ARTICLES OF PEACE Between the EMPEROUR and EMPIRE AND FRANCE Concluded in the Royal Palace of RESWICK in Holland October 30. 1697. LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by E. Whitlock in Stationers Court near Stationers-Hall 1697. ARTICLES OF PEACE Between the Emperour and Empire AND FRANCE Concluded in the Royal Palace at Reswick in Holland October 30. 1697. In the Name of the Holy Trinity Amen BE it known unto all and every individual Person whom it may concern That seeing there has been for some Years past a Cruel War waged with great Effusion of Christian Blood and the Desolation of divers Provinces between the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord the Lord Leopold Elect Emperour of the Romans always August King of Germany Bohemia Dalmatia Croatia and Slavonia Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Styria Carinthia Carniola Marquess of Moravia Duke of Luxemburg of the Upper and Lower Silesia Wirtemburg and Tecka Prince of Suabia Count of Habsburg Tyrole Kyburg and Goritia Marquess of the Sacred Roman Empire of Burgovia and of the Upper and Lower Lusatia Lord of the Mark of Slavonia Port Naon and the Salt Pits c. on the one part and the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord Lewis XIV the most Christian King of France and Navar on the other part and that their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties have been very intent upon the terminating as soon as might be those Evils daily increasing to the prejudice of the Christian Religion It hath by the Blessing of Almighty God been at length so brought to pass by the Endeavours of the Most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord Charles XI King of the Swedes Goths and Vandals Great Prince of Finland Duke of Schonen Esten Livonia Carelia Bremen Verden Stetin Pomerania Cassubia and Vandalia Prince of Rugen Lord of Ingria and Wismar and also Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleve and Berghen c. of famous Memory who from the very beginning of these Commotions hath not ceased with great Earnestness to perswade the Christian Princes to a Peace and was at length receiv'd by all the Parties to be a Mediator for composing the same as soon as possible and laboured most graciously therein to the day of his Death That a solemn Treaty to that end hath been set on foot in the Royal Palace of Reswick in Holland and after his Decease brought at last to an End with the like Application of the most Serene and most Potent Prince and Lord the Lord Charles XII King of the Swedes Goths and Vandals Great Prince of Finland Duke of Schonen Esten Livonia Carelia Bremen Verden Stetin Pomerania Cassubia and Vandalia Prince of Rugen Lord of Ingria and Wismar as also Count Palatine of the Rhine Duke of Bavaria Juliers Cleve and Berghen who succeeds his Father with equal Care for the publick Tranquility For the Extraordinary Embassadors and Plenipotentiaries authoriz'd in due Form having appeared on both sides in the said place viz. On the part of his Imperial Majesty the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords the Lord Dominick Andreas Count of the Sacred Roman Empire and of Kaunitz hereditary Lord of Austerlitz Hungarishbrod Marischprus and of the greater Orzechan Knight of the Golden Fleece Councellor of State to his Imperial Majesty â—â—amberlain and Vice-Chancellour of the Sacred Empire The Lord Henry John Count of the Sacred Roman Empire of Straatman and Peurbach Lord of Orth Shemiding Spatenbrun and Carlsberg of his Imperial Majesty's Court Council and Chamberlain And the Lord John Frederick free and Noble Baron of Seilern Counsellor to his Imperial Majesty and Authorised Commissary in the Dyets of the Empire And in the Name of the Most Christian King the most Illustrious and excellent Lords the Lord Nicholas de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonnevil Count of Cely Consellour in ordinary to his Majesty in his Council of State The Lord Ludovic Verjus Knight Counsellor in Ordinary to the King in his Council of State Count of Crecy Marquess of Freon Baron of Couvay Lord of Boullay of the two Churches in Fortille and in other places and the Lord Francis Callieres Knight Lord of Callieres Rupischelle and Gigny by the intervention and Endeavours of the most Illustrious and most Excellent Lords the Lord Charles Bond Count of Biornoo Lord of Hesleby Tyresio Toftaholm Graffsteen Gustafsberg and Rezitza Senator to his Swedish Majesty and Chief President of the Court of Dorpaten in Livonia and of the Lord Nicholas Fell Baron of Lillieroot Secretary of State to his Swedish Majesty and Embassador Extraordinary to their High and Mightinesses the States General of the Uunited Provinces who have discharged the Office of Mediators with much Integrity Diligence and Prudence with the Consent and Suffrages of the Plenipotentiaries of the Electors Princes and States of the Sacred Roman Empire after having invoked the Assistance of the Divine Majesty and in due form Exchanged the full Powers have to the Glory of God and good of Christendom mutually agreed on the following Conditions of Peace and Friendship I. That there be a Christian Universal and perpetual Peace and true Friendship between his Imperial Majesty and his Successors the Sacred Roman Empire his Hereditary Kingdoms and Dominions Subjects and Vassals on the one part and his Most Christian Majesty and his Successors Subjects and Vassals on the other part and that the same Peace be so sincerely observed and cultivated that neither Party shall contrive or promote any thing to the Damage or loss of the other under any pretence whatsoever or give any Aid or Assistance to any Person or Persons that would design or put in Execution any thing to the detriment of either under what denomination soever it be or receive protect or assist the Rebellious or Seditious Subjects of each other upon any account whatsoever but rather that each Party shall seriously promote the Honour Advantage and Interest of the other notwithstanding any Promises made to the contrary and any Treaties and Leagues which way soever made or to be made which are hereby annulled II. Let there be a perpetual amnesty and oblivion of all Acts of Hostility committed on either side in any place or by any way whatsoever so that the one shall not because of them or under pretence of any other thing either directly or indirectly offer any Violence or Injury to the other or suffer any to be done by Deed or Writing but that all offered Injuries and Violences be so utterly abolished without any respect of Persons or Things that whatever upon that account the one may pretend against the other shall be buried in perpetual oblivion All and every the Vassals and Subjects of each Party shall also partake and enjoy this Amnesty and the Benefit and Effect of it so as that it be a Prejudice and a Crime in none of them to have followed this or that Party so as not to be restored to the full Enjoyment of
Appurtenances and with the Cannon that were found in the old City at the time of its falling into the Hands of France but upon this Condition that all the Works and Fortifications of the old City shall be left whole as also the Gates of the new City whose Works and Fortifications shall at the Charge of his most Christian Majesty be levell'd with the Ground and are to be repaired at no Time thereafter unless it be that the Duke and his Successors are free to enclose the new City with a single Wall without any Angles when ever they please XXX His most Christian Majesty shall also evacuate the Castle of Bitsch with all its Appurtenances as also the Castle of Homburg having first ruined their Works which are no more to be repaired but yet so as that these Castles and the Towns adjoyning to them be no way damnified but be preserved altogether unhurt XXXI Moreover all things agreed on in the fourth Article concerning Unions and Re-unions shall be so far extended to the Duke as if they were here repeated Word for Word where or which Way soever these Unions on Re-unions have been made XXXII But his most Christian Majesty reserves to himself the Fort of Saar Lovis with half a League round it to be marked out by Commissioners appointed by the King and Duke of Lorrain to be possest by him for ever with all right of Soveraignty and Supream Dominion XXXIII The City also and Mayoralty of Longwy together with their Appurtenances and Dependencies shall with all Sovereignty and Supreme Dominion remain under the Custody of the most Christian King his Heirs and Successors for ever neither shall the Duke and his Heirs and Successors pretend any Right unto them for the future But in Exchange for the said City and Mayoralty his most Christian Majesty will grant another Prefecture to the said Duke in one of the three Bishopricks of the same Extent and Value with the others which shall be fairly agreed on between the same Commissioners and that same being thus yielded up and transferred by the most Christian King into the hands of the Duke both the Duke himself as well as his Heirs and Successors shall enjoy it for ever with all Right of Soveraignty supreme Dominion and Propriety XXXIV The Country shall always be open to the Kings Souldiers marching to the Frontiers or returning from thence without any Let or Hindrance thro' the Duke's Dominions he having always timely Notice given him of the same and that the Souldiers marching do not straggle nor turn out of their Road but keep to the common and shortest Way and make due haste in their March without any Delay offering no violence nor Detriment to the Places and Subjects of the Duke and pay for their Provision with ready Mony and for other Necessaries to the Duke's Commissioners that are to provide them abollishing again and fully restoring the Way and Places under the Power of the Duke without any Exception which were reserved to the most Christian King by the Peace of Nimeguen XXXV The Ecclesiastical Benefices which to the Day of the Present Treaty have been conferred by the most Christian King shall be left quietly to the now Possessors who obtain'd them of his most Christian Majesty XXXVI It has besides been agreed on that all Processes Sentences and Decrees made by the Council Judges and other of the most Christian King 's Officials as well between the Dutchy of Lorrain as others in the time when the most Christian King possest these States shall take place and have as full and plenary Effect as if his now Christian Majesty remained Posser of them neither shall it be lawful to call the said Decrees into Question or to annul or retard and hinder the Execution of them but it shall be free for the Parties according to the Order and Disposition of the Laws and Constitutions to have tecourse to the reviewing of such Acts but the Sentences are in the mean time to remain in their full Force and Vigour XXXVII The Archives and Records which were kept and taken away from the Treasury of Naney and Barr and both Chambers of Accounts and elsewhere shall be restored forthwith to the Duke after the Ratification of the Peace XXXVIII The Duke may presently after the Ratification of the Peace send Commissioners into the Dutchy of Lorrain and Barr who shall look after his Affairs administer Justice take care of the Customs Salt-Pits and other Rights belonging to him settle the Post and do all other Things which may appertain to the Government which the Duke at the same time is to take upon him XXXIX As for Imposts and Customs or the Immunities of them as to Salt and Wood Carriage whether by Land or by Water the same Manner and Custom shall be kept as was in the Year 1670 without any manner of Innovation XL. The Ancient Usage and Liberty of Commerce shall remain between Lorain and the Jurisdiction of Metz Toul and Verdun and shall be exactly observed for the Benefit of both Sides for the future XLI In like manner the Agreements made between the most Christian Kings and the Dukes of Lorrain shall be kept inviolably in their former Force and Vigour XLII It shall be free for the Duke and his Brethren after the Restitution of them to prosecute their Right in the ordinary way of Justice which they affirm to belong to them in divers Cases notwithstanding the Sentences that may have been past in their Absence and without their being heard against them XLIII As to those Things which otherwise are not expresly agreed on here those Matters which are contained in this Treaty especially the Section The Vassals of both Parties shall be restored c. that Section As soon as the Treaty of Peace c. and Section And as to the Subjects c. shall be observed in respect to the Duke his Dominions and Subjects as if they had been particularly specified herein XLIV The Lord Cardinal de Fustemburg shall be Restored to all his Rights Feudal Goods Freeholds Benefices Honours and Prerogatives which belong to the Princes and Members of the Sacred Empire as well upon account of his Bishoprick of Strasburg on the right side of the Rhine as of the Abbey of Stavelon or others and shall enjoy with his Kindred or Relations who have adhered to him as also his Domesticks a full Amnesty and Security from all Acts and Deeds and whatever Decrees else have been made against him or them neither shall he be liable himself and his Heirs or his Relations or Kindred and Domesticks to be called to an account for the Inheritance of the deceased Elector Maximilian Henry by the Electors of Cologne and Bavaria their Heirs or any other As the said Cardinal his Kindred or Relations and Domesticks or any having power from them shall not be at liberty neither to demand any thing any manner of way of the Electors out of that Inheritance or for the
their former State in respect to Honour and Goods as it was before the War began excepting in those things which upon account of Ecclesiastical Benefices Moveables and Incomes are particularly specified in the following Articles III. And for as much as the Peace of Westphalia and Nimeguen is to be the Basis and Foundation of the present Peace the same shall forthwith after the exchange of the Ratifications be fully restored and Executed both in Sacred and Civil Matters and hereafter be preserved inviolable saving in such Points as derogate from them expresly in the present Treaty IV. In the first place his most Christian Majesty doth restore to his Imperial Majesty and the Empire and to the States and Members thereof whatever places and Jurisdictions that have been taken as well during the War by way of Fact as by the Name of Unions and Re-unions which are situated without Alsatia or whatever have been exprest in the Inventory of Re-unions exhibited by the French Embassador revoking and making void all the Decrees Arrests and Declarations which upon that account have been put forth by the Chamber of Metz and Besançon as also by the Council of Brisac and all things to be restored into the same Condition they were in before those Seizures Unions and Re-unions were made and at no time hereafter to be disturbed or molested but that the Roman Catholick Religion do remain in these Places thus restored in the same state it is now in V. And tho' from these general Rules it may be easily judged what Places they are and how far the things that are to be restored do extend yet at the instances of some and for some other particular Reasons it has been thought fit to make special mention of some things but yet in such a manner that those that are not expresly named are not to be taken as left out but to have the same place altogether with the others named and to enjoy the same Right VI. The City of Treves shall be Restored to the Elector of that Name and Bishop of Spires in the same state it is in at present without any farther demolishing of Places or any detriment done to either publick or private Buildings together with the Artillery that was found therein at the time it was last taken And that all that hath been agreed on in respect to Seizures Unions and Re-unions in the Fourth Article preceeding ought also to be esteemed to extend to the benefit of the Churches of Triers and Spire as if particularly specified VII The Elector of Brandenburg also shall enjoy all the benefits of this Peace and be fully comprehended in it with all his Dominions Possessions Subjects and Rights and those by name which belong to him by vertue of the Treaty Concluded on the 29th of June in the Year 1679. as if each Particular had been specified herein VIII The most Christian King shall restore to the Elector Palatine of the Rhine all his Dominions possest by him whether they appertain to him alone or in common with others however denominated especially the City and Prefecture of Germersheim and the Prefectures and Subprefectures comprehended therein with all the Castles Cities Towns Villages Lands Feudships and Rights as they were restored by the Treaty of Westphalia as also all the Writings or Records taken out of the Archive Chancery Foeudal Court Chamber of Accounts Prefectures and other Palatine Offices that have been taken away without exception of any Place Thing Right or Record And as to what concerns the Rights or Pretensions of the Dutchess of Orleans 't is agreed after the above-mentioned Restitution be first made that the thing be decided according to the form Compromised between his Imperial and most Christian Majesty as Arbitrators in the Matter according to the Laws and Constitutions of the Empire but if they shall not be able to agree it then the same shall be left to the Arbitration of the Pope But that in the mean time there be no less endeavour used to procure an amicable Agreement between the Parties and until the said Matter be fully decided that there be the yearly Summ of two hundred thousand Livres or an hundred thousand Florins paid by the said Elector to the Dutchess of Orleans upon that account and condition as the same is exprest in a particular Article of the same force with the present Peace reserving every way at the same time the right of each Party as well in the possessed as sued-for part as also the Rights of the Empire IX The Ancient Dutchy of Deuxponts shall be Restored freely and wholly to the most Serene King of Suedeland as Count Palatine of the Rhine Count of Spanheme and Veldenz with all its Appurtenances and Dependances and with those Rights that the Predecessors of his Swedish Majesty the Count Palatines and Dukes of Deuxponts have enjoy'd or could have enjoy'd according to the Tenour of the Westphalian Treaty so that all things under what Title soever pretended to possessed and re-united by the Crown of France hitherto either in whole or in part of the said Dutchy shall return in full right to his Swedish Majesty and his Heirs the Counts Palatines of the Rhine All Records also belonging to the said Dutchy shall be restored together with the Artillery that were found in the same at the time it was first possest by France and all other things concerning which it has been agreed upon in the preceeding Articles in favour of things to be Restored X. As for the Principality of Veldenz and what the deceased Prince Leopold Lodowick Count Palatine of the Rhine possest under the name of the said Principality or the Principality of Lautereccen they shall be restored as far as the fourth Section and the Inventory exhibited by the French Embassage reserving still entire the pretensions as well of the possessed as suing Party XI France shall also fully restore to the Grand Master of the Teutonick Order and Bishop of Worms Prince Francis Lodowick Palatine all the Commendums Consecrated to or Possest by that Noble Order Places Profits and Rights and the said Order shall enjoy in respect to the Commendums and other Goods scituated under the French Dominion as well upon account of Collation as Administration the same Usages Priviledges and Immunities which they have enjoy'd heretofore according to the Rules and Statutes of the Order and what the Order of St. John of Jerusalem was wont to enjoy XII The City and Castle of Dinant shall be restored to the Elector of Cologne as Bishop and Prince of Liege in the same state wherein it was when assumed into the hands of France with all its Rights and and Dependances as also Canons and Records found at that time therein And moreover all that is comprehended in the Fourth Article concerning Seizures Unions and Re-unions are esteemed in a particular manner to extend to the advantage of the Churches of Cologne and Liege XIII As for the House of Wirtemburg and particularly Duke
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 Haâ—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 dirâ—â—â—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 suâ—ficiâ—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