after the Ratification of this present Treaty or sooner if possible that is to say as soon as the Convoys can arrive at each Place no parties nor detatchments shall make incursions into the Grounds and Countreys of one another but the Troops and Armies of each Crown shall abide within the extent of such Lands and Countreys as are under the obedience of each Crown That all such Prisoners as shall be taken on either side after the day of the Ratifying of this present Treaty shall be restor'd without ransom even Horses also Cattel Equipages and Merchandises and generally all other things whatsoever That as at the time when the Treaty of Peace shall be executed or betwixt this and then it may be necessary for the Troops of one Crown or it's Allies to pass into such Lands and Countreys as now belong to the other either side shall be at Liberty so to do only for maintaining communication betwixt the several Places in the Low Countreys and to go thence without taking any thing in such Lands and Countreys but Forrage only or Sojourning there any longer than is usual in ordinary marches That from the day of the Ratification of this present Treaty as well the Subjects of each Crown as those of the States General shall be at Liberty to go and come without Pass-Ports within such Lands and Countreys as do at present belong to the Crown or State of which they are Subjects and that there shall be no other need of Pass-Ports than for going from Lands now belonging to one Crown or State to such as do at present belong to the other That from six days after the Ratification of the present Treaty the Troops and Armies of each Crown shall live upon the Lands and Countreys of which each is now in possession without forraging in one another's Countrey it being understood that the word possession is not meant to comprehend or pass as in right of possession such passages and posts as the Armies and Parties have made or do now make in the places where they are or have been That from the day of the Ratification of this Treaty all extraordinary demands of Contributions Cows Prisoners and Carriages shall cease on both sides in one anothers Countrey so as neither party shall be at Liberty to make such demands upon emergent necessities but within such Countreys as each is in possession of That the Arrears of Contributions for the year that will expire the 16th of October next from those Countreys that are actually brought under such Contributions shall continue to be exacted on both sides but in such manner only as shall be agreed by the Lords Plenipotentiaries at Nimeguen That if contrary to all appearance any difficulty shall happen as to the performance of this present agreement in all or in part the same shall be adjusted in a friendly manner by the Generals or such as shall be thereto authorised without altering this agreement upon any such occasion or suffering any recourse to force All this the Deputies underwritten have respectively agreed and have promised to produce to morrow the Ratifications of the same by Monsieur the Duke of Luxemburg Peer and Marshal of France Captain of the Garde-du-corps to the Most Christian King Commander in chief of his Majesties Army in Flanders and by the Duke de Villa Hermosa Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to his Catholick Majesty Governour and Captain General of the Catholick Low Countreys At the Camp near Mons the 19th day of August 1678. Robert Fagel de Contamougear We approve and Ratifie all the Contents of the foregoing Treaty Montmorgency Luxemburg Duke de Villa Hermosa Conde de Luna The Deputy of the United Provinces to the Army underwritten authorised by his Highness the Prince of Orange approves the foregoing Treaty having been made in his presence and with his participation for so much as it concerns his said Highness and the Army and Troops of the Lords the States General under his Command De Weede His Highness having seen the Convention foregoing made by vertue of the authority which he granted doth approve and Ratifie the same by these presents At the Camp at Roeulx the 20th of August 1678. William Prince of Orange Treaties of Peace and Commerce Navigation and Marine betwixt France and the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys concluded at Nimeguen the 10th of August 1678. LEWIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navar to all that shall see these presents Greeting Since our most dear and well-beloved Cousin the Sieur Comte D' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of oùr Orders our faithful and well-beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquis of Croissi Counsellor in Ordinary in our Council of State and our faithful and well-beloved the Sieur De Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor also in our Councils Our Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries by vertue of the Plenary Powers which We had given them have Concluded Agreed and Signed the 10th of this month at Nimeguen with the Heer Hierosm van Beverningh Baron of Teylingenham Curator of the University of Leyden late Counsellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys the Heer Wilhem van Nassau Heer van Odyke Cortgene and first Noble and Representative of the Nobility in the States and Councel of Zeland and the Heer Wilhem van Haren Griedtman van Bildt Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of our most Dear and Great Friends the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countries instructed likewise with full Power the Treaty of Peace according to the Tenour ensuing In the name of God the Creator To all present and to come be it known that as during the course of the War that has been stirr'd for some years betwixt the Most High Most Excellent and Most Mighty Prince Lewis the 14th by the grace of God Most Christian King of France and Navar and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces His Majesty always maintain'd a sincere desire to give back to the said States his principal friendship and they all the sentiments of respect for his Majesty and of acknowledgment for the obligations and considerable advantages which they have received from his Majesty and the Kings his Predecessors it is at last come to pass that these good dispositions seconded by the powerful Offices of the Most High Most Excellent and Most Mighty Prince the King of Great Brittain who during these troublesom times wherein almost all Christendom has been in War hath not ceased by his Counsels and good Advertisements to contribute to the publick weal and repose induced as well his Most Christian Majesty and the said States General as also all other the Princes and Potents that are concerned in the interest of this present War to consent that the Town of Nimeguen should be made choice of for the Treaty of Peace to which end his Most Christian Majesty named for his Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries the
hundred seventy and eight and of our Reign the thirty sixth Signed Lewis By the King And underneath Arnauld The Ratification of the Treaty of Peace by the States General THe States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys To all that shall see these presents Greeting Having seen and examined the Treaty of Peace and Friendship made and concluded at Nimeguen the 10th day of August 1678. By the Sieur Comte D' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of the Orders of the Most Christian King the Sieur Colbert Marquiss of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in his Councel of State and the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d'Avaux Counsellor likewise in his Councels Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty at the meeting at Nimeguen in the name and on the behalf of his said Majesty and by the Heer Hierosme de Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University at Leyden late Counsellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces the Heer Wilhem van Nassaw Heer van Odyke Cortgene c. first noble and representative of the Order of the Nobility in the States and at the Councel of Zeland and the Heer Wilhem van Haren Grietman du Bildt Deputies in our Assembly on behalf of the States of Holland Zeland and Friesland our Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries at the said Assembly at Nimeguen in our Name and on our behalf by vertue of their full respective powers Having likewise seen and examined the Letter which our said Ambassadors and Plenipotenries wrote to the said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty the sixteenth day of the said month of August and the answer that the said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of his said Majesty returned thereunto concerning the explanation of the thirteenth Article of the said Treaty as also the Act of the 15th of September this present year by which his said Majesty declared his good liking of the explanation which his said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries made upon the thirteenth Article of the said Treaty of Peace of which Treaties Letters Acts and Powers the Tenour is as followeth In the Name of God the Creator To all c. page And forasmuch as the Contents of the said Treaty import that the Letters of Ratification shall be delivered on both sides in due and proper form within six weeks or sooner if it may be from the day of Signing We willing to give proofs of our sincerity and to discharge the promise which our Ambassadors made for us have agreed approved and Ratified the said Treaty and every Article thereof above transcribed and do Agree to Approve Ratifie and Confirm the same by these presents promising Faithfully and Sincerely to keep maintain and inviolably to observe the same in every point according to the Form and Tenour thereof without ever acting contrary thereunto directly or indirectly in any manner or kind whatsoever In Witness whereof we have made these presents to be Signed by the President of our Assembly and Countersigned by our Principal Register and our great Seal to be put thereto Given at the Hague the 19th day of Sept. in the year 1678. D. van Wyngaerd By order of the said Lords the States General H. Fagel Here follows the Tenour of the Power of his Majesties said Ambassadors LEWIS by the grace of God King of France and Navar To all that shall see these presents Greeting As we wish for nothing with greater ardency then to see the War that at present afflicts Christendom end in a good Peace and that by the Care and Mediation of our most dear and most beloved Brother the King of Great Brittain the Town of Nimeguen has been agreed upon by all the parties for the place of Conference We out of this same desire to put a stop as far as in us lies to the desolation of so many Provinces and the shedding of so much Christian blood Declare that confiding entirely in the Experience Ability and Faithfulness of our most dear and well beloved Cosen the Sieur Comte d' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of our Orders of our faithful and well beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquess de Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in our Councel of State and of our faithful and well beloved the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor also in our Councels by reason of the advantagious tryal that we have made of them in divers Embassies and considerable Employments wherein we have entrusted them both within our Kingdom and without For these reasons and other good considerations us thereunto moving We have Appointed Ordained and Deputed and by these presents Signed with our hand do Appoint Ordain and Depute the said Sieurs Marshal d' Estrades Marquess de Croissy and Comte d' Avaux and have given unto them and do hereby give full Power Commission and special Order to repair to the Town of Nimeguen in quality of our Ambassadors Extraordinary and our Plenipotentiaries for the Peace and to Confer there either directly or by the interposition of Ambassadors Mediators respectively received and agreed to with all Ambassadors and Ministers of our most Dear and great Friends the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys and of their Allies being all qualified with sufficient Powers and there to Treat upon means for the determining and appeasing the differences that cause the War at this day And our said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries all three together or two of them in absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or one of them in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment may agree and conclude thereon and Sign a good and sure Peace and generally may do Negociate Promise and Agree whatever they shall think necessary for the said Peace with the same authority that we should do or might do if we were there present in Person although some things should happen that might require more particular instructions than are contain'd in these presents Promising on the Faith and Word of a King to hold firm and fulfil whatever by the said Sieurs Marshal de' Estrades Marquess de Croissy and Comte d' Avauz or by two of them in the absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or by one onely in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment shall have been stipulated promised and agreed and to cause our Letters of Ratification to be dispatched within such time as they shall have promised in our Name to exhibit them For such is our pleasure In witness whereof we have caused our Seal to be set to these presents Given at St. Germain in Laye the Twenty third day of December in the year of Grace one thousand six hundred seventy and five and of Our Reign the Three and thirtieth Signed Lewis and upon the fould by the King Arnauld and sealed with the great Seal in yellow Wax The Tenour of the Power of the said Ambassadors
his Voyage In witness whereof we have caused our Sign and Seal of Arms to be set to these presents and have caused them to be under-written by our Secretary for Maritime affairs at the day of one thousand six hundred Signed Lewis Comte de Vermandois And underneath Signed by A form of the certificate containing the oath We of the Admiralty certifie that Master of the Ship named in the foregoing Pass-port has taken the Oath therein mentioned Given at the day of one thousand six hundred Another form of Letters to be granted by the Sea-Port-Towns of the United Provinces to Ships and Barks outward bound in pursuance of the aforesaid Article TO the most Serene most Illustrious most Mighty Honourable and prudent Lords Emperors Kings Commonwealths Princes Dukes Earls Barons Lords Burgermasters Sherifs Counsellors Judges Officers Justitiars and Governors of all good Towns and Places as well Ecclesiastical as Secular which shall see or read these presents We the Burgermasters and Governors of the Town of do to know that Master of the Ship appearing before us hath solemnly deposed upon Oath that the Ship called of the burden of about Lastes of which at present he is Master belongeth to the Inhabitants of the United Provinces as God should help him and as we should be willing to see the said Master assisted in his lawful Affairs so we require you all in general and those in particular where the said Master with his Ship and Wares shall arrive that they will be pleased to receive him courteously and duly to treat him if he shall be a sufferer with relation to the accustomed duties of Customs and Freights within through and at your Ports Rivers and Demesnes suffering him to Sail Pass Frequent and Negotiate where he shall think fit which we shall willingly acknowledge In witness whereof we have caused the Seal of our Town to be set hereto Here follows the Tenour of his Majesties said Ambassadors Power LEWIS by the grace of God King of France and Navar To all that shall see these presents Greeting As we desire nothing with greater ardency then to see the War with which Christendom is at present afflicted end in a good Peace and since by the Care and Mediation of our most dear and most beloved Brother the King of Great Brittain the Town of Nimeguen has been agreed upon by all parties for the Place of Conference We out of the same desire to put a stop as much as in us lies to the desolation of so many Provinces and the effusion of so much Christian Blood give to understand that we confiding entirely in the experience ability and fidelity of our most dear and well-beloved Cosen the Sieur Comte d' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of our Orders of our faithful and well-beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquiss of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in our Councel of State and of our faithful and well-beloved the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor also in our Councels by reason of the advantagious trials that we have made of them in diverse Embassies and considerable employments wherein we have intrusted them both within our Kingdom and without for these causes and other good considerations us thereunto moving we have appointed ordained and deputed and by these presents Signed with our hand do appoint ordain and depute the said Sieurs the Marshal d' Estrades the Marquiss of Croissy and the Comte d' Avaux and have given them and do hereby give them full Power Commission and special Order to repair to the Town of Nimeguen in quality of our Ambassadors Extraordinary and our Plenipotentiaries for the Peace and there to confer either immediately or by the Mediation of the Ambassadors Mediators respectively received and agreed to with all Ambassadors and Ministers of our most dear and great friends the States general of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys and their Allies being all armed with sufficient Powers and to Treat there of means for the determining and appeasing the differences that cause the War at this day and our said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries may all three together or two of them in absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or one onely in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment agree thereupon and conclude and sign a good and sure Peace and may generally act negotiate promise and agree whatever they shall think necessary in order to the said Peace with the same authority that we should or might do if we were present there in Person even though there should be some things that might require more particular instructions then are contain'd in these presents Promising on the Faith and Word of a King to hold firm and fulfil whatever by the said Sieurs Marshal d' Estrades Marquiss de Croissy and Comte d' Avaux or by two of them in absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or by one only in ansence of the other two in like case of sicknes or other impediment shall have been stipulated promised and agreed and cause to be dispatched our Letters of Ratification within such time as they shall have promised in our name to furnish them For such is our pleasure In witness whereof we have caused our Seal to be put to these presents Given at St. Germain in Laye the Three and twentieth day of December in the year of Grace One thousand six hundred seventy five and of Our Reign the Three and thirtieth Signed Lewis and upon the fould By the King Arnauld And sealed with the great Seal in yellow Wax Here follows the Tenour of the Power of the said Lords the Ambassadors Extraordinary of the Lords the States of the United Provinces THe States General of the United Previnces of the Low Countreys To all that shall see these presents Greeting As we desire nothing more ardently then to see the War with which Christendom is at present afflicted end in a good Peace and that by the Care and the Mediation of the most Serene King of Great Brittain the Town of Nimeguen has been agreed upon by all parties for the place of Con ference We out of the same desire to put a stopas much as in us lies to the desolation of so many Provinces and the effusion of so much Christian blood have been willing to contribute thereto all that is in our power and to this end have deputed to that Assembly some persons of our own body who have given many instances both of their knowledge and experience in publick Affairs and of their affection for the good of our State and as the Heeren Hierosme van Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University at Leyden late Counsellor and Treasurer-General of the United Provinces Wilhem van Nassaw Heer van Odyke Cortgene c. and first noble and representative of the Nobility in the States and Councel of the Province of Zeland and Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Blidt deputed to
point according to the form and purport thereof without ever acting to the contrary directly or indirectly upon any pretence whatsoever In token whereof we have caused these Presents to be Signed by the President of our Assembly and underwritten by our Principal Register and our Seal to be set thereto The Treaty of Peace betwixt France and Spain Concluded at Nimeguen the 17th day of September 1678. IN the Name of God the Creator and of the most Holy Trinity To all present and to come be it known That whereas during the course of the War that arose some years since betwixt the most High most Excellent and most Mighty Prince Lewis the 14th by the grace of God Most Christian King of France and Navar and his Allies on the one part and the most High most Excellent and most Mighty Prince Charles the second by the grace of God Catholick King of Spain and his Allies on the other part Their Majesties have desired nothing more vehemently then to see it end in a good Peace and whereas the same desire to put a stop as far as in them lay to the ruine of so many Provinces the tears of so much People and the shedding of so much Christian blood hath induced them to comply with the powerful Offices of the most High most Excellent and most Mighty Prince The King of Great Britain to send their Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to the Town of Nimeguen so it is come to pass through an effect of the Divine goodness that hath been pleased to make use of the intire confidence that their Majesties have always reposed in the mediation of the said King of Great Britain that at length the said Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries to wit on the behalf of his Most Christian Majesty the Sieur Count D' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of his Majesties Orders the Sieur Colbert Knight Marquiss of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in his Councel of State and the Sieur De Mesmes Knight Count D' Avaux Councellor also in his Councels and on the behalf of his Catholick Majesty the Sieur Dom Pablo Spinola Doria Marquiss de les Balbases Duke of Sesto Lord of Guinossa Casalnosetta and Ponteucrone Counfellor in his Councel of State and Chief Protonotary in his Councel of Italy Dom Gaspard de Tebes and Cordova Tello and Guzman Count de Venazuza Marquiss de la Fuente Lord of Lerena of the House of Arrucas of the Isles of Gundalupa and Matalione perpetual Master de la Victoire perpetual Major and Recorder of the Town of Sevil Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to his Imperial Majesty one of his chief Councel of War and General of his Artillery Dom Pedro Ronquillo Knight of the Order of Alcantara Counfellor in his Councels of Castile and of the Indies and Dom John Baptisse Christin Knight Counsellor in the high Councel of Flanders near to his said Catholick Majesty's Person and one of his Councel of State and of his Privy Councel in the Low-Countreys by vertue of the Letters and Commissions which they have communicated to one another and the Copies whereof are word for word inserted at the end of this Treaty have come to an agreement and conclusion upon mutual Conditions of Peace and Friendship in manner following viz. I. It is Covenanted and agreed that from henceforth there shall be a good firm and lasting Peace Confederation and perpetual Alliance and Friendship between the Most Christian and Catholick Kings their Children born and to be born their Heirs Successors and Inheriters their Kingdoms Estates Countreys and Subjects so that they shall love one another as good brethren procuring with all their might one another's good honour and reputation and faithfully preventing as far as they shall be able one anothers dammage II. In pursuance of this good Re-union the Cessation of all manner of Hostilities agreed on and Signed the 19th day of August of this present year shall continue according to the Tenour thereof betwixt the said Kings their Subjects and Vassals as well by Sea and other Waters as by Land and generally in all places where the War is carried on by their Majesties Arms as well between their Troops and Armies as between the Garrisons of their several places and if any Contravention shall have happened to be committed contrary to the said Gessation by the taking of any place or places whether by attack or surprise or by private intelligence nay though Prisoners shall have been taken or other Acts of Hostility committed through some accident that could not be foreseen or by such Persons as could not foresee it contrary to the said Cessation of Hostilities such Contravention shall faithfully be repair'd on both sides without delay or difficulty restoring to the full whatever shall have been taken and delivering the Prisoners without ransom or paying of charges in such manner that all things be restored in such manner to the same condition they were in on the said 19th day of August when the said Cessation was agreed and Signed the Tenour whereof shall be observed till the day of the exchange of the Ratifications of this present Treaty III. All causes of enmity or misunderstanding shall remain for ever extinct and abolished and whatever hath happened or been done by reason of the present War or during the same shall be put into perpetual oblivion so as for the future no inquiry shall be made into the same on either side directly or indirectly by Law or otherwise under any pretence whatsoever nor may their Majesties or their Subjects Servants and Adherents on either side express any manner of resentment of whatever offences may have been committed against them or dammages received by them during the present War IV. In contemplation of the Peace the Most Christian King immediately after the exchange of the Ratifications of this present Treaty shall put into the Catholick King 's power the Place and Fortress of Charleroy the Town of Binche the Town and Fortress of Aeth Oudenard and Coartray with their Provostships and Castellanies Appurtenances and Dependancies in the same manner as his Catholick Majesty possess'd them before the War of the year 1667. All which Towns and Places the Catholick King yielded to the said Most Christian King at the Treaty signed at Aix la Chapelle the 2d of May 1668. from which this present Treaty doth expresly derogate for so much as relates to the said Towns and Places their Appurtenances and Dependances In pursuance whereof the said Catholick King shall take possession of the same and enjoy them to him and his Successors fully and peaceably excepting the Verge of Menin and the Town of Conde which though heretofore pretended by the Most Christian King to be a Member of the Castellany of Aeth shall nevertheless remain to the Crown of France together with all its Dependances by vertue of this present Treaty as shall be said hereafter V. The said most Christian King obligeth himself and promiseth to put likewise
when his Provinces were attack'd by the Arms of the King of France and they assure themselves that your Excellence is perswaded of it since your Excellence sees how much their Hi. and Mi. do to this day contribute to the preservation of his Majestie 's Country And notwithstanding this War has been continued many years and at an infinite expence yet the effects have been so unfortunate that the King of France being puff'd up with his Victories and Conquests will not come out of it but upon the Conditions that have been delivered at Nimeguen to the Mediators which your Excellence knows what they are Which Conditions considered in themselves are indeed too hard and of such a nature as they ought to be rejected which also their Hi. and Mi. would do in regard of their Allies and chiefly in regard of his Catholick Majesty as concerning the Low-Countries in the preservation whereof they find themselves so deeply interessed But when their Hi. and Mi. reflect upon the Power of the King of France which hitherto and during this War has been such that he has not only made Head against the Armies of his Catholick Majesty and those of the United Provinces and their Allies but has made great Conquests in divers Parts they conceive a just apprehension that these Conditions how hard soever ought yet to be prefer'd considering the present state of Affairs to a continuance of the War which in all probability would prove very fatal Which makes our Masters the States General of the Low-Countries incline to look upon these Conditions as receivable if they should have the happiness to find their Allies and especially his Catholick Majesty in the same Sentiments And should very much wish That your Excellence on the behalf of his Catholick Majesty would concur with them to make them as agreeable as may be to the other Allies And in the mean time give Order to labour for a prolongation of the Term which the King of France has given by his Proposition at Nimeguen We expect your Excellencie's Answer as soon as may be upon the premisses as being the only Subject of this Commission Brussels the 8th of May 1678 Jacob Boreel De Weede Answer of the Duke de Villa Hermosa of the 9th of May to the Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States General of the United Provinces of the 8th of May. HIS Excellence having considered this Memorial and that the loss of Flanders by the hardness of the Conditions of France will be greater and more dishonourable than by the ill success of Arms must hope that the States General will not further it since his Majesty wholly for its preservation has exposed himself to the manifest hazards of War which he has suffered so much by Also the punctual and religious observance of such strict Treaties with his said Majesty to which the publick Faith obligeth them will not permit him to make a doubt of it especially since his Majesty hath and always will havè a firm desire and intention to contribute as much as possibly he can to their preservation and that in regard of the Expedient propos'd of making new Alliances for the making sure the said impracticable Conditions of France it is to be considered that the time in which precisely they must be concluded can be no other than that of the Campagne from which by means of our so late Alliance with his Majesty of Great Britain we ought to expect by a more prosperous success some redress of Affairs and it would be a breach of Faith to abandon his Forces in this Conjuncture by admitting Conditions so forlorn and at the same time failing in our Fidelity to his Imperial Majesty and the other High Allies especially since the Emperour is resolv'd to run to the defence of Flanders rather than to the reparation of his own losses and the other High Allies are upon a Treaty of joyning and imploying all their Forces against France His Excellence being able likewise to assure them That the King his Master since the reduction of Sicily is resolv'd to imploy all his Power as his Excellence likewise all his Cares for the defence and re-establishing of this Country to which his Excellence hopes the States General will concur on their part in an Occurrence which as it is urgent so it concerns the greatest good of the common Cause as being the only mean to obtain a just and lasting Peace Given at Brussels the 9th of May 1678. A Memorial of the Deputies Extraordinary of the States General c. to the Duke de Villa Hermosa c. of the 14th of May. THE Lords the States General of the United Provinces having seen and perused your Excellencie's Answer to the Memorial that we their under-written Deputies Extraordinary presented the 8th of this Moneth could have wished That your Excellence had not only considered the Conditions offered by the King of France as they are in themselves but had also made reflexion upon the present state of Affairs and considered that the King of France being become Master of all the Frontier Towns of his Catholick Majestie 's Netherlands was entred into the heart of them and had made himself Master even of the Town of Gand being very strong in the Field and at the Head of a very formidable Army ready for any enterprize and in the greatest appearance in the world of succeeding and conquering where he will Whereas the Troops of the Allies not being yet come together much less in a condition to make Head against him and oppose his designs Hence it is that their Hi. and Mi. apprehend with great reason that what remains to the King of Spain in the Low-Countries will infallibly be lost if it be not saved by accepting the Conditions of Peace that are offered and it would be a thing very sensible to their Hi. and Mi. if what his Catholick Majesty has yet left in the Low-Countries should be so lost after such infinite expences and so much blood spilt for their preservation Your Excellence knows but too well by what has lately happened what Account one has to make of the Troops of the Confederates upon occasion The Assistance which is expected from his Majesty of Great Britain is very considerable and will be of great support to our Party but it deserves your Excellencie's consideration that those Troops are but newly raised and that it will require some time to enure them to the War that as yet there are but few of them in these Parts and we are uncertain when the rest will come whereas on the other side every moment is precious and great misfortunes may happen in a short space And moreover the States as they have made it to be declared to your Excellence are not in a condition to carry on the War in such manner and with so much vigor as they have done hitherto seeing their Treasures are exhausted and their People not able to contribute so much any longer As
and of none effect as if they had not been given or pronounced and the parties at liberty to return to the Countreys from whence they departed personally to enjoy their immovable Goods Rents and Revenues or to settle their abodes elsewhere where they will themselves at their own choice and election without being under any constraint in that respect and if they shall chuse rather to live elsewhere they may depute and appoint such unsuspected Persons as they shall think fit for the disposition and enjoyment of their Goods Rents and Revenues but not with relation to Benefices requiring residence which must be served and administred in Person XXIV Such as have been provided on either side of Benefices which were at the Collation presentation or other disposition of the said Kings or others whether Ecclesiasticks or Laicks or have provisions from the Pope of any Benefices within the obedience of either of the said Kings by whose consent and allowance they have enjoyed the same during the War shall continue in the possession and enjoyment of such Benefices for their lives as well and duely thereof provided but without any future prejudice to the rights of the Lawful Collators who shall enjoy and use the same as they did before the War XXV All Prelates Abbots Priors and other Ecclesiastical Persons that before or during the War have by the said Kings been nominated to Benefices or provided thereof which their Majesties were in possession of a power to provide or nominate before the breach between the two Crowns shall be maintained in the possession and enjoyment of such Benefices without disturbance for any cause or upon any pretence whatsoever And also in the free enjoyment of all such Goods as shall be found to have anciently belonged thereunto and of the right of Collating to the Benefices thereunto belonging wheresoever such Goods and Benefices are situated Provided always that such Benefices be supplied with Persons able and qualified according to the rules observ'd before the War So that hereafter no Administrators shall be sent on either side to govern the said Benefices and receive the profits thereof which shall not be enjoyed but by Titularies Lawfully provided And also all such Places as heretofore acknowledged the jurisdiction of the said Prelates Abbots and Priors wheresoever situated shall acknowledge the same for the future if their right appear to have been anciently settled though the said Places should fall out to be within the extent of the other Princes Dominion or depend upon some Castellanies or Bayliffwicks belonging to the other party XXVI It is agreed and declared that no part of the Pyrenean Treaty is hereby intended to be revoked but what concerns Portugal with which the Catholick King is now at Peace nor any part of the Treaty of Aix La Chappelle but for so much as shall be otherwise disposed in this present Treaty by the yielding up of the Places aforesaid so as the parties shall neither acquire any new right nor irscur any prejudice to their respective pretentions to any thing not expresly mentioned in this present Treaty and consequently whatever was stipulated by the Pyrenean Treaty concerning the Interest of the Duke of Savoy and the Power of the late most Serene Infanta Catharina shall be observed without any hurt or prejudice by this particular Cause to the general stipulation in this present Article concerning the performance of the said Pyrenean Treaty and that of Aix La Chapelle XXVII Though their Most Christian and Catholick Majesties contribute all their Cares towards the setling a general Peace and that so fair a way towards it as that of a general Truce gives them hopes that a conclusion of what-ever may secure the Quiet of Christendom will speedily ensue yet since the said Most Christian King doth insist upon it that the Catholick King shall oblige himself not to assist any of the Princes that are now engag'd in War against France and its Allies his Catholick Majesty hath promised and doth promise to observe a perfect Neutrality during the course of this War without being at liberty to assist his Allies directly or indirectly against France or its Allies XXVIII And whereas their Most Christian and Catholick Majesties do acknowledge the powerful Offices which the King of Great Britain has contributed without intermission by his Counsels and good Advertisements toward the publick safety and repose it is agreed on both sides That his said Majesty of Great Britain and his Kingdoms shall be expresly comprehended in this present Treaty after the best form that can be XXIX Within this Peace Alliance and Friendship on the part of his Most Christian Majesty besides the King of Sweden together with the Duke of Holstein the Bishop of Strasburg and Prince William of Furstemburg as concern'd in the present War shall be comprehended if they please themselves all those that having refused to engage or declare themselves in the present War shall be nominated within six months after the exchange of the Ratifications XXX And on the part of his Catholick Majesty shall likewise be comprehended if themselves please all such as having forborn to engage or declare themselves in the present War shall be nominated within six months after the exchange of the Ratifications and all others that after the said War ended shall likewise be nominated by his said Catholick Majesty XXXI The said Most Christian and Catholick Kings do agree That all Potentates and Princes that shall be willing to enter into the like Obligation may give their Majesties their Promises and Engagements of Warranty as to execution of what-ever is contain'd in this present Treaty XXXII And for the greater security of this Treaty of Peace and of all the Points and Articles therein contained the said present Treaty shall be published attested and registred in the Court of the Parliament of Paris and in all other Parliaments of the Kingdom of France and in the Chamber of Accounts at Paris And also the said Treaty shall be published attested and registred as well in the great and other Councels and Chambers of Account of the said Catholick King in the Low-Countries as in the other Councels of the Crowns of Castille and Arragon according to the form contain'd in the Pyrenean Treaty of the year 1659 of which Publications and Enrollement Exemplifications shall be delivered on both sides within three months after the publication of this present Treaty All which Points and Articles above expressed and the Contents of every of them have been treated agreed passed and stipulated between the said Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of the said Most Christian and Catholick Kings which Plenipotentiaries by vertue of their Powers the Copies 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 and to come of the Kings their Masters that they shall inviolably be observed and fulfill'd and that they will cause them
to be ratified firmly and simply without addition of any thing thereunto and produce the Ratifications thereof by Letters authentick and sealed wherein all this present Treaty shall be inserted verbatim within six weeks to be accompted from the day of the date of this present Treaty or sooner if possible And the said Plenipotentiaries have promised and do promise in their said Kings Names that after producing the said Letters of Ratification the said Most Christian King as soon as possibly he can shall in the presence of such person or persons as the Catholick King shall be pleased to depute swear solemnly upon the Cross the Gospels and Canons of the Mass and upon his Honour fully really and truly to observe and fulfil all the Articles contain'd in this present Treaty And the like shall be done as soon as is possible by the said Catholick King in the presence of such person or persons as the said Most Christian King shall be pleased to depute In witness of all which the said Plenipotentiaries have subscribed this present Treaty with their own Names and have caused their Seals of Arms to be set thereto Nimeguen the 17th day of September 1678. Le M. D'Estrades Colbert De Mesmes D'Avaux Pablo Spinola Doria Conde de Benazuza Marquesse de la Fuente Jean Baptiste Christin The Power of the Lords Ambassadors of his Most Christian Majesty LEwis by the Grace of God King of France and Navarr To all that shall see these presents Greeting As we desire nothing more earnestly than to see the War that now afflicts Christendom end in a good Peace and whereas by the cares and mediation of our most dear and our most beloved Brother the King of Great Britain the Town of Nimeguen has been agreed upon on all hands for the place of Conference We out of the same desire to put a stop as far as in us lyes to the ruine of so many Provinces and the effusion of so much Christian Blood do make known That We reposing entire confidence in the experience sufficiency and fidelity of our most dear and well-beloved Cousin the Sieur Count D'Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of our Orders our trusty and well-beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissy Counsellor in Ordinary in our Councels of State and of our trusty and well-beloved the Sieur de Mesmes Count D'Avaux Counsellor also in our Councels by reason of the advantagious tryals that we have made of them in divers Embassies and Employs of importance wherein we have entrusted them at home and abroad For these Causes and other good Considerations us thereunto moving We have appointed constituted and deputed the said Sieur Marshal D'Estrades Marquess de Croissy and Count D'Avaux and do appoint constitute and depute the same by these presents signed with our Hand and have given them and do hereby give them full Power Commission and special Order to repair to the Town of Nimeguen in quality of our Ambassadors Extraordinary and our Plenipotentiaries for the Peace and there to confer directly or by the interposition of the Ambassadors Mediators respectively allowed and agreed to with all Ambassadors and Ministers of our most dear and most beloved Brother and Cousin the Catholick King and his Allies having all of them sufficient Powers and there to treat upon the means for determining and appeasing the Differences that cause the War at this day And our said Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries all three joyntly or two of them in absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or one only in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment may agree thereupon and conclude and sign a good and sure Peace and generally may act negotlate promise and agree what-ever they shall think necessary towards the said Peace with the same Authority that we our selves should or might do if we were present there in person though any thing therein should require more particular Order than is contain'd in these presents Promising on the Faith and Word of a King to observe and fulfil what-ever the said Sieur Marshal D'Estrades Marquess de Croissy and Count D'Avaux or two of them in the absence of the third through sickness or other impediment or by one only in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment shall stipulate promise and agree and to cause our Letters of Ratification to be dispatched within such time as they shall promise in our Name to produce them for such is our pleasure In witness whereof we have caused our Seal to be set to these presents Given at St. Germain en Laye the 23. day of December in the year of Grace One thousand six hundred seventy five and of our Reign the three and thirtieth Signed Lewis and upon the fold of the Letters By the King Arnauld and sealed with the Great Seal in yellow Wax The Powers of his Catholick Majesty's Ambassadors DOn Charles the second by the Grace of God King of Castile Leon Arragon both Sicilies Jerusalem Navar Granada Toledo Valentia Galicia Majorca Seville Sardinia Cordoma Corsica Murcia Jaen Algarves Algeriza Gibraltar the Canary Islands the East and West-Indies the Isles of Terra Firma and of the Occan-Sea Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant and Melan Count of Auspurg Flanders Tiroll and Barcelona Lord of Bisca and Molina c. Since we desire nothing with greater vehemency then to see the War that doth at this present so much afflict Christendom end in a good Peace and the Town of Nimeguen having been chosen and pitch't upon by means of the Mediation and good Offices of the King of Great Britain and by the common consent of all parties concern'd in the War to be the place for meeting and Treating of Peace and I desiring to contribute as much as in me lies towards so good a Design I have thought fit to nominate some Persons to assistat the Assembly with full power and authority in my name and taking into consideration the Sufficiency Integrity Prudence Experience Understanding and Zeal for my Service which are found in you Don Paul Spinola Doria Marquiss de Los Balbases one of my Councel of State Don Pedro Ronquillo of my Councels of Castile and of the Indies and Don John Baptiste Christin of my Councel of Flanders and by reason of the satisfaction which you have always given me in many and important Affairs whereof you have had the management and assuring my self of the care that you will take in my Service I have nominated you to be my Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries and by vertue of these presents I give to you all joyntly and to each of you in particular in the absence or by reason of any other hindrance of the other full and absolute power to repair to the Town of Nimeguen and there to Treat immediately or by the intervention of the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries the Mediators respectively allowed and admitted with the Ambassadors and
thing whatsoever that may be reasonably thought to conduce to the publick Peace in which if he could have any assurance that he might find his security he would immediately put an end to the War and lay down his Arms as mildly as he took them up generously for the interest and at the request of his Allies Given at Nimeguen the 10th of June 1678. A Declaration on the behalf of the Elector of Brandenburg upon the Subject of the Peace THe Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg having seen what has been communicated to the Ministers of the Confederates at the Hague to wit that his Most Christian Majesty upon the overture made to him by his Excellence the Sieur de Beverning Ambassador of the States General hath granted to their Highnesses by a Declaration in writing dated the first of June at Wetteren a Cessation of Arms for Six weeks to commence from the first of July next to the end that in the mean time they may confer with their Allies and obtain their consent to the Peace upon condition that their Highnesses would promise his Most Christian Majesty in case they shall not be able during the said Truce to perswade their Allies to accept of the Terms which France had offered that then they should no longer assist them against him or his Allies during the present War To which Declaration the Duke of Luxemburg has Order to expect their Highnesses answer to the end of this Month hath not failed to acquaint his Electoral Highness his Master with the Contents of that Declaration and to require his Order therein which he now waits for But in the mean time he thinks himself obliged to say beforehand that his Electoral Highness having always reposed great confidence in the Sincerity Integrity and Justice of their Highnesses the States General of the Low Countreys as those that have been his ancient Friends and Confederates and whose interests are in many respects the same with his own assureth himself that their Highnesses will not make any promise to his Most Christian Majesty that shall at all interfere with their Alliances or be prejudicial to his Electoral Highness who hath not spared his own Estates nor his Blood to save their Countrey from utter ruine and destruction with which it was threatned when three whole Provinces were torn from it though since by God's great mercy they have been reunited Besides his Electoral Highness promiseth himself that their Hi. and Mi. will be so reasonable since even his Most Christian Majesty hath been willing to allow them the whole month of June to acquaint the Duke of Luxemburg with what they shall think fit to resolve upon his said Declaration as not to anticipate the Term to the prejudice of his Electoral Highness but will allow him a convenient time for mature deliberation and the dispatching of such Order as shall be necessary to his Ministers here and elsewhere His Electoral Highness takes it likewise for granted that their Hi. and Mi. will never come to a Treaty much less conclude any thing whatsoever with France without first procuring for his Electoral Highness the satisfaction promised him in the 14 and 24 Article of their Alliance and without reserving the same Liberty to themselves with relation to their Allies which his Most Christian Majesty might or should reserve in favour of his Especially since it is evident that his Electoral Highness did not engage in this War out of an airiness of mind but for the safety of the Low Countreys the preservation of his own Estates and to secure himself against the injuries and attempts of others and that he hath not been more desirous of any thing since the first beginning of this War than of a firm and sure Peace upon reasonable Terms And that he will always take in good part the good offices that shall be used to attain it and that he will make appear as well his moderation with relation to the Terms and Conditions of it as his due consideration of the reasons and necessities alledged by their High and Mighty for a Peace Provided things may be so ordered that he may obtain his ends which are no other than the safety of the publick and that of his own Countrey This is what the said Ambassador hath thought fit to represent by this writing to their Excellencies the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of their High and Mighty that are here present desiring them not onely to recommend the Contents thereof to their Lords and Masters to the end they may make their joynt Reflections when they shall come to deliberate upon a matter of so great importance but also to support it as much in them lies by their own credit and wise conduct Given at Nimeguen the 10th day of June 1678. A Declaration on behalf of the Emperor THe Ambassadors of his Imperial Majesty being advertised that the States General of the United Provinces will shortly meet to consult upon the Declaration which his Most Christian Majesty delivered in writing to their Ambassador Extraordinary Monsieur de Beverning in the Camp at the Bourg of Wetteren on the first day of this present month do promise themselves assuredly from the eminent Wisdom Integrity and Justice of the said States General upon which foundations their Common-wealth has hitherto stood and continued in a flourishing condition that they will not upon any pretence whatsoever act contrary to the Faith of their Alliances or prejudicial to his Imperial Majesty the Empire and the rest of the Confederates who have allready engaged themselves as well in the dangers and expences of this long and Bloody War not onely for their own common safety to the end they might thereby deliver these United Provinces together with the Publick from utter ruine and destruction It is needless to put them in mind of what hath formerly passed this is evident that the Confederates have to do with an Enemy who as he is hard enough for them all cannot but be terrible to any one of them apart Perhaps some Provinces may reap a present advantage but in lieu thereof all those that are near must inevitably fall under his yoke and be destroyed There are so many instances in Histories how dangerous the neighbourhood of France is that it hath given occasion to a Proverb This the States themselves have found by experience in this very War when the Bar of the Spanish Netherlands was stronger What will they do now that those Bars are almost broken down and they shall have separated themselves as the French earnestly press them to do from the rest of the Confederates Then their safety must solely depend upon the sincerity and moderation of the French His Imperial Majesty undertook the War together with the rest of the Confederates for their common safety for the defence of the Empire and particularly that of these Provinces he hath carried it on hitherto not for his own private interest but in such place
confiding in the King's Word did their duty for the inducing his Catholick Majesty to accept of those conditions and laboured on the otherside to the utmost of their power to perswade the rest of the Confederates also with which they acquainted his Majesty by Monsieur de Beverning their Ambassador declaring that for their own parts they accepted of his Majesties Terms and desiring his Majesty that he would be pleased to agree to a Truce for Six weeks that they might labour with their Allies and get them to consent to a general Peace and that his Majesty was pleased to agree to such a Truce for Six months to begin from the first of July and as himself wrote from his Camp at Wetter the first of June upon the same foot that the Truce in 1668 was agreed betwixt France and Spain upon condition that the States would engage themselves in case they should not be able in Six weeks time to perswade their Allies to admit of the conditions then not to assist their said Allies directly nor indirectly against his Majesty or his Allies during the War and that in requital thereof his Majesty would renew the engagements which he made in his Letter of the 18th of May both concerning the conditions to be granted to his Catholick Majesty and the securing of the places in the Low Countreys leaving the Duke of Luxemburg near Brussels to stay to the end of June for an answer with Order not to attack any Place during that time and without making any alteration in the said conditions or any mention either of the Allies of this State or of giving satisfaction to the King of Sweden that the States acting candidly and being ready on their part to perfect that Treaty and having induced his Catholick Majesty to accept it also as they advised his Most Christian Majesty by their Letter of the 22th of June assuring him that they had given Order to their Ambassador to conclude a Peace before the end of that month with such of the Confederates as would joyn with them in it without so much as staying for the Truee which was to begin on the first of July and that his Majesty by his Letter of the 30th of June declared himself to be extreamly well satisfied therewith and was so far from obliging the States or his Catholick Majesty to make any satisfaction to the King of Sweden that he expressed in the same Letter that he observ'd in the proceedings of the States a good inclination to the general Peace of Europe and he perswaded himself it would not be long delay'd by such of the Allies as hitherto had not been able to help forward so great a good that his Majesty doubted not but the Peace would be concluded by his Ambassadors and should take delight in making this State sensible of its effects and in forbearing all acts of hosility in the Low Countreys and obstructions to Commerce by Sea though it be customary to let things continue in the same condition till the Peace be Ratified by exchange of Ratifications and publishing of Treaties without suspending the effects of the Peace upon any Treaty with the Confederates or any satisfaction to be made to the King of Sweden That the States may say with good reason that his Most Christian Majesty is the cause why the Peace is not concluded and not they since his Majesty advances new Conditions which never were proposed to themselves nor to the King of Spain it never having been pretended that the Peace or its effects should depend upon the King of Sweden's receiving satisfaction but onely upon the States standing Neuter in relation to his Majesty and his Allies against those that should reject the Conditions of the Project So that it is evident that the most Christian King hath promised to restore those Places to the King of Spain and to this State and that himself hath directed to have the Treaty perfected by Exchanging the Ratifications and publishing it That the States pretend to no new matter concerning the said Evacuation That the things of no small concern to the Catholick King and to this State who cannot arrive at peace and quiet in getting rid of the War if at the same time they continue depriv'd of the effects of Peace much less if they must be sent back and made to depend upon the chances of War betwixt other Parties which who knows when it will end in a satisfaction that is not limited to any thing in particular Especially considering that the King of Sweden contimes an Enemy to this State without giving order to put an end to the differences that are and that daily grow betwixt him and it and doth perpetually molest the Inhabitants of this State contrary to the Treaty of Commerce made with him That order be given to the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of this State to enquire of the Ambassadors of the most Christian King in a friendly and loving manner without the least sharpness whether the King their Master be resolved to persist in his demand and to advise the Estates as soon as may be that they may take proper measures and conser with the Ministers of the Confederates to know whether they can either come to a resolution to accept the Peace upon the terms offered or find means if there shall be occasion to make a more vigorous opposition to their Enemies than heretofore A Memorial of the French Ambassadors delivered the 17. July 1678. to the Ambassadors of the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys THe Ambassadors of France being troubled to see that the difficulties arisen concerning the time for the Evacuation of the places which the King their Master is willing to restore give occasion to those that are averse to the Peace to render the sincerity of his Majesties intentions suspected have thought it their duty to manifest the same to the Ambassadors of the States General by this Memorial And to justifie the Reasons his Majesty hath not to quit those Places until Sweden is entirely satisfied it will be sufficient to go no higher than the beginning of the Negotiation by which the Peace is at present so far advanced And we may say that the same are grounded on the Conditions proposed in his Majesties name by the said Ambassadors of France since they have been all of them accepted first by Holland and not long after by Spain We may farther say that when the States General in consequence of the Letters his Majesty writ unto them the 18th of May last and of the Memorial delivered the first of June to Monsieur de Beverning as also of the message of the Sieur de Lanoy to his Majesty and the Letter he presented unto him on the part of the States declared they were ready to sign the Treaty on those Conditions they obliged themselves to the execution of that which relates to Sweden it being the first of all of them And as they were all joyned together so
of the Towns cannot be imputed to them it being so prejudicial to the Interest of their Affairs that they can never be able to consent to it They farther declare that they will joyntly use their utmost endeavours for the accomodation of the Northern Powers who are now at War and who in effect Conform themselves to the Expedient which the French Ambassadors have proposed but if their Reflection be applied by way of Force and Constraint it cannot be in their opinion and expedient but a thing never heard of that by the Treaty of Peace instead of disengaging themselves from the War they should be constrained to turn it against their Allies They do not at all doubt that his Majesty has a Design to procure the Quiet of Europe and they will voluntarily Contribute on their part all they can possibly but they cannot by any means expect from his Majesties Justice that he would oblige them to it after so prejudicial a manner as the Retention of the Places will prove and upon so vexatious a Condition as that of waging War against their Allies their Mighty Lordships as they are wholly bent upon the Contribution of all friendly Offices for the accommodation of the said Affairs in the North. So also they promise themselves farther that his Majesty will be willing to issue out necessary Orders for the Conclusion and Signing of the Peace upon the Conditions profer'd and that he will furnish them with Expedients to Contribute also on their part to the Repose of Christendom This is that which the Lords the States General of the United Provinces have thought good to give in answer to the Memorial of the French Ambassadors at the same time Ordering their own Ambassadors to appear forward in the Concluding and Signing the Peace and most carnestly beseech the said French Ambassadors to Concur with them in that Business But if the Completing of so beneficial a Work and so universally desired be delayed upon the account of retaining the Places the said Ambassadors of the Lords the States General are obliged to protest in the name and behalf of the Lords their Masters that their High and Mighty Lordships do no ways obstruct the Peace from being brought to a happy Issue A Memorial delivered to the Plenipotentiaries of France by the Plenipotentiaries of Sweden July the 27th 1678. THe Declaration of his Most Christian Majesty that the Places should not be Surrendered to Spain and the States General before the Swedes should receive satisfaction is so Just and Generous that his Most Christian Majesty cannot but thereby come off with Honour and the King our Master with great Satisfaction We could wish that that Declaration might have reduced our Common Enemies to Reason but since it hath met with great opposition as appears by the Memorial of the Holland Ambassadors his Most Christian Majesty will without doubt Examine if to arrive at the end proposed thereby in consideration of the Re-establishment of Sweden it will be more proper to defer the Restitution of the Places with the prospect of making a general Peace of else agree to it as the States General desire to the end there may be procur'd a Compleat particular Peace with Spain and States General as well for France as Sweden On our part we are not sufficiently informed what thoughts the King our Master may have upon this Affair but as our Orders in general are that we ought to Conform our selves to the pleasure of France in the like Case that we have good proof of the Intentions and Care of his Most Christian Majesty and that we have not the Liberty to Correspond with the King our Master to understand his Orders We can assure you that the King our Master will remain satisfied with what his Most Christian Majesty shall judge sit to Resolve upon the account of the said Restitution of Places as we do also put our whole confidence in his Majesties Royal prudence who one way or other will furnish him with such means as may tend to his own Glory together with the absolute Re-establishment of his Ally This is all we have Order to say but if besides this we must explain our mind more particularly we are apt to believe that in this present juncture of Affairs the Compleating a particular Peace by the French and Swede with the Spaniard and Hollander would prove advantageous to the common Interest and withall Glorious to his Most Christian Majesty For it is for the advancement of the common Interest 1. To disengage themselves from 2 Enemies that are so much the more Considerable because they support others by their Aids 2. To avoid the new Rupture wherewith we are threatned which being over we cannot see how the Swedes will be able to make opposition if you consider only their Commerce 3. To divert the Engagements that are made against France and Sweden 4. To frustrate their Design who endeavour strictly to League together all the States of the Empire 5. To be able to reduce to Peace the other Allies who continue still in War and so procure a General one for which there is some probability since that upon the Rumor of Accommodation between France and Holland we see they were troubled and begin to yield 6. To be able to act Victoriously by force of Arms against the said Confederates in case that they refuse an Accommodation the War being to be carried on against them with greater ease when they are separated from those that have assorded them the greatest Supplies Besides it will be very Honorable for his Most Christian Majesty 1. To be able once more to restore Peace to Christendom 2. To break all the Intreagues of his Enemies 3. To Establish his Interests in what we have said before 4. To shew that he hath other ways for the Re-establishment of the Swedes besides that now in Question 5. To take occasion to make them sensible of the effects of his just Resentments towards them who in these present Intreagues have stood in opposition both to his good Designs and to his Glory 6. To disabuse them who by the Inductions of those that are evil inclined have questioned the sincerity of his Majesties Intentions in this Negotiation 7. To let the World know that the intentions of others have been in effect to oppose the general Peace since without that Impediment it might have been obtained These are the Reasons of our particular Sentiments which we beseech your Excellencies to take into your Consideration but for the remainder to testify to his Most Christian Majesty that we have no other Order from the King our Master but to depend upon his Care for our Security as hath been before Specified The second Memorial of the Ambassadors of France given into the Ambassadors of the States General the 29th of July 1678. THe Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of France not thinking fit to give an answer at present to the Memorial of the Ambassadors of the States General
time to make frequent instances both here at Nimeguen where they have been assisted by the Ambassadors of France and at the Hague by the Sieur Silvercroon Besides this point of Commerce as there have been some complaints made that certain Vessels laden with Corn and belonging to the Subjects of this State have been taken and carried to Straelsond and that Count Conningsmark had taken out their lading to serve for food for his Army the Ambassadors of Sweden having been informed of the said complaints by the Ambassadors of the States General gave in a Declaration the 18th of July that the said action of the Mareshal of Connigsmark could not be reputed any other than a meer act of necessity which he then was reduced to through want of Victuals and Correspondence that the parties concern'd should be satisfied to the full and that he would pass any such Act to that end as should be thought fit knowing that such was the King his Masters intention The same has likewise bin assured by the Commissary Silvercroon at the Hague and an extract has since been delivered of a Letter from the Mareshal de Coningsmark containing the like assurances together with a relation how he had acted and that he had paid the Masters of the Ships their Freight Which things being so the Ambassadors of Sweden believed that the States General would have received all the satisfaction they could possibly desire and that nothing was wanting to conclude a Peace betwixt the King their Master and them but to prepare such Articles as are usual almost in all Treaties of Peace which would be no hard work for the Ambassadors of both parties to do But in stead of that they are surprised to understand that there have been very bitter complaints against Sweden in the answers that the Ambassadors of the States General gave on the 26th of July and the 7th of August to the Memorials of the Ambassadors of France and though the Ambassadors of Sweden have heretofore explained and declared themselves as is before mentioned yet they would not omit giving some proper answer to them but that having agreed with the Ambassadors of France that for the avoiding all sharpness neither of them will meddle in things of that nature they are willing to pass them all over with silence and to endeavour something of reality to which end they repeat their instances here at Nimeguen as Monsieur Boreel cannot but know as well as at the Hague by the Sieur Silvercroon that the States General would advance the Negotiation with Sweden that the Peace may be concluded at the same time that it shall be with France since one cannot be without the other And the Ambassadors of Sweden apprehended that the reiterating their instances had produced a good effect since the Sieur Silvercroon sent word from the Hague by the last Courrier That he had been conferr'd with and that the Answer to the Counter-project was ready to be sent to Nimeguen But whilst they were in this expectation the Ambassadors of France inform them That but yesterday the Ambassadors of the States General renew'd their complaints against Sweden for raising difficulties and that Count Coningsmark exercised acts of Hostility Confiscating Ships and Cargo's belonging to the Subjects of this State insomuch that the States had more reason to continue the War than to think of a Peace with Sweden By which the said Ambassadors perceiving with sorrow that but little reflection is made upon what they have heretofore advanced and being also very certain that Monsieur Coningsmark hath not confiscated any thing belonging to the Subjects of this State nor done any acts of Hostility against them since they agree to make amends for all and seeing how lightly the good Offices are thought on which the Ambassadors of Sweden have done since they came to Nimeguen to further a Peace for the benefit of this State and even the endeavours which they have but lately used with his most Christian Majesty to facilitate the Evacuation of the Places do entreat the Ambassadors of his Most Christian Majesty to answer and represent to the Ambassadors of the States General that they do ill to complain of Sweden after it has offered so many facilities and made so many advances and consequently to induce them instead of exasperating matters rather to express such readiness and facility on behalf of the States General as may reasonably be expected from them that so both Parties may receive that satisfaction which they wish for in the conclusion of a good Peace The said Ambassadors of Sweden hope that the States General have no intentions of protracting the Negotiation of the Peace with Sweden to the end that themselves may be able to make a Separate Peace with his most Christian Majesty excluding Sweden but they think notwithstanding that to prevent all obstacles it were well if all hopes of such a Separation were taken away And therefore they do again desire the Ambassadors of his most Christian Majesty to renew this Declaration to the Ambassadors of the States General since it was upon this prospect that the Ambassadors of Sweden advised the Restitution of the Places The Treaty made and passed between the commissioners deputed on behalf of the King and those deputed likewise on behalf of the Catholick King and of the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys about the demenour of the Troops and Garrisons of both sides in the said Low Countreys till the Ratifications of the Treaty of Peace are Exchanged The 19th of August 1678. IT being necessary to regulate after what manner the Forces shall carry themselves in the Low Countreys till the Ratification of the Peace for the avoiding all Acts of Hostility that may disturb it and for the ease of the People on both sides it is agreed by those underwritten in pursuance of their respective Authorities as followeth That the day after the Ratification of this present Treaty all Acts of Hostility shall cease betwixt the Armies and that in consequence thereof from the morrow of the said Ratification the two Armies shall retire from the Neighbourhood of Mons. That the Army of the Most Christian King shall march toward Gevries or Merbepoterie and that Commanded by the Prince of Orange beyond Havre towards Nivelle That notwithstanding such Troops as formed the Blockade of Mon's under the Command of Monsieur du Montal and Monsieur de Quincy shall not retire on that same day but two days after the Ratification of the present Treaty which will be the day after the two Armies shall have marched and till such time as the said Blockade is raised the Army Commanded by the Prince of Orange may continue encamp'd as aforesaid That the Town of Mons shall remain after that in full and perfect Liberty that all sorts of Persons Provisions and Merchandises may go in and out as they do in other Towns under the obedience of Spain That as for the Garrisons six days
Sieur Comte D' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of his Orders the Sieur Colbert Knight Marquiss of Croissi Councellor in ordinary in his Counsel of State and the Sieur Mesmes Knight Comte D'Avaux Councellor also in his Counsels and the said States General the Heer Hierosme Van Beverning Baron of Teylingen Curator of the University of Leyden late Councellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces the Heer Wilhem van Nassau Heer van Odyke Cortgene and first noble and representative of the nobility in the States and Councel of Zeland and the Heer Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Bildt Deputies in their Assemblies on the behalf of the States of Holland Zeland c. Which Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries duely instructed with the good intentions of their Masters were to repair to the said Town of Nimeguen where after a mutual communication of their plenary powers the copies whereof are inserted word for word at the end of this Treaty it was agreed upon Conditions of Peace and Friendship according to this ensuing Tenour viz. I. There shall be for the future betwixt his Most Christian Majesty and his Successors Kings of France and Navar and his Kingdoms on the one part and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys on the other part a good firm faithful and inviolable Peace and all Acts of Hostility of what kind soever shall hereafter cease and be forborn betwixt the said King and the said Lords the States General as well by Sea and other waters as by Land in all their Kingdoms Countreys Lands Provinces and Seignories and for all their Subjects and Inhabitans of what Quality or Condition soever without exception of Places or Persons II. And if any Prizes are taken on either side in the Baltcik Sea or the North Sea from Terneuse to the channel 's mouth within the space of four weeks or from the said mouth of the channel to the Cape of St. Vincent within the space of six weeks and further in the Mediterranian Sea and as far as the Aequinoctial within the space of ten weeks and beyond the Line and in all parts of the World within the space of eight months to be computed from the day on which the Peace shall be published at Paris and at the Hague the said Prizes and the dammages that shall happen on either side after the Terms prefixt shall be brought to account and whatever shall have bin taken shall be restor'd with recompence for the dammages that shall have happned thereby III. There shall be moreover betwixt the said King and the said Lords the States General and their Subjects and Inhabitants mutually a sincere firm and perpetual friendship and good correspondence by Sea and Land in all things and in all places within Europe and without and no resenting of the offences or dammages that have been received either in time past or by reason of the said Wars IV. And in vertue of this Friendship and Correspondence as well his Majesty as the said Lords the States General shall faithfully procure and further the good and prosperity of one another by all Support Aid Counsel and real Assistances upon all occasions and at all times and shall not consent for the future to any Treaties or Negotiations that may be to one anothers damage but shall break them off and give notice of them to one another with care and sincerity as soon as ever they come to their knowledge V. They that have had any of their goods seized and confiscated by reason of the said War their Heirs or Assigns of what Condition or Religion soever shall enjoy such goods and take them into possession of their own private authority and by vertue of this present Treaty without standing in need to have recourse to Law and that notwithstanding any appropriations to the Exchequer engagements gifts in writing sentences preparatory or definitive given by default and contumacy in the parties absence or without their being heard Treaties Accords and Transactions and any Renunciations that may have been made at such transactions to exclude the right owners from any part of such goods and all and every the goods and rights which according to this present Treaty shall or ought to be restor'd on either side to the first Proprietors their Heirs and Assigns may be sold by the said Proprietors without obtaining any particular Licence so to do and likewise the Proprietors of such Rents as shall be setled by the Exchequers in lieu of goods sold as also of such Rents and Actions as stand on charge in the Exchequers may respectively dispose of the Propriety thereof by sale or otherwise as of their other proper goods VI. And since the Marquisate of Bergenopzome with all the Rights and Revenues thereunto appertaining and generally all the Lands and Goods of Monsieur le Comte D'Auvergne Colonel General of the Light Horse of France that were under the power of the said States General of the United Provinces have been seized and confiscated by reason of the War to which the present Treaty ought to put a happy end it is agreed that the said Sieur Compte D'Auvergene shall be restored to the possession of the said Marquisate of Bergenopzome it's appurtenances and dependances and also to all the rights actions privileges usages and prerogatives that he enjoy'd at the time when the War was declar'd VII Each shall continue seized of and shall actually enjoy the Countreys Towns Places Lands Islands and Seignories within Europe and without which they now hold and possess without being disturb'd or molested directly or indirectly in any manner whatsoever VIII But his Most Christian Majesty willing to give back to the Lords the States General his Principal Friendship and to give them a singular proof therof upon this occasion will immediately after the exchange of the Ratifications put them into possession of the Town of Maestricht with the Comte of Uronof and the Comtez and Countreys of Fauquemond Aalhem and Rolleduc beyond the Maes together with the Villages of Redemption Banc d' St. Servais and whatever is belonging to the said Town IX The said Lords the States General promise that what ever concerns the exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion and such as profess it enjoying their Goods shall be re-established and maintained in the said Town of Maestricht and it's dependances in the same state and in such manner as was regulated by the Capitulation made in the year 1632 and that such as shall have been endowed with any Ecclesiastical goods Canons Places Parsonages Provostships and other Benefices shall continue setled in them and enjoy them without any contradiction X. His Majesty restoring to the said Lords the States General the Town of Maestricht and Countreys thereunto belonging may yet take and carry away all the Artillery Powder Bullets Provisions and other War-like Ammunition that shall be found there at the time of it's Restitution and they that his Majesty shall have
of the States General of the United Provinces THe States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys to all that shall see these presents Greeting As we desire nothing with greater ardency than to see the War that at this present oppresseth Christendom end in a good Peace and since by the care and mediation of the Most Illustrious King of Great Britain the Town of Nimeguen has been agreed to by all parties for a place of Conference We desiring as far as in us lies to put a stop to the desolation of so many Provinces and the shedding so much Christian blood have been willing to contribute thereto whatever lies in our power and to that end have deputed to that Assembly some Persons of our own body who have given manifold proof as well of their knowledge and experience in publick Affairs as of their affection for the good of our State and since the Heeren Hierosme van Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University of Leyden late United Provinces Wilhem van Nassaw Heer van Odyke Cortgene c. first noble and representative of the Order of the Nobility in the States Councel of Zeland and Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Bildt Deputed to our Assembly on the behalf of the States of Holland Zeland and Friezland have Signalized themselves in many important employments in our service wherein they have given instances of their fidelity presence of mind and readiness in the managment of Affairs For these causes and other good considerations us thereunto moving we have appointed ordain'd and deputed the said Heeren Van Beverning Van Odyke and Van Haren and do appoint ordain and depute them by these presents and have given them and do hereby give them full Power Commission and special Order to repair to the Town of Nimeguen in quality of our Ambassadors Extraordinary and our Plenipotentiaries for the Peace and there to Confer either directly or by the interposition of Ambassadors Mediators received and agreed to respectively with the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty and his Allies being qualified with sufficient powers and there to Treat upon means for the determining and appeasing the differences that occasion the War at this day and our aforesaid Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries all three together or two of them in absence of the third by reason of sickness or other impediment or one onely in absence of the other two in like case of sickness or other impediment may agree and conclude thereupon and Sign a good and sure Peace and generally may act negotiate promise and agree what ever they shall think necessary in order to the said Peace and generally may do whatever we our selves might do if we were there present even in such things as might require more particular power and instructions than are contained in these presents And we do promise truly and faithfully to like well and hold for firm and stable whatever by the said Heeren our Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries or by two of them in case of sickness absence or other impediment of the third or by one onely in absence of the other two on the like occasion of sickness or other impediment shall have been stipulated promised and agreed and to cause to be dispatched our Letters of Ratification within such time as they shall have promised in our name to exhibit them Given at the Hague in our Assembly under our great Seal Signed by the President and with the sign of our Principal Register this fourth day of January in the year one thousand six hundred seventy and six Signed J. Bootsma And on the fould By Order of the said Lords the States General Signed H. Fagel And sealed with the great Seal with red Wax A separate Article concerning the Prince of Orange LEWIS by the grace of God King of France and Navar to all that shall see these presents greeting Since our most dear and wel-beloved Cosen the Sieur Comte d' Estrades Marshal of France and Knight of our Orders our faithful and wel-beloved the Sieur Colbert Marquess of Croissy Counsellor in ordinary in our Councel of State and our faithful and wel-beloved the Sieur de Mesmes Comte d' Avaux Counsellor also in our Councels our Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries by vertue of the plenary powers which we had given them have Concluded Agreed and Signed on the tenth day of this month at Nimeguen with the Sieur Hierosene van Beverning Baron of Teylingham Curator of the University at Leyden heretofore Counsellor and Treasurer General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys the Sieur Wilhem van Nassaw Heer van Odyke Cortgene and first noble and representative of the Nobility in the States and at the Councel of Leyden and the Sieur Wilhem van Haren Grietman van Bildt Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of our most Dear and great Friends the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys qualified likewise with plenary powers this Article in Tenour as followeth viz. As in pursuance of the War which for some years has hapned betwixt the Most Christian King and the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countreys his Majesty caused to be seized all things belonging to the Prince of Orange as well the Principality of Orange as other his Lands and Seignories lying in France and granted the Revenues thereof to Monsieur the Comte d' Auvengne who enjoys the same at present and since by the grace of God a Peace is setled by the Treaty this day concluded and so all the angry effects of War ought to cease his Majesty hath promised to the said Prince and doth promise by this separate Act that immediately after the Ratifications exchanged his Majesty will take off the said Seizure and cause the said Prince to be restored to the possession of the said Principality and of the Lands which belong to him in France Franche Comte Charleroy Flanders and other Countreys depending upon his Majesties Rule and to all his rights actions priviledge usages and prerogatives in such estate and manner as he enjoyed the same till he was dispossess'd by reason of the present War Nimeguen the 10th day of the month of August in the year 1678. Marshal D' Estrades H. Beverning Colbert W. de Nassaw De Mesmes W. Haren WE well liking the separate Article aforesaid in all and every point thereof have by these presents Signed with our hand allowed approved and ratified and do allow approve and Ratifie the same promising upon the Faith and Word of a King to fulfil observe and cause to be observed the same truly and faithfully without ever suffering any thing to be acted directly or indirectly to the contrary thereof for any cause or upon any occasion whatsoever In witness whereof we have Signed these presents with our hand and have caused our Seal to be put thereto Given at St. Germain in Laye the 18th day of August in the year of Grace One thousand
from all which as also the annulling Clauses of Derogations the Most Christian King hath expresly derogated by this present Treaty XVIII And in case the District of the City of Thoul shall be found to be of less bigness and value than the District of the City of Nancy the same shall be otherwise compensated to the Duke so that the Districts of both Cities shall be of an equal greatness and value XIX The Most Christian King shall as by this present Treaty he doth for ever renounce for himself his Heirs and Successors the Right of nominating or presenting the Bishop of Thoul unto the hands of the Pope procured by him of Pope Clement ix so that the said Duke may make his recourse to the Apostolick See to obtain the same XX. It is further covenanted and agreed That it shall in no wise be lawful for the said Duke to make any alteration or change in the Benefices bestowed by his Most Christian Majesty until the day of this present Treaty and those who are inducted into the said Benefices shall continue in quiet possession of them so that the said Duke shall in no wise trouble or molest nor dispossess them of the same XXI It is further agreed That all Proceedings at Law Sentences and Decrees made and given by the Council Judges or other the Officers of his Most Christian Majesty in Suits and Actions that are finished as well between the Subjects of the said Dutchy of Lorrain and Bar as others during the time the said States were under the Dominion of the Most Christian King shall take place and have their full and entire effect in as ample manner as if the Most Christian King had still continued Lord and Possessor of those Countreys nor shall it be lawful to question annull delay or hinder the Execution of the said Sentences and Decrees But the Parties concerned may according to what is prescribed and appointed by the Laws desire a Revision of the Proceedings that have been thereupon had yet so that the Sentences shall remain in full force and vigour XXII The Charters Deeds and Writings which were in the Exchequers of Nancy and Bar and in the two Chambers of accompts or elsewhere and have been since removed from thence shall be forthwith restored to the Duke XXIII His Imperial Majesty doth agree that Prince Francis Egon Bishop of Strasburg and his Brother Prince William Egon of Furstenberg together with their Nephew Prince Anthony Egon of Fustenberg and their Officers and Ministers shall be fully restored to the State Reputation Dignities Rights Suffrages Session Benefices and Offices Goods holden in Fee-simple Fee-base and in Capite together with the Profits that have been sequestred and generally to all other Goods which they did or of right ought to have enjoyed before their Deprivation upon occasion of this War any Proceedings Transactions or Decrees whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding The said Prince William Egon shall immediately after the Ratification of the Peace be restored to his full liberty And whatsoever hath been said written or done by the Chapter of Strasburg and others who administred the Goods and Benefices belonging to the said Bishop and Prince shall be buried in perpetual Oblivion nor shall they upon that account be impeached or under any other pretence whatsoever molested XXIV All the Vassals and Subjects Ecclesiastical and Secular of both Parties shall be restored to the Honours Dignities and Benefices which they enjoyed before the breaking out of the War as also to all Goods Moveable and Immoveable Revenues casual and subject to redemption seized and confiscated upon occasion of the War together with all Rights Actions and Inheritances fallen unto them even during the same yet so that nothing shall be demanded for the Profits and Rents received for the said Goods Moveables Revenues and Benefices from the time of the Confiscation and Seisure till the day of the Ratification of the Peace and in like manner the Debts Effects Merchandise and Moveables confiscated before the said day so that neither the Creditors of private Debtors nor those in whose hands such Effects and Merchandise have been deposited nor their Heirs or Assigns may prosecute or pretend to any restitution or satisfaction for the same which restitutions shall be extended to those also who have been of the contrary Party and consequently they shall in vertue of this Treaty be restored to the favour of their Prince as also to their Goods in such condition as they shall be found to be at the Conclusion and Signing of this Treaty all which things shall be effectually executed any Donations Confiscations Orders Interlocutory and Definitive Sentences given and made without hearing and in the absence of the Parties through contumacy Which Sentences and Judgments shall be made null and deemed to be of no more force than if they had never been judged and pronounced full and entire liberty remaining to the said Parties to return into the Countrey from whence they departed and enjoyed the Goods Moveables Estates and Revenues or inhabit in what place soever they shall please and make choice without any violence or compulsion and in case they have a mind to transport themselves to some other place they may by Atturneys not suspected administer and enjoy their Goods and Revenues such Benefices only accepted as require residence which they ought Personally to perform and execute XXV The agreement this day made between his Imperial Majesty and the Empire and the King and Kingdom of Sweden as well with relation to himself as to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp shall be esteemed to be comprehended in this Treaty in such manner that as well this as the aforementioned Treaty between the Emperor and Sweden shall be judged and looked upon as one and the same and held to be of the same force and vertue as if it were word for word inserted in this Treaty XXVI And because it is highly necessary in order to the preservation of the publick Peace That the War which yet continues between his Most Christian Majesty and the King and Kingdom of Sweden on the one part and the King of Denmark the Elector of Brandenburg the Bishop of Munster and the Princes of Lunenburg namely the Bishop of Osnaburg and the Dukes of Zel and Wolfembutel be with all speed composed as well his Imperial as his Most Christian Majesty shall employ their utmost Offices towards the said Princes and the King of Sweden That a Peace between the aforesaid Parties be speedily made and to that end a Cessation of Arms in order to it be forthwith agreed to by them But if contrary to all expectation the said Offices should want their desired effect His Imperial Majesty and the Electors Princes and States of the Empire included in this Peace do promise that after the Term for the Cessation of Hostilities is expired they will in no wise under any pretence whatsoever directly or indirectly assist the aforesaid Enemies of France and Sweden or in
any wise hinder them in the carrying on of the War nor suffer the Forces of the aforesaid Enemies of France and Sweden to take any Winter-Quarters without their Territories in the Empire And for the aforesaid end only it shall be free for his Most Christian Majesty to keep a Garrison in the following Places in the Empire yet without endammaging the Owners of the said Places and their Subjects and at the charges of the Most Christian King viz. in the Towns and Cities of Chasselet Huy Verviers Aix la Chapelle Dueren Linnick Nuys and Zons in which Places no new Fortifications shall be made further than shall be necessary for the safety of the Garrisons and without giving just cause of suspicion Nor shall it be lawful for the Most Christian King to retain those Places upon account of the charges made therein nor under any other pretence whatsoever but shall evacuate and restore the same to those from whom he took them so soon as a Peace shall be concluded and Ratified between the aforesaid Parties as to the Provinces scituate in the Empire or that more fit means shall by common consent be found out to restore it In like manner his most Christian Majesty doth promise that he will in no wise nor under any pretence whatsoever directly or indirectly assist the present Enemies of the Emperor and Empire It shall be likewise free for the Emperor and Empire to employ their Offices Counsels and Endeavours joyntly with the Most Christian King for the speedy composing the War by common consent XXVII Pursuant to the Peace of Munster confirmed by the second Article in all its Points and Clauses Places shall be restored and such as are to be restored shall be bonâ fide evacuated To which end Commissioners shall be named at the same time this Treaty is Ratified on both sides that the aforesaid Evacuation and Restitution be without further delay made within one month after the Ratification of the Peace Those Places only excepted which are otherwise for a time to be disposed of by the preceding Article XXVIII Whereas there hath been an ancient difference concerning the Castle and Dutchy of Bovillon between the Bishop and Prince of Liege and the Dukes of that name it is hereby agreed That the Duke of Bovillon continuing in the possession he hath of it the said difference shall amicably or by Arbiters to be named by the Parties within 3 months after the Ratification of the Peace be composed without proceeding to Acts of force XXIX Immediately after the Signing and subscribing of this Treaty of Peace by the Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries all Acts of Hostility shall cease And in case within 14 days after the Signing of the Treaty any thing shall be attempted or altered it shall be forthwith repaired and restored to its first condition XXX Contributions shall continue to be demanded and levyed by the one and the other Party in those Provinces Countreys and Places where before the Signing of this Treaty they were settled until the Ratification of the same and what shall then remain in Arrear shall within 4 months after the said Ratification be paid Yet so that the payment of the same shall not after the Ratifications are exchanged be forcibly required of those Places who will give sufficient security to pay the Proportion assessed upon them XXXI Although in the second Article of this Treaty it hath been sufficiently declared that the Peace of Munster shall in all and every its Points be confirmed yet it hath been thought fit particularly that all things stipulated in the said Peace of Munster with relation to the business of Montferrat remain hereafter in full force and vertue amongst which those things shall more particularly continue firm and valid which are stipulated therein in behalf of the Duke of Savoy XXXII Their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties retaining a grateful sence of the Offices and continual Endeavours the most Serene King of Great Britain hath used to restore a general Peace and the publick Tranquility It is mutually agreed between the Parties that he with his Kingdoms be included in this Treaty after the best and most effectual manner that may be XXXIII In this Peace those also shall be comprehended who shall be named by either Party with common consent before the exchange of the Ratifications or within 6 months after XXXIV The Emperor and the Most Christian King do agree That all Kings Princes and States shall and may give their Guaranties to their Imperial and Most Christian Majesties for the execution and performance of all and every the Points contained in this present Treaty XXXV The Peace being thus concluded the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of both Parties do promise that the same shall be Ratified in the manner mutually agreed on by the Emperor and Empire and the Most Christian King respectively and take effectual care that Authentick Ratifications be within the space of 8 weeks to be computed from the day of the Signing thereof or sooner if possible reciprocally and in due form exchanged here XXXVI And whereas his Imperial Majesty hath been humbly desired by the Electors Princes and States of the Empire in vertue of a Resolution dated the 31. May 1677. under the Seal of the Chancery of Mentz and delivered to the French Ambassadors to take care by his Imperial Ambassadors in this Congress of the Interests of the said Electors Princes and States of the Empire as well the Imperial as the French Ambassadors have in testimony and for the greater validity of all and every thing and things contained in this Treaty of Peace Signed and Sealed the same with their Names and Seals and promised interchangeably to deliver sufficient Ratifications thereof within the space abovementioned and the form therein agreed on nor shall any Protestation or Contradiction from the Directory of the Empire against the subscription of this Treaty be received or esteemed valid Done at Nimeguen the 5th day of Feb. A. D. 1679. Ls John Bishop and Prince of Gurgh Ls Francis Udalrick Count Kinsky Ls T. A. Hen. Stratman Ls The Marshal D'Estrades Ls Colbert Articles of Peace between the Emperor and the King of Sweden Concluded and Signed at Nimeguen the 5 th day of February 1679. Translated out of Latin according to the Copy Printed at Nimeguen by Adrian Moetiens IN the Name of the most Holy and Undivided Trinity Be it known to all and every one whom it doth or any way may concern That whereas from the beginning of the War commenced some years ago between the most Seiene and Mighty Prince and Lord LEOPOLD Elect Emperor of the Romans always August King of Germany Hungary Bohemia Dalmatia Croatia and Sclavonia Arch-Duke of Austria Duke of Burgundy Brabant Stiria Carinthia Carniola Marquiss of Moravia Duke of Luxemberg of the Upper and Lower Silesea Wirtemburg and Tecka Prince of Swaben Earl of Hapsburg Tirol Ferrette Kyburg and Goritia Marquiss of the sacred Roman Empire of