That the most Christian
King shall be bound to
leave not only the Bishops of Strasburg and Basle, with the City of Strasburg,
but also the other
States or
Orders, Abbots of Murbach and Luederen, who
are in the one and the other Alsatia, immediately depending upon the Roman
Empire; the Abess of Andlavien, the Monastery of St. Bennet in the Valley
of St. George, the Palatines of Luzelstain, the Counts and Barons of Hanaw,
Fleckenstein, Oberstein, and all the
nobility of Lower Alsatia; Item, the
said ten
Imperial Citys, which depend on the Mayory of Haganoc, in the
Liberty and
Possession they have enjoy’d hitherto, to arise as immediately
dependent upon the Roman Empire; so that he cannot pretend any
Royal Superiority
over them, but shall
rest contented with the
Rights which appertain’d to
the
House of
Austria, and which by this present
Treaty of Pacification,
are yielded to the Crown of
France. In such a
manner, nevertheless, that
by the present
Declaration, nothing is intended that shall derogate from
the
Sovereign Dominion already hereabove
agreed to.