A collection of all the acts, memorials & letters, that pass'd in the negotiation of the peace with the treaties concluded at Nimeguen / translated from the French copy, printed at Paris with privilege ; The articles of peace between the Emperor and the French King, and those between the Emperor and the King of Sweden, translated from the Latin copy, printed at Nimeguen.

The Memorial of the Deputies Extraordi∣nary of the States General, &c. to the Duke De Villa Hermosa, of the 27th. of May.

THe Lords, the States General of the United Provinces, are extremely satisfi'd to understand, by the Answer your Excellency was pleased to re∣turn to the Memorial presented on their behalf, by us their under-written Deputies Extraordinary, the 14th. instant, That your Excellency did agree, and consented to treat of a Truce, or Cessation of Arms, for the space of six weeks; and could have

wished, That you had as positively declared your self touching the second Point contained in the said Memorial, namely, the Conditions of Peace proposed some time ago, by the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries of the King of France at Nime∣guen. But because in the said Answer, no mention is made of so considerable a Point, their Hi. and Mi. have again commanded us to make instance, and represent unto your Excellency, of how great moment it is, as well with relation to the common Cause, as more especially for the preservation of what remains to his Catholick Majesty in the Low Countreys; that your Excellency declare, in the name of the King of Spain, your acceptance of the said Conditions of Peace, such as they are, considering the present state of affairs, and the risque and great danger there may be, in continu∣ing the War against so powerful an Enemy as the King of France is, who has already brought his Army together, and is himself at the head of it in the Field, and that in the heart of the Low Countreys. For these and other reasons represented in the preceding Memorials, we earnestly entreat your Excellency to take such a resolution, as may be agreeable to the desires of our Lords and Ma∣sters, and that without loss of time, since a few days, considering the condition wherein things are at present, may produce fatal Revolutions, and such as would extremely embarass as well your Ex∣cellency as the Allies, and be likewise very pre∣judicial to the Peace of all Europe.

Done at Bruxels the 27th. of May, 1678.

Jacob Boreal,

De Weede.