St. Vincent Within the space of Ten Weeks beyond the said Cape and on this side of the Equinoctial Line or Equator as well in the Ocean and Mediterranean Sea as elsewhere Lastly Within the space of Six Months beyond the said Line throughout the whole World shall belong and remain unto the Possessors without any Exception or further Distinction of Time or Place or any Consideration to be had of Restitution or Compensation XI But if it happens through Inadvertency or Imprudence or any other Cause whatever that any Subject of either of the said Two Kings shall do or commit any thing by Land or Sea or on Fresh Water any where contrary to the present Treaty or that any Particular Article thereof is not Fulfilled This Peace and good Correspondence between the said Two Kings shall not on that Account be Interrupted or Infringed but shall remain in its former Force Strength and Vigour and the said Subject only shall Answer for his own Fact and undergo the Punishment to be Inflicted according to the Custom and Law of Nations XII But if which God forbid the Differences now Composed between the said Kings should at any time be renewed and break out into open War the Ships Merchandises and all kind of Moveable Goods of either Party which shall be found to be and remain in the Ports and Dominions of the Adverse Party shall not be Confiscated or brought under any Inconveniency but the whole space of Six Months shall be Allowed to the Subjects of both the said Kings that they may carry away and transport the foresaid Goods and any thing else that is theirs whither they shall think fit without any Molestation XIII For what concerns the Principality of Orange and other Lands and Dominions belonging to the said King of Great Britain The separate Article of the Treaty of Nimeguen Concluded between the most Christian King and the States General of the United Provinces the Tenth day of August 1678. shall according to its Form and Tenor have full Effect and all things that have been Innovated and Altered shall be Restored as they were before All Decrees Edicts and other Acts of what kind soever they be without exception which are in any manner contrary to the said Treaty or were made after the conclusion thereof shall be held to be null and void without any revival or consequence for the future And all things shall be restored to the said King in the same state and in the same manner as he held and enjoyed them before he was dispossessed thereof in the time of the War which was ended by the said Treaty of Nimeguen or which he ought to have held and enjoyed according to the said Treaty And that an end may be put to all Trouble Differences Processes and Questions which may arise concerning the same Both the said Kings will name Commissioners who with full and summary Power may compose and settle all these matters And forasmuch as by the Authority of the most Christian King the King of Great Britain was hindred from enjoying the Revenues Rights and Profits as well of His Principality of Orange as of other His Dominions which after the Conclusion of the Treaty of Nimeguen until the Declaration of the present War were under the Power of the said most Christian King The said most Christian King will Restore and cause to be Restored in reality with Effect and with the Interest due all those Revenues Rights and Profits according to the Declarations and Verifications that shall be made before the said Commissioners XIV The Treaty of Peace Concluded between the most Christian King and the late Elector of Brandenburgh at St. Germains in Laye the 29 June 1679. shall be Restored in all its Articles and remain in its former Vigour between His Sacred most Christian Majesty and His Electoral Highness of Brandenburgh XV. Whereas 't will greatly conduce to the Publick Tranquility that the Treaty be Observed which was Concluded between His Sacred most Christian Majesty and His Royal Highness of Savoy on the Ninth of August 1696. 't is Agreed that the said Treaty shall be confirmed by this Article XVI Under this present Treaty of Peace shall be comprehended those who shall be named by either Party with common Consent before the Exchange of Ratifications or within Six Months after But in the mean time the most Serene and Mighty Prince William King of Great Britain and the most Serene and Mighty Prince Lewis the most Christian King gratefully acknowledging the sincere Offices and Indefatigable Endeavours which have been employed by the most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles King of Sueden by the Interposition of His Mediation in bringing this Happy Work of the Peace with the Divine Assistance to the desired Conclusion And to shew the like Affection to him 't is by consent of all Parties Stipulated and Agreed That His said Sacred Royal Majesty of Sueden shall with all His Kingdoms Countries Provinces and Rights be included in this Treaty and comprehended in the best manner in the present Pacification XVII Lastly The Solemn Ratifications of this present Agreement and Alliance made in due Form shall be delivered on both sides and mutually and duly Exchanged at the Royal Palace of Ryswicke in the Province of Holland within the space of Three Weeks to be reckoned from the Day of the Subscription or sooner if it can be In Testimony of all and every the things before mentioned and for their greater Force and to give them all the Vigour and full Authority they ought to have the Under-written Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries together with the most Illustrious and Excellent the Extraordinary Ambassador Mediator have Signed and Sealed the present Instrument of Peace Done c. Signed by the English and French Ambassadors and by the Mediator Separate Article Besides all that is Concluded and Stipulated by the Treaty of Peace Signed this present Day the 20th of September It is moreover agreed by the present Separate Article which shall have the same Force and Effect as if it was inserted word for word in the said Treaty That the most Christian King shall Covenant and Agree and by the present Article he does Covenant and Agree That it shall be free for the Emperor and the Empire until the First Day of November next to accept the Conditions of Peace lately proposed by the most Christian King according to the Declaration made on the First Day of this present Month unless in the mean time it shall be otherwise agreed between His Imperial Majesty and the Empire and His most Christian Majesty And in case His Imperial Majesty does not within the time prefixed accept those Conditions or that it be not otherwise agreed between His Imperial Majesty and the Empire and His most Christian Majesty the said Treaty shall have its full Effect and be duly put in Execution according to its Form and Tenor And it shall not be lawful for the King of Great Britain
the Kingdoms Territories Dominions and Places belonging to each other of what Condition soever they be III. That all Offences Injuries Damages which the said King of Great Britain and His Subjects or the said most Christian King and His Subjects have suffered from each other during this War shall be forgotten so that neither on Account of them or for any other Cause or Pretence neither Party or the Subjects of either shall hereafter do cause or suffer to be done any Hostility Enmity Molestation or Hindrance to the other by himself or others Secretly or Openly Directly or Indirectly by Colour of Right or Way of Fact IV. And since the most Christian King was never more desirous of any thing than that the Peace be Firm and Inviolable the said King Promises and Agrees for Himself and His Successors That he will on no Account whatsoever disturb the said King of Great Britain in the free Possession of the Kingdoms Countries Lands or Dominions which He now Enjoys and therefore Engages His Honour upon the Faith and Word of a King that He will not Give or Afford any Assistance directly or indirectly to any Enemy or Enemies of the said King of Great Britain And that He will in no manner whatsoever favour the Conspiracies or Plots which any Rebels or ill disposed Persons may in any Place Excite or Contrive against the said King And for that End Promises and Engages That He will not Assist with Arms Ammunition Provisions Ships or Money or in any other way by Sea or Land any Person or Persons who shall hereafter under any pretence whatsoever Disturb or Molest the said King of Great Britain in the free and full Possession of His Kingdoms Countries Lands and Dominions The King of Great Britain likewise Promises and Engages for Himself and Successors Kings of Great Britain That He will Inviolably Do and Perform the same towards the said most Christian King His Kingdoms Countries Lands and Dominions V. That there be a free use of Navigation and Commerce between the Subjects of both the said Kings as was formerly in the time of Peace and before the Declaration of the late War so that every one of them may freely come into the Kingdoms Marts Ports and Rivers of either of the said Kings with their Merchandises and may there Continue and Trade without any Molestation and shall Use and Enjoy all Liberties Immunities and Priviledges Granted by Solemn Treaties and Antient Custom VI. That the Ordinary Administration of Justice shall be Restored and Set open throughout the Kingdoms and Dominions of both Kings so that it shall be Free for all the Subjects of Either to Claim and Obtain their Rights Pretensions and Actions according to the Laws Constitutions and Statutes of each Kingdom VII The most Christian King shall Restore to the said King of Great Britain all Countries Islands Forts and Colonies wheresoever situated which the English did Possess before the Declaration of this present War And in like manner the King of Great Britain shall Restore to the most Christian King all Countries Islands Forts and Colonies wheresoever situated which the French did Possess before the said Declaration of War And this Restitution shall be made on both Sides within the Space of Six Months or sooner if it can be done And to that end immediately after the Ratification of this Treaty each of the said Kings shall Deliver or cause to be Delivered to the other or to Commissioners Authorized in His Name for that Purpose all Acts of Concession Instruments and necessary Orders duly Made and in proper Form so that they may have their Effect VIII Commissioners shall be appointed on both sides to Examine and Determine the Rights and Pretensions which either of the said Kings hath to the Places Situated in Hudsons-Bay But the Possession of those Places which were taken by the French during the Peace that preceded this present War and were retaken by the English during this War shall be left to the French by virtue of the foregoing Article The Capitulation made by the English on the Fifth of September 1696. shall be Observed according to its Form and Tenor The Merchandises therein mentioned shall be Restored The Governour of the Fort taken there shall be set at Liberty if it be not already done The differences arisen concerning the Execution of the said Capitulation and the Value of the Goods there lost shall be Adjudged and Determined by the said Commissioners who immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty shall be Invested with sufficient Authority for settling the Limits and Confines-of the Lands to be restored on either side by virtue of the foregoing Article and likewise for exchanging of Lands as may conduce to the mutual Interest and Advantage of both Kings And to this end the Commissioners so appointed shall within the space of Three Months from the time of the Ratification of the present Treaty meet in the City of London and within Six Months to be reckoned from their First Meeting shall Determine all Differences and Disputes which may arise concerning this matter After which the Articles the said Commissioners shall Agree to shall be Ratified by both Kings and shall have the same Force and Vigour as if they were inserted Word for Word in the present Treaty IX All Letters as well of Reprisal as of Marque and Counter-Marque which hitherto have for any cause been Granted on either side shall be and remain Null and Void Nor shall any the like Letters be hereafter Granted by either of the said Kings against the Subjects of the Other unless it be first made manifest that Right hath been denied and it shall not be taken for a denial of Right unless the Petition of the Person who desires Letters of Reprisal to be Granted to him be first shewn to the Minister residing there on the part of the King against whose Subjects those Letters are desired That within the space of Four Months or sooner he may inquire into the contrary or procure that satisfaction be made with all speed from the Party offending to the Complainant But if the King against whose Subjects Reprisals are demanded have no Minister residing there Letters of Reprisal shall not be Granted till after the space of Four Months to be Reckoned from the day on which his Petition was made and presented to the King against whose Subjects Reprisals are desired or to his Privy Council X. For cutting off all Matter of Dispute and Contention which may arise concerning the Restitution of Ships Merchandises and other Moveable Goods which either Party may complain to be taken and detained from the other in Countries and on Coasts far distant after the Peace is concluded and before it be notified there All Ships Merchandises and other Moveable Goods which shall be taken by either side after the Signing and Publication of the present Treaty within the space of Twelve Days in the British and North Seas as far as the Cape
Envoys at the Courts of those Princes and receives and entertains at his own Court Envoys and Embassadors from them and that the King shall in no ways take ill his so doing comprehending under that Word Princes the Emperor Kings and Sovereign Powers of Europe V. His Majesty doth ingage and declare that the ordinary and extraordinary Embassadors of Savoy shall receive at the Court of France all the Honours without Exception and with all the Circumstances and Ceremonies that are paid to the Embassadors of Crowned Heads that is to say they shall be received as Embassadors from Kings and that his Majesty's ordinary as well as extraordinary Embassadors in all the Courts of Europe without Exception and even the King's Embassadors at Rome and Vienna shall likewise treat and use the said ordinary and extraordinary Embassadors and Envoys from Savoy as they do those from Kings and Crowned Heads But in regard that this Addition of Honour as to the Treatment of the Embassadors from Savoy has been never hitherto settled nor raised to that Degree that his Majesty doth now allow it His Royal Highness is sensible and doth acknowledge that it is in Consideration of this Treaty or Contract of Marriage of the Duke of Burgundy with the Princess his his Daughter and his Majesty doth promise that this Augmentation of Honour shall take Place from the Day that the aforesaid Treaty of Marriage is Signed VI. That the Trade between France and Italy shall be renewed and maintained in the same manner as it was settled before this War from the time of Charles Emanuel II. his Royal Highness's Father and the same shall be observed and practised in all Points and in all Places between the Kingdom and the several parts of his Majesty's Dominions and those of his Royal Highness's which was used and practised in all things in the Lifetime of the said Charles Emanuel II. on the Roads of Suza in Savoy and Pont Beauvoisin and Villefranche every one paying the Duties and Customs on both Sides the French Ships shall continue to pay the ancient Duties at Villefranche as it was wont to be paid in the time of the said Charles Emmanuel about which there shall be no Contest or Opposition made any more than used to be done in those Days The Couriers and ordinary Posts of France shall pass as formerly through his Royal Highness's Estates and Countries and according to the Regulations there they shall pay the Duties for the Merchandizes wherewith they shall be charged VII His Royal Highness shall cause an Edict to be published by which he shall upon the Penalty of severe corporal Punishments forbid the Inhabitants of the Vallies of Lucern called Vaudois to have any Communication in Matters of Religion with the King's Subjects and his Royal Highness shall ingage not to suffer at any time from the Date of this Treaty any of his Majesty's Subjects to make any Settlement in the Protestant Vallies under Colour of Religion of Marriage or for any other Pretence of Settlement Conveniency taking Possession of Inheritances or any other Pretence whatsoever and that no Protestant Minister shall come from thence into any of his Majesty's Dominions without incurring the severest of Corporal Punishments That however his Majesty shall take no Cognisance of his Royal Highness's Usage towards the Vaudois in regard of their Religion yet his Royal Highness shall be bound not to suffer the Exercise of the Reformed Religion in the City of Pignerol nor in the Territories that are restored to his Royal Highness in like manner as his Majesty neither doth nor will allow the exercise of it in his Kingdom VIII That there shall be on both sides a perpetual Act of Oblivion and Indemnity of all that has been done since the beginning of this War in what Place soever the Acts of Hostility have been committed That in this Act of Grace all those shall be comprehended who have served his Majesty in what Station soever although they were his Royal Highness's Subjects so that no Prosecution shall be made against them neither shall they be molested either in their Persons or Estates by Reprisals Executions or Judicial Processes or upon any pretext whatsoever and the King's Subjects that have served his Royal Highness shall be used in the like manner IX That Ecclesiastical Benefices in such parts of his Royal Highness's Country as hath been conquered by the King having been filled up by his Majesty from time to time as the same became vacant during the time that his Majesty possessed the said Countries it is agreed that the said Collation to Benefices shall be valid and the Persons who have been promoted by the King and invested by Authority of the Pope's Bulls shall remain in full Possession thereof But as to Promotions to the Livings belonging to the Military Order of St. Maurice or to Places of Judicature or Magistracy his Royal Highness shall have Liberty to alter the Nominations made by the King and all Grants made by his Royal Highness of Offices in the Law become vacant by the Person 's leaving them during the War shall remain good and valid X. As for Contributions that were imposed on the Lands of his Royal Highness's Dominions altho' they are lawfully imposed and are become due and that they amount to considerable Sums his Majesty does out of his Liberality fully discharge his Royal Highness of them so that from the Day of this Treaty's Ratification the King will not pretend to nor require any of the said Contributions leaving his Royal Highness in full Possession of his Revenues throughout his Dominions as well as in Savoy Nice about Pignerol and Suza his Royal Highness on the other side not demanding any Contributions of the King XI As to the Pretensions of the Dutchess of Nemours on his Royal Highness his Majesty leaves those Controversies to be determined among themselves by due Course of Law without concerning himself further therein XII That it shall be Lawful for his Royal Highness to send Intendants and Commissaries into Savoy the County of Nice the Marquisate of Susa and Barcellonet into Pignerol and its Dependencies in order to Regulate his Interests Rights and Revenues and to settle his Customs and Excises upon Salt and other things And the said Deputed Persons shall be admitted and authorised in their Offices immediately after the Ratification of this present Treaty after which the said Duties shall belong to his Royal Highness without Exception or Contradiction XIII That if the Neutrality for Italy be accepted or that a General Peace be Concluded as in such Cases a great many Troops would become altogether useless and Chargeable to his Royal Highness and that besides the excessive Charges requisite for the maintaining of them they commonly become an occasion of creating a mis-understanding among Princes when more Troops are kept on foot then are necessary in a State either for its own Conservation or for the maintaining of the Dignity of a Sovereign Prince his
have been possess'd by the most Christian King by force of Arms or by virtue of the Re-unions of the Chamber of Metz or otherwise in what nature soever Moreover the said King shall take care to indemnifie the Prince Chapter and his other Private Subjects for their Goods confiscated within the Territories of Liege and shall not exact the Remainder of the Contributions of the present War Article XXIV All the Provisions Ammunitions and Artillery that shall be found in the Places which are to be restor'd to the King of Spain or demolish'd shall be taken away by his most Christian Majesty Article XXV It is also agreed that the Collection of all Duties which the said most Christian King is in possession of in all those Dominions which he restores to the Catholick King by virtue of this Treaty shall be continu'd to him till the very day whereon these Countries are depending shall be actually restor'd and the Arrears which shall be due at the time of the said Restitution shall be paid bonâ fide to the Farmers of the said Duties It is likewise agreed that the Proprietors of the Forests that have been confiscated in the Dependencies of the Places to be restor'd to his Catholick Majesty shall be restor'd to the Possession of the same and of all the Timber that shall be found upon the Spot It being to be understood that after signing of this present Treaty it shall not be lawful on either side to destroy the said Forests or to Fell any Trees Article XXVI All Papers Letters and Precepts concerning the Countries Lands and Lordships which are to be surrendred and restor'd by the present Treaty shall be faithfully restor'd on both sides within three Months after the Exchanging of this present Treaty in what Places soever those Papers and Precepts may be found Answer to Article XXVI Besides what is contain'd already in any other Articles care shall be taken with respect to Germany in general that France immediately after the Ratification of the Peace shall restore the Writings and Decrees relating to the places which ought to be restor'd to the Emperor and Empire or which do otherwise belong to his Imperial Majesty or to the States of the Empire and particularly such as are detain'd at Friburgh or have been remov'd thence as well as from the Chamber and Town of Spires the County of Leininghen or other places hereafter to be specified without prejudice to the other Things which shall or may be propos'd hereafter with respect to the Chamber of Spires Article XXVII All the Subjects on both sides both Ecclesiastical and Secular shall be restor'd as well to the Possession of the Honours Dignities or Benefices which they enjoy'd before and of which they were dispossess'd by the present War as of their Real and Personal Estates that have been seiz'd and possess'd upon account of this War as also to their Rights Actions and Successions that have faln to them since the beginning of the said War without exacting or pretending to demand the Fruits and Revenues arising from the said Estates to the time of the publication of the present Treaty Article XXVIII and XXIX Those two Articles which are the 24 th and 25 th of the Treaty of Nimiguen being common to all Treaties relate only to such Benefices as have been collated to any Person during the present War and therefore those on whom such Benefices have been conferr'd since this War shall be confirm'd in the Possession of the same Article XXX The Catholick King shall restore to the Duke of Parma the Fort and Island of Ponza which he has taken from the said Prince during this present War Article XXXI And whereas by the present Treaty a good firm and inviolable Peace is establish'd between his most Christian Majesty and the Catholick King and the Lords States General of the United Netherlands both by Sea and Land through all their Kingdoms Countries Territories Provinces and Dominions and that all Acts of Hostility are to cease for the future it is stipulated by the present Treaty that all Prizes that shall be made on either side in the Baltick Sea or the Northern Ocean from Newfoundland to the Channel from and after the space of four Weeks after the Publication of this Peace or from the Channel to the Cape of S. Vincent six Weeks after the same from the said Cape into the Mediterranean and to the Line ten Weeks after the same and beyond the Line in all parts of the World eight Months after the Publication of the said Peace the said Prizes taken after the prefix'd Times shall be allow'd void and return'd to the true Owners on either side with full Satisfaction for the Damages and Losses sustain'd thereby Article XXXII If any Places Countries or Colonies have been taken by the Arms of the most Christian King upon the Coasts of Africa or in the East or West Indies or if the States General have taken any Places Countries or Colonies belonging to his most Christian Majesty all such Conquests shall be restor'd on both sides in the same Condition they were in before they were taken Article XXXIII All Prisoners of War taken by the Forces of the Emperor and of his Allies and by those of his most Christian Majesty and are still detain'd shall be releas'd without any Ransom after the Ratifications are exchang'd Article XXXIV And whereas their Majesties and the Lords States General do acknowledge the Good Offices and Care which the most Serene King of Sweden has us'd to procure the Peace and Publick Tranquility it is on both sides agreed that his Swedish Majesty his Kingdoms and States be especially and by name comprehended in the present Treaty in the best manner and form that the same may be done Article XXXV All such as shall be nam'd by common Consent of both Parties before or within six Months after the Ratifications of the Treaty are exchang'd shall be comprehended in this present Treaty Article XXXVI Their said Majesties and the Lords States General do agree that his Swedish Majesty as Mediator and all other Kings Princes and Republicks may give their Guarantee to their said Majesties and the said Lords States General for the Exemption of all and every particular Article contain'd in this present Treaty Answer to Article XXXIII XXXIV XXXV and XXXVI It will be easie to agree to what is contain'd in these Articles when once the Articles of the Treaty of Peace between the Emperor and France are adjusted But for the preventing all farther Contests and all occasions of molesting the Subjects on either side 't is not only requisite to put a stop to the Contributions rais'd upon the Subjects on both sides from the day of signing the Peace but 't is likewise necessary absolutely and entirely to disannul all Pretensions upon the account of Contributions which remain still unpaid all Hostages given or taken upon that account being immediately restor'd gratis in the same manner as the Prisoners on
City of Delft or elsewhere where they shall be actually either directly or through the Mediation of Ambassadors Receiv'd and Accepted for that purpose the Ambassadors Plenipotentiaries and Ministers of Our Dearest and Welbeloved Brother the King of Great Britain and his Allies each being provided with Power sufficient to Treat of and Determine the several Differences which have occasion'd this War Our said Plenipotentiaries have also Power either all Three together or Two of them in case of Absence Sickness or any other Impediment or One if the other Two be not able to be Present to Agree upon Conclude and Sign a Firm and Lasting Peace and generally to Do Negotiate Promise and Grant whatever they shall think Necessary to Effect so good a Work with the same Authority that We Our selves could Act if We were present at the said Conferences in Person although there had been something which was not Contain'd in these Presents which Required a more especial Authority Hereupon We Promise on the Faith and Word of a King to Keep inviolably and to Confirm whatever the said Sieurs de Harlay de Crecy and de Caillieres or Two of them in Case of the Absence of the other on Account of Sickness or any other Impediment or of One only in Case of the Incapacity of the rest shall Stipulate Promise or Grant in Our Name And We likewise give Our Royal Word that We will Dispatch the Letters of Ratification in the Time Promis'd by Our said Ministers for such is Our Pleasure In Testimony whereof We have caus'd these Presents to be Seal'd with Our Seal Given at Fontainebleau the 26 of Septemb. in the Year of Our Lord 1697. and of Our Reign the Fifty fifth Lewis And upon the Fold By the King Colbert The Substance of the King of Great Britains Ratification of the Peace WIlliam III. by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come Greeting It having pleased the Divine Providence that after a War wherewith the greater part of Christendom was not long since Afflicted a true and sincere Peace should be Concluded by means of the Mediation of the most Serene and most Potent Prince Charles XI late King of Sueden and since his Death by that of the most Serene and most Potent Prince Charles XII his Son and Successor as likewise by the Conferences held at Our Palace at Ryswick in the Province of Holland between Our Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries together with those of the Allies on one part and the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of the most Serene and most Potent Prince Lewis XIV the most Christian King on the other part The Conditions whereof are these That there be an Vniversal Peace c. We after having Seen and Examined the said Treaty have Approved and Ratified all and every of the Articles and Clauses thereof as by these Presents We do Approve Ratifie and Declare them Valid against Us Our Heirs and Successors Promising and Obliging Our Selves upon the Word of a King to Fulfil and Observe Sincerely and Faithfully all Matters therein Contained And further to give the greater Credit and Force to this present Ratification We have caused it to be Sealed with the Great Seal of England Given at Our Palace at Loo in the Province of Guelderland the Twenty fifth of September in the Year of our Lord 1697. and in the Ninth of Our Reign Signed William Rex His Most Christian Majesties Ratification of the Peace LEwis by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre to all Persons to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas Our Trusty and Welbeloved Councellor in Ordinary Nicolas Augustus de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonneuil and Count of Cely Our Trusty and Welbeloved Lewis Verjus Knight Count of Crecy Marquis of Freon Baron of Couvay Lord of Boulay the two Churches Fort-Isle and Menillet and Our Trusty and Welbeloved Francis de Caillieres Knight Lord of Rochechellay and Gigny Our Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries by Virtue of full Powers granted them by Us have Concluded Agreed on and Signed a Peace on the 20 th of September last at Ryswick with Thomas Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery Baron Herbert and Cardiffe Keeper of the Privy Seal of England and Privy Councellor to Our Dearest and Welbeloved Brother the King of Great Britain and moreover one of the Lords Justices in the Kings Absence Edward Viscount Villers and Dartford Baron of Hoo Knight Marshal of England and one of the Justices of Ireland Robert Lord Lexington Baron of Averam and one of the Lords of the King of Great Britains Bed-Chamber and lastly Sir Joseph Williamson Knight one of His Britannick Majesties Privy Council and Keeper of the Records of Parliament Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries of Our said Brother the King of Great Britain for that purpose The Particulars whereof follow Here were Incerted the Articles at length Now We being well pleased with the abovesaid Treaty in every Point and Article thereof have as well for Our Self as for Our Heirs Successors Kingdoms Countreys Lands Lordships and Subjects Accepted Approved Ratified and Confirmed and by these Presents do Accept Approve Ratifie and Confirm the same and moreover do Promise on the Faith and Word of a King and under the Obligation and Mortage of all and every Our Goods present and to come that We will Observe and Keep Inviolable the said Treaty nor will ever Act any thing to the contrary either Directly or Indirectly in what manner or kind soever In Testimony whereof We have Signed these Presents with Our Hand and Affixed Our Royal Seal Given at Fontainebleau the Third day of October in the Year of our Lord 1697. and of Our Reign the 55. Signed Lewis And lower By the King Colbert Sealed with the great Seal of Yellow Wax Articles of Peace betwixt His Catholick Majesty and the Most Christian King Concluded at the Royal Palace of Ryswick the 10 20th September 1697. IN the Name of God and the Most Holy Trinity Be it known to All both present and to come that during the Course of the most Bloody War that ever afflicted Europe for these many Years past it has pleased the Divine Providence to prepare the End of the Miseries of Christendom by preserving an ardent Desire for Peace in the Hearts of the Most-High Most-Excellent and Mighty Prince Charles II. by the Grace of God Catholick King of Spain c. and of the Most High Most-Excellent and Mighty Prince Lewis XIV by the Grace of God the Most Christian King of France and Navarre who wishing equally and concurring heartily to contribute as far as in them lies to the Restoration of the Tranquility of Europe and having no other Aim than to make the said Peace firm and lasting by the Equity of its Conditions Their said Majesties have consented and agreed in the first Place to own the Mediation of the Most-High
Fief of Paradise these last being inclosed in the Tournaisis and the said Fief of Paradise as far as it depends upon the Village of Kain Havines Meles Mourcourt Kain the Mount of St. Audebert called the Trinity Fontenoy Maubray Hernieurs Calnelle and Viers with their Parishes Appurtenances and Dependencies without any reservation which shall remain in the Possession and Sovereignty of his most Christian Majesty the Province of Hainault still remaining in the Sovereignty of His Catholick Majesty except what has been yielded to his most Christian Majesty by the preceding Treaties VIII The Town of Courtray shall be restored to the Power Dominion Sovereignty and Possession of His Catholick Majesty in its present Condition with the Artillery that was found in it when last taken together with the Chastelenie of the said City its Appurtenances and Dependencies according to the Treaty of Nimeguen IX The said Lord the most Christian King shall likewise cause to be restored to His Catholick Majesty all the Towns Places Forts Castles and Posts which his Armies have or may have possessed themselves of until or since the Day of the Conclusion of the present Peace where and in what part of the World soever the same be Situated as in like manner the said Catholick Majesty shall restore to his most Christian Majesty all the Places Forts Castles and Posts wheresoever Situated which his Armies may have taken during this War till the Day of the Publication of this Peace X. All the Places Cities Towns Burroughs and Villages which the most Christian King has taken or re-united since the Treaty of Nimeguen in the Provinces of Luxemburg Namur Brabant Flanders Hainault and other Provinces of the Low-Countries according to the List of the said Re-unions delivered in by His Catholick Majesty at the proceedings of this Negotiation the Copy of which List is annexed to the present Treaty shall remain in the possession of His Catholick Majesty absolutely and for ever except the Places Towns Burroughs and Villages contained in the List of Exception which has likewise been Exhibited from his most Christian Majesty and are by him claimed upon account of the Dependencies of the Towns of Charlemont Maubeuge and others yielded to his most Christian Majesty by the Treaties of Aix la Chapelle and Nimeguen concerning which 82 Places before-mentioned the List of which are likewise annexed to the present Treaty it is agreed that immediately after the Signing of the present Treaty Commissioners shall be named on both sides as well to regulate in the possession of which of the two Kings the said 82 Towns Places Burroughs or Villages or any of them shall remain and belong to as to agree upon the Exchanges to be made for Places inclosed in the Dominions of one another and in case the said Commissioners shall not agree that then their Catholick and most Christian Majesties shall leave and refer the final Decision about them to the Judgment of their Lordships the States-General of the Vnited Provinces whom the said Lords Kings have reciprocally chosen for Arbitrators without lessening however the Power of the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the said Lords the Catholick and most Christian Kings to adjust those Matters amicably even before the Ratification of the present Treaty if possible by which means all Difficulties and Controversies both concerning the said Re-unions and Limits and Dependencies thereof shall be intirely removed and determined on both sides And upon that account an end shall be put to all Prosecutions Sentences Separations Incorporations Commissions Decrees Confiscations Re-unions Declarations Regulations Edicts and generally all Acts whatsoever made in the name and by order of the most Christian King by reason of the said Re-unions either by the Parliaments or Chamber settled at Mets or by any other Court of Judicature Intendants Commissions or Delegations against His Catholick Majesty and his Subjects and shall be revok'd and annull'd for ever as if they had never been Furthermore the Generality and Royalties of the said Provinces shall remain to his Catholick Majesty except all the Cities Towns and Places yielded to his most Christian Majesty by preceding Treaties with their Appurtenances and Dependencies XI All the Towns Cities Places Burroughs and Villages with their Appurtenances and Dependencies yielded and resigned by his most Christian Majesty in the foregoing Articles without any Reservation or Restriction shall return to the Possession of his Catholick Majesty to be by him enjoyed with all the Prerogatives Advantages Profits and Revenues to them belonging with the same Extent of Right Property Dominion and Sovereignty wherewith he enjoyed them before this late War at the time of and before the Treaties of Aix la Chapelle and Nimeguen and so as he may or ought to have enjoyed them XII The Restitution of the said Places shall be made by the said Lord the most Christian King in Reality and Honesty without Delay or Difficulty upon any Cause or Account whatsoever to him or them that shall be appointed for that purpose by the said Lord the Catholick King immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty without demolishing weakening diminishing or indamaging any thing any manner of way in the said Towns and without any Pretentions or Demands for the Charges of the Fortifications Publick Edifices and Buildings made in the said Places or for the Payment of what may remain due to the Soldiers and Men of War who shall be in them at the time of the said Restitution XIII The most Christian King shall cause to be taken and drawn out of the said Places which he restores to the Catholick King all the Artillery which his said Majesty has caused to be carried into the said Towns since they have been taken also all the Powder Bullets Arms Provisions and other Ammunition that shall be found in them when restored to the said Catholick Majesty and those whom the most Christian King shall appoint for that purpose shall be permitted the use of Waggons and Boats of the Country for the space of two Months and shall have a free Passage as well by Land as by Water to convey the said Ammunition into the nearest Place belonging to his most Christian Majesty The Governors Commanders Officers and Magistrates of the Places and Countries so restored shall procure all the Conveniencies that lies in their Power for the Carriage and Conveyance of the said Artillery and Ammunition As also it shall be lawful for the Officers Soldiers and Men of War that shall go out of the said Places to draw out of them and carry away all moveable Goods to them belonging but they shall not be suffered to exact any thing from the Inhabitants of the said Places and flat Country or to indamage the Houses or take away any thing belonging to the Inhabitants XIV All Prisoners of what Nature Condition soever they may be shall be set at Liberty on both Sides and without Ransom immediately after the Exchange of the Ratifications always provided that
their Expences and other lawful Debts shall be answered and paid And if any Persons shall have been sent to the Gallies of their said Majesties on the Occasion and through the Misfortune of the said Wars only they shall be speedily released and set at Liberty without any Delay or Hindrance upon any Cause or Account whatsoever and without demanding or exacting any thing for their Ransom or Expences XV. By Means and Virtue of this Peace and strict Friendship all the Subjects of both Kings observing the Laws Statutes and Customs of the Land shall be permitted to go to come and return to Continue Trade Treat and Negotiate together throughout their respective Countries either as Traders or as they shall think fit as well by Land as by Sea and on fresh Waters and those Subjects thus Trading or Corresponding shall be protected and defended in the respective Countries of the said Kings as if they were their own Subjects provided they pay the lawful Duties according to the Custom of each Place or such other Impositions that may hereafter be laid by the said Kings or their Successors XVI All Papers Letters and Instructions concerning the Countries Lands and Lordships that shall be yielded and restored to the said Lords Kings by this present Treaty shall be exhibited and delivered with Honesty on both sides within the space of three Months after the Exchange of the Ratifications of the present Treaty in what Places soever the said Papers and Instructions may be found and even those that may have been taken away out of the Cittadel of Ghent and the Chamber of Accompts at Lisle XVII The Contributions laid or demanded on both Sides Reprisals Exactions of Forage Corn Wood Cattel Utensils and all other sorts of Impositions upon the Countries of the said respective Sovereigns shall cease immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty and no Arrears or Parts thereof that may be due shall be reciprocally exacted on either Side upon any Title or Pretence whatsoever XVIII All Subjects on both Sides either Ecclesiastical or Secular Corporations Communities Universities and Colleges shall be restored as well to the Possession of the Honours Dignities and Benefices which they enjoyed before the War as to the free Enjoyment of all and every of their Rights Estates Moveables Rents of Redemption whose Capital is still in being and Annuities for Life seized and possessed since the said time as well upon Account of the present War as for having followed the adverse Party together with their Rights Actions and Successions to them fallen ever since the beginning of the War but without claiming or demanding the Fruits and Revenues received and expired during this War from the first seizing of the said Estates Rents and Benefices to the Day of the Publication of the present Treaty XIX Neither shall it be lawful to demand or claim any Debts Effects or Moveables that shall have been confiscated before the Day aforesaid and the Creditors of such Debts and Trustees of the said Goods their Heirs or Assigns shall never prosecute or demand the Recovery of the same which Restorations in Form aforesaid shall extend to those that have follow'd the adverse Party so that by Means of the present Treaty they shall be received and admitted into the gracious Favour of their Prince and Sovereign and restored to the Possession of their Goods such as shall be found in being at the Conclusion and Signing of the present Treaty XX. The said Restoration of the Subjects on both Sides shall be put in Execution according to the Tenor and Contents of the 21st and 22d Articles of the Treaty of Nimeguen notwithstanding all Gifts Concessions Declarations Confiscations Commissions preparatory and final Sentences given and obtained by Default in the absences of and without hearing of the Parties which Sentences and Jugdments shall become void and of no effect as if they never had been given and pronounced with full and intire Power to the said Parties to return to the Countries from which they had formerly withdrawn to enjoy in Person their Estates and Moveables Rents and Revenues or to settle their Habitations out of the said Countries in what Place soever they shall think convenient which is left to their free Choice and Election so that no Constraint shall be laid upon them on that Account and in case they had rather to live elsewhere it shall be lawful for them to appoint and depute such trusty Persons as they shall think fit for the management and enjoyment of their Estates Rents and Revenues tho' not for Benefices where Residence is required which therefore ought to be personally administred and served XXI The Twenty fifth and Twenty sixth Articles of the Treaty of Nimeguen concerning Benefices shall be put in Execution and pursuant to them those that have had Benefices conferred upon them by either of the two Kings who when the said Collation was made possessed the Towns or Countries wherein the said Benefices are situated shall be maintained and continued in the Possession and Enjoyment of the said Benefices XXII The Subjects on both Sides shall be permitted and have full Power and Liberty to Sell Exchange Alienate or otherwise dispose either by Deed of Conveyance or by Last Will of their Goods and Effects moveable and unmoveable which they have or shall have situated in the Dominions of the other Sovereign and it shall be lawful for every one to purchase them without any other Grant Permission or Act whatsoever for such a Sale or Purchase than this present Treaty XXIII Whereas there are Rents assigned upon the generality of some Provinces part of which are possessed by his Catholick and the other by his most Christian Majesty it is covenanted and agreed That every one shall pay his Quota and Commissioners shall be named to regulate the Portion which each of the said Lords Kings shall pay XXIV All Rents lawfully settled upon or due from the Demeans of the Lands yielded by former Treaties and the Payment of which shall be made appear in the Accompts brought in before the Chambers of Accompts by the Receivers of their Catholick and most Christian Majesties before the said Concessions shall be paid by their said Majesties to the Creditors of the said Rents under what Dominion soever they may be either Spanish French or of any other Nation without distinction XXV And as by the present Treaty a good and firm Peace is made as well by Sea as by Land between the said Lords Kings in all their Kingdoms Countries Lands Provinces and Lordships and that upon account of the same all Hostilities are to cease for the future it is stipulated That if any Ships or Merchandises shall be taken on either side in the Baltick or North Seas from Terneuze in Norway to the end of the Channel within the space of four Weeks from the end of the said Channel as far as Cape St. Vincent within the space of six Weeks and beyond that in the Mediterranean
Sea and as far as the Aequinoctial Line within the space of ten Weeks Lastly beyond the said Line throughout the whole World within the space of eight Months to be reckoned from the Publication of the present Treaty the said Prizes that shall be taken on either side after the prefixed Time shall be restored with a recompence for all Damages sustained thereby XXVI In case of a Rupture which God forbid the whole space of six Months shall be allowed to the Subjects of both of the said Kings to carry away and transport their Effects and Persons whithersoever they shall think fit which they shall be permitted to do with all manner of Liberty without any Molestation and it shall not be lawful during the said time to seize their said Effects and much less arrest their Persons XXVII The Troops and Armies on both sides shall withdraw and retire immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty to the Lands and Countries of their own Sovereigns and into the Towns and Places that shall respectively belong to and remain in the possession of Their Majesties after or according to the present Treaty and it shall not be lawful for them to continue upon any pretence soever in the Countries of the other Sovereign or in the Places that shall likewise hereafter to him belong and remain And immediately after the Signing of this present Treaty there shall be a Cessation of Arms and all Hostilities throughout the Dominions of the said Lords Kings as well by Land as by Sea and on fresh Waters XXVIII It is also agreed That the Receipt of the Duties which the said Lord the most Christian King enjoys in all the Countries which he resigns or restores to the said Lord the Catholick King shall be continued till the Day of the actual restitution of the Places upon which the said Countries depend and that what shall remain due at the time of the said restitution shall be honestly paid to the Farmers of the said Duties Likewise that within the same time the Owners of Woods confiscated in the Dependencies of the Places that are to be resign'd to his Catholick Majesty shall be restored to the Possession of their Estates and all the Woods that shall be found standing always provided That from the Day of the Signing of the present Treaty all selling of Wood shall cease on both Sides XXIX The Treaty of Nimeguen and others made before it shall be put in Execution according to their Form and Tenor except in those Points and Articles that have been before derogated to or altered now by the present Treaty XXX All Prosecutions and Processes made and Judgments given between private Persons by the Judges and other Officers of his most Christian Majesty Established as well in the places which the said King has enjoyed by Virtue of the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle and which he has since yielded to His Catholick Majesty as in those that belong to the most Christian King by Virtue of the Treaty of Nimeguen or which he has possessed since the said Treaty and likewise the Sentences of the Parliament of Tournay given upon the account of the Differences and Law Suits prosecuted by the Inhabitants of the said Towns and their Dependences during the time they have been under the Obedience of his most Christian Majesty shall take place and have their effect fully and intirely in the same manner as if the said Lord King remained Lord and Possessor of the said Towns and Countries neither shall the said Judgments and Sentences be called in question and annulled or their Execution otherwise hindred or retarded However it shall be lawful for the Parties to Sue for Redress by Bill of Review and according to the Laws and Constitutions the said Judgments still remaining in their force and vigor without any Derogation to what is stipulated to that purpose in the 21st Article of the said Treaty of Nimeguen XXXI The Town and Castle of Dinant shall by his most Christian Majesty be resigned and restored to the Bishop and Prince of Liege in the Condition they were in when taken by His Majesties Arms. XXXII His most Christian Majesty having exprest a Desire that the Isle of Ponza in the Mediterranean Sea should be restored to the Duke of Parma His Catholick Majesty in Compliance thereto has been pleased to declare That he will cause the Soldiers and Troops which he may have in the said Island to withdraw from thence and restore the same to the Power and Possession of the said Duke of Parma immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty XXXIII And whereas it greatly concerns the publick Tranquility that the Peace concluded at Turin on the 22d of August 1696. betwixt his most Christian Majesty and his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy be also exactly observed It has been thought fit to confirm and comprehend the same in the present Treaty in all its Articles such as are contained in the Copy Signed and Sealed by the Plenipotentiaries of Savoy which shall be annexed to the present Treaty For the performance of which Treaty and of the present their said Majesties Promise to become Guarantees for the said Royal Highness as he may become for them XXXIV Their said Majesties gratefully acknowledging the good Offices and constant Endeavours which have been employed by the most Serene King of Sueden for the Restoration of the Tranquility of Europe have agreed That his Suedish Majesty his Kingdoms and States shall be included and comprehended in the present Treaty in the best Form and Manner that can be XXXV Under this Peace Alliance and Friendship shall be comprehended all those that shall be named on both Sides with common Consent before the Exchange of the Ratifications and within the space of six Months after XXXVI The said Lords the Catholick and most Christian Kings consent and agree That his Suedish Majesty in quality of Mediator and all other Kings Princes and Republicks that shall be willing to enter into the same Engagement may give to their Majesties their Promises and Deeds of Warranty for the Execution of all that is contained in the present Treaty XXXVII And for the greater Security and Confirmation of this Treaty of Peace and all the Articles in it contained the present Treaty shall be published verified and registred as well in the great Council and other Councils and Chamber of Accompts of the said Lord the Catholick K. in the Low-Countries as in the other Councils of the Crowns of Castille and Arragon the Whole according to and in the Form contained in the Treaty of Nimeguen of the Year 1678. And likewise the said Treaty shall be published verified and registred in the Court of Parliament of Paris and in all other Parliaments of the Kingdom of France and Chamber of Accompts of the said Paris and Copies of the said Publications and Registrings shall be exhibited and delivered on both Sides within the space of three Months after the Publication of
Count of Tirimont one of my Council in Flanders and of that of State and Privy Council in those Countries and the Ministers of the most Christian King my most Dear and most beloved Brother and Cousin with their respective Powers as it concerned every one of them upon a separate Article which shall be here inserted word for word and is as follows Here was inserted the separate Article And this Article having been perused and examined I have resolved to approve and ratifie it as by virtue of these Presents I do approve and ratifie the same in the best and most perfect form that I can And I promise upon the Faith and Word of a King fully and intirely to perform it according to the Contents of it to which purpose I have ordered these Presents Signed with my own Hands Sealed with my privy Seal and Counter-signed by my Secretary of State to be dispatched Given at Madrid the 8th of October 1697. Yo El Rey. Don Crispin Gonsales Botello Ratification of his Most Christian Majesty LEWIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre To all those to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas our beloved and trusty Counsellor in Ordinary in our Council of State Nicolas Augustus de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonneuil Count of Cely our dear and well-beloved Lewis Verjus Knight Count of Crecy Marquis of Freon Baron of Couvay Lord of Boulay The two Churches Fort-Isle and Menillet and our dear and well-beloved Francis de Caillieres Knight Lord of Roche-Chellay and Gigny our Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassadors by Virtue of the full Powers we had given them have concluded agreed and signed on the 20th Day of September last past at Ryswick with Don Francisco Bernardo de Quiros Kt. of the Order of St. James Counsellor to our most dear and most beloved Brother the King of Spain in his Royal and Supream Council of Castille and Lewis Alexander de Schockart Count of Tirimont Baron of Gaesbeck one of the supream Council of State of the Low-Countries in Madrid and of that of State and Privy Council in the same Countries Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassadors of our said Brother the King of Spain having also their full Powers the Treaty of Peace the Tenor of which is as follows Here was inserted the Treaty of Peace We liking and approving the said Treaty in all and every one of the Points and Articles therein contained and expressed have accepted approved ratified and confirmed and we do accept approve ratifie and confirm the same as well for our Selves as for our Heirs Successors Kingdoms Countries Lands Lordships and Subjects all which we promise upon the Faith and Word of a King and under the Obligation and Mortgage of all and every one of our Estates present and to come inviolably to keep and observe and never to Act contrary to it directly or indirectly in any sort or manner whatsoever In Testimony whereof we have Signed these Presents with our own Hand and caused them to be Sealed with our Seal Given at Fontainebleau the 3d Day of October in the Year of our Lord 1697. and of our Reign the 55th Signed LEWIS By the King Colbert Ratification of the Separate Article by his Most Christian Majesty LEWIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre to all those to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Having perused and examined the Separate Article which our beloved and trusty Counsellors in Ordinary in our Council of State Nicolas Augustus de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonneuil Count of Cely our dear and well beloved Lewis Verjus Knight Count of Crecy Marquis of Freon Baron of Couvay Lord of Boulay The two Churches Fort-Isle and Menillet and our dear and well beloved Francis de Caillieres Knight Lord of Roche-Chellay and Gigny our Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassadors by Virtue of the full Powers we had given them have concluded agreed and signed on the 20th Day of September last past at Ryswick with Don Francisco Bernardo de Quiros Knight of the Order of St. James Counsellor to our most dear and most beloved Brother the King of Spain in his Royal and Supream Council of Castille and Lewis Alexander de Schockart Count of Tirimont Baron of Gaesbeck one of the supream Council of State of the Low-Countries in Madrid of that of State and Privy Council in the same Countries Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassadors of our said Brother the King of Spain having also their full Powers The Tenor of which Article is as follows Here was inserted the Separate Article We liking and approving the said Separate Article in all its Contents have allowed approved and ratified and we do allow approve and ratifie the same by these Presents Signed with our own Hand And we promise upon the Faith and Word of a King to perform and observe it and cause it to be observed really and sincerely and never to suffer any thing to it contrary to be done directly or indirectly upon any Cause or Account whatsoever In Testimony whereof We have Signed these Presents and caused them to be Sealed with our Seal Given at Fontainebleau the 3d Day of October in the Year of our Lord 1697. and of our Reign the 55th LEWIS By the King Colbert A List and Declaration of the Re-unions made by his Most Christian Majesty in the Provinces of His Catholick Majesty in the Low-Countries since the Treaty of Nimeguen Province of Luxemburgh FRANCE has possess'd it self of the Capital City of that Name and of 35 Villages and Hamlets called Villages of the Provost As also of the Provostship of Luxemburgh consisting in three Bans of Justice to wit Kundzigh or Clemenci Putlange and Pettinguen Of three Land-mayories which are Bettembourg Santweiler and Reeklen And three Mayories Steinsel Lingtgen Schiteringen consisting together in 71 either Villages or Hamlets Of the Castle Burrough and Lordship of Rodenmacheren together with 25 Villages depending upon them Of the Castle and Lordship of Hesperange with Four Villages Of Raville and its Dependencies which consist in 17 Villages Of the Castle and County of Russy which contains Eleven Villages Of the Lordship of Russy with Five Villages Of the Castle and Ban of Justice of Putlange consisting in 15 Villages Of the Castle and Lordship of Preisch containing Two Villages Of the Castle of Agimont with it 's two Burroughs of Givet and the Hamlets depending on the same Of the Lordship of Vilreux Walrand Of the Lands and Lordships of the County of Rochefort with Four Villages Of the Castle and Provostship Dorcymont containing Vienne and 20 other Villages and 10 Lordships inclosed in them Of the Lordships of Chasse-Pierre Riviere Fontenoylle Saint Cecil Lesche-les-Manile Lugnon le Bertrisse Ban of Orio Marpon Dochamps Herbeumont the Ban of Butailles the Ban of Musson Of the County of Montaign with 13 Villages and Hamlets Of Cheflieu and Provostship of St. Marde with 16 Villages Of the Castle and Lordship of Lathour Montquintin la
on which France has kept by the said Treaty of Truce all the Places She had Possessed herself of since the Treaty of Nimeguen which particular Treaty concluded during the said Truce at the said Philippe-Ville will now cease by Virtue of the Treaty now proposed Hainault THE Principality and Provostship of Chimay with the Villages Hamlets and Rights to them belonging viz. The Town of Chimay St. Remy Forges Bourlez Boutonville Bailievre Villers-la-Tour Sceloigne Robechies Bauwez Montmignies Macon Imbrechies Monceau Salles Baileux Vielles Lompret Estroeing la Cauchie and its Hamlets Feron La Roulie The Provostship of Beaumont with its Appendencies and Dependencies which consist in The Town of Beaumont Bersillies De Leval Tirimont Solre St. Gery Grandieu and Fralies Sivry Froidchapelle and Fourbechies Rance Monbliart Cerfontaine Ferieres the Great Ferieres the Less Rosier Beaufort and Robechies Grandreng Rocque Leunies The Town of Chieuries Villages seized upon and Possessed PArt of the Burrough of Antoin Fontenoy Veron Vaux Moinbray and Brasmanil The Villages of Maulde Pipaix Gissignies in Pipaix Rocourt Wermes the Parish of Wieres Ogimont Seigneurieul Little Quesnoy-a-Potters Bourgeon the Parish of Fontenay Grammetz and Fermont in the Parish of Thieulain part of Anthoin reputed a Free-Tenure the Breuch-a-foret Mourcourt Herines Wasmes and Lignette The Town of Fontaine l'Eveque the Village of Thiverelles and 600 Acres or thereabouts in Meadows The Villages of Anderlues the Abbey of Aumont and Boussiere with the Farms of Warnenrieux Foret and the Farm in the Woods Flanders THE Town of Ranaix The Town of Loo The Town of Roulers And the Villages of Meuregem Watervliet Vendeville Temptemars Billau and the Castle of la Motte in the Woods with its Tenements Wood of Nieppe Wood of d'Osthulft Brabant THE Estate of Ayseau with its Dependencies which consist in several Hamlets particularly in that of Oignies with the Cloister of the same Name and part of the Village of Monceau The Minister of His Catholick Majesty demands the Restitution of all and every one of the Places above-mentioned and others which his Most Christian Majesty has or may have possessed himself of since the Treaty of Nimeguen altho' they be not here exprest and specified and that His Catholick Majesty be restored to the real and actual Possession of the same as he enjoyed them before the said Treaty of Nimeguen all this without derogating to His Catholick Majesties Title to the other Re-unions of France which have not been yielded to the Most Christian King by the said Treaty of Nimeguen or any former Treaty A List of Exception of the Places which the Ambassadors of France have pretended to retain THE Town of Chieures Part of the Burrough of Antoin Fontenoy Vezon Vaux Maubray Bramenil Maude Pipay Gissignies in Pipay Rocour Wermes Parish of Vieres Ogimont Seigneurieul Little Quesnoy a Potes Bourgeon Parish of Fontenoy Granmets Fermont Parish of Thieulain Le Breuech of forestes Maircourt Herinnes Wames Lignette Tiuicelles with 600 Aores in Medows Renaix The Town of Loo The Town of Roulers The Village of Meuregem The Burrough of Watervliet The Village of Templemars The hamlet of Wandeville Billau The Castle of la Motte in the Wood with its Tenements The Wood of Nieppe The Wood of Outhuest Dependencies of Charlemont A Gimont Givets St. Hilaire Givets our Lady Vosneche Felaine Dion le Mont Dion le Val Winenne Landrichamp Finevaux Feischaux Ferauche Javeingue Aviette Charneux Flohimont Fromelaine Felix Pret an Abby of Nuns Remethon upon Bierre Sevry Gauchenee Her Herlet Lisicourt Ransenne Mahoux Maison Saille Mainil St. Blaise Vireux the Wallerand Villersies Rienne Boursoigne the Old Boursoigne the New Hargnies Hebbes Vaussors Abbey and the two Hastires Ermeton upon the Meuse Mattignol Romeree Bertee Festin Dependencies on the Provostship of Maubeuge TIrimont Bersilles Abbey Le Val below Beaumont Cerfontaine Roq upon the Sambre Estrun Le Feron La Voulie Beaufort Aumont Abbey Boissiere Treaty of Peace betwixt France and the Duke of Savoy THE Most Christian King having had all a long during the Course of this War a sincere desire of procuring the Repose of Italy and God having inspired his Royal Highness of Savoy with the same Sentiments His Majesty on his part has given his full Power Commission and Command to Rene Lord of Froullai Count of Tesse Knight of His Majesties Orders Lieutenant General of his Armies Colonel General of the Dragoons of France Governor of Ypres Lieutenant General for the King in the Provinces of Maine and Perche and at this time Commander for His Majesty in the Countries and Places of the Frontier of Piedmont and his Royal Highness on his part having likewise given his Powers and Commands to Charles Victor Joseph Marquis of St. Thomas Minister and first Secretary of State to his said Royal Highness the said Plenipotentiaries having first interchanged the Originals of their full Powers by Virtue of which they treat have agreed upon the following Articles I. THere shall be henceforward and for ever a constant firm and sincere Peace between the King and his Kingdom and his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy and his Dominions as if there had never been any Rupture and the King resuming the same kind Thoughts he had before for his said Royal Highness as he begs it of his Majesty his said Royal Highness does by this present Treaty entirely renounce and forsake all Engagements entred into and all Treaties made with the Emperor Kings and Princes comprehended under the Name of the League And promises to use all his Endeavours and do all that lies in his Power to obtain of the said Potentates at least of the Emperor and the Catholick King a Neutrality in Italy till the General Peace Either by a particular Treaty that shall be concluded or in default of the said Treaty by Declarations which the said Emperor and Catholick King shall make to the Pope and the Republick of Venice and which shall immediately be followed by the Retreat of the Troops which the Allies have at present in Italy as it shall be exprest hereafter Moreover as an evident Testimony of the real and effectual return of the King's Friendship for his Royal Highness His Majesty is pleased to consent and promise That the Town and Cittadel of Pignerol with the Forts St. Brigide la Perouse and others belonging to them shall be rased and demolished as to the Fortifications only at the King's Charges and the said Fortifications being demolished the whole shall be resigned into the Hands of his Royal Highness as also the Lands and Demains comprehended under the name of Government of Pignerol and which belonged to the House of Savoy before the Concession That Victor Amedaeus first Duke of that Name had made of them to the King Lewis XIII Which Town Cittadel and Fort thus demolished and Territory to them belonging shall likewise be restored to his Royal Highness to be held by him in Sovereignty and enjoyed fully and for ever both by him and his
King of France and Navarre to all those to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas our beloved and trusty Counsellor in Ordinary in our Council of State Nicolas Augustus de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonneuil Count of Cely our dear and well beloved Lewis Verjus Knight Count of Crecy Marquiss of Treon Baron of Couvay Lord of Boulay the Two Churches Fort-Isle and Menillet and our dear and well beloved Francis de Caillieres Knight Lord of Roche-Chellay and Gigny our Plenipotentiaries and Extraordinary Ambassadors by virtue of the full Power we had given them have concluded agreed and signed on the 20th Day of September last past at Ryswick with Anthony Heinsius Counsellor Pensionary of the States of Holland and West-Friesland Keeper of the Great Seal and Superintendent of the Fiefs of the same Province Everhard de Weede Lord of Weede Dyckvelt Rateles c. Lord of the Mannor of the Town of Oudewater Dean and Rector of the imperial Chapter of St. Mary in Vtrecht Dyckgrave of the River Rhine in the Province of Vtrecht President of the States of the said Province and William de Haren Grietman of Bilt Deputy for the Nobility in the States of Friesland and Curator of the University of Franeker Deputies in their Assembly for the States of Holland Vtrecht and Friesland in quality of Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of our most dear and great Friends the States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries also provided with full Powers for the Treaty of Peace the Tenor of which is as follows In the Name of God c. We liking and approving the said Treaty of Peace in all and every one of the Points and Articles therein contained and expressed have accepted approved ratified and confirmed and we do accept approve ratify and confirm the same as well for us as for our Heirs Successors Kingdoms Countries Lands Lordships and Subjects And we do promise upon the Faith and Word of a King under the Obligation and Mortgage of all and every one of our Estates both present and to come inviolably to keep and observe the same without ever acting or doing any thing to them contrary directly or indirectly in no manner whatsoever In Testimony whereof We have signed these Presents with our own Hand and caused them to be sealed with our Seal Given at Fontainebleau the third Day of October in the Year of our Lord 1697. and of our Reign the 55th Signed LEWIS And a little lower By the King Signed COLBERT The Ratification of their Lordships the States General of the Vnited Provinces of the Low-Countries upon the Treaty of Peace and Friendship THE States General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries to all those to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Having perused and examined the Treaty of Peace and Friendship made and concluded at Ryswick in Holland on the 20th of September in the present Year 1697. by Nicolas Augustus de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonneuil Count of Celi Counsellor in ordinary to His most Christian Majesty in his Council of State Lewis Verjus Knight Count of Crecy Counsellor in ordinary to His Majesty in his Council of State Marquiss of Treon Baron of Couvay Lord of Boulay the Two Churches Fort-Isle Menillet and other Places and Francis de Caillieres Knight Lord of Caillieres Roche-chellay and Gigny Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of His most Christian Majesty in the Assembly of Ryswick in the Name and from His said Majesty And by Anthony Heinsius Counsellor Pensionary of the States of Holland and West-Friesland Keeper of the Great Seal and Superintendent of the Fiefs of the same Province Everhard de Weede Lord of Weede Dyckvelt Rateles and other Places Lord of the Mannor of the Town of Oudewater Dean and Rector of the imperial Chapter of St. Mary in Vtrecht Dyckgrave of the River Rhine in the Province of Vtrecht President of the States of the same Province and William de Haren Grietman of Bilt Deputy for the Nobility in the States of Friesland and Curator of the University of Franeker Deputies in our Assembly for the States of Holland Vtrecht and Friesland our Extraordinary Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries in the said Assembly of Ryswick in our Name and from us by virtue of their respective full Powers the Tenor of which Treaty is as follows In the Name of God c. And whereas by the said Treaty it is provided that the Letters of Ratification shall be delivered in on both Sides in good and due form within the time of three Weeks or sooner if possible to be reckoned from the Day on which the Treaty was signed We being willing to give Proofs of our Sincerity and acquit the promises which our Ambassadors have made for us we have approved confirmed and ratified and we do approve confirm and ratify by these Presents the said Treaty and every one of its Articles abovementioned and transcribed and do we faithfully and sincerely Promise inviolably to keep maintain and observe the same in all its particulars without ever acting or doing any thing to it contrary directly or indirectly upon any account or in any manner whatsoever In Testimony whereof we have caused these Presents to be Signed by the President of our Assembly Countersigned by our Secretary and sealed with our Great Seal Done at the Hague the 10th of October 1697. The Ratification of his Most Christian Majesty upon the Separate Article LEWIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre to all those to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Having perused and examined the Separate Article which our beloved and trusty Counsellor in Ordinary in our Council of State Nicolas Augustus de Harlay Knight Lord of Bonneuil Count of Cely Our dear and well-beloved Lewis Verjus Knight Count of Crecy Marquis of Treon Baron of Couvay Lord of Boulay the Two Churches Fort-Isle and Menillet and our dear and well beloved Francis de Caillieres Knight Lord of Caillieres Roche-chellay and Gigny our Plenipotentiaries and Extraordinary Ambassadors by Virtue of the full Powers We had given them have concluded agreed and signed on the 20th Day of September last past at Ryswick with Anthony Heinsius Counsellor Pensionary of the Province of Holland and West-Friesland Keeper of the Great Seal and Super-intendent of the Fiefs Everhard de Weede Lord of Weede Dyckvelt Rateles c. Lord of the Mannor of the Town of Oudewater Dean and Rector of the Imperial Chapter of St. Mary in Vtrecht Dyckgrave of the River Rhine in the Province of Vtrecht President of the States of the said Province and William de Haren Grietman of Bilt Deputy for the Nobility in the States of Friesland and Curator of the University of Francker and Deputies in their Assembly for the States of Holland Vtrecht and Friesland in Quality of Plenipotentiaries and Extraordinary Ambassadors of our most dear and great Friends the States-General of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries also provided with full Powers of which
which he has taken upon him till the end of August next but that if within that time his Enemies do not conclude the Peace he will be freed from Engagement and at liberty to treat anew after so much Expence and Bloodshed upon such other Articles as he shall judge suitable to the posture of his Affairs and to the Welfare of Christendom The Memorial of the Ambassadors of the most Christian King for the General Peace deliver'd to the Ambassador Mediator Septemb. 1. 1697. at the Palace of Ryswick THE happy Successes with which it has pleas'd God to bless the Undertakings of the King in this Campagn might give his Majesty a very just occasion of reducing within a narrow compass the Overtures which he has made for the Peace the Term which he fix'd for the accepting of his Propositions being expir'd leaves him at his full Liberty so that he might very well propose new Articles but the same desire which he always had of putting an end to the Miseries of Christendom is still the only Rule which he proposes to himself and his Majesty is pleas'd to make no farther use of the Advantages he has had than for the more speedy re-establishment of the Quiet of Europe 'T is with this design that the King declares that tho' his Majesty was free from his Engagements at the end of August tho' he is very sensible what Benefit he could reap from the Conquest of Barcelona and from other Events of the War yet the sole Interest which influences and weighs most with him is the universal Welfare of Europe that for the promoting thereof by a speedy Peace his Majesty makes use of that Liberty which he has at present only to alter such of the Articles which he has propos'd as seem to retard the Publick Tranquility Upon this account his Majesty forbears offering to the Emperor the choice of taking Strasburgh or the Equivalent propos'd for that City he is resolv'd to keep it and no farther mention shall be made of an Alternative Equivalent at the same time he promises that this Alteration which he thought requisite to determine the Emperor shall make no change in the other Conditions which he formerly offer'd for the keeping of Strasburgh and consequently that Town and the Citadel in the condition they now are shall be for ever annex'd to his Crown with the Dependencies of Strasburgh on this side the Rhine such as are on the other side of that River shall be restor'd to their proper Owners with the same Rights and the same Prerogatives which they formerly enjoy'd That the Fort of Keil shall be restor'd to the Emperor and Empire in the same Condition as it is at present That the Forts of the City of the Islands in the Rhine shall be raz'd That the Cities of Friburgh Brisack and Philipsburgh shall be restor'd by his Majesty to the Emperor upon the same Conditions set down in the Project deliver'd in by his Majesty's Ambassadors Extraordinary to the Ambassador Mediator of Sweden That those Articles which specifie the Restitution of Lorrain in the same Condition as Duke Charles possessed it in the year 1670. with the Clauses therein explain'd and which his Majesty has thought necessary for the maintenance of the Peace shall be punctually put in Execution That lastly for rendring the Peace solid and to assure the Empire that his Majesty's only desire is to preserve it he promises to demolish and abandon the Fortresses which he possesses on the other side the Rhine to pull down the Bridges made by his Orders upon the River reserving only part of the Bridge of Fort Lewis on the Rhine which leads from Alsace to the Fort That he on the other hand demands that the Bridge of Philipsburgh be broken down the Fort rais'd at the end of that Bridge on the side of France demolish'd and that the Rhine being for the future the just Barrier between the Territories of both the Avenues of his Kingdom shall be shut up at the same time that his Majesty makes it appear that he is not willing to reserve any Passage whereby to carry the War into Germany Lastly His Majesty adds to those considerable Overtures which he makes for the keeping of Strasburgh the Restitution of Barcelona which his Majesty promises to restore to the King of Spain assoon as he has the Consent of the Emperor and Empire for the Surrender of Strasburgh and this is all the use which his Majesty pretends to make of the Conquest of one of the most considerable Towns in the Spanish Monarchy His Majesty proposes no Alterations in the Articles by which he offer'd to Treat with the Catholick King and is perswaded that this Prince being sensible of the Moderation which he shews towards him will not insist upon the Demand of a few Villages in the Seigniory of Aeth requisite for the more easie Commerce of the Inhabitants of Tournay and for the Communication of that City with the Town of Condé and that his Majesty pretends to reserve to himself all the Advantages he can reap from the taking of Aeth But whereas it is not reasonable that his Majesty shall be always oblig'd to Sacrifice such considerable Advantages to the good of the Peace he declares that if his Enemies defer taking advantage of those new Expedients which he is pleas'd to offer for the Conclusion of the Treaties shall exceed the term which he hereby gives them of the 20 th of September to accept of his Proposals he will then be at liberty to propose new Conditions and the Miseries of the War are to be charg'd only on those who refuse to concur with his Majesty to the putting an end to them Deliver'd to his Excellency the Mediator Sept. 1. 1697. Articles of Peace between the most Serene and Mighty Prince WILLIAM the Third King of Great Britain and the most Serene and Mighty Prince LEWIS the Fourteenth the most Christian King Concluded in the Royal Palace at Ryswicke the 10 20th Day of September 1697. I. THAT there be an Universal Perpetual Peace and a True and Sincere Friendship between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince William the Third King of Great Britain and the most Serene and Mighty Prince Lewis the Fourteenth the most Christian King Their Heirs and Successors and between the Kingdoms States and Subjects of Both and that the same be so Sincerely and Inviolably Observed and Kept that the One shall Promote the Interest Honour and Advantage of the Other and that on both sides a Faithful Neighbourhood and True observation of Peace and Friendship may daily Flourish and Encrease II. That all Enmities Hostilities Discords and Wars between the said King of Great Britain and the most Christian King and Their Subjects Cease and be Abolished so that on both sides They Forbear and Abstain hereafter from all Plundring Depredation Harm-doing Injuries and Infestation whatsoever as well by Land as by Sea and on Fresh Waters every where and especially throughout all