their Ministers to repair to the Court of the other and other places if need be to the end that hearing jointly at the place where the said Ministers shall meet such persons as shall apply themselves unto them about those affairs and taking conusance of the contents of the Articles of the Treaty and of what the said Parties shall offer unto them they might Declare together unanimously briefly and summarily without any other formality of Justice what ought to be executed issuing thereupon the necessary Act and Instrument of their Declaration which Act shall be performed without admitting or leaving any room to any contradiction or reply CXIII The execution of the present Peace in what regardeth the restitution and surrendring of the places which the said Lords and Kings are to restore and put in the hands one of the other respectively or of their Allies by virtue of and in conformity to this Treaty shall be made at the time and after the following manner CXIV First without staying for the exchange of the Ratifications of the present Treaty to the end the Forces which make up the Army of the most Christian King and the Garrisons of the places he holdeth in Italy might repass the Alpes afore the Ice doth shut up the passages both the said Plenipotentiaries have concluded and agreed That they take upon themselves to have the Orders of their Majesties respectively forthwith sent by Expresses unto the Duke of Navailles the Count of Fuensaldagne as also to the Marquis of Caracent for what concerneth him to make upon the 30th of the instant November the following Restitutions viz. Upon that day shall be restored by the Lord the most Christian King unto his Catholick Majesty the places of Valence upon the Po and of Mortara in the State of Milan As likewise upon the same 30th day of November shall be restored by the Lord the Catholick King unto the Duke of Savoy the place and Cittadel of Verceil in Piedmont and towards the low Counties unto his most Christian Majesty the place of Castelet the said Lords and Plenipotentiaries having taken upon themselves by vertue of the particular Orders they have of their Majesties for that purpose the punctual execution of that Article afore the exchange of the Ratifications of the present Treaty as aforesaid CXV The exchange of the Ratifications being made within the day that hereafter shall be named on the 27th day of December of this present year shall be restored by the said Lord the most Christian King unto his Catholick Majesty the places of Oudenard Marville Menene and Comine upon the River Lys Dixmude and Furne with the Posts of La Fintelle and La Quenoque As also upon the same 27th day of December shall be restored by the said Lord the Catholick King unto his most Christian Majesty the places of Rocroy and Linchamp CXVI Eight days after which will be the 4th of January of the next year 1660. shall be restored by the said Lord the most Christian King unto his Catholick Majesty the places of Ypre La Bassee Bergh St. Wynox and the Fort Royal thereof and all the Posts Towns and Castles taken by the French Arms in the Principality of Catalonia except Roses Fort of the Trinity and Cape De Quiers As likewise upon the same 4th day of January shall be restored by the said Lord the Catholick King and put into the hands and in the power of his most Christian Majesty the places of Hesdin Philippeville and Marienbourg CXVII After the Prince of Conde hath rendred his respects to the most Christian King his Soveraign Lord and is setled again into the Honours of his Grace the places of Avennes and Juliers shall be by the Lord the Catholick King put into the hands and in the power of his most Christian Majesty and of the Duke of Newbourg And the same day the said Lord the most Christian King shall restore unto his Catholick Majesty the Posts Towns Forts and Castles taken by the French in the County of Burgundy after the manner and at the time more particularly agreed upon by their said Majesties CXVIII Upon supposition and condition that the said Commissioners that are to be appointed to declare the places that ought to belong to each of the said Lords and Kings in the Counties and Vigueries of Conflans and Cerdana shall have before concluded and unanimously made the declaration that is to regulate for the future the Limits of both Kingdoms As also when all the aforesaid restitutions are made and punctually performed his most Christian Majesty shall restore upon the 5th of May of the next year 1660. unto his Catholick Majesty the places and Posts of Roses the Fort of the Trinity and Cape de Quiers upon the conditions more particularly agreed on by their Majesties CXIX It hath likewise been concluded and agreed that in the Exchange that shall be made of La Bassee and Berg St. Wynox and its Royal Fort with Philippeville and Marienbourg there shall be left in the said places as much Artillery both in number and of the same weight and quality as well in the one as in the other as also as much Ammunition of War of all sorts and Victuals as the Commissioners appointed on both sides shall agree bona fide and shall see it performed So that what shall be found over and above as well in the one as in the other may be taken out of the said places and transported any where else where the Lord and King shall please to whom that greater quantity of the things aforesaid shall be found to belong CXX Their said Majesties have likewise concluded agreed resolved and promised upon their Royal Word to send each on their part their Orders to the Generals of their Armies or Governors of their Arms and Countries to have them give their assistance for the execution of the said respective Restitutions of places upon the certain days before prefixed advising together bona fide about the means and all other things that may regard the faithful execution of what hath been promised and agreed between their said Majesties after the manner and at the time aforesaid CXXI The Duke Charles of Lorrain accepting as to what concerns him this present Peace upon the conditions afore stipulated between the said Lords and Kings and not otherwise his most Christian Majesty shall re-establish within four months from the day of exchanging of the Ratifications of the present Treaty the said Duke into the Dominions Lands and places expressed before except such as are to remain to his most Christian Majesty in Propriety and Soveraignty by the said present Treaty Provided the said Duke afore his re-establishment besides his accepting of the Conditions that concern him in the present Peace doth furnish unto his most Christian Majesty and at his satisfaction all the several Acts and Obligations he is to put into his hands according to this Treaty and after the manner specified and stipulated before CXXII
Conde and unto the said Duke of Enguian his son the Governments and the Charge therein mentioned his Catholick Majesty doth promise and oblige himself of his part and in the word of a King to draw out of the Town Citadel or Castle of Juliers the Spanish Garrison that is in the said Town Citadel or Castle and all such other Forces as might have lately gone into the same or might yet go in to reinforce the Garrison thereof leaving in the said Town and Citadel all the Artillery marked with the Coat of Arms of the House of Cleveland or of Juliers or that hath belonged to them And as to the rest of the said Artillery Arms Ammunition and Instruments of War which his Majesty hath in the said Town and Castle of Juliers delivering them unto the Duke of Nubourgh or such as shall be appointed by him to receive the same in the same quality he hath the possession of the Estate of Juliers the said Duke delivering before into the hands of his Catholick Majesty a Writing in good form signed with his hand satisfactory to his said Catholick Majesty whereby he shall engage not to sell alienate nor pawn the said Town Citadel or Castle to any Princes or any other private persons and that he shall not put therein nor settle there any other Garrison but of his own Forces As also to grant unto his said Catholick Majesty whensoever he shall have need of it the passage for his Forces either through the said Town or through the State of Juliers his said Majesty paying at his own charges the expence of the passage of the said Forces which shall be regulated journeys and reasonable marches and shall not sojourn in the Land the said Duke taking in such occasions the necessary precautions for the safety of the said Town and Citadel And in case the said Duke should fail in the performance of what he shall oblige himself unto as well of not alienating the same as not of putting any other Garrison in the said place and Citadel but what is his own or that he refuseth to give passage to his Catholick Majesties Forces in paying their expences the said Lord the most Christian King doth promise in the word of a King not to assist the said Duke with Money or Soldiers nor in any other manner by himself or by interposed persons to uphold the said contravention but to the contrary he will lend his own Forces if need be for the accomplishing of the Premises LXXXIX It hath been expresly concluded and agreed between the said Plenipotentiaries That the Reservations contained in the 21 and 22 Articles of the Treaty of Vervins shall have their full and entire effect and no explication contrary to their meaning shall be used And that in consequence thereof to the said Lord the most Christian King of France and Navarre his Successors and Assigns are reserved notwithstanding any prescription or space of time that might be alledged to the contrary all the rights actions and pretensions he conceives to belong unto him because of the said Kingdoms Countries and Lordships or any where else for any cause whatsoever whereunto it hath ever been either by himself or by his predecessors expresly renounced to prosecute the same by an amicable way and of Justice and not by Arms. LXXXX Likewise shall be reserved unto the said Lord the Catholick King of Spain his Successors and Assigns notwithstanding any prescription or space of time that might be alledged to the contrary all the rights actions and pretensions he conceives to belong unto him because of the said Kingdoms Countries and Lordships or any where else for any cause whatsoever whereunto it hath never been either by himself or by the King 's his predecessors expresly renounced likewise to prosecute the same by an amicable way and of Justice and not by Arms. LXXXXI Whereas the said Cardinal Mazarin his most Christian Majesties Plenipotentiary hath represented that for the better obtaining of a good Peace it is necessary that the Duke of Savoy who hath intermedled in this War joyning his Arms to those of the Crown of France whose Ally he is should be comprehended in the present Treaty His most Christian Majesty loving the welfare and preservation of the said Duke as much as his own because of the propinquity of blood and alliance whereby they are related and his Catholick Majesty finding it reasonable that the said Duke be comprehended in that Peace upon the instances and by the interposition of his most Christian Majesty It hath been concluded and agreed that for the future there shall be a cessation of all manner of acts of hostility as well by Sea and other waters as by Land between his Catholick Majesty and the said Duke of Savoy their Children Heirs and Successors born or to be born their States Dominions and Lordships a restablishment of Amity Navigation and Commerce and good correspondency between the Subjects of his said Majesty and the said Duke without distinction of places or of persons And the said Subjects shall be restablished without difficulty or delay into the free and peaceable possession and enjoyment of all their Goods rights names reasons pensions actions immunities and priviledges of what nature soever which they possessed in the Dominions one of the other afore the present War or that might have escheated to them during the same and which by reason of it may have been seized on Yet so that they shall not pretend or demand any restitution for the enjoying of the same for the time past during the War LXXXXII In consequence of the said Peace and in consideration of the Offices of his most Christian Majesty the said Lord the Catholick King shall restore unto the said Duke of Savoy really and indeed the Town place and Castle of Verceil and all the Territories thereof Appurtenances Dependences and Annexes And shall therein demolish nothing nor damnifie the Fortifications that have been made there but shall restore it in the same condition as to the Artillery Ammunitions of War Victuals and any other things as it was when the said Verceil was taken by his Catholick Majesties Arms. And as to the place of Cencio in the Langs it shall likewise be restored to the said Duke of Savoy in the same state it is now in with the Dependences and Annexes LXXXXIII As for the Dower of the late Serenissima Infanta Catharina about which there hath been some difference betwixt the Houses of Savoy and of Modena his Catholick Majesty doth promise and engage to see effectively paid unto the Duke of Savoy the Arrears that may be due to his House since the said Dower was appointed until the 17 of December in the year 1620. At which time the late Duke Charles Emanuel of Savoy gave in Appanage the said Dower to the late Prince Philbert his Son as it shall be verified by the date out of the Books of the Royal Chamber of the Kingdom of Naples And for the
Besides the Duke of Savoy the Duke of Modena and the Prince of Monaco who as Allies of France are of the chiefest Contractors in this Treaty as aforesaid by the common consent of the said Lords the most Christian Catholick shall be comprehended in this Peace and Alliance if they will be comprehended therein on his most Christian Majesties part first Our Holy Father the Pope the Holy Apostolical See the Electors other Princes of the Empire Allies and Confederates with his Majesty for the maintaining of the Peace of Munster viz. the three Electors of Mentz Coleâ— and the Count Palarine of the Rhine the Duke of Newburg the Dukes Auguste Christiane Lewis and George William of Brunswick and Luneburge the Landgrave of Hessen-Cassel and the Landgrave of Darmstat the Duke and the Seigniory of Venice and the Thirteen Cantons of the League of Switzerland and their Allies and Confederates all other Kings Potentates Princes and States Towns and particular persons to whom his most Christian Majesty upon a decent requisition made by them for it will grant on his part to be comprehended in this Treaty and will name them within a year after the publication of the Peace unto his Catholick Majesty by a particular Declaration to enjoy the benefit of the said Peace both by the aforenamed and by such as his Majesty shall name within the said time Their Majesties giving their Declaratory and Obligatory Letters required in such case respectively and the whole with an express Declaration that the said Catholick King shall not have power directly nor indirectly to molest by himself or by others any of those who on the said Lord the most Christian Kings part have been above or hereafter shall be comprehended by a particular Declaration And that if the Lord the Catholick King hath any pretensions against him he shall only have power to prosecute him by right before competent Judges and not by force in what manner soever it may be CXXIII And on the said Lord the Catholick Kings part shall be comprehended in this Treaty if they will therein be comprehended our holy Father the Pope the Apostolical See the Emperor of the Romans all the Archdukes of Austria and all the Kings Princes Republicks States and particular Persons who as Allies of this Crown were named in the Treaty of Peace made at Vervins 1598. and who shall have preserved and do at this day preserve themselves in that Alliance To whom are added now the United Provinces of the Low Countries and the Duke of Guastale as also shall be comprehended all such others as by common consent of the said Lords and Kings shall be named within a year after the Publication of the present Treaty to whom as also to the aforenamed if they desire it in particular Letters of Nomination respectively Obligatory shall be given to enjoy the benefit of the said Peace with express Declaration That the said Lord the most Christian King shall not have Power directly nor indirectly by himself or by others to molest any of them And if he hath any pretentions against them he shall have power only to prosecute them by Right before competent Judges and not by Force CXXIV And for greater security of this Treaty of Peace and of all the points and Articles therein contayned the said Treaty shall be Published Verified and Registred in the Court of the Parliament of Paris and in all the other Parliaments of the Kingdom of France and in the Chamber of Accounts in the said Paris As likewise the said Treaty shall be Verified Published and Registred as well in the Grand Council and other Councils and chambers of Accounts of the said Lord the Catholick King in the Low Countries as in the other Councils of the Crowns of Castile and Arragon according unto and after the manner contained in the Treaty of Vervins of the year 1598. whereof the Expeditions shall be delivered on both sides within three Moneths after the Publication of the present Treaty Which Points and Articles before set down together with the whole Contents of any of them have been Treated Granted Passed and Stipulated between the aforesaid Plenipotentiaries of the said Lords the most Christian and Catholick King in the name of their Majesties Which Plenipotentiaries by virtue of their Power the Copie whereof are inserted at the bottom of this present Treaty have promised and do promise under the Obligation of all and every the Goods and Estates present or to come of the Kings their Majesties That the same shall be by their Majesties Inviolably observed and performed and to cause them to Ratifie the same meerly and singly without adding any thing thereunto and to give and deliver Reciprocally one to the other Authentical and sealed Letters wherein the whole present Treaty shall be word for word inserted and that within 30 days from the day and date of these presents and sooner if it may be Besides the said Plenipotentiaties have promised and do promise in the Names aforesaid That the said Letters of Ratification being exchanged and Furnished the said most Christian King as soon as it may be and in the presence of such person or persons as the said Lord the Catholick King shall be pleased to appoint shall Solemnly Swear upon the Cross the holy Evangelists the Canons of the Mass and upon his Honour to observe and perform Fully Really and Bona fide the whole Contents of the Articles of the present Treaty And the like shall be done also as soon as possibly may be by the said Lord the Catholick King in the presence of such person or persons as the said Lord the most Christian King shall be pleased to appoint In witness whereof the said Plenipotentiaries have subscribed the present Treaty with their Names and set the Seals of their Coat of Arms thereunto We having the aforesaid Treaty acceptable in all and every the Points and Articles therein contained and declared have both for us and for our Heirs Successors Kingdoms Countries Lands Lordships and Subjects Accepted Approved Ratified and Confirmed and do Accept Approve Ratifie and Confirm the same and do promise in the Faith and Word of a King and under the Obligation and Engagement of all and every our goods present and to come Inviolably to Keep Observe and Maintain the whole without ever doing any thing contrary thereunto Directly nor Indirectly in what sort and manner soever In Witness whereof We have signed these Presents with our Hand and thereunto caused our Seal to be set and apposed Given at Thoulose the four and twentieth of November 1659. and of our Reign the Seventeenth FINIS
THE TREATY OF PEACE CALLED THE Pyrenaean Treaty Between the CROWNS of FRANCE and SPAIN Concluded and Signed By his Eminency Cardinal Mazarin AND Dom Lewis Mendez de Haro Plenipotentiaries of their most Christian and Gatholick MAJESTIES The Seventh of November 1659. Printed in Paris by His Majesties Command and now faithfully rendred English LONDON Printed for T. Collins J. Wright T. Sawbridge and M. Pitt 1678. The Treaty of Peace between the Crowns of France and Spain concluded and signed by his Eminency Cardinal Mazarin and Dom Lewis Mendez de Haro Plenipotentiaries of their most Christian and Catholick Majesties in the Isle called of the Pheasants in the River of Bidassoa upon the Confines of the Pyrenaean Mountains the seventh of November 1659. LEWIS BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF FRANCE AND OF NAVARRA To all those who shall see the present Letters Greeting Whereas by vertue of the Powers respectively given by us and the most High most Excellent and most Potent Prince the Catholick King of Spain our most Dear and most Beloved good Brother and Uncle unto our most Dear and most Beloved Cosen the Cardinal Mazarin and to the Lord Dom Lewis Mendez de Haro and Gusman they have in the Isle called of the Pheasants in the River of Bidassoa upon the Confines of both the Kingdoms towards the Pyrenean Mountains the Seventh of the instant month of November concluded agreed and signed the Treaty of Peace and Reconciliation the tenor whereof is as followeth IN THE NAME OF GOD THE CREATOR To all present and to come Be it known That whereas a long and bloody War hath many years since caused great miseries and oppressions to be suffered by the People Kingdoms Countries and Dominions under the obedience of the most High most Excellent and most Potent Prince Lewis the XIV by the Grace of God most Christian King of France and Navarra and of Philip the IV by the Grace of God Catholick King of Spain In which War other Princes and Republicks their Neighbours and Allyes having also taken part many Towns and Countries of both the parties have been exposed to great evils miseries ruines and desolations And although at other times and by several ways diverse Overtures and Negociations for an accommodation have been made yet none of them through the mysterious secrets of the Divine Providence could take the effect most earnestly desired by their Majesties until at length that supreme God who hath in his hand the hearts of Kings and hath particularly reserved to himself alone the precious Gift of Peace hath had the goodness through his infinite Mercy to inspire at the same time both the Kings and so to guide and direct them that without any other interposition or motives but the only 〈…〉 of compassion they have had of the sufferings of their Good subjects and of a Fatherly desire of their good and relief and of the Peace of the whole Christendom they have found the means how to put an end to so great and long calamities to forget and extinguish the causes and the seeds of their divisions and to settle to the glory of God and the exaltation of our holy Catholick Faith a good sincere entire and lasting Peace and Fraternity between them and their Successors their Allyes and Dependants By means whereof the dammages and miseries suffered might quickly be repaired in all parts Which to attain unto both the said Lords and Kings having given order unto the most eminent Lord Messire Julas Mazarin Cardinal of the holy Roman Church Duke of Mayenne Head of the most Christian Kings Councils c. and unto that most excellent Lord the Lord Dom Lewis Mendez de Haro and Gusman Marquis of Carpier earl-Earl-Duke of Olivares perpetual Governour of the Royal Palaces and of the Arcenal or Magazine of the City of Sevella great Chancellor perpetual of the India's one of his Catholick Majesties Council of State great Commander of the order of Alcantara Gentleman of his Majesties Chamber and Gentleman of his Horse these two first and principal Ministers to meet upon the Confines of both the Kingdoms towards the Pyrenaean Mountains as being the two persons who are best informed of their holy intentions of their Interests and of the most intimate secrets of their hearts and consequently the most able to find out the necessary expedients to end their differences and to that end having given unto them most large Powers the Copies whereof are inserted at the end of these presents both the aforesaid principal Ministers by vertue of their said powers acknowledged on both sides to be sufficient have granted established and concluded the following Articles I. FIRST it is concluded and agreed that for the future there shall be a good firm and lasting Peace confederation and perpetual alliance and amity between the most Christian and Catholick Kings their Children borne and to be born their Childrens Successors and Heirs their Kingdoms Dominions Countries and Subjects who shall love one another as good Brethren procuring with all their power the mutual good honor and reputation one of the other and shuning bona fide as much as in them shall lye the damage one of the other II. In consequence of that good re-union the Cessation of all manner of Hostility concluded and signed the eight day of May of this present year shall continue according to its tenor between the said Lords and Kings their Subjects Vassals and Adherents both by Sea and other Waters and by Land and generally in all places where the War hath been hitherto between their Majesties And if any new thing or ways of Fact should hereafter be attempted by the Arms or in any manner whatsoever under the name of the Authority of either of the said Lords and Kings to the prejudice of the other the dammages shall be presently repaired and things put again in the same state as they were in upon the eighth day of May aforesaid when the said suspension of Arms was agreed on and subscribed the tenor whereof ought to be observed until the publication of the Peace III. And for hindering lest the differences that might hereafter happen betwixt any Princes or Potentates in Alliance with the said Lords and Kings be able to alter the good correspondency aâ—â— amity between their Majesties which every one of them is desirous to make so sure and lasting that no accident may disturb the same it hath been concluded and agreed that in case hereafter any difference should arise betwixt their Allies which might carry them to an open breach between themselves neither of the said Lords and Kings shall assault or disturb by his Arms the Ally of the other or shall give an assistance publick or private against the said Ally without first and afore all things treating in the Court of the other King by his Ambassador or some other particular person about the occasion of the said difference hindring as much as in them shall lye and by their authority the taking up
Bar Countries Towns and places making up the same as well that part thereof as doth hold from the Crown of France as that which might be pretended not to hold of it LXIV Thirdly Except the County of Clermont and the Dominion thereof and the places Provostships and Lands of Stendy Dun and Jametz with the whole Revenue thereof and the Territories belonging to them Which Moyenvie Dukedom of Bar therein comprehended the part of the place and Provostship of Merville which part as it hath been said before did belong to the Duke of Bar Places County Provostship Lands and Dominions of Clermont Stenay Dan and Jametz with their Appurtenances Dependencies and Annexes shall remain for ever united and incorporated to the Crown of France LXV The said Duke Charles of Lorrain afore his re-establishment into the Dominions aforesaid and afore any place be restored unto him shall give his consent to the tenour of the three immediately foregoing Articles And to that effect shall deliver to his most Christian Majesty in the most valid and authentick form his Majesty might desire the Acts of his renunciation and cession of the said Moyenvie Dukedom of Bar therein comprehended the part of Merville both the part holding and pretended not to hold of the Crown of France Stenay Dun Jametz the County of Clermont and the Dominion thereof Appurtenances Dependencies and Annexes And the said Duke not his successours either now or ever hereafter shall pretend or demand any thing of the price the late King Lewis XIII of glorious memory had bound himself to pay unto the said Duke for the said Dommion of the County of Clermont by the Treaty made at Liverdun in the Month of June 1632. because the Article containing the said Obligation hath been annullated by the subsequent Treaties and again afresh in as much as need might be is wholly annullated by this present Treaty LXVI His most Christian Majesty in restoring unto the said Duke Charles the places of his Dominions as aforesaid shall leave therein except only in such as are agreed to be demolished all the Artillery Powder Bullets Arms Victuals and Ammunitions of War that are in the Magazines of the said places without imbezling weakning and damnifying the same in any manner whatsoever LXVII Neither the said Duke Charles of Lorrain nor any other Prince of his House or of his adherents and dependents shall have power to remain in Arms but both the said Duke and the other aforesaid shall be bound to disband their Forces at the Publication of the said Peace LXVIII The said Duke Charles of Lorrain afore his re-establishment into his Dominions shall likewise prepare an Act in good form unto his most Christian Majesty that he doth desist and give over all Intelligences Leagues Associations and practises he hath or may have with any Prince State and Potentate whatsoever to the prejudice of his Majesty and the Crown of France And that for the future he will give no retreat into his Dominions to his enemies Rebels or suspected Subjects and will not permit any Levies there nor gathering of Souldiers against his Service LXIX The said Duke Charles shall likewise give afore his re-establishment an Act in good form unto his most Christian Majesty whereby he shall bind himself both for himself and all the Dukes of Lorrain his Successours to grant at all times without any difficulty under what pretence soever the same might be grounded free passage upon his Dominions both to such persons and forces Horse and Foot whom his said Majesty and the Kings of France his Successours shall have occasion to send into Alsatia or to Brisac and Philipsbourg as often as he shall be desired of it by his said Majesty and his said Successours and to cause Victuals Lodgings and other necessaries to be afforded unto the said forces in his said Dominions by way of Estap the said forces paying their expences at the ordinary rate of the Country Provided they be but meer passages at regular marches and reasonable journeys without so journing in the said Dominions of Lorrain LXX The said Duke Charles afore his re-establishment into his Dominions shall put into the hands of his most Christian Majesty an Act in good form and satisfactory to his Majesty whereby the said Duke shall oblige himself for himself and for all his Successours to cause the Farmers and Administrators of the Salt-pits of Rosieres Chasteau-Salins Dieuze and Marsal which his Majesty doth restore unto him by the present Treaty to afford unto his Majesty all such quantity of Measures of Salt as shall be necessary for furnishing all the Salt Store-houses that ought to be filled for the use and ordinary consumption of his Majesties Subjects within the three Bishopricks of Metz Thoul and Verdun Dukedom of Bar and County of Clermont Stenay Jametz and Dun at the same rate for each measure of Salt as the said Duke Charles was wonted to afford it to the Store-houses of the Bishoprick of Metz in time of Peace during the last year of the said Dukes possessing his whole Dominions and neither he nor his Successours shall have power to raise the price of the said measures of Salt LXXI And because since the time the late most Christian King of glorious memory hath conquered Lorrain by his Arms a great number of the Subjects of that Dukedom have served their Majesties in consequence of the Oaths of Fidelity their Majesties have desired of them it hath been agreed That the said Duke shall not like them nor use them the worse for it but shall consider and use them as his good and faithful Subjects and shall pay them off such Debts and Rents whereof his Dominions may be charged Which his Majesty doth so particularly desire that had it not been for the assurance his Majesty takes of the Faith the said Duke will engage to him for that purpose his Majesty would have never granted him so much as he doth by the present Treaty LXXII It hath been farther agreed that the said Duke shall not have power to alter any thing in the Provisions of the Benefices granted by the said Lords and Kings untill the day of the present Treaty and that such as have been provided shall remain in the peaceable possession of the said Benefices wherein the said Duke shall not disturb or molest them nor have power to turn them out of their possession LXXIII It hath been further agreed that the Confiscations given by his Majesty and his Father the late King of the Estates of such as were in armes against him shall be of force as to the enjoyment of the said Estates untill the day of the date of the present Treaty and such as have enjoyed the same by vertue of the said Gifts shall not be troubled nor molested for the same in any wise and for no cause whatsoever LXXIV It hath been further agreed that all Proceedings Judgments and Arrests issued by the Council Judges and other Officers of his most
payment for the future of the current of the said Dower and other Arrears what is further disposed about it hereafter by another Article of the present Treaty shall be followed LXXXXIV And because the Divisions or contrary pretensions of the Houses of Savoy and Mantua have several times caused some troubles in Italy because of the assistances the said Lords and Kings have at divers times given each of them to his Ally that for the future no subject or pretence may be left that might afresh after the good intelligence and amity of their Majesties It hath been concluded and agreed for the good of the Peace that the Treaties made at Querasque in the year 1632 about the differences of the said Houses of Savoy and Mantua shall be executed according to their form and tenor And his Catholick Majesty doth promise and engage his Royal Word never to oppose nor in any wise to do any thing contrary unto the said Treaty nor to the execution thereof for any reason action or pretence whatsoever and not to give any assistance or favour directly nor indirectly in any manner whatsoever to any Prince that shall offer to infringe the said Treaties of Querasque whereof his most Christian Majesty shall have power to maintain the observation and execution of it by his authority and if need be with his Arms. And his most Catholick Majesty shall not have power to make use of his own to hinder it any thing of the third Article of the present Treaty whereunto it is expresly derogated this present Article only for that regard contrary thereunto notwithstanding LXXXXV Whereas the difference remaining betwixt the said Duke of Savoy and the Duke of Mantua about the Dower of the late Princess Margaret of Savoy Grand-mother to the said Duke of Mantua could not be composed in several conferences had by the Commissioners of the said Dukes about the same both in Italy and in this place before the Plenipotentiaries of their Majesties because of the too great distance of the one and the exceptions of the other So that they could not agree afore the conclusion of the said Peace which ought not to have been retarded because of that interest onely It hath been concluded and agreed that the said Dukes shall cause their Commissioners to meet in Italy within thirty days after the subscribing of this Treaty and sooner if it may be at such a place as shall be agreed on between the Duke of Navailles and in his absence between the Ambassador of the most Christian King residing in Piedmont and the Count of Fuensaldana or in such manner as they shall think it most fit to the end that with the intervention of the Ministers of both the Lords and Kings which may happen to contribute much for facilitating and carrying on of that accommodation they might attend the composure of that difference so that within other forty days after their first meeting the said accommodatoin may be concluded and the parties may agree about the sum that is due And in case that new conference do not produce the intended effect afore the Spring then both the Plenipotentiaries of the two Lords and Kings shall meet again together upon this same Frontier of both the Kingdoms And then their Majesties having been acquainted by their Ministers of the reasons on both sides and of the expedients propounded unto them shall make choice of that which they shall judge to be just and reasonable to mediate the accommodation of that business in an amicable way so that the said Dukes might and be obliged to remain satisfied on both sides And their said Majesties shall concur afterwards unanimously to procure that their determinations may be executed so that nothing might remain that may alter the publick tranquility of Italy LXXXXVI And because since the death of the Duke of Modena hapned in Piedmont the last year 1658. his Catholick Majesty hath been informed by his Ministers in Italy that the Duke of Modena his Successor hath shewed his pleasure for the things hapned during this War and to have a firm intention to give satisfaction to his said Majesty concerning his person and his actions and to merit by his conduct his Royal good will the said Duke having made for that end divers offices to the Count of Fuensaldana Governor and Captain-General in the State of Milan Upon this consideration and of the Lord the most Christian Kings interposition his Catholick Majesty doth from henceforth receive into his Grace the person and the house of the said Duke who shall for the future live and proceed in a good and free neutrality with the two Crowns of France and Spain and his Subjects shall have power to have and to hold a Free-commerce within the Dominions of both the Crowns And the said Duke and his Subjects shall enjoy such Rents and Graces as they have obtained or hereafter may obtain of their Majesties as they wonted to enjoy them without difficulty afore the taking up of Arms. LXXXXVII Likewise his Catholick Majesty hath consented and granted never to send any more into the place of Correggio the Garrison he used to have there for the time past So that the possession of the said place of Correggio shall remain free of the said Garrison And even for a greater security and advantage of the said Duke his Catholick Majesty doth promise to make most pressing offices towards the Emperor that he may be pleased to grant unto the said Duke to his satisfaction the investiture of the aforesaid Dominion of Correggio as the Princes of the said Correggio formerly had it LXXXXVIII As to the Dower of the Serenissima Infanta Catharina assigned upon the Customs of Foja in the Kingdom of Naples of 48000 Duckets of yearly revenue or such other quantity as shall appear by the Books of the Royal Chamber of that Kingdom about which Dower there is some difference betwixt the Duke of Savoy and the Duke of Modena his Catholick Majesty acknowledging without any difficulty that he oweth the same and having intention to pay it to any of the said Dukes to whom the propriety of the said Dower shall be adjudged by Justice or by any particular convention or agreement made between them it hath been concluded and agreed That his said Catholick Majesty shall forthwith settle all things concerning the said Dower in the same state they were when the payment of the said Dower began to cease to be paid upon the occasion of the taking up of Arms That is to say if at that time the Monies of the said Dower were sequestred they shall continue so still for the future until the differences betwixt the said Dukes be ended either by a definitive Judgment of Justice or by a mutual agreement between them And if at the aforesaid time the late Duke of Modena was in possession of enjoying the same Dower and the Monies thereof not sequestred his Majesty shall continue from this time to pay unto the
Duke of Modena his Son both the Arrears that shall be found to be due for the time past and what shall run for the future of the revenew of the said Dower yet defalking upon the Arrears all the enjoyment of it during the time the House of Modena hath been in Arms against the State of Milan In that last case shall in the mean while remain to the said Duke of Savoy all reasons actions and rights to prosecute the same in Justice and cause it to be declared to whom doth the propriety of the said Dower belong After which Judgment or particular Convention that may intervene between the said Dukes his Catholick Majesty shall pay without difficulty the revenew of the said Dower to such of them to whom the same shall be found to belong by a definitive sentence of Justice or by an accommodation made between the said Dukes of Savoy and Modena LXXXXIX And because the said Lords and Kings have considered that the differences of the other Princes their Friends and Adherents have often drawn them against their Wills and the Kings their Predecessors of glorious memory to the taking up of Armes Their Majesties desiring as much as in them lies to remove by the present Peace in all places the least occasions of dissention the better to secure the continuation thereof and chiefly to settle the tranquility of Italy so often troubled by the particular differences happened between the Princes who do possess any Dominions there The two Lords and Kings have concluded and agreed that they will jointly interpose sincerely and pressingly their Offices and Supplications towards our Holy Father the Pope until they may have obtained of his Holiness that he might be pleased to cause the difference to be ended without delay either by an agreement or by Justice which the Duke of Modena hath had so long since with the Apostolicall Chamber touching the Propriety and Possession of the Valleys of Comachio The said Kings and Lords hoping of the Soveraigne Equity of his Holiness that he will not refuse the just satisfaction that shall be due to a Prince whose Ancestors have so well deserved of the holy See and who in a most considerable Interest hath hitherto consented to take even his own Adversary's parties for Judges C. The two Lords and Kings upon the like consideration of plucking up the seeds of all differences that might trouble the peace of Italy have also concluded that they will jointly interpose sincerely and pressingly their Officers and Supplications towards our Holy Father the Pope untill they may have obtained of his Holiness the grace which their Majesties have so often demanded of him singly in the behalf of the Duke of Parma that he may have power to discharge at several convenient intervals of time the debt he hath contracted to the Apostolical Chamber by like intervals and that by that means and with the engaging or alienating of part of his Dominions of Castro and Roneiglione he may find such monies as are necessary unto him for the preservation of the rest of his Dominions The which their Majesties do hope of the goodness of his Holiness no less by the desire he will have to prevent all occasions of discord in Christendom then by his disposition to favor a House so well meriting of the Holy Apostolical See CI. The said Lords and Kings judging that they can not better acknowledg towards God the grace they have received of his meer Soveraigne bounty who hath inspired them the desire and opened them the means of reconciling themselves and granting Peace unto their people then by applying themselves and endeavouring with all their power to procure and preserve the like tranquility unto all other Christian States whose peace is either troubled or like to be suddenly altered Their Majesties seeing with a great grief the present disposition of Germany and of other Northern Countries where the War is kindled and may yet inflame the Empire by the division of the Princes and States thereof have concluded agreed and resolved to send without delay their Ambassadors or cause those they have already in the Empire jointly to act for the managing in their name and by their interposition a good and speedy accommodation both of all differences that may trouble the Peace of the Empire and of such as some years since have caused the War in the other parts of the North. CII And because informations have been had that notwithstanding the accommodation made some years since of the divisions happened then betwixt the Cantons of the Leagues of Switzerland Catholicks and Protestants there remains yet under the ashes some sparks of that fire that might if not wholly quenched take fire again and cause new troubles and dissentions betwixt those people allyed with both the Crowns the two Lords and Kings have judged it necessary to apply themselves on this part to the prevention of that danger as much as in them shall lye afore things grow worse And therefore it hath been agreed and concluded between their Majesties that they shall send upon that occasion some particular Ministers every one of them to the Cantons of his Alliance unless they judge those they have there in ordinary to be sufficient for the end they have proposed unto themselves with orders when they have exactly informed themselves of the motives and causes which have occasioned the misunderstanding and disunion of the said Nation to meet and endeavor joyntly and uniformly to procure there a good concord and cause all things there to return to the Peace quietness and Fraternity wherewith the said Cantons were wonted to live formerly acquainting their Superiors with the satisfaction their Majesties will receive of it because of the affection they bear to their States and how much that establishment of union will be pleasing to them because of the great desire they have for their welfare and publick tranquility CIII The differences hapned in the Countries of the Grisons about the Valtoline having several times obliged both the Kings and several other Princes to take up Arms To avoid lest for the future they might alter the good intelligence of their Majesties it hath been agreed that within six months after the publication of the present Treaty and after information had on both sides of the intention of the Grisons touching the observation of the Treaties heretofore made it shall be agreed in an amicable way between the two Crowns of all the Interests they have in that affair And that for that end each of the said Lords and Kings shall give sufficient power to treat of it to such Ambassadors as he will send to the Court of the other after the publication of the Peace CIV The Prince of Monaco shall be restored without delay into the peaceable possession of all the Goods Rights and Revenues belonging unto him and which he injoyed afore the War in the Kingdom of Naples Dutchy of Milan and other places of the obedience of his Catholick