Preliminary ARTICLES (OR PROPOSITIONS FOR A General Peace) BETWEEN His Most CHRISTIAN MAJESTY AND THE Several ALLIES.

I. THE Crown of France, for the Foundation of a future Peace, will observe the West­phalia and Nimeguen Treaties.

II. Notwithstanding the said Crown intended to keep Strasburgh and Luxemburgh, and give for an equivolent Friburg, in the State it is in at present, with its Dependencies: And also Brisack, with all its Fortifications, except those of the new City, the Fort of Esch and the Fort of R yne to be demolished: Never­theless, upon the Allies refusing to accept them, the said Crown promises to give up the City of Strasburgh on­ly in the Condition it was in when taken.

III. She offers to deliver up Philipsburgh to the Bi­shop of Spire.

IV. The Crown of France agrees to raze the Fort of Kiell, and other Forts made on the Rhyne.

V. As also Fort-Louis and Huninghen.

VI. She agrees likewise to raze Montroyal and Rose­back, provided the Allies will be obliged not to re-for­tifie them.

VII. The Crown of France will restore to the Elector Pallatine, not only his Electoral Lands, but also the Dutchies of Simmeren and Lauteren, and the County of Spanheim, with all other Places whereof his Electoral Highness has been dispossessed to this present time.

VIII. Madam the Dutchess of Orleans will not pro­ceed by force on her Protestant Subjects, but will pro­secute her Right only before a competent Judge in rela­tion to the Elector.

IX. This Crown offers to give Satisfaction to the other Crowns, in relation to other Revenues; that is to say, to the Crown of Sweeden, for the Dutchies of Deux-Ponts, and all its dependencies.

X. To the Count of Valdentz, for his Town and Ca­stle of Valdentz.

XI. And She will restore Bischweiter to the Count of Hanover.

XII. And give up to the Count of Obersteine the County Delamoetz.

XIII. The Seignory of Salme, and that of Salstein, to the Prince of Salme, or to whom they lawfully ap­pertain, since there is still a dispute about it.

XIV. The Seignory of Lutstenstein, and that of Alt­sheim, to those to whom they belong.

XV. Obsverter to the House of Nassaw.

XVI. To the House of Wirtemburgh, the County of Montraband, Herricourt, Blamont, and Chastillet.

XVII. Germersheime to the House of the Elector Pala­tine; notwithstanding former Treaties.

XVIII. Stadez and Landeburgh to the Count de Va­litz.

XIX. The Crown of France will restore all that has been taken since the Peace of Nimeguen.

XX. As to Lorraine, this Crown would have it refer­red to the General Treaty of Peace; and in the mean time, France promises to offer more on this subject than she has ever hitherto done.

XXI. France will restore to the Bishop of Liege, Di­nant, in the State it was in when she possessed her self of it.

XXII. That to all other Princes, whether compre­hended in the Alliance or not, their Pretensions shall be respited; and that France obligeth her self to give them satisfaction in the time of the Negotiation.

XXIII. That this Crown will acknowledge WILLIAM the Third for Lawful King of England, without any Re­serve or Restriction, tho' not before the Conclusion of this Peace; since if this Crown should do it at present, and the Peace should not be concluded, it would be ne­cessary for her to retract it an inconvenience she would avoid.

LONDON: Sold by E. Whitlock, near Stationers-Hall, 1696.

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