Folio 121. Declaration by the estates of the circle of Upper Rhine, to be enclosed...

Folio 121. Declaration by the estates of the circle of Upper Rhine, to be enclosed in the recess of Mar 1/11 (see f.76), accepting the deposition by certain seignories, viz. the principality of Nassau-Itstein, the lordship belonging to the counts of Solms-Braunfels, the manors of Isenburg, Trächtersdorf, Waldeck and Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein, that they are, 'for some serious reasons' ('aus einigen bedenklichen Ursachen'), unable to comply entirely with the 'quantum' imposed on them by the repartition ['reparation', MS] [based upon 200 'Roman months'] and could only 'concur' with it on the basis of 70 'Roman months'; and also accepting the statement by the count of Hanau that, because of a special pact with the principality of Hessen-Cassel and the expenses for garrisoning resulting from it, he will accede to the recess only at the end of the present campaign, after Nov 1 of the current year. The remainder of the estates will not, in future, demand, on behalf of the circle, that the seignories commit themselves in excess of what they have offered.

Date and Place: 1697 Feb 26 Frankfurt