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.

The Full Powers of the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of His Most Christian Majesty.

LEwis by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre,

to all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting.

As We desire no∣thing more earnestly than that this War, which has so long afflicted Christendom, may conclude by a good Peace; and since the Towns of Delft and the Hague have been Agreed upon through the Care and Mediation of Our Dearest and Welbeloved Brother the King of Sueden for the Conferences to that purpose, We being mov'd with the same good Inclinations, to pre∣vent, as much as in Us lies, the Ruin of so many Provinces, and the Effusion of so much Chri∣stian Blood, do make known, that upon entire Confidence in the Experience, Capacity and Fide∣lity of Our Trusty and Welbeloved Councel∣lor in Ordinary of Our Privy Council the Sieur de Harlay de Bonneuil, Our Trusty and Welbe∣loved the Sieur Verjus, Count of Crecy, Ba∣ron of Couvay, Lord of Boulay, the two Churches, Menillet and other Places, and of Our Trusty and Welbeloved the Sieur de Caillieres, Rochechellay and Gigny, and by the several Advan∣tagious Proofs which We have had of their Abi∣lities, as well within the Kingdom as withou•• and for several other good Causes and Consid••¦rations

Us thereunto moving, have Constituted Appointed and Deputed, and by these Presents Signed with Our Hand, do Constitute, Appoint and Depute the said Seiurs de Harlay, de Crecy and de Caillieres, Our Ambassadors Extraordina∣ry, and Plenipotentiaries for the Peace; giving them full Power and Authority, and moreo∣ver Commanding them expresly to Confer with, (in the City of Delft or elsewhere, where they shall be actually, either directly, or through the Mediation of Ambassadors, Receiv'd and Accept∣ed for that purpose) the Ambassadors, Plenipo∣tentiaries and Ministers of Our Dearest and Welbeloved Brother the King of Great Britain and his Allies, each being provided with Power sufficient to Treat of and Determine the several Differences which have occasion'd this War: Our said Plenipotentiaries have also Power, ei∣ther all Three together, or Two of them, in case of Absence, Sickness, or any other Impedi∣ment, or One, if the other Two be not able to be Present, to Agree upon, Conclude and Sign a Firm and Lasting Peace, and generally to Do, Negotiate, Promise and Grant whatever they shall think Necessary to Effect so good a Work, with the same Authority that We Our selves could Act, if We were present at the said Confe∣rences in Person, although there had been some∣thing which was not Contain'd in these Pre∣sents, which Required a more especial Authori∣ty. Hereupon We Promise on the Faith and Word of a King, to Keep inviolably, and to Confirm whatever the said Sieurs de Harlay, de Crecy and de Caillieres, or Two of them, in Case of the Absence of the other, on Account of Sickness or any other Impediment; or of One

only, in Case of the Incapacity of the rest, shall Stipulate, Promise or Grant in Our Name: And We likewise give Our Royal Word, that We will Dispatch the Letters of Ratification in the Time Promis'd by Our said Ministers, for such is Our Pleasure. In Testimony whereof We have caus'd these Presents to be Seal'd with Our Seal.

Given at Fontainebleau the 26 of Septemb. in the Year of Our Lord, 1697. and of Our Reign the Fifty fifth,

Lewis.

And upon the Fold, By the King, Colbert.