Site search

Global links

Sister sites

... But from this general Restitution shall be exempted things which cannot be restor’d, as Things movable and moving, Fruits gather’d, Things alienated by the Authority of the Chiefs of the Party, Things destroy’d, ruin’d, and converted to other uses for the publick Security, as publick and particular Buildings, whether sacred or profane, publick or private Gages, which have been, by surprize of the Enemys, pillag’d, confiscated, lawfully sold, or voluntarily bestow’d. ...

... Besides the Places of Surety, which shall be left, as aforesaid, to Madam the Landgravine, which she shall restore after the Payment, she shall restore, after the Ratification of the Peace, all the Provinces and Bishopricks, as also all their Citys, Bayliwicks, Boroughs, Fortresses, Forts; and in one word, all immoveable Goods, and all Rights seiz’d by her during this War. So, nevertheless, that as well in the three Places she shall retain as Cautionary, as the others to be restor’d, the said Lady Landgravine not only shall cause to be convey’d away all the Provisions and Ammunitions of War she has put therein (for as to those she has not sent thither, and what was found there at the taking of them, and are there still, they shall continue; ) but also the Fortifications and Ramparts, rais’d during the Possession of the Places, shall be destroy’d and demolish’d as much as possible, without exposing the Towns, Borroughs, Castles and Fortresses, to Invasions and Robberys. ...