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.

SEPARATE ARTICLE.

FOR the clearer Explanation of the eighth Article of the Treaty of Peace this day Signed, which Article begins thus, All the States possest by the Most Christian King shall be restored to the Elector Palatine, It hath been thought convenient to resolve over and above, that this Order will be observed in the Proposal of the Claims and Rights of Madame the Dutchess of Orleans exhibited a∣gainst the Elector Palatine; at such time as the Arbitrators shall be agreed at the time appointed for the Ratification of the Peace about a Place to meet in, this Place shall be notified to each Party. The Deputies on the Arbitrators part shall be sent thither within the space of two Months, to reckon from the very time the Ele∣ctor

Palatine shall be fully re-established; in con∣formity to the Article above mention'd. In the Month following shall the said Lady Dutchess produce in the same place, the whole and intire explanation of her Pretensions or Demands against the Elector, which shall be communicated to him within eight days following. There shall be within the space of four Months next ensuing, ex∣plain'd and delivered to the Deputies of the Lords Arbitrators, who shall set down the day that the four Months shall begin, the Reasons and Grounds of the two Parties, whereof four Copies shall be delivered; that is to say, one for each Arbitrator, and a third to be annext to the common Acts of the Arbitration, and a fourth to be interchange∣ably communicated within seven days to each Party. They shall in like manner answer; and four Copies of the Answer of each Party shall be given the same day to the Envoys of the Lords Arbitrators, which shall be once more communi∣cated within seven days to the Parties inter∣changeably. In the four Months following, the Instruction of the Business shall be terminated on each side, the Parties shall declare they are willing to submit to the Verdict of the Arbitra∣tors, and this conclusion of the Instruction and Commission shall be communicated to the Par∣ties, that they may take cognisance of the same; and the Deeds shall be Enrolled in presence of the Solicitors of the said Parties. After that the Arbitrators and their Deputies who shall have taken an Oath, having viewed and examined the Right of the Parties during the space of six Months ensuing, shall pronounce their Sentence publickly in the place where the Conference is held, according to the Laws and Constitutions of

the Empire; now if it be found conformable it shall be effectually put in execution; but if so be the Arbitrators or their Deputies do not agree in their Verdict, the common Acts of the Arbitration shall be conveyed to Rome at the joint Charges of the Parties, and that within the space of two Months, beginning at the day next ensuing the Judgment given, and shall be delivered to the Pope as Supreme Arbitrator, to be committed by him for its Examination within six Months more to Deputies, no way suspected by the Parties, who shall likewise be sworn, and these same up∣on the former Proceedings (it not being allowed to the Parties to draw up a new Declaration of their Titles) shall pronounce within the space of six Months next ensuing, and as it hath been said, conformable to the Laws and Constitutions of the Empire, the last Definitive Sentence, which cannot be nulled or made void, but the Lord Ar∣bitrators shall cause to be executed without any delay or contradiction. Now if so be one of the Parties demurr, and delay to propound, explain and prove his Title and Right within the time required, it shall nevertheless be lawful for the other Party to explain and deduce his Title with∣in the time prefixt, which may never be prolong∣ed; and lawful also for the Arbitrators and Su∣preme Arbitrator to proceed according to the me∣thod just now explain'd, and to pronounce and execute their Sentence, according to the Acts and Deeds produced and proved.

Notwithstanding this procedure, the Parties themselves, and the Lords Arbitrators on their part shall not cease attempting some amicable way of accommodation; and shall omit nothing that may any way contribute to the amicable

terminating this Affair.—Since it is also agreed in the Article of Peace afore cited, that till this difference be terminated, the Elector Palatine shall Annually pay to Madam the Dutchess of Orleans, the Summ of Two hundred thousand French Livres, or an hundred thousand Florins of the Rhine, they have also agreed in particular as to the payment of the said Summ, upon the time when it shall commence; that it shall commence only, after that (according to the Contents of the said Article) the States and Places therein spe∣cified shall be intirely restored to the Elector. And to the end that Madam the Dutchess of Orleans may be the more assured of the payment of the said Summ; the Elector shall nominate before the Ratification of the Peace, a sufficient number of Renters, or Receivers of the Prefectship of Ger∣mersheim, and other places of the Palatinate, that shall undertake to pay the said Summ to the said Lady Dutchess, or to those impower'd by her; and that every year at Landaw, to wit, the moie∣ty every six Months; who if they do not keep time shall be lyable to be constrained to the pay∣ment, by the ordinary course of Justice, or if need require by Military execution from the Most Christian King. Upon the whole, this pay∣ment shall be made upon this condition, viz. that what shall have been paid by vertue of this An∣nual obligation to Madam the Dutchess of Orleans during the Canvassing of the Cause before the Arbitrators, shall be in compensation and put upon the accompt of that which the said Arbitra∣tors shall adjudge to her, in case they do adjudge any thing at all; but if so be they adjudge no∣thing, or less than the said Summ, then there shall be a restitution, and this compensation, allowance

or restitution, as also the fund and charges of the Process shall be regulated by the Sentence of the Arbitrators: But if Madam the Dutchess of Orleans do not give satisfaction to the form of the Compromise, either in the Instruction of the Pro∣cess, or in the Answer that shall be produced by the Elector Palatine, or if she delays it, the course of the said yearly payment shall be interrupted only during that same time, the Process going on still, according to the form of the Compromise.

Done at the Palace of Ryswick the 30th of October, 1697.

This Separate Article was Signed by the Imperial and French Plenipotentiaries, as also by the Ministers and Plenipotentiaries of the Princes and Cities, in the same manner as they had Signed the other Articles. But to avoid so tedious and unnecessary a Repetition, we omit to set their Names.