others); ftill preserving the rights and privileges, as well ecclefiaftical as political, of king Charles the third.

ARTICLE X.

That, befides, the States fhall have liberty to fortify the faid towns, places, and forts, which belong to them, and repair the fortifications of them in fuch manner as they fhall judge neceffary; and further to do whatever shall be useful for their defence.

ARTICLE XI.

It is agreed, that the States-general shall have all the revenues of the towns, places, jurifdictions, and their dependencies, which they shall have for their barrier from France, which were not in the poffeffion of the crown of Spain at the time of the death of the late king Charles II; and besides, a million of livres fhall be fettled for the payment of one hundred thousand crowns every three months out of the clearest revenues of the Spanish Low-countries, which the faid king was then in poffeffion of; both which are for maintaining the garrifons of the States, and for fupplying the fortifications, as also the magazines, and other neceffary expences, in the towns and places above-mentioned. And that the faid revenues may be fufficient to fupport these expences, endeavours fhall be used for enlarging the dependencies and jurisdictions aforefaid as much as poffible; and particularly for including, with the jurisdiction of Ypres, that of Cassel, and the foreft of Neipe;

and,

with the jurisdiction of Lifle, the jurifdiction of Douay, both having been fo joined before the present war.

ARTICLE XII.

That no town, fort, place, or country of the Spanish Low-countries, fhall be granted, transferred, or given, or descend to the crown of France, or any of the line of France, neither by virtue of any gift, fale, exchange, marriage, agreement, inheritance, fucceffion by will, or through want of will, from no title whatsoever, nor in any other manner whatsoever, nor be put into the power, or under the authority, of the moft Chriftian king, or any one of the line of France.

And whereas the faid States-general,in consequence of the ninth article of the faid alliance, are to make a convention or treaty with king Charles the third, for putting the States in a condition of safety by means of the faid barrier, the QUEEN of Great Britain will do what depends upon her, that all the foregoing particulars, relating to the barrier of the States, may be inferted in the aforesaid treaty or convention; and that her faid majesty will continue her good offices, until the above-mentioned convention, between the States and the faid king Charles the third, be concluded, agreeably to what is before mentioned; and that her majesty will be guarantee of the said treaty or convention. ARTI

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And that the faid States may enjoy, from henceforward, as much as poffible, a barrier for the Spanish Low-countries, they fhall be permitted to put their garrisons in the towns already taken, and which may hereafter be fo, before the peace be concluded and ratified. And in the mean time, the faid king Charles the third fhall not be allowed to enter into poffeffion of the said Spanish Low countries, neither entirely nor in part; and, during that time, the QUEEN fhall affift their high mightineffes to maintain them in the enjoyment of the revenues, and to find the million of livres a year abovementioned.

ARTICLE XV.

And whereas their high mightineffes have ftipulated, by the treaty of Munfter, in the fourteenth article, that the river Scheld, as alfo the canals of Sas, Swan, and other mouths of the fea bordering thereupon, fhould be kept fhut on the fide of the States:

And in the fifteenth article, that the ships and commodities, going in and coming out of the harbours of Flanders, shall be and remain charged with all fuch impofts and other duties as are raised upon commodities going and coming along the Scheld, and the other canals abovementioned:

The QUEEN of Great Britain promifes and engages, that their high mightineffes fhall never be difturbed in their right and poffeffion in that respect,

neither

neither directly nor indirectly; as also, that the commerce shall not, in prejudice of the said treaty, be made more easy by the fea-ports than by the rivers, canals, and mouths of the sea, on the fide of the States of the United provinces, neither directly nor indirectly.

And whereas, by the fixteenth and seventeenth articles of the fame treaty of Munster, his majesty the king of Spain is obliged to treat the subjects of their high mightineffes as favourably as the subjects of Great Britain and Hans towns, who were then the people moft favourably treated; her Britannic majefty and their high mightineffes promise likewise to take care, that the subjects of Great Britain and of their high mightineffes fhall be treated in the Spanish Low-countries, as well as in Spain, the kingdoms and states belonging to it, equally, and as well the one as the other, as the people moft favoured.

The faid QUEEN and States-general oblige themfelves to furnish, by fea and land, the fuccours and affiftance neceflary to maintain, by force, her faid majesty in the quiet poffeffion of her kingdoms, and the most ferene houfe of Hanover in the faid fucceffion, in the manner it is fettled by the acts of parliament beforementioned; and to maintain the said States-general in the poffeffion of the said barrier.

ARTICLE XVII.

After the ratifications of the treaty, a particular convention shall be made of the conditions, by which the faid QUEEN and the faid lords the States-general will engage themselves to furnish the fuccours which fhall be thought neceffary, as well by fea as by land.

If her British majefty, or the States-general of the United provinces, be attacked by any body whatfoever by reason of this convention, they fhall mutually affift one another with all their forces, and become guarantees of the execution of the said con

vention.

ARTICLE

XIX.

There fhall be invited and admitted into the prefent treaty, as foon as poffible, all the kings, princes, and ftates, who fhall be willing to enter into the fame, particularly his Imperial majesty, the kings of Spain and Prussia, and the elector of Hanover. And her British majesty and the States-general of the United provinces, and each of them in particular, fhall be permitted to require and invite thofe, whom they fhall think fit to require and invite, to enter into this treaty, and to be guarantees of its execu

tion.

ARTICLE XX.

And as time hath fhewn the omiffion, which was made in the treaty figned at Ryfwick in the year

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1697,