The TREATY of Pyrennes: OR, Articles of Peace, Between the Crowns of FRANCE and SPAIN; Concluded and Signed the Seventh of November, 1659. With Reference to the PEACE in Hand.  Printed in Paris by His Majesty's Command, and now faithfully rendered into English. 
IN THE NAME OF GOD THE CREATOR. To all present and to come, Be it known; That whereas a long and bloody War, hath, many Years since caused great Miseries and Oppessions to be suffered by the People, Kingdoms, Countries, and Dominions under the Obedience of the most High, most Excellent, and most Potent Prince Lewis the XIVth. by the Grace of God, most Christian King of France and Navarra; and of Philip the IVth. by the Grace of God, Catholic King of Spain: In which War, other Princes and Republics; their Neighbours and Allies, having also taken part, many Towns and Countries of both the Parties have been exposed to great Evils, Miseries, Ruins, and Desolations. And although at other times, and by several ways, divers Overtures and Negociations for an Accommodation, have been made; yet none of them, through the Mysterious Secrets of the Divine Providence, could take the effect most earnestly desired by their Majesties, until at length that Supreme God who hath in his Hand the Hearts of Kings, and hath particularly reserved to himself alone, the precious Gift of Peace, hath had the Goodness, through his infinite Mercy, to inspire at the same time, both the Kings, and so to guide and direct them, that without any other Interposition or Motives, but the only sense of Compassion they have had of the Sufferings of their good Subjects, and of a Fatherly desire of their good and relief, and of the Peace of the whole Christendom, they have found the means how to put an end to so great and long Calamities, to forget and extinguish the Causes and the Seeds of their Divisions, and to settle to the Glory of God, and the Exaltation of our Holy Catholic Faith, a good sincere, entire and lasting Peace and Fraternity between them and their Successors, their Allies and Dependants; By means whereof the Damages and Miseries suffered, might quickly be repaired in all parts.  
Imprimis, It hath been concluded and agreed, concerning the Low-Countries, that the Lord the most Christian King shall remain seized, and shall effectually enjoy the Places, Towns, Countries and Castles, Dominions, Lands and Lordships following.  
First, Within the Country of Artois, the Town and City of Arras, and the Government and Bailiwick thereof; Hesdin and the Bailiwick thereof; Bapaume and the Bailiwick thereof; Bethune and the Government or Bailiwick thereof; Lillers and the Bailiwick thereof; Lentz and the Bailiwick thereof; the County of St. Pol; Terroane and the Bailiwick theteof; the Pas and the Bailiwick thereof; As also all the other Bailiwick and Chastellenies of the said Artois, whatsoever they be, although not here particularly named and mentioned, Except only the Towns, Bailiwicks and Chastellenies, or Governments of Air and St. Omer, with their Appurtenances, Dependencies and Annexes, which shall remain all unto his Catholic Majesty: As also the Place of Renty, in case it be found to be of the said Dependencies of Air or St. Omer, and not otherwise.  
Secondly, within the Province and County of Flanders, the said Lord the most Christian King shall remain seized, and shall effectually enjoy the Places of Gravelling, the Forts Philip, of the Sluice, and Hannuin Bourbourg and the Chastelleny thereof; and St. Venant, whether it belongs to Flanders, or to Artois, and their Dominions, Appurtenances, Dependencies and Annexes.  
Thirdly, Within the Province and County of Hainaeut, the said Lord the most Christian King shall remain seized; and shall effectually enjoy the Places of Landrecy and Quesnoy, and their Bailiwicks, Provostiships, or Chastellenies, Dominions, Appurtenances and Dependencies.  
Fourthly, Within the Province and Duchy of Luxemburg, the said Lord the most Christian King shall remain seized, and shall effectually enjoy the Places of Thionville, Montmedy and Damvilliers, their Appurtenances, Dependencies, and Annexes, Provostships and Lordships: The Provostship of Ivoy, Chavancy, Chasteau, and the Provostship thereof; and the Place and Post of Marville, situate upon the small River called Vezin, and the Provostship of the said Marville; which Place and Provastship did formerly belong, partly unto the Dukes of Luxemburg, and partly unto the Dukes of Bar.  
Fifthly, His most Christian Majesty having strongly declared that he could never consent to the restitution of the Places of la Bussea, and Bergh St. Wynox, Chastellany of the said Bergh, and the Royal Fort erected upon the Channel, hard by the Town of Bergh; and His Catholic Majesty having condescended that they should remain to the French, unless an Exchange of the said Places, with others of the like consideration and mutual conveniencies could be agreed upon, both the said Lords Plenipotentiaries, have at last agreed that the said two Placer of la Bassee and Bergh-St. Wynox, the Chastellany and Royal Fort of the said Bergh; should be exchanged with the Places of Marienbourg and Philippeville, situate on the Rivers Sambre and Maez, their Appurtenances, Dependencies, Annexes and Dominions: And therefore his said most Christian Majesty restoring, as it will be said hereafter, unto His Catholic Majesty, the said Places of la Bassee, Bergh St. Wynox, and the Chastellany thereof, and the Royal Fort, with their Appurtenances, Dependencies, Annexes and Dominions, His Catholic Majesty shall at the same time put into the Hands of His most Christian Majesty, the said Places of Marienburg and Philippeville, His said most Christian Majesty to remain seized of them, and effectually enjoy them, and their Appurtenances, Dependencies, etc.  
Sixthly, His Catholic Majesty, for certain considerations hereafter particularly expressed in another Article of the present Treaty, doth promise and oblige himself to put into the Hands of His most Christian Majesty, the Town and Place of Avennes, situate between the Sambre and the Maez, with the Appurtenances, Dependencies, Annexes, and Dominions thereof. And because it hath been reported, that within the said Places of Avennes, and the Appurtenances, Dependencies, Annexes and Dominions thereof, the ordinary Jurisdiction, the Rents and other Profits do belong to the Prince of Chimay, it hath been declared and agreed between the said Lords and Kings, that whatsoever is contained within the Walls and Fortifications of the said Place, shall remain to His most Christian Majesty; so that the said Prince shall have no kind of Right, Rent, or Jurisdiction within the said Walls and Fortifications; it being only reserved unto him to keep whatsoever in time past did belong to him out of the said Place, in the Villages, Countries and Forests of the said dependence.  
The said Places of Arras, Hesdin, Bapaunie, Bethune, and the Towns of Lillers, Lens, County of St. Pol, Teroane, Pas, and their Bailiwicks; as also all the other Bailiwicks and Chastellenies of Artois, (except only as aforesaid the Towns and Bailiwicks of Air and St. Omer, their Appurtenances, Dependencies, Annexes and Dominions) as also Renty, in case it be not found to be any of the Dependencies of Air or of St. Omer; together with the Places of Gravelling, and the Forts Philip, the Sluice and Hannuin Bourbourgh, and St. Venant in Flanders; the Places of Landrecy and Quesnoy, in the Hainaeut; as also those of Avennes, Marienbourgh and Philippeville, which are to be put into the Hands of the most Christian King, as aforesaid: And likewise the Places of Thionville, Montmedi, and Damvilliers, the Town and Provostship of Ivoy, Chavency, Chasteau and the Provostship thereof, and Marville, in Luxembourgh, their Bailiwicks, Chastellanies, etc.  
And as concerning the Countries and Places taken by the Arms of France, during this War towards Spain: As it had been formerly agreed by the Negociation begun at Madrid, in the Year 1656; upon which this present Treaty is grounded, that the Pyrenean Mountains, which anciently had divided the Gauls from Spain, should also make henceforth the Division of both the said Kingdoms, It hath been concluded and agreed, that the Lord, the most Christian King, shall remain in possession, and shall effectually enjoy the whole Country and Viquery of Roussillion, and the Country and Viquery of Conflans, the Countries, Towns, Places, Castles, Borroughs, Villages and Places, which make up the said Counties and Viqueries of Roussillon and Conflans: And to the Lord, the Catholic King, shall remain the County and Viquery of Cerdana, and the whole Principality of Catalonia, with the Viqueries, Places, Towns, Castles, Boroughs, Hamblets, Places, and Counties, that make up the said County of Cerdana, and the Principality of Catalonia. Provided, that if there be found any place of the County and Viquery of Conflans only, and not of Roussillon, that be in the said Pyrenean Mountains toward Spain, it shall likewise remain to His Catholic Majesty: As likewise, if any place be found of the said County and Viquery of Cerdana only, and not of Catalonia, that be in the said Pyrenean Mountains towards France, it shall remain to His most Christian Majesty.  
The whole County and Viquery of Roussillon, County and Viquery of Conflans, except the places that shall be found to be situate in the Pyrenean Mountains towards Spain, in the manner aforesaid, according to the Declaration and Agreement of the Commissioners that are to be appointed for that purpose; as also that part of the County of Cerdana, that shall be found situate in the Pyrenean Mountains towards France, according unto the same Declaration of the Commissioners, the Countries, Towns, places, Castles, that make up the Viqueries of Roussillon and Conflans, and part of the County of Cerdana, in the manner aforesaid, shall remain for ever to the Crown of France.  
The said Lord the Catholic King, shall re-enter into the possession and enjoyment of the County of Corrolois, to enjoy it by him and his Successors, fully and peaceably, and hold the same under the Sovereignty of the most Christian King, as he held it afore the present War.  
The said Lord the most Christian King, shall restore to the said Lord the Catholic Ling, in the Low-Countries, the Towns and places of Ypres, Oudenard, Dixude, Furnes, with the fortified Posts of La Fintelle, and La Quenoque, Marville upon the River of Lys, Menin and Comines, their Appurtenances, Dependences and Annexes. As also his most Christian Majesty shall put again into the hands of his Catholic Majesty the places of Burgh, St. Wynox, and its Royal Fort, and the place of la Bassee, by way of exchange for the places of Marienburgh and Philippeville.  
Secondly, The said Lord the most Christian King, shall restore in Italy, unto the said Lord the Catholic King, the places of Valence upon the Po● and of Mortara, their Appurtenances, Dependences and Annexes.  
Thirdly, in the County of Burgundy, the said Lord the most Christian King, shall restore unto the said Lord the Catholic King, the places and Forts of St. Amour, Bleverans and Joux, and their Appurtenances, Dependences and Annexes, and all the other Posts, fortified or not fortified, which the Armies of his most Christian Majesty have taken in the said County of Burgundy, without keeping or reserving any thing.  
Fourthly, towards Spain, the said Lord the most Christian King, shall restore to the Catholic King, the places and Ports of Roses, the Fort of the Trinity, Cap-de Quers, La Scau d'Urgel, Toxen, the Castle of Bastide, the Town and place of Baga, the Town and place of Ripol, and the county of Cerdana, wherein are Belver, Puicerda, Carol, and the Castle of Cerdana, in such a condition as they be now, and all the Castles, Ports, fortified or not fortified, Town, Boroughs, Villages and other places, Appurtenances, Dependences and Annexes, belonging to the said places of Roses, Cap. de Quers, Scau d' Urgel, and county of Cerdana, although not named nor specified here: Provided, that if any of the said Posts, Towns, places and castles aforenamed, should be found to be in the Viguery of Cerdana, in the Pyraenean Mountains towards France, they shall remain to his most Christian Majesty.  
The said Lord the Catholic King, shall restore unto the Lord the most Christian King, the Towns and places of Rocroy. Le Catelet, and Linchamp.  
As the three places of Avennes, Philippevile and Morienbourg, are yielded by the present Treaty, as aforesaid, unto the Lord the most Christian King, to be united and incorporated to the Crown of France, if there be found any places, which not being of the said Appurtenances, Dependences, or Annexes, aught to remain in the said propriety and sovereignty of the said Lord the Catholic King, neither his said Catholic Majesty, nor the Kings his Successors, shall have power at any time to fortify the said Borroughs, Villages, Posts or Countries, nor to make any new Fortifications between the said places of Avennes, Philippeville and Morienbourg, by means of which Fortifications, the said places or any of them, might be cut off from France, or the communication between them disturbed: As likewise it hath been concluded and agreed, that in case the place of Rent in Artois remain to his Catholic Majesty, as it ought to remain to him, in case it be found to be of the Dependences of Air or St. Omer, neither his said Catholic Majesty, nor the Kings his Successors, shall have power, at any time to fortify the said Renty.  
By virtue of the present Treaty, all the Catalonians and other Inhabitants of the said Province, as well Prelates, Ecclesiastical Persons, Religious Persons, Lords, Gentlemen, and Burgesses, as other Inhabitants, both of the Towns and of the Country, none excepted, shall have power to re-enter, and shall effectually re-enter, and be left and established in the possession and peaceably enjoyment of all their Goods, Honours, etc. And for that end, his Catholic Majesty shall grant and cause to be published, in good form, his Declarations of Amnisty and Pardon, in the behalf of the said Catalonians, which publication shall be made upon the same day, as the publication of the Peace.  
Although his most Christian Majesty hath never been willing to engage himself, notwithstanding the pressing instances made to him heretofore, backed even with very considerable offers, not to make the Peace without the exclusion of the Kingdom of Portugal, because his Majesty hath foreseen and feared least such an Engagement might be an unsurmountable obstruction to the conclusion of the Peace, doth now restore by the present Treaty unto his Catholic Majesty, all the rest of the Conquests generally made by his Arms during this War, and wholly to restore the Prince of Conde; Provided and upon that condition that the affairs of the Kingdom of Portugal should be left as they are now; which his Catholic Majesty having refused to accept, but only offering that in the consideration of the Offices of the said Lord the most Christian King, he would give his consent for setting all things in the said Kingdom of Portugal, in the same state they were afore the change arrived therein the Month of December, in the year 1640. pardoning and giving a general Amnisty for all what is past: And his said most Christian Majesty willing to prefer, as it ought to be, and is most just, the general quietness of Christendom, to the particular interest of the Kingdom of Portugal, it hath been at length concluded and agreed between the said Lords and Kings, that it shall be granted unto his said most Christian Majesty, a space of three months' time, to begin from the day of the exchanging of the Ratifications of the present Treaty, during which his said Majesty may send into the said Kingdom of Portugal, to endeavour so to dispose things there, and to reduce and compose that affair, that his Catholic Majesty may remain fully satisfied. Which three Months being expireed, if his said most Christian Majesty's Cares and Offices have not had the desired effect, his said Majesty will not further meddle with that affair.  
His Catholic Majesty doth renounce by this Treaty, both in his Name, and of his Heirs, Successors and Assigns, unto all the Rights and Pretensions, without keeping or reserving any thing, which his Majesty may, or might hereafter have upon the Upper and Lower Alsatia, the Zuntgaw, the County of Ferrese, Brisac, and Dependences thereof, and upon all the countries, places, and rights left and yielded to his most Christian Majesty by the Treaty made at Munster, the 14 of October, 1648. to be united and incorporated to the Crown of France: In consideration of which, his most christian Majesty do offer to satisfy to the payment of Three Millions of Livers, to the Archdukes of Inspruck.  
The Duke Charles of Lorraine having showed much sorrow for his Conduct towards the Lord the most Christian King, and to have a firm intention to give him more satisfaction for the future, both of himself and of his actions, than the time past, and the occasions have formerly enabled him to do, his most Christian Majesty, in consideration of the mighty offices of his Catholic Majesty, doth from this time receive the said Duke into his good Grace, and in contemplation of the Peace, without looking to the Rights his Majesty may have acquitted, by several Treaties made by the late King his Father, with the said Duke, after the demolishing, which shall be first made, of all the Fortifications of both the Towns of Nancy, which he shall not have power to raise again, shall put again the said Duke Charles of Lorraine into the possession of the Dukedom of Lorraine, and even of the Towns, places, and Countries, by him formerly possessed, depending of the three Bishoprics of Mentz, Thoul and Verdun, except first, Moyenvie, which, though within the Marches of Lorraine, yet belonged to the Empire, and hath been yielded to his most Christian Majesty, by the Treaty made at Munster, the 21 of October, 1648.  
Secondly, Except the whole Dukedom of Bar, Countries, Towns, and places, making up the same, as well that part thereof as doth hold from the Crown of France, as that which might be pretended not to hold of it.  
Thirdly, except the County of Clermont, and the Dominion thereof, and the places, Provostships, and Lands of Stenay Dun, and Jametz, with the whole revenue thereof, and the Territories belonging to them. Which Moyenvie Dukedom of Bar, therein comprehended the part of the place and Provestship of Merville; which part, as it hath been said before, did belong to the Dukes of Bar, places, County, Provostship, Lands, and Dominions of Clermont, Stenay, Dnn, and Jametz, with their Appurtenances, Dependences, and Annexes, shall remain for ever united and incorporated to the Crown of France.  
Neither the said Duke Charles of Lorraine, nor any other Prince of his House, or of his Adherents and dependants shall not have power to remain in Arms, but both the said Duke, and the other aforesaid, shall be bound to disband their forces at the Publication of the said Peace.  
Whereas the said Cardinal Mazarin, his most Christian Majesty's Plenipotentiary, hath represented, that for the better obtaining of a good Peace, it is necessary that the Duke of Savoy, who hath intermeddled in this War, joining his Arms to those of the Crown of France, whose Ally he is, should be comprehended in the present Treaty: His most Christian Majesty loving the welfare and preservation of the said Duke, as much as his own, because of the propinquity of blood and alliance whereby they are related▪ and his Catholic Majesty finding it reasonable that the said Duke be comprehended in that Peace: upon the instances and by the interposition of his most Christian Majesty; It hath been concluded and agreed, that for the future there shall be a cessation of all manner of acts of hostilty, as well by Sea and other waters, as by land, between his Catholic Majesty and the said Duke of Savoy  
In consequence of the said Peace, and in consideration of the Offices of his most Christian Majesty, the said Lord the Catholic King shall restore unto the said Duke of Savoy, the Town, place and Castle of Verceil: And shall therein demolish nothing, nor damnify the Fortifications that have been made there: And as to the place of Cencin in the Langs, it shall likewise be restored to the said Duke of Savoy, in the same state it is now in, with the Dependences and Annexes.  
As for the Dower of the late Serenissime Infanta Catharina, about which there hath been some difference betwixt the Houses of Savoy, the Artears that may be due to his House, since the said Dower was appointed, until the 17th of December in the year 1620. At which time the late Duke Charles Emanuel of Savoy gave in Appanage the said Dower, to the late Prince Philbert his Son, as it shall be verified by the date, out of the Books of the Royal Chamber of Naples.  
And because the Divisions, or contrary Pretensions of the Houses of Savoy and Mantua, have several times caused some Troubles in Italy, because of the assistances the said Lords and Kings have at divers times given, each of them to his Allies; that for the future, no subject or pretence may be left, that might afresh after the good Intelligence and Amity of their Majesties; It hath been concluded and agreed, for the good of the Peace, that the Treaties made at Querasque, in the Year 163●. about the differences of the said Houses of Savoy and Mantua, shall be executed according to their Form and Tenor.  
And because the said Lords and Kings have considered, that the differences of the other Princes their Friends and Adherents, have often drawn them, against their Wills, and the Kings their Predecessors, to the taking up of Arms; The two Lords and Kings have agreed, that they will jointly interpose, their Offices and Supplications towards our Holy Father the Pope, until they may have obtained of his Holiness that he might be pleased to cause the disserence to be ended without delay, either by an Agreement or by Justice, which the Duke of Modena hath had so long since, with the Apostolical Chamber, touching the Propriety and Possession of the Valleys of Comachio: Hoping of the Sovereign Equity of his Holiness, that he will not refuse the just satisfaction that shall be due to a Prince, whose Ancestors have so well deserved of the holy See. Their Majesty's seeing, with a great Grif, the present Disposition of Germany, and of other Northern Countries, where the War is kindled, and may yet inflame the Empire, have concluded to send their Ambassadors, jointly to act for the managing, in their Name, a good and speedy Accommodation, both of all Differences that may trouble the Peace of the Empire, and of such, as some Years since, have caused the War in the other Parts of the North.  
The Prince of Monaco shall be restored, without delay, into the peaceable possession of all the Goods, Rights and Revenues belonging unto him, and which he enjoyed afore the War, in the Kingdom of Naples, Duchy of Milan, and other Places of the Obedience of His Catholic Majesty.  
All Prisoners of War, of what Nation or Condition soever, being detained on either side, shall be set at liberty, in paying their Expenses, and what they may otherwise owe; but without paying any Ransom, unless they have agreed before otherwise; in which case the Treaties made by them afore this Day, shall be executed according to their Form and Sense.  
Provided all the Premises be duly observed, it hath been concluded and agreed, that the Treaty made at Veruins in the Year 568. is again confirmed and approved by the said Plenipotentiaries, in all its Points, as if the same was here inserted word for word, and without innovating thing therein, nor in any of the other former Treaties, which shall remain in their full force, in whatsoever it is not derogated unto by this present Treaty.   

LONDON, Printed for W. Drury, near the Royal-Exchange.