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... 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. ...
... And to prevent for the future any Differences
arising in the Politick State, all and every one of the Electors, Princes
and
States of the Roman Empire, are so establish’d and confirm’d in their antient
Rights, Prerogatives, Libertys, Privileges, free exercise of Territorial
Right, as well Ecclesiastick, as Politick Lordships, Regales, by virtue
of this present Transaction: that they never can or ought to be molested
therein by any whomsoever upon any manner of pretence. ...
... 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. ...
... Item, The County of Hawenstein, the Black Forest,
the Upper and Lower Brisgaw, and the Towns situate therein, appertaining
of Antient Right to the House of Austria, viz. Neuburg, Friburg, Edingen,
Renzingen, Waldkirch, Willingen, Bruenlingen, with all their Territorys;
as also, the Monasterys, Abbys, Prelacys, Deaconrys, Knight-Fees, Commanderships,
with all their Bayliwicks, Baronys, Castles, Fortresses, Countys, Barons,
Nobles, Vassals, Men, Subjects, Rivers, Brooks, Forests, Woods, and all
the Regales, Rights, Jurisdictions, Fiefs and Patronages, and all other
things belonging to the Sovereign Right of Territory, and to the Patrimony
of the House of Austria, in all that Country. ...
... That the Inhabitants of each Place shall be oblig’d,
when the Soldiers and Garisons draw out, to furnish them without Money
the necessary Waggons, Horses, Boats and Provisions, to carry off all things
to the appointed Places in the Empire; which Waggons, Horses and Boats,
the Governors of the Garisons and the Captains of the withdrawing Soldiers
shall restore without any Fraud or Deceit. The Inhabitants of the States
shall free and relieve each other of this trouble of carrying the things
from one Territory to the other, until they arrive at the appointed Place
in the Empire; and the Governors or other Officers shall not be allow’d
to bring with him or them the lent Waggons, Horses and Boats, nor any other
thing they are accommodated with, out of the limits they belong unto, much
less out of those of the Empire. ...