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... As to their Estates that have been lost by Confiscation
or otherways, before they took the part of the Crown of France, or of Swedeland,
notwithstanding the Plenipotentiarys of Swedeland have made long instances,
they may be also restor’d. Nevertheless his Imperial Majesty being to receive
Law from none, and the Imperialists sticking close thereto, it has not
been thought convenient by the States of the Empire, that for such a Subject
the War should be continu’d: And that thus those who have lost their Effects
as aforesaid, cannot recover them to the prejudice of their last Masters
and Possessors. But the Estates, which have been taken away by reason of
Arms taken for France or Swedeland, against the Emperor and the House of
Austria, they shall be restor’d in the State they are found, and that without
any Compensation for Profit or Damage. ...
... That all the Vassals, Subjects, Citizens and Inhabitants,
as well on this as the other side the Rhine, who were subject to the House
of Austria, or who depended immediately on the Empire, or who acknowledg’d
for Superiors the other Orders of the Empire, notwithstanding all Confiscations,
Transferrings, Donations made by any Captains or Generals of the Swedish
Troops, or Confederates, since the taking of the Province, and ratify’d
by the most Christian King, or decreed by his own particular Motion; immediately
after the Publication of Peace, shall be restor’d to the possession of
their Goods, immovable and stable, also to their Farms, Castles, Villages,
Lands, and Possessions, without any exception upon the account of Expences
and Compensation of Charges, which the modern Possessors may alledge, and
without Restitution of Movables or Fruits gather’d in. ...
... Likewise the most Christian King, in compensation
of the things made over to him, shall pay the said Archduke Ferdinand Charles
three millions of French Livres, in the next following Years 1649 1650,
1651, on St. John Baptist’s Day, paying yearly one third of the said Sum
at Basle in good Money to the Deputys of the said Archduke. ...