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.

Answer to Article XV. and XVI.

It has been already often declar'd, that as all the States of the Empire, so particularly the Bishop and Bi∣shoprick of Strasburgh, with the Town of the same name, and others mention'd in the 87th Section of the Treaty of Munster, viz. the Bishop of Basil, the Ab∣bots of Murbach and Luders, the Abbess of Andlaw, the Monastery in the Vale of S. Gregory, of the Order of S. Benedict, the Princes Palatinate, Counts and Ba∣rons of Hanault, Fleckensteim, Obersteim, and the

Nobless of all the Lower Alsace, together with the Ten Imperial Cities, as has been mention'd in the third and following Articles, shall be restor'd to all the Places, Rights, Liberty, and Possession of immediate Dependence on the Empire, which they formerly enjoy'd, annulling all Acts made to the contrary, except the Imperial De∣cree of December 9. 1689. granted to the Town of Zellen am Hammersbach upon the account of the Val∣ley of Hammersbach, the which Decree shall remain in its full force. The same is to be understood with re∣spect to the Abbey of Stavelo. Bus as to the Heredita∣ry Right of the Elector Maximilian Henry which is seiz'd upon, the Opinion of those who are interested therein is to be attended, and afterwards immediatly de∣clar'd. These Matters being adjusted, if hereafter due respect be paid to the Laws of the Empire, as well Car∣dinal Furstemberg and his Domesticks, as the Canons and other Members of the Chapter of Cologn, who have espoused his Interest, shall have the benefit of the foresaid Amnesty, without prejudice however to what shall be explain'd concerning Ecclesiastical Benefices, in the ensu∣ing Paragraph, which is agreeable to the 28th and 29th Articles of the Project of Peace deliver'd in by the French, and which may be plac'd after the Article of Restitution, at the beginning of the Article of Amnesty drawn up in these Terms.

If notwithstanding the said Ecclesiastical and Catho∣lick Benefices, mediate or immediate, have been collated on fit and capable Persons, by either Party, in the Pla∣ces or Dominions, which were then subject to them, ac∣cording to the Rule of their Primitive Institution, and conformably to the lawful Statutes, general or particu∣lar, made by their Subjects, the said Benefices shall re∣main in the Possession of the new Incumbents, as well as those Ecclesiastical and Catholick Benefices, which have been collated after the same manner before the present

War, in the places which are to be restor'd by the present Treaty; so that they may and shall not be troubled or molested by any Person whatsoever in the possession and lawful administration of the same, nor in the receiving the Profits thereof: nor shall they upon this account, nor for any other cause past or present, be summon'd or ci∣ted, or any ways disturb'd or molested; provided al∣ways that they discharge the Offices incumbent upon them on the account of the said Benefices.