A Copy of the FRENCH KING'S DECLARATION TO THE Confederate Princes; Addressed to the Chapter of Liege, and Communicated by the Cardi­nal BOVILLON.

Translated from the Dutch.

Licensed April the 4th. 1694.

His Majesty,

Being desirous to facilitate, and secure to the Chapter of Liege, as much as in him lies, the free and regular Election of a Bi­shop and Prince, has declar'd, and does hereby declare, That in case the Confederate Princes will cause their Troops to retire out of this City and Cittadel; as also out of the Forts and Lines there­of, to the end, That the Chapter may be left free and unmolested in all Matters appertaining to the said Election; his majesty binds himself, and promises upon the Word of a King, That he will observe a full and exact Newtrality with the City and Country of Liege, not only to the Twentieth of April, the day of the Electi­on, but also to the last of April inclusively, and consequently that no Act of Hostility shall be committed directly, or indirectly upon any pretence whatsoever, in any part of the Disticts of Liege, till the first of may, and his majesty does likewise declare, That he will give Past-ports and Letters of Safe-Guard during that time; and that afterwards, all things shall be on the same Foot as now, and that the Confederate Troops shall again take possession of the sosts they now Garrison, without any Let or molestation from His Majesty.

Signed Lovis,
And underneath
Colbert.

LONDON, Printed for Abel Johnson near Temple-Bar, 1694.

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