereof is here underwritten upon a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation in manner as followeth viz. I. His Majesties Subjects and those of their Lordships the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys shall mutually enjoy the same freedom in matters of Commerce and Navigation that they ever enjoyed before this War throughout all Kingdoms States and Provinces of either party II. And consequently they shall not exercise for the future any manner of Hostilities or Violence the one against the other neither by Sea nor Land nor in Rivers Roads nor Sweetwaters in any name or under any pretence whatsoever neither may his Majesties Subjects take any Commissions for Privateers or Letters of reprisal from any Princes or States at enmity with the said Lords the States General much less molest or endammage them in any sort by vertue of such Commissions or Letters of reprisal nor so much as go to Sea with them on pain of being prosecuted and punished as Pirates Which shall reciprocally be
with all that shall be found in such Ship without exception or reserve but on the other hand also whatever shall be and be found in Ships belonging to the Subjects of the Most Christian King shall be free and affranchised though the lading or part thereof belong to the enemies of the said Lords the States except Contraband goods concerning which such regulation shall be observed as has been ordered in the foregoing Articles And for the more particular clearing of this Article it is moreover accorded and agreed in case it shall happen that both the said parties or but one of them shall be engaged in War that the goods belonging to the Subjects of the other and laden on board their Vessels that are enemies to both or either shall not in any wise be confiscated by reason or under pretence of being embark'd in an enemy's Vessel and this same shall be observed not only when such Wares shall have been shipt bèfore the Declaration of the War but even after such Declaration provided that it be within the times and spaces following viz. If they shall have been shipt within the Baltick Sea or the North Sea from Terneuse in Norway to the mouth of the channel within the space of four weeks or from the channels mouth to the Cape of St. Vincent within the space of six weeks and from thence 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 publication of this present Treaty So that the Merchandises and goods of Subjects and Inhabitants shipped in such Vessels belonging to enemies during the said Terms and within the extents aforesaid may not in any wise be confiscated by reason of their being on board such enemies Vessel but shall be restor'd to the proprietors without delay unless they shall have been put on board after the expiration of the said Terms And yet it shall in no wise be permitted to transport to enemies Ports such Contrabann'd goods as shall be found on board such enemies Vessels though they be restor'd for the reason aforesaid And as it has been ruled in what has gone before that a free Ship shall affranchise the Wares that are on board it it is moreover accorded and agreed that this freedom shall extend to such Persons likewise as shall be in free Ships in so much that though they be enemies to both parties or to one of them yet being found in a free Ship they may not be taken thence unless they be Soldiers and actually in the Enemies service XXIII All the Subjects and Inhabitants of the said United Provinces shall reciprocally enjoy the same rights liberties and exemptions in their Traffick and Commerce within his Majesties Ports Roads Seas and Estates which it has but now been said that his Majesties Subjects shall enjoy in those of the said Lords the States and on the High Sea it being to be understood that the equality shall be mutual in all respects on both sides even though hereafter the said Lords the States should be in Peace Friendship and Neutrality with any Kings Princes or States that should become enemies to his said Majesty yet each party shall reciprocally adhere to the Conditions and Restrictions expressed in the Articles of this present Treaty which concern Traffick and Commerce XXIV And the better to assure the Subjects of the said Lords the States that no violence shall be offered to them by the said Ships of War all Captains of the Kings Ships and other his Majesties Subjects shall be forbidden to molest or endamage them in any thing whatsoever on pain of being liable in their Persons and Estates for such dammages sustain'd and to be sustain'd till due Restitution and Reparation made XXV And for this reason each Captain and Privateer shall be obliged for the future before their departure to enter good and solvent bail before competent Judges in the sum of Fifteen thousand Livres tournois to answer each for all such misdemeanors as they shall commit in their Voyages and for the contraventions of their Captains and Officers to this present Treaty and to his Majesties Ordinances and Edicts which shall be published by vertue and in pursuance of what is hereby regulated on pain that their Commissions and Licences shall become null and void which thing the Subjects of the said Lords the States General shall do in like manner XXVI If it should happen any French Captain to take a Vessel laden with such Contrabann'd goods as a foresaid such Captains may not open or break the Coffers Mails Bundles Bags Tuns and other Cases or Transport Sell or Exchange or otherwise alienate them unless they shall have been landed in presence of the Judges of the Admiralty and after an Inventory made by them of the said Merchandises found in such Vessels unless the said Contrabann'd goods making but part of the Lading the Master of the Ship think good and agree to deliver the said Contrabann'd goods to the said Captain and to pursue his Voyage in which case such Master or owner may not in any sort be hindred from pursuing his course and the design of his Voyago XXVII His Majesty willing that the Subjects of the said Lords the States General be treated in all Countreys under his obedience as favourable as his own Subjects will give all necessary orders to have such Judgments and Decrees as shall be given and made upon prizes taken at Sea passed with all justice and equity by unsuspected Persons and such as are not concern'd in interest in the things in question and his Majesty will give precise and effectual Orders that all Decrees Judgments and Orders of Courts of Justice heretofore given and hereafter to be given be speedily and duly executed according to their Forms XXVIII And whenever the Ambassadors of the said Lords the States General or other their Publick Ministers which shall be in his Majesties Court shall complain of such Judgments as shall have been given His Majesty will cause the said Judgments to be review'd by his Councel that inquiry may be made whether the Orders and Cautions contain'd in this present Treaty have been pursued and observed and that such provision may be made as shall be reasonable which thing shall be done within the space of three months at most and yet neither before the first Judgment nor after the same hanging the review may the goods and effects which shall be reclaim'd be sold nor discharged but with the consent of the parties concern'd to prevent their perishing XXIX If process issue at the first and second instance against any that shall have taken prizes at Sea and the parties interested in the same and the said parties interested come to obtain a favourable Judgment or Decree such Judgment and Decree shall be executed upon giving security notwithstanding the appeal of him that shall have taken the
his Voyage In witness whereof we have caused our Sign and Seal of Arms to be set to these presents and have caused them to be under-written by our Secretary for Maritime affairs at the day of one thousand six hundred Signed Lewis Comte de Vermandois And underneath Signed by A form of the certificate containing the oath We of the Admiralty certifie that Master of the Ship named in the foregoing Pass-port has taken the Oath therein mentioned Given at the day of one thousand six hundred Another form of Letters to be granted by the Sea-Port-Towns of the United Provinces to Ships and Barks outward bound in pursuance of the aforesaid Article TO the most Serene most Illustrious most Mighty Honourable and prudent Lords Emperors Kings Commonwealths Princes Dukes Earls Barons Lords Burgermasters Sherifs Counsellors Judges Officers Justitiars and Governors of all good Towns and Places as well Ecclesiastical as Secular which shall see or read these presents We the Burgermasters and Governors of the Town of do to know that Master of the Ship appearing before us hath solemnly deposed upon Oath that the Ship called of the burden of about Lastes of which at present he is Master belongeth to the Inhabitants of the United Provinces as God should help him and as we should be willing to see the said Master assisted in his lawful Affairs so we require you all in general and those in particular where the said Master with his Ship and Wares shall arrive that they will be pleased to receive him courteously and duly to treat him if he shall be a sufferer with relation to the accustomed duties of Customs and Freights within through and at your Ports Rivers and Demesnes suffering him to Sail Pass Frequent and Negotiate where he shall think fit which we shall willingly acknowledge In witness whereof we have caused the Seal of our Town to be set hereto Here follows the Tenour of his Majesties said Ambassadors Power LEWIS by the grace of God King of France and Navar To all that shall see these presents Greeting As we desire nothing with greater ardency then to see the War with which Christendom is at present afflicted end in a good Peace and since by the Care and Mediation of our most dear and most beloved Brother the King of Great Brittain the Town of Nimeguen has been agreed upon by all parties for the Place of Conference We out of the same desire to put a stop as much as in us lies to the desolation of so many Provinces and the effusion of so much Christian Blood give to understand that we confiding entirely in the experience ability and fidelity of our most dear and well-beloved Cosen the Sieur Comte d' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of our Orders of our faithful and well-beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquiss of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in our Councel of State and of our faithful and well-beloved the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor also in our Councels by reason of the advantagious trials that we have made of them in diverse Embassies and considerable employments wherein we have intrusted them both within our Kingdom and without for these causes and other good considerations us thereunto moving we have appointed ordained and deputed and by these presents Signed with our hand do appoint ordain and depute the said Sieurs the Marshal d' Estrades the Marquiss of Croissy and the Comte d' Avaux and have given them and do hereby give them full Power Commission and special Order to repair to the Town of Nimeguen in quality of our Ambassadors Extraordinary and our Plenipotentiaries for the Peace and there to confer either immediately or by the Mediation of the Ambassadors Mediators respectively received and agreed to with all Ambassadors and Ministers of our most dear and great friends the States general of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys and their Allies being all armed with sufficient Powers and to Treat there of means for the determining and appeasing the differences that cause the War at this day and our said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries may all three together or two of them in absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or one onely in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment agree thereupon and conclude and sign a good and sure Peace and may generally act negotiate promise and agree whatever they shall think necessary in order to the said Peace with the same authority that we should or might do if we were present there in Person even though there should be some things that might require more particular instructions then are contain'd in these presents Promising on the Faith and Word of a King to hold firm and fulfil whatever by the said Sieurs Marshal d' Estrades Marquiss de Croissy and Comte d' Avaux or by two of them in absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or by one only in ansence of the other two in like case of sicknes or other impediment shall have been stipulated promised and agreed and cause to be dispatched our Letters of Ratification within such time as they shall have promised in our name to furnish them For such is our pleasure In witness whereof we have caused our Seal to be put to these presents Given at St. Germain in Laye the Three and twentieth day of December in the year of Grace One thousand six hundred seventy five and of Our Reign the Three and thirtieth Signed Lewis and upon the fould By the King Arnauld And sealed with the great Seal in yellow Wax Here follows the Tenour of the Power of the said Lords the Ambassadors Extraordinary of the Lords the States of the United Provinces THe States General of the United Previnces of the Low Countreys To all that shall see these presents Greeting As we desire nothing more ardently then to see the War with which Christendom is at present afflicted end in a good Peace and that by the Care and the Mediation of the most Serene King of Great Brittain the Town of Nimeguen has been agreed upon by all parties for the place of Con ference We out of the same desire to put a stopas much as in us lies to the desolation of so many Provinces and the effusion of so much Christian blood have been willing to contribute thereto all that is in our power and to this end have deputed to that Assembly some persons of our own body who have given many instances both of their knowledge and experience in publick Affairs and of their affection for the good of our State and as the Heeren Hierosme van Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University at Leyden late Counsellor and Treasurer-General of the United Provinces Wilhem van Nassaw Heer van Odyke Cortgene c. and first noble and representative of the Nobility in the States and Councel of the Province of Zeland and Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Blidt deputed to
force and vertue as if it were inserted into the body of the aforesaid general Treaty this day concluded Nimeguen the 10th day of August 1678. Le Mal. d' Estrades H. Beverningh Colbert W. Van Nassaw De Mesmes W. Haren We liking well the said separate Article in all and every the Points thereof have by these presents signed with our own Hand allowed approved and ratified and do allow approve and ratifie the same promising upon the Faith and Word of a King to fulfil observe and cause to be observed the same sincerely and faithfully without ever suffering any thing to the contrary directly or indirectly for any cause or upon any occasion whatsoever In witness whereof we have signed these presents with our own Hand and have caused our Seal to be put to the same Given at St. Germain en Laye the 18th day of August in the year of Grace 1678. and of our Reign the six and thirtieth Signed Lewis and underneath By the King Arnauld The States General 's Ratification of the Treaty of Commerce THE States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries To all that shall see these presents greeting Since on the 10th day of this Moneth of August in the year 1678. there has been made and concluded at Nimeguen a Treaty of Commerce Navigation and Marine by the Sieur Comte d' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of the Orders of the Most Christian King the Sieur Golbert Marquess of Croissy Councellor in Ordinary in his Councel of State and the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Councellor also in his Councels Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty at the Assembly at Nimeguen in the Name and on the behalf of his said Majesty and by the Heer Hierosme Van Beverningh Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University at Leyden late Councellor and Treasurer-General of the United Provinces the Heer Wilhem Van Nassaw Heer Van Odyke Cortgene and first Noble and representing the Order of the Nobility in the States and Councel of Zeland and the Heer Wilhem Van Haren Grietman Van Blidt deputed to our Assembly on behalf of the States of Holland Zeland and Friesland our Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries at the said Assembly at Nimeguen in our Name and on our behalf by vertue of their respective plenary Powers of which Treaty and Powers the tenor is as followeth viz. The Treaty of Peace which has been concluded c. page AND inasmuch as the Contents of the said Treaty import That the Ratifications of the same shall be delivered in due form and exchang'd on both sides within the space of six Weeks reckoning from the day of Signing We willing to give proofs of our sincerity and to discharge our selves of the Promise which our said Ambassadors have made for us have agreed approved and ratified the said Treaty and every Article thereof above-written and do by these presents agree approve and ratifie the same Promising faithfully and sincerely to keep maintain and inviolably to observe the same in all points according to the form and tenor thereof without ever acting any thing to the contrary directly or indirectly in any sort or manner whatsoever In token whereof we have caused these presents to be signed by the President of our Assembly and under-written by our Principal Register and our Great Seal to be set thereto Given at the Hague the 19th day of September 1678. Signed D. Van Wyngaerd By Order of the said Lords the States General H. Fagel By the King's Order WE do all to know That a good firm stable and solid Peace together with an entire and sincere Friendship and Reconciliation hath been made and accorded between the Most High Most Excellent and Most Mighty Prince Lewis by the Grace of God King of France and of Navarr our Sovereign Lord and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries their Vassals Subjects and Servants in all their Kingdoms Countries Lands and Seignories under their obedience That the said Peace is general betwixt them and their said Vassals and Subjects and that by means thereof it is permitted to them to go come return and sojourn in all places of the said Kingdoms Estates and Countries to negotiate and trade hold correspondence and have communication with one another and that with all liberty freedom and safety both by Land and Sea and in Rivers and other Waters and in all respects as it has been and ought to be in times of good sincere and loving Peace such as the Divine Goodness has been pleased to bestow upon our said Lord the King and the said Lords the States General of the United Provinces their Peoples and Subjects And to continue them therein all Persons of what quality or condition soever are most expresly prohibited to take in hand attempt or innovate any thing to the contrary or in prejudice thereof on pain of being severely punished as breakers of the Peace and disturbers of the publick Quiet Given at Fountain-bleau the 26th day of September 1678. Signed Lewis and underneath was Signed Arnauld By the King ' s Order The Provost of Paris Or Lievtenant Civil BY vertue of his Majestie 's Order directed to us given at Fountain-bleau the 28th of this Moneth Signed Lewis and underneath Colbert We require the King's Proctor being heard to it That his Majestie 's Ordinance that has this day been published be posted up at all cross ways and usual places in the City of Paris and that the Substitutes of the King's Proctor take care to have it read and publish'd in all the King's Courts of Justice from which there lye Appeals to us sitting the Courts all which shall certifie the same to us within fifteen days And we forbid his Majestie 's Subjects to oppose the same on pain of being proceeded against as breakers of the Peace and disturbers of the publick Quiet Done and given by Messire John le Camus Counsellor of the King in his Councels Ordinary Master of Requests of the Houshold Lievtenant Civil of the City Provostship and County of Paris the 29th of September 1678 De Riantz Le Camus Vaillant Principal Register A Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States General of the United Provinces to the Duke de Villa Hermosa of the 8th of May. THE Lords the States General of the United Provinces having Affairs of great importance to impart to your Excellence have Commissionated us under-written their Deputies Extraordinary and to this end their Hi. and Mi. have provided us of this Letter of Credit to present to your Excellence The Assistances which his Catholique Majesty gave to the State of the United Provinces in the beginning of this War were so useful and advantagious to this Commonwealth that their Hi. and Mi. shall ever be mindful of it And to testifie as soon as was possible their resentment thereof to his Catholick Majesty they failed not to come with all their Forces to his Majestie 's succour
when his Provinces were attack'd by the Arms of the King of France and they assure themselves that your Excellence is perswaded of it since your Excellence sees how much their Hi. and Mi. do to this day contribute to the preservation of his Majestie 's Country And notwithstanding this War has been continued many years and at an infinite expence yet the effects have been so unfortunate that the King of France being puff'd up with his Victories and Conquests will not come out of it but upon the Conditions that have been delivered at Nimeguen to the Mediators which your Excellence knows what they are Which Conditions considered in themselves are indeed too hard and of such a nature as they ought to be rejected which also their Hi. and Mi. would do in regard of their Allies and chiefly in regard of his Catholick Majesty as concerning the Low-Countries in the preservation whereof they find themselves so deeply interessed But when their Hi. and Mi. reflect upon the Power of the King of France which hitherto and during this War has been such that he has not only made Head against the Armies of his Catholick Majesty and those of the United Provinces and their Allies but has made great Conquests in divers Parts they conceive a just apprehension that these Conditions how hard soever ought yet to be prefer'd considering the present state of Affairs to a continuance of the War which in all probability would prove very fatal Which makes our Masters the States General of the Low-Countries incline to look upon these Conditions as receivable if they should have the happiness to find their Allies and especially his Catholick Majesty in the same Sentiments And should very much wish That your Excellence on the behalf of his Catholick Majesty would concur with them to make them as agreeable as may be to the other Allies And in the mean time give Order to labour for a prolongation of the Term which the King of France has given by his Proposition at Nimeguen We expect your Excellencie's Answer as soon as may be upon the premisses as being the only Subject of this Commission Brussels the 8th of May 1678 Jacob Boreel De Weede Answer of the Duke de Villa Hermosa of the 9th of May to the Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States General of the United Provinces of the 8th of May. HIS Excellence having considered this Memorial and that the loss of Flanders by the hardness of the Conditions of France will be greater and more dishonourable than by the ill success of Arms must hope that the States General will not further it since his Majesty wholly for its preservation has exposed himself to the manifest hazards of War which he has suffered so much by Also the punctual and religious observance of such strict Treaties with his said Majesty to which the publick Faith obligeth them will not permit him to make a doubt of it especially since his Majesty hath and always will havè a firm desire and intention to contribute as much as possibly he can to their preservation and that in regard of the Expedient propos'd of making new Alliances for the making sure the said impracticable Conditions of France it is to be considered that the time in which precisely they must be concluded can be no other than that of the Campagne from which by means of our so late Alliance with his Majesty of Great Britain we ought to expect by a more prosperous success some redress of Affairs and it would be a breach of Faith to abandon his Forces in this Conjuncture by admitting Conditions so forlorn and at the same time failing in our Fidelity to his Imperial Majesty and the other High Allies especially since the Emperour is resolv'd to run to the defence of Flanders rather than to the reparation of his own losses and the other High Allies are upon a Treaty of joyning and imploying all their Forces against France His Excellence being able likewise to assure them That the King his Master since the reduction of Sicily is resolv'd to imploy all his Power as his Excellence likewise all his Cares for the defence and re-establishing of this Country to which his Excellence hopes the States General will concur on their part in an Occurrence which as it is urgent so it concerns the greatest good of the common Cause as being the only mean to obtain a just and lasting Peace Given at Brussels the 9th of May 1678. A Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States General c. to the Duke de Villa Hermosa c. of the 14th of May. THE Lords the States General of the United Provinces having seen and perused your Excellencie's Answer to the Memorial that we their under-written Deputies Extraordinary presented the 8th of this Moneth could have wished That your Excellence had not only considered the Conditions offered by the King of France as they are in themselves but had also made reflexion upon the present state of Affairs and considered that the King of France being become Master of all the Frontier Towns of his Catholick Majestie 's Netherlands was entred into the heart of them and had made himself Master even of the Town of Gand being very strong in the Field and at the Head of a very formidable Army ready for any enterprize and in the greatest appearance in the world of succeeding and conquering where he will Whereas the Troops of the Allies not being yet come together much less in a condition to make Head against him and oppose his designs Hence it is that their Hi. and Mi. apprehend with great reason that what remains to the King of Spain in the Low-Countries will infallibly be lost if it be not saved by accepting the Conditions of Peace that are offered and it would be a thing very sensible to their Hi. and Mi. if what his Catholick Majesty has yet left in the Low-Countries should be so lost after such infinite expences and so much blood spilt for their preservation Your Excellence knows but too well by what has lately happened what Account one has to make of the Troops of the Confederates upon occasion The Assistance which is expected from his Majesty of Great Britain is very considerable and will be of great support to our Party but it deserves your Excellencie's consideration that those Troops are but newly raised and that it will require some time to enure them to the War that as yet there are but few of them in these Parts and we are uncertain when the rest will come whereas on the other side every moment is precious and great misfortunes may happen in a short space And moreover the States as they have made it to be declared to your Excellence are not in a condition to carry on the War in such manner and with so much vigor as they have done hitherto seeing their Treasures are exhausted and their People not able to contribute so much any longer As
the Lords the States General will always acknowledge to have received in the beginning of this War very important and useful Succours from his Catholick Majesty so they hope your Excellence will do them the justice to confess that they have not been wanting in the sequel of it to testifie their acknowledgment by using their endeavours and being at extraordinary charges to assist this Country and at least that it is not to be imputed to them that the King of France has made so great a progress and that he will not make Peace but upon such disadvantagious Conditions as whereby the Country will indeed be much weakned and hardly able to maintain necessary Troops for its defence but on the other hand the Places will not be so dis-joyn'd nor the Country so divided as it was before the War which will make it easier to be kept and preserved These Defects may likewise be supplyed by Alliances and a little time may do much toward a redress of Affairs and making the King's Subjects and particularly those of the United Provinces capable of assisting one another who at present are in so lamentable a condition and so utterly unable that they cannot be obliged to a continuance of the extraordinary charges without great hazard and without exposing them to the utmost extremity and finding our selves reduced to a necessity either of accommodating with the Enemy whether we will or no or of lying down under the burden To which they do not think your Excellence will be of opinion That they stand obliged by those Treaties that had no other end than the good of the Allies and the safety of their People The said Lords the States General have also thought fit to have it represented to your Excellence That being informed That the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the King of France would be authorized to conclude upon a Truce to the very last Day of December next they have Ordered their Plenipotentiaries at Nimeguen to discourse it with them and see whether they would make one for six Weeks or three Months at most Hoping that if it can be obtain'd your Excellence will not be displeased with it but agree to it for such Reasons as have been alledged to your Excellence by word of mouth and as your Excellence may consider with your self Delivered this 14th of May 1678. Jacob Boreel De Weede The Answer of the Duke de Villa Hermosa of the 16th of May to the Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States General c. HIS Excellence having seen the Memorial of the Heeren Boreel and de Weede Deputies Extraordinary of the Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the 14th of this Month and desiring on his part to contribute to the greater satisfaction of their Hi. and Mi. will agree to a suspension of Arms for six Weeks upon Conditions that shall be judged such as whereby the suspension of Arms may not produce worse effects than a continuation of Hostility and of the War well understood that regard ought to be had to the King of Great Britain's Answer to the Representation made to his Majesty by their Hi. and Mi. according to that made to his Excellence by the said Deputies on the 8th of this Month and also that the Ministers of his Imperial Majesty and those of the High Allies be acquainted with it And to the end that this resolution may be the more easie his Excellence is of opinion that the matter may be adjusted at Nimeguen or the Hague whereupon the Lords the States General will have reason to acknowledge what consideration his Majesty and his Excellence make of Representations from their Hi. and Mi. and in the mean time it is not doubted but they will use their utmost endeavours to run to the defence of the Low-Countreys with all their Forces that in this interval of time they may not suffer greater shocks Given at Brussels the 16th of May 1678. A Declaration of the Emperour's Ambassadors at a Conference Extraordinary of the Allies at Nimeguen the 20th of June 1678. WE have heard the Proposition that your Excellencies made to us two days since containing in substance That the Lords the States General could not carry on the War any longer and found themselves obliged to make Peace for such Reasons as were then more particularly deduced Your Excellencies would then have known our Sentiments thereupon and you desire the same thing again at this present Not to fail therein we hope above all things that your Excellencies and all the World will do his Imperial Majesty the justice to believe that he has always behav'd himself like a good and faithful Ally towards all both in Peace and War We will not enlarge upon that His Army has always been seen in the Field in great numbers in good order it is evident that he has imploy'd it for the good of the common Cause and that he has made it act in such places as were thought most surable 't were needless to particularize the Campagnes where all was acted for the publick good Moreover his Imperial Majesty has assisted his Allies with all the Forces he could if not with all he would The Rebellion that has been raised against him in Hungary is also publickly known and how both his own Subjects and the Turk and the Tartar have been stirred up against him and yet so evident and so near a danger has not been able to divert or decrease his Forces for the common Interests Besides that it is known he hath sent his Army into the Low-Countries to support the acting there whereby the Enemy had an opportunity to take Friburg from him which makes so much difficulty now As his Majesty has been intent upon the Affairs of the War so he has been no less upon those of Peace And as your Excellencies can bear us witness we his Ambassadors have neglected nothing that might promote it and because we believed that the most effectual mean to obtain a reasonable Peace was to act vigorously we have done all we could as hath been already said For the present it cannot be doubted but the Emperour will understand with sorrow That your Excellencies think Affairs reduced to such extremities that there is a necessity of making a Peace to prevent greater Your Excellencies have told us your Sentiments thereupon and the Spaniards theirs As for our own we find in the first place That this manner of acting from France to prescribe Conditions of Peace and admit no Treaties upon them is against the style and the custom always practis'd among Soveraign Powers and we are far from being able to discover by that any such desire of Peace as the French make so great ostentation of For the Peace it self his Imperial Majesty desires it as much as any and desires it may be general that the publick repose may be obtain'd which is his only aim and the common safety also which is the chief thing that ought to
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
sincerity on our part for his Majestie 's greater satisfaction we have ordered our Ambassadors at Nimeguen to conclude and sign the Treaty of Peace with his Majestie 's Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries before the end of this Month with such of the Allies as shall be disposed to come into it In the meán time being assured that his Catholick Majesty will joyn with us in accepting the Peace we entreated his Majesty that he would be pleased from hence-forward to give necessary Orders to surcease all acts of Hostility by Land and to cause such of his Forces as are in his Country to retire about the end of this Month. Sir This is what we thought we ought to acquaint you with his Majesty having in a Letter to us express'd his desire to have it so The Hague 22 of June 1678. A Memorial presented to his Majesty of Great Britain at London by M. de Borgomanero c. the 5th of June 1678. SIR THE state of Affairs being now so urgent and the welfare or misery of all Christendom depending upon the safety of the Low-Countries I conceive it is my duty to represent to your Majesty how necessary it is for your Majesty who alone can put a stop to the King of France ' s progress in these Parts to maintain Forces by Sea and Land and cause them to draw as near Flanders as may be that they may serve as a Bridle to the common Enemy and your Majesty be in a condition to protect and defend Christendom from the utter ruine and oppression that the Most Christian King threatens it with In like manner I represent to your Majesty for the same Reasons that it is altogether necessary that your Majesty make an Alliance Offensive and Defensive with the King my Master and the Emperour who will be constant Allies and ready to run what-ever fortune your Majesty shall hazard for the common Cause not questioning but those other Princes that are now in league with the King my Master will immediately enter into such Alliance as your Majesty shall make and by this means Christendom will be secured against the oppression of France London the 5th of June 1678. A Remonstrance of the Ambassadors of the Elector of Brandenburg to the Ambassadors of the Lords the States General concerning the present Affairs of the Treaties of Peace Given at Nimeguen this 31. of July 1678. THE Ambassador of his Electoral Serenity of Brandenburg for the Treaties of Peace at Nimeguen having seen the Memorial of the Lords Ambassadors of France of the 17th of July wherein they endeavour to take away the Jealousies that might arise of the sincerity of his Most Christian Majesty's Intentions and of his faithfulness to his Word concerning the evacuation of the Places which he promised to restore to Spain and to their Hi. and Mi. the Lords the States General of the United Provinces thinks it fit and according to his duty to represent to the Lords the Ambassadors of the States General who communicated to him the said Memorial That as it is full of almost nothing else in every passage but great Designs of the Most Christian King against his Electoral Serenity his Master and other Princes that have made some Conquests upon Sweden so his Electoral Serenity promiseth himself as well from the friendship of the Lords the States and their fidelity of Word as from their justice and exactness in performing the terms of the Alliance that they will not help forward such perniclous Designs nor suffer them to be put in execution against one of their ancientest and most faithful Friend Neighbour and Ally and that has been no less concern'd for the preservation and re-establishment of their Common-wealth than of his own Inheritances and has not stuck at exposing what-ever is most dear and precious to him in the whole World for their sakes It is evident with what care his Electoral Serenity hath governed all his Actions so as not to give the least ground of discontent to Sweden and the sincerity with which he has renew'd former Alliances with that Crown is no less apparent by his applying them even to the present Conjunctures for the avoiding all manner of mis-understanding and rupture which yet happened by the violent Invasion made by the Army of Sweden towards the end of the year 1674. upon Marchia and Pomerania directly against those for whom such solemn Stipulations had been and contrary to the liberty which each Party had reserv'd to themselves in the said Alliance Which Invasion was the more unjust inasmuch as it was made at a time when his Electoral Serenity relying on the publick Faith had sent his Forces so far off that he was busie with them in Alsatia The Lords the States condemn'd and disliked this Proceeding no less than all other Christian Potentates throughout Europe did and God has made appear to all the World by what has ensued and by our marvellous success that his powerful Hand is able to protect the innocent and punish those that make so slight of Religion Alliances and Promises that have had the sanction of the publick Faith Their Hi. and Mi. and all others without doubt will agree that it were an unheard of piece of cruelty to deal with his Electoral Serenity as he is threatned in that Memorial for having made so vigorous and glorious an opposition to so unjust and forcible an Invasion The said Ambassador does not intend to lay open the weakness of the reasonings in the said Memorial of the Ambassadors of France assuring himself that their Hi. and Mi. will not fail to expose it to the World for the refutation of those that for want of solid Reasons have been forced to betake themselves to such weak and groundless Arguments since it appears that therein they contradict and directly thwart what the Most Christian King has avow'd and positively promised by the Letters and Resolutions which his Majesty has caused to be dispatched and delivered to their Hi. and Mi. and to their Ministers He will only represent what wrong would be done to his Electoral Serenity his Master if their Hi. and Mi. should give ear to such Conditions as conduce to no other end but that of serving the Interest of a declared Enemy by deserting a faithful Friend and Ally and at the same time exposing their own Common-wealth to the most dangerous hazard in the World which they have endeavoured out of their great prudence and with so much care to secure and shelter by means of a Bar in Flanders which the Most Christian King himself thought necessary for maintaining their repose but which will stand them in no stead if such another Bar be not likewise settled upon the Rhine Certainly there needs more then an ordinary assurance to undertake the perswading a whole Common-wealth consisting of so many wise and illustrious Members to renounce whatever the Faith of their Alliances and the true Interest of their own Common-wealth requires of them and submit
to such prejudicial Councels and to further the suffering an Ally and Neighbour to be oppressed that has given such extraordinary proofs of his Friendship to their State and that in favour of a party with whom at present they are engaged in open War and that expresses by his excessive demands so little of an inclination to come to such a reconciliation as may be fair and at all proportionable to the mischiefs and inconveniences that this fatal War has brought and continues to bring upon Christendom I shall leave the rest to the wise discussion of their Hi. and Mi. by reason of whose fidelity affection and Justice his Electoral Serenity is well assured that they will testifie in this occurrence as great a passion for the security and defence of his Provinces of Cleve which have always serv'd for a Bar and whose preservation has always been so very dear to them as his Electoral Serenity has an affection to their Common-wealth upon so many occasions and of which he has given such remarkable instances especially since the publick Faith and the Welfare and security of their own Estate are equally concern'd in the Interest of it The Protestation of the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the King of Denmark the Elector of Brandenburg c. against the separate Peace of the States General of the United Provinces Made the 10th of Aug. 1678. at Nimeguen THe Ambassadors Plenipotentiaries and Ministers underwritten understanding with the utmost astonishment that there was a likelihood of the Lords Ambassadors of the States General of the United Provinces resolving to Sign this day a separate Treaty of Peace betwixt the Most Christian King and their Hi. and Mi. which has been likewise confirm'd to them by some of the said Ambassadors themselves though hitherto they have not made any communication of the Contents of their Project nor held any particular Conference upon a matter of so great consequence in conformity to Treaties by which their Hi. and Mi. are obliged so to do The said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiary Ministers have thought it their duty to represent to the Lords Ambassadors of their Hi. and Mi. the disagreement of this proceeding with the Tenour of the Alliances so solemnly struck with their Lords and Masters wherein the Lords the States promise upon their Word and upon the credit of the publick Faith never to think of making separate Treaties with their common Enemy that was upon the point of overturning their Common-wealth and from whose oppression they were saved onely by such assistances and diversions as were given from time to time in divers parts of the Empire for their sakes Then they required with all the instances imaginable and conjur'd the said Lords Ambassadors by what ever is held most sacred and inviolable not to precipitate the Signing this separate Peace being directly opposite to the said Alliances and to allow them a little time to give their Lords and Masters necessary information since that delay could not be at all prejudicial to them and that request being but what every one might expect from the publick Faith and the sincerity of the Lords the States General They promise themselves the more assuredly that both will be granted without any difficulty especially because there seems not to be any apparent necessity why their Hi. and Mi. should take up a resolution so contrary to all that they have taken and concerted heretofore and even after they had exhorted their Allies afresh to stedfastness in the observance and performance of the Treaties and after the said Allies our Lords and Masters had taken vigorous resolutions thereupon and in compliance with their desires had sent such numerous Forces into the heart of the Spanish Low-Countreys to save Mons from the extremity to which the Arms of France had reduced it and to second and execute what other designs and exploits Spain and the State under the conduct of his Highness the Prince of Orange should resolve upon for the good of the common cause and the safety of the Low-Countreys in particular They have ordered moreover some select Troops that are now under march to draw towards the Muse and to be employ'd for the same purpose so that with God's assistance we have yet reason to hope for good success in so just and good a Cause However if the Lords the States should find themselves obliged by some indispensable necessity the occasion and force whereof is for all that unknown to the Allies to proceed with so much precipitation to a separate Peace with France the said Ambassadors and Ministers declare by this Memorial that their Lords and Masters are disposed and ready to enter with them into this Treaty and to conclude a Peace with his Most Christian Majesty in conjunction with the Lords the States General upon such honourable and equitable Conditions as shall be agreed on in a short time towards the conclusion whereof they will bring all manner of facility and good offices on their parts We promise our selves that the said Lords Ambassadors will not refuse so just and generous an offer nor can we be perswaded that the intention of their Hi. and Mi. is not exactly conformable to this just desire or that they can so much as conceive a thought of abandoning their good and faithful Friends Neighbours and Allies that have employed what ever was most dear and precious to them in the world to save them from the ruine that threatned them and to re-establish them in their former Liberty and Splendour At least we promise our selves from their Justice and sincerity that they will not conclude upon any thing that shall not comprehend the Interests of their Allies which in effect are their own nor joyn in the oppression and ruine of those that have so faithfully assisted them against so powerful an Enemy who on the one hand makes so much show of the sincerity of his desire to restore Peace to Christendom and on the other refuses to admit of such means as are capable of procuring it besides that this abandoning their Allies and the Neutrality that they pretend to settle was not so much as required by the Most Christian King in the platform of Conditions of Peace which he Projected the States having always declared against accepting the Cessation for six weeks which the Most Christian-King afterwards offered because the Neutrality was made a Condition of it which would have put them out of a possibility of assisting their Allies But if the worst came to the worst and that notwithstanding all these just and equitable Remonstrances they will proceed to Sign a Treaty of this nature the said Ambassadors Plenipotentiaries and Ministers of the High-Allies can do no other then solemnly and most formally to protest against this separate Treaty as being directly contrary to the Alliances and the solemn assurances that have been given from time to time of the stedfastness and exactness of their Hi. and Mi. in observing and fulfilling their Treaties
sake and to draw his Countries in these Parts out of the gulf that was about to swallow them up The said parties under-written can assure their said Excellencies upon their certain knowledge and by their express Orders that their Lords and Masters are entirely disposed and ready to take part with theirs and with all those that shall now think it their interest or will be willing yet to joyn in the defence of so just a Cause as the common Cause is and in the establishment of the publick safety in all the hazards perils and dangerous events that the Divine Providence shall be pleased to ordain whether the event should fall out to be that of accomplishing so just a Design by a general a just and a reasonable Peace or whether the Enemy should be so hard as to make the obtaining it stick upon impracticable conditions and demands and expose it to the continuance of a longer and a fiercer War Not any of our Lords and Masters ever refused to take such courses as reason and decency have established between Soveraign Princes to arrive at the first they will yet joyfully embrace them and will demonstrate by their readiness and facility that the Quiet of Christendom is the only object of all their wishes But since it is evident to all the World that the Enemies have hitherto refused to admit of any but would prescribe Laws to us rather than suffer us to treat upon terms in order to it it is easily discovered not to be their fault that at present we are all involv'd in the latter A rational stedfastness is only capable of redressing these mischiefs and of bringing them back to more just and decent Measures that have been led aside out of the way of their Duty and Engagements by the secret Cabals of some private Persons and the violence and inadvertence of some Men of fickle minds that know not how dear and precious Faith and Truth ought to be to a free State when they shall take notice that his Majesty is far from following so pernicious an example and will keep faithfully to the Letter of the mutual Treaties out of which your Excellencies will find some necessary Extracts hereunto annexed and let the World see that he chuseth rather to run the same fortune with his Allies to the very last than unmercifully to desert them contrary to all sacredness of promises and only to save himself to their cost by a notorious breach of such solemn Alliances His Majesty can lose nothing by this means but will be a gainer by maintaining his Glory his Honour and his Reputation The Bar that is setled for bounds to the Conquests of France is rather a large career for it to drive on its Designs in as far as it listeth All that is left the King of Spain in the Low-Countries serves rather to exhaust his Treasures for the little time that he shall be permitted to enjoy it peaceably than to give him any assurance of a setled possession And when they shall have loosen'd the sacred Band of the Allies and disarmed the neighbouring Estates who will hinder the rest from falling under the dominion of a foreign Power when-ever the Enemy shall have a mind to it Certainly they that for their good will and all their endeavours and all the hazards to which they have expos'd themselves shall find themselves now either evil-entreated by their Friends or deserted by their Allies and so ill rewarded for their affection and good will will be wiser at another time when the fire shall be greater than to run to quench it and every one will content himself to provide for his own safety when he shall consider how unworthily he has been recompenced for what he has now done for that of the Publick But the strength of all these Arguments is so well known to their Excellencies aforesaid that it would be superfluous to alledge new ones They know very well how necessary it is for all that are concern'd in the Interest of the preservation of the Low-Countries not to let them utterly sink what-ever may be pretended outwardly The Enemy's Arms have already got too fast hold of these Rampiers of the neighbouring Estates for us to imagine that they can be contented to see them entirely lost For this cause the Ambassadors Plenipotentiaries and Ministers under-written will not enlarge upon the debate of these Matters They are only bound in duty to conjure your Excellencies by the sacredness of reciprocal Engagements by the force of mutual Alliances by the Faith of the King your Master and by the Glory and the Honour of your Nation and Country not to make any step on the present occasion that may be prejudicial to their Lords and Masters or be injurious to your own or your selves since we are perswaded you never will leave this Victory to the common Enemies of being superior to the King your Master in constancy and stedfastness to their Allies though Destiny may by the fortune of War have made his condition at present somewhat worse than theirs This is what the Parties under-written do most instantly beseech your Excellencies not only to consider your selves with mature deliberation but duelyto report it where 't is proper that we may both know that these things have been represented in time and promise our selves such resolutions and effects as are worthy so great a King as yours and becoming such zealous clear-fighted and wise Ministers as every one knows your Excellencies are Nimeguen the 22. of August 1678. A Letter of the Ambassadors of the Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries to the Lords Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of France for an Explanation of the 13th Article of the Treaty of Peace My Lords Since the 13th Article of the Treaty of Peace concluded and signed the 10th of this Month concerning the Neutrality promised by our Lords the States General with relation to the Enemies of his Most Christian Majesty and his Allies and the garranting such Engagements as Spain shall enter into with relation to the like Neutrality is couch'd in such a manner as that an obligation may be inferr'd not only for the present and as long as the War shall continue in which the Allies of our Lords the States are now engaged but that consequences may be drawn for the time to come and such occasions as may arise after all the present Wars are ended And since your Excellencies know that there never was any intention to agree upon such Neutrality but only for the present time and during the continuance of this War according to his Most Christian Majesty's Proposals We pray your Excellencies to clear this Matter to us in a word and declare that his Majesty's meaning and that of your Excellency's is that the said Article shall be applicable to the time of the present War only and your Excellencies will infinitely oblige Nimeguen the 17th of Aug. 1678. My Lords Your Excellencies
most humble and most obedient Servants H. Beverningh W. Haren The Answer of the Lords Ambassadors of France to the Ambassadors of the Lords the States General of the United Provinces in Explanation of the 13th Article of the Treaty of Peace My Lords WE have received your Excellency's Letter of the 17th of this Month and though the fidelity wherewith the King our Master hath always acted and the sincerity with which his Majesty is willing to restore the Lords the States General to the first degree of his friendship ought not to leave your Excellencies under any apprehension lest he should endeavour to surprize you or put a larger construction upon the 13th Article of the Treaty concluded and signed betwixt us on the 10th of this Month then as we explain'd our selves to one another yet We are willing to assure your Excellencies that it was not his Majesty's intention nor consequently ours to make use of the said Article any longer than the present War should last nor whenever it shall please God to put an end to it to oblige the Lords the States General to more than what their own Interest and their good Union with his Majesty shall require of them We are Nimeguen the 17th of Aug. 1678. My Lords Your Excellencies most humble and most obedient Servants Le M. D' Estrades Colbert D' Avaux The Ratification of the Explanation of the thirteenth Article of the Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Holland THe King being inform'd by his Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries at the Treaty of Peace at Nimeguen of their explanation by their Letter of the seventeenth of August this present year to the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys of the thirteenth Article of the Treaty of Peace Concluded and Signed at Nimeguen the tenth day of the said month of August betwixt the said Lords Ambassadors in which is mentioned the Neutrality promised by the said States General as well in relation to his Majesty and his Allies as the garranting such engagements as Spain should enter into with relation to the like Neutrality His Majesty having read and examined the said Letter by which his said Ambassadors do declare and assure that his Majestie 's intention is not to benefit himself by the said Article any longer then the present War shall continue His Majesty was well pleased with the said explanation and hath allowed approved and ratified the same as fully as if it were inserted into the said Treaty of Peace next after the thirteenth Article thereof there allowed approved and ratified Promising on the Faith and Word of a King to fulfil and cause to be observed sincerely and faithfully whatever is therein contained without suffering any thing ever to be done to the contrary directly or indirectly for any cause or upon any occasion whatsoever In witness whereof his Majesty hath Signed these presents with his own hand and hath caused his Privy Seal to be put thereto Given at Fountainbleau the fifth day of September in the year one thousand six hundred seventy eight Signed Lewis And underneath was Signed Arnauld A separate Article for a general indemnification of the Subjects both of France and Holland THe King having received the separate Article Signed by his Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries at the Treaty of Peace at Nimeguen and those of the Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys whereof the Tenour is as followeth viz. The Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of the Most Christian King and the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of the Lords the States General of the United Provinces declare by this present Act that though the Treaty which they Signed on the tenth of August import a sufficient abolishment of whatever has been committed on either side by reason of the War to which the said Treaty has put an end whether by such as being Subjects born of France and obliged to serve his Majesty by reason of the Offices or Estates which they possessed within the compass of France have entred or continued in the service of the Lords the States General or by such as being born Subjects of the said Lords the States or obliged to serve them by reason of the Offices or Estates which they possessed within the compass of the United Provinces entered or continued in his Most Christian Majestie 's service yet for their more security and to protect them from all prosecution the said Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries have agreed that all such Persons of what quality or condition soever without exception may enter re-enter and shall be actually suffered to continue and be settled in the peaceable possession and enjoyment of all their Estates Honours Dignities Priviledges Franchises Rights Exemptions Settlements and Liberties without being liable all or any of them to be prosecuted vexed or molested either in general or in particular for any cause or upon any pretence by reason of any thing that has hapned since the beginning of the said War In pursuance of which Declaration and after it shall have been Ratified as well by his Most Christian Majesty as by the Lords the States General which shall be within a month all and every of them shall be permitted without any Letters of abolishment or forgiveness to return in Person to their Houses and enjoy their Lands and all other their Goods or to dispose thereof as they shall think fit Given at Nimeguen the 24th of September 1678. The M. D' Estrades Calbert H. Beverning W. Haren His Majesty having read the said Article hath Approved and Ratified and doth Approve and Ratifie the same Promising on the Faith and Word of a King to fulfil and cause to be observed sincerely and faithfully whatever is therein contained without ever suffering any thing to be acted to the contrary directly or indirectly for any cause or upon any occasion whatsoever In witness whereof his Majesty hath Signed these presents with his hand and hath caused his Privy Seal to be set thereto Given at Fountainbleau the third of October in the year One thousand six hundred seventy eight Signed Lewis And underneath was Signed Arnauld Done at the Hague the 30th day of September in the year One thousand six hundred seventy eight Signed Wilhem van Nassaw By Order of the said Lords the States General H. Fagel The States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys To all that shall see these presents Greeting Since on the 24th of September 1678 there was made and concluded at Nimeguen by the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of the Most Christian King and ours an Act of oblivion in Tenour as followeth viz. The Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries c. We have Agreed Approved and Ratified the said Act in all it's points and do Agree Approve and Ratifie the same by these presents Promising faithfully and sincerely to keep maintain and inviolably to observe the same in every
to be ratified firmly and simply without addition of any thing thereunto and produce the Ratifications thereof by Letters authentick and sealed wherein all this present Treaty shall be inserted verbatim within six weeks to be accompted from the day of the date of this present Treaty or sooner if possible And the said Plenipotentiaries have promised and do promise in their said Kings Names that after producing the said Letters of Ratification the said Most Christian King as soon as possibly he can shall in the presence of such person or persons as the Catholick King shall be pleased to depute swear solemnly upon the Cross the Gospels and Canons of the Mass and upon his Honour fully really and truly to observe and fulfil all the Articles contain'd in this present Treaty And the like shall be done as soon as is possible by the said Catholick King in the presence of such person or persons as the said Most Christian King shall be pleased to depute In witness of all which the said Plenipotentiaries have subscribed this present Treaty with their own Names and have caused their Seals of Arms to be set thereto Nimeguen the 17th day of September 1678. Le M. D'Estrades Colbert De Mesmes D'Avaux Pablo Spinola Doria Conde de Benazuza Marquesse de la Fuente Jean Baptiste Christin The Power of the Lords Ambassadors of his Most Christian Majesty LEwis by the Grace of God King of France and Navarr To all that shall see these presents Greeting As we desire nothing more earnestly than to see the War that now afflicts Christendom end in a good Peace and whereas by the cares and mediation of our most dear and our most beloved Brother the King of Great Britain the Town of Nimeguen has been agreed upon on all hands for the place of Conference We out of the same desire to put a stop as far as in us lyes to the ruine of so many Provinces and the effusion of so much Christian Blood do make known That We reposing entire confidence in the experience sufficiency and fidelity of our most dear and well-beloved Cousin the Sieur Count D'Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of our Orders our trusty and well-beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissy Counsellor in Ordinary in our Councels of State and of our trusty and well-beloved the Sieur de Mesmes Count D'Avaux Counsellor also in our Councels by reason of the advantagious tryals that we have made of them in divers Embassies and Employs of importance wherein we have entrusted them at home and abroad For these Causes and other good Considerations us thereunto moving We have appointed constituted and deputed the said Sieur Marshal D'Estrades Marquess de Croissy and Count D'Avaux and do appoint constitute and depute the same by these presents signed with our Hand and have given them and do hereby give them full Power Commission and special Order to repair to the Town of Nimeguen in quality of our Ambassadors Extraordinary and our Plenipotentiaries for the Peace and there to confer directly or by the interposition of the Ambassadors Mediators respectively allowed and agreed to with all Ambassadors and Ministers of our most dear and most beloved Brother and Cousin the Catholick King and his Allies having all of them sufficient Powers and there to treat upon the means for determining and appeasing the Differences that cause the War at this day And our said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries all three joyntly or two of them in absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or one only in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment may agree thereupon and conclude and sign a good and sure Peace and generally may act negotlate promise and agree what-ever they shall think necessary towards the said Peace with the same Authority that we our selves should or might do if we were present there in person though any thing therein should require more particular Order than is contain'd in these presents Promising on the Faith and Word of a King to observe and fulfil what-ever the said Sieur Marshal D'Estrades Marquess de Croissy and Count D'Avaux or two of them in the absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or by one only in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment shall stipulate promise and agree and to cause our Letters of Ratification to be dispatched within such time as they shall promise in our Name to produce them for such is our pleasure In witness whereof we have caused our Seal to be set to these presents Given at St. Germain en Laye the 23. day of December in the year of Grace One thousand six hundred seventy five and of our Reign the three and thirtieth Signed Lewis and upon the fold of the Letters By the King Arnauld and sealed with the Great Seal in yellow Wax The Powers of his Catholick Majesty's Ambassadors DOn Charles the second by the Grace of God King of Castile Leon Arragon both Sicilies Jerusalem Navar Granada Toledo Valentia Galicia Majorca Seville Sardinia Cordoma Corsica Murcia Jaen Algarves Algeriza Gibraltar the Canary Islands the East and West-Indies the Isles of Terra Firma and of the Occan-Sea Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant and Melan Count of Auspurg Flanders Tiroll and Barcelona Lord of Bisca and Molina c. Since we desire nothing with greater vehemency then to see the War that doth at this present so much afflict Christendom end in a good Peace and the Town of Nimeguen having been chosen and pitch't upon by means of the Mediation and good Offices of the King of Great Britain and by the common consent of all parties concern'd in the War to be the place for meeting and Treating of Peace and I desiring to contribute as much as in me lies towards so good a Design I have thought fit to nominate some Persons to assistat the Assembly with full power and authority in my name and taking into consideration the Sufficiency Integrity Prudence Experience Understanding and Zeal for my Service which are found in you Don Paul Spinola Doria Marquiss de Los Balbases one of my Councel of State Don Pedro Ronquillo of my Councels of Castile and of the Indies and Don John Baptiste Christin of my Councel of Flanders and by reason of the satisfaction which you have always given me in many and important Affairs whereof you have had the management and assuring my self of the care that you will take in my Service I have nominated you to be my Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries and by vertue of these presents I give to you all joyntly and to each of you in particular in the absence or by reason of any other hindrance of the other full and absolute power to repair to the Town of Nimeguen and there to Treat immediately or by the intervention of the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries the Mediators respectively allowed and admitted with the Ambassadors and
Plenipotentiaries of my most Dear and most beloved Brother and Cosen the Most Christian King and his Allies especially authorised and appointed and having sufficient powers and to treat upon means for appeasing the present War and to this end to enter with them upon a Negotiation to Confer Propose Agree Capitulate Conclude and Sign a good firm and durable Treaty of Peace and Quiet and generally to act with relation thereunto as my self might if present there in Person though more particular Order should be requisite then is contain'd in these presents And I give my Faith and Royal Word for ever to observe precisely and punctually without failure whatsoever shall by you Don Paul Spinola Doria Marquiss de Les Balbases Don Pedro Ronquillo and Don John Baptiste Christin my Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries all three joyntly or by two of you in the absence or in case of sickness of the other be agreed at the said Treaty with the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of my most beloved Brother and Cosen the Most Christian King and his Allies and likewise to approve and Ratifie the same within such time as shall be limited by both parties In witness whereof I have ordered these presents to be dispatched Signed with my hand and Sealed with my Privy Seal and subscribed by my Secretary of State underwritten Given at Madrid the third day of Decem. 1675. I the King Don Pedro Coloma DOn Charles the second by the Grace of God King of Castile Leon Arragon both Sicilies Jerusalem Navar Granada Toledo Valentia Galicia Majorca Seville Sardinia Cordova Corsica Murcia Jaen Algarves Algeriza Gibraltar the Canary Islands the East and West-Indies the Isles of Terra Firma and of the Ocean Sea Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant and Milan Count of Auspurg Flanders Tiroll and Barcelona Lord of Biscay and Molina c. Forasmuch as by the Mediation and good Offices of the King of Great Britain the Town of Nimeguen has been chosen and pitch't on by the common consent of all the parties now engaged in the War for a place of meeting in order to a Treaty of Peace and I desiring to contribute on my part whatever lies in me towards the appeasing and ending the present War that so much afflicteth Christendom through his means have nominated to be my Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries to assist in my Name at the said Assembly Don Paul Spinola Doria Marquess de los Balbases one of my Councel of State Don Pedro Ronquillo one of my Councels of Castille and of the Indies and Don John Baptiste Christin of my Councel of Flanders by vertue of the plenary Power which I dispatched the third of December 1675. signed with my Hand and sealed with my Seal and under-written by Don Pedro Coloma my Secretary of State as appears by the Original to which I refer To the end that all three joyntly or two of them in case of absence or other hindrance of the third or one only in the like case of absence or other hindrance of the other two might assist treat and confer immediately or by the interposition of the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries the Mediators allowed and admitted respectively with the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of my most dear and most beloved Brother and Cousin the Most Christian King and his Allies specially authorized and appointed which accordingly they have done and now actually do in my Name And judging it to be for the interest of my service to add one Plenipotentiary more to the other three to assist at the Conferences and Affairs there with like character and authority And considering the sufficiency integrity prudence experience understanding and zeal for my service which are found in you Don Gaspar de Teves and Gusman Marquess de la Fuente Count de Venazuza and by reason of the satisfaction which you have always given me in many and important Affairs whereof I have intrusted you with the management and that you will have regard to the interest of my service I nominate you to be my second Ambassador and Plenipotentiary to repair to the said Town of Nimeguen and joyntly with my three Ambassadors above-named or with two of them in the absence or in case of other impediment of the third or by your self alone in case of absence or other hindrance of the other three either by the mediation of the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries the Mediators respectively allowed or immediately with the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of my most dear and most beloved Brother and Cousin the Most Christian King and his Allies particularly appointed and authorized confer propose agree conclude and sign a good firm and durable Treaty of Peace and Quiet and generally to act with relation thereunto what-ever I my self might do if I were present there in person though some more particular Order should be requisite thereunto than is herein expressed And I give my Faith and Royal Word that what-ever you Don Gaspar de Teves and Guzman Marquess de la Fuente my second Plenipotentiary joyntly with the said Marquess de los Balbases Don Pedro Ronquillo and Don John Baptiste Christin my Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries or sole in the absence or other hindrance of any of them shall agree and capitulate at the said Treaty with the said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of my most dear and most beloved Brother and Cousin the Most Christian King and his Allies I will always observe precisely and punctually without any failure and will likewise approve and ratifie the same within such time as shall be reciprocally agreed on Declaring from this time forward that nothing is hereby derogated from the Power which I gave on the third of December to the said Marquess de los Balbases Don Pedro Ronquillo and Don John Baptiste Christin but that on the contrary it remains in full and perfect force and vertue notwithstanding these presents or any other circumstance whatsoever In token whereof I have ordered these presents to be dispatched being signed with my Hand and sealed with my privy Seal and subscribed by my Secretary of State under-written Given at Madrid the 16th of July 1678. I the King Don Pierre Coloma Articles of Peace between the Emperor and the French King Concluded and Signed at Nimeguen the 5th day of February 1678. Translated out of Latin according to the Copy Printed at Nimeguen by Adrian Moetiens IN the Name of the most Holy and Undivided Trinity Be it known to all and every one whom it doth or may any way concern That whereas from the beginning of the War commenced some years ago between the most Serene and Mighty Prince and Lord LEOPOLD Elect Emperor of the Romans always August King of Germany Hungary Bohemia Dalmatia Croatia and Sclavonia Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Stiria Carinthia Carniola Marquiss of Moravia Duke of Luxemberg of the Upper and Lower Silesea Wirtemburg and Tecka Prince of Swaben Earl of Hapsburg Tirol Kyburg and Goritia Marquiss of the sacred Roman
any wise hinder them in the carrying on of the War nor suffer the Forces of the aforesaid Enemies of France and Sweden to take any Winter-Quarters without their Territories in the Empire And for the aforesaid end only it shall be free for his Most Christian Majesty to keep a Garrison in the following Places in the Empire yet without endammaging the Owners of the said Places and their Subjects and at the charges of the Most Christian King viz. in the Towns and Cities of Chasselet Huy Verviers Aix la Chapelle Dueren Linnick Nuys and Zons in which Places no new Fortifications shall be made further than shall be necessary for the safety of the Garrisons and without giving just cause of suspicion Nor shall it be lawful for the Most Christian King to retain those Places upon account of the charges made therein nor under any other pretence whatsoever but shall evacuate and restore the same to those from whom he took them so soon as a Peace shall be concluded and Ratified between the aforesaid Parties as to the Provinces scituate in the Empire or that more fit means shall by common consent be found out to restore it In like manner his most Christian Majesty doth promise that he will in no wise nor under any pretence whatsoever directly or indirectly assist the present Enemies of the Emperor and Empire It shall be likewise free for the Emperor and Empire to employ their Offices Counsels and Endeavours joyntly with the Most Christian King for the speedy composing the War by common consent XXVII Pursuant to the Peace of Munster confirmed by the second Article in all its Points and Clauses Places shall be restored and such as are to be restored shall be bonâ fide evacuated To which end Commissioners shall be named at the same time this Treaty is Ratified on both sides that the aforesaid Evacuation and Restitution be without further delay made within one month after the Ratification of the Peace Those Places only excepted which are otherwise for a time to be disposed of by the preceding Article XXVIII Whereas there hath been an ancient difference concerning the Castle and Dutchy of Bovillon between the Bishop and Prince of Liege and the Dukes of that name it is hereby agreed That the Duke of Bovillon continuing in the possession he hath of it the said difference shall amicably or by Arbiters to be named by the Parties within 3 months after the Ratification of the Peace be composed without proceeding to Acts of force XXIX Immediately after the Signing and subscribing of this Treaty of Peace by the Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries all Acts of Hostility shall cease And in case within 14 days after the Signing of the Treaty any thing shall be attempted or altered it shall be forthwith repaired and restored to its first condition XXX Contributions shall continue to be demanded and levyed by the one and the other Party in those Provinces Countreys and Places where before the Signing of this Treaty they were settled until the Ratification of the same and what shall then remain in Arrear shall within 4 months after the said Ratification be paid Yet so that the payment of the same shall not after the Ratifications are exchanged be forcibly required of those Places who will give sufficient security to pay the Proportion assessed upon them XXXI Although in the second Article of this Treaty it hath been sufficiently declared that the Peace of Munster shall in all and every its Points be confirmed yet it hath been thought fit particularly that all things stipulated in the said Peace of Munster with relation to the business of Montferrat remain hereafter in full force and vertue amongst which those things shall more particularly continue firm and valid which are stipulated therein in behalf of the Duke of Savoy XXXII Their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties retaining a grateful sence of the Offices and continual Endeavours the most Serene King of Great Britain hath used to restore a general Peace and the publick Tranquility It is mutually agreed between the Parties that he with his Kingdoms be included in this Treaty after the best and most effectual manner that may be XXXIII In this Peace those also shall be comprehended who shall be named by either Party with common consent before the exchange of the Ratifications or within 6 months after XXXIV The Emperor and the Most Christian King do agree That all Kings Princes and States shall and may give their Guaranties to their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties for the execution and performance of all and every the Points contained in this present Treaty XXXV The Peace being thus concluded the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of both Parties do promise that the same shall be Ratified in the manner mutually agreed on by the Emperor and Empire and the Most Christian King respectively and take effectual care that Authentick Ratifications be within the space of 8 weeks to be computed from the day of the Signing thereof or sooner if possible reciprocally and in due form exchanged here XXXVI And whereas his Imperial Majesty hath been humbly desired by the Electors Princes and States of the Empire in vertue of a Resolution dated the 31. May 1677. under the Seal of the Chancery of Mentz and delivered to the French Ambassadors to take care by his Imperial Ambassadors in this Congress of the Interests of the said Electors Princes and States of the Empire as well the Imperial as the French Ambassadors have in testimony and for the greater validity of all and every thing and things contained in this Treaty of Peace Signed and Sealed the same with their Names and Seals and promised interchangeably to deliver sufficient Ratifications thereof within the space abovementioned and the form therein agreed on nor shall any Protestation or Contradiction from the Directory of the Empire against the subscription of this Treaty be received or esteemed valid Done at Nimeguen the 5th day of Feb. A. D. 1679. Ls John Bishop and Prince of Gurgh Ls Francis Udalrick Count Kinsky Ls T. A. Hen. Stratman Ls The Marshal D'Estrades Ls Colbert Articles of Peace between the Emperor and the King of Sweden Concluded and Signed at Nimeguen the 5 th day of February 1679. Translated out of Latin according to the Copy Printed at Nimeguen by Adrian Moetiens IN the Name of the most Holy and Undivided Trinity Be it known to all and every one whom it doth or any way may concern That whereas from the beginning of the War commenced some years ago between the most Seiene and Mighty Prince and Lord LEOPOLD Elect Emperor of the Romans always August King of Germany Hungary Bohemia Dalmatia Croatia and Sclavonia Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Stiria Carinthia Carniola Marquiss of Moravia Duke of Luxemberg of the Upper and Lower Silesea Wirtemburg and Tecka Prince of Swaben Earl of Hapsburg Tirol Ferrette Kyburg and Goritia Marquiss of the sacred Roman Empire of
Majesties true and natural born Subjects and particularly they shall not be liable to such taxes as may be laid upon strangers And all contained in this present Article shall be observed within the Countreys that are subject to the said Lords the States with relation to his Majesties Subjects XI Vessels laden belonging to either of the said Allies sailing by the coasts of the other if they shall be driven into any Road or Port by storm or otherwise shall not be constrain'd to unlade or to utter their Merchandize or any part thereof nor bound to pay any duties but only when they shall unlade voluntarily and of their own accord XII Masters of Ships their Pilots Officers Souldiers Marriners and other Sea-men the Vessels themselves nor the Wares and Merchandises wherewith they are Laden shall be liable to be seized or arrested by vertue of any general or particular order of any whosoever nor for any cause or upon any occasion whatsoever no not under pretence for the preservation and defence of the State and generally it shall not be lawful to take any thing from the Subjects of either party without the owners consent and without payment of what shall be required Wherein nevertheless it is not understood that such seisures or arrests shall be comprised as shall be made by order and authority of Law and in the ordinary methods for lawful debts contracts or other legal causes for which there shall be any proceeding by due course of Law XIII All the Subjects and Inhabitants of France and of the United Provinces may with all safety and freedom sail with their Vessels and traffick with their Merchandises without any distinction to be made who are the proprietors from their own Ports Kingdoms and Provinces and also from the Ports and Kingdoms of other States or Princes to their Countreys who are already or hereafter may be declared enemies as well to France as to the United Provinces or either of them As also the said Subjects and Inhabitants may with the same safety and freedom sail with their Vessels and traffick with their Merchandises without any distinction to be made who are the proprietors from the Places Ports and Roads of such as are enemies to both or one of the said parties without contradiction or disturbance from any whosoever not only directly from such places at enmity to a place neuter but also from one enemies Countrey to another whether under the jurisdiction of one and the same Sovereign or of several XIV This Transportation and Traffick shall extend to all sorts of Merchandises except contrabann'd Goods XV. Within this kind of contraband Merchandises are only understood to be comprised all sorts of Fire-Arms and their accoutrements as Cannons Muskets Mortarpieces Petars Fire-Balls Granadoes Sausages Barrels of Pitch Carriages Pitch-Forks Bandaliers Powder Match Salt-peter Bullets Pikes Swords Head-pieces Casques Cuirasses Halberts Javelins Horses Saddles Cases for Pistols Belts and other accoutrements for War XVI Within this kind of Contrabann'd Merchandises shall not be comprised Wheat corn and other grain Beans Oil Wine Salt nor generally whatever serves for nourishment and sustenance of life but they shall remain free as other Merchandises and Wares uncomprised within the foregoing Article and it shall be lawful to transport them even to places at enmity with their said Lordships the States except to Towns and Places besieged blocked up or invested XVII For the putting whereof in execution it is agreed to be in manner following viz. That the Ships and Barks with Merchandise belonging to his Majestics Subjects having entred into any Haven of the said Lords the States and intending to pass thence to those of the enemies aforesaid shall be obliged only to shew to the Officers of the Havens of the said Lords the States from whence they shall depart their Pass-ports containing the particulars of their Ships burthen attested and marked under the ordinary and known Seal and Sign of the Officers of the Admiralty of the places from whence they first loosed and declare to what place they are bound all in the ordinary and customary form After which exhibition of their Pass-ports in manner aforesaid they shall not be liable to be molested searched detained nor retarded in their Voyages upon any pretence whatsoever XVIII The same shall be observ'd with relation to such French Ships and Barks as shall come within any roads of Lands under the obedience of the said Lords the States without intending to enter into any Haven or entring in without intending to unlade or break their bulk which Vessels shall not be bound to give account of their cargoes unless there shall be some suspition of their carrying to the enemies of the said Lords the States any Contrabann'd goods as aforesaid XIX And in case of manifest suspition the said Subjects shall be obliged to shew within the Ports their Pass-ports in manner aforesaid XX. If they shall have entred into any Roads or shall be met upon the High-Sea by any Ships of the said Lords the States or of Privateers their Subjects such Ships of the United Provinces for avoiding all disorder shall not approach within Cannon-shot of the French but may send their small Boat or Shallop on board the said French Ships or Barks with two or three men only to whom the Masters of the French Ships shall shew the Passports and Letters of Sea in manner aforesaid according to the formulary for the said Letters of Sea that shall be inserted at the end of this Treaty by which Pass-ports and Letters of Sea may appear not only the Ships burthen but also the place of abode and residence as well of the Master or owner as of the Ship it self to the end that by these two means it may be known whether they carry any Contrabann'd Merchandises and the quality as well of the said Ship as of it's Master and owner may sufficiently appear to which Pass-ports and Letters of Sea full credit and belief shall be given And that the validity of them may the better appear and that they may not in any sort be falsified or counterfeited certain marks and counter-scriptions shall be given both by his Majesty and by the said Lords the States General XXI And in case any such Merchandises and Wares as are above declared to be Contrabann'd and Prohibited shall by the means aforesaid be found within the said French Vessels and Barks bound for Havens belonging to enemies of the said Lords the States they shall be taken out condemned and confiscated by the Judges of the Admiralty in the United Provinces or other competent Judges but so as the Ship and Bark or other Goods Merchandises and Wares found therein being free and permitted may not therefore be seized in any manner nor confiscated XXII It is moreover accorded and agreed that whatever shall be found laden by his Majesties Subjects in any Ship belonging to the enemies of the said Lords the States though not being Contrabann'd goods shall be confiscated together