The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ...

By the Treaty of Peace concluded between France and Spain, at Nimmeguen, the 17th of September, 1678.

The Most Christian King is to injoy effectively, the whole County of Burgundy, commonly called the Franche Comté, and the Towns, Places, and Countries thereon depending; including therein the Town of Besancon, and its District, or Precinct; as also the Towns of Valenciennes, and its Depen∣dances, Bouchain and its Dependances, Cambray, and Cambresis, or the Country of Cambray, Aire, St. Omer, and their Dependances, Ypres, and its Castel∣lany, Warwick, and Warneton, on the Lys, Pope∣ringhen, Bailleul, and Cassel, with their Dependan∣cies, Bavay and Maubenge, with their Dependan∣cies, besides the Town of Dinant; and in case the King of Spain be not able to obtain of the Bishop and Chapter of Liege, the Cession of Dinant, with the consent of the Emperour and Empire, with a year to be reckoned from the day of the date of the Ratification of the Treaty of Peace between the Emperour and the Most Christian King, the King of Spain obliges himself, and promises to yield the Town of Charlemont to the King of France:

And some Villages there were to be Exchanged.

By the Treaty of Peace concluded at Nimmeguen,

the 5th of February, 1679. the Town and Cittadel of Friburg in Brisgaw, with the three Villages, Lehn, Metthausen and Kirchzart, and their Banlieus, or Liberties, is to remain to the King of France: And the passage from Brisac to Friburg, is to remain free to his M. C. Majesty, over the Lands of his Imperial Majesty, and of the Empire, by the Ordi∣nary Road, called Landrass.

The Duke of Lorrain is thereby re-established in the possession of Lorrain, excepting first, the Town of Nancy, and its Banlieu, or Jurisdiction; in lieu of which Town the King of France is to give him the Town and Banlieu of Toul, which he warrants him to be of equal extent and value: In the second place, except four High-ways of the breadth of half a Lorrain League, which shall lead from Nancy into Alsatia, to Vesoul in the Franche Comté, to Mets, and to St. Dizier. And all the Borroughs, Villages, Lands, and their Dependancies, which shall be found within the extent of the said High-ways of half a Leagues breadth, with all Rights, as well of Superiority and Soveraignty, as of Proprie∣ty, shall belong to his Most Christian Majesty. Thirdly, The Town and Provostship of Longui, and its Dependancies, shall remain to his Most Christian Majesty, who yields to him in Exchange, another Provostship of the same extent and value in one of the three Bishopricks.