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... The Rights and Privileges of Territorys, water’d
by Rivers or otherways, as Customs granted by the Emperor, with the Consent
of the Electors, and among others, to the Count of Oldenburg on the Viserg,
and introduc’d by a long Usage, shall remain in their Vigour and Execution.
There shall be a full Liberty of Commerce, a secure Passage by Sea and
Land: and after this manner all and every one of the Vassals, Subjects,
Inhabitants and Servants of the Allys, on the one side and the other, shall
have full power to go and come, to trade and return back, by Virtue of
this present Article, after the same manner as was allowed before the Troubles
of Germany; the Magistrates, on the one side and on the other, shall be
oblig’d to protect and defend them against all sorts of Oppressions, equally
with their own Subjects, without prejudice to the other Articles of this
Convention, and the particular laws and Rights of each place. And that
the said Peace and Amity between the Emperor and the Most Christian King,
may be the more corroborated, and the publick Safety provided for, it has
been agreed with the Consent, Advice and Will of the Electors, Princes
and States of the Empire, for the Benefit of Peace: ...
... In the third place the Emperor, as well in his
own behalf, as the behalf of the whole most Serene House of Austria, as
also of the Empire, resigns all Rights, Propertys, Domains, Possessions
and Jurisdictions, which have hitherto belong’d either to him, or the Empire,
and the Family of Austria, over the City of Brisac, the Landgraveship of
Upper and Lower Alsatia, Suntgau, and the Provincial Lordship of ten Imperial
Citys situated in Alsatia, viz. Haguenau, Calmer, Sclestadt, Weisemburg,
Landau, Oberenheim, Rosheim, Munster in the Valley of St. Gregory, Keyerberg,
Turingham, and of all the villages, or other Rights which depend on the
said Mayoralty; all and every of them are made over to the most Christian
King, and the Kingdom of France; in the same manner as the City of Brisac,
with the Villages of Hochstet, Niederrimsing, Hartem and Acharren appertaining
to the Commonalty of Brisac, with all the antient Territory and Dependence;
without any prejudice, nevertheless, to the Priviliges and Libertys granted
the said Town formerly by the House of Austria. ...
... His Imperial Majesty, at the modest Request of
the Duke of Savoy, shall together with the Investiture of the antient Fiefs
and States, which the late Ferdinand II. of blessed memory granted to the
Duke of Savoy, Victor Amadeus, also grant him the Investiture of the Places,
Lordships, States, and all other Rights of Montserrat, with their Appurtenances,
which have been surrender’d to him by virtue of the abovesaid Treaty of
Cheras, and the Execution thereof which ensu’d; as also, of the Fiefs of
New Monsort, of Sine, Monchery, and Castelles, with their Appurtenances,
according to the Treaty of Acquisition made by the said Duke Victor Amadeus,
the 13th of October 1634. and conformable to the Concessions or Permissions,
and Approbation of his Imperial Majesty; with a Confirmation also of all
the Privileges which have been hitherto granted to the Dukes of Savoy,
when and as often as the Duke of Savoy shall request and demand it. ...
... His Imperial Majesty, at the modest Request of
the Duke of Savoy, shall together with the Investiture of the antient Fiefs
and States, which the late Ferdinand II. of blessed memory granted to the
Duke of Savoy, Victor Amadeus, also grant him the Investiture of the Places,
Lordships, States, and all other Rights of Montserrat, with their Appurtenances,
which have been surrender’d to him by virtue of the abovesaid Treaty of
Cheras, and the Execution thereof which ensu’d; as also, of the Fiefs of
New Monsort, of Sine, Monchery, and Castelles, with their Appurtenances,
according to the Treaty of Acquisition made by the said Duke Victor Amadeus,
the 13th of October 1634. and conformable to the Concessions or Permissions,
and Approbation of his Imperial Majesty; with a Confirmation also of all
the Privileges which have been hitherto granted to the Dukes of Savoy,
when and as often as the Duke of Savoy shall request and demand it. ...
... His Imperial Majesty, at the modest Request of
the Duke of Savoy, shall together with the Investiture of the antient Fiefs
and States, which the late Ferdinand II. of blessed memory granted to the
Duke of Savoy, Victor Amadeus, also grant him the Investiture of the Places,
Lordships, States, and all other Rights of Montserrat, with their Appurtenances,
which have been surrender’d to him by virtue of the abovesaid Treaty of
Cheras, and the Execution thereof which ensu’d; as also, of the Fiefs of
New Monsort, of Sine, Monchery, and Castelles, with their Appurtenances,
according to the Treaty of Acquisition made by the said Duke Victor Amadeus,
the 13th of October 1634. and conformable to the Concessions or Permissions,
and Approbation of his Imperial Majesty; with a Confirmation also of all
the Privileges which have been hitherto granted to the Dukes of Savoy,
when and as often as the Duke of Savoy shall request and demand it. ...
... That the very Places, Citys, Towns, Boroughs,
Villages, Castles, Fortresses and Forts which have been possess’d and retain’d,
as well in the Kingdom of Bohemia, and other Countrys of the Empire and
Hereditary Dominions of the House of Austria, as in the other Circles of
the Empire, by one or the other Army, or have been surrender’d by Composition;
shall be restor’d without delay to their former and lawful Possessors and
Lords, whether they be mediately or immediately States of the Empire, Ecclesiastical
or Secular, comprehending therein also the free Nobility of the Empire:
and they shall be left at their own free disposal, either according to
Right and Custom, or according to the Force this present Treaty ought to
have, notwithstanding all Donations, Infeoffments, Concessions (except
they have been made by the free-will of some State) Bonds for redeeming
of Prisoners, or to prevent Burnings and Pillages, or such other like Titles
acquir’d to the prejudice of the former and lawful Masters and Possessors.
Let also all Contracts and Bargains, and all Exceptions contrary to the
said Restitution cease, all which are to be esteem’d void; saving nevertheless
such things as have been otherwise agreed on in the precedent Articles
touching the Satisfaction to made to his most Christian Majesty, as also
some Concessions and equivalent Compensations granted to the Electors and
Princes of the Empire. That neither the Mention of the Catholick King,
nor Quality of the Duke of Lorain given to Duke Charles in the Treaty between
the Emperor and Swedeland, and much less the Title of Landgrave of Alsace,
given to the Emperor, shall be any prejudice to the most Christian King.
That also which has been agreed touching the Satisfaction to be made to
the Swedish Troops, shall have no effect in respect to his Majesty. ...