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A47720	Articles of peace between the emperour and empire, and France concluded in the royal palace of Reswick, in Holland, October 30, 1697.; Treaties, etc. France, 1697 Oct. 30	Holy Roman Empire.; Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705.; France. Treaties, etc. Holy Roman Empire, 1697 Oct. 30.	1697 (1697)	Wing L1108A; ESTC R43375	24,354	33

on by the Emperor and Empire and the most Christian King respectively and to take effectual Care that the Ratifications be within the space of seven Weeks to be computed from the Day of the signing hereof or sooner if possible reciprocally exchanged LX. And for the greater Strength and Validity of all Things contained in this Treaty of Peace as well the Embassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of his Imperial Majesty as those of his most Christian Majesty together with the Plenipotentiaries of the Electors Princes and States of the Empire deputed to this end have subscribed the same with their Hands and sealed them with their own Seals Done at the Palace of Reswick in Holland the 30th of October in the Year of our Lord 1697. L. S. D. A. C. à Caunitz L. S. Henr. C. de Stratman L. S. J. F. L. B. à Seilern L. S. de Harlay Bonneiiil L. S. Verjus de Crecy L. S. de Callieres In the Name of the Elector of Mentz L. S. M. Frederic Baron de Scanborn Emb. L. S. Ignatius Antonius Otten Plenipotentiary L. S. Georgius Vilhelmus Moll Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Elector of Bavaria De Prielmayer Extraordinary Emb. and Plenipotenitary L. S. In the Name of the House of Austria L. S. Francis Rudulphus of Halden L. Baron of Trazberg c. In the Name of the Grand Master of the Teutonick Order L. S. Charles B. à Loë Knight of the Teutonick Order In the Name of the Most High Prince and Bishop of Wertzberg L. S. John Conrad Phillip Ignatius de Tastunge In the Name of the Most High and Most Eminent Elector of Triers as Bishop of Spire L. S. John Henric of Kaysersfeld Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Most High Prince and Bishop of Constance L. S. Frederick à Durheim In the Name of the Most Reverend and Most High Bishop and Prince of HIldesheim L. S. Charles Paul Zimmerman High Chancellor Privy Councellor and Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Most Serene and Most Reverend Elector of Cologn as Bishop and Prince of Liege L. S. John Conral Norff Deputed Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Most Reverend and Most High Bishop and Prince of Munster L. S. Ferdinand L. B. à Plettenbergexlenhausen of the Cathedral-Church Monastery Dean and Chapter of the same In the Name of the Most Serene Elector Palatine as Duke of Newburg L. S. John Henric Hetterman Plenipotentiary In the Name of the most Serene Duke of Wirtenburg L. S. Jo. George Noble of Kulpis S. R. Knight of the Empire Counsellor of State Privy Counsellor and Director L. S. Anthony Gunter of Hespen Counsellor in the Superior Council and Plenipotentiary to the Most Serene Duke In the Name of the Most Serene Prince of Baden L. S. Charles Ferdinand L. B. of Pliffersdorff saving the order of Succession In the Name of the Abby College of Swaben L. S. Joseph Antony Euseb of Halden in Neidtberg L. B. of Autenreidt Plenipotentiary In the Names of the Counts of Wetteraw L. S. Charles Otto Count de Solms L. S. F. C. de Ecclesiastein Counsellor of Hanaw and Plenipotentiary In the Name of the free and Imperial City of Cologn L. S. Hermen Joseph Bullingen Syndic and Plenipotentiary In the Name of the City of Ausburg L. S. John Christopher de Dierheim Plenipotentiary In the Name of the Imperial City of Franckford L. S. John Jacob Muller Plenipotentiary L. S. John Melebior Lucius J. V. L. Syndie and Plenipotentiary Here follow the Full Powers The Emperour 's Full Powers WE Leopold by the Grace of God Elect Emperor of the Romans always August and King of Germany Hungary Bohemia Dalmatia Croatia Sclavonia c. Archduke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Styria Carinthia Carniola c. Marquiss of Moravia Duke of Luxemburgh and of the Upper and Lower Silesia Wirtemberg and Tecka Prince of Swaben Count of Hapsburg Pifrt Kyberg and Goritia Marquiss of the Sacred Roman Empire of Burgovia and of the Upper and Lower Lusatia Lord of the Mark of Sclavonia Port Naon and of the Salt-Pits c. Declare and make known That seeing we have desired nothing more ardently than that the present War wherewith Christendom hath for some Years been afflicted might as soon as possible be converted into a Just and Honourable Peace and that it hath been agreed among the several Parties at War that a Treaty and Conferences of Peace should be set on foot in a Place chosen by them with common Consent we therefore being very ready to contribute what in us lies for promoting the Tranquillity of the Christian World and being possess'd of the Fidelity Prudence and Experience of Ours and the Sacred Roman Empire's faithful and Beloved Counsellor of State Chamberlain and Vice-Chancellor of the Empire the Lord Dominick Andreas Count of Caumitz Hereditary Lord of Austerlitz Hungarischbrod Mahrisprus and of the Greater Orzechan Knight of the Golden Fleece and of the most Illustrious and Magnificent Henry John Count of Straatman Lord of Peurbach Orth Schmiding Spatenbrun and Carlsberg of our Council and Bed-Chamber as also our Beloved Councellor and Authorized Commissary in the Diets of the Empire John Frederick Free Baron of Seilern c. We have Named Chosen and constituted them as we do by these Presents Name Choose and Constitute them to be Our Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries for the said Assembly and Treaty of Peace Whom therefore we entrust and particularly command That they repair as soon as possibly they can to the Place agreed upon by the Parties and set on foot the Conferences of Peace and there either directly or by the Intervention of the Mediator accepted of on all hands with the Ambassadors or such as are deputed with sufficient Power from the most Serene most Potent and most Christian Prince Lewis King of France c. our Kinsman and most dear Brother for terminating the present War and Controversies relating thereunto by a good and firm Peace We also give a full and absolute Power with all the Authority and Command that is necessary thereunto to our above-named Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries whether all Three conjunct or any two of them in the absence of the third or through other Impediment or else to any one of them alone and apart in the absence in like manner of the other two or through other Impediment to enter upon conclude and sign the Treaty of Peace for Us and in our Name between Us and the foresaid most Serene most Potent and most Christian King of France and also to negotiate dispatch and finish all Instruments that may be required for that end and so universally to act promise stipulate conclude and sign Acts Declarations to change Agreements and to do all things that belong to the said Negotiation of Peace as amply and freely as if we our selves were present and did it or might do tho' any thing therein should require more particular Order than is contained in these Presents We do moreover

promise and declare in the Faith and upon our Imperial Word to observe and fulfil whatsoever our said Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries all three conjunctly or any two of them in the absence of the third or through other Impediment or one of them only in like manner through the absence of the other two or other Impediment shall act conclude sign deliver and exchange obliging our selves by these Presents to dispatch away the Instrument of our Ratifications in decent and solemn form within the Time agreed upon In Witness and Confirmation whereof we have commanded these Presents Subscribed with our own Hand to be Confirmed by our Imperial Seal the Third Day of February in the Year 1697. of our Reign over the Roman Empire the Thirty Ninth over Hungary the Two and Fortieth and Bohemia the Forty First Leopold L. S. Sebastian Wunibaldus Count of Zeyll By his Imperial Majesty's particular Command Gaspar Florentius Consbruch The full Powers of the Empire FOrasmuch as the Holy Roman Empire Electors Princes and States have thought fit to chuse amongst them such as they thought sitting to treat between his Imperial Majesty our most Gracious Lord the Empire and the rest of the High Allies of the one Part and the Crown of France on the other Part upon the Foundation of the Westphalian Treaty at Nimeguen to assist at the Treaty to be held at Riswick and his Interest to maintain therein And so out of the Ellectoral Colledge Chur Mayence Chur Baviere Chur Saxony Chur Brandenburg and on the Parts of the Catholick Princes Austrich Saltzburg High Master of the Teutonnick Order Wortzburg Spire Costantz Hildershiem Liege Munster salvo alternationis ordine Psaltz Neubourg Badden-Baaden Suabiche Prelates And further more A. C. having Relation therto Magdeburg Sweden Bremen or Pfatz Zweybrucken Saxon-Coburg Saxon-Gotha Brandenburg-Collenbach Brunswick-Zell Brunswick-Wolfenbutel Hessen-Cassel Wurtenburg salvâ alternatione Holstein-Gluckstat Anhalt the Wetteravith Counts and on the Part of the Imperial Catholick Cities Cologn and Ausburg and A C. on the Part of Frankfort and Nuremberg to be chosen and nominated to it Therefore is given to them from the whole Empire full Power to the aforesaid End that they may send their own Ministers with full Power and without Delay to the appointed Place and there to appear with their most excellent Lords Plenipotentiaries and according to the Contents of their Instructions to consult and treat juxta stylum Imperii that it may conduce to the restoring of an honest sure happy and common Peace and to the Ease of the oppress'd States of the Realm and the restoring their desired Rights and Privilege as in Reason may be required to the common Ease and Welfare of the Fatherland In Case of Absence of any Minister by Sickness or otherwise that then they shall have Power to vote by a Proxy of their own Religion Furthermore whatsoever shall be concluded by their aforesaid Excellent Imperial Ambassadors according to the aforesaid Instructions shall be ratified and confirmed on all Sides by the Deputies of the Realm an I Satisfaction given accepted and kept without Breach also the deputing States as is proper on such Occasions shall at all times be firmly kept The 15th of June 1697. Signatum RATISBONE L. S. Churfurstle Maintz Chancellour The French full Powers LEwis By the Grace of God King of France and Navarre to all that shall see these Presents Greeting As we have desir'd nothing more ardently than by a good Peace to see the War ended were with Christendom is at this time afflicted and that by the Endeavors and Mediation of our most Dear and most Beloved Brother the King of Swedeland the Towns of Delph and the Hague have been agreed upon by all the Parties to hold their Conferences in to that end we with the same Desire of putting a stop as much as in us lies and with the Assistance of Divine Providence to the Desolation of so many Provinces the effusion of so much Christian Blood do make known that we reposing an entire Confidence in the Experience Capacity and Fidelity of our trusty and well-beloved the Sieur de Harlay de Bonneuill Counsellor in Ordinary in our Councils of State and of our well-belov'd the Sieur Verjus Count of Crecy Baron of Courcy Lord of Boulay of the two Churches of Menillet and other Places as also of that of our Well-beloved the Sieur de Callicres de la Rochechellay and de Gigny who is actually in the Town of Delph by the advantageous Proofs he has given us thereof in divers important Imployments wherewith we have entrusted him as well within as without the Kingdom For these Causes and other good Considerations moving us thereunto we have constituted ordered and deputed the said Sieurs de Ha●lay de Crecy and de Callieres and do by these Presents sign'd with our own Hand constitute order and appoint and have given and do give them full Power Commission and especial Command to go to the said Town of Delph in Quality of our Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries for the Peace and to confer either dir●●●ly or by the Interposition of the Ambassadors Mediators respectively receiv'd and agreed upon by all the Ambassadors Plenipotentiaries and Ministers as well of our most Dear and Most-beloved Brother the Emperor of the Romans as of our most Dear and Most-Beloved Brother and Cousin the Catholick King as also of our most Dear and great Friends the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries and of all the other Princes their Allies all furnish'd with su●fici●nt Powers and these to treat of the Means to terminate and pacific the Differences which cause the War at this Day And our said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries may all Three together or Two of them in Case of the absence of the Third thro' Sickness or other Impediment or One only of them in the Absence of the other Two in like Case of Sickness or other Impediment agree thereupon and conclude and sign a good Peace and generally make negotiate promise and agree to all that which they shall think necessary for effecting the said Peace with the same Authority as if we our selves might or should do if we were Personally present tho' any thing therein should require more particular Order than is contained in these Presents promising in the Faith and upon the Word of a King to observe and fulfill whatever the said Sieurs de Harlay de Crecy and de Callieres or Two of them in case of the Absence of the Third thro' Sickness or any other Impediment or any One of them in the Absence of the other Two upon the like Account of Sikcness or other Impediment shall stipulate promise and agree unto and to cause our Letters of Ratification to be dispatch'd within such time as they shall promise in our Name to produce them for such is our Pleasure in Witness whereof we have set our Seal to these Presents Given at Versailles the 25th Day of

ARTICLES OF PEACE Between the EMPEROUR and EMPIRE AND FRANCE Concluded in the Royal Palace of RESWICK in Holland October 30. 1697. LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by E. Whitlock in Stationers Court near Stationers-Hall 1697. ARTICLES OF PEACE Between the Emperour and Empire AND FRANCE Concluded in the Royal Palace at Reswick in Holland October 30. 1697. In the Name of the Holy Trinity Amen BE it known unto all and every individual Person whom it may concern That seeing there has been for some Years past a Cruel War waged with great Effusion of Christian Blood and the Desolation of divers Provinces between the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord the Lord Leopold Elect Emperour of the Romans always August King of Germany Bohemia Dalmatia Croatia and Slavonia Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Styria Carinthia Carniola Marquess of Moravia Duke of Luxemburg of the Upper and Lower Silesia Wirtemburg and Tecka Prince of Suabia Count of Habsburg Tyrole Kyburg and Goritia Marquess of the Sacred Roman Empire of Burgovia and of the Upper and Lower Lusatia Lord of the Mark of Slavonia Port Naon and the Salt Pits c. on the one part and the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord Lewis XIV the most Christian King of France and Navar on the other part and that their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties have been very intent upon the terminating as soon as might be those Evils daily increasing to the prejudice of the Christian Religion It hath by the Blessing of Almighty God been at length so brought to pass by the Endeavours of the Most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord Charles XI King of the Swedes Goths and Vandals Great Prince of Finland Duke of Schonen Esten Livonia Carelia Bremen Verden Stetin Pomerania Cassubia and Vandalia Prince of Rugen Lord of Ingria and Wismar and also Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleve and Berghen c. of famous Memory who from the very beginning of these Commotions hath not ceased with great Earnestness to perswade the Christian Princes to a Peace and was at length receiv'd by all the Parties to be a Mediator for composing the same as soon as possible and laboured most graciously therein to the day of his Death That a solemn Treaty to that end hath been set on foot in the Royal Palace of Reswick in Holland and after his Decease brought at last to an End with the like Application of the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord the Lord Charles XII King of the Swedes Goths and Vandals Great Prince of Finland Duke of Schonen Esten Livonia Carelia Bremen Verden Stetin Pomerania Cassubia and Vandalia Prince of Rugen Lord of Ingria and Wismar as also Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleve and Berghen who succeeds his Father with equal Care for the publick Tranquility For the Extraordinary Embassadors and Plenipotentiaries authoriz'd in due Form having appeared on both sides in the said place viz. On the part of his Imperial Majesty the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords the Lord Dominick Andreas Count of the Sacred Roman Empire and of Kaunitz hereditary Lord of Austerlitz Hungarishbrod Marischprus and of the greater Orzechan Knight of the Golden Fleece Councellor of State to his Imperial Majesty ●●amberlain and Vice-Chancellour of the Sacred Empire The Lord Henry John Count of the Sacred Roman Empire of Straatman and Peurbach Lord of Orth Shemiding Spatenbrun and Carlsberg of his Imperial Majesty's Court Council and Chamberlain And the Lord John Frederick free and Noble Baron of Seilern Counsellor to his Imperial Majesty and Authorised Commissary in the Dyets of the Empire And in the Name of the Most Christian King the most Illustrious and excellent Lords the Lord Nicholas de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonnevil Count of Cely Consellour in ordinary to his Majesty in his Council of State The Lord Ludovic Verjus Knight Counsellor in Ordinary to the King in his Council of State Count of Crecy Marquess of Freon Baron of Couvay Lord of Boullay of the two Churches in Fortille and in other places and the Lord Francis Callieres Knight Lord of Callieres Rupischelle and Gigny by the intervention and Endeavours of the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords the Lord Charles Bond Count of Biornoo Lord of Hesleby Tyresio Toftaholm Graffsteen Gustafsberg and Rezitza Senator to his Swedish Majesty and Chief President of the Court of Dorpaten in Livonia and of the Lord Nicholas Fell Baron of Lillieroot Secretary of State to his Swedish Majesty and Embassador Extraordinary to their High and Mightinesses the States General of the Uunited Provinces who have discharged the Office of Mediators with much Integrity Diligence and Prudence with the Consent and Suffrages of the Plenipotentiaries of the Electors Princes and States of the Sacred Roman Empire after having invoked the Assistance of the Divine Majesty and in due form Exchanged the full Powers have to the Glory of God and good of Christendom mutually agreed on the following Conditions of Peace and Friendship I. That there be a Christian Universal and perpetual Peace and true Friendship between his Imperial Majesty and his Successors the Sacred Roman Empire his Hereditary Kingdoms and Dominions Subjects and Vassals on the one part and his Most Christian Majesty and his Successors Subjects and Vassals on the other part and that the same Peace be so sincerely observed and cultivated that neither Party shall contrive or promote any thing to the Damage or loss of the other under any pretence whatsoever or give any Aid or Assistance to any Person or Persons that would design or put in Execution any thing to the detriment of either under what denomination soever it be or receive protect or assist the Rebellious or Seditious Subjects of each other upon any account whatsoever but rather that each Party shall seriously promote the Honour Advantage and Interest of the other notwithstanding any Promises made to the contrary and any Treaties and Leagues which way soever made or to be made which are hereby annulled II. Let there be a perpetual amnesty and oblivion of all Acts of Hostility committed on either side in any place or by any way whatsoever so that the one shall not because of them or under pretence of any other thing either directly or indirectly offer any Violence or Injury to the other or suffer any to be done by Deed or Writing but that all offered Injuries and Violences be so utterly abolished without any respect of Persons or Things that whatever upon that account the one may pretend against the other shall be buried in perpetual oblivion All and every the Vassals and Subjects of each Party shall also partake and enjoy this Amnesty and the Benefit and Effect of it so as that it be a Prejudice and a Crime in none of them to have followed this or that Party so as not to be restored to the full Enjoyment of

George the Principality or Countrey of Mompelgard shall be restored to him for himself and Successors in the same state with the same Rights and Prerogatives and especially into the same immediety towards the Sacred Roman Empire as heretofore he has enjoy d it and as the rest of the Princes of the Empire do or ought to enjoy it that Recognition of Vassalage that has been made to the Crown of France in the Year 1681. being utterly annulled hereby And the said Princes shall from henceforth freely enjoy all the Profits both Secular and Ecclesiastical appertaining to the same which they enjoyed before the Peace of Nimeguen as well as the Feudships which during the time of the French's detention of them or at any other time did belong and had not been granted by them to others excepting the Countrey of Baldenheim with its Appurtenances which the most Christian King hath bestowed upon Monsieur de Chamlay Camp-Master General and which ought to remain firm to him but yet so as he is obliged to do homage to the Duke of Wirtemburg as his direct Lord and to his Successors and to seek the renewing of his Feudship at his hands They shall be restored also into the full and free possession both of their Feudships in Burgundy Clerevall and Passavant as also of their Dynasties or Lordships of Granges Herricourt Blamont Chatelot and Clemont and of the rest that are situated in the County of Burgundy and Principality of Montpelgard together with all their Rights and Incomes in the very same manner as they possest them before the Peace at Nimeguen all those things being utterly abolished which were done or pretended to at any time by what Title any way distinguished and in any manner whatsoever to the contrary XIV The House or Marquisate of Baden shall also enjoy all the Right and Benefit of this Peace and at the same time of the Peace of Westphalia and Nimeguen but more especially the Fourth and Fifth Articles of this Treaty XV. In the same manner the Princes and Counts of Nassaw Hanaw and Leinigen and all the other States of the Sacred Roman Empire who by the Fourth Article of this Treaty or any other are to be restored shall be re-posiest in all and singular their Dominions or Rights and in all the Profits belonging to and Incomes arising from them and in all other Rights and Benefits by what name soever called or distinguished XVI But seeing for the better Establishment of this Peace it has been thought fit to make an Exchange of some Places his Imperial Majesty and the Empire yield up to the most Christian King and his Successors the City of Strasburg and whatever belongs to the said City on the left side of the Rhine with all the Jurisdiction Propriety and Supream Dominion which hath hitherto appertained or could appertain to him and the Roman Empire and transfer all and singular of them to the most Christian King and his Successors so that the said City with all its Appurtenances and Dependencies situated on the left side of the Rhine without any reservation with all manner of Jurisdiction and Superiority and Supream Dominion do appertain from this time and for ever to the most Christian King and his Successors and be understood to be incorporated with the Crown of France without any contradiction from the Emperour Empire or any other whatever and for the greater validity of this Cession or alienation the Emperour and the Empire by vertue of the present transaction expresly derogate from all and singular the Decrees Constitutions Statutes and Customs of the preceding Emperours and the Sacred Roman Empire tho confirmed by Oath or to be Confirmed hereafter and particularly from the Imperial Capitulation so fas forth as any manner of alienation of the Goods and Rights of the Empire is prohibited all which they expresly renounce and discharge the said City with all the Magistrates Officials Citizens and Subjects thereof from the Oaths and Obligations by which they have been hitherto bound to the Emperour and the Empire and remit the same under the subjection obedience and fidelity of the most Christian King and his Successors and so constitute the most Christian King in the full and just Propriety Possession and Sovereignty thereof and renounce all Jurisdictions and pretentions in the same from henceforth and for ever and to that end are pleased to expunge the said City of Strasburgh out of the Body of the Empire XVII But it shall be free to all and singular the Inhabitants of the said City and its dependancies of whatever condition they be if they are minded to remove to transfer their Dwellings from thence elsewhere together with all their moveable Goods without any let detraction or exacting any thing from them within one Year after the Ratification of this Peace and after five Years having first performed the Conditions that have long since been in usage there and either to sell or retain their moveables and to manage the same either by themselves or others The same Power also of retaining and either by themselves or others of managing or alienating them shall remain to all the other Members or Subjects whether mediate or immediate of the Empire who have Goods Profits Debts Actions or Rights in the said City or its appurtenances whether they have always retained them Or that during the War or before it they have been Confiscated or taken away and granted to others by what Name soever called or wheresoever they may live reserving still the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to those to whom of old it did belong which Jurisdiction or the exercise thereof it shall be never lawful to obstruct XVIII On the other hand his most Christian Majesty shall restore the Fort of Kehl built by him on the right side of the Rhine whole together with all its Rights and Dependencies within Thirty days after the Ratification of this Treaty but for the Fort called the Pile and the rest of them that have been built within the Rhine it self or any of its Islands they shall be rased down to the ground within one Month after or sooner if it can be at the Charge of the Most Christian King and never to be re-built by neither Party hereafter and the Navigation of the River or other Use thereof shall be alike free to the Subjècts of both Parties or to any other that will repair thither Sail or carry Goods thereon neither shall there be any thing done by either party there or any where else towards turning the River whereby to render the Course thereof or its Navigation or other Use the more difficult upon any account whatsoever much less shall any new Customs Impost or Toll be exacted or the old ones increased or the Ships which pass it to and fro be forced to come to the one side of the River more than the other or to unlade their Merchandise and Burdens or take them in but that always ought to be left to every