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... And tho by the precedent general Rule it may be
easily judg’d who those are, and how far the Restitution extends; nevertheless,
it has been thought fit to make a particular mention of the following Cases
of Importance, but yet so that those which are not in express Terms nam’d,
are not to be taken as if they were excluded or forgot. ...
... The Congress of Munster and Osnabrug having brought
the Palatinate Cause to that pass, that the Dispute which has lasted for
so long time, has been at length terminated; the Terms are these. ...
... That the Debts either by Purchase, Sale, Revenues,
or by what other name they may be call’d, if they have been violently extorted
by one of the Partys in War, and if the Debtors alledge and offer to prove
there has been a real Payment, they shall be no more prosecuted, before
these Exceptions be first adjusted. That the Debtors shall be oblig’d to
produce their Exceptions within the term of two years after the Publication
of the Peace, upon pain of being afterwards condemn’d to perpetual Silence. ...
... It has been further agreed, That for the Restitution
of Places possess’d during this War, and for the Indemnity of Madam, the
Landgravine of Hesse, who is the Guardian, the Sum of Six Hundred Thousand
Rixdollars shall be given to her and her Son, or his Successors Princes
of Hesse, to be had from the Archbishopricks of Mayence and Cologne, from
the Bishopricks of Paderborn and Munster, and the Abby of Fulden; which
Sum shall be paid at Cassel in the term of eight Months, to reckon from
the Day of the Ratification of the Peace, at the peril and charge of the
Solvent: and no Exception shall be used to evade this promis’d Payment,
on any Pretence; much less shall any Seizure be made of the Sum agreed
on. ...
... As soon as after the Ratification of Peace, Three
Hundred Thousand Rixdollars shall be paid to Madam, the Landgravine, she
shall give up Nuys, and shall only retain Cuesfeldt and Newhaus; but yet
so as that the Garison of Nuys shall not be thrown into the other two Places,
nor nothing demanded on that account; and the Garisons of Cuesfeldt shall
not exceed the Number of Six Hundred Foot and Fifty Horse. That if within
the term of nine Months, the whole Sum be not paid to Madam the Landgravine,
not only Cuesfeldt and Newhaus shall remain in her Hands till the full
Payment, but also for the remainder, she shall be paid Interest at Five
per Cent. and the Treasurers and Collectors of the Bayliwicks appertaining
to the abovesaid Arch-bishopricks, Bishopricks and Abby, bordering on the
Principality of Hesse, shall oblige themselves by Oath to Madam the Landgravine,
that out of the annual Revenues, they shall yearly pay the Interest of
the remaining Sum notwithstanding the Prohibitions of their Masters. If
the Treasurers and Collectors delay the Payment, or alienate the Revenues,
Madam the Landgravine shall have liberty to constrain them to pay, by all
sorts of means, always saving the Right of the Lord Proprietor of the Territory. ...
... The Ambassadors and Plenipotentiarys of the Emperor,
of the King, and the States of the Empire, promise respectively and the
one to the other, to cause the Emperor, the most Christian King, the Electors
of the Sacred Roman Empire, the Princes and States, to agree and ratify
the Peace which has been concluded in this manner, and by general Consent;
and so infallibly to order it, that the solemn Acts of Ratification be
presented at Munster, and mutually and in good form exchang’d in the term
of eight weeks, to reckon from the day of signing. ...