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... That there shall be on the one side and the other
a perpetual Oblivion, Amnesty, or Pardon of all that has been committed
since the beginning of these Troubles, in what place, or what manner soever
the Hostilitys have been practis’d, in such a manner, that no body, under
any pretext whatsoever, shall practice any Acts of Hostility, entertain
any Enmity, or cause any Trouble to each other; neither as to Persons,
Effects and Securitys, neither of themselves or by others, neither privately
nor openly, neither directly nor indirectly, neither under the colour of
Right, nor by the way of Deed, either within or without the extent of the
Empire, notwithstanding all Covenants made before to the contrary: That
they shall not act, or permit to be acted, any wrong or injury to any whatsoever;
but that all that has pass’d on the one side, and the other, as well before
as during the War, in Words, Writings, and Outrageous Actions, in Violences,
Hostilitys, Damages and Expences, without any respect to Persons or Things,
shall be entirely abolish’d in such a manner that all that might be demanded
of, or pretended to, by each other on that behalf, shall be bury’d in eternal
Oblivion. ...
... That there shall be on the one side and the other
a perpetual Oblivion, Amnesty, or Pardon of all that has been committed
since the beginning of these Troubles, in what place, or what manner soever
the Hostilitys have been practis’d, in such a manner, that no body, under
any pretext whatsoever, shall practice any Acts of Hostility, entertain
any Enmity, or cause any Trouble to each other; neither as to Persons,
Effects and Securitys, neither of themselves or by others, neither privately
nor openly, neither directly nor indirectly, neither under the colour of
Right, nor by the way of Deed, either within or without the extent of the
Empire, notwithstanding all Covenants made before to the contrary: That
they shall not act, or permit to be acted, any wrong or injury to any whatsoever;
but that all that has pass’d on the one side, and the other, as well before
as during the War, in Words, Writings, and Outrageous Actions, in Violences,
Hostilitys, Damages and Expences, without any respect to Persons or Things,
shall be entirely abolish’d in such a manner that all that might be demanded
of, or pretended to, by each other on that behalf, shall be bury’d in eternal
Oblivion. ...
... Reciprocally the Elector of Bavaria renounces
entirely for himself and his Heirs and Successors the Debt of Thirteen
Millions, as also all his Pretensions in Upper Austria; and shall deliver
to his Imperial Majesty immediately after the Publication of the Peace,
all Acts and Arrests obtain’d for that end, in order to be made void and
null. ...
... That Sentences pronounc’d during the War about
Matters purely Secular, if the Defect in the Proceedings be not fully manifest,
or cannot be immediately demonstrated, shall not be esteem’d wholly void;
but that the Effect shall be suspended until the Acts of Justice (if one
of the Partys demand the space of six months after the Publication of the
Peace, for the reviewing of his Process) be review’d and weigh’d in a proper
Court, and according to the ordinary or extraordinary Forms us’d in the
Empire: to the end that the former Judgments may be confirm’d, amended,
or quite eras’d, in case of Nullity. ...
... That as well as general as particular Diets, the
free Towns, and other States of the Empire, shall have decisive Votes;
they shall, without molestation, keep their Regales, Customs, annual Revenues,
Libertys, Privileges to confiscate, to raise Taxes, and other Rights, lawfully
obtain’d from the Emperor and Empire, or enjoy’d long before these Commotions,
with a full Jurisdiction within the inclosure of their Walls, and their
Territorys: making void at the same time, annulling and for the future
prohibiting all Things, which by Reprisals, Arrests, stopping of Passages,
and other prejudicial Acts, either during the War, under what pretext soever
they have been done and attempted hitherto by private Authority, or may
hereafter without any preceding formality of Right be enterpris’d. As for
the rest, all laudable Customs of the sacred Roman Empire, the fundamental
Constitutions and Laws, shall for the future be strictly observ’d, all
the Confusions which time of War have, or could introduce, being remov’d
and laid aside. ...
... As soon as the Treaty of Peace shall be sign’d
and seal’d by the Plenipotentiarys and Ambassadors, all Hostilitys shall
cease, and all Partys shall study immediately to put in execution what
has been agreed to; and that the same may be the better and quicker accomplish’d,
the Peace shall be solemnly publish’d the day after the signing thereof
in the usual form at the Cross of the Citys of Munster and of Osnabrug.
That when it shall be known that the signing has been made in these two
Places, divers Couriers shall presently be sent to the Generals of the
Armys, to acquaint them that the Peace is concluded, and take care that
the Generals chuse a Day, on which shall be made on all sides a Cessation
of Arms and Hostilitys for the publishing of the Peace in the Army; and
that command be given to all and each of the chief Officers Military and
Civil, and to the Governors of Fortresses, to abstain for the future from
all Acts of Hostility: and if it happen that any thing be attempted, or
actually innovated after the said Publication, the same shall be forthwith
repair’d and restor’d to its former State. ...
... 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. ...
... For the greater Firmness of all and every one
of these Articles, this present Transaction shall serve for a perpetual
Law and establish’d Sanction of the Empire, to be inserted like other fundamental
Laws and Constitutions of the Empire in the Acts of the next Diet of the
Empire, and the Imperial Capitulation; binding no less the absent than
the present, the Ecclesiasticks than Seculars, whether they be States of
the Empire or not: insomuch as that it shall be a prescrib’d Rule, perpetually
to be follow’d, as well by the Imperial Counsellors and Officers, as those
of other Lords, and all Judges and Officers of Courts of Justice. ...
... In this present Treaty of Peace are comprehended
such, who before the Exchange of the Ratification or in six months after,
shall be nominated by general Consent, by the one or the other Party; mean
time by a common Agreement, the Republick of Venice is therein compriz’d
as Mediatrix of this Treaty. It shall also be of no prejudice to the Dukes
of Savoy and Modena, or to what they shall act, or are now acting in Italy
by Arms for the most Christian King. ...