ARTICLES OF PEACE Between the EMPEROUR and EMPIRE AND FRANCE Concluded in the Royal Palace of RESWICK in Holland October 30. 1697. LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by E. Whitlock in Stationers Court near Stationers-Hall 1697. ARTICLES OF PEACE Between the Emperour and Empire AND FRANCE Concluded in the Royal Palace at Reswick in Holland October 30. 1697. In the Name of the Holy Trinity Amen BE it known unto all and every individual Person whom it may concern That seeing there has been for some Years past a Cruel War waged with great Effusion of Christian Blood and the Desolation of divers Provinces between the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord the Lord Leopold Elect Emperour of the Romans always August King of Germany Bohemia Dalmatia Croatia and Slavonia Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Styria Carinthia Carniola Marquess of Moravia Duke of Luxemburg of the Upper and Lower Silesia Wirtemburg and Tecka Prince of Suabia Count of Habsburg Tyrole Kyburg and Goritia Marquess of the Sacred Roman Empire of Burgovia and of the Upper and Lower Lusatia Lord of the Mark of Slavonia Port Naon and the Salt Pits c. on the one part and the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord Lewis XIV the most Christian King of France and Navar on the other part and that their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties have been very intent upon the terminating as soon as might be those Evils daily increasing to the prejudice of the Christian Religion It hath by the Blessing of Almighty God been at length so brought to pass by the Endeavours of the Most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord Charles XI King of the Swedes Goths and Vandals Great Prince of Finland Duke of Schonen Esten Livonia Carelia Bremen Verden Stetin Pomerania Cassubia and Vandalia Prince of Rugen Lord of Ingria and Wismar and also Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleve and Berghen c. of famous Memory who from the very beginning of these Commotions hath not ceased with great Earnestness to perswade the Christian Princes to a Peace and was at length receiv'd by all the Parties to be a Mediator for composing the same as soon as possible and laboured most graciously therein to the day of his Death That a solemn Treaty to that end hath been set on foot in the Royal Palace of Reswick in Holland and after his Decease brought at last to an End with the like Application of the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord the Lord Charles XII King of the Swedes Goths and Vandals Great Prince of Finland Duke of Schonen Esten Livonia Carelia Bremen Verden Stetin Pomerania Cassubia and Vandalia Prince of Rugen Lord of Ingria and Wismar as also Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleve and Berghen who succeeds his Father with equal Care for the publick Tranquility For the Extraordinary Embassadors and Plenipotentiaries authoriz'd in due Form having appeared on both sides in the said place viz. On the part of his Imperial Majesty the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords the Lord Dominick Andreas Count of the Sacred Roman Empire and of Kaunitz hereditary Lord of Austerlitz Hungarishbrod Marischprus and of the greater Orzechan Knight of the Golden Fleece Councellor of State to his Imperial Majesty â—â—amberlain and Vice-Chancellour of the Sacred Empire The Lord Henry John Count of the Sacred Roman Empire of Straatman and Peurbach Lord of Orth Shemiding Spatenbrun and Carlsberg of his Imperial Majesty's Court Council and Chamberlain And the Lord John Frederick free and Noble Baron of Seilern Counsellor to his Imperial Majesty and Authorised Commissary in the Dyets of the Empire And in the Name of the Most Christian King the most Illustrious and excellent Lords the Lord Nicholas de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonnevil Count of Cely Consellour in ordinary to his Majesty in his Council of State The Lord Ludovic Verjus Knight Counsellor in Ordinary to the King in his Council of State Count of Crecy Marquess of Freon Baron of Couvay Lord of Boullay of the two Churches in Fortille and in other places and the Lord Francis Callieres Knight Lord of Callieres Rupischelle and Gigny by the intervention and Endeavours of the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords the Lord Charles Bond Count of Biornoo Lord of Hesleby Tyresio Toftaholm Graffsteen Gustafsberg and Rezitza Senator to his Swedish Majesty and Chief President of the Court of Dorpaten in Livonia and of the Lord Nicholas Fell Baron of Lillieroot Secretary of State to his Swedish Majesty and Embassador Extraordinary to their High and Mightinesses the States General of the Uunited Provinces who have discharged the Office of Mediators with much Integrity Diligence and Prudence with the Consent and Suffrages of the Plenipotentiaries of the Electors Princes and States of the Sacred Roman Empire after having invoked the Assistance of the Divine Majesty and in due form Exchanged the full Powers have to the Glory of God and good of Christendom mutually agreed on the following Conditions of Peace and Friendship I. That there be a Christian Universal and perpetual Peace and true Friendship between his Imperial Majesty and his Successors the Sacred Roman Empire his Hereditary Kingdoms and Dominions Subjects and Vassals on the one part and his Most Christian Majesty and his Successors Subjects and Vassals on the other part and that the same Peace be so sincerely observed and cultivated that neither Party shall contrive or promote any thing to the Damage or loss of the other under any pretence whatsoever or give any Aid or Assistance to any Person or Persons that would design or put in Execution any thing to the detriment of either under what denomination soever it be or receive protect or assist the Rebellious or Seditious Subjects of each other upon any account whatsoever but rather that each Party shall seriously promote the Honour Advantage and Interest of the other notwithstanding any Promises made to the contrary and any Treaties and Leagues which way soever made or to be made which are hereby annulled II. Let there be a perpetual amnesty and oblivion of all Acts of Hostility committed on either side in any place or by any way whatsoever so that the one shall not because of them or under pretence of any other thing either directly or indirectly offer any Violence or Injury to the other or suffer any to be done by Deed or Writing but that all offered Injuries and Violences be so utterly abolished without any respect of Persons or Things that whatever upon that account the one may pretend against the other shall be buried in perpetual oblivion All and every the Vassals and Subjects of each Party shall also partake and enjoy this Amnesty and the Benefit and Effect of it so as that it be a Prejudice and a Crime in none of them to have followed this or that Party so as not to be restored to the full Enjoyment of
on by the Emperor and Empire and the most Christian King respectively and to take effectual Care that the Ratifications be within the space of seven Weeks to be computed from the Day of the signing hereof or sooner if possible reciprocally exchanged LX. And for the greater Strength and Validity of all Things contained in this Treaty of Peace as well the Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of his Imperial Majesty as those of his most Christian Majesty together with the Plenipotentiaries of the Electors Princes and States of the Empire deputed to this end have subscribed the same with their Hands and sealed them with their own Seals Done at the Palace of Reswick in Holland the 30th of October in the Year of our Lord 1697. L. S. D. A. C. à Caunitz L. S. Henr. C. de Stratman L. S. J. F. L. B. à Seilern L. S. de Harlay Bonneiiil L. S. Verjus de Crecy L. S. de Callieres In the Name of the Elector of Mentz L. S. M. Frederic Baron de Scanborn Emb. L. S. Ignatius Antonius Otten Plenipotentiary L. S. Georgius Vilhelmus Moll Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Elector of Bavaria De Prielmayer Extraordinary Emb. and Plenipotenitary L. S. In the Name of the House of Austria L. S. Francis Rudulphus of Halden L. Baron of Trazberg c. In the Name of the Grand Master of the Teutonick Order L. S. Charles B. à Loë Knight of the Teutonick Order In the Name of the Most High Prince and Bishop of Wertzberg L. S. John Conrad Phillip Ignatius de Tastunge In the Name of the Most High and Most Eminent Elector of Triers as Bishop of Spire L. S. John Henric of Kaysersfeld Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Most High Prince and Bishop of Constance L. S. Frederick à Durheim In the Name of the Most Reverend and Most High Bishop and Prince of HIldesheim L. S. Charles Paul Zimmerman High Chancellor Privy Councellor and Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Most Serene and Most Reverend Elector of Cologn as Bishop and Prince of Liege L. S. John Conral Norff Deputed Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Most Reverend and Most High Bishop and Prince of Munster L. S. Ferdinand L. B. à Plettenbergexlenhausen of the Cathedral-Church Monastery Dean and Chapter of the same In the Name of the Most Serene Elector Palatine as Duke of Newburg L. S. John Henric Hetterman Plenipotentiary In the Name of the most Serene Duke of Wirtenburg L. S. Jo. George Noble of Kulpis S. R. Knight of the Empire Counsellor of State Privy Counsellor and Director L. S. Anthony Gunter of Hespen Counsellor in the Superior Council and Plenipotentiary to the Most Serene Duke In the Name of the Most Serene Prince of Baden L. S. Charles Ferdinand L. B. of Pliffersdorff saving the order of Succession In the Name of the Abby College of Swaben L. S. Joseph Antony Euseb of Halden in Neidtberg L. B. of Autenreidt Plenipotentiary In the Names of the Counts of Wetteraw L. S. Charles Otto Count de Solms L. S. F. C. de Ecclesiastein Counsellor of Hanaw and Plenipotentiary In the Name of the free and Imperial City of Cologn L. S. Hermen Joseph Bullingen Syndic and Plenipotentiary In the Name of the City of Ausburg L. S. John Christopher de Dierheim Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Imperial City of Franckford L. S. John Jacob Muller Plenipotentiary L. S. John Melebior Lucius J. V. L. Syndie and Plenipotentiary Here follow the Full Powers The Emperour 's Full Powers WE Leopold by the Grace of God Elect Emperor of the Romans always August and King of Germany Hungary Bohemia Dalmatia Croatia Sclavonia c. Archduke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Styria Carinthia Carniola c. Marquiss of Moravia Duke of Luxemburgh and of the Upper and Lower Silesia Wirtemberg and Tecka Prince of Swaben Count of Hapsburg Pifrt Kyberg and Goritia Marquiss of the Sacred Roman Empire of Burgovia and of the Upper and Lower Lusatia Lord of the Mark of Sclavonia Port Naon and of the Salt-Pits c. Declare and make known That seeing we have desired nothing more ardently than that the present War wherewith Christendom hath for some Years been afflicted might as soon as possible be converted into a Just and Honourable Peace and that it hath been agreed among the several Parties at War that a Treaty and Conferences of Peace should be set on foot in a Place chosen by them with common Consent we therefore being very ready to contribute what in us lies for promoting the Tranquillity of the Christian World and being possess'd of the Fidelity Prudence and Experience of Ours and the Sacred Roman Empire's faithful and Beloved Counsellor of State Chamberlain and Vice-Chancellor of the Empire the Lord Dominick Andreas Count of Caumitz Hereditary Lord of Austerlitz Hungarischbrod Mahrisprus and of the Greater Orzechan Knight of the Golden Fleece and of the most Illustrious and Magnificent Henry John Count of Straatman Lord of Peurbach Orth Schmiding Spatenbrun and Carlsberg of our Council and Bed-Chamber as also our Beloved Councellor and Authorized Commissary in the Diets of the Empire John Frederick Free Baron of Seilern c. We have Named Chosen and constituted them as we do by these Presents Name Choose and Constitute them to be Our Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries for the said Assembly and Treaty of Peace Whom therefore we entrust and particularly command That they repair as soon as possibly they can to the Place agreed upon by the Parties and set on foot the Conferences of Peace and there either directly or by the Intervention of the Mediator accepted of on all hands with the Ambassadors or such as are deputed with sufficient Power from the most Serene most Potent and most Christian Prince Lewis King of France c. our Kinsman and most dear Brother for terminating the present War and Controversies relating thereunto by a good and firm Peace We also give a full and absolute Power with all the Authority and Command that is necessary thereunto to our above-named Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries whether all Three conjunct or any two of them in the absence of the third or through other Impediment or else to any one of them alone and apart in the absence in like manner of the other two or through other Impediment to enter upon conclude and sign the Treaty of Peace for Us and in our Name between Us and the foresaid most Serene most Potent and most Christian King of France and also to negotiate dispatch and finish all Instruments that may be required for that end and so universally to act promise stipulate conclude and sign Acts Declarations to change Agreements and to do all things that belong to the said Negotiation of Peace as amply and freely as if we our selves were present and did it or might do tho' any thing therein should require more particular Order than is contained in these Presents We do moreover
their former State in respect to Honour and Goods as it was before the War began excepting in those things which upon account of Ecclesiastical Benefices Moveables and Incomes are particularly specified in the following Articles III. And for as much as the Peace of Westphalia and Nimeguen is to be the Basis and Foundation of the present Peace the same shall forthwith after the exchange of the Ratifications be fully restored and Executed both in Sacred and Civil Matters and hereafter be preserved inviolable saving in such Points as derogate from them expresly in the present Treaty IV. In the first place his most Christian Majesty doth restore to his Imperial Majesty and the Empire and to the States and Members thereof whatever places and Jurisdictions that have been taken as well during the War by way of Fact as by the Name of Unions and Re-unions which are situated without Alsatia or whatever have been exprest in the Inventory of Re-unions exhibited by the French Embassador revoking and making void all the Decrees Arrests and Declarations which upon that account have been put forth by the Chamber of Metz and Besançon as also by the Council of Brisac and all things to be restored into the same Condition they were in before those Seizures Unions and Re-unions were made and at no time hereafter to be disturbed or molested but that the Roman Catholick Religion do remain in these Places thus restored in the same state it is now in V. And tho' from these general Rules it may be easily judged what Places they are and how far the things that are to be restored do extend yet at the instances of some and for some other particular Reasons it has been thought fit to make special mention of some things but yet in such a manner that those that are not expresly named are not to be taken as left out but to have the same place altogether with the others named and to enjoy the same Right VI. The City of Treves shall be Restored to the Elector of that Name and Bishop of Spires in the same state it is in at present without any farther demolishing of Places or any detriment done to either publick or private Buildings together with the Artillery that was found therein at the time it was last taken And that all that hath been agreed on in respect to Seizures Unions and Re-unions in the Fourth Article preceeding ought also to be esteemed to extend to the benefit of the Churches of Triers and Spire as if particularly specified VII The Elector of Brandenburg also shall enjoy all the benefits of this Peace and be fully comprehended in it with all his Dominions Possessions Subjects and Rights and those by name which belong to him by vertue of the Treaty Concluded on the 29th of June in the Year 1679. as if each Particular had been specified herein VIII The most Christian King shall restore to the Elector Palatine of the Rhine all his Dominions possest by him whether they appertain to him alone or in common with others however denominated especially the City and Prefecture of Germersheim and the Prefectures and Subprefectures comprehended therein with all the Castles Cities Towns Villages Lands Feudships and Rights as they were restored by the Treaty of Westphalia as also all the Writings or Records taken out of the Archive Chancery Foeudal Court Chamber of Accounts Prefectures and other Palatine Offices that have been taken away without exception of any Place Thing Right or Record And as to what concerns the Rights or Pretensions of the Dutchess of Orleans 't is agreed after the above-mentioned Restitution be first made that the thing be decided according to the form Compromised between his Imperial and most Christian Majesty as Arbitrators in the Matter according to the Laws and Constitutions of the Empire but if they shall not be able to agree it then the same shall be left to the Arbitration of the Pope But that in the mean time there be no less endeavour used to procure an amicable Agreement between the Parties and until the said Matter be fully decided that there be the yearly Summ of two hundred thousand Livres or an hundred thousand Florins paid by the said Elector to the Dutchess of Orleans upon that account and condition as the same is exprest in a particular Article of the same force with the present Peace reserving every way at the same time the right of each Party as well in the possessed as sued-for part as also the Rights of the Empire IX The Ancient Dutchy of Deuxponts shall be Restored freely and wholly to the most Serene King of Suedeland as Count Palatine of the Rhine Count of Spanheme and Veldenz with all its Appurtenances and Dependances and with those Rights that the Predecessors of his Swedish Majesty the Count Palatines and Dukes of Deuxponts have enjoy'd or could have enjoy'd according to the Tenour of the Westphalian Treaty so that all things under what Title soever pretended to possessed and re-united by the Crown of France hitherto either in whole or in part of the said Dutchy shall return in full right to his Swedish Majesty and his Heirs the Counts Palatines of the Rhine All Records also belonging to the said Dutchy shall be restored together with the Artillery that were found in the same at the time it was first possest by France and all other things concerning which it has been agreed upon in the preceeding Articles in favour of things to be Restored X. As for the Principality of Veldenz and what the deceased Prince Leopold Lodowick Count Palatine of the Rhine possest under the name of the said Principality or the Principality of Lautereccen they shall be restored as far as the fourth Section and the Inventory exhibited by the French Embassage reserving still entire the pretensions as well of the possessed as suing Party XI France shall also fully restore to the Grand Master of the Teutonick Order and Bishop of Worms Prince Francis Lodowick Palatine all the Commendums Consecrated to or Possest by that Noble Order Places Profits and Rights and the said Order shall enjoy in respect to the Commendums and other Goods scituated under the French Dominion as well upon account of Collation as Administration the same Usages Priviledges and Immunities which they have enjoy'd heretofore according to the Rules and Statutes of the Order and what the Order of St. John of Jerusalem was wont to enjoy XII The City and Castle of Dinant shall be restored to the Elector of Cologne as Bishop and Prince of Liege in the same state wherein it was when assumed into the hands of France with all its Rights and and Dependances as also Canons and Records found at that time therein And moreover all that is comprehended in the Fourth Article concerning Seizures Unions and Re-unions are esteemed in a particular manner to extend to the advantage of the Churches of Cologne and Liege XIII As for the House of Wirtemburg and particularly Duke
Appurtenances and with the Cannon that were found in the old City at the time of its falling into the Hands of France but upon this Condition that all the Works and Fortifications of the old City shall be left whole as also the Gates of the new City whose Works and Fortifications shall at the Charge of his most Christian Majesty be levell'd with the Ground and are to be repaired at no Time thereafter unless it be that the Duke and his Successors are free to enclose the new City with a single Wall without any Angles when ever they please XXX His most Christian Majesty shall also evacuate the Castle of Bitsch with all its Appurtenances as also the Castle of Homburg having first ruined their Works which are no more to be repaired but yet so as that these Castles and the Towns adjoyning to them be no way damnified but be preserved altogether unhurt XXXI Moreover all things agreed on in the fourth Article concerning Unions and Re-unions shall be so far extended to the Duke as if they were here repeated Word for Word where or which Way soever these Unions on Re-unions have been made XXXII But his most Christian Majesty reserves to himself the Fort of Saar Lovis with half a League round it to be marked out by Commissioners appointed by the King and Duke of Lorrain to be possest by him for ever with all right of Soveraignty and Supream Dominion XXXIII The City also and Mayoralty of Longwy together with their Appurtenances and Dependencies shall with all Sovereignty and Supreme Dominion remain under the Custody of the most Christian King his Heirs and Successors for ever neither shall the Duke and his Heirs and Successors pretend any Right unto them for the future But in Exchange for the said City and Mayoralty his most Christian Majesty will grant another Prefecture to the said Duke in one of the three Bishopricks of the same Extent and Value with the others which shall be fairly agreed on between the same Commissioners and that same being thus yielded up and transferred by the most Christian King into the hands of the Duke both the Duke himself as well as his Heirs and Successors shall enjoy it for ever with all Right of Soveraignty supreme Dominion and Propriety XXXIV The Country shall always be open to the Kings Souldiers marching to the Frontiers or returning from thence without any Let or Hindrance thro' the Duke's Dominions he having always timely Notice given him of the same and that the Souldiers marching do not straggle nor turn out of their Road but keep to the common and shortest Way and make due haste in their March without any Delay offering no violence nor Detriment to the Places and Subjects of the Duke and pay for their Provision with ready Mony and for other Necessaries to the Duke's Commissioners that are to provide them abollishing again and fully restoring the Way and Places under the Power of the Duke without any Exception which were reserved to the most Christian King by the Peace of Nimeguen XXXV The Ecclesiastical Benefices which to the Day of the Present Treaty have been conferred by the most Christian King shall be left quietly to the now Possessors who obtain'd them of his most Christian Majesty XXXVI It has besides been agreed on that all Processes Sentences and Decrees made by the Council Judges and other of the most Christian King 's Officials as well between the Dutchy of Lorrain as others in the time when the most Christian King possest these States shall take place and have as full and plenary Effect as if his now Christian Majesty remained Posser of them neither shall it be lawful to call the said Decrees into Question or to annul or retard and hinder the Execution of them but it shall be free for the Parties according to the Order and Disposition of the Laws and Constitutions to have tecourse to the reviewing of such Acts but the Sentences are in the mean time to remain in their full Force and Vigour XXXVII The Archives and Records which were kept and taken away from the Treasury of Naney and Barr and both Chambers of Accounts and elsewhere shall be restored forthwith to the Duke after the Ratification of the Peace XXXVIII The Duke may presently after the Ratification of the Peace send Commissioners into the Dutchy of Lorrain and Barr who shall look after his Affairs administer Justice take care of the Customs Salt-Pits and other Rights belonging to him settle the Post and do all other Things which may appertain to the Government which the Duke at the same time is to take upon him XXXIX As for Imposts and Customs or the Immunities of them as to Salt and Wood Carriage whether by Land or by Water the same Manner and Custom shall be kept as was in the Year 1670 without any manner of Innovation XL. The Ancient Usage and Liberty of Commerce shall remain between Lorain and the Jurisdiction of Metz Toul and Verdun and shall be exactly observed for the Benefit of both Sides for the future XLI In like manner the Agreements made between the most Christian Kings and the Dukes of Lorrain shall be kept inviolably in their former Force and Vigour XLII It shall be free for the Duke and his Brethren after the Restitution of them to prosecute their Right in the ordinary way of Justice which they affirm to belong to them in divers Cases notwithstanding the Sentences that may have been past in their Absence and without their being heard against them XLIII As to those Things which otherwise are not expresly agreed on here those Matters which are contained in this Treaty especially the Section The Vassals of both Parties shall be restored c. that Section As soon as the Treaty of Peace c. and Section And as to the Subjects c. shall be observed in respect to the Duke his Dominions and Subjects as if they had been particularly specified herein XLIV The Lord Cardinal de Fustemburg shall be Restored to all his Rights Feudal Goods Freeholds Benefices Honours and Prerogatives which belong to the Princes and Members of the Sacred Empire as well upon account of his Bishoprick of Strasburg on the right side of the Rhine as of the Abbey of Stavelon or others and shall enjoy with his Kindred or Relations who have adhered to him as also his Domesticks a full Amnesty and Security from all Acts and Deeds and whatever Decrees else have been made against him or them neither shall he be liable himself and his Heirs or his Relations or Kindred and Domesticks to be called to an account for the Inheritance of the deceased Elector Maximilian Henry by the Electors of Cologne and Bavaria their Heirs or any other As the said Cardinal his Kindred or Relations and Domesticks or any having power from them shall not be at liberty neither to demand any thing any manner of way of the Electors out of that Inheritance or for the
himself of paying 400 and 94 thousand Crowns to the Duke of Mantua for the discharge of the Duke of Savoy as is declared at large in the Articles of the Westphalian Treaty and that they may the more fully and firmly be corroborated all and every the Princes concerned in the General Peace give the same sponsions or Guarantees as they have stipulated among themselves for their greater security to the Duke of Savoy and receive the same reciprocally from him XLIX But upon the rendring up or restitution of any Places Persons things or Jurisdictions made or to be made by France there shall no new right be acquired over the things restored or to be restored but and if others have pretensions against them these pretensions after such restitution made which for that reason shall by no means be delay'd shall be propounded examined and decided in a convenient place L. As soon as the Instrument of this Peace shall be Subscribed and Signed by the Extraordinary Embassadors and Plenipotentiaries all manner of Hostility and Violence shall cease and the ruining of Buildings destroying of Vineyards and Woods or cutting down of Trees and the Forces on both sides shall forthwith after the Ratifications are Exchanged be withdrawn from unfortify'd places belonging to the other Party But as for Fortify'd places that are to be restored by Vertue of this Peace they shall be deliver'd up within Thirty Days after the Ratifications are made or sooner if it can be to those who are named in the foregoing Articles or if they have not been exprest to such as were immediately before the Deprivation made in possession of them without ruining any of the Fortifications publick or private Buildings or worsting of the condition they are now in or by claiming of any Charges they have been at upon or concerning them or by any exactions of Souldiers or in their Name or any other alledged cause or by the taking away of things belonging to the Inhabitants or left them by this Peace And as for the demolishing of those places before agreed on that shall be fully done and finish'd without the Expence and trouble of the other Party the lesser ones to be done within the space of one Month and the greater in two Months or sooner if it can be done Besides all Archives or Records and not only those which belong to the places that are to be restored and left to his Imperial Majesty the Empire and the States and Members thereof but also all those which have been taken away from the Chamber and City of Spire and elsewhere in the Empire shall be sincerely restored presently after the Exchange of the Ratifications tho' there be no particular mention made thereof in this Agreement the Prisoners also that have been made on both sides upon account of the War shall be set at full liberty without any Ransom especially such as have been committed to the Gallies or elsewhere to publick Works LI. And to the end the Subjects of either Party may the sooner participate of the fruits of the Peace it is agreed That all Contributions Money Corn Wine Hay Wood Cattle or any thing else otherwise denominated tho' they have been already required from or by Agreement engaged for by the Subjects of either as also forraging of any Kind in the others Dominion shall immediately after the Day of the exchange of the Ratifications totally cease And what shall then remain due as unpaid or the like or any other Contributions Impositions or Exactions shall be utterly abolished and so remain the Hostages also what cause soever they have been given for or taken away shall without delay or any money paid be given up and freely dismist into their Country LII The Commerce also that during the War has been prohibited between his Imperial Majesty and the Empire 's Subjects and those of his most Christian Majesty and the Kingdom of France shall immediately after the subscribing of the Peace be restored into the same freedom as before the War and all and every of them of both sides particularly the Citizens and Inhabitants of the Imperial Cities and Hanse-Towns both by Sea and Land shall enjoy the fullest security their Antient Rights Immunities Priviledges and Emoluments that have been obtained by Solemn Treaties or Ancient Custom any farther agreement therein being left alone 'till after the Peace LIII All things agreed on by this Peace shall be of force and remain always firm observed and put in execution notwithstanding any thing or things that may ever be believed altered or thought on to the contrary which are hereby abrogated and made void tho they may be such things whereof a more particular and ample mention ought to be made and of which the Abrogation or Annulling might seem to be said to be nul and invalid LIV. It shall be free for the Parties on both sides to strengthen this Peace and the Observation of it by Leagues making and enlarging Fortifications on their own Ground at their Pleasure but without the Places excepted before by Name and by other means tending to their Defence all other Kings Princes and Republicks and especially his Swedish Majesty or the Mediator shall also have a right to be Guarrantees of this Peace between his Imperial Majesty and the Empire and the most Christian King as well as to claim the same by Vertue of the Westphalian Treaty LV. And seeing his Sacred Imperial Majesty and the Empire and his Sacred most Christian Majesty do gratefully acknowledge the unweary'd Endeavors and Offices which the most Serene King of Swedeland hath used for the bringing about of the Publick Tranquility it is agreed by both Parties that he with his Kingdoms and Provinces shall by Name be comprehended in this Treaty in the best manner that can be LVI Moreover in this Peace made in the Name of his Imperial Majesty and the Empire are comprehended besides the Members of the Empire already mentioned the rest of the Electors Princes States and Members of the Empire and among them particularly the Bishop and Bishoprick of Basil with all their Jurisdictions Prerogatives and Rights as also the Thirteen Swiss Cantons with their Confederates particularly the Republick and City of Geneva and its Dependencies the City and County of Neufchassel upon the Lake the Cities of St. Gall Mulhausen and Bienne the three leagu'd Rhoetia or the Grisons ' the upper and lower Vallesia and the Abbot of St. Gall. LVII In like manner the thirteeâ—n Swiss Cantons and their Confederates and particularly the Republick of Valesia are in the Name of his most Christian Majesty comprehended in this Peace LVIII All others also shall be included in this Peace who shall be named with common Consent by one or other of the Parties before the Exchange of the Ratifications or within six Months after LIX The Peace being thus concluded the Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of both Parties do promise that the same shall be ratified in the Manner mutually agreed
February in the Year of our Lord 1697. Sign'd Lewis and upon the Fold by the King Colbert and seal'd with the Great Seal in Yellow Wax A Separate Article FOR the further explaining of the Article The most Christian King shall restore to the Elector Palatine c. 8. It has been thought convent to add further to the Treaty of Peace sign'd this Day That in proposing and deciding the Pretensions or Rights the Dutchess of Orleans has against the Elector Palatine this Method shall be observed When the two Arbitrators shall agree upon the Place of meeting within the time prefixt in the Ratifications of the Peace each Party shall have notice given him of the said Place and thither within the space of two Months to be reckon'd from the full Restitution made to the Elector Palatine according to the same Article the Delegates of the Arbitrators shall be sent There then within one Month's space shall be exhibited an entire Declaration of the Pretensions or Requests of the Dutchess of Orleans against the Elector and the same shall be communicated within eight days to the Elector Let the Grounds that both Parties go upon be drawn from thence and delivered there to the Delegates of the Arbitrators within four Months more the day to be assign'd by them and of this let there be four Copies whereof the Arbitrators are to keep one a-piece in their Custody the third shall be put to the Common Acts of Arbitration and the fourth shall be communicated to each of the Parties within eight Days Answer shall be given in the same manner and there shall on the same Day be exhibited to the Delegates of the Arbitrators the Answer of each Party whereof there shall be also four Copies and the same Answer is mutually to be delivered to the respective Parties again within the space of eight days Progress shall be made on both sides during the four following Months towards the Conclusion of the Cause which shall also be submitted to the Sentence of Arbitration and of this Conclusion and Submission Information shall be given to the Parties and the Acts shall be enrolled by the Procurators of the Parties which are present Having therefore seen and examin'd the Right of each Party within the space of six Months Sentence shall be publickly pass'd by the Arbitrators or their Delegates sworn in the Place of Meeting according to the Laws and Constitutions of the Empire and where it shall be agreeable thereunto shall be fully executed But if the Arbitrators of their Delegates shall disagree in their Sentences the Common Acts of the Arbitration shall within two Months space to commence from the day of Sentence at the Common Charges of the Parties be transferred to Rome and exhibited to the Pope as Chief-Arbitrator who shall also commit the thing to be examin'd to Delegates suspected to neither of the Parties and sworn within two Months and these upon the former Acts shall pass the last Sentence without allowing to the Parties any farther deduction of the Matter within six Months hereafter to follow as has been said according to the Laws and Constitutions of the Empire from which Sentence there shall be no revocation but the Lords Arbitrators shall put the same in Execution without any Delay or Contradiction But and if either Party in proposing handling or proving their Pretensions and Rights shall make any delay it shall be free however for the other Party within the appointed times which ought never to be extended to exhibit and set forth their Rights and for the Arbitrators as well as Super-Arbitrator to proceed according to the Method agreed on and to pronounce Sentence according to the Acts and Proofs that are exhibited But notwithstanding this way of Procedure both the Parties themselves as well as the Arbitrators shall endeavour to find out an Amicable Way of Agreement and omit nothing that can tend to terminate the Controversie in a Friendly Manner And seeing it is agreed on in the Article of Peace now cited that untill this Controversie be ended the Yearly Sums of two hundred thousand Livres or an hundred thousand Horins shall by the Elector Palatine be paid to the Dutchess of Orleans moreover it is particularly agreed on in respect to that Payment and the time from which it ought to commence that the same shall begin and take place after that according to the Tenor of the said Article there mentioned there be plenary Restitution made to the Elector And that the Dutchess of Orleans may be so much the more secure as to the payment of the said Summ the Elector shall name so many of his Agents or Collectors in the Prefecture of Germershein or other places of the Palatinate before the Ratification of the Peace as will be enough who shall take upon them to perform the same to the Dutchess or her Agent at Landaw every year the one half to be paid every Half-year and who if they do not satisfie it may be forced to pay it by the ordinary Course of Justice and if there be any further necessity for it even by the most Christian King himself by Military Execution But this Payment shall be made upon that Condition That what is paid upon Account of the said Annual Summ to the Dutchess of Orleans while the Decision of the Matter stands before the Arbitrators shall be compensated with the Pretensions if any of them be adjudged by the Arbitrators to her or if nothing or less be decided to be owing her they shall be restored and this Compensation or Restitution shall as well as the Difference it self be determin'd by the Sentence of the Arbitrators But and if the Dutchess of Orleans shall not satisfie the compromised Form in exhibiting a Declaration of her Pretences in giving Instructions in the Cause and making Answers to those exhibited by the Elector but shall delay the Course of that Annual Payment shall be stopp'd for that space of time the Proceedings in the Cause going on according to same compromis'd Formula Done in the Palace of Reswick Octob. 30. 1697. L. S. D. A. C. of Caunitz L. S. Henr. C. de Straatman L. S. J. F. L. B. à Seilern L. S. de Harlay Boneuil L. S. Verjus de Crecy L. S. de Callieres In the Name of the Elector of Mentz L. S M. Frederick Baron de Schonborn Emb. L. S. Ignatius Antonius Otten Plenipotentiary L. S. Georgius William Moll Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Serene Duke of Bavaria de Prielmyer Extraordinary Em. and Plenipotentiary L. S In the Name of the House of Austria L. S. Fran is Rodulphus of Haldâ—n L. Baron of Trasherg In the Name of the great Master of the Teutonic Order L. S Charles B. à Loâ— Knight of the Teutonick Order In the Name of the most high Prince and Bishop of Wertzburg L. S. John Conrad Philâ—â—â—gnatius de Tastungen In the Name of the most high and most Eminent Elector of Trier as Bishop of Spire L. S. John Henry de Kersersfeld Plenipotentiary In the Name of the most high Prince and Bishop of Constance L. S. Frederick à Derheim In the Name of the most Reverend and most High Bishop and Prince of Hildersheim L. S. Charles Paul Zimmerman Chancellour and Counsellour to his Highness and his Plenipotentiary In the Name of the most Serene and most Reverend Elector of Cologn as Bishop and Prince of Liege L. S. John Conrad Norf. deputed Plenipotentiary In the Name of the most Reverend and most High Bishop and Prince of Munster L. S. Ferdinand L. B. of Plettenberg of Lenhansen D. Capit. of the Cathedral Church of Braderb c. In the Name of the most Serene Elector Palatine as Duke of Newberg L. S. John Henry Hetterman Plenipotentiary In the Name of the most Serene Margiss of Baden L. S. Charles Ferdinand L. B. dâ— Plittersdorff saving the Order of Succession In the Name of the Abbey-College of Swaben L. S. Joseph Anton. Euseb de Halden in Neidberg F. B. de Autenriedt Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Free and Imperial City of Cologn L. S. Herman Joseph Bullingen Syndic Plenipotentiary In the Name of the City of Ausberg L. S. John Christopher à Dierheim Plenipotent FINIS
George the Principality or Countrey of Mompelgard shall be restored to him for himself and Successors in the same state with the same Rights and Prerogatives and especially into the same immediety towards the Sacred Roman Empire as heretofore he has enjoy d it and as the rest of the Princes of the Empire do or ought to enjoy it that Recognition of Vassalage that has been made to the Crown of France in the Year 1681. being utterly annulled hereby And the said Princes shall from henceforth freely enjoy all the Profits both Secular and Ecclesiastical appertaining to the same which they enjoyed before the Peace of Nimeguen as well as the Feudships which during the time of the French's detention of them or at any other time did belong and had not been granted by them to others excepting the Countrey of Baldenheim with its Appurtenances which the most Christian King hath bestowed upon Monsieur de Chamlay Camp-Master General and which ought to remain firm to him but yet so as he is obliged to do homage to the Duke of Wirtemburg as his direct Lord and to his Successors and to seek the renewing of his Feudship at his hands They shall be restored also into the full and free possession both of their Feudships in Burgundy Clerevall and Passavant as also of their Dynasties or Lordships of Granges Herricourt Blamont Chatelot and Clemont and of the rest that are situated in the County of Burgundy and Principality of Montpelgard together with all their Rights and Incomes in the very same manner as they possest them before the Peace at Nimeguen all those things being utterly abolished which were done or pretended to at any time by what Title any way distinguished and in any manner whatsoever to the contrary XIV The House or Marquisate of Baden shall also enjoy all the Right and Benefit of this Peace and at the same time of the Peace of Westphalia and Nimeguen but more especially the Fourth and Fifth Articles of this Treaty XV. In the same manner the Princes and Counts of Nassaw Hanaw and Leinigen and all the other States of the Sacred Roman Empire who by the Fourth Article of this Treaty or any other are to be restored shall be re-posiest in all and singular their Dominions or Rights and in all the Profits belonging to and Incomes arising from them and in all other Rights and Benefits by what name soever called or distinguished XVI But seeing for the better Establishment of this Peace it has been thought fit to make an Exchange of some Places his Imperial Majesty and the Empire yield up to the most Christian King and his Successors the City of Strasburg and whatever belongs to the said City on the left side of the Rhine with all the Jurisdiction Propriety and Supream Dominion which hath hitherto appertained or could appertain to him and the Roman Empire and transfer all and singular of them to the most Christian King and his Successors so that the said City with all its Appurtenances and Dependencies situated on the left side of the Rhine without any reservation with all manner of Jurisdiction and Superiority and Supream Dominion do appertain from this time and for ever to the most Christian King and his Successors and be understood to be incorporated with the Crown of France without any contradiction from the Emperour Empire or any other whatever and for the greater validity of this Cession or alienation the Emperour and the Empire by vertue of the present transaction expresly derogate from all and singular the Decrees Constitutions Statutes and Customs of the preceding Emperours and the Sacred Roman Empire tho confirmed by Oath or to be Confirmed hereafter and particularly from the Imperial Capitulation so fas forth as any manner of alienation of the Goods and Rights of the Empire is prohibited all which they expresly renounce and discharge the said City with all the Magistrates Officials Citizens and Subjects thereof from the Oaths and Obligations by which they have been hitherto bound to the Emperour and the Empire and remit the same under the subjection obedience and fidelity of the most Christian King and his Successors and so constitute the most Christian King in the full and just Propriety Possession and Sovereignty thereof and renounce all Jurisdictions and pretentions in the same from henceforth and for ever and to that end are pleased to expunge the said City of Strasburgh out of the Body of the Empire XVII But it shall be free to all and singular the Inhabitants of the said City and its dependancies of whatever condition they be if they are minded to remove to transfer their Dwellings from thence elsewhere together with all their moveable Goods without any let detraction or exacting any thing from them within one Year after the Ratification of this Peace and after five Years having first performed the Conditions that have long since been in usage there and either to sell or retain their moveables and to manage the same either by themselves or others The same Power also of retaining and either by themselves or others of managing or alienating them shall remain to all the other Members or Subjects whether mediate or immediate of the Empire who have Goods Profits Debts Actions or Rights in the said City or its appurtenances whether they have always retained them Or that during the War or before it they have been Confiscated or taken away and granted to others by what Name soever called or wheresoever they may live reserving still the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to those to whom of old it did belong which Jurisdiction or the exercise thereof it shall be never lawful to obstruct XVIII On the other hand his most Christian Majesty shall restore the Fort of Kehl built by him on the right side of the Rhine whole together with all its Rights and Dependencies within Thirty days after the Ratification of this Treaty but for the Fort called the Pile and the rest of them that have been built within the Rhine it self or any of its Islands they shall be rased down to the ground within one Month after or sooner if it can be at the Charge of the Most Christian King and never to be re-built by neither Party hereafter and the Navigation of the River or other Use thereof shall be alike free to the Subjècts of both Parties or to any other that will repair thither Sail or carry Goods thereon neither shall there be any thing done by either party there or any where else towards turning the River whereby to render the Course thereof or its Navigation or other Use the more difficult upon any account whatsoever much less shall any new Customs Impost or Toll be exacted or the old ones increased or the Ships which pass it to and fro be forced to come to the one side of the River more than the other or to unlade their Merchandise and Burdens or take them in but that always ought to be left to every