THE ACTS and NEGOTIATIONS Together with the Particular Articles at large OF THE General Peace Concluded at RYSWICK BY THE Most Illustrious Confederates WITH THE FRENCH KING To which is premised The Negotiations and Articles of the Peace concluded at TVRIN between the same Prince and the Duke of Savoy Translated from the Original Publish'd at the Hague LONDON Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock and Tim. Childe at the White Hart at the West-end of St. Paul's Church-yard 1698. PREFACE THE Title of this Book informs the Reader That it contains the Acts and Negotiations of the General Peace concluded at Ryswick and likewise of the particular Peace concluded at Turin faithfully Translated from the Original publish'd at the Hague The Editors of it in English thought they had good Reason to put it into that Language because Our Nation hath in this long and bloody War contributed such mighty Weights towards the reducing the Kingdoms and States of Europe to the happy Ballance they at present enjoy The Efforts of the English Nation in Concurrence with the Illustrious Confederates have in Nine Years time broke those Chains which cost the Expence of above 30 Years in their Contrivance and by which the Liberty of Europe was so strangely and artificially entangled and encompass'd that even well-meaning Men thought it more advisable patiently to submit to the insuperable Evil than by vain Attempts to hasten or exasperate the Misery Let the Lyon sleep say they and let us by our Gentleness and Flatteries engage him so to do Time may lessen or wear out that Rage which should we provoke we are not able to resist Thus while evil Men cherish'd and unthinking and mistaken Men submitted the mighty Mischief grew and prosper'd Like some irresistible Fleet it commanded and aw'd even those distant Countries that had not yet seen or felt its Power Roman it was in the Wisdom and Conduct of its Arms but of how far different a Spirit from that Heroick Common-wealth who with Hardships to themselves conquer'd and subdu'd Nations with the same tender Designs we chastise our Children only to make 'em better and more happy than they were before In this disconsolate Posture was Europe not expecting Safety the Delay of its Ruin seem'd to proceed but from the Pleasure or Frolick of the Conqueror when Crown'd Heads and States were bid to hope for that Liberty which they before only durst secretly desire This great Design is laid by a Prince whose Descent seem'd to entitle him to become a Deliverer His Ancestors of the same Name rescu'd his Country from Powers not indeed so well founded and numerous but still as destructive as these the distant Nephew was to engage with Providence foresaw the Protection of Seven Provinces would not be Work enough for so capacious a Soul Hero's through each degree collect and gather their Ancestors Perfections to which they add their own therefore This Prince is to be ally'd to the English Crown that this Tie might engage him to extend his Care to these Islands which by the supine Negligence and superstitious Bigottry of Governors had been put into equal if not more eminent Danger than the rest of the Neighbouring World Impotence was their Excuse we had Power but the Force and Edge of it was turn'd upon our Selves A Neighbouring Flood that with miserable great Desolation had over-run part of Europe was with additional Force too near approaching to us What Precaution did we use to prevent it Our Workmen were digging down the Banks that should oppose and keep it out and seem'd to invite the Ruin Here this Great Prince interposes he opens the Eyes of most and holds the Hands of those unfortunate Men that still continu'd blind or engag'd and kindly hinder'd 'em from doing Things that tended to the Destruction of both Themselves and their Country Then in 1688. the mighty Scene opens in 1689. the War begins Power or Heaven for some time seem'd to favour the Mighty Monarch doubtless it was to try the Opposer's Constancy and let them know That no Disasters or Disappointments should discourage Engagements founded upon the Principles of Justice and Common Safety Then for Four or Five Years the Bloody Game seem'd doubtful and the making of a Stand look'd like a Presage of Victory For when Powers that assume to themselves the Titles of insuperable Strength and immortal Glory meet with Difficulties and are check'd in their ambitious Progress this casts Disparagement upon their high Pretences and makes suffering Mankind hope they are not so great as they would willingly look to be Like Men that affect the Character of being Rich Couragious or Religious yet are not really so this assumed Shape may for some time command Awe and Respect but when at last by the Effects the Disguise appears the Hypocrites become more contemptible and ridiculous I shall not say That the Events of the Two or Three last Years of the War make it appear probable this was the Case of the Enemies of our Monarch and Country for they had Substance Conduct and Courage though I must take it to be as plain that their Power and these Qualifications were by no means equal to the Union form'd against 'em and manag'd by the same Incomparable Head and Hand that first gave it Birth For when Savoy left the Confederacy in 1696. one would have thought so considerable a Weight taken out of our Scale would have given the Contrary a mighty Advantage and the costly and even mean Flatteries and Cares that were employ'd to detach that Prince and the Triumphs us'd on that Success should confirm the Opinion But what Effect had it None to the Advantage of our Adversaries Some casual Deficiencies at Home defeated the Designs abroad otherwise our Enemies might in this last Interval have felt more Evils then I hope we shall ever now have occasion to wish to ' em For the Great King condescends that the House of his Majesty shall become the Place of Treaty for Peace and there settles to the Empire and Spain Barriers so firm and strong that their Enemies cannot by Force in Ten Years recover what was by Agreement restor'd to 'em here except gross Negligence Treachery or Discord open their Gates which are Evils the Possessors only can provide against For in the present Circumstances of Europe all any single State should reasonable wish is to be in a Condition to prevent Surprize from a Neighbourhood and to have a Power sufficient to defend it self for some time and then doubtless those Potentates whose Interest it is that the Aggressor should not by the Ruin of another grow too powerful will come to the Assistance of the Oppressed For the late celebrated League does demonstrate That the Gross of Mankind seldom vary from their Interest when they know it and are at Liberty to act as they have a Mind to and this makes it probable France would never have submitted to Terms so disadvantagious to her Power if she
suddenly intended the like Exercises of it that have been practis'd some Years before Therefore the Reader may reasonably hope the Duration of this Peace will add to the Glory of it he will admire the Contriver of that wonderful Machine that made and forc'd a way for it he will wish the Hero a long Enjoyment of it and this is for every English Man's own Interest for it may be this Peace carries something in it resembling the Nature of Creation its continuance may in some measure depend upon the Being of its Maker THE CONTENTS The Acts and Negotiations of the Peace of Savoy MArshal Catinat's Letter to the Marquiss of S. Thomas June 29. 1696. Page 1 The Marquiss of S. Thomas's Answer July 3. 1696. 3 His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy's Letter to the Pope concerning the Proposals of France for Peace and Neutrality in Italy 4 The Duke of Savoy's Letter to his Imperial Majesty on the same Subject 6 His Letter to their High and Mightinesses the States General upon the same 8 His Letter to his Highness the Elector of Bavaria 9 His Electoral Highness the Duke of Bavaria's Answer to the Duke of Savoy 10 His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy's Letter to his Serene Highness the Elector of Brandenburg 12 His Electoral Highness of Brandenburg's Answer 14 The Duke of Savoy's Letter to his Majesty the King of Spain 15 The Conditions of the Treaty between his most Christian Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy 16 The Articles of Peace and Neutrality for Italy between his most Christian Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy Concluded on and signed at Turin Aug. 29. 1696. and deliver'd at the Hague to the High Allies Aug. 15. 1697. 17 The Proclamation of Peace publish'd at Paris Sept. 10. 1696. and also at Turin and at the Head of the Army the same day 30 The Letter of the most Christian King to the Archbishop of Paris to cause Te Deum to be sung for the Peace with Savoy 31 The Act of Remission of the Country and Estates of Savoy made by his most Christian Majesty Lewis XIV King of France and Navarre to his Royal Highness Victor Amadaeus II. Duke of Savoy Prince of Piedmont King of Cyprus c. Sept. 28. 1696. 23 Acts and Negotiations of the General Peace concluded at Ryswick THE Preliminaries of the Peace 38 A Description of the Palace of Ryswick and of the first Conferences held there 40 A Memorial of the Plenipotentiary of Lorrain presented and read in the Congress of the High Allies Jan. 16. 1697. 45 Another Memorial which the same Monsieur Canon presented to the same Assembly of the Allies May 22. 1697. 49 The Regulation of the Publick Ceremonies and the Order to be observ'd by the Domesticks of the Plenipotentiaries Prescrib'd by the Mediator May 29. 1697. 51 The Project of the Peace to be made between the Emperor and Empire on one part and the most Christian King on the other part deliver'd by the Ambassadors of France July 20. 1697. to which is added the Answer of the Ambassadors of his Imperial Majesty given in Aug. 5. 1697. 59 A Declaration made by the Ambassadors of his most Christian Majesty but rejected by the Emperial Ambassade 100 A Memorial of the Ambassadors of the most Christian King for a General Peace deliver'd to the Ambassadors Mediators at the Palace of Ryswick Sept. 1. 1697. 102 Articles of Peace between the most Serene and Mighty Prince William III. King of Great Britain and the most Serene and Mighty Prince Lewis XIV the most Christian King Concluded in the Palace at Ryswick the 10 20 day of September 1697. 105 The Substance of the full Power of their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannick Majesty 117 The full Power of their Excellencies the French Plenipotentiaries 122 The Substance of his Britannick Majesty's Ratification 125 The Ratification of his most Christian Majesty 128 The Articles of Peace between his Catholick Majesty and the most Christian King Concluded and signed at the Palace of Ryswick in Holland the 10 20 of September 1697. 129 Separate Article 149 His Catholick Majesty's Ratification 151 His Catholick Majesty's Ratification of the Separate Article 152 His most Christian Majesty's Ratification 153 His most Christian Majesty's Ratification of the Separate Article 155 A List and Declaration of the Re-unions or Occupations made by his most Christian Majesty in the Provinces of the Low Countries belonging to his Catholick Majesty since the Treaty of Nimeguen 157 A List of Exception of the Places which the Ambassadors of France pretend to Reserve 172 The Treaty of Peace between France and the Duke of Savoy 174 The full Power of their Excellencies the Ambassadors of his Catholick Majesty 186 The full Power of their Excellencies the Ambassadors of his most Christian Majesty 189 Articles of Peace made concluded and agreed on at Ryswick in Holland the 10 20 day of Sept. 1697. between the Ambassadors of his most Christian Majesty on one part and the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the Lords the States General of the United Netherlands on the other part 192 The full Powers of the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the most Christian King 205 The full Powers of the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the Lords the States General of the Vnited Netherlands 208 Separate Article 214 His most Christian Majesty's Ratification 216 The Ratification of the Lords the States General of the United Netherlands 218 The Ratification of his most Christian Majesty upon the Separate Article 220 The Ratification of the States General upon the Separate Article 222 Articles of Peace between the Emperor and Empire on one part and France on the other part Concluded at the Royal Palace of Ryswick in Holland on the 30th of October 1697. 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Pavonem Timotheum Childe ad Album Cervum in Coemeterio D. Pauli THE ACTS AND NEGOTIATIONS OF THE PEACE Concluded between the French KING AND THE Duke of Savoy Mareschal Catinat's Letter to the Marquiss of St. Thomas Dated the 29th of June 1696. IT was not possible for me sooner to satisfy his Royal Highness's Desire of knowing the Advantages which the King is pleased to grant him in case his Royal Highness consents to joyn with his Majesty either to procure a Peace or a Neutrality in Italy because I had then no Orders to explain my self farther than what was mentioned in the Two Letters I have had the Honour to write to you But as soon as I had given his Majesty an Account of the Answers you made he gave me leave to be more plain and that in Writing too altho' it be not usual to lay open Matters of this Consequence in Letters especially since I know that his Royal Highness will certainly communicate them all to his Allies But methinks the Contents of this I now write to you are of such Importance that they ought to be managed with greater Privacy However I am allowed to add thus much to what I have already writ to you That the King is disposed to restore Pignerol to his Royal Highness together with all the Dependencies which did formerly belong to the House of Savoy yet so as that all its Fortifications shall be demolished But in case the House of Austria should be unwilling to agree to this Neutrality neither will suffer Italy nor the Dominions of his Royal Highness especially to be in Peace such Measures will then be taken as shall oblige them to it And to that End his Royal Highness shall joyn his Forces with his Majesty's giving the King only such Security as shall be thought reasonable His Majesty moreover will afford greater Demonstrations of Amity to his Royal Highness and Kindness to the House of Savoy for his Majesty intends to match the Duke of Burgundy to the Princess of Piedmont and to take her into France where they shall be immediately contracted but the Consummation of their Marriage is to be deferred till they both come of Age. His Majesty likewise to satisfy his Generosity is willing to give her a Portion and allow her a Dowry without putting his Royal Highness to any more Cost or Charges on her Account On these Effects of his Majesty's Bounty will depend many other Advantages in Favour of his Royal Highness provide he expresses himself but willing to lay hold on these Offers in the Answer he shall order to this Letter But in case of Non-compliance I assure you his Majesty will be so far incensed to see his kind Proffers slighted that his Royal Highness must expect no more Favour but to be treated as an obstinate Enemy although it should be never so prejudicial to the King I am persuaded that his Royal Highness will make such due Reflections on this Affair as the Importance of it in respect to his own Interest requires I am c. Monsieur St. Thomas his Answer Dated the 3d of July 1696. HIS Royal Highness is as well disposed as you could wish to lay hold on the generous Offers of his Majesty which you propose in the Letter you did me the Honour to write to me on the 29th of the last Month. But as he must acquaint his Allies with the Contents of it he cannot reasonably expect their Answers at least that from Spain in less than Six Weeks unless you will be pleased to send Pasports for Two Couriers the one to be dispatcht by his Royal Highness the other by the Marquis de Leganez to go through France During their going and returning and while we wait for the Answers they shall bring his Royal Highness will keep the Forces of the Allies and his own beyond the River Po and you shall keep the Troops under your Command on this side of that River without attempting any Act of Hostility either against his Royal Highness's Forces or against any of his Fortified Towns he being verily persuaded that you will retain your Troops in such good Order as that on one side they may not want Subsistance and on the other act suitably to those Sentiments which you did me the Honour to signify to me who am SIR YOUR's c. His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy's Letter to the Pope concerning the Peace of Italy Most Holy Father I Cannot but think my self oblig'd to acquaint your Holiness who always vouchsafed to be so kindly concern'd for the Welfare of my Family with the first News of the Offers that have been made me by Mareschal de Catinat in order to establish a Neutrality in Italy This humble Letter is to let your Holiness understand that Count Gubernati my Resident at Rome will declare to your Holiness the Particulars of this Affair by Word of Mouth The Substance whereof Consists in the Restitution of all that has been taken from me during this War and even of Pignerol it self whose Fortifications are to be demolished the Importance of which Place your Holiness is well acquainted with A Marriage is also proposed between the Princess my Daughter and the Duke of Burgundy to be consummated when they are of Age and in the mean time she is to be received and conducted into France where the King assigns her a Dowry and gives her a Portion without putting me to the least Charges besides many other Advantages which I need not here mention on Condition that I shall concur to settle a Neutrality in Italy But if the House of Austria should delay giving their Consent to it after being thereunto exhorted by your Holiness and the Republick of Venice in such case I am to joyn my Forces to those of France in order to make them comply Having made serious Reflections on this Matter and thinking that the House of Austria can have no Intentions to force me to reject these advantagious Offers made me by France I have taken a Resolution to let the Principals of the Confederacy know that I cannot possibly let slip this present favourable Opportunity of recovering Pignerol neither can I think it proper to commit a Matter of so great Importance to the House of Austria to all Italy and to my self to the uncertain Event of War and Futurity It is to this purpose that I intend to write to the Allies especially to the Emperor and to his Catholick Majesty earnestly intreating them not to be against a Proposal that is of such Advantage to them as well as to me The Assurance I have that your Holiness does extreamly wish for such a Neutrality has not a little contributed to determine me so much in its Favour It is also that which makes me most humbly and earnestly to beg of your Holiness that you will please to give Orders to your Nuncio's at Vienna and Madrid to second your Fatherly Offices by their vigorous Sollicitations for obtaining the
considerable Advantages are of no less Consequence to your Majesty's Interest than they are to mine which shall be inseparable I doubt not therefore but that to the innumerable and perpetual Obligations I owe to your Majesty you will add this one more which I look upon as one of the chiefest I beseech your Majesty to be perswaded That the deep sense I have of all the Favours received at your Majesty's Hands and the inviolable Zeal I bear to your Service shall not leave me but with the last Breath of my Life being your Majesty's Turin July 10 1696. Most Humble and most Affectionate Servant and Cousin Victor Amadeus of Savoy King of Cyprus A Copy of the Articles of the Treaty between his most Christian Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy as it was sent from Madrid I. THE most Christian King shall Restore to the Duke all he has taken from him during this present War II. His Majesty will restore Pignerol with all its Dependencies and the Fortress after it is Demolish'd receiving in Exchange from the Duke the Valley of Barcelonetta III. The King will give the Duke of Burgundy in Marriage to the Duke's Daughter without expecting any Portion with her IV. To repair and make good the Damages sustained during this present War the most Christian King shall pay to the Duke Four Millions of Livres V. In case that any Prince whatsoever shall undertake to make War against the Duke his Majesty will assist him with eight thousand Foot and four thousand Horse which shall be maintained at his Majesty Cost VI. For the better Security of this present Treaty the most Christian King will give the Guarrantee of the Pope and the Republick of Venice The Treaty of Peace and Neutrality for Italy between his most Christian Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy Concluded and Signed at Turin Aug. 29. 1696. and Delivered at the Hague to the most Illustrious Allies Aug. 15 1697. THE most Christian King having all along during this War maintained a sincere desire of procuring the Quiet of Italy and it having pleased Almighty God to inspire his Royal Highness with the same thoughts his Majesty has given his full Power Commission and Command to the Sieur René de Troullay Count de Tessè Knight of the Orders of the King Lieutenant General of his Armies Colonel General of the Dragoons of France Governor of Ipres Lieutenant General for the King in the Provinces of Maine and Perche and at present Commanding for the King in the Countries and Places on the Frontiers of Piedmont His Royal Highness having likewise on his part given his Power and Commands to the Sieur Charles Victor Marquiss de Saint Thomas Minister of State and his said Royal Highnesses Principal Secretary of State the said Plenipotentiaries having reciprocally Exchanged the Original of their Commissions by virtue of which they Treat have agreed on these following Articles I. That there shall be from henceforth and for ever a firm and a sincere Peace between the King and his Kingdom and his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy and his Dominions as if the said Peace had been never interrupted and the King resuming the same Sentiments of Bounty he hath heretofore had for his Royal Highness which he desires his Roval Highness to be perswaded of his Royal Highness doth by this present Treaty entirely renounce all Engagements and all Treaties made with the Emperor with the Kings and Princes comprehended under the Name of the League or Confederacy and doth undertake to employ all his Endeavours and to do all that he can in order to obtain of those Sovereign Powers at least of the Emperor and King of Spain a Neutrality for Italy until the general Peace shall be Concluded and to signifie their Consents by a particular Treaty which shall be made to that purpose or for want of such a Treaty by Declarations which the said Emperor and the King of Spain shall make to the Pope and to the Republick of Venice and which shall be at the same time followed by the Retreat and withdrawing of all the Forces which the Allies have at present in Italy as it shall be hereafter more particularly specified And in case the abovementioned Princes do not Consent to such a Neutrality in Italy at his Royal Highnesses Instance to the Emperor and to the King of Spain his Royal Highness doth engage to enter into an Offensive and Defensive League with the King until a General Peace be Concluded acting joyntly with his Majesty's and his own proper Forces as becomes good and sincere Allies for the Common Interest and to make War against the State of Milan and against all those who shall oppose this present Treaty's taking effect And as an evident Demonstration of a Return of the King's Amity towards his Royal Highness his Majesty does willingly Consent and doth Promise That the City and Cittadel of Pignerol the Fort of St. Bridgit the Perouse with other Forts depending on the same shall be Demolished as to the Fortifications only at the King's Charges and after the aforesaid Fortifications are Demolished they shall all be Restored to his Royal Highness as well as all the Territories and Dominions comprised under the name of the Government of Pignerol and which did belong to the House of Savoy before the Cession or Surrender that Victor Amadeus the first Duke of that Name made unto Lewis the XIIIth The which City dismanttled Cittadel and Demolished Forts and Territories shall be likewise Surrendred to his Royal Highness to be held in Soveraignty and to be by him enjoyed fully and perpetually by him and his Successors from henceforth as things to him of Right belonging By vertue of which present Surrender his Royal Highness doth Engage and Promise as well for himself his Heirs and Successors or others by any ways Claiming neither to Rebuild nor cause to be Rebuilt the aforesaid Fortifications nor to cause any new ones to be Built upon and in the space and limits of the said Territories Funds and Rocks neither in any place whatsoever so surrendred by this present Treaty according to which his Royal Highness or the Inhabitants of the said Town of Pignerol shall be allowed to inclose it with a bare Wall only not Terrassed and without Fortifications That notwithstanding these mentioned his Royal Highness shall be free to Build any strong Places or Fortifications in this said Territory now delivered up as he thinks fit without the King 's taking any exception at it That moreover the King shall restore to his Royal Highness the Countries Castles and Places of Montmelian Nice Villefranche Suze and all other the Conquer'd Places without Exception entire and undemolish'd or damag'd and with the same quantity of Ammunitions of War Provisions Stores Canon and Artillery and such Places to be left furnished as they were when they fell into his Majesty's Hands and so that the Buildings Fortifications Inlargements and Improvements made
Royal Highness doth therefore oblige himself not to keep in times of Neutrality any more than Six thousand Foot on this side the Alps and One thousand five hundred on the other side of the Mountains for the Garrisons of Savoy and of the County of Nice and One thousand five hundred Horse or Dragoons and this Obligation is to continue only till the General Peace be Concluded We the above-mentioned Plenipotentiaries have Agreed upon and Signed these present Articles and we do promise and engage to procure them to be ratified and confirmed by his Majesty and by his Royal Highness promising likewise that they shall be kept secret till the end of September next and if at that time new Articles are made to the same sense and purpose then these shall be suppressed Dated at Turin the 29th of August 1696. Rhene de Froullay and Saint Thomas The Proclamation of the Peace Publish-at Paris the 10th of September 1696. N. S. as also at Turin and at the Head of the Army on the same Day BE it known to all Persons whatsoever That a good sure lasting and solid Peace with entire Amity and sincere Reconciliation has been made and agreed upon by and between the most high most excellent and most powerful Prince Lewis by the Grace of God King of France and of Navar our Sovereign Lord and the most high and most powerful Prince Victor Amadeus II. Duke of Savoy their Vassals Subjects and Servants in all their Kingdoms States Countries Lands and Lordships under their Subjection That the said Peace is general and absolute between them their said Vassals and Subjects and by vertue of the said Peace it is permitted to the Subjects of both Princes to go come return and sojourn in all Places of the said Kingdoms States and Countries to Negotiate and Traffick Correspond and have a free Converse the one with the other in all Freedom and Safety as well by Land as by Sea and on Rivers c. And in order to maintain the same all manner of People of what Quality or Condition soever they may be are hereby strictly forbid to undertake attempt or innovate any thing contrary thereunto upon the Penalty of being severely Punished as Disturbers of the Publick Peace Given at Varsaille the 8 th day of December 1696. Signed Lewis And lower Philypeaux The most Christian King's Letter to the Archbishop of Paris to cause Te Deum to be Sung for the Peace Concluded with Savoy c. Cousin AS in this War which I have alone sustain'd for these Nine Years past against the Confederated Force of Europe I had no other Aim than to Defend Religion and Vindicate the Majesty of Kings God has protected his own Cause he has Guided my Designs and Assisted my Enterprises The happy Successes which have accompanied my Arms have been the more agreeable to me because I have always Flatter'd my self they would Conduce to a Peace and I have made no other Profit of those Successes than to offer my Enemies Conditions more Advantagious then they could hope for even tho' they had obtain'd that Superiority over me as I have gain'd upon them I have omitted nothing that might advance the Happiness of Europe and I have made use of all means to convince my Brother the Duke of Savoy with what ardor I desired to see that good Correspondence renewed which has been established for so many Ages founded upon such Bonds of Consanguinity and Friendship and which had never been interrupted but by the Artifices of our Enemies My Vows have been heard this Prince has at last acknowledg'd his true Interest and my good Intentions and the Peace is Concluded It is to be hoped that the Confederated Powers touch'd by this Example and the Evils that their People suffer will follow his Example Or if they will still persist in the same Sentiments they shall more than ever be made sensible that nothing is impossible to Troops accustomed to Victory and which are Conducted by a Desire of Peace It is to give thanks to the God of Armies who has been pleased to shew himself a God of Peace and to pray him to give to all Europe a Tranquility so necessary and which he only can give That I have resolved to cause Te Deum to be Sung in the Cathedral Church of my good City of Paris on the Thirteenth of this present Month as the great Master of Ceremonies will more particularly inform you whom I have ordered to invite also to this Ceremony my Courts and those that use to assist at it Whereupon c. Versailles Sept. 11. 1696. Signed Lewis And lower Philypeaux An Act of Surrender of the Country and Estates of Savoy made by his most Christian Majesty Lewis XIV King of France and Navarre to his Royal Highness Victor Amadeus II. Duke of Savoy Prince of Piedmont King of Cyprus c. on the 28th of September 1696. By his Royal Highness BE it known to all Persons whatsoever That in pursuance of a Treaty of Peace made and signed between his most Christian Majesty Lewis XIV King of France and Navarre on the one part and his Royal Highness Victor Amadeus II. Duke of Savoy Prince of Piedmont King of Cyprus c. on the other Part That his most Christian Majesty hath given Orders to Monsieur Anthony Balthasar Marquis de Thoy Major General of the Armies of France and Governour of Savoy to restore entirely to his Royal Highness all the Countries Places Castles and Fortresses of all Savoy except Montmelian and to draw out all the Troops that are there pursuant to his Majesty's Letters Patents To this end his Royal Highness hath sent the Marquis of Thana Captain of his Life Guards Major General of his Army and Governour of Savoy with a Power to receive in his Royal Highness's Name all the said Estates and Places The said Marquiss de Thoy having therefore personally appeared in the Council-Chamber of the Town-Hall of Chambery and having there assembled the Nobility the Syndics and Counsellors of the said City and the said Marquiss of Thana there likewise appearing did then and there receive from the said Marquis de Thoy an absolute and full Surrender in the Name of his most Christian Majesty of all the Countries and of all the Places of the Dutchy of Savoy Montmelion only excepted according to the Treaty of Peace The said Marquiss de Thoy expressing the same in these following Words viz. My Lord Marquiss de Thana in Pursuance of an Order from the King my Master and according to the Power you have also received from his Royal Highness I do hereby make an entire Surrender and Restitution to his Royal Highness in your Person of all the Countries and Places and of all the Dependencies of the Estate of Savoy Montmelian excepted and his Royal Highness may accordingly dispose of the same in like manner as he had done before those Estates were conquered by the King 's Arms. To which the Marquiss of
and to resettle the said House Palatine according to the Articles of the Peace of Westphalia as contain'd in the ensuing Article Besides the Elector Palatine is not so far wedded to his own private Interest to which he has always preferr'd that of the Publick that though he has fuffer'd infinite Losses yet he is willing for the Publick Good and for the particular Respect which he bears to his most Christian Majesty to wave his Pretensions and to agree upon moderate Terms as to what concerns the Quantum The Article relating to the Palatinate The most Christian King shall restore to the whole House Palatine all the States which he is possess'd of belonging to that House either separately or conjunctly with others more particularly the Town and Prefecture of Germersheim with the Provostships and Sub-Prefectures therein comprehended with all the Fortresses Towns Burroughs Villages Hamlets Fiefs and Rights in such manner as they were possess'd by the said House and restor'd thereto by the Peace of Westphalia with all the Writings and Precepts taken from the Archives Chancellor's Court Feudal Court Chamber of Accounts Prefectures or any other Offices belonging to the Palatinate no Place Matter Right or Decree excepted annulling all manner of Pretensions which may be made by France or by the Dutchess of Orleans and her Heirs Satisfaction shall be likewise made to the said Elector for the Revenues withheld or taken away and for all the Losses he has sustain'd about which a separate Agreement shall be made Article XIV The Treaty concluded between his most Christian Majesty and the Duke Savoy in the year 1696. shall be comprehended in this Treaty of Peace as if it were inserted herein word for word Answer to Article XIV His Imperial Majesty for the Kindness and Affection which he bears to the most Serene House of Savoy has already promis'd that he will confirm by this Peace and comprehends therein as well whatsoever is contain'd in the Treaty of Munster and Nimeguen in favour of that Family as what has been concluded in the Treaty last made between the most Christian King and the Duke of Savoy and the Restitution of Pignerol and its Dependencies the Ancient Right of the Empire being still establish'd and confirm'd Article XV. The Cardinal of Furstemberg shall be re-settled in all his Estates Rights Priviledges Dignities and Prerogatives of a Prince and Member of the Empire as well by virtue of his Bishoprick of Strasburgh as by virtue of his Abbey and Principality of Stavelo and there shall be a general Oblivion of all things that may have been decreed against his Person and Servants and neither he nor his Heirs shall directly or indirectly be call'd to an account for the Succession of the late Elector of Cologn nor upon any other pretence whatsoever Article XVI The Canons and Prebendaries of the Chapter of Cologn who have been depriv'd of their Prebends or Dignities for adhering to the said Cardinal of Furstemberg shall likewise have the Benefit of the aforesaid Indemnity and be restor'd to the Possession of their Benefices Dignities and Estates without any Molestation whatsoever Answer to Article XV. and XVI It has been already often declar'd that as all the States of the Empire so particularly the Bishop and Bishoprick of Strasburgh with the Town of the same name and others mention'd in the 87th Section of the Treaty of Munster viz. the Bishop of Basil the Abbots of Murbach and Luders the Abbess of Andlaw the Monastery in the Vale of S. Gregory of the Order of S. Benedict the Princes Palatinate Counts and Barons of Hanault Fleckensteim Obersteim and the Nobless of all the Lower Alsace together with the Ten Imperial Cities as has been mention'd in the third and following Articles shall be restor'd to all the Places Rights Liberty and Possession of immediate Dependence on the Empire which they formerly enjoy'd annulling all Acts made to the contrary except the Imperial Decree of December 9. 1689. granted to the Town of Zellen am Hammersbach upon the account of the Valley of Hammersbach the which Decree shall remain in its full force The same is to be understood with respect to the Abbey of Stavelo Bus as to the Hereditary Right of the Elector Maximilian Henry which is seiz'd upon the Opinion of those who are interested therein is to be attended and afterwards immediatly declar'd These Matters being adjusted if hereafter due respect be paid to the Laws of the Empire as well Cardinal Furstemberg and his Domesticks as the Canons and other Members of the Chapter of Cologn who have espoused his Interest shall have the benefit of the foresaid Amnesty without prejudice however to what shall be explain'd concerning Ecclesiastical Benefices in the ensuing Paragraph which is agreeable to the 28th and 29th Articles of the Project of Peace deliver'd in by the French and which may be plac'd after the Article of Restitution at the beginning of the Article of Amnesty drawn up in these Terms If notwithstanding the said Ecclesiastical and Catholick Benefices mediate or immediate have been collated on fit and capable Persons by either Party in the Places or Dominions which were then subject to them according to the Rule of their Primitive Institution and conformably to the lawful Statutes general or particular made by their Subjects the said Benefices shall remain in the Possession of the new Incumbents as well as those Ecclesiastical and Catholick Benefices which have been collated after the same manner before the present War in the places which are to be restor'd by the present Treaty so that they may and shall not be troubled or molested by any Person whatsoever in the possession and lawful administration of the same nor in the receiving the Profits thereof nor shall they upon this account nor for any other cause past or present be summon'd or cited or any ways disturb'd or molested provided always that they discharge the Offices incumbent upon them on the account of the said Benefices Article XVII And whereas the Peace of Nimeguen is to be the Basis of this present Treaty and whereas his most Christian Majesty is willing to observe the said Treaty in its full force with respect to his Catholick Majesty His Majesty therefore consents to settle all things in the same state wherein they were settled by the said Treaty renouncing the Advantages which his Arms have acquir'd during this War To this effect his Majesty agrees to restore to his Catholick Majesty the Town of Mons as it now is with all its Dependencies such as they were before it was conquer'd by his Majesty and the Town of Charleroy in the state wherein it now is with all its Dependencies as likewise the Town of Courtray upon the same Conditions And for the greater proof of the Sincerity of his Majesties Intentions for a Peace and the entire Re-establishment of the Treaty of Nimeguen his said Majesty is willing to restore to the King of Spain the Town of Aeth
on which France has kept by the said Treaty of Truce all the Places She had Possessed herself of since the Treaty of Nimeguen which particular Treaty concluded during the said Truce at the said Philippe-Ville will now cease by Virtue of the Treaty now proposed Hainault THE Principality and Provostship of Chimay with the Villages Hamlets and Rights to them belonging viz. The Town of Chimay St. Remy Forges Bourlez Boutonville Bailievre Villers-la-Tour Sceloigne Robechies Bauwez Montmignies Macon Imbrechies Monceau Salles Baileux Vielles Lompret Estroeing la Cauchie and its Hamlets Feron La Roulie The Provostship of Beaumont with its Appendencies and Dependencies which consist in The Town of Beaumont Bersillies De Leval Tirimont Solre St. Gery Grandieu and Fralies Sivry Froidchapelle and Fourbechies Rance Monbliart Cerfontaine Ferieres the Great Ferieres the Less Rosier Beaufort and Robechies Grandreng Rocque Leunies The Town of Chieuries Villages seized upon and Possessed PArt of the Burrough of Antoin Fontenoy Veron Vaux Moinbray and Brasmanil The Villages of Maulde Pipaix Gissignies in Pipaix Rocourt Wermes the Parish of Wieres Ogimont Seigneurieul Little Quesnoy-a-Potters Bourgeon the Parish of Fontenay Grammetz and Fermont in the Parish of Thieulain part of Anthoin reputed a Free-Tenure the Breuch-a-foret Mourcourt Herines Wasmes and Lignette The Town of Fontaine l'Eveque the Village of Thiverelles and 600 Acres or thereabouts in Meadows The Villages of Anderlues the Abbey of Aumont and Boussiere with the Farms of Warnenrieux Foret and the Farm in the Woods Flanders THE Town of Ranaix The Town of Loo The Town of Roulers And the Villages of Meuregem Watervliet Vendeville Temptemars Billau and the Castle of la Motte in the Woods with its Tenements Wood of Nieppe Wood of d'Osthulft Brabant THE Estate of Ayseau with its Dependencies which consist in several Hamlets particularly in that of Oignies with the Cloister of the same Name and part of the Village of Monceau The Minister of His Catholick Majesty demands the Restitution of all and every one of the Places above-mentioned and others which his Most Christian Majesty has or may have possessed himself of since the Treaty of Nimeguen altho' they be not here exprest and specified and that His Catholick Majesty be restored to the real and actual Possession of the same as he enjoyed them before the said Treaty of Nimeguen all this without derogating to His Catholick Majesties Title to the other Re-unions of France which have not been yielded to the Most Christian King by the said Treaty of Nimeguen or any former Treaty A List of Exception of the Places which the Ambassadors of France have pretended to retain THE Town of Chieures Part of the Burrough of Antoin Fontenoy Vezon Vaux Maubray Bramenil Maude Pipay Gissignies in Pipay Rocour Wermes Parish of Vieres Ogimont Seigneurieul Little Quesnoy a Potes Bourgeon Parish of Fontenoy Granmets Fermont Parish of Thieulain Le Breuech of forestes Maircourt Herinnes Wames Lignette Tiuicelles with 600 Aores in Medows Renaix The Town of Loo The Town of Roulers The Village of Meuregem The Burrough of Watervliet The Village of Templemars The hamlet of Wandeville Billau The Castle of la Motte in the Wood with its Tenements The Wood of Nieppe The Wood of Outhuest Dependencies of Charlemont A Gimont Givets St. Hilaire Givets our Lady Vosneche Felaine Dion le Mont Dion le Val Winenne Landrichamp Finevaux Feischaux Ferauche Javeingue Aviette Charneux Flohimont Fromelaine Felix Pret an Abby of Nuns Remethon upon Bierre Sevry Gauchenee Her Herlet Lisicourt Ransenne Mahoux Maison Saille Mainil St. Blaise Vireux the Wallerand Villersies Rienne Boursoigne the Old Boursoigne the New Hargnies Hebbes Vaussors Abbey and the two Hastires Ermeton upon the Meuse Mattignol Romeree Bertee Festin Dependencies on the Provostship of Maubeuge TIrimont Bersilles Abbey Le Val below Beaumont Cerfontaine Roq upon the Sambre Estrun Le Feron La Voulie Beaufort Aumont Abbey Boissiere Treaty of Peace betwixt France and the Duke of Savoy THE Most Christian King having had all a long during the Course of this War a sincere desire of procuring the Repose of Italy and God having inspired his Royal Highness of Savoy with the same Sentiments His Majesty on his part has given his full Power Commission and Command to Rene Lord of Froullai Count of Tesse Knight of His Majesties Orders Lieutenant General of his Armies Colonel General of the Dragoons of France Governor of Ypres Lieutenant General for the King in the Provinces of Maine and Perche and at this time Commander for His Majesty in the Countries and Places of the Frontier of Piedmont and his Royal Highness on his part having likewise given his Powers and Commands to Charles Victor Joseph Marquis of St. Thomas Minister and first Secretary of State to his said Royal Highness the said Plenipotentiaries having first interchanged the Originals of their full Powers by Virtue of which they treat have agreed upon the following Articles I. THere shall be henceforward and for ever a constant firm and sincere Peace between the King and his Kingdom and his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy and his Dominions as if there had never been any Rupture and the King resuming the same kind Thoughts he had before for his said Royal Highness as he begs it of his Majesty his said Royal Highness does by this present Treaty entirely renounce and forsake all Engagements entred into and all Treaties made with the Emperor Kings and Princes comprehended under the Name of the League And promises to use all his Endeavours and do all that lies in his Power to obtain of the said Potentates at least of the Emperor and the Catholick King a Neutrality in Italy till the General Peace Either by a particular Treaty that shall be concluded or in default of the said Treaty by Declarations which the said Emperor and Catholick King shall make to the Pope and the Republick of Venice and which shall immediately be followed by the Retreat of the Troops which the Allies have at present in Italy as it shall be exprest hereafter Moreover as an evident Testimony of the real and effectual return of the King's Friendship for his Royal Highness His Majesty is pleased to consent and promise That the Town and Cittadel of Pignerol with the Forts St. Brigide la Perouse and others belonging to them shall be rased and demolished as to the Fortifications only at the King's Charges and the said Fortifications being demolished the whole shall be resigned into the Hands of his Royal Highness as also the Lands and Demains comprehended under the name of Government of Pignerol and which belonged to the House of Savoy before the Concession That Victor Amedaeus first Duke of that Name had made of them to the King Lewis XIII Which Town Cittadel and Fort thus demolished and Territory to them belonging shall likewise be restored to his Royal Highness to be held by him in Sovereignty and enjoyed fully and for ever both by him and his
and Philipsburgh without any prejudice to the Bishoprick of Spires But upon the account of the manifest Justice of the thing in debate and to make the ensuing Peace the more lasting this Restitution shall be full and intire with all the Fortifications which belong thereto on both sides the Rhine and the Bridge with all the Ammunitions and Provisions which are therein at present and Justice likewise requires that a more particular regard should be had to what is contain'd in the Tenth Article of the Demands of the Imperial Ambassadors excepting always a more particular Account of the Damages and Expences which the States of the Empire have been at leaving the Decision thereof for the sake of Equity and of a good and solid Peace to the known Affections and Endeavours of his Excellency the Mediator Article X. The same Treaty of Nimeguen having regulated all the Conditions upon which his most Christian Majesty oblig'd himself to re-invest Monsieur the Duke of Lorain in his Territories his Majesty being willing that the said Treaty should have its full force does yield that 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 and 22th Articles of the said Treaty of Nimeguen shall have the same Force in the present Treaty as if they were inserted here word for word therein Article XI His most Christian Majesty having caus'd Saar Lewis to be fortifi'd shall keep that place in the same Condition as it is with half a League of Country round about it as shall be regulated by Commissioners appointed by his Majesty and Mons the Duke of Lorrain and the said Duke shall surrender to his Majesty the said Place and half a League round to be enjoy'd for the future by his Majesty with all Right of Soveraignty and Propriety in exchange his said Majesty shall recompence the said Duke in such a manner as shall be to his Content and Satisfaction and that which shall be given him in Exchange and which shall be likewise regulated by the said Commissioners shall for the future be possess'd by the said Duke with all the Rights of Soveraignty and Property Answer to Article X. and XI As to what concerns the Affairs of Lorain as comprehended under the protection of the Empire and as being a Fief thereof upon the Account of several parts of it in the first place what has been said above concerning the Vassals and Clients of the Empire and particularly with respect to the Unions and Re-unions ought to be apply'd here In the next place such things as are the Proprieties of other States of the Empire ought not to be mix'd and confounded with the Affairs of Lorrain Much less by virtue of restoring Lorrain which by all manner of Equity becomes due ought they to detain Strasburgh which has nothing to do with Lorrain or any other Places which are alike to be restor'd to the Empire or to the States dependent thereon In short it is reasonable to have regard to what was formerly produc'd by the Plenipotentiary of Lorain upon this Subject as if it were here inserted word for word Article XII His said Majesty shall take out of all the Places which he promises to demolish or restore to the Emperor all the Provision and Ammunition together with all the Artillery which shall be there at the time of Demolishing or Surrender Answer to Article XII Instead of this Article is repeated what had been express'd in the Third and which is founded on so much the clearer and more indubitable Title as that the Artillery the Ammunitions and Provisions which are at present in the places which are to be surrendered or were there when they were taken or carried thither from other places of the Empire which were ruin'd or deserted or which were rais'd in the Countries belonging to the Empire or gain'd by the Money or Industry of its Subjects together with the Fortifications of such Places as were rais'd augmented or alter'd after the same manner do belong of Right to the Empire without all dispute Not to say that they may be look'd upon as a small Recompence of the Losses which it has suffer'd Article XIII The Elector Palatine shall be resettled in the Possession of the Palatinate as his Predecessors have enjoy'd it since the Peace of Westphalia and the Dutchess of Orleans her Majesty's Sister-in-Law shall be put into possession of all the Rights Territories and Effects which belong'd to her as Heiress of the late Electors Palatine her Father and Brother according to the Laws and Constitutions of the Empire Answer to Article XIII Since the Daughters of the Palatinate by the Golden Bulls of Charles IV. and Sigismund by the Investitures of Emperors and others by the common Feudal Rights by the Wills of Predecessors by the Agreements pass'd and sworn to between the Palatinate Families of the Branch of Bavaria of the Electorate of Simmeren of Newburgh and of Deux Ponts sworn to and ratified particularly by the Treaty of Westphalia by the mutual Substitutions of the Males of the Palatinate by the Agreements concluded between the Palatinate and the House of Baden by the Advice and Mediation of the Counts of Sponheim concerning the mutual Succession between the Male-Heirs of the County of Sponheim by the Renunciations of the Daughters of the Palatinate to the making of which they were always oblig'd and in Justice are supposed to have made without any reserve of their Right to the Jewels or Money unless in Case the Family of the Palatinate be extinct and lastly by a perpetual Custom of force in that Family for several Ages together and founded on a great many Examples both Ancient and Modern were excluded upon Condition of a fixed Dowry which the Father cannot augment from all Succession to Moveables or Immoveables and since likewise the most Serene Dutchess of Orleans by and with the Consent of the Duke her Husband and of the most Christian King has solemnly made these Renunciations three or four times according to the Custom of the House Palatine and since the Elector Philip William for peace and quietness sake has already granted her beside her Dowry more than ever has been or could in justice be granted to any Daughter of the House Palatine she can have no Right or Title to the Revenues or Subjects possess'd by the Electors her Father and Brother and which are devolved to the present Elector Palatine No body that knows any thing of the Affairs of the Palatinate or of Germany or who is minded to cast but the least Eye on the Genealogical Tables of the Palatinate House can question any of these things However for the avoiding all manner of Suspicion and that the Rights of the most Serene Dutchess may not in the least be diminish'd nor those of the House Palatine in which every Branch thereof is concern'd be inhanc'd it is absolutely necessary to cancel and abolish all manner of Pretensions that may be advanc'd against this House of what Nature soever they be
have been possess'd by the most Christian King by force of Arms or by virtue of the Re-unions of the Chamber of Metz or otherwise in what nature soever Moreover the said King shall take care to indemnifie the Prince Chapter and his other Private Subjects for their Goods confiscated within the Territories of Liege and shall not exact the Remainder of the Contributions of the present War Article XXIV All the Provisions Ammunitions and Artillery that shall be found in the Places which are to be restor'd to the King of Spain or demolish'd shall be taken away by his most Christian Majesty Article XXV It is also agreed that the Collection of all Duties which the said most Christian King is in possession of in all those Dominions which he restores to the Catholick King by virtue of this Treaty shall be continu'd to him till the very day whereon these Countries are depending shall be actually restor'd and the Arrears which shall be due at the time of the said Restitution shall be paid bonâ fide to the Farmers of the said Duties It is likewise agreed that the Proprietors of the Forests that have been confiscated in the Dependencies of the Places to be restor'd to his Catholick Majesty shall be restor'd to the Possession of the same and of all the Timber that shall be found upon the Spot It being to be understood that after signing of this present Treaty it shall not be lawful on either side to destroy the said Forests or to Fell any Trees Article XXVI All Papers Letters and Precepts concerning the Countries Lands and Lordships which are to be surrendred and restor'd by the present Treaty shall be faithfully restor'd on both sides within three Months after the Exchanging of this present Treaty in what Places soever those Papers and Precepts may be found Answer to Article XXVI Besides what is contain'd already in any other Articles care shall be taken with respect to Germany in general that France immediately after the Ratification of the Peace shall restore the Writings and Decrees relating to the places which ought to be restor'd to the Emperor and Empire or which do otherwise belong to his Imperial Majesty or to the States of the Empire and particularly such as are detain'd at Friburgh or have been remov'd thence as well as from the Chamber and Town of Spires the County of Leininghen or other places hereafter to be specified without prejudice to the other Things which shall or may be propos'd hereafter with respect to the Chamber of Spires Article XXVII All the Subjects on both sides both Ecclesiastical and Secular shall be restor'd as well to the Possession of the Honours Dignities or Benefices which they enjoy'd before and of which they were dispossess'd by the present War as of their Real and Personal Estates that have been seiz'd and possess'd upon account of this War as also to their Rights Actions and Successions that have faln to them since the beginning of the said War without exacting or pretending to demand the Fruits and Revenues arising from the said Estates to the time of the publication of the present Treaty Article XXVIII and XXIX Those two Articles which are the 24 th and 25 th of the Treaty of Nimiguen being common to all Treaties relate only to such Benefices as have been collated to any Person during the present War and therefore those on whom such Benefices have been conferr'd since this War shall be confirm'd in the Possession of the same Article XXX The Catholick King shall restore to the Duke of Parma the Fort and Island of Ponza which he has taken from the said Prince during this present War Article XXXI And whereas by the present Treaty a good firm and inviolable Peace is establish'd between his most Christian Majesty and the Catholick King and the Lords States General of the United Netherlands both by Sea and Land through all their Kingdoms Countries Territories Provinces and Dominions and that all Acts of Hostility are to cease for the future it is stipulated by the present Treaty that all Prizes that shall be made on either side in the Baltick Sea or the Northern Ocean from Newfoundland to the Channel from and after the space of four Weeks after the Publication of this Peace or from the Channel to the Cape of S. Vincent six Weeks after the same from the said Cape into the Mediterranean and to the Line ten Weeks after the same and beyond the Line in all parts of the World eight Months after the Publication of the said Peace the said Prizes taken after the prefix'd Times shall be allow'd void and return'd to the true Owners on either side with full Satisfaction for the Damages and Losses sustain'd thereby Article XXXII If any Places Countries or Colonies have been taken by the Arms of the most Christian King upon the Coasts of Africa or in the East or West Indies or if the States General have taken any Places Countries or Colonies belonging to his most Christian Majesty all such Conquests shall be restor'd on both sides in the same Condition they were in before they were taken Article XXXIII All Prisoners of War taken by the Forces of the Emperor and of his Allies and by those of his most Christian Majesty and are still detain'd shall be releas'd without any Ransom after the Ratifications are exchang'd Article XXXIV And whereas their Majesties and the Lords States General do acknowledge the Good Offices and Care which the most Serene King of Sweden has us'd to procure the Peace and Publick Tranquility it is on both sides agreed that his Swedish Majesty his Kingdoms and States be especially and by name comprehended in the present Treaty in the best manner and form that the same may be done Article XXXV All such as shall be nam'd by common Consent of both Parties before or within six Months after the Ratifications of the Treaty are exchang'd shall be comprehended in this present Treaty Article XXXVI Their said Majesties and the Lords States General do agree that his Swedish Majesty as Mediator and all other Kings Princes and Republicks may give their Guarantee to their said Majesties and the said Lords States General for the Exemption of all and every particular Article contain'd in this present Treaty Answer to Article XXXIII XXXIV XXXV and XXXVI It will be easie to agree to what is contain'd in these Articles when once the Articles of the Treaty of Peace between the Emperor and France are adjusted But for the preventing all farther Contests and all occasions of molesting the Subjects on either side 't is not only requisite to put a stop to the Contributions rais'd upon the Subjects on both sides from the day of signing the Peace but 't is likewise necessary absolutely and entirely to disannul all Pretensions upon the account of Contributions which remain still unpaid all Hostages given or taken upon that account being immediately restor'd gratis in the same manner as the Prisoners on
Sea and as far as the Aequinoctial Line within the space of ten Weeks Lastly beyond the said Line throughout the whole World within the space of eight Months to be reckoned from the Publication of the present Treaty the said Prizes that shall be taken on either side after the prefixed Time shall be restored with a recompence for all Damages sustained thereby XXVI In case of a Rupture which God forbid the whole space of six Months shall be allowed to the Subjects of both of the said Kings to carry away and transport their Effects and Persons whithersoever they shall think fit which they shall be permitted to do with all manner of Liberty without any Molestation and it shall not be lawful during the said time to seize their said Effects and much less arrest their Persons XXVII The Troops and Armies on both sides shall withdraw and retire immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty to the Lands and Countries of their own Sovereigns and into the Towns and Places that shall respectively belong to and remain in the possession of Their Majesties after or according to the present Treaty and it shall not be lawful for them to continue upon any pretence soever in the Countries of the other Sovereign or in the Places that shall likewise hereafter to him belong and remain And immediately after the Signing of this present Treaty there shall be a Cessation of Arms and all Hostilities throughout the Dominions of the said Lords Kings as well by Land as by Sea and on fresh Waters XXVIII It is also agreed That the Receipt of the Duties which the said Lord the most Christian King enjoys in all the Countries which he resigns or restores to the said Lord the Catholick King shall be continued till the Day of the actual restitution of the Places upon which the said Countries depend and that what shall remain due at the time of the said restitution shall be honestly paid to the Farmers of the said Duties Likewise that within the same time the Owners of Woods confiscated in the Dependencies of the Places that are to be resign'd to his Catholick Majesty shall be restored to the Possession of their Estates and all the Woods that shall be found standing always provided That from the Day of the Signing of the present Treaty all selling of Wood shall cease on both Sides XXIX The Treaty of Nimeguen and others made before it shall be put in Execution according to their Form and Tenor except in those Points and Articles that have been before derogated to or altered now by the present Treaty XXX All Prosecutions and Processes made and Judgments given between private Persons by the Judges and other Officers of his most Christian Majesty Established as well in the places which the said King has enjoyed by Virtue of the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle and which he has since yielded to His Catholick Majesty as in those that belong to the most Christian King by Virtue of the Treaty of Nimeguen or which he has possessed since the said Treaty and likewise the Sentences of the Parliament of Tournay given upon the account of the Differences and Law Suits prosecuted by the Inhabitants of the said Towns and their Dependences during the time they have been under the Obedience of his most Christian Majesty shall take place and have their effect fully and intirely in the same manner as if the said Lord King remained Lord and Possessor of the said Towns and Countries neither shall the said Judgments and Sentences be called in question and annulled or their Execution otherwise hindred or retarded However it shall be lawful for the Parties to Sue for Redress by Bill of Review and according to the Laws and Constitutions the said Judgments still remaining in their force and vigor without any Derogation to what is stipulated to that purpose in the 21st Article of the said Treaty of Nimeguen XXXI The Town and Castle of Dinant shall by his most Christian Majesty be resigned and restored to the Bishop and Prince of Liege in the Condition they were in when taken by His Majesties Arms. XXXII His most Christian Majesty having exprest a Desire that the Isle of Ponza in the Mediterranean Sea should be restored to the Duke of Parma His Catholick Majesty in Compliance thereto has been pleased to declare That he will cause the Soldiers and Troops which he may have in the said Island to withdraw from thence and restore the same to the Power and Possession of the said Duke of Parma immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty XXXIII And whereas it greatly concerns the publick Tranquility that the Peace concluded at Turin on the 22d of August 1696. betwixt his most Christian Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy be also exactly observed It has been thought fit to confirm and comprehend the same in the present Treaty in all its Articles such as are contained in the Copy Signed and Sealed by the Plenipotentiaries of Savoy which shall be annexed to the present Treaty For the performance of which Treaty and of the present their said Majesties Promise to become Guarantees for the said Royal Highness as he may become for them XXXIV Their said Majesties gratefully acknowledging the good Offices and constant Endeavours which have been employed by the most Serene King of Sueden for the Restoration of the Tranquility of Europe have agreed That his Suedish Majesty his Kingdoms and States shall be included and comprehended in the present Treaty in the best Form and Manner that can be XXXV Under this Peace Alliance and Friendship shall be comprehended all those that shall be named on both Sides with common Consent before the Exchange of the Ratifications and within the space of six Months after XXXVI The said Lords the Catholick and most Christian Kings consent and agree That his Suedish Majesty in quality of Mediator and all other Kings Princes and Republicks that shall be willing to enter into the same Engagement may give to their Majesties their Promises and Deeds of Warranty for the Execution of all that is contained in the present Treaty XXXVII And for the greater Security and Confirmation of this Treaty of Peace and all the Articles in it contained the present Treaty shall be published verified and registred as well in the great Council and other Councils and Chamber of Accompts of the said Lord the Catholick K. in the Low-Countries as in the other Councils of the Crowns of Castille and Arragon the Whole according to and in the Form contained in the Treaty of Nimeguen of the Year 1678. And likewise the said Treaty shall be published verified and registred in the Court of Parliament of Paris and in all other Parliaments of the Kingdom of France and Chamber of Accompts of the said Paris and Copies of the said Publications and Registrings shall be exhibited and delivered on both Sides within the space of three Months after the Publication of
the said Dignities and Revenues and in the mean time each of them according to the Order they have amongst them shall obtain the new Prebendaries that shall become vacant And there is no question but this may be approved of by the abovesaid Ecclesiasticks whom this Regulation may concern The Heirs likewise of the Canons who have been deprived of their Dignity and are dead during the War whose Goods Chattels and Revenues have been sequestred or confiscated shall enjoy the intire Benefit for the Recovery of them by the Article which begins thus All the Vassals and Subjects of both Parties together with this express and particular Clause That Pious Legacies bequeath'd by the Deceased shall be paid forthwith without delay according to their Disposal out of the Revenues by them assigned XLV The Landgraves of Hesse Reinfeldt shall be in a more especial manner included in the Amnestie and shall be re-instated in respect of the Fortress of Rheinfeldt and all the Lower County of Catzenelboguen with all Rights and Dependences in the same Condition and Circumstances wherein the Landgrave Ernest their Father was before the beginning of this War Excepting always and in all Cases the Rights appertaining to Monsieur the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel XLVI All the Vassals and Subjects of both Parties Ecclesiasticks and Seculars Corporations Universities and Colleges shall be re-settled in their Honours Dignities and Benefices whereof they were in quiet Possession before the War as also in all their Rights Goods movable and immovable Rents and Revenues also those that are capable of being redeemed or which are for Life provided that the Principal thereof be not consumed and have been employed or retained during or upon the Occasion of this War with all the Rights Actions Successions and Entails that are fallen to them during the said War yet so that they may not demand any thing back again upon occasion of Fruits or Revenues received or Pensions granted after the taking or detaining until the Day of the Ratification of the present Treaty Provided nevertheless that Merchandise Debts and Movables shall not be re-demanded if confiscated during or upon account of the War or converted to other Uses by Publick Authority nor shall the Creditors of the said Debts or the Proprietors and Owners of such Merchandise and Movables or their Heirs or Executors ever sue for them nor pretend to any Restitution or Satisfaction for them The said Restitutions shall also extend to those who have followed a contrary Party who have thereupon been suspected and who have been deprived of their Estates after the Peace of Nimeguen for having absented themselves to go to inhabit elsewhere or because they have refused to pay Homage or for such like Causes or Pretences which said Persons consequently by virtue of this Peace shall return into their Prince's Favour and into all their ancient Rights and Estates whatsoever such as they are at the time of the Conclusion and Signing of this Treaty and all that hath been said in this Article shall be executed immediately after the Ratification of the Peace notwithstanding all Donations Concessions Alienations Declarations Confiscations Faults Expences Meliorations interlocutory and definitive Sentences past out of Contumacy and Contempt the Persons absent not being heard to speak for themselves which said Sentences shall be null and of none effect and look'd upon as though they had never been pronounc'd they all of them being left to their Liberty to return into their Country to enter upon their aforesaid Estates and enjoy them as well as their Rents and Revenues or to go sojourn or take up their Habitation elsewhere in what Place they shall think fit and such as they have a mind to make choice of without any Violence or Constraint And in such Case it shall be permitted to them to cause their Estates and Revenues to be administred by Sollicitors or Proctors that are not suspected and may peaceably enjoy them excepting only Ecclesiastical Benefices that require Residence which shall be regulated and administred personally Lastly It shall be free for every Subject of either Party to sell exchange alienate and convey by Testament Deed of Gift or otherwise their Estates Goods movable and immovable Rents and Revenues which they may possess in the States or Dominions of another Sovereign so that any ones Subject or a Foreigner may buy them or purchase them without having need of further Permission from the Sovereign besides that which is contained in this present Article XLVII If any Ecclesiastical Benefices mediate or immediate have been during this War conferr'd by one of the Parties in the Territories and Places that were then under his Dominion upon Persons rightly qualified according to the Canon or Rule of their first Institution and the Lawful Statutes general or particular made on this behalf or by any other Canonical disposal made by the Pope The said Ecclesiastical Benefices shall be left to the present Possessors as likewise the Ecclesiastical Benefices conferr'd after this manner before this War in the Places that ought to be restored by the present Peace so that henceforth no Person may or ought to trouble or molest them in the possession and lawful administration of the same neither in receiving the Fruits and Benefits nor upon that account may they at any time be presented summoned or cited to appear in a Court of Judicature or any other way whatsoever disturbed or molested Upon condition notwithstanding that they discharge themselves honestly and perform what they are bound to by vertue of the said Benefices XLVIII Forasmuch as it conduceth much to the publick Peace and Tranquility that the Peace concluded at Turin the 29 th of August 1696 between his Most Christian Majesty and his Royal Highness be exactly and duly observed it hath likewise been found expedient to confirm it and to comprise it in this present Treaty and to make it of the same value and for ever to subsist and be in force The Points that have been regulated in favour of the House of Savoy in the Treaties of Westphalia and Nimeguen re-established above are confirmed in particular and judged as here repeated word for word yet so nevertheless that the restitution of Pignerol and its Dependencies already made may not in any case deminish or alter the Obligation wherein his Most Christian Majesty hath engaged himself to pay to the Duke of Mantua the Sum of Four hundred ninety four thousand Crowns for discharge of the Duke of Savoy as is explained more at large in the Treaty of the Peace of Westphalia And to the end that this may be more fully and more strongly confirmed All and every one the Princes that participate of the General Peace do promise to the Duke of Savoy and will reciprocally receive from him the Promises and Securities that they stipulate amongst themselves for a more firm assurance of the matter XLIX Upon the whole it is not meant that by whatsoever restitution of Places Persons Estates Rights
the Treaties of Peace MUNSTER Monsieur the Baron de Plettenbourg de Lenhausen Intimate Counsellor Dean Canon and Capitulary of the Cathedrals of Paderborn Munster and Hildesheim Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace NEMOURS Dutchess of Monsieur Bourret Counsellor and Treasurer to Her Most Serene Highness Madam the Dutchess of Nemours Sovereign Princess of Neufchatel and Valengin in Suitzerland Envoy Extraordinary at the Treaties of Peace ORLEANS Duke of Monsieur the Abbot Thejeu Counsellor in Ordinary to His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans and His Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace PALATINE NEUBOURG Monsieur John Henry Hetterman Counsellor of State to His Electoral Highness Palatine and Plenipotentiary for Neubourg at the Treaties of Peace PORTUGAL Monsieur Pacieco Envoy Extraordinary with the Lords States General on the Part of His Majesty the King of Portugal RHINE The Upper Monsieur de Savigny Counsellor to His Excellency the Lord Count of Nassau Weilbourg and Envoy from the Circle of the Upper Rhine at the Treaties of Peace SALM. Monsieur d' Uffling Privy-Counsellor to His Most Reverend Highness the Lord Prince and Abbot de Fulda Privy-Counsellor and Envoy of His Most Serene Highness the Prince of Salm at the Treaties of Peace SAVOY Mons Philibert Count de la Tour Baron of Bourdeaux Counsellor of State to His Royal Highness of Savoy President of His Finances Superintendent of His Houshold and His Plenipotentiary at the Congress for the General Peace Monsieur Peter Francis de Frichignono Count de Castellengo Counsellor of State to His Royal Highness of Savoy His Attorney-General in Piedmont and His Plenipotentiary at the Congress for a General Peace De SAXE-COBOURG Monsieur the Baron de Hagen President of the Cabinet-Council of His Most Serene Highness of Saxe-Cobourg Privy-Counsellor and Commissary-General of War to all the Serene Families of Saxe c. Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace SAXE-GOTHA Monsieur d' Aveman Intimate Counsellor of State and War to His Most Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Plenipotentiary to the Most Serene Family at the Treaties of Peace STRASBOURG Bishop of Monsieur Herman de Halveren Intimate Counsellor and Vice-Chancellor to His Most Eminent Highness the Cardinal Landtgrave of Furstemburg Bishop and Prince of Strasbourg at the Treaties of Peace SUABIA Monsieur Frederick de Durheimb Minister of State and Chancellor to His Most Reverend Highness the Lord Bishop of Constans Plenipotentiary-Minister at the Treaties of Peace Monsieur de Kulpis Nobleman of the Empire Minister of State Director of the Ecclesiastical Council His Most Serene Highness the Duke of Wirtemberg's Minister-Plenipotentiary of the Circle of Suabia at the Treaties of Peace SUABIA The Prelates and Deputies of Monsieur Anthony Eusebius Baron of Halden Neidberg and Autenriedt Plenipotentiary of the Prelates of Suabia TREMOILLE Prince of Monsieur John Gabriel de Sanguiniere Lord of Charansac His Majesty's Counsellor in the Chatelet of Paris and Proctor-General and Plenipotentiary to His Serene Highness the Prince of Tremoille at the Treaties of Peace TREVES or TRIERS Monsieur John Henry Keyservelt Counsellor and Resident at the Hague Plenipotentiary to His Most Serene Highness the Elector of Triers at the Treaties of Peace TEUTONIC ORDER Monsieur Charles de Loe Baron de Wissen Knight of the said Order Commander of Pitzenbourg at Mechlen or Malines Intimate Counsellor Principal Envoy Extraordinary of His Most Serene Highness the Prince Palatine Grand Master of the Teutonic Order at the Treaties of Peace Monsieur Victor de Beughem Counsellor to His Most Serene Highness the Prince Palatine Grand Master of the Teutonic Order His Ordinary Resident with the States General WETTERAVIA Deputies of the Counts of Monsieur Charles Ottom Count of Solms Plenipotentiary of the Counts of Wetteravia at the Treaties of Peace WIRTEMBERG Monsieur Anthony Gunther de Hespen Counsellor in the Supreme Council of Wirtemberg and Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace WIRTZBOURG Monsieur John Conrade Philip Ignatius Baron de Taston Grand Marshal to His Royal Highness the Bishop of Wirtzbourg and His Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace FINIS * This answers to that which in the Common Law is called Paraphanalia and in the Civil Paraphernalia * Is the XLVI †Is the L. ‖ Is the LI. * It is the XLVI
Proffers that are made to you by France your Royal Highness will give me leave to Exhort you to persevere in the League and to continue the War with that Constancy which has rendred your Name so glorious hitherto and made your Conduct to be highly applauded I cannot deny but that besides those other offers which France makes to your Royal Highness the Restitution of Pignerol tho' Demolish'd is an Article of great Consequence But considering the Magnanimity and Generosity of the Confederate Princes the great Power of their Armies and what I know of their Intentions I think my self bound to promise your Royal Highness that you shall at length when the War is at an end reap as great nay far greater and more secure Advantages not only as to Pignerol but likewise towardâ—he raising of your Family to a higher Degree and more agreeable to your Interest All which I reâ—er to the mature Reflections your Royal Highnesses great Prudence is capable of being always â—eady with inviolable Constancy to render to your Royal Highness all possible Service From the Camp at Normont the 22 th of July 1696 c. His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy's Letter to his Serene Highness the Elector of Brandenburgh THE Singular Demonstrations of Friendship I have received of your Electoral Highness the acknowledgment whereof shall last to my Death do engage me to Conceal nothing from you of what happens to me so that I must by these Lines inform you of the Offers which Mareschal Catinat has made me by Letters which I have Communicated to the principal Heads of my Allies those Proposals I send hereunto annext together with the Answer which I caused to be returned to them and I Communicate the Copies of them to your Electoral Highness with as much Confidence as I know I may put in the affection you bear me to which I on my part will answer by all the Devoirs which may be most effectual to convince your Electoral Highness of my sincere and constant Love You will see in the said Letters that I am offered the Restitution of all that has been taken from me during this War wherein no Body but my self has lost so much That the important place of Pignerol shall be surrendred to me tho' Demolish'd with all the Territories that depend on it which heretofore belonged to my Ancestors That a Marriage shall be agreed upon between the Princess my Daughter and the Duke of Burgundy that a Portion and a Dowry shall be given her without any Expence to me and all this on Condition I shall contribute to a Neutrality in Italy which is equally advantagious to the House of Austria especially that Pignerol be taken out of the French Hands so that I hope your Electoral Highness will not condemn the Resolution I have taken of not rejecting the aforesaid Offers and not to put the Recovery of such an important place as Pignerol to the uncertain Contingency of Time or to the mutability of Princes Wills especially since this my Country is reduced to that Desolation as makes it quite unable of longer bearing the Charges of the War Your Electoral Highness is also to observe That to secure the Neutrality of Italy and before I can partake of these Advantages offered me the most Christian King desires That the Confederate Troops do withdraw and that I reduce mine to seven thousand five hundred Foot and five hundred Horse which together with the loss of Subsidies and Taxes that will be no longer continued to me obliges me earnestly to entreat your Electoral Highness to give such Orders to your Troops as are necessary in order to withdraw them out of my Country so soon as I shall have given them the pay that was agreed upon And I do assure your Serenity That the Obligations your Highness has laid upon me shall be always fresh in my Mind and the lively Sense I have of the same shall for ever remain engraven on my Heart with an extream desire of finding the Opportunities of giving effectual Demonstrations to your Electoral Highness of the steddy Affection with which I shall continue till my last Breath Turin July 7 16â—6 Yours c. His Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandenbourgh's Answer to his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy YOUR Royal Highnesses Letters of the 7th of July brought to us by a Courier have informed us with the surprising News of your separate Peace with the most Christian King The League into which your Royal Highness did enter with the Emperor the Empire with the Kings Electors and Princes Confederated in this present War and which your Royal Highness not many Months ago has by a solemn Act given fresh promises of observing most exactly together with the liberal Supplies of Men and Money wherewith your Royal Highness has been abundantly furnished did not permit us to have the least Suspicion that your Royal Highness could resolve or even so much as think of abandoning so advantagious a League by which we labour to secure the Safety Liberty and Tranquility of Europe and that too without being reduced to it by any fresh Necessity or extraordinary Disaster but only on the single reason alledged in your Royal Highnesses Letter that is That you may embrace the advantagious Offers made you by France which indeed are specious and suited to take with your Royal Highness But we question very much whether you will find that Safety Honour and Advantages in them which you would find in the Confederacy you were engaged in if your Royal Highness had continued in it We wait nevertheless to hear the Opinion of the rest of the Confederates on this Resolution of your Royal Highnesses and in the mean time we have sent Orders to our General de Varennes to bring home our Forces not questioning in the least but that though your Royal Highness has changed Sides you will nevertheless allow our Troops what is due to them according to the Treaties made with your Royal Highness God grant c. His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy's Letter to his Majesty the King of Spain Sacred and Royal Majesty YOUR Majesty's Bounty is too great to shew it self unwilling to give a favourable Audience to my Ambassador which I beg of your Majesty for him when he hath the Honour to give your Majesty an Account of the Proposals made to me by the Mareschal de Catinat and of the Reasons which prevail with me in this Affair which I hope will so far perswade your Majesty as not to refuse your Approbation I cannot certainly believe that your Majesty's Goodness and Equity so generally esteem'd would suffer you to give way That this Country which every one knows is brought to an extream and intolerable Desolation should by my means be exposed to its utter Ruine or that I should refuse the Restitution which is offered me of all that has been taken from me together with the Surrender of Pignerol seeing that those great Losses and these
by his Majesty shall not be touched but left as they are After the said Places are restored it shall be lawful for his Royal Highness to repair and enlarge the Fortifications as things belonging to himself that the King may not therefore molest him or be displeased thereat Provided nevertheless That the King shall carry off from Pignerol all the Artillery Ammunition of War and Provisions Arms and all movable Effects belonging to him of what Nature soever they be That as for the Revenues and Incoms of Pignerol and of its Dependencies the King does yield them up to his Royal Highness in the same manner as the King injoys them at present and the Leases or Settlements which the King has made of any of the said Lands shall stand good according to the Form of the respective Contracts Tenures or Acquisitions That the said restitution of these Countries and Places belonging to his Royal Highness as also the delivery of Pignerol with its Dependencies above mentioned shall be made after the signing of this present Treaty the Foreign Troops being first quite retired out of Italy and after that the Germans the Troops of Bavaria the Brandenbourg Protestants in the English Pay and other Auxiliary Troops are actually arrived in Germany and that the Spaniards and others which are paid by his Catholick Majesty are returned into the Territories of Milan so that the Execution of any of these Articles nor the Restitution of any of those Places shall not take Effect till after the said Troops are all of them and entirely retired in such manner as has been now exprest Which notwithstanding is to be so understood as that the Evacuation of the said Foreign Troops out of Italy shall be deemed to be fully compleated although the Spaniards should take out as possibly they may some Men out of those Foreign Regiments to fill up those that are in their own Pay or that some of those Foreign Troops should List themselves and enter on the Territories of the Republick of Venice it shall be taken as if they were arrived in Germany as soon as they are upon the Venetians Ground and are delivered over to the Service of that Commonwealth And after the Ratification of the pesent Treaty Labourers shall be immediately set at work to sink Mines and to do all other things that are necessary for the demolishing of the said City Citadel and Forts of Pignerol But in case his Royal Highness should think fit to keep this Treaty as yet secret beyond the time limited for the said Ratification it is agreed upon that to avoid the Noise which the working of such Mines might create that they shall be begun but at such time after the Ratification as his Royal Highness shall think fit The said demolishing Work shall continue and go forward in such a manner as that in Two or Three Months after the Evacuation of the said Troops above mentioned all shall be delivered up into his Royal Highness's Hands whereupon it shall be allowed to send a Commissary to assist upon the Place until the Execution of the said Work His Majesty is also willing for his Royal Highness's greater Satisfaction to send him when he shall require it Two Dukes and Peers of France to remain as Hostages in his Royal Highness's Hands who shall treat them according to the Dignity of their Rank II. His Majesty shall make no Treaty of Peace or Truce with the Emperor or the King of Spain without comprehending his Royal Highness in suitable and effectual Terms and the present Treaty as well as those Querasque Munster the Pirenees and Nimeguen shall be included in the General Peace not only as to the Four Hundred Ninety Four Thousand Crowns of Gold which are particularly mentioned in that of Munster in Discharge of his Royal Highness and for which the King continues to be still a Guarrantee to the Duke of Mantua but also as to all other Matters contained in the said Treaties not contrary to the present Treaty which are to be irrevocable and to remain in full Force and Validity notwithstanding the present Delivery of Pignerol and its Dependencies And as for other Interests Claims or Pretensions which concern the House of Savoy his Royal Highness reserves to himself a Power of Treating about them by way of Protestations of Memorials or by Envoys so that this Treaty may in no ways be prejudicial to the said Protestations III. That a Marriage between the Duke of Burgundy and the Princess His Royal Highness's Daughter shall be treated on out of Hand to be consummated when they are of Age and the Contract between them to be made so soon as this Present Treaty takes effect after Publication whereof the Princess shall be put into the King's Hands That in the said Marriage-Contract which shall be considered as an essential part of this Treaty and wherein the Princess shall make the usual Renunciations with a Promise to pretend to nothing of his Royal Highness's Estate or Succession further than the following Portion His said Royal Highness shall give as a Portion to the Princess his Daughter Two Hundred Thousand Crowns of Gold toward the Payment of which his Royal Highness shall give a Discharge for One Hundred Thousand Crowns of Gold which remained due by France to the House of Savoy as part of the Dutchess-Royal's Portion together with the accruing Interest of that said Sum which was also promised to be paid And the Remainder viz. One Hundred Thousand more which the Duke of Savoy should pay to France to make up the Portion aforesaid the King doth Remit in Consideration of the present Treaty his Royal Highness engaging moreover to give to the Princess his Daughter at the Celebration of the Marriage that which in the Language of Piedmont is called Fardle and in French the Bundle or Marriage Present for Cloaths and in the Contract of Marriage the Dowry shall be agreed upon which the King will give according to the Custom of France IV. That his Royal Highness renouncing from this present time truly and effectually and sincerely as he hath done in the fore-mentioned Articles all the Ingagements which he might have had with the Enemies doth likewise hope that his Majesty will answer thereunto with all the Sentiments which his Royal Highness craves and wishes for and that having the Honour to be so nearly related to the King and of entring into a new and glorious Alliance with him his Majesty doth Grant and Promise to his Royal Highness as he doth demand his powerful Protection as formerly in all its Extent and as his Royal Highness is desirous to maintain a perfect Neutrality with the Kings Princes and Sovereign Powers who are at present his Allies his Majesty doth promise not to put any manner of Restraint on the Inclinations which his Royal Highness hath of continuing and using towards them all the external Measures of Decency and Freedom that are becoming a Sovereign Prince who hath Embassadors and
which he has taken upon him till the end of August next but that if within that time his Enemies do not conclude the Peace he will be freed from Engagement and at liberty to treat anew after so much Expence and Bloodshed upon such other Articles as he shall judge suitable to the posture of his Affairs and to the Welfare of Christendom The Memorial of the Ambassadors of the most Christian King for the General Peace deliver'd to the Ambassador Mediator Septemb. 1. 1697. at the Palace of Ryswick THE happy Successes with which it has pleas'd God to bless the Undertakings of the King in this Campagn might give his Majesty a very just occasion of reducing within a narrow compass the Overtures which he has made for the Peace the Term which he fix'd for the accepting of his Propositions being expir'd leaves him at his full Liberty so that he might very well propose new Articles but the same desire which he always had of putting an end to the Miseries of Christendom is still the only Rule which he proposes to himself and his Majesty is pleas'd to make no farther use of the Advantages he has had than for the more speedy re-establishment of the Quiet of Europe 'T is with this design that the King declares that tho' his Majesty was free from his Engagements at the end of August tho' he is very sensible what Benefit he could reap from the Conquest of Barcelona and from other Events of the War yet the sole Interest which influences and weighs most with him is the universal Welfare of Europe that for the promoting thereof by a speedy Peace his Majesty makes use of that Liberty which he has at present only to alter such of the Articles which he has propos'd as seem to retard the Publick Tranquility Upon this account his Majesty forbears offering to the Emperor the choice of taking Strasburgh or the Equivalent propos'd for that City he is resolv'd to keep it and no farther mention shall be made of an Alternative Equivalent at the same time he promises that this Alteration which he thought requisite to determine the Emperor shall make no change in the other Conditions which he formerly offer'd for the keeping of Strasburgh and consequently that Town and the Citadel in the condition they now are shall be for ever annex'd to his Crown with the Dependencies of Strasburgh on this side the Rhine such as are on the other side of that River shall be restor'd to their proper Owners with the same Rights and the same Prerogatives which they formerly enjoy'd That the Fort of Keil shall be restor'd to the Emperor and Empire in the same Condition as it is at present That the Forts of the City of the Islands in the Rhine shall be raz'd That the Cities of Friburgh Brisack and Philipsburgh shall be restor'd by his Majesty to the Emperor upon the same Conditions set down in the Project deliver'd in by his Majesty's Ambassadors Extraordinary to the Ambassador Mediator of Sweden That those Articles which specifie the Restitution of Lorrain in the same Condition as Duke Charles possessed it in the year 1670. with the Clauses therein explain'd and which his Majesty has thought necessary for the maintenance of the Peace shall be punctually put in Execution That lastly for rendring the Peace solid and to assure the Empire that his Majesty's only desire is to preserve it he promises to demolish and abandon the Fortresses which he possesses on the other side the Rhine to pull down the Bridges made by his Orders upon the River reserving only part of the Bridge of Fort Lewis on the Rhine which leads from Alsace to the Fort That he on the other hand demands that the Bridge of Philipsburgh be broken down the Fort rais'd at the end of that Bridge on the side of France demolish'd and that the Rhine being for the future the just Barrier between the Territories of both the Avenues of his Kingdom shall be shut up at the same time that his Majesty makes it appear that he is not willing to reserve any Passage whereby to carry the War into Germany Lastly His Majesty adds to those considerable Overtures which he makes for the keeping of Strasburgh the Restitution of Barcelona which his Majesty promises to restore to the King of Spain assoon as he has the Consent of the Emperor and Empire for the Surrender of Strasburgh and this is all the use which his Majesty pretends to make of the Conquest of one of the most considerable Towns in the Spanish Monarchy His Majesty proposes no Alterations in the Articles by which he offer'd to Treat with the Catholick King and is perswaded that this Prince being sensible of the Moderation which he shews towards him will not insist upon the Demand of a few Villages in the Seigniory of Aeth requisite for the more easie Commerce of the Inhabitants of Tournay and for the Communication of that City with the Town of Condé and that his Majesty pretends to reserve to himself all the Advantages he can reap from the taking of Aeth But whereas it is not reasonable that his Majesty shall be always oblig'd to Sacrifice such considerable Advantages to the good of the Peace he declares that if his Enemies defer taking advantage of those new Expedients which he is pleas'd to offer for the Conclusion of the Treaties shall exceed the term which he hereby gives them of the 20 th of September to accept of his Proposals he will then be at liberty to propose new Conditions and the Miseries of the War are to be charg'd only on those who refuse to concur with his Majesty to the putting an end to them Deliver'd to his Excellency the Mediator Sept. 1. 1697. Articles of Peace between the most Serene and Mighty Prince WILLIAM the Third King of Great Britain and the most Serene and Mighty Prince LEWIS the Fourteenth the most Christian King Concluded in the Royal Palace at Ryswicke the 10 20th Day of September 1697. I. THAT there be an Universal Perpetual Peace and a True and Sincere Friendship between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince William the Third King of Great Britain and the most Serene and Mighty Prince Lewis the Fourteenth the most Christian King Their Heirs and Successors and between the Kingdoms States and Subjects of Both and that the same be so Sincerely and Inviolably Observed and Kept that the One shall Promote the Interest Honour and Advantage of the Other and that on both sides a Faithful Neighbourhood and True observation of Peace and Friendship may daily Flourish and Encrease II. That all Enmities Hostilities Discords and Wars between the said King of Great Britain and the most Christian King and Their Subjects Cease and be Abolished so that on both sides They Forbear and Abstain hereafter from all Plundring Depredation Harm-doing Injuries and Infestation whatsoever as well by Land as by Sea and on Fresh Waters every where and especially throughout all
Successors as a thing to them properly belonging and in Consideration of the said present Concession his Royal Highness engages and promises as well for himself as for his Heirs and Sucessors and Assigns not to rebuild or restore any of the said Fortifications nor cause new ones to be built upon and within the extent of the said Territory Ground and Rocks nor in any other place whatsoever yielded by this present Treaty by which his Royal Highness or the Inhabitants of Pignerol shall only be allowed to enclose the said Pignerol with no other enclosure than a bare Wall without a Terrass or any Fortifications With a Proviso that except within the said Territory yielded by the present Treaty his Royal Highness shall be at his Liberty to build what Place Places or Fortifications he shall think fit without incurring His Majesties ill Will Furthermore That His Majesty shall restore to his Royal Highness his Countries and Places Conquered the Castles of Montmeillan Nice Ville-Franche Suza and all others without Exception entire and undemolished with the same quantities of Ammunition and Provisions Canon and Artillery as they were provided and stored with when they fell into the Hands of His Majesty without altering or diminishing the Buildings Fortifications Augmentations and Meliorations made by His Majesty And after the Restitution of the said Places his Royal Highness shall be free to keep up and augment the Fortifications as Things to him belonging without being molested by the King upon that account or incurring His Majesties ill Will Still providing That the King shall carry away out of the Town Cittadel and Forts of Pignerol all the Artillery Ammunition Provisions Arms and moveable Effects of what nature soever they be That as to the Revenues of the Town Dependencies and Territory of Pignerol the King restores them to his Royal Highness in the same form and manner as His Majesty enjoys them at present and the Disposals the King may have made of them shall subsist and remain in the manner provided by the Contract Gift Possession or Acquisition by which they are disposed of That the said Restitution of the Countries and Places of his Royal Highness as also the Resignation of Pignerol razed with its Dependencies as aforesaid shall be made in consequence of the Signing of this present Treaty but not before the Foreign Troops are actually gone out of Italy and are arrived viz. The Germans Bavarians Brandenburgers Protestants in English Pay and other Auxiliaries are really come into Germany and the Spaniards and other Troops now in the Pay of the Catholick King are restored into the Milanese so that none of the Articles shall be put in Execution nor the Restitution of any Place made till after the going out and departure of the Troops such as is before exprest shall be entirely accomplished always provided that the said departure of the Troops shall be deemed entirely accomplished altho' it should happen as perhaps it may that the Spaniards should take out of them some small Number of Soldiers to Recruit the Regiments that are in their Pay and if any of those Troops List themselves and do actually enter the Dominions of the Republick of Venice they shall be look'd upon as entred into Germany as soon as they shall be in the Venetian Territories and put into the Hands of the Republick of Venice And after the Ratification of the present Treaty Men shall be immediately set on Work to make Mines in order to blow up and demolish the said Town Cittadel and Forts of Pignerol But in Case that his Royal Highness should think it convenient to keep the present Treaty secret beyond the time of the said Ratification it is agreed That to avoid the noise which the working on the said Mines may make in the World the same shall not be begun till so long after the time of the said Ratification as his Royal Highness shall think fit Which Demolition shall be made and carried on in that manner that after two or three Months after the departure of the Troops forementioned the whole shall be restored to his Royal Highness to which purpose it shall be lawful for him to send a Commissary to be there present and till the Things aforesaid be put in Execution His Majesty is willing for his Royal Highness's greater Satisfaction and Security to cause two Dukes and Peers of France to be delivered into the Hands of his Royal Highness as soon as he shall require it of his Majesty to remain with him as Hostages and whom he shall treat according to their Rank and Dignity II. His Majesty shall not make any Treaty of Peace or Truce with the Emperor or Catholick King without including and comprehending his Royal Highness in convenient and forcible Terms and this present Treaty shall be confirmed in that of the General Peace as also those of Gueresque Munster Pirenees and Nimeguen as well for the 494000 Crowns of Gold particularly mentioned in that of Munster for the Discharge of his Royal Highness whereof the King shall still remain a Guarantee against the Duke of Mantua as for all that they contain not contrary to the present which shall be irrevocable and shall remain in its Force and Vigor notwithstanding the present concession of Pignerol and its Dependences And as for the other Concerns and Pretensions of the House of Savoy his Royal Highness reserves to himself to claim the same by Protestations Memorials or Envoys and this present Treaty shall not be derogatory to the said Pretensions III. That the Marriage of the Lady Princess Daughter to his Royal Highness shall be incessantly Treated of to be Faithfully effected as soon as she shall be of Age and that the Contract shall be made when this Treaty comes to be put in Execution after the Publication of which Treaty the Princess shall be put into the King's Hands That in the said Contract of Marriage which shall be considered as an essential part of this present Treaty and wherein the said Princess shall make the Usual Renunciations with Promise not to claim any thing beyond the following Dowry to the Dominions and Succession of his Royal Highness his said Royal Highness shall give in Dowry or Portion to the Lady the Princess his Daughter Two hundred thousand Crowns of Gold For the Payment of which his Royal Highness shall make an Acquittance of a Hundred thousand Crowns remaining due for the Portion of her Highness the Royal Dutchess with the Interests expired and promised and as for the rest His Majesty remits it in consideration of this present Treaty Moreover his Royal Highness obliges himself to give to the Princess his Daughter at the time of the Celebration of her Marriage what in Piedmontese is called Fardel and in French Trousseau or Nuptial Present and in the Contract of Marriage it shall be Stipulated what Dower His Majesty shall give according to the Custom of France IV. That his Royal Highness renouncing and forsaking
Separate Article the Tenor is as follows Besides all that is Concluded c. We liking and approving the said Separate Article in all its Contents have allowed approved and ratified the same and We do allow approve and ratifie it by these Presents Signed with our own Hand and We promise upon the Faith and Word of a King to perform and observe the same and cause it to be observed sincerely and faithfully and never to suffer any thing to be done to it contrary directly or indirectly upon any account or cause whatsoever In Testimony whereof We have Signed these Presents and caused them to be Sealed with our Seal Given at Fontainebleau the 3d Day of October in the Year of Our Lord 1697. and of our Reign the 55th Signed LEWIS And a little lower By the King Signed COLBERT The Ratification of the States-General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low-Countries upon the Separate Article THE States-General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries to all those to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas besides the Treaty of Peace and Friendship made and concluded at Ryswick in Holland the 20th Day of September of the present Year 1697. There has also been made a Separate Article by Nicolas Augustus de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonneuil Count of Cely Counsellor in Ordinary to his Most Christian Majesty in his Council of State Lewis Verjus Knight Count of Crecy Counsellor in Ordinary to His Majesty in his Council of State Marquis of Treon Baron of Couvay Lord of Boulay The Two Churches Fort-Isle Menillet and other Places and Francis Callieres Knight Lord of Callieres Roche-Chellay and Gigny Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty in the Assembly of Ryswick in the Name and from his said Majesty And by Anthony Heinsius Counsellor Pensionary of the Province of Holland and West-Friesland Keeper of the Great Seal and Superintendent of the Fiefs of the said Province Everhard de Weede Lord of Weede Dyckvelt Rateles and other Places Lord of the Mannor of the Town of Oudewater Dean and Rector of the Imperial Chapter of St. Mary in Vtrecht Dyckgrave of the River Rhine in the Province of Vtrecht and President of the States of the said Province and William de Haren Grietman of Bilt Deputy for the Nobility in the States of Friesland and Curator of the University of Franeker Deputies in our Assembly for the States of Holland Vtrecht and Friesland Our Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries in the said Assembly of Ryswick in Our Name and from Us by Virtue of their respective full Powers of which Separate Article the Tenor is as follows Besides all that is Concluded c. We likeing and accepting the said Separate Article have approved and ratified and We approve and ratifie the same by these Presents as if it was inserted in the forementioned Treaty of Peace and Friendship and We promise inviolably to keep maintain and observe all that is contained in it without ever acting contrary to it directly or indirectly upon any account whatsoever In Testimony whereof We have caused these Presents to be Signed by the President of Our Assembly Countersigned by Our Secretary and Sealed with Our Great Seal Given at the Hague the 10th of October in the Year 1697. Articles of Peace between the Emperour and the Empire on one part and France on the other part Concluded at the Royal Castle of Ryswick in Holland on the 20 30 of October 1697. IN the Name of the most Holy Trinity Amen Be it known unto All and every One that a cruel War attended with the Effusion of much Christian Blood and the Devastation of several Provinces having been waged for some Years last past between the most Serene and most Puissant Prince and Lord Leopold elected Emperour of the Romans always August King of Germany Hungary Bohemia of Dalmatia Croatia and Sclavonia Archduke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Stiria Carinthia and Carniola Marquiss of Moravia Duke of Luxembourg of the High and Lower Silesia of Wirtemberg and of Teck Prince of Suabia Count of Habsbourg of Tyrol Kybourg and Goritia Marquiss of the Sacred Roman Empire Burgow of the Upper and Lower Lusatia Lord of the Sclavonian Marches of Port-Naon and Salins c. and the Sacred Roman Empire on one part and the most Serene and most Puissant Prince and Lord Lewis XIV the most Christian King of France and Navarre on the other part Now his Imperial Majesty and his most Christian Majesty having most seriously apply'd themselves to terminate and put an end as soon as possible to those Mischiefs that daily encreas'd to the Ruine of Christendom by the Divine Assistance and by the Care of the most Serene and most Puissant Prince and Lord Charles XI King of Swedeland Goths and Vandals Grand Prince of Finland Duke of Scania Esthonia Livonia of Carelia Bremen Ferden of Stetin Pomerania Cassubia and Vandalia Prince of Rugen and Lord of Ingria and Wismar Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleves and Bergues of Illustrious Memory who from the very beginning of these Commotions did not cease effectually to sollicit the Christian Princes to Peace and afterwards having been accepted as Universal Mediator never desisted gloriously to labour even to his dying Day to procure the same with all imaginable speed having to this purpose appointed and setled Conferences in the Palace of Ryswick in Holland and after his Decease the most Serene and most Puissant Prince and Lord Charles XII King of Sweden Goths and Vandals Grand Prince of Finland Duke of Scania Esthonia of Livonia Carelia Bremen of Ferden Stetin Pomerania Cassubia and of Vandalia Prince of Rugen Lord of Ingria and of Wismar Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleves and Bergues Inheriting from his Royal Father the same longing Desire and Earnestness to procure the publick Tranquility and the Treaties having been brought to their perfection by the foresaid Conferences the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries lawfully appointed and established by both Parties being met to this effect at the aforesaid place that is to say on the Emperor's part the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords the Sieur Dominic Andrew Kaunitz Count of the Holy Roman Empire Hereditary Lord of Austerliz of Hungarischbord Mahrischpruss and Orzechan the Great Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece intimate Councellor of State to his Sacred Imperial Majesty Chamberlain and Vice-Chancellour of the Holy Empire the Sieur Henry John Stratman Sieur de Puerbach Count of the Holy Roman Empire Lord of Orth Schmiding Spatenbrun and Carlsberg Imperial Aulique Councellor Chamberlain to his Sacred Imperial Majesty and the Sieur John Frederick free and noble Baron of Seilern Imperial Aulique Councellor to his Sacred Imperial Majesty and one of the Plenipotentiaries in the Imperial Diets And on the part of his Sacred most Christian Majesty the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords the Sieur Nicholas Augustus de Harlay Knight Lord of Boneuil
and Vice-Prefectures therein comprised with all the Fortresses Cities Burroughs Towns Villages Hamlets Fiefs Funds and Rights according as they were surrendred by the Peace of Westphalia together with all Instruments Instructions and Acts taken away or plunder'd from the Archives or Records Chancery Court of Fiefs from the Chamber of Counts of Prefectures and other Palatinate Offices not any Place Effect Right or Document being excepted and as to what relates to the Claims and Rights of the Dutchess of Orleans it is agreed upon that the aforesaid Restitution being first made the Business shall be decided and judged in Form of Compromise by his Imperial Majesty and by his most Christian Majesty as Arbitrators which shall be decided according to the Imperial Laws and Constitutions But if they do not agree in their Verdict the Business shall be referr'd to the Pope to judge of it as Supreme Arbitrator Nevertheless they shall not forbear in the mean time endeavouring to procure an amicable Concord between the Parties and till such time as the Business be determined and ended the said Elector shall give every Year to the said Dutchess of Orleans the Summ of Two hundred thousand French Livres or One hundred thousand Florins of the Rhine in such manner and upon the same Condition as is specified by a particular Article of the same Power and Force as the present Treaty and that the Right of the two Parties as also that of the Empire shall remain intire in respect of the Possessor as well as Pretender IX There shall be restored to the King of Sweden in quality of Prince Palatine of the Rhine the County of Sponheim Veldents his ancient Dutchy of Deux Ponts intire and with all its Appurtenances Dependences and Rights which the Counts Palatines of the Rhine and Dukes of Deux Ponts Predecessors of his Swedish Majesty have enjoyed or may have enjoyed conformable to the Peace of Westphalia so that whatsoever the Crown of France hath hitherto pretended to as to this Dutchy in whole or in part by what Title soever may rightfully return to his Swedish Majesty and to his Heirs as being Counts Palatines of the Rhine There shall in like manner be restored all the Acts Documents Instructions concerning the said Dutchy together with the Artillery that was therein at the time when France seized upon it and all other Things agreed upon in the preceding Articles relating to Restitutions X. As to what concerns the Principality of Veldents and what the late Prince Leopold Lewis Count Palatine of the Rhine hath possest by virtue of the said Principality or of that of Lautrec it shall be restor'd in pursuance to the IV Article and to the Inventory or List exhibited by the Ambassadors of France saving only the Rights of each of the Pretenders as well in regard to the Possessor as to the Claimer XI There shall be restored to Prince Francis Lewis Palatine Great Master of the Teutonick Order and Bishop of Wormes all the Commands wholly without exception taken by France from the said Order and which have been assigned to him or which he hath anciently possest together with the Places Revenues and Rights and the said Order shall enjoy by vertue of the said Commands and Estates situate within the Dominion of France as well in respect of Collation as Administration the same Customs Privileges and Exemptions that it enjoyed heretofore according to its Statutes and Laws and which the Order of St. John of Jerusalem were wont to enjoy likewise all that hath been decreed in relation to Restitutions of Places Contributions and otherwise shall take place in behalf of the Bishop of Wormes and of other Churches of the said Prince XII There shall be restored to the Elector of Cologne in quality of Bishop and Prince of Liege the Castle and City of Dinant in the same Condition they were in when the French possest themselves of them together with all the Rights and Dependences and all the Artillery and Instructions that were found therein at that time As for the rest whatsoever hath been determined and regulated in the IV Article in relation to what hath been taken to Unions and Re-unions shall be look'd upon as repeated in particular in favour of the Churches of Cologne and Liege XIII The Family or House of Wirtemberg and particularly Duke George shall be re-established for him and his Successors with respect to the Principality and County of Monbelliard in the same Condition Rights and Prerogatives and particularly in the same Immediate Dependence upon the Roman Empire it hath heretofore enjoy'd and which the Princes of the Empire did enjoy or ought to have enjoyed making void and of none effect all Acknowledgment in quality of Vassal made to the Crown of France in 1681. And they the said Princes shall henceforward freely enjoy all the Revenues that depend upon the said Principality and County as well Secular as Ecclesiastick that they enjoyed before the Peace of Nimeguen as likewise all Fiefs that have been opened in favour of them or which they have made over or granted to others during the Detension of France excepting only the Village of Baldenheim together with the Appurtenances which the Most Christian King hath bestowed on the Commander of Chamlay Camp-Master-General to his Armies which said Donation ought still to subsist yet in such a manner notwithstanding that Homage be paid for it to the foresaid Duke of Wirtemberg and his Successors as to the direct Lord and that he be oblig'd to beg of him to be invested in it In like manner the said Princes shall be reinstated in the full and free Possession as well of their Inheritance possest in Burgundy of Clereval and Passevant as of the Lordships of Granges Herricourt of Blamont Chatelart and of Clermont and others situate and being in Burgundy and in the Principality of Monbelliard with all their Rights and Revenues intire and just in the same manner as they possest them before the Peace of Nimeguen abolishing totally all that has been done and pretended to the contrary under what Pretence at what Time and after what manner soever it may be XIV In like manner the Marquis of Baden's Family shall enjoy all the Right and Benefit of the present Treaty and consequently of that of Westphalia and Nimeguen and more particularly of the Fourth and Fifth Articles of the present Treaty XV. The Princes and Counts of Nassau of Hanaw and of Leininguen and all other States of the Holy Roman Empire who are to be re-instated by the Fourth Article of this Treaty and others shall likewise be re-instated accordingly in all and several the Estates and Dominions in the Rents and Revenues that depend thereon and in all the other Rights and Benefits of what nature soever they may be XVI And because for the better securing and confirming the Peace it hath been judged meet and expedient here and there to exchange some Countries his Imperial Majesty and the Empire do yield up
its Appurtenances and Dependences shall also remain in the Power of the said Most Christian King his Heirs and Successors with all Superiority Sovereignty and Property without the said Duke his Heirs or Successors pretending henceforward to claim any Right therein but in exchange of the said City and Prefectship his said Most Christian Majesty will put another Prefectship into the Hands of the said Duke in one of the three Bishopricks of the same Extent and Value whereof the said Commissioners shall bona fide agree upon And the said Prefectship so made over and conveyed by the Most Christian King to the said Duke he the said Duke as well as his Heirs and Successors shall possess it to the Worlds end with all the Rights of Superiority Sovereignty and Property XXXIV The Passage shall be always open through the Territories of the said Duke without any Obstacle or Impeachment to the Most Christian King's Troops who shall go or come from the Frontiers upon Condition nevertheless that timely Notice of it shall be given before-hand that the Soldier that passes shall not go out of his Way but may pursue the shortest and usual Way and duly continue his Road as he ought without delay He shall not commit any Violence nor do any Damage to the Places and Subjects of the Duke and shall pay ready Money for Victuals and other Necessaries that shall be delivered to him by the Commissioners of Lorrain Mutually abolishing and causing the High-ways and Places that his Most Christian Majesty had reserved to himself by the Peace of Nimeguen to return to the Power and Jurisdiction of the Duke without any Exception XXXV The Ecclesiastical Benefices conferred by his Most Christian Majesty till the very day of the present Treaty shall remain in Enjoyment and Possession of those who possess them at present and who have obtained them of his most Christian Majesty without being liable to be disturbed therein XXXVI It hath moreover been concluded that the Law-Suits Sentences and Decrees passed by the Council Judges and other his Most Christian Majesty's Officers concerning the Differences and Actions that have been determined as well between the Subjects of the Dutchies of Lorrain and of Barr as others at the time when the most Christian King possest those States shall take place and obtain their full and due effect in the same manner as if his said Christian Majesty had remained in possession of the said Estates it not being permitted to call in question the validity of the said Sentences and Decrees or to impede or stop the execution thereof It shall notwithstanding be permitted to the Parties to demand a Review of what shall have been enacted according to the order and disposition of the Laws and Constitutions the Sentences nevertheless remaining in their full force and vertue XXXVII There shall be restored to the said Duke after the Ratification of the present Treaty the Archives and written Documents and Precedents that was in the Treasury of the Records of Nancy and Barr and in both Chambers of Accounts or other places and that have been taken thence XXXVIII The said Duke immediately after the Ratification of the Peace shall have Power to send Commissioners to the Dutchies of Lorrain and Barr to have a watchful eye upon his Affairs administer Justice take care of the Imposts Taxes upon Salt and other Duties dispose of publick Treaties and perform all other necessary things so that the said Duke may within the same time enter into the full possession of his Government XXXIX As to what relates to Imposts and Customs and concerning the Exemption in the Transportation of Salt or Wood either by Land or Water the Custom settled in the Year 1670 shall be observed without permitting any Innovation XL. The ancient Custom and Liberty of Commerce between Lorrain and the Bishopricks of Metz Toul and Verdun shall be still in being and shall henceforth be observed to the Benefit and Advantage of both Parties XLI The Contracts and Agreements made between the Most Christian Kings and the Dukes of Lorrain shall be in like manner observed in their ancient Force and Vigour XLII The said Duke and his Brethren shall be impowered to prosecute the Right they pretend to belong to them in divers Causes by the ordinary Course of Law notwithstanding the Sentences past in their absence without being heard XLIII In Matters not here expresly agreed to the contrary shall be observed in respect of the Duke his Estates and Subjects what hath been concluded upon by the present Treaty and more especially in the Article that begins All the Vassals and Subjects of both Parties In that which begins So soon as the present Treaty of Peace shall be And that which beginneth And to the end that the Subjects of both Parties may as speedily as may be enjoy Just as if they had been here particularly recited XLIV The Cardinal of Furstembourg shall be reinvested in all the Rights Estates Feudal and Allodial Benefices Honours and Prerogatives that belong to the Princes and Members of the Holy Roman Empire as well in respect of the Bishoprick of Strasbourg on the Right-hand of the Rhine as of his Abby of Stavelo and others and shall enjoy with his Cousins and Relations that adhered to his Party and his Domestick Servants a full and absolute Amnestie and Security for whatsoever hath been done or said and for whatsoever hath been decreed against him or them and that neither he his Heirs Cousins Relations nor Domesticks shall ever be proceeded against in any Cause by the Lords Electors of Cologne and Bavaria their Heirs or any other Persons whatsoever upon the account of the Inheritance of the late Maximilian Henry And reciprocally the Lord Cardinal his Cousins Relations and Domesticks or any that have any Cause depending upon their Behalf shall not demand any thing upon what account soever from the Lords Electors or others from the said Inheritance Legacies that were left them or any Things that have been given them all Right Pretension or Action Personal or Real being totally extinct Such of the Canons who have adhered to the Cardinal's Paâ—â—y and who have been outed of their Prebendaries or Canonical Benefices shall receive the same Amnestie and Security and shall make use of the same Privilege and shall be re-settled in all the Canonical Rights Benefices and Dignities and in the same Degree and Dignity in the Chapter of the Collegiate Churches and Cathedral Church as they were before their Deposition Yet so however that the Revenues remaining in the Power of those that possess them at present these same may enjoy just as the others that shall be re-settled do the Titles and common Functions of the said Dignities and Benefices the Chief Place and Rank notwithstanding is to be deferr'd and yielded to those who shall be re-settled and after Death or the voluntary Resignation of those who are in Possession those only that are re-established shall solely enjoy
said Majesty for the Mediation of the said General Peace Monsieur Charles Gustavus Baron of Frisendorf Secretary to the Embassie of Sweden SAXONY His Excellency Monsieur the Baron de Bosen Treasurer for the Empire for Upper and Lower Saxony Commissary-General of the War and Privy-Counsellor Knight of the Order of St. John Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Electoral Highness for the Peace Monsieur Kirchner Secretary of the Embassie The STATES GENERAL of the UNITED PROVINCES His Excellency Monsieur James Borcel Lord of Duynbeeck Westhoven and Meresteen Senator and Burgomaster of the City of Amsterdam and Counsellor deputed from the Province of Holland Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the Peace on the behalf of Their High and Mightinesses the Lords States General He died before the Signing of the Peace His Excellency Monsieur Anthony Heinsius Counsellor Pensionary of the States of Holland and West-friezland Keeper of the Great Seal Superintendent of the Fiefs and Director of the East-India Company Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the Peace on the behalf of their High and Mightinesses the Lords States General His Excellency Monsieur Everhard de Weede Lord de Weede Dijckvelt Rateles c. Lord of the Mannor of the City of Oudewater Dean and Rector of the Imperial Chapter of St. Maries at Utrecht Dijckgrave of the River Rhine in the Province of Utrecht President of the States of the said Province Deputy of the Province of Utrecht Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the Peace on the behalf of Their High and Mightinesses the Lords States General His Excellency Monsieur William de Haaren Grietman of Bielt Deputy on the Part of the Nobility in the States of Friseland and Curator of the University of Franeker Deputy of the Province of Friseland and Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the Peace on the behalf of Their High and Mightinesses the Lords States General Monsieur Hamel Bruninx Secretary of the Embassie TRIERS or TREVES His Excellency Monsieur the Baron Leyen Lord of Saffig Efferen and Wesseling Intimate Counsellor Grand Marshal and Bailiff of Munster Cobern and Alcken Extraordinary Embassador and Plenipotentiary to His Electoral Highness of Triers at the Treaty of Peace THE NAMES OF THE Ministers Plenipotentiaries Deputies and Envoys of the Empire AUSBOURG The Imperial City of MOnsieur John Christopher de Dierheim Councellor and Plenipotentiary of the Imperial City of Ausbourg at the Treaties of Peace AUSTRIA Francis Rudolph Baron of Helden Lord of Trasberg c. Regent Councellor of the Provinces of the Upper Austria for his Imperial Majesty and his Plenipotentiary for the House of Austria at the Treaties of Peace BADEN BADEN Monsieur Charles Ferdinand Baron de Phittersdorf Lord of Walesteeg and Neuhaz Privy Councellor to his Serene Highness the Margrave Lewis of Baden and Hochberg and his Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace BREMEN and DEUX-PONTS Mons .... Snoilsky Councellor to his Majesty the King of Sweden and his Envoy Extraordinary at the Imperial Diet of Ratisbon Plenipotentiary on the part of the Dutchies of Bremen and Deux-ponts at the Treaties of Peace BRUNSWICK LUNENBOURG Monsieur Huneken Councellor and Resident for his Electoral Highness of Brunswick Lunenbourg Plenipotentiary at the Congress of the High Allies BRUNSWICK WOLFENBUTTEL Monsieur the Baron Frederick de Steinberg intimate Councellor and Marshal of the Court Plenipotentiary to his Most Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel Brunswick Lunenbourg Zell and Wolfenbuttel Monsieur Seigel Councellor and Resident of their Most Serene Highnesses the Dukes of Brunswick Lunenbourg Zell and Wolfenbuttel Plenipotentiary at the Congress of the Mighty Allies COLOGNE The Imperial City of Monsieur Harman Joseph Bullenger Syndic of the Imperial City of Cologne and its Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace DENMARK for the Dutchy of Holstein Monsieur Detlef Nicholas de Lawencron Councellor to his Majesty of Denmark and Norway his Envoy for the General Diet of the Empire and Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace EGMONT Monsieur Michael de Ghillet Esquire Lord de Feppen Councellor and Intendant of the Houses Demesus and Affairs of the Count d' Egmont Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of that Prince at the Treaty of Peace EMPEROR Monsieur the Count d' Aversberg Chamberlain to His Imperial Majesty one of the Imperial Aulique Council and His Envoy Extraordinary with His Majesty the King of Great Britain FRANCONIA Monsieur the Baron Wolfganck Philip de Schrottenberg Minister and Intimate Counsellor of the Episcopal Court of Bamberg Plenipotentiary at the Peace on the part of the Circle of Franconia Monsieur Erdman Baron of Stein Knight of the Teutonic Order Burggrave of Noremberg Hereditary Gentleman of the Horse to the Court of His Highness of Brandenbourg Bareith and Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace FRANCFORT The Imperial City of Monsieur John James Muller Plenipotentiary of the Imperial City of Francfort at the Treaties of Peace Monsieur John Melchior Lucius Doctor in Law Syndic and Plenipotentiary of the Imperial City of Francfort at the Treaties of Peace HAMBOURG The Imperial City of Monsieur de Bostel Counsellor and Syndic of the City of Hambourg and its Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace HANAU Monsieur F. C. de Ecclesheim Counsellor to the Prince of Hanau and His Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Peace HESSE-CASSEL Monsieur the Baron de Goretz Lord of Schiltz Burggrave of Friedberg Minister and Counsellor of State and of War to His Imperial Majesty and to the King of Great Britain President of the Privy-Chamber to His Serene Highness the Landtgrave of Hesse-Cassel and Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace HILDESHEIM Monsieur Charles Paul de Zimmermans Counsellor of State Chancellor in the Consistory and President of His most Reverend Highness the Bishop of Hildesheim and Plenipotentiary Deputy of the Empire at the Treaties of Peacee LIEGE Monsieur Norf Counsellor to His Electoral Highness of Cologne Prince of Liege His Resident Ordinary with the States General and Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace LORRAIN Monsieur Claudius Francis Canon Baron Counsellor and Secretary of State and President of the Sovereign Court of Lorrain and Barre Plenipotentiary of His Most Serene Highness the Duke of Lorrain at the Treaties of Peace Monsieur Joseph le Begue Baron of Thelod and Germiny Lord of Olchey and Chantreyne Counsellor and Secretary of State and Plenipotentiary-Minister of the Queen Dowager of Poland Dutchess of Lorrain and Barr at the Treaties of Peace LUBECK Monsieur George Radau Provost of the Cathedral and Syndic of the City of Lubeck and its Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace MENTZ or MAYENCE Monsieur Ignatius Anthony Otten of the Aulique Council and of the Regency of His Electoral Highness of Mentz and of Bamberg and His Plenipotentiary at the Treaties of Peace Monsieur George William Moll of the Aulique and Regency Council of his Electoral Highness of Mentz and Bamberg and his Plenipotentiary at