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... 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. ...
... 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 those of the Confession of Augsburg, and
particularly the Inhabitants of Oppenheim, shall be put in possession again
of their Churches, and Ecclesiastical Estates, as they were in the Year
1624. as also that all others of the said Confession of Augsburg, who shall
demand it, shall have the free Exercise of their Religion, as well in publick
Churches at the appointed Hours, as in private in their own Houses, or
in others chosen for this purpose by their Ministers, or by those of their
Neighbours, preaching the Word of God. ...
... That Frederick, Marquiss of Baden, and of Hachberg,
and his Sons and Heirs, with all those who have serv’d them in any manner
whatsoever, and who serve them still, of what degree they may be, shall
enjoy the Amnesty above-mention’d, in the second and third Article, with
all its Clauses and Benefices; and by virtue thereof, they shall be fully
re-establish’d in the State Ecclesiastical or Secular, in the same manner
as the Lord George Frederick Marquiss of Beden and of Hachberg, possess’d,
before the beginning of the Troubles of Bohemia, whatever concern’d the
lower Marquisate of Baden, call’d vulgarly Baden Durlach, as also what
concern’d the Marquisate of Hachberg, and the Lordships of Rottelen, Badenweiller,
and Sausenberg, notwithstanding, and annulling all the Changes made to
the contrary. After which shall be restor’d to Marquiss Frederick, the
Jurisdictions of Stein and Renchingen, without being charg’d with Debts,
which the Marquiss William has contracted during that time, by Reason of
the Revenues, Interests and Charges, put down in the Transaction pass’d
at Etlingen in the Year 1629. and transfer’d to the said William Marquiss
of Baden, with all the Rights, Documents, Writings, and other things appertaining;
so that all the Plea concerning the Charges and Revenues, as well receiv’d
as to receive, with their Damages and Interests, to reckon from the time
of the first Possession, shall be intirely taken away and abolish’d. ...
... In the third place, the Right of a direct Signiory
over the Jurisdictions and Bayliwick of Schaumburg, Buckenburg, Saxenhagen,
and Stattenhagen, given heretofore and adjudged to the Bishoprick of Mindau,
shall for the future belong unto Monsieur William, the present Landgrave
of Hesse, and his Successors in full Possession, and for ever, so as that
the said Bishop, and no other shall be capable of molesting him; saving
nevertheless the Agreement made between Christian Lewis, Duke of Brunswick
and Lunenburg, and the Landgravine of Hesse, and Philip Count of Lippe,
as also the Agreement made between the said Landgravine, and the said Count. ...
... 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. ...
... And as His Imperial Majesty, upon Complaints made
in the name of the City of Basle, and of all Switzerland, in the presence
of their Plenipotentiarys deputed to the present Assembly, touching some
Procedures and Executions proceeding from the Imperial Chamber against
the said City, and the other united Cantons of the Swiss Country, and their
Citizens and Subjects having demanded the Advice of the States of the Empire
and their Council; these have, by a Decree of the 14th of May of the last
Year, declared the said City of Basle, and the other Swiss-Cantons, to
be as it were in possession of their full Liberty and Exemption of the
Empire; so that they are no ways subject to the Judicatures, or Judgments
of the Empire, and it was thought convenient to insert the same in this
Treaty of Peace, and confirm it, and thereby to make void and annul all
such Procedures and Arrests given on this Account in what form soever. ...
... That Monsieur Francis, Duke of Lorain, shall be
restor’d to the possession of the Bishoprick of Verdun, as being the lawful
Bishop thereof; and shall be left in the peaceable Administration of this
Bishoprick and its Abbys (saving the Right of the King and of particular
Persons) and shall enjoy his Patrimonial Estates, and his other Rights,
wherever they may be situated (and as far as they do not contradict the
present Resignation) his Privileges, Revenues and Incomes; having previously
taken the Oath of Fidelity to the King, and provided he undertakes nothing
against the Good of the State and the Service of his Majesty. ...
... 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. ...
... 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. ...
... 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. ...
... 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. ...
... That the most Christian King shall be bound to
leave not only the Bishops of Strasburg and Basle, with the City of Strasburg,
but also the other States or Orders, Abbots of Murbach and Luederen, who
are in the one and the other Alsatia, immediately depending upon the Roman
Empire; the Abess of Andlavien, the Monastery of St. Bennet in the Valley
of St. George, the Palatines of Luzelstain, the Counts and Barons of Hanaw,
Fleckenstein, Oberstein, and all the nobility of Lower Alsatia; Item, the
said ten Imperial Citys, which depend on the Mayory of Haganoc, in the
Liberty and Possession they have enjoy’d hitherto, to arise as immediately
dependent upon the Roman Empire; so that he cannot pretend any Royal Superiority
over them, but shall rest contented with the Rights which appertain’d to
the House of Austria, and which by this present Treaty of Pacification,
are yielded to the Crown of France. In such a manner, nevertheless, that
by the present Declaration, nothing is intended that shall derogate from
the Sovereign Dominion already hereabove agreed to. ...
... Item, For fear the Differences arisen between
the Dukes of Savoy and Mantua touching Montserrat, and terminated by the
Emperor Ferdinand and Lewis XIII. Fathers to their Majestys, shou’d revive
some time or other to the damage or Christianity; it has been agreed, That
the Treaty of Cheras of the 6th of April 1631. with the Execution thereof
which ensu’d in the Montserrat, shall continue firm for ever, with all
its Articles: Pignerol, and its Appurtenances, being nevertheless excepted,
concerning which there has been a decision between his most Christian Majesty
and the Duke of Savoy, and which the King of France and his Kingdom have
purchas’d by particular Treatys, that shall remain firm and stable, as
to what concerns the transferring or resigning of that Place and its Appurtenances.
But if the said particular Treatys contain any thing which may trouble
the Peace of the Empire, and excite new Commotions in Italy, after the
present War, which is now on foot in that Province, shall be at an end,
they shall be look’d upon as void and of no effect; the said Cession continuing
nevertheless unviolable, as also the other Conditions agreed to, as well
in favour of the Duke of Savoy as the most Christian King: For which reason
their Imperial and most Christian Majestys promise reciprocally, that in
all other things relating to the said Treaty of Cheras, and its Execution,
and particularly to Albe, Trin, their Territorys, and the other places,
they never shall contravene them either directly or indirectly, by the
way of Right or in Fact; and that they neither shall succour nor countenance
the Offender, but rather by their common Authority shall endeavour that
none violate them under any pretence whatsoever; considering that the most
Christian King has declar’d, That he was highly oblig’d to advance the
Execution of the said Treaty, and even to maintain it by Arms; that above
all things the said Lord, the Duke of Savoy, notwithstanding the Clauses
abovemention’d, shall be always maintain’d in the peaceable possession
of Trin and Albe, and other places, which have been allow’d and assign’d
him by the said Treaty, and by the Investiture which ensu’d thereon of
the Dutchy of Montserrat. ...
... Item, It has been agreed, That the Duke of Savoy,
his Heirs and Successors, shall no ways be troubled or call’d to an account
by his Imperial Majesty, upon account of the Right of Sovereignty they
have over the Fiefs of Rocheveran, Olme, and Casoles, and their Appurtenances,
which do not in the least depend on the Roman Empire, and that all Donations
and Investitures of the said Fiefs being revok’d and annul’d, the Duke
shall be maintain’d in his Possession as rightful Lord; and if need be,
reinstated: for the same reason his Vassal the Count de Verrue shall be
re-instated in the same Fiefs of Olme and Casoles, and in the Possession
of the fourth part of Rocheveran, and in all his Revenues. ...
... Item, It has been agreed, That the Duke of Savoy,
his Heirs and Successors, shall no ways be troubled or call’d to an account
by his Imperial Majesty, upon account of the Right of Sovereignty they
have over the Fiefs of Rocheveran, Olme, and Casoles, and their Appurtenances,
which do not in the least depend on the Roman Empire, and that all Donations
and Investitures of the said Fiefs being revok’d and annul’d, the Duke
shall be maintain’d in his Possession as rightful Lord; and if need be,
reinstated: for the same reason his Vassal the Count de Verrue shall be
re-instated in the same Fiefs of Olme and Casoles, and in the Possession
of the fourth part of Rocheveran, and in all his Revenues. ...
... The Emperor shall likewise declare, That within
the Investiture of the Dutchy of Mantua are comprehended the Castles of
Reygioli and Luzzare, with their Territorys and Dependencys, the Possession
whereof the Duke of Guastalla shall be oblig’d to render to the Duke of
Mantua, reserving to himself nevertheless, the Right of Six Thousand Crowns
annual Pension, which he pretends to, for which he may sue the Duke before
his Imperial Majesty. ...