The acts and negotiations, together with the particular articles at large of the general peace, concluded at Ryswick, by the most illustrious confederates with the French king to which is premised, the negotiations and articles of the peace, concluded at Turin, between the same prince and the Duke of Savoy / translated from the original publish'd at the Hague.

An Extract out of the Register-Book of the Mediator, his Majesty the King of Sweden's Publick Minister.

At the Hague, February 10. 1697.

THIS Day, at Eleven in the Morning, Mon∣sieur Caillieres, his most Christian Majesty's Minister came in Company with Monsieur Dyck∣velt, to the House of the Swedish Minister the Mediator, and having produced and shewed to the said Mediator his full Power, and that of his Imperial Majesty's Minister being also read, and Copies of both (after being compar'd with the O∣riginals) exchang'd; He, the said Monsieur Cailleires, made the following Declaration.

Preliminary Articles.

• I. THE King of France doth consent and agree, That the Treaties of Westphalia and Nimeguen shall be the Basis and Foundation of the Negotiati∣ons for a General Peace with all the Confederates.
• II. To Restore Strasbourg in the same Condition it was in when taken by his Majesty.
• III. To restore to the King of Spain, Luxem∣burgh in the Condition it is now in.
• IV. Also the Cities of Mons and Charleroy, in the same Condition they are in at present.
• ...

• V. The several Places in Catalonia that are now in the King's Hands, being taken since the Peace of Nimeguen shall be restored in the Condition they were in when taken.
• VI. To restore to the Bishop of Leige, the Town and Cittadel of Dinant, in the same State they were in when taken.
• VII. To restore all Places that have been taken by Virtue of Re-Union, since the Treaty of Ni∣meguen.
• VIII. And Lorrain according to the Condition of the said Treaty of Nimeguen.

This done, the said Minister of France and Mon∣sieur Dyckvelt, went together to the House of Monsieur Boreel, who by Reason of Indisposition, was hindred from being present, and the Swedish Minister resorting thither also, the said Ministers, Boreel and Dyckvelt, did declare to the Mediator, in the Presence of Monsieur Cailleires,

That over and above the recited Preliminaries, it was also agreed, That provided the Peace be concluded, the most Christian King shall at the time it is signed, own and acknowledge the Prince of Orange, as King of Great Britain, without any Difficulty, Limitation, Condition or Reserve; to which the said Monsieur Cailleires did reply, and declare to the Mediator, That in the Name of his Master, the most Christian King, he did con∣firm and agree to what Messieurs Boreel and Dyck∣velt had said.

After the Preliminaries were adjusted, it was agreed, that the Ambassadors and Publick Mini∣sters of the Allies should Reside at the Hague, but that the Ambassadors of the most Christian King should make their Residence at Delft; and that the Conferences for the General Peace should be held

at the Castle of Ryswick, from which both those Towns were of equal Distance.