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... For the greater Validity of the said Cessions
and Alienations, the Emperor and Empire, by virtue of this present Treaty,
abolish all and every one of the Decrees, Constitutions, Statutes and Customs
of their Predecessors, Emperors of the sacred Roman Empire, tho they have
been confirm’d by Oath, or shall be confirm’d for the future; particularly
this Article of the Imperial Capitulation, by which all or any Alienation
of the Appurtenances and Rights of the Empire is prohibited: and by the
same means they exclude for ever all Exceptions hereunto, on what Right
and Titles soever they may be grounded. ...
... In Testimony of all and each of these things,
and for their greater Validity, the Ambassadors of their Imperial and most
Christian Majestys, and the Deputys, in the name of all the Electors, Princes,
and States of the Empire, sent particularly for this end (by virtue of
what has been concluded the 13th of October, in the Year hereafter mention’d,
and has been deliver’d to the Ambassador of France the very day of signing
under the Seal of the Chancellor of Mentz) viz. For the Elector of Mayence,
Monsieur Nicolas George de Reigersberg, Knight and Chancellor; for the
Elector of Bavaria, Monsieur John Adolph Krebs, Privy Counsellor; for the
Elector of Brandenburg, Monsieur John Count of Sain and Witgenstein, Lord
of Homburg and Vallendar, Privy Counsellor. ...
... In the Name of the one and the other Bench, M.
Marc Ottoh of Strasburg, M. John James Wolff of Ratisbon, M. David Gloxinius
of Lubeck, and M. Lewis Christopher Kres of Kressenstein, all Syndick Senators,
Counsellors and Advocates of the Republick of Noremberg; who with their
proper Hands and Seals have sign’d and seal’d this present Treaty of Peace,
and which said Deputys of the several Orders have engag’d to procure the
Ratifications of their Superiors in the prefix’d time, and in the manner
it has been covenanted, leaving the liberty to the other Plenipotentiarys
of States to sign it, if they think it convenient, and send for the Ratifications
of their Superiors: And that on condition that by the Subscription of the
abovesaid Ambassadors and Deputys, all and every one of the other States
who shall abstain from signing and ratifying the present Treaty, shall
be no less oblig’d to maintain and observe what is contain’d in this present
Treaty of Pacification, than if they had subscrib’d and ratify’d it; and
no Protestation or Contradiction of the Council of Direction in the Roman
Empire shall be valid, or receiv’d in respect to the Subscription and said
Deputys have made. ...