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.

Another Memorial which the same Presi∣dent Canon presented to the same As∣sembly of the High Allies on the 22d of May, 1697.

Gentlemen, &c.

MY Age and ill Disposition of Body will not permit me to wrangle, nor use many words, and therefore all I shall say is, That we are come hither to make a Peace, and not to Dispute or Re∣gulate Ranks and Places. Every one yields the first to the Emperor only, and no Body disputes it with him, no not our Enemies themselves. We have, with common Consent, and by the Intervention of our Mediator, made an Act of Reservation, be∣cause of the several Titles; which Act has been thought very Prudential and Necessary; for it is a Precedent, and at the same time secures all other Pretensions of Place and Precedency which every one may arrogate to himself. For my part, I do not intend to take place of any Body: But at the same time I will not suffer any thing to be done that can prejudice the Queen my Mistress, or the most Serene Duke her Son, who is a Sovereign, and that's enough. Otherwise I shall call my self a Representative of the King of Jerusalem; There shall come another that will entitle himself King of Cyprus; Their Lordships the States General will call themselves Kings of several Kingdoms in the Indies; for they are so indeed; but that is not the question: Gentlemen, as I said before, we are not here to dispute or regulate what is de gloria mundi,

but only and solely to Treat of the Peace, which shall be concluded, and God Almighty will send, if we have it first among us the High Allies.

The under-named Minister and Plenipotentia∣ry of Lorain, not to be tedious in the Congress of the Peace, and concur in it according to the wise direction proposed by his Excellency the Ambassa∣dor Mediator, and agreed on by all Parties now in War, claims from, and in the Name of the Queen his Mistress, in Quality of Mother and Guardian of the most Serene Duke of Lorain and Barr Leo∣pold First of the Name, her Son a Minor, and of three other Princes his Brothers, all under Age, all four her Sons and lawful Issue by the most Serene Duke of Lorain and Barr, lately deceased, of glorious Me∣mory, her Husband; the succinct and general De∣mand here annexed, which her Majesty has made herself, and Signed with her own Hand; which Monsieur Caillieres, then Minister of France, and now Extraordinary Ambassador and Plenipoten∣tiary in this Congress having seen and perused, did not think improper to be presented to his most Christian Majesty, by means of a Copy of it, which the Sieurs Boreel and Dyckvelt, Ministers of their Lordships the States General, and now their Ple∣nipotentiaries and Extraordinary Ambassadors in this same Congress, treating together, have given him. Which demand therefore cannot be more anthentick, nor suit better with a most great and mighty King, to work upon his Magnanimity and Justice, the Effect which that August Queen expects for her four most Serene Orphans. With a Proviso to add to it hereafter, what may concern their lawful Rights and Pretensions.