of the United Provinces of the Low Countrys The King's Answer to the Letter of the States General of the United Provinces written from St. Germain the 30th of June 1678. Most Dear Great Friends Allies and Confederates You will easily judge after all that we have done toward the Facilitating of a Peace that we were very well satisfied to understand by your Letter that before the time which we had agreed to allow for a Cessation of Arms you had sent instructions to your Plenipotentiary Ambassador at Nemiguen to Sign the Treaty of Peace before the end of this month And by the assurance which you give us that at the same time those of the Catholick King will accept of it we see your inclinations are well disposed toward the general quiet of Europe We Promise our selves likewise that it cannot be long retarded by those of your Allies that hitherto notwithstanding all the good Offices which you have done towards it refuse to joyn with you in the procuring so great a good and so universally desired In the mean time as the Peace which we doubt not but will immediately be concluded with you at Nimeguen since we have your word for it puts us into a condition of rendring you our entire affection of which we take delight in letting you feel the effects we are willing at your desire from hence forward to surcease all acts of hostility to the Low Countreys and whatever obstruction our Men of War or Privateers may give to your Commerce Common usage would require that things should continue in the same posture they now are till the Peace were fully consummated by exchange of the Ratifications and publication of Treaties but without staying till they that are now to be Signed betwixt our Plenipotentiaries Ambassadors at Nimeguen those of the Catholick King and yours shall be come to our hands out of our respect to you we will send order immediately to the Duke of Luxemburg to retire our Army from about Brussells into that part of the Country that is now under our subjection We will charge him to concert upon this subject with the Duke De Villa Hermosa and even with your Envoy there and to settle some regulation for those Officers to be under that shall command the Troops which we are obliged to leave about Mons and on what manner they may continue without any acts of hostility on either side but in a good understanding and so as the country may be open till the Ratifications are exchanged with Spain Having thus quieted all things at Land we are willing at your instance to do the same by Sea The Treaty which Our Ambassadors must Sign with Yours will ascertain the Places and Times within which what ever shall be taken on either side shall be deemed lawful Prize But for the present security of such Vessels as shall Sail out of your Ports whether for Trade or Fishing we think good to send a competent number of Passports to our Ambassadors at Nimeguen whom we will order to deliver them to Yours as there shall be occasion They shall do the same to the Ambassador of Spain But upon this condition that when the Ambassador of the Catholick King and your Ambassador shall receive them they shall be obliged at the same time to put into my Ambassadors hands such quantities of Passports as they shall demand of them We are well satisfied in not suffering more tedious forms though ordinarily observed in Treaties of Peace to impair the benefit that ought to accrew to your people by this and in letting them tast the sweetness of Peace from this very time and in procuring the same ease to those of the Catholick King for your Sakes You may see by this new testimony of our Friendship that we retain the same good disposition towards your Common-Wealth which our Predecessors have had who did so much toward the Raising of it and which we hope will help to render it more happy and flourishing for the future We pray God to take you Most Dear Great Friends Allies and Confederates into his Holy Protection Written at St. Germain in Laye the 30th of June 1678. Your Good Friend Allie and Confederate LOUIS Underneath was Signed Arnauld Extract of the Resolution of their Lordships the States of Holland and Friesland at their meeting on the 11th of July 1678. THe Pensionary Fagel has shown to the Assembly a Letter of the 10th of this instant from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Peace at Nimeguen written to himself importing that the Ambassadours of France have declared to them that the King their Master is not minded to Evacuate Mastricht nor the other places of the Bar till a compleat satisfaction be made to the King of Sweden Where upon deliberation we have thought fit that this matter be put in as from the States aforesaid to the States General to the end that answer may be returned to the Ambassadors of the States that it could not be believed nor expected that his Most Christian Majesty would have made the least difficulty in the Evacuation of those places after the Peace Signed concluded and ratified betwixt his Most Christian Majesty and Spain and this State and that the States could not foresee that there would arise any new obstructions or difficulties on his Most Christian Majesti's part after he had given them himself and by his Ministers so many assurances of his unfeigned inclinations not only to a general Peace but particularly to a Peace with this State It is very true that when his Mejesty compos'd a general platform for us to take our measures by it was put down in the first Article that his Majesty would never listen to any Terms of Peace other than such as should give the King of Sweden full and compleat satisfaction and his Majesty might with good reason insrst upon it and take care to have it effected if we had been able to dispose the Confederates to accept the conditions of that Project But since the Confederates did not think it their interests to make Peace upon those terms as the States foresaw at first they would not and that his Catholick Majesty would make some scruple as the Ambassadors of the State intimated to those of France desiring them to let them know what places the King their Master intended should make the Bar in the Spanish Netherlands and his Most Christian Majesty was pleased to assure the States by a Letter of the 18th of May written from his Camp in case his Catholick Majesty should refuse the Peace upon the said Terms and that the States would conclude their Treaty and oblige themselves to remain neuters that then his Majesty would always be willing to grant to Spain the conditions of the Project and promised not to lay Siege to any place in the Spanish Netherlands during the whole War without making any mention of Sweden or the rest of the Confederates Whereupon their Lordships the States
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
point according to the form and purport thereof without ever acting to the contrary directly or indirectly upon any pretence whatsoever In token whereof we have caused these Presents to be Signed by the President of our Assembly and underwritten by our Principal Register and our Seal to be set thereto The Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain Concluded at Nimeguen the 17th day of September 1678. IN the Name of God the Creator and of the most Holy Trinity To all present and to come be it known That whereas during the course of the War that arose some years since betwixt the most High most Excellent and most Mighty Prince Lewis the 14th by the grace of God Most Christian King of France and Navar and his Allies on the one part and the most High most Excellent and most Mighty Prince Charles the second by the grace of God Catholick King of Spain and his Allies on the other part Their Majesties have desired nothing more vehemently then to see it end in a good Peace and whereas the same desire to put a stop as far as in them lay to the ruine of so many Provinces the tears of so much People and the shedding of so much Christian blood hath induced them to comply with the powerful Offices of the most High most Excellent and most Mighty Prince The King of Great Britain to send their Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to the Town of Nimeguen so it is come to pass through an effect of the Divine goodness that hath been pleased to make use of the intire confidence that their Majesties have always reposed in the mediation of the said King of Great Britain that at length the said Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to wit on the behalf of his Most Christian Majesty the Sieur Count D' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of his Majesties Orders the Sieur Colbert Knight Marquiss of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in his Councel of State and the Sieur De Mesmes Knight Count D' Avaux Councellor also in his Councels and on the behalf of his Catholick Majesty the Sieur Dom Pablo Spinola Doria Marquiss de les Balbases Duke of Sesto Lord of Guinossa Casalnosetta and Ponteucrone Counfellor in his Councel of State and Chief Protonotary in his Councel of Italy Dom Gaspard de Tebes and Cordova Tello and Guzman Count de Venazuza Marquiss de la Fuente Lord of Lerena of the House of Arrucas of the Isles of Gundalupa and Matalione perpetual Master de la Victoire perpetual Major and Recorder of the Town of Sevil Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to his Imperial Majesty one of his chief Councel of War and General of his Artillery Dom Pedro Ronquillo Knight of the Order of Alcantara Counfellor in his Councels of Castile and of the Indies and Dom John Baptisse Christin Knight Counsellor in the high Councel of Flanders near to his said Catholick Majesty's Person and one of his Councel of State and of his Privy Councel in the Low-Countreys by vertue of the Letters and Commissions which they have communicated to one another and the Copies whereof are word for word inserted at the end of this Treaty have come to an agreement and conclusion upon mutual Conditions of Peace and Friendship in manner following viz. I. It is Covenanted and agreed that from henceforth there shall be a good firm and lasting Peace Confederation and perpetual Alliance and Friendship between the Most Christian and Catholick Kings their Children born and to be born their Heirs Successors and Inheriters their Kingdoms Estates Countreys and Subjects so that they shall love one another as good brethren procuring with all their might one another's good honour and reputation and faithfully preventing as far as they shall be able one anothers dammage II. In pursuance of this good Re-union the Cessation of all manner of Hostilities agreed on and Signed the 19th day of August of this present year shall continue according to the Tenour thereof betwixt the said Kings their Subjects and Vassals as well by Sea and other Waters as by Land and generally in all places where the War is carried on by their Majesties Arms as well between their Troops and Armies as between the Garrisons of their several places and if any Contravention shall have happened to be committed contrary to the said Gessation by the taking of any place or places whether by attack or surprise or by private intelligence nay though Prisoners shall have been taken or other Acts of Hostility committed through some accident that could not be foreseen or by such Persons as could not foresee it contrary to the said Cessation of Hostilities such Contravention shall faithfully be repair'd on both sides without delay or difficulty restoring to the full whatever shall have been taken and delivering the Prisoners without ransom or paying of charges in such manner that all things be restored in such manner to the same condition they were in on the said 19th day of August when the said Cessation was agreed and Signed the Tenour whereof shall be observed till the day of the exchange of the Ratifications of this present Treaty III. All causes of enmity or misunderstanding shall remain for ever extinct and abolished and whatever hath happened or been done by reason of the present War or during the same shall be put into perpetual oblivion so as for the future no inquiry shall be made into the same on either side directly or indirectly by Law or otherwise under any pretence whatsoever nor may their Majesties or their Subjects Servants and Adherents on either side express any manner of resentment of whatever offences may have been committed against them or dammages received by them during the present War IV. In contemplation of the Peace the Most Christian King immediately after the exchange of the Ratifications of this present Treaty shall put into the Catholick King 's power the Place and Fortress of Charleroy the Town of Binche the Town and Fortress of Aeth Oudenard and Coartray with their Provostships and Castellanies Appurtenances and Dependancies in the same manner as his Catholick Majesty possess'd them before the War of the year 1667. All which Towns and Places the Catholick King yielded to the said Most Christian King at the Treaty signed at Aix la Chapelle the 2d of May 1668. from which this present Treaty doth expresly derogate for so much as relates to the said Towns and Places their Appurtenances and Dependances In pursuance whereof the said Catholick King shall take possession of the same and enjoy them to him and his Successors fully and peaceably excepting the Verge of Menin and the Town of Conde which though heretofore pretended by the Most Christian King to be a Member of the Castellany of Aeth shall nevertheless remain to the Crown of France together with all its Dependances by vertue of this present Treaty as shall be said hereafter V. The said most Christian King obligeth himself and promiseth to put likewise
and his Enemies then were every body will easily believe that onely the desire of giving Peace to Europe was capable of making him loose so favourable a Conjuncture And it is from the same desire that he is still disposed to admit of Propositions that may secure the entire satisfaction of Sweden and procure the Tranquility which Christendom expects from this Assembly A Memorial delivered to the Plenipotentiaries of France by the Plenipotentiaries of Holland July the 26th 1678. THe Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of their Lordships the States General of the United Provinces having received from the hands of the Lords Ambassadors of France the 11th instant a Memorial whereby they pretend to justifie the particular of the Retension of the Places the Restitution whereof were promised by his most Christian Majesty and wherein at the same time they invite their Lordships to enter into some way with his Majesty whereby they might draw and assure a perfect Satisfaction to the King of Swedes are obliged by express order from their Lords and Masters to represent to their Excellencies That their Lordships making a due reflection upon the method of his Majesties proceedings to terminate the present War and upon the advantagious expressions whereby he has particularly declared himself upon their account they cannot entertain so much as a thought that he would at present delay the accomplishment and conclusion by the said Retension being fully perswaded that such kind of obstructions cannot proceed from so generous a Soul as his Majesties but rather from the perswasion of those who are averse to a Peace They strongly possess themselves with this perswaasion that they cannot lay a more solid Basis for their justification than to give an ingenuous account of the beginning and progress of this Affair T is notorious that the Lords the States General have done their utmost endeavours without intermission to determine this present War by a General Peace wherein all Parties Interested might have had that satisfaction which they have so passionately desired as might have disposed all Persons whatsoever thereunto But such was their misfortune that the pretences of the other Allies being far different and very far from it and his most Christian Majesty having caused his Ambassadors at Nimeguen to propose those Conditions which might and ought to serve as a Platform to a general Peace and upon that consideration explaining himself that it was the last point that he could possibly dispence with and hereupon his Enemies might make choice either of Peace or War without being obliged after the 10th of this present May. And the Lords the States General taking into their consideration that the major part of the said proposed Conditions did concern their puissant Allies did carefully explain themselves that they might find out some Expedients and have endeavoured to dispose of Affairs so as that they might enter upon a Negotiation according to the said Platform to see what the Parties concerned at design'd but to their great regret they have been inform'd That it was not at all his Majesties intention to cause a Treaty or to admit any debate upon the Conditions proposed but that the Potent Parties that were at War ought simply to declare themselves before the Term of the 10th of May was expired whether or no they would subscribe the said Conditions Whereupon their Lordships have laboured continually with the Ministers of their Allies to understand their Sentiments But they excusing themselves upon the small time allotted for this great Affair and want of Order from their Masters wherewith they could not possibly be instructed before the Expiration of the term therefore their Highnesses not being able to assure themselves of the intentions of their powerful Allies especially the King of Spain in regard of the Acceptation or Refusal of the said Conditions And considering that the Stop proposed by his most Christian Majesty must also give them particular satisfaction have applied their farther endeavours to inform themselves how this stop should be considered in case the King of Spain should refuse to accept the said Conditions and thereupon his Most Christian Majesty hath been so kind as to honour them with a Letter written from his Camp May the 18th and to acquaint them that if the King of Spain denied to accept of the Peace and they judged it proper to conclude a Peace with him on the Conditions proposed upon their account and that they would engage to remain Neuter during the whole course of this War His Majesty in such Cases would upon their consideration grant the said King of Spain the same Conditions which he was at liberty to accept of at this present and that during that time he would not attack any place in the Low Countreys and if my Lords the States General in order to the advancement of this Negotiation should find it convenient to send Deputies to him that they would find his Majesty in the neighbourhood of Ghent till the 25th of the said month and under the same dispositions Farthermore the Lords of the States General having declared before the 30th of May to the Lords Ambassadors of France that for their parts they were resolved to conclude a Peace with his Majesty upon the Conditions proposed on their account and having desired a convenient time to the end that they might dispose their Allies to the same Peace and after the Receipt of the aforesaid Letter from his Majesty having determined to send to him the Sieur Beverning their Ambassador Extraordinary to represent unto him how earnestly they desired a general Peace that they did accept of the Conditions offered and that they desired his Majesty to grant them a Cessation of Arms for Six weeks that they might have time to discourse with their Allies upon the affairs of Peace and to gain their consent for the conclusion of so great a Work His Majesty was Graciously pleas'd to declare by his answer the first of June dated in his Camp at Wetteren that he did condescend to that Cessation for the space of six weeks as it was desired to commence from the first of July and the same according to the stipulation between France and Spain Anno Dom. 1668. With this proviso they should promise his Majesty that in case during the said Cessation of Arms they could not prevail with their Allies to accept of the Conditions offered they would neither directly nor indirectly assist them against his Majesty or his Allies during the continuance of this War And upon this consideration his Majesty was willing to Render by way of exchange the same engagements that he had obliged himself unto with them in his said Letter of the 18th of May as well in regard of the same Conditions which he would be always inclinable to grant to Spain as for the security of the Places in the Low Countreys And to give them a larger Testimony thereof his Majesty hath charged the Duke of Luxemburg General of his Forces to
of the 26th of this month when they ought rather to consider how to remove the impediment that is risen to obstruct the conclusion of the Peace than to enter into such particulars of actions and reasonings as may exasperate will say thus much onely that since the States General declare themselves to be fully satisfied as to the sincerity of the intentions of the King their Master and his Majesty is no less perswaded of their disposition towards a perfect reconciliation with himself all that remains to be done is to find the most ready means to perfect this great Work To which end the Ambassadors of France do now again assure the Ambassadors of the States General that his Majesty will readily joyn with them in such expedients as shall be most proper to remove the difficulties that hinder the Signing of the Peace The said Ambassadors of the States General may easily have observed that no other interest with-holds his Majesty than that of the King his Ally whose satisfaction is the only end that he proposeth to himself in this Affair His Majesty is also willing to admit of any proposals to accommodate it and questions not but that some expedient may be found with which both himself and the States General may be satisfied But to give a publick Instance of his real intentions for Peace and of his unfeigned affection to the States General his Majesty desires to hear himself what they can propose to remove the impediments that stand in their way and to joyn with them in such expedients as may equally answer the security that both himself wisheth and they desire To this purpose his Majesty thinks fit to advance as far as St. Quentin whither such Deputies that they shall resolve to send to him may resort and if they shall accept as his Majesty believes they will so beneficial an offer his Majesty will be in that Town six days after he shall have understood by his Ambassadors that the States have agreed to send their Ministers thither so that he and they may come thither at one and the same time And as his Majesty doth not question but they will bring with them such sentiments as shall be just and reasonable they will find his Majesty so fairly dispos'd that they will have no cause left to question the Sincerity with which his Majesty hath begun and continued his endeavours for Peace But because the Ambassadors of the States General have remonstrated to those of France at a conference held the 17th of this month that since his Majesties promise not to attaque any Place in the Low Countreys is expired it will be necessary to take some measures to procure a Cessation of all Acts of hostility whilst this Negotiation is on foot the said Ambassadors have already received instructions from his Majesty to assure their Excellencies that his Majesty will willingly agree with the Deputies of the States General upon using all means that may prevent it's being interrupted by Arms. The said Ambassadors of France cannot but think that it will be for the advantage of the States General to discuss this affair with his Majesty and to agree upon the Peace with him But if they had rather treat of it nearer their own Fronteers his Majesty gives them liberty to send their Deputies to Gand where such persons as shall be there on his Majesties behalf shall have power to Treat with them upon the difficulties than are risen concerning the time for evacuating the Places and to conclude upon such expedients as may both satisfie his Majesty and content the States General and also to agree forthwith upon a Cessation of Hostility so as no molestation may be given to such dispositions for Peace as this Negociation may produce A Memorial given in by the Ambassadors of the States General to the Ambassadors of France the 4th of August 1678. THe Ambassador and Envoy Extraordinary of their Lordships the States General of the United Provinces having sent to their Hi. and Mi. the Memorial of the Lords Ambassadors of France of the 29th of July have received express order from their Masters to answer their Excellencies that they were transported to understand thereby the continuance of his most Christian Majesty's real intentions for Peace and that themselves will not be wanting on their part to do whatever may further the concluding it and that they are extremely sorry to see it stick solely upon giving the King of Sweden satisfaction and that that should be of such consideration to his Majesty as to be capable of giving a stop to the finishing a work that is so much desired The States General think that they have done all that could possibly be expected from a State that is a Lover of Peace having declared their acceptance of the Conditions which the King himself had proposed as far as they concern themselves and having laboured to the utmost of their power to bring their Allies to a compliance in which endeavours they have been so successful with the King of Spain that he likewise accepts the Conditions that concern himself And yet after all this to their great sorrow they find themselves deprived of the benefit of those Conditions not upon the account of any thing that might or ought to have been done by them but because the King of Sweden must first be satisfi'd though neither his Catholick Majesty nor themselves possessed any thing that must make part of his satisfaction and though the said King continue daily to exercise all manner of Hostilities against their Inhabitants directly contrary to Treaties solemnly ratifi'd Yet their Hi. and Mi. notwithstanding their Inhabitants meet with such bad usage from the said King and though they have evidently had just cause to fall upon him and make War upon him as he does upon them have chosen rather to endeavour a Peace in the North and have offered to do all good offices in order to it if his most Christian Majesty will be pleased to furnish them with some Expedients and they do yet persist in the same mind and should be ready to propose Expedients themselves if they knew of any But they cannot in any wise expect from his Majesties generous disposition that after having testifi'd so much good will to them he should oblige them to act forcibly against their Allies and that not to procure his Majesty better satisfaction but meerly for the benefit of his Ally Their Hi. and Mi. will ever profess a great reverence for his Majesty and will bear him as much deference as he can possibly desire but they do not see of what use it will be to put his Majesty to trouble by sending their Deputies to St. Quintin not having any themselves to propose to him for the Places must be Evacuated when the Treaty is concluded in discharge of that solemn promise which his Majesty made to them and as to that there remains no difficulty And concerning the King of Sweden as his Majesties Ally
they offer to do all friendly offices for his Accommodation and certainly such endeavours cannot be made with greater likelihood of success any where else than at Nimeguen where all the Ministers of the Confederates are There we may labour to dispose them with hopes of success there we may be informed of what-ever may be necessary to promote the common good and may use all manner of endeavours which cannot be so successful either at St. Quintin or at Ghent The States General conceive the less hopes from such a Deputation because the Ambassadors of France did not instance as to what Expedients in particular their Deputies should come instructed and they think his Majesty may propose what he would have and do what-ever is to be done sooner and more readily at Nimeguen than either at St Quintin or any other Place They desire with all their hearts that his Majesty would propose some Expedients to further the Peace and themselves will at the same time make appear how affectionately they desire to help forward as much as in them lies the perfecting this great work and they earnestly desire that the time may be well husbanded for that as yet they find themselves in a condition able to conclude a Peace upon the terms that have been proposed though they have been involv'd in a great deal of trouble and been put upon a necessity of entring into new Engagements by their manner of acting whose expectations are not answered by the Peace and who represented the Evacuation of the Places to their Hi. and Mi. as a thing to be despaired of though they made those Engagements with such caution and regard to his Majesty that they can be of no effect unless the matter should fall out so unfortunately as that his Most Christian Majesty should set such a value upon the King of Sweden's Satisfaction and not to resolve to Evacuate the Places but upon those terms though the Exchange of the Ratifications ensued upon it The States General do instantly desire his Majesty to conclude the Treaties and not to suffer the finishing them to stick at the King of Sweden's Satisfaction and to make them so happy as to give them some assurance as soon as may be by taking up a favourable resolution which is the thing they so greatly desire 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. THe Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of France to make appear more and more his Majesties sincere desire to give quiet to all Christendom by the care that his Majesty continues to take for the removing such obstacles as hinder the accomplishing so great a work declare to the Ambassadors of the States General that as his Majesty design'd to retain those Places till the King of Sweden were entirely satisfied onely because the Ambassadors of that Crown thought it necessary for the King their Master so he is now willing to desist if those Ambassadors will consent that he forbear to stand upon it It is evident that his Majesty doth not incline to any Party but out of his desire to finish the affair of the Peace as soon as may be and out of the confidence that he reposeth in the word of the States General he hath always desired that they would send their Deputies either to himself or to Ghent both to concert what will be necessary for the warranting to his Majesty the Engagement that Spain is to enter into of not assisting his Enemies nor those of his Allies and to agree upon such means as his Majesty should propose to them for the more easie restoring of Sweden without obliging them to enter into a War in order to it And one of the first effects that would ensue upon these Conferences would be that of taking measures to supersede all Acts of Hostility and of providing for the subsisting of Mons while the Conferences should last The said Ambassadors cannot doubt but that such an overture will remove those difficulties that have hindred the States General and that as the signing their Treaty and that of Spain was delayed onely by his Majesties pretending to retain all the Places so his desisting from that will enable them to sign the Peace They conceive likewise that the said States General will be sensible of his Majesties offers to surcease all acts of War and assure the subsistance of Mons which would perfectly be restored if the Peace were concluded with their Deputies so as there is ground of assurance that it will A Memorial given by the Ambassadors of Sweden to the Ambassadors of France this 9th of August 1678. THe Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sweden being informed that the Ambassadors of the States General at a conference with the Ambassadors of his Most Christian Majesty held the 28th of July would have imputed to Sweden the delay that was hapned to the conclusion of the Peace that is making up betwixt the King their Master and the States General conceive it is their duty to acquaint the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty how they have acted throughout this affair by which it will appear not to be long of them that the Treaty is not at present ready to be perfected and Signed In the first place as the regulation of Commerce makes the principal point of the Treaty on the part of the States General the said Ambassadors of Sweden have offered all the facilities that could be desired of them in order to it It was upon the 20th of June that the Count of Oxenstierne presented an Article for referring this affair to Commissioners which not being agreed to and the Ambassadors of the States General declaring that their Principals and Masters desired to see the regulation finished before the Peace were concluded the said Count of Oxenstierne consented to enter into the particulars of the States Project of Commerce and thereupon on the 27th of June acquainted Monsieur de Beverning Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the States General that he had drawn a Counter-Project upon some Articles not yet agreed which Counter-Project having been read to the Sieur de Beverning was immediately by his advice delivered to Sieur Silvercroon Commissary of Sweden with orders to go quickly to the Hague and help to inform the States General more fully by Word of mouth of the reasons upon which the Counter-Project was grounded the said Sieur de Beverning affirming likewise that he had writ to his Principals and Masters to appoint Commissioners to confer all matters with him as soon as might be Which though the said Sieur Silvercroon immediately did and the States General received the Counter-Project yet now in seven weeks time they have not return'd their answer to it and remitted the affair hither to be adjusted and finished by the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of both parties in order whereunto the Ambassadors of Sweden have not failed all this
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
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
after the Ratification of this present Treaty or sooner if possible that is to say as soon as the Convoys can arrive at each Place no parties nor detatchments shall make incursions into the Grounds and Countreys of one another but the Troops and Armies of each Crown shall abide within the extent of such Lands and Countreys as are under the obedience of each Crown That all such Prisoners as shall be taken on either side after the day of the Ratifying of this present Treaty shall be restor'd without ransom even Horses also Cattel Equipages and Merchandises and generally all other things whatsoever That as at the time when the Treaty of Peace shall be executed or betwixt this and then it may be necessary for the Troops of one Crown or it's Allies to pass into such Lands and Countreys as now belong to the other either side shall be at Liberty so to do only for maintaining communication betwixt the several Places in the Low Countreys and to go thence without taking any thing in such Lands and Countreys but Forrage only or Sojourning there any longer than is usual in ordinary marches That from the day of the Ratification of this present Treaty as well the Subjects of each Crown as those of the States General shall be at Liberty to go and come without Pass-Ports within such Lands and Countreys as do at present belong to the Crown or State of which they are Subjects and that there shall be no other need of Pass-Ports than for going from Lands now belonging to one Crown or State to such as do at present belong to the other That from six days after the Ratification of the present Treaty the Troops and Armies of each Crown shall live upon the Lands and Countreys of which each is now in possession without forraging in one another's Countrey it being understood that the word possession is not meant to comprehend or pass as in right of possession such passages and posts as the Armies and Parties have made or do now make in the places where they are or have been That from the day of the Ratification of this Treaty all extraordinary demands of Contributions Cows Prisoners and Carriages shall cease on both sides in one anothers Countrey so as neither party shall be at Liberty to make such demands upon emergent necessities but within such Countreys as each is in possession of That the Arrears of Contributions for the year that will expire the 16th of October next from those Countreys that are actually brought under such Contributions shall continue to be exacted on both sides but in such manner only as shall be agreed by the Lords Plenipotentiaries at Nimeguen That if contrary to all appearance any difficulty shall happen as to the performance of this present agreement in all or in part the same shall be adjusted in a friendly manner by the Generals or such as shall be thereto authorised without altering this agreement upon any such occasion or suffering any recourse to force All this the Deputies underwritten have respectively agreed and have promised to produce to morrow the Ratifications of the same by Monsieur the Duke of Luxemburg Peer and Marshal of France Captain of the Garde-du-corps to the Most Christian King Commander in chief of his Majesties Army in Flanders and by the Duke de Villa Hermosa Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to his Catholick Majesty Governour and Captain General of the Catholick Low Countreys At the Camp near Mons the 19th day of August 1678. Robert Fagel de Contamougear We approve and Ratifie all the Contents of the foregoing Treaty Montmorgency Luxemburg Duke de Villa Hermosa Conde de Luna The Deputy of the United Provinces to the Army underwritten authorised by his Highness the Prince of Orange approves the foregoing Treaty having been made in his presence and with his participation for so much as it concerns his said Highness and the Army and Troops of the Lords the States General under his Command De Weede His Highness having seen the Convention foregoing made by vertue of the authority which he granted doth approve and Ratifie the same by these presents At the Camp at Roeulx the 20th of August 1678. William Prince of Orange 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. LEWIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navar to all that shall see these presents Greeting Since our most dear and well-beloved Cousin the Sieur Comte D' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of oùr Orders our faithful and well-beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquis of Croissi Counsellor in Ordinary in our Council of State and our faithful and well-beloved the Sieur De Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor also in our Councils Our Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries by vertue of the Plenary Powers which We had given them have Concluded Agreed and Signed the 10th of this month at Nimeguen with the Heer Hierosm van Beverningh Baron of Teylingenham Curator of the University of Leyden late Counsellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys 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 Griedtman van Bildt Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of our most Dear and Great Friends the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countries instructed likewise with full Power the Treaty of Peace according to the Tenour ensuing In the name of God the Creator To all present and to come be it known that as during the course of the War that has been stirr'd for some years betwixt the Most High Most Excellent and Most Mighty Prince Lewis the 14th by the grace of God Most Christian King of France and Navar and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces His Majesty always maintain'd a sincere desire to give back to the said States his principal friendship and they all the sentiments of respect for his Majesty and of acknowledgment for the obligations and considerable advantages which they have received from his Majesty and the Kings his Predecessors it is at last come to pass that these good dispositions seconded by the powerful Offices of the Most High Most Excellent and Most Mighty Prince the King of Great Brittain who during these troublesom times wherein almost all Christendom has been in War hath not ceased by his Counsels and good Advertisements to contribute to the publick weal and repose induced as well his Most Christian Majesty and the said States General as also all other the Princes and Potents that are concerned in the interest of this present War to consent that the Town of Nimeguen should be made choice of for the Treaty of Peace to which end his Most Christian Majesty named for his Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries the
Sieur Comte D' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of his Orders the Sieur Colbert Knight Marquiss of Croissi Councellor in ordinary in his Counsel of State and the Sieur Mesmes Knight Comte D'Avaux Councellor also in his Counsels and the said States General the Heer Hierosme Van Beverning Baron of Teylingen Curator of the University of Leyden late Councellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces the Heer Wilhem van Nassau Heer van Odyke Cortgene and first noble and representative of the nobility in the States and Councel of Zeland and the Heer Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Bildt Deputies in their Assemblies on the behalf of the States of Holland Zeland c. Which Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries duely instructed with the good intentions of their Masters were to repair to the said Town of Nimeguen where after a mutual communication of their plenary powers the copies whereof are inserted word for word at the end of this Treaty it was agreed upon Conditions of Peace and Friendship according to this ensuing Tenour viz. I. There shall be for the future betwixt his Most Christian Majesty and his Successors Kings of France and Navar and his Kingdoms on the one part and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys on the other part a good firm faithful and inviolable Peace and all Acts of Hostility of what kind soever shall hereafter cease and be forborn betwixt the said King and the said Lords the States General as well by Sea and other waters as by Land in all their Kingdoms Countreys Lands Provinces and Seignories and for all their Subjects and Inhabitans of what Quality or Condition soever without exception of Places or Persons II. And if any Prizes are taken on either side in the Baltcik Sea or the North Sea from Terneuse to the channel 's mouth within the space of four weeks or from the said mouth of the channel to the Cape of St. Vincent within the space of six weeks and further in the Mediterranian Sea and as far as the Aequinoctial within the space of ten weeks and beyond the Line and in all parts of the World within the space of eight months to be computed from the day on which the Peace shall be published at Paris and at the Hague the said Prizes and the dammages that shall happen on either side after the Terms prefixt shall be brought to account and whatever shall have bin taken shall be restor'd with recompence for the dammages that shall have happned thereby III. There shall be moreover betwixt the said King and the said Lords the States General and their Subjects and Inhabitants mutually a sincere firm and perpetual friendship and good correspondence by Sea and Land in all things and in all places within Europe and without and no resenting of the offences or dammages that have been received either in time past or by reason of the said Wars IV. And in vertue of this Friendship and Correspondence as well his Majesty as the said Lords the States General shall faithfully procure and further the good and prosperity of one another by all Support Aid Counsel and real Assistances upon all occasions and at all times and shall not consent for the future to any Treaties or Negotiations that may be to one anothers damage but shall break them off and give notice of them to one another with care and sincerity as soon as ever they come to their knowledge V. They that have had any of their goods seized and confiscated by reason of the said War their Heirs or Assigns of what Condition or Religion soever shall enjoy such goods and take them into possession of their own private authority and by vertue of this present Treaty without standing in need to have recourse to Law and that notwithstanding any appropriations to the Exchequer engagements gifts in writing sentences preparatory or definitive given by default and contumacy in the parties absence or without their being heard Treaties Accords and Transactions and any Renunciations that may have been made at such transactions to exclude the right owners from any part of such goods and all and every the goods and rights which according to this present Treaty shall or ought to be restor'd on either side to the first Proprietors their Heirs and Assigns may be sold by the said Proprietors without obtaining any particular Licence so to do and likewise the Proprietors of such Rents as shall be setled by the Exchequers in lieu of goods sold as also of such Rents and Actions as stand on charge in the Exchequers may respectively dispose of the Propriety thereof by sale or otherwise as of their other proper goods VI. And since the Marquisate of Bergenopzome with all the Rights and Revenues thereunto appertaining and generally all the Lands and Goods of Monsieur le Comte D'Auvergne Colonel General of the Light Horse of France that were under the power of the said States General of the United Provinces have been seized and confiscated by reason of the War to which the present Treaty ought to put a happy end it is agreed that the said Sieur Compte D'Auvergene shall be restored to the possession of the said Marquisate of Bergenopzome it's appurtenances and dependances and also to all the rights actions privileges usages and prerogatives that he enjoy'd at the time when the War was declar'd VII Each shall continue seized of and shall actually enjoy the Countreys Towns Places Lands Islands and Seignories within Europe and without which they now hold and possess without being disturb'd or molested directly or indirectly in any manner whatsoever VIII But his Most Christian Majesty willing to give back to the Lords the States General his Principal Friendship and to give them a singular proof therof upon this occasion will immediately after the exchange of the Ratifications put them into possession of the Town of Maestricht with the Comte of Uronof and the Comtez and Countreys of Fauquemond Aalhem and Rolleduc beyond the Maes together with the Villages of Redemption Banc d' St. Servais and whatever is belonging to the said Town IX The said Lords the States General promise that what ever concerns the exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion and such as profess it enjoying their Goods shall be re-established and maintained in the said Town of Maestricht and it's dependances in the same state and in such manner as was regulated by the Capitulation made in the year 1632 and that such as shall have been endowed with any Ecclesiastical goods Canons Places Parsonages Provostships and other Benefices shall continue setled in them and enjoy them without any contradiction X. His Majesty restoring to the said Lords the States General the Town of Maestricht and Countreys thereunto belonging may yet take and carry away all the Artillery Powder Bullets Provisions and other War-like Ammunition that shall be found there at the time of it's Restitution and they that his Majesty shall have