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... As for what concerns the Castles of Ehrenbreitstein
and Homestein, the Emperor shall withdraw, or cause the Garisons to be
withdrawn in the time and manner limited hereafter in the Article of Execution,
and shall restore those Castles to the Elector of Treves, and to his Metropolitan
Chapter, to be in the Protection of the Empire, and the Electorate; for
which end the Captain, and the new Garison which shall be put therein by
the Elector, shall also take the Oaths of Fidelity to him and his Chapter. ...
... 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: ...
... 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. ...
... 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 nevertheless the concluded Peace shall remain
in force, and all Partys in this Transaction shall be oblig’d to defend
and protect all and every Article of this Peace against any one, without
distinction of Religion; and if it happens any point shall be violated,
the Offended shall before all things exhort the Offender not to come to
any Hostility, submitting the Cause to a friendly Composition, or the ordinary
Proceedings of Justice. ...