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... But as soon as Madam the Landgravine has receiv’d
the full Sum, with all the Interest, she shall surrender the said Places
which she retain’d for her Security; the Payments shall cease, and the
Treasurers and Collectors, of which mention has been made, shall be freed,
from their Oath: As for the Bayliwicks, the Revenues of which shall be
assign’d for the Payment of the Sum, that shall be adjusted before the
Ratification of the Peace; and that Convention shall be of no less Force
than this present Treaty of Peace. ...
... The Rights and Privileges of Territorys, water’d
by Rivers or otherways, as Customs granted by the Emperor, with the Consent
of the Electors, and among others, to the Count of Oldenburg on the Viserg,
and introduc’d by a long Usage, shall remain in their Vigour and Execution.
There shall be a full Liberty of Commerce, a secure Passage by Sea and
Land: and after this manner all and every one of the Vassals, Subjects,
Inhabitants and Servants of the Allys, on the one side and the other, shall
have full power to go and come, to trade and return back, by Virtue of
this present Article, after the same manner as was allowed before the Troubles
of Germany; the Magistrates, on the one side and on the other, shall be
oblig’d to protect and defend them against all sorts of Oppressions, equally
with their own Subjects, without prejudice to the other Articles of this
Convention, and the particular laws and Rights of each place. And that
the said Peace and Amity between the Emperor and the Most Christian King,
may be the more corroborated, and the publick Safety provided for, it has
been agreed with the Consent, Advice and Will of the Electors, Princes
and States of the Empire, for the Benefit of Peace: ...
... The Emperor above all things shall publish an
Edict thro’out the Empire, and strictly enjoin all, who by these Articles
of Pacification are oblig’d to restore or do any thing else, to obey it
promptly and without tergi-versation, between the signing and the ratifying
of this present Treaty; commanding as well the Directors as Governors of
the Militia of the Circles, to hasten and finish the Restitution to be
made to every one, in conformity to those Conventions, when the same are
demanded. This Clause is to be inserted also in the Edicts, That whereas
the Directors of the Circles, or the Governors of the Militia of the Circles,
in matters that concern themselves, are esteem’d less capable of executing
this Affair in this or the like case and likewise if the Directors and
Governors of the Militia of the Circles refuse this Commission, the Directors
of the neighbouring Circle, or the Governors of the Militia of the Circles
shall exercise the Function, and officiate in the execution of these Restitutions
in the other Circles, at the instance of the Partys concern’d. ...
... That it never shall be alledg’d, allow’d, or admitted,
that any Canonical or Civil Law, any general or particular Decrees of Councils,
any Privileges, any Indulgences, any Edicts, any Commissions, Inhibitions,
Mandates, Decrees, Rescripts, Suspensions of Law, Judgments pronounc’d
at any time, Adjudications, Capitulations of the Emperor, and other Rules
and Exceptions of Religious Orders, past or future Protestations, Contradictions,
Appeals, Investitures, Transactions, Oaths, Renunciations, Contracts, and
much less the Edict of 1629. or the Transaction of Prague, with its Appendixes,
or the Concordates with the Popes, or the Interims of the Year 1548. or
any other politick Statutes, or Ecclesiastical Decrees, Dispensations,
Absolutions, or any other Exceptions, under what pretence or colour they
can be invented; shall take place against this Convention, or any of its
Clauses and Articles neither shall any inhibitory or other Processes or
Commissions be ever allow’d to the Plaintiff or Defendant. ...