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... Item, All the Vassals, Subjects, People, Towns,
Boroughs, Castles, Houses, Fortresses, Woods, Coppices, Gold or Silver
Mines, Minerals, Rivers, Brooks, Pastures; and in a word, all the Rights,
Regales and Appurtenances, without any reserve, shall belong to the most
Christian King, and shall be for ever incorporated with the Kingdom France,
with all manner of Jurisdiction and Sovereignty, without any contradiction
from the Emperor, the Empire, House of Austria, or any other: so that no
Emperor, or any Prince of the House of Austria, shall, or ever ought to
usurp, nor so much as pretend any Right and Power over the said Countrys,
as well on this, as the other side the Rhine. ...
... Nevertheless the King shall pretend to nothing
more than the Protection and safe Passage of his Garison into the Castle
of Philipsburg: but the Property of the Place, all Jurisdiction, Possession,
all its Profits, Revenues, Purchases, Rights, Regales, Servitude, People,
Subjects, Vassals, and every thing that of old in the Bishoprick of Spire,
and the Churches incorporated therein, had appertain’d to the Chapter of
Spire, or might have appertain’d thereto; shall appertain, and be intirely
and inviolably preserv’d to the same Chapter, saving the Right of Protection
which the King takes upon him. ...