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... Since the Arrest the Emperor has formerly caus’d
to be made in the Provincial Assembly, against the moveable Effects of
the Prince Elector of Treves, which were transported into the Dutchy of
Luxemburg, tho releas’d and abolish’d, yet at the instance of some has
been renew’d; to which has been added a Sequestration, which the said Assembly
has made of the Jurisdiction of Burch, belonging to the Archbishoprick,
and of the Moiety of the Lordship of St. John, belonging to John Reinbard
of Soeteren, which is contrary to the Concordat’s drawn up at Ausburg in
the year 1548 by the publick interposition of the Empire, between the Elector
of Treves, and the Dutchy of Burgundy: It has been agreed, that the abovesaid
Arrest and Sequestration shall be taken away with all speed from the Assembly
of Luxemburg, that the said Jurisdiction, Lordship, and Electoral and Patrimonial
Effects, with the sequestred Revenues, shall be releas’d and restor’d to
the Elector; and if by accident some things should be Imbezel’d, they shall
be fully restor’d to him; the Petitioners being refer’d, for the obtaining
a determination of their Rights, to the Judge of the Prince Elector, who
is competent in the Empire. ...
... Since the Arrest the Emperor has formerly caus’d
to be made in the Provincial Assembly, against the moveable Effects of
the Prince Elector of Treves, which were transported into the Dutchy of
Luxemburg, tho releas’d and abolish’d, yet at the instance of some has
been renew’d; to which has been added a Sequestration, which the said Assembly
has made of the Jurisdiction of Burch, belonging to the Archbishoprick,
and of the Moiety of the Lordship of St. John, belonging to John Reinbard
of Soeteren, which is contrary to the Concordat’s drawn up at Ausburg in
the year 1548 by the publick interposition of the Empire, between the Elector
of Treves, and the Dutchy of Burgundy: It has been agreed, that the abovesaid
Arrest and Sequestration shall be taken away with all speed from the Assembly
of Luxemburg, that the said Jurisdiction, Lordship, and Electoral and Patrimonial
Effects, with the sequestred Revenues, shall be releas’d and restor’d to
the Elector; and if by accident some things should be Imbezel’d, they shall
be fully restor’d to him; the Petitioners being refer’d, for the obtaining
a determination of their Rights, to the Judge of the Prince Elector, who
is competent in the Empire. ...
... Since the Arrest the Emperor has formerly caus’d
to be made in the Provincial Assembly, against the moveable Effects of
the Prince Elector of Treves, which were transported into the Dutchy of
Luxemburg, tho releas’d and abolish’d, yet at the instance of some has
been renew’d; to which has been added a Sequestration, which the said Assembly
has made of the Jurisdiction of Burch, belonging to the Archbishoprick,
and of the Moiety of the Lordship of St. John, belonging to John Reinbard
of Soeteren, which is contrary to the Concordat’s drawn up at Ausburg in
the year 1548 by the publick interposition of the Empire, between the Elector
of Treves, and the Dutchy of Burgundy: It has been agreed, that the abovesaid
Arrest and Sequestration shall be taken away with all speed from the Assembly
of Luxemburg, that the said Jurisdiction, Lordship, and Electoral and Patrimonial
Effects, with the sequestred Revenues, shall be releas’d and restor’d to
the Elector; and if by accident some things should be Imbezel’d, they shall
be fully restor’d to him; the Petitioners being refer’d, for the obtaining
a determination of their Rights, to the Judge of the Prince Elector, who
is competent in the Empire. ...
... Since the Arrest the Emperor has formerly caus’d
to be made in the Provincial Assembly, against the moveable Effects of
the Prince Elector of Treves, which were transported into the Dutchy of
Luxemburg, tho releas’d and abolish’d, yet at the instance of some has
been renew’d; to which has been added a Sequestration, which the said Assembly
has made of the Jurisdiction of Burch, belonging to the Archbishoprick,
and of the Moiety of the Lordship of St. John, belonging to John Reinbard
of Soeteren, which is contrary to the Concordat’s drawn up at Ausburg in
the year 1548 by the publick interposition of the Empire, between the Elector
of Treves, and the Dutchy of Burgundy: It has been agreed, that the abovesaid
Arrest and Sequestration shall be taken away with all speed from the Assembly
of Luxemburg, that the said Jurisdiction, Lordship, and Electoral and Patrimonial
Effects, with the sequestred Revenues, shall be releas’d and restor’d to
the Elector; and if by accident some things should be Imbezel’d, they shall
be fully restor’d to him; the Petitioners being refer’d, for the obtaining
a determination of their Rights, to the Judge of the Prince Elector, who
is competent in the Empire. ...
... Since the Arrest the Emperor has formerly caus’d
to be made in the Provincial Assembly, against the moveable Effects of
the Prince Elector of Treves, which were transported into the Dutchy of
Luxemburg, tho releas’d and abolish’d, yet at the instance of some has
been renew’d; to which has been added a Sequestration, which the said Assembly
has made of the Jurisdiction of Burch, belonging to the Archbishoprick,
and of the Moiety of the Lordship of St. John, belonging to John Reinbard
of Soeteren, which is contrary to the Concordat’s drawn up at Ausburg in
the year 1548 by the publick interposition of the Empire, between the Elector
of Treves, and the Dutchy of Burgundy: It has been agreed, that the abovesaid
Arrest and Sequestration shall be taken away with all speed from the Assembly
of Luxemburg, that the said Jurisdiction, Lordship, and Electoral and Patrimonial
Effects, with the sequestred Revenues, shall be releas’d and restor’d to
the Elector; and if by accident some things should be Imbezel’d, they shall
be fully restor’d to him; the Petitioners being refer’d, for the obtaining
a determination of their Rights, to the Judge of the Prince Elector, who
is competent in the Empire. ...
... As for what concerns the Castles of Ehrenbreitstein
and Homestein, the Emperor shall withdraw, or cause the Garisons to be
withdrawn in the time and manner limited hereafter in the Article of Execution,
and shall restore those Castles to the Elector of Treves, and to his Metropolitan
Chapter, to be in the Protection of the Empire, and the Electorate; for
which end the Captain, and the new Garison which shall be put therein by
the Elector, shall also take the Oaths of Fidelity to him and his Chapter. ...
... As for what concerns the Castles of Ehrenbreitstein
and Homestein, the Emperor shall withdraw, or cause the Garisons to be
withdrawn in the time and manner limited hereafter in the Article of Execution,
and shall restore those Castles to the Elector of Treves, and to his Metropolitan
Chapter, to be in the Protection of the Empire, and the Electorate; for
which end the Captain, and the new Garison which shall be put therein by
the Elector, shall also take the Oaths of Fidelity to him and his Chapter. ...
... In the first place, as to what concerns the House
of Bavaria, the Electoral Dignity which the Electors Palatine have hitherto
had, with all their Regales, Offices, Precedencys, Arms and Rights, whatever
they be, belonging to this Dignity, without excepting any, as also all
the Upper Palatinate and the County of Cham, shall remain, as for the time
past, so also for the future, with all their Appurtenances, Regales and
Rights, in the possession of the Lord Maximilian, Count Palatine of the
Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, and of his children, and all the Willielmine Line,
whilst there shall be any Male Children in being. ...
... Reciprocally the Elector of Bavaria renounces
entirely for himself and his Heirs and Successors the Debt of Thirteen
Millions, as also all his Pretensions in Upper Austria; and shall deliver
to his Imperial Majesty immediately after the Publication of the Peace,
all Acts and Arrests obtain’d for that end, in order to be made void and
null. ...
... As for what regards the House of Palatine, the
Emperor and the Empire, for the benefit of the publick Tranquillity, consent,
that by virtue of this present Agreement, there be establish’d an eighth
Electorate; which the Lord Charles Lewis, Count Palatine of the Rhine,
shall enjoy for the future, and his Heirs, and the Descendants of the Rudolphine
Line, pursuant to the Order of Succession, set forth in the Golden Bull;
and that by this Investiture, neither the Lord Charles Lewis, nor his Successors
shall have any Right to that which has been given with the Electoral Dignity
to the Elector of Bavaria, and all the Branch of William. ...
... As for what regards the House of Palatine, the
Emperor and the Empire, for the benefit of the publick Tranquillity, consent,
that by virtue of this present Agreement, there be establish’d an eighth
Electorate; which the Lord Charles Lewis, Count Palatine of the Rhine,
shall enjoy for the future, and his Heirs, and the Descendants of the Rudolphine
Line, pursuant to the Order of Succession, set forth in the Golden Bull;
and that by this Investiture, neither the Lord Charles Lewis, nor his Successors
shall have any Right to that which has been given with the Electoral Dignity
to the Elector of Bavaria, and all the Branch of William. ...
... Forasmuch-as that certain Jurisdictions of the
Bergstraet, belonging antiently to the Elector of Mayence, were in the
year 1463 mortgag’d to the House Palatine for a certain Sum of Money: upon
condition of perpetual Redemption, it has been agreed that the same Jurisdictions
shall be Restor’d to the present Elector of Mayence, and his Successors
in the Archbishoprick of Mayence, provided the Mortgage be paid in ready
Mony, within the time limited by the Peace to be concluded; and that he
satisfies the other Conditions, which he is bound to by the Tenor of the
Mortgage-Deeds. ...
... Forasmuch-as that certain Jurisdictions of the
Bergstraet, belonging antiently to the Elector of Mayence, were in the
year 1463 mortgag’d to the House Palatine for a certain Sum of Money: upon
condition of perpetual Redemption, it has been agreed that the same Jurisdictions
shall be Restor’d to the present Elector of Mayence, and his Successors
in the Archbishoprick of Mayence, provided the Mortgage be paid in ready
Mony, within the time limited by the Peace to be concluded; and that he
satisfies the other Conditions, which he is bound to by the Tenor of the
Mortgage-Deeds. ...
... It shall also be free for the Elector of Treves,
as well in the Quality of Bishop of Spires as Bishop of Worms, to sue before
competent Judges for the Rights he pretends to certain Ecclesiastical Lands,
situated in the Territorys of the Lower Palatinate, if so be those Princes
make not a friendly Agreement among themselves. ...
... That if it should happen that the Male Branch
of William should be intirely extinct, and the Palatine Branch still subsist,
not only the Upper Palatinate, but also the Electoral Dignity of the Dukes
of Bavaria, shall revert to the said surviving Palatine, who in the mean
time enjoys the Investiture: but then the eighth Electorate shall be intirely
suppress’d. Yet in such case, nevertheless, of the return of the Upper
Palatinate to the surviving Palatines, the Heirs of any Allodian Lands
of the Bavarian Electors shall remain in Possession of the Rights and Benefices,
which may lawfully appertain to them. ...
... That the Family-Contracts made between the Electoral
House of Heidelberg and that of Nieuburg, touching the Succession to the
Electorate, confirm’d by former Emperors; as also all the Rights of the
Rudolphine Branch, forasmuch as they are not contrary to this Disposition,
shall be conserv’d and maintain’d entire. ...
... That the Fiefs confer’d by the Emperor on the
Baron Gerrard of Waldenburg, call’d Schenck-heeren, on Nicholas George
Reygersberg, Chancellor of Mayence, and on Henry Brombser, Baron of Rudeheim;
Item, on the Elector of Bavaria, on Baron John Adolph Wolff, call’d Meternicht,
shall remain firm and stable: That nevertheless these Vassals shall be
bound to take an Oath of Fidelity to the Lord Charles Lewis, and to his
Successors, as their direct Lords, and to demand of him the renewing of
their Fiefs. ...
... In Testimony of all and each of these things,
and for their greater Validity, the Ambassadors of their Imperial and most
Christian Majestys, and the Deputys, in the name of all the Electors, Princes,
and States of the Empire, sent particularly for this end (by virtue of
what has been concluded the 13th of October, in the Year hereafter mention’d,
and has been deliver’d to the Ambassador of France the very day of signing
under the Seal of the Chancellor of Mentz) viz. For the Elector of Mayence,
Monsieur Nicolas George de Reigersberg, Knight and Chancellor; for the
Elector of Bavaria, Monsieur John Adolph Krebs, Privy Counsellor; for the
Elector of Brandenburg, Monsieur John Count of Sain and Witgenstein, Lord
of Homburg and Vallendar, Privy Counsellor. ...
... In Testimony of all and each of these things,
and for their greater Validity, the Ambassadors of their Imperial and most
Christian Majestys, and the Deputys, in the name of all the Electors, Princes,
and States of the Empire, sent particularly for this end (by virtue of
what has been concluded the 13th of October, in the Year hereafter mention’d,
and has been deliver’d to the Ambassador of France the very day of signing
under the Seal of the Chancellor of Mentz) viz. For the Elector of Mayence,
Monsieur Nicolas George de Reigersberg, Knight and Chancellor; for the
Elector of Bavaria, Monsieur John Adolph Krebs, Privy Counsellor; for the
Elector of Brandenburg, Monsieur John Count of Sain and Witgenstein, Lord
of Homburg and Vallendar, Privy Counsellor. ...
... In Testimony of all and each of these things,
and for their greater Validity, the Ambassadors of their Imperial and most
Christian Majestys, and the Deputys, in the name of all the Electors, Princes,
and States of the Empire, sent particularly for this end (by virtue of
what has been concluded the 13th of October, in the Year hereafter mention’d,
and has been deliver’d to the Ambassador of France the very day of signing
under the Seal of the Chancellor of Mentz) viz. For the Elector of Mayence,
Monsieur Nicolas George de Reigersberg, Knight and Chancellor; for the
Elector of Bavaria, Monsieur John Adolph Krebs, Privy Counsellor; for the
Elector of Brandenburg, Monsieur John Count of Sain and Witgenstein, Lord
of Homburg and Vallendar, Privy Counsellor. ...