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... 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. ...
... 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. ...