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... If the Possessors of Estates, which are to be
restor’d, think they have lawful Exceptions, yet it shall not hinder the
Restitution; which done, their Reasons and Exceptions may be examin’d before
competent Judges, who are to determine the same. ...
... 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. ...
... 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. ...
... Finally, that the Troops and Armys of all those
who are making War in the Empire, shall be disbanded and discharg’d; only
each Party shall send to and keep up as many Men in his own Dominion, as
he shall judge necessary for his Security. ...
... For the greater Firmness of all and every one
of these Articles, this present Transaction shall serve for a perpetual
Law and establish’d Sanction of the Empire, to be inserted like other fundamental
Laws and Constitutions of the Empire in the Acts of the next Diet of the
Empire, and the Imperial Capitulation; binding no less the absent than
the present, the Ecclesiasticks than Seculars, whether they be States of
the Empire or not: insomuch as that it shall be a prescrib’d Rule, perpetually
to be follow’d, as well by the Imperial Counsellors and Officers, as those
of other Lords, and all Judges and Officers of Courts of Justice. ...
... Nevertheless, if for the space of three years
the Difference cannot be terminated by any of those means, all and every
one of those concern’d in this Transaction shall be oblig’d to join the
injur’d Party, and assist him with Counsel and Force to repel the Injury,
being first advertis’d by the injur’d that gentle Means and Justice prevail’d
nothing; but without prejudice, nevertheless, to every one’s Jurisdiction,
and the Administration of Justice conformable to the Laws of each Prince
and State: and it shall not be permitted to any State of the Empire to
pursue his Right by Force and Arms; but if any difference has happen’d
or happens for the future, every one shall try the means of ordinary Justice,
and the Contravener shall be regarded as an Infringer of the Peace. That
which has been determin’d by Sentence of the Judge, shall be put in execution,
without distinction of Condition, as the Laws of the Empire enjoin touching
the Execution of Arrests and Sentences. ...