Treaty of Westphalia

XIX.

That the Family-Contracts made between the Electoral House of Heidelberg
and that of Nieuburg, touching the Succession to the Electorate,
confirm’d by former Emperors; as also all the Rights of the Rudolphine
Branch, forasmuch as they are not contrary to this Disposition, shall be
conserv’d and maintain’d entire.

XX.

Moreover, if any Fiefs in Juliers shall be found open by lawful Process,
the Question shall be decided in favour of the House Palatine.

XXI.

Further, to ease the Lord Charles Lewis, in some measure, of the trouble
of providing his Brothers with Appenages, his Imperial Majesty will give
order that forty thousand Rixdollars shall be paid to the said Brothers,
in the four ensuing Years; the first commencing with the Year 1649. The
Payment to be made of ten thousand Rixdollars yearly, with five per Cent
Interest.

XXII.

Further, that all the Palatinate House, with all and each of them, who
are, or have in any manner adher’d to it; and above all, the Ministers
who have serv’d in this Assembly, or have formerly serv’d this House; as
also all those who are banish’d out of the Palatinate, shall enjoy the
general Amnesty here above promis’d, with the same Rights as those who
are comprehended therein, or of whom a more particular and ampler mention
has been made in the Article of Grievance.

XXIII.

Reciprocally the Lord Charles Lewis and his Brothers shall render
Obedience, and be faithful to his Imperial Majesty, like the other
Electors and Princes of the Empire; and shall renounce their Pretensions
to the Upper Palatinate, as well for themselves as their Heirs, whilst
any Male, and lawful Heir of the Branch of William shall continue alive.

XXIV.

And upon the mention which has been made, to give a Dowry and a Pension
to the Mother Dowager of the said Prince, and to his Sisters; his Sacred
Imperial Majesty (according to the Affection he has for the Palatinate
House) has promis’d to the said Dowager, for her Maintenance and
Subsistence, to pay once for all twenty thousand Rixdollars; and to each
of the Sisters of the said Lord Charles Lewis, when they shall marry, ten
thousand Rixdollars, the said Prince Charles Lewis being bound to
disburse the Overplus.

XXV.

That the said Lord Charles Lewis shall give no trouble to the Counts of
Leiningen and of Daxburg, nor to their Successors in the Lower
Palatinate; but he shall let them peaceably enjoy the Rights obtain’d
many Ages ago, and confirm’d by the Emperors.

XXVI.

That he shall inviolably leave the Free Nobility of the Empire, which are
in Franconia, Swabia, and all along the Rhine, and the Districts thereof,
in the state they are at present.

XXVII.

That the Fiefs confer’d by the Emperor on the Baron Gerrard of
Waldenburg, call’d Schenck-heeren, on Nicholas George Reygersberg,
Chancellor of Mayence, and on Henry Brombser, Baron of Rudeheim; Item, on
the Elector of Bavaria, on Baron John Adolph Wolff, call’d Meternicht,
shall remain firm and stable: That nevertheless these Vassals shall be
bound to take an Oath of Fidelity to the Lord Charles Lewis, and to his
Successors, as their direct Lords, and to demand of him the renewing of
their Fiefs.

XXVIII.

That those of the Confession of Augsburg, and particularly the
Inhabitants of Oppenheim, shall be put in possession again of their
Churches, and Ecclesiastical Estates, as they were in the Year 1624. as
also that all others of the said Confession of Augsburg, who shall demand
it, shall have the free Exercise of their Religion, as well in publick
Churches at the appointed Hours, as in private in their own Houses, or in
others chosen for this purpose by their Ministers, or by those of their
Neighbours, preaching the Word of God.

XXIX.

That the Paragraphs, Prince Lewis Philip, &c. Prince Frederick, &c. and
Prince Leopold Lewis, &c. be understood as here inserted, after the same
manner they are contain’d in the Instrument, or Treaty of the Empire with
Swedeland.

XXX.

That the Dispute depending between the Bishops of Bamberg and Wirtzberg
on the one, and the Marquiss of Brandenburg, Culmbach, and Onalzbach, on
the other side, touching the Castle, Town, Jurisdiction, and Monastery of
Kitzingen in Franconia, on the Main, shall be amicably compos’d; or, in a
judicial manner, within two years time, upon pain of the Person’s losing
his Pretensions, that shall delay it: and that, in the mean time, the
Fort of Wirtzberg shall be surrender’d to the said Lords Marquisses, in
the same state it was taken, according as it has been agreed and
stipulated.

XXXI.

That the Agreement made, touching the Entertainment of the Lord Christian
William, Marquiss of Brandenburg, shall be kept as if recited in this
place, as it is put down in the fourteenth Article of the Treaty between
the Empire and Swedeland.

XXXII.

The Most Christian King shall restore to the Duke of Wirtemberg, after
the manner hereafter related, where we shall mention the withdrawing of
Garisons, the Towns and Forts of Hohenwiel, Schorendorff, Turbingen, and
all other places, without reserve, where he keeps Garisons in the Dutchy
of Wirtemberg. As for the rest, the Paragraph, THE HOUSE OF WIRTEMBERG,
&c. shall be understood as inserted in this Place, after the same manner
it’s contain’d in the Treaty of the Empire, and of Swedeland.

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