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
of Arms betwixt their said Allies until either by the judgment of both the Kings if their Allies will yield to their decision or by their interposition and authority they might have endeavoured an amicable composure of the said difference so that every one of their Allies be satisfied with it shunning on both sides the taking up of Auxiliary Arms. After which if the Authority of both the Kings or their Offices and interposition cannot produce the accommodation and the Allies do at last take the way of Arms every one of the said Lords and Kings shall be free to assist his Allie with his Forces without incurring thereby any breach betwixt their Majesties or any alteration of their Amity Each of the two Kings even promising in that case that he will not suffer that his Arms nor the Arms of his Allie should enter into any of the Dominions of the other King there to commit any hostility but that the quarrel shall be ended within the limits of the Dominion or Dominions of the Allies that shall fight together so that no warlike action or any other done in that conformity shall be deemed a breach of this present Treaty of Peace As likewise whensoever any Prince or State in Alliance with either of the said Lords and Kings shall be directly or indirectly assaulted by the Forces of the other King in what he shall hold and be possessed of at the subscribing of the present Treaty or what he ought to possess in consequence of it it shall be lawful to the other King to help or assist the assaulted Prince or State and yet whatsoever shall be done in conformity to the present Article by the Auxiliary Forces whilst they shall be in the service of the assaulted Prince or State shall not be deemed a breach of the present Treaty And in case it should happen that either of the two Lords and Kings should be first assaulted in what he now is possessed of or ought to possess by virtue of the present Treaty by any other Prince or State whatsoever or by many Princes and States in League together the other King shall not joint his Forces to the said assaulting Prince or State though otherwise his Ally nor to the said League of the likewise assaulting Princes or States as aforesaid nor shall give to the said Prince and State or to the said League any assistance of Men Money or Victuals nor passage or retreat in his Dominions to their Persons or Forces As for the Kingdoms Princes and States that are now in War with either of the said Lords and Kings and could not be comprehended in the present Treaty of Peace or that having been comprehended therein would not accept of it it hath been concluded and agreed that the other King shall not have power after the publication of the said Treaty to give them directly or indirectly any manner of assistance of Men Victuals or Money much less to the Subjects that might hereafter rise or revolt against either of the said Lords and Kings IV. All occasions of enmity or misunderstanding shall remain extinguished and for ever abolished and whatsoever hath been done or hath hapned upon occasion of the present Wars or during the same shall be put into perpetual oblivion so that for the future of neither side neither directly nor indirectly shall any inquiry be made for the same by Justice or otherwise under any pretence whatsoever nor shall their Majesties or their Subjects Servants or Adherents of either side shew any manner of remembrance of any offences or damages suffered during the War V. By means of this Peace and strict amity the Subjects of both sides whatsoever shall have liberty they observing the Laws and Customs of the Country to go to and fro to dwell trade and return into one anothers Country Merchandising or as they shall think best both by Land and by Sea or any other Fresh-waters to treat and trade together and the Subjects of the one shall be maintained and protected in the others Countreys as their own Subjects paying reasonably the Duties in all accustomed places and such others as by their Majesties and their Successors shall be imposed VI. The Towns Subjects Merchants and Inhabitants of the Kingdoms Dominions Provinces and Countreys belonging to the most Christian King shall enjoy the same Priviledges Franchises Liberties and Sureties in the Kingdom of Spain and other Kingdoms and Dominions belonging to the Catholick King as the English have by right enjoyed by the last Treaties made between the two Crowns of Spain and England and no greater Duties or Impositions shall be exacted of the French and other of the most Christian Kings Subjects either in Spain or any where else within the Lands or other places of the Catholick Kings obedience than have been paid by the English before the breach or than are paid at this time by the Inhabitants of the United Provinces of the Neatherlands or any other strangers that shall be there the more favourably intreated The same shall be done within the whole extent of the obedience of the said Lord the most Christian King unto all the Subjects of the said Lord the Catholick King of what Country or Nation soever they be VII In consequence of this if the French or any other of his most Christian Majesties Subjects are found in the said Kingdoms of Spain or upon the Coasts thereof to have shipped or caused to be shipped upon their Vessels in what manner soever it may be any prohibited goods to transport them out of the said Kingdoms the penalty shall not extend further than hath been heretofore practised in such cases towards the English or than it is at this time practised towards the Hollanders in consequence of the Treaties made with England or the United Provinces and all Inquiries or Processes hitherto made about the same shall remain null and be extinguished The same shall be observed towards the Towns Subjects and Inhabitants of the Kingdoms and Islands belonging to the said Lord the Catholick King who shall enjoy the same priviledges Franchises and Liberties throughout all the Dominions of the said Lord the most Christian King VIII All the French and other Subjects of the said Lord the most Christian King shall have liberty freely and without any hindrance to transport out of the said Kingdoms and Countries of the said Lord the Catholick King the proceed of the sale by them made of Corn within the said Kingdoms and Countries after the same manner as they wanted to do afore the War And the same shall be observed in France towards the Subjects of the said Lord the Catholick King IX Of neither side shall the Merchants Masters of Ships Pilots or Mariners nor their Ships Merchandises Commodities or other Goods to them belonging be arrested or seised on either by vertue of any general or particular Mandate or for any cause whatsoever of War or otherwise nor even under pretence of using them for the preservation and
Enemies of the said Lord and Catholick King although not contrebanda goods shal be confiscated together with all that shall be found in the said ship without any exception or reservation But on the other side whatsoever shall be found in the ships belonging to the Subjects of the most Christian King shall be free and freed although the lading or part thereof should belong to the Enemies of the said Lord the Catholick King except the prohibited goods in regard whereof they shall carry themselves according to what hath been disposed in the aforegoing Articles XX. All the Subjects of the said Lord the Catholick King shall mutually enjoy the same Rights Liberties and Immunities in their trade and commerce within the Ports Roads Seas and Dominions of his most Christian Majesty And what hath been abovesaid that the Subjects of the said Lord the most Christian King shall enjoy in his Catholick Majesties Ports or in open Sea ought to be understood that the equality shall be mutual in all manner on both sides even in case hereafter the said Lord the Catholick King should happen to be at peace amity and neutrality with any Kings Princes and States that should become the Enemies of the said Lord the most Christian King each of both the parties being mutually to use the same conditions and restrictions expressed in the Articles of the present Treaty concerning the Trade and Commerce XXI In case of either side there happens any contravention to the said Articles touching the Commerce by the Officers of the Admiralty of either of the two Lords and Kings or any other person whatsoever the complaint thereof being addressed by the interessed Parties unto their Majesties themselves or their Councils for the Navy their said Majesties shall presently cause the damage to be repaired and all things to be executed in the manner aforesaid And in case in progress of times any frauds or inconveniences should be discovered touching the said Commerce and Navigation nor sufficiently provided against by the aforesaid Articles new ones shall be added thereto of such other precautions as shall be thought convenient on both parts The present Treaty remaining yet in the mean while in its force and vigor XXII All Goods and Merchandises arrested in either of the Kingdoms upon the Subjects of the said Lords and Kings at the time of the Declaration of War shall be uprightly and bonâ fide restored to the Owners in case they be found in esse at the day of the publication of the present Treaty And all Debts contracted before the War which upon the said day of the publication of the present Treaty shall be found not to have been actually paid unto others by vertue of Judgments given upon Letters of Confiscation or Reprisal shall be bonâ fide acquitted and paid And upon the demands and pursuits that shall be made about them the said Lords and Kings shall give order unto their Officers to render as good and speedy Justice unto the Forreiners as unto their own Subjects without any distinction of persons XXIII The actions that have been heretofore or shall hereafter be intented before the Officers of the said Lords and Kings for Prises Spoils and Reprisals against such as are not Subjects to the Prince in whose jurisdiction the said actions shall have been intented or begun shall without any difficulty be returned before the Officers of the Prince whose Subjects the Defendants shall be XXIV And the better to secure for the future the Commerce and Amity between the Subjects of the said Lords and Kings for the greater advantage and commodity of their Kingdoms it hath been concluded and agreed That there hapning hereafter any breach between the two Crowns which God forbid six months time shall alwaies be given to the Subjects on both sides to retire and transport their persons and goods where they shall please Which they shall be permitted to do with all liberty without any hinderance and during that time there shall be no seisure made of their said goods much less their persons arrested XXV The Inhabitants and Subjects of either side shall every where within the Lands of the obedience of the said Lords and Kings make use of such Advocates Proctors Notaries and Sollicitors as they shall please whereunto also they shall be committed by the ordinary Judges when need shall be and when the said Judges shall be desired so to do And it shall be lawful to the said Subjects and Inhabitants of both sides to keep in the places of their abode the Books of their trade and correspondence in such a Language as they shall like best either French Spanish Flemish or any other without falling thereby into any molestation or trouble XXVI The said Lords and Kings shall have power for the commodity of their Subjects trading in one anothers Kingdoms and Dominions to settle some Consuls of the same Nation of their said Subjects who shall enjoy the Rights Liberties and immunities belonging to their exercise and employment And that the establishment shall be made in such places where with a mutual consent it shall be thought necessary XXVII All Lettees of Mart and Reprisals that may have been formerly granted for what cause soever shall be suspended and none shall be granted hereafter by either of the said Lords and Kings to the prejudice of the Subjects of the other unless in case of a manifest denial of Justice onely whereof and of the Summons made about the same such as shall sue for the said Letters shall be bound to bring good proofs according to the form and manner required by the Law XXVIII All the Subjects of both sides both Ecclesiastical and Secular shall be restored to their Goods Honours and Dignities and to the enjoyment of such Benefices as they were invested with afore the War either by Death or Resignation either by way of coadjutorship or otherwise In which re-establishment into Goods Honours and Dignities are namely understood to be comprehended all the Napolitan Subjects of the said Lord the Catholick King except only the Charges Offices and Governments they were possessed of And it shall not be lawful for either side to refuse to place or to hinder the taking of possession to any of those who have been invested with Prebends Benefices or Ecclesiastical Dignities afore that time nor to maintain therein such as have obtained any other Provisions of the same during the war unless it be for the Curates canonically provided who shall remain in the enjoyment of their Parsonages Both the one and the other shal likewise be restored to the enjoymeet of all and every one of their Goods unmoveables and Rents either perpetual or during life or to be redeemed seised on or taken from them since that time either upon the occasion of the War or for following the contrary part together with all their rights actions and successions to them accruing even since the beginning of the War yet so that they shall not demand or pretend
the aforesaid Commissioners and of the Inhabitants of the Viguery of Conflans and the aforesaid part of the County of Cerdana As also it ought reciprocally to be understood of the County of Cerdana and of the part of the Viguery of Canflans that may or ought to remain to his Catholick Majesty by the present Treaty and the Declaration of the said Commissioners LX. Although his most Christian Majesty hath never been willing to engage himself notwithstanding the pressing instances made to him heretofore backed even with very considerable offers not to make the Peace without the exclusion of the Kingdom of Portugal because his Majesty hath foreseen and feared least such an Engagement might be an unsurmountable obstruction to the conclusion of the Peace and might consequently reduce the two Kings to the necessity of a perpetual War Yet his said most Christian Majesty wishing with an extream passion to see the Kingdom of Portugal enjoy the same quietness which so many Christian States shall get by the present Treaty hath for that end proposed a good number of parties and expedients such as his Majesty thought might be satisfactory to his Catholick Majesty among which though as aforesaid his Majesty was no way ingaged in that Affair his Majesty hath even gone so far therein as to be willing to deprive himself of the principal fruit of the happiness and success his Arms have had during the course of a long War offering besides the places his Majesty doth now restore by the present Treaty unto his Catholick Majesty to restore yet unto him all the rest of the Conquests generally made by his Arms during this War and wholly to restore the Prince of Condae Provided and upon that condition that the affairs of the Kingdom of Portugal should be left as they are now which his Catholick Majesty having refused to accept but only offering that in consideration of the mighty Offices of the said Lord the most Christian King he would give his consent for setting all things in the said Kingdom of Portugal in the same state they were afore the change arived there in the Month of December in the year 1640 pardoning and giving a general Amnisty for all what is past and granting the re-establishment into all Estates Honours and Dignities to all such without distinction of persons as returning under the obedience of his Catholick Maiesty shall put themselves again in posture to enjoy the effect of the present peace At length in consideration of the peace and considering the absolute neeessity his said most Christian Majesty hath been in to perpetuate the War by breaking off the presen◠Treaty which his Majesty found to be unavoidable in case he would have any longer insisted upon the obtaining upon that affair of his Catholick Majesty other conditions than such as he offered as aforesaid And his said most Christian Majesty willing to prefer as it ought to be and is most just the general quietness of Christendom to the particular interest of the Kingdom of Portugal for whose advantage and in whose behalf his said Majesty hath never omitted any thing of what depended of him and did lie in his power even to the making of such great offers as aforesaid it hath been at length concluded and agreed between the said Lords and Kings that it shall be granted unto his said most Christian Majesty a space of three months time to begin from the day of the exchanging of the Ratifications of the present Treaty during which his said Majesty may send into the said Kingdom of Portugal to endeavour so to dispose things there and to reduce and compose that affair that his Catholick Majesty may remain fully satisfied Which three months being expired if his said most Christian Majesties cares and offices have not had the desired effect his said Majesty will no further meddle with that affair and doth oblige and engage himself and promise upon his Honour and in the word of a King for himself and his Successors not to give unto the said Kingdom of Portugal either in general or to any person or persons in particular of what dignity state condition or quality soever they be now or hereafter any help or assistance publick or secret directly or indirectly of Men Arms Ammunition Victuals Ships or Mony upon any pretence nor any other thing whatsoever by Sea or Land nor in any other manner As also not to suffer any levies to be made in any parts of his Kingdom and Dominions nor to grant passage to any that might come from other Srates to the assistance of the said Kingdom of Portugal LXI His Catholick Majesty doth renounce by this Treaty both in his Name and of his Heirs Successors and Assigns unto all the Rights and Pretensions without keeping or reserving any thing which his Majesty may or might hereafter have upon the Upper and Lower Alsatia the Zuntgaw the County of Ferrese Brisac and Dependences thereof and upon all the Countries places and rights left and yielded to his most Cristian Majesty by the Treaty made at Munster the 14 of October 1648 to be united and incorporated to the Crown of France His Catholick Majesty approving for the effect of the said Renunciation the Contents of the said Treaty of Munster and not any other thing of the said Treaty as not having intervened therein In consideratiòn of which present renuntiation his most Christian Majesty do offer to satisfie to the payment of Three Millions of Livers his Majesty is obliged to pay by the said Treaty to the Archdukes of Inspruek LXII The Duke Charles of Lorraine having shewed much sorrow for his conduct towards the Lord the most Christian King and to have a firm intention to give him more satisfaction for the future both of himself and of his actions than the time past and the occasions have formerly enabled him to do his most Christian Majesty in consideration of the mighty offices of his Catholick Majesty doth from this time receive the said Duke into his good Grace and in contemplation of the Peace without looking to the Rights his Majesty may have acquired by several Treaties made by the late King his Father with the said Duke after the demolishing which shall be first made of all the Fortifications of both the Towns of Nancy which he shall not have power to raise again and the drawing and carrying away of all the Artillery Powder Bullets Arms and Ammunitions of War that are at present in the Magazines of the said Nancy shall put again the said Duke Charles of Lorrain into the possession of the Dukedom of Lorrain and even of the Towas Places and Countries by him formerly possessed depending of the three Bishopricks of Metz Thoul and Verdun except first Moyenvie which though within the Marches of Lorrain yet belonged to the Empire and hath been yielded to his most Christian Majesty by the Treaty made at Munster the 21 of October 1648. LXIII Secondly Except the whole Dukedom of
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
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