... That the Fiefs
confer’d by the
Emperor on the
Baron Gerrard of Waldenburg, call’d Schenck-heeren, on Nicholas George
Reygersberg, Chancellor of Mayence, and on Henry Brombser, Baron of Rudeheim;
Item, on the
Elector of Bavaria, on Baron John Adolph Wolff, call’d Meternicht,
shall remain
firm and stable: That nevertheless these Vassals shall be
bound to take an
Oath of Fidelity to the Lord Charles Lewis, and to his
Successors, as their direct Lords, and to demand of him the renewing of
their Fiefs. ...