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... That there shall be on the one side and the other
a perpetual Oblivion, Amnesty, or Pardon of all that has been committed
since the beginning of these Troubles, in what place, or what manner soever
the Hostilitys have been practis’d, in such a manner, that no body, under
any pretext whatsoever, shall practice any Acts of Hostility, entertain
any Enmity, or cause any Trouble to each other; neither as to Persons,
Effects and Securitys, neither of themselves or by others, neither privately
nor openly, neither directly nor indirectly, neither under the colour of
Right, nor by the way of Deed, either within or without the extent of the
Empire, notwithstanding all Covenants made before to the contrary: That
they shall not act, or permit to be acted, any wrong or injury to any whatsoever;
but that all that has pass’d on the one side, and the other, as well before
as during the War, in Words, Writings, and Outrageous Actions, in Violences,
Hostilitys, Damages and Expences, without any respect to Persons or Things,
shall be entirely abolish’d in such a manner that all that might be demanded
of, or pretended to, by each other on that behalf, shall be bury’d in eternal
Oblivion. ...
... As for the finding out of equitable and expedient
means, whereby the Prosecution of Actions against Debtors, ruin’d by the
Calamitys of the War, or charg’d with too great Interests, and whereby
these Matters may be terminated with moderation, to obviate greater inconveniences
which might arise, and to provide for the publick Tranquillity; His Imperial
Majesty shall take care to hearken as well to the Advices of his Privy
Council, as of the Imperial Chamber, and the States which are to be assembled,
to the end that certain firm and invariable Constitutions may be made about
this Matter And in the mean time the alledg’d Reasons and Circumstances
of the Partys shall be well weigh’d in Cases brought before the Sovereign
Courts of the Empire, or Subordinate ones of States and no body shall be
oppress’d by immoderate Executions; and ail this without prejudice to the
Constitution of Holstein. ...