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. N. S. 75 The full Powers of the Emperor's Ambassadors 112 The General full Power of the Deputation of the Empire 116 The full Powers of the French Ambassadors 118 Separate Article 120 The Names and Qualities of their Excellencies the Ambassadors Plenipotentiaries Publick Ministers Envoys c. who were present at the Congress for a General Peace held in the Palace at Ryswick call'd Newbourg-House 126 Advertisement Books newly Printed THE Pantheon representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods and most Illustrious Heroes in a plain and familiar Method by way of Dialogue Written by Fra. Pomey Author of the French and Latin Dictionary for the Use of the Dauphin The Second Edition wherein the whole Translation is Revised and much Amended and the Work is illustrated and adorn'd with elegant Copper Cuts of the several Deities c. 8 0. Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in S. Paul's Church-yard Joan. 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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
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
Envoys at the Courts of those Princes and receives and entertains at his own Court Envoys and Embassadors from them and that the King shall in no ways take ill his so doing comprehending under that Word Princes the Emperor Kings and Sovereign Powers of Europe V. His Majesty doth ingage and declare that the ordinary and extraordinary Embassadors of Savoy shall receive at the Court of France all the Honours without Exception and with all the Circumstances and Ceremonies that are paid to the Embassadors of Crowned Heads that is to say they shall be received as Embassadors from Kings and that his Majesty's ordinary as well as extraordinary Embassadors in all the Courts of Europe without Exception and even the King's Embassadors at Rome and Vienna shall likewise treat and use the said ordinary and extraordinary Embassadors and Envoys from Savoy as they do those from Kings and Crowned Heads But in regard that this Addition of Honour as to the Treatment of the Embassadors from Savoy has been never hitherto settled nor raised to that Degree that his Majesty doth now allow it His Royal Highness is sensible and doth acknowledge that it is in Consideration of this Treaty or Contract of Marriage of the Duke of Burgundy with the Princess his his Daughter and his Majesty doth promise that this Augmentation of Honour shall take Place from the Day that the aforesaid Treaty of Marriage is Signed VI. That the Trade between France and Italy shall be renewed and maintained in the same manner as it was settled before this War from the time of Charles Emanuel II. his Royal Highness's Father and the same shall be observed and practised in all Points and in all Places between the Kingdom and the several parts of his Majesty's Dominions and those of his Royal Highness's which was used and practised in all things in the Lifetime of the said Charles Emanuel II. on the Roads of Suza in Savoy and Pont Beauvoisin and Villefranche every one paying the Duties and Customs on both Sides the French Ships shall continue to pay the ancient Duties at Villefranche as it was wont to be paid in the time of the said Charles Emmanuel about which there shall be no Contest or Opposition made any more than used to be done in those Days The Couriers and ordinary Posts of France shall pass as formerly through his Royal Highness's Estates and Countries and according to the Regulations there they shall pay the Duties for the Merchandizes wherewith they shall be charged VII His Royal Highness shall cause an Edict to be published by which he shall upon the Penalty of severe corporal Punishments forbid the Inhabitants of the Vallies of Lucern called Vaudois to have any Communication in Matters of Religion with the King's Subjects and his Royal Highness shall ingage not to suffer at any time from the Date of this Treaty any of his Majesty's Subjects to make any Settlement in the Protestant Vallies under Colour of Religion of Marriage or for any other Pretence of Settlement Conveniency taking Possession of Inheritances or any other Pretence whatsoever and that no Protestant Minister shall come from thence into any of his Majesty's Dominions without incurring the severest of Corporal Punishments That however his Majesty shall take no Cognisance of his Royal Highness's Usage towards the Vaudois in regard of their Religion yet his Royal Highness shall be bound not to suffer the Exercise of the Reformed Religion in the City of Pignerol nor in the Territories that are restored to his Royal Highness in like manner as his Majesty neither doth nor will allow the exercise of it in his Kingdom VIII That there shall be on both sides a perpetual Act of Oblivion and Indemnity of all that has been done since the beginning of this War in what Place soever the Acts of Hostility have been committed That in this Act of Grace all those shall be comprehended who have served his Majesty in what Station soever although they were his Royal Highness's Subjects so that no Prosecution shall be made against them neither shall they be molested either in their Persons or Estates by Reprisals Executions or Judicial Processes or upon any pretext whatsoever and the King's Subjects that have served his Royal Highness shall be used in the like manner IX That Ecclesiastical Benefices in such parts of his Royal Highness's Country as hath been conquered by the King having been filled up by his Majesty from time to time as the same became vacant during the time that his Majesty possessed the said Countries it is agreed that the said Collation to Benefices shall be valid and the Persons who have been promoted by the King and invested by Authority of the Pope's Bulls shall remain in full Possession thereof But as to Promotions to the Livings belonging to the Military Order of St. Maurice or to Places of Judicature or Magistracy his Royal Highness shall have Liberty to alter the Nominations made by the King and all Grants made by his Royal Highness of Offices in the Law become vacant by the Person 's leaving them during the War shall remain good and valid X. As for Contributions that were imposed on the Lands of his Royal Highness's Dominions altho' they are lawfully imposed and are become due and that they amount to considerable Sums his Majesty does out of his Liberality fully discharge his Royal Highness of them so that from the Day of this Treaty's Ratification the King will not pretend to nor require any of the said Contributions leaving his Royal Highness in full Possession of his Revenues throughout his Dominions as well as in Savoy Nice about Pignerol and Suza his Royal Highness on the other side not demanding any Contributions of the King XI As to the Pretensions of the Dutchess of Nemours on his Royal Highness his Majesty leaves those Controversies to be determined among themselves by due Course of Law without concerning himself further therein XII That it shall be Lawful for his Royal Highness to send Intendants and Commissaries into Savoy the County of Nice the Marquisate of Susa and Barcellonet into Pignerol and its Dependencies in order to Regulate his Interests Rights and Revenues and to settle his Customs and Excises upon Salt and other things And the said Deputed Persons shall be admitted and authorised in their Offices immediately after the Ratification of this present Treaty after which the said Duties shall belong to his Royal Highness without Exception or Contradiction XIII That if the Neutrality for Italy be accepted or that a General Peace be Concluded as in such Cases a great many Troops would become altogether useless and Chargeable to his Royal Highness and that besides the excessive Charges requisite for the maintaining of them they commonly become an occasion of creating a mis-understanding among Princes when more Troops are kept on foot then are necessary in a State either for its own Conservation or for the maintaining of the Dignity of a Sovereign Prince his
to the Restitution of Lorain Not according to the Terms of the Treaty of Nimeguen because a Restitution on such Conditions is not to be accepted of and the Queen both as a Mother and a Guardian of her Children cannot allow of it and she cannot act contrary to the Duke her Husband's Deed who was never willing to accept of a Restitution on those Terms Neither ought that Treaty of Nimeguen to stand as a Prelimenary or a Foundation of this Treaty since the King of France himself has in a manner disanulled it by declaring by his Ambassadors that it was as if it had never been and the deceased Duke of Lorain on his part made a Declaration That he would not be held by it Nevertheless that pretended Treaty to which he had never consented nor agreed unto nor signed by his Plenipotentiary but on the contrary protested against has been concluded notwithstanding his Dissent How then can that Treaty be revived without him and made use of it against an August Widow and Four most Serene Orphans whereof the eldest is Duke Leopold of Lorain the first of that Name descended of Sixty Seven Dukes of a continued Line of so illustrious a Blood that there is no King nor Prince in Europe now living but has drops of it in his Veins and even the most Christian King himself Whence it cannot be imagin'd that his Majesty could be willing that this most Serene Family which has in former times rendered such signal Services to the Crown of France should be now destroyed and brought to nothing II. By the Laws of Nature for the Sake of the Quality of this Illustrious House and by the Obligation of Alliances the High Confederates ought to support its Cause The Emperour hath made a Solemn and Authentick Treaty with the States General of the United Provinces in which there is an express Article importing that the Dukedoms of Lorain and Barr with all the Dominions and Countries thereunto belonging shall be fully restored to the late Duke of Lorrain of Glorious Memory He was then alive and contributed very much to promote that Treary and if that Article which related to him had not been admitted to be comprehended in it that Treaty would have never been concluded nor ratified Mynheer Hop who was one of the Publick Ministers concerned in it and signed it knows this to be true And the States General have the Substance of what I have been saying in their own Records The Monarchy of Spain the Crown of England and other consederated Powers consented to that Treaty did concur in it or rather run to take upon them the common Defence of it and engaged themselves into the same Obligation to see this Article relating to Lorrain duly performed whereof they gave their particular Assurances There was no Elector Prince or State of the Empire that opposed it on the contrary the Three Colledges gave their Votes and Resolutions for this Restitution to be made to the full and with allowance for Damages These are the Engagements of the high Allies for the House of Lorain against which France does peremptorily declare by Monsieur Caillieres That the King will not restore Lorrain but on the Conditions mentioned in the Treaty of Nimeguen Does there need more Arguments to move the Allies to cause the Restitution of Lorain to be put among the Prelimenaries according to the Tenour of their Obligations Before Monsieur Caillieres had declared this Negative he gave us some Ground to hope by what he had said at Meastricht and elsewhere that Lorain would be restored on certain Conditions or on Terms more Advantageous than those of the Treaty of Nimeguen These Advantages were then to be Part of the Preliminaries in order to draw on this Treaty But that those fair Promises were to be taken but for meer Complements appears at present plain enough by this absolute Negative of his viz. The King will not Which may give sufficient Warning to the Allies to make use of more Precaution in their Transactions and this obliges them the more to make this so just a Restitution part of the Prelimenary aad that without it the Congress should not be held Seeing without it there can be no Peace unless that the King of France be permitted to triumph doubly over the Allies and subdue them which I hope he must not expect or pretend that they must not without his Leave keep their Promises and Ingagements Signed Canon Another Memorial which the same President Canon presented to the same Assembly of the High Allies on the 22d of May 1697. Gentlemen c. MY Age and ill Disposition of Body will not permit me to wrangle nor use many words and therefore all I shall say is That we are come hither to make a Peace and not to Dispute or Regulate Ranks and Places Every one yields the first to the Emperor only and no Body disputes it with him no not our Enemies themselves We have with common Consent and by the Intervention of our Mediator made an Act of Reservation because of the several Titles which Act has been thought very Prudential and Necessary for it is a Precedent and at the same time secures all other Pretensions of Place and Precedency which every one may arrogate to himself For my part I do not intend to take place of any Body But at the same time I will not suffer any thing to be done that can prejudice the Queen my Mistress or the most Serene Duke her Son who is a Sovereign and that 's enough Otherwise I shall call my self a Representative of the King of Jerusalem There shall come another that will entitle himself King of Cyprus Their Lordships the States General will call themselves Kings of several Kingdoms in the Indies for they are so indeed but that is not the question Gentlemen as I said before we are not here to dispute or regulate what is de gloria mundi but only and solely to Treat of the Peace which shall be concluded and God Almighty will send if we have it first among us the High Allies The under-named Minister and Plenipotentiary of Lorain not to be tedious in the Congress of the Peace and concur in it according to the wise direction proposed by his Excellency the Ambassador Mediator and agreed on by all Parties now in War claims from and in the Name of the Queen his Mistress in Quality of Mother and Guardian of the most Serene Duke of Lorain and Barr Leopold First of the Name her Son a Minor and of three other Princes his Brothers all under Age all four her Sons and lawful Issue by the most Serene Duke of Lorain and Barr lately deceased of glorious Memory her Husband the succinct and general Demand here annexed which her Majesty has made herself and Signed with her own Hand which Monsieur Caillieres then Minister of France and now Extraordinary Ambassador and Plenipotentiary in this Congress having seen and perused did not think
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
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
at present Effectually and Faithfully as aforesaid all the Engagements he may have against France he hopes also that His Majesty will Correspond to it with all the kind Sentiments which his Royal Highness begs and desires and that having the Honour of being so nearly Related to the King and entring now in the splendor of a new Alliance His Majesty will grant and promise him his powerful Protection the return of which his Royal Highness requests of his Majesty and which His Majesty returns in its full Extent And because his Royal Highness is desirous to keep a perfect Neutrality with the Kings Princes and Potentates now his Allies His Majesty promises not to lay any Constraint on the desire his Royal Highness has of keeping with them all the outward Measures of Decency as it becomes a Sovereign Prince who has Ambassadors and Envoys at the Court of those Princes and receives and entertains at his own Court Ambassadors and Envoys of the same Princes without incurring his Majesties ill Will comprehending under the Word of Princes the Emperor Kings and Potentates of Europe V. His Majesty does promise and declare That the Ambassadors of the D. of Savoy both Ordinary and Extraordinary shall receive at the Court of France all the Honours without exception and in all the Circumstances which the Ambassadors of Crowned Heads receive that is such as are Ambassadors of Kings and that all ordinary and extraordinary Ambassadors of his Majesty in all the Courts of Europe without any Exception not even of that of Rome and Vienna shall also treat the said Ambassadors both Ordinary and Extraordinary and Envoys of Savoy in the same manner as those of Kings and Crowned Heads however because this addition of Honour in the Treatment of the Ambassadors of Savoy had never been settled to that height as His Majesty grants it his Royal Highness acknowledges that it is in consideration of the present Treaty and the Contract of Marriage of the Princess his Daughter and His Majesty promises that the said Addition shall take place from the Day on which the Contract of Marriage aforementioned is Signed VI. That the ordinary Commerce and Trade of Italy shall be set open kept up and entertained as it was settled before this War in the time of Charles Emmanuel II. Father to his Royal Highness and that all that was done observed and practised during the Life of the said Charles Emmanuel II. shall also be done observ'd and practised in all Points and Circumstances betwixt the Kingdom and all the Parts of his Majesties Dominions and those of his Royal Highness through the Way and Road of Suza Savoy le Ponte Beauvoisin and Villa Franca every one Paying the Duties and Customs on both Sides The French Ships shall continue to Pay the ancient Duty of Villa Franca as it was practised in the time of Charles Emmanuel without any opposition that might have been made at that Time The Couriers and ordinary Posts of France shall pass as before through the States of his Royal Highness and according to the Statutes shall pay the Duties due for the Goods they shall carry VII His Royal Highness shall cause an Edict to be Publish'd whereby under severe Penalties he shall Command the Inhabitants of the Valleys of Luserne called Vaudois not to entertain any Correspondence upon the Account of Religion with the King's Subjects And his Royal Highness shall oblige himself not to suffer from the Date of this Treaty any of His Majesties Subjects to settle in the Protestant Vallies under Colour of Religion Marriage or other reasons of Settlement as Conveniency Inheritance or any other Pretence nor any Protestant Minister to come within the extent of His Majesties Dominions without being severely punished by Corporal Punishment As for the rest His Majesty shall take no Cognizance how and in what manner his Royal Highness uses the Vaudois as to their Religion and his Royal Highness obliges himself not to suffer the Exercise of the pretended Reformed Religion in the Town of Pignerol and Territories Resigned as His Majesty neither suffers nor shall ever suffer it in his Kingdom VIII That there be on both Sides a perpetual Oblivion and Amnesty of all that has been done since the beginning of this War in what manner or in what place soever the Hostilities have been committed That in this Amnesty shall be comprehended all those that served His Majesty during the War in any Employment whatsoever altho' they be natural Subjects of his Royal Highness so that they shall not be called to account nor molested in their Persons or Estates either by way of Fact or of Justice or under any other Pretence whatsoever The same shall be observed with respect to the King's Subjects who have served his Royal Highness IX That the Ecclesiastical Benefices that have been Collated till this present time by the King in the Countries of his Royal Highness Conquered by His Majesty during the space of Time his said Majesty has enjoy'd them shall remain to those to whom the Collation was made by the King and the Pope's Bulls And that for what belongs to the Commanderies of St. Maurice Offices of Judicature and Magistracy his Royal Highness shall have no regard to the Nomination the King has made about them during the Possession of his Royal Highnesses Dominions And the Patents or Warrants granted by his Royal Highness for Offices of the Gown to those that have abandoned their Functions during the War shall remain in force X. That as for the Contributions laid upon the Countries in his Royal Highnesses Dominions altho' they be lawfully imposed and due and amount to very considerable Sums His Majesty as an affect of his Liberality does entirely remit them to his Royal Highness So that from the Day of the Ratification of the present Treaty His Majesty shall neither claim nor exact any of the said Contributions But shall leave his said Royal Highness to the free Enjoyment of all his Revenues in all his Dominions as also of Savoy Nice Precincts of Pignerol and Suza And reciprocally his Royal Highness shall exact no Contributions from the Subjects and Countries of the King's Dominions XI That for what concerns the Pretensions and Demands of the Dutchess of Nemours upon his Royal Highness His Majesty shall leave his said Royal Highness and the said Dutchess of Nemours to discuss and debate the said Pretensions by the ordinary ways of Justice without taking any Cognizance of them XII That it shall be lawful for his Royal Highness to send Intendants or Commissioners into Savoy County of Nice Marquisate of Suza and Barcelonette Pignerol and its Dependencies to regulate his Concerns Duties Revenues and settle his Customs and Impositions upon Salt and others and the said Deputies shall be received and authorized in their Functions after the Ratification of the present Treaty after which the said Duties shall belong to his Royal Highness without Exception or Contradiction XIII That if the Neutrality
of Italy should be accepted or the General Peace Concluded because a great number of Troops would be altogether useless and burthensom to his Royal Highness and that besides the Excessive Charges for keeping them it is often an occasion of misunderstanding the maintaining of more standing Forces than are necessary either for the Defence and Preservation or the Dignity of the Sovereign his Royal Highness obliges himself not to keep and maintain in time of Neutrality above Six Thousand Men of Foot on this side the Mountains and Fifteen Hundred beyond the Mountains for the Garrisons of Savoy and County of Nice and in all Fifteen Hundred Horse or Dragoons which last Obligation of his Royal Highness shall not take place before the General Peace We the above-mentioned Plenipotentiaries have Concluded and Signed the present Articles and we do Promise and Engage to cause the same to be Ratified and Confirmed by His Majesty and his Royal Highness Moreover We do promise that they shall be religiously kept secret till the end of the Month September next at which time if others be made of the same Substance and Tenor the present ones shall be suppressed Done at Turin the 29th of August 1696. Rene de Frouillay Tesse de St. Thomas A Translation of the full Power of their Excellencies the Ambassadors of His Catholick Majesty CHARLES by the Grace of God King of Spain c. We make it known and declare That having no greater Passion and Desire than to see the end of this present and fatal War and a speedy and solid Peace restored in Christendom We do acknowledge with due Affection and Thankfulness the charitable and laudable intentions which have moved the most serene and mighty Prince our Brother Cousin and most dear Friend the Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of Sueden Goths and Vandals Great Prince of Finland Duke of Scania Esthonia Livonia Carelia Bremen Wherden Stetin Pomerania Cazubia and Vandalia Prince of Rugia Lord of Lingria and Vismaria Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleves Deuxponts c. To take upon him the Office of Mediator and use all his Endeavours and good Offices to restore the publick Tranquility And that nothing may be wanting on our side that may contribute to so good and salutary an Intention assoon as we have been inform'd that it had been agreed by all the Parties concerned to pitch upon and name Ryswick as the most fit and convenient Place to treat of a General Peace We have without any delay named and appointed for our Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries and as we name and appoint by these Presents Don Francisco Bernardo de Quiros one of our Council of Castille and our Ambassador to the States-General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries and Don Alexander Schockart Count of Tirimont one of the State and Privy Council of the Low-Countries of Flanders that they may treat that Negotiation from us and in our Name And being fully assured and perswaded and entirely trusting to their Fidelity Prudence and Experience in the management of Affairs We do specially Charge and Command them to go and repair with all possible speed to the Village of Ryswick and enter upon the Conferences and Treaties of Peace with the Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the most high and mighty Prince Lewis the most Christian King of France our most dear Brother and Cousin together with all the other Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of our most high and mighty Allies and by the intervention and good Offices of the Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the most high and mighty Prince Charles King of Sueden our most dear Brother And that they may have a lawful and sufficient Faculty for the same end We also give and grant a full and entire Authority and all the Power requisite for the same purpose to our said Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries Don Francisco Bernardo de Quiros and the Count of Tirimont to them both together and each of them in particular in case of absence or indisposition of either to Settle Conclude and Sign for Us and in our Name the Treaty of Peace betwixt Us and our most Potent Allies and the most high and mighty Prince the most Christian King of France As also to draw dispatch and deliver all Deeds and Instruments necessary for that purpose and generally to do promise and stipulate and conclude Acts and Declarations to exchange Agreements and do all other things belonging to the said Negotiations of Peace with the same liberty and faculty as We could do our Selves if We were present Even also in those Affairs and Acts that may require a more special and explicite Order than what is contained in these Presents And We promise assure and plight our Faith and royal Word That We shall solemnly ratifie in the best form and manner that can be and within the time agreed on by common Consent whatever our said Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries shall have done Treated Promised Signed and Concluded together or separately in the form aforesaid In Testimony of which Premises and for their greater Force and Validity we give these Presents Signed with our own Hand Sealed with our Privy Seal and Countersigned by our Secretary of State Madrid the 21st of April 1697. Sign'd I the King Concordat cum Originali Don Crispin Gonsales Botello Full Power of their Excellencies the Ambassadors of His most Christian Majesty LEWIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarr to all those to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas it is our most ardent Desire to see the War which now afflicts Christendom concluded and ended by a good Peace and whereas through the Endeavours and Mediation of our most Dear and most Beloved Brother the King of Sueden the Cities of Delf and the Hague have been pitched and agreed upon by all Parties there to hold the Conferences necessary for that purpose we out of the same desire to put a stop as far as in us lies and with the assistance of Divine Providence to the Desolation of so many Provinces and the Effusion of much Christian Blood make it known and declare That we fully and intirely trusting in the Experience Capacity and Fidelity of our beloved and trusty Harlay de Bonnevil Counseller in Ordinary in our Council of State of our well beloved Verjus Count of Crecy Baron of Couvay Lord of Boulay the Two Churches Manillet and other Places and of our well beloved De Caillieres Lord of Roche-Chellay and Gigny by the trial we have made and the pregnant Proofs we have had of them in the several important Employments wherewith we have entrusted them both within and without our Kingdom For these Reasons and other weighty Considerations us moving we have committed ordained and deputed the said de Harlay de Crecy and Cailliers and we do commit ordain and depute them by these Presents Signed with our own Hand and have given
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
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
interchangeably here agreed on and to procure the Exchange of the Letters of Ratifications in this same place within the space of six Weeks to begin to reckon from this very day or sooner if possible LX. In Witness and confirmation whereof the Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries as well Imperial as those of the King of France as also the Plenipotentiaries of the Electors and Deputies from the States of the Empire have to this effect subsigned this present Treaty with their own hands and have annexed their Seals thereto Done at the Royal Palace of Ryswick in Holland the Thirteenth of October in the year One thousand six hundred ninety and seven L.S. D. A. C. de Kaunitz L.S. Hen. C. de Stratman L.S. J. F. L. B. de 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. Frederic Baron de Schinborn Embassador L.S. Ignatius Antonius Otten Plenipotentiary L.S. George William Moll Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Elector of Bavaria De Prielmeyer Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary L.S. In the Name of the House of Austria L.S. Francis Radolphe de Halden L. Baron of Trasberg c. In the Name of the Great Master of the Teutonick Order L.S. Charles B. de Loe Knight of the Teutonick Order In the Name of the Bishop of Wurtsbourg L.S. John Conrard Philip Ignatius de Tastungen In the Name of the Elector of Triers L.S. John Henry de Kaisarsfeld Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Prince and Bishop of Constance L.S. Frederic de Durheim In the Name of the Bishop and Prince of Hildesheim L.S. Charles Paul Zimmerman Chancellour to his Highness Counsellour of the Privy Counsel and Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Elector of Cologn in quality of Bishop and Prince of Liege L.S. John Conrade Norff Deputy Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Prince and Bishop of Munster L.S. Ferdinand L. B. Plettenberg de Senhausen respectively Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Paderb Munster and Hildes In the Name of the Elector Palatine as Duke of Newbourg L.S. John Henry Hetterman Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Duke of Wirtemberg L.S. John George Noble de Kulpis Knight of the Roman Empire intimate Counsellour of State and Director of the Counsell L.S. Anthony Guntor de Hespen Counsellour in the Supreme Council and Plenipotentiary to the Serene Duke In the Name of the Prince of Baden L.S. Charles Ferdinand L. B. de Plettersdorff Reserve l'Ordre alternatif In the Name of the Abbatial College of Suabia L. S. Joseph Anthony Eusebius de Hâ—lden de Neidtborg L. Baron de Antenriedt Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Counts of the Bench of Weteraw L. S. Charles Otton Count de Solms L. S. F. G. de Eclesheim Counsellor of Hannaw and Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Free and Imperial City of Cologne L. S. Herman Joseph Bullingen Burgomaster and Plenipotentiary In the Name of the City of Ausbourg L. S. John Christopher de Dirheim Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Imperial City of Francford L.S. John James Muller Plenipotentiary L.S. John Melchior Lucius Lecturer of Civil and Canon Laws Burgomaster and Plenipotentiary THE FULL POWER OF THE EMPEROUR Translated from the Latin WE LEOPOLD by the Grace of God elected Emperour of the Romans Semper Augustus and King of Germany Hungary Bohemia of Dalmatia Croatia Slavonia c. Archduke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Stiria Carinthia and Carniola c. Marquis of Moravia Duke of Luxembourg of the High and Low Silesia of Wirtemberg and of Teck Prince of Suabia Count of Habsbourg Tyrol Ferrette Kybourg and of Goricia Marquis of the Holy Roman Empire Burgaw of the High and Low Lusatia Lord of the Sclavonian Marches Port Naon and Salins c. do certifie and make known That desiring nothing more ardently than that the present War wherewith Christendom hath been afflicted for some Years last past may speedily be converted into an Honourable and Equitable Peace and that it hath seemed good to all the Parties engaged in the present War to enter upon a Treaty and Conference of Peace in a Place that shall be by them chosen and appointed by unanimous Consent Wherefore being desirous with all our Heart to contribute all that lies in our Power to procure the Repose of the Christian Commonweal and we confiding in the Fidelity and Prudence of our Trusty and Well-beloved the Illustrious and Magnificent Dominic Andrew Count de Kaunitz Hereditary Lord of Austerlitz Hungarischbrod Mahrispruss and of Great Orzechau our Counsellor of State Chamberlain and Vice-chancellor of the Empire Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece of the Illustrious and Magnificent Henry John Count de Stratman Lord of Peurbach Orth Smiding of Spatenbrun and Carlsberg our Imperial Aulique Counsellor and Chamberlain and of the Magnificent John Frederick Free-Baron of Seilern c. our Imperial Aulique Counsellor and Con-Commissioner Plenipotentiary in the Imperial Diets have nominated appointed chosen and constituted them as we do by these Presents nominate chuse appoint and constitute them our Extraordinary Embassadors and Plenipotentiaries in the aforesaid Assemblies and Conferences of Peace that are to be held To whom we give in charge and command them in especial manner to repair with all expedition imaginable to the Place agreed upon between the Parties and being there to enter into a Conference of Peace either directly or by the Interposition and Means of a Mediator acknowledged by both Parties with the Embassadors or Deputies of the most High most Mighty and most Christian Prince LEWIS King of France our most Dear Cousin and Brother the said Embassadors being authorized with sufficient Power to terminate and put an end to the present War and regulate the Differences that relate thereto by a good and solid Peace We also grant a Full and Absolute Power with all Authority thereunto necessary to our said Extraordinary Embassadors and Plenipotentiaries to all Three together or to Two in case the Third chance to be absent or employed and busie elsewhere or to One alone in the absence of the other Two or their being busied and employed elsewhere to make conclude and sign for us and in our Name a Treaty of Peace between us and the foresaid Serene and most Puissant Prince the most Christian King to cause to be dispatch'd and deliver'd all Acts necessarily conducing to this End and effectually to promise stipulate conclude and sign the Acts and Declarations to exchange the Articles agreed upon and to perform all other Things appertaining to the said Business of the Peace as freely and in as ample a manner as we our Self could do being there present altho' a more special and more express Order might seem necessary than that which is contained in these Presents Promising upon the whole and faithfully bona fide and upon our Imperial Word declaring to accept and consent to confirm and ratifie whatsoever hath been transacted concluded
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
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
Thana answered That he received in his Royal Highness's Name the aforesaid Countries Places and Dependencies This done the Marquiss de Thoy repeated once more the Words of the said Surrender and then went out of the Town-House Of all the aforesaid Transactions both the said Marquiss de Thoy and Thana caused an Act to be made before Publick Notaries which was signed As Witnesses Syndics Favre de Charmettes Perin Cugnet Tonce Thoy de Pisien Marquis de Thana I Jasper Chambet Notary and Burgess of Chambery have receiv'd and passed the present Act as required Signed G. Chambet Not. THE ACTS AND NEGOTIATIONS OF THE TREATY of PEACE Held at the Palace of Ryswick TOGETHER With a Description of the Palace wherein it was Concluded And a List of the Names and Qualities of all the Plenipotentiaries that transacted it LONDON Printed for Rob. Clavel and T. Child MDCXCVIII THE ACTS AND NEGOTIATIONS OF THE PEACE Concluded at the PALACE at Ryswick in Holland BEFORE his Imperial Catholick and Britannick Majesty with the other Princes and States their Confederates in the War against the French King would be prevail'd upon to depute Ministers to treat of a Peace the French were obliged to set forth and positively agree to by way of Prelimenary the Terms upon which the said Peace should be made Which Preliminaries being finally adjusted between Messieurs Boreel and Dyckvelt on the Part of the Confederates with Monsieur Caillieres the French King's Minister and his Majesty the King of Sweden being accepted by both Parties as Mediator the Illustrious Allies were pleased to nominate their Plenipotentiaries to assemble at his Majesty the King of Great Britain's Palace at Ryswick there to treat with the Plenipotentiaries of the French King The said Preliminaries are as follows An Extract out of the Register-Book of the Mediator his Majesty the King of Sweden's Publick Minister At the Hague February 10. 1697. THIS Day at Eleven in the Morning Monsieur Caillieres his most Christian Majesty's Minister came in Company with Monsieur Dyckvelt to the House of the Swedish Minister the Mediator and having produced and shewed to the said Mediator his full Power and that of his Imperial Majesty's Minister being also read and Copies of both after being compar'd with the Originals exchang'd He the said Monsieur Cailleires made the following Declaration Preliminary Articles I. THE King of France doth consent and agree That the Treaties of Westphalia and Nimeguen shall be the Basis and Foundation of the Negotiations for a General Peace with all the Confederates II. To Restore Strasbourg in the same Condition it was in when taken by his Majesty III. To restore to the King of Spain Luxemburgh in the Condition it is now in IV. Also the Cities of Mons and Charleroy in the same Condition they are in at present V. The several Places in Catalonia that are now in the King's Hands being taken since the Peace of Nimeguen shall be restored in the Condition they were in when taken VI. To restore to the Bishop of Leige the Town and Cittadel of Dinant in the same State they were in when taken VII To restore all Places that have been taken by Virtue of Re-Union since the Treaty of Nimeguen VIII And Lorrain according to the Condition of the said Treaty of Nimeguen This done the said Minister of France and Monsieur Dyckvelt went together to the House of Monsieur Boreel who by Reason of Indisposition was hindred from being present and the Swedish Minister resorting thither also the said Ministers Boreel and Dyckvelt did declare to the Mediator in the Presence of Monsieur Cailleires That over and above the recited Preliminaries it was also agreed That provided the Peace be concluded the most Christian King shall at the time it is signed own and acknowledge the Prince of Orange as King of Great Britain without any Difficulty Limitation Condition or Reserve to which the said Monsieur Cailleires did reply and declare to the Mediator That in the Name of his Master the most Christian King he did confirm and agree to what Messieurs Boreel and Dyckvelt had said After the Preliminaries were adjusted it was agreed that the Ambassadors and Publick Ministers of the Allies should Reside at the Hague but that the Ambassadors of the most Christian King should make their Residence at Delft and that the Conferences for the General Peace should be held at the Castle of Ryswick from which both those Towns were of equal Distance A Description of the Palace of Ryswick and of the First Conferences that were held there BEfore we begin to give the Particulars of the Conferences held there or produce the Acts themselves it will not be unnecessary to exhibit a Description of the Palace of Ryswick with a Prospect or external View and a Plan or Area of the Inside in Sculpture by which the Reader will be able to form the more exact Idea of the Ceremonies observed at the Conferences This House has sometimes the Title of Newburgh because a Duke of Newburgh laid the first Stone of it when Frederick Henry Prince of Orange caused it to be built It is situate at about an equal Distance between the Hague and Delft a Musquet Shot from the Village of Ryswick and but a little way Distant from the Road between Delft and the Hague One might say that it was built on purpose for a Place of Treaty so convenient it is for such a Work as will be seen by observing the Situation of the Chambers Galleries and Closets as they are laid down in the Draught annexed and by Figures and Letters are pointed to thus THE ROYALL PALLACE AT RYSWICK Where the Conferences for a General Peace were held The Palace at Ryswick where were held the Conferences for a general Pece 1. The Palace 2. The Pavilions or two wings of it 3. The Governors House 4. The Gardiners House 5. The Entrance for the Allyes 6. The Enterance for y e Mediator 7. The Enterance for the French 8. The Bridge for the Allyes 9. The cheif Bridge wich the Mediator passed over 10. The Bridge for the French 11. The Grove before the House 12. The Garden on the East Side 13. The Garden on the West Side 14. The Rocher 15. The Mâ—lonry 16. The Dove House 17. The Fish Ponds 18. The Garden behind the House 19. Lands belonging to his Majestie 20. Lands of Aâ—e â—â—rve 21. The Small Pâ—d to Dâ—lft 22. The City of â—lft 23. The Abreuvâ—s 24. The Canai Delft 2. The Chamber where the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the Illustrious Allies assemble in Conference where they sit at a large Table cover'd with a green Carpet 3. Another Chamber where the same Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the High Allies assemble where they sit in a Circle without a Table 4 5. Are the Chambers where the Ambassadors of France assemble 6.6 Are two Closets where the Mediator Confers with the Ministers of the Confederates 7.7 Two other Closets wherein the Mediator
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