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France and Pruffia.

1726 Acceffion of the United Provinces to the faid Treaty. 1726 Acceffion of Sweeden.

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1730 Treaty between Great Britain, and the Cherokees.

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Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the most ferene and most potent Princess Anne, by the grace of God, Queen of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, and the most ferene and the most potent Prince Lewis XIV. the moft Chriftian King, concluded at Utrecht the day of March 1713Reprinted from the copy published by the Queen's Special command.

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I. HAT there be an univerfal perpetual peace, and a true and fincere friendship, between the moft ferene and most potent Princess Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and the most serene and most potent Prince Lewis XIV. the most Christian King, and their heirs and "fucceffors, as also the kingdoms, ftates, and fubjects of both, as well without as within Europe; and that the fame be fo fincerely and inviolably preferved and cultivated, that the one do promote the intereft, honour and advantage of the other, and that a faithful neighbour→ hood on all fides, and a fecure cultivation of peace and friendship, do daily flourish again and encrease.

II. That all enmities, hoftilities, difcords, and wars, between the faid Queen of Great Britain, and the faid most Christian King, and their fubjects, do ceafe and be abolished, fo that on both fides they do wholly refrain and defift from all plundering, depredation, harmdoing, injuries, and annoyance whatfoever, as well by land, as by fea and fresh water, in all parts of the world, and chiefly through all tracts, dominions, and places, of what kind foever, of the kingdoms, countries, and territories of either fide.

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III. All offences, injuries, harms, and damages, which the aforefaid Queen of Great Britain, and her fubjects, or the aforefaid moft Chriftian King, and his fubjects, have fuffered, the one from the other, during this war, fhall be buried in oblivion, fo that neither on account, or under pretence thereof, or of any other thing, fhall either hereafter, or the fubjects of either, do, or give, cause, or fuffer to be done or given to the other, any hoftility, enmity, moleftation or hindrance, by themselves or by others, fecretly or openly, directly or indirectly, under colour of right, or by way of fact.

IV. Furthermore, for adding a greater ftrength to the peace which is reftored, and to the faithful friendship which is never to be violated, and for cutting off all occafions of diftruft, which might at any time arise from the established right and order of the hereditary fucceffion to the crown of Great Britain, and the limitation thereof by the laws of Great Britain, (made and enacted in the reigns of the late King William III. of glorious memory, and of the prefent Queen) to the iffue of the abovefaid Queen, and in default thereof, to the most ferene Prince's Sophia, dowager of Brunfwick-Hanover, and her heirs, in the Proteftant line of Hanover. That therefore the faid fucceffion may remain safe and secure, the most Christian King fincerely and folemnly acknowledges the abovefaid limitation of the fucceffion to the kingdom of Great Britain, and on the faith and word of a king, on the pledge of his own and his fucceffors honour, he does declare and engage, that he accepts and approves the fame, and that his heirs and fucceffors do and fhall accept and approve the fame for ever. And under the fame obligation of the word and honour of a king, the most Chriftian King promifes, that no one befides the Queen herself, and her fucceffors, according to the series of the faid limitation, fhall ever by him, or by his heirs. or fucceffors, be acknowledged, or reputed to be King or Queen of Great Britain. And for adding more ample credit to the faid acknowledgment and promises the moft Chriftian King does engage, that whereas the person who, in the life-time of the late King James II.

did take upon him the title of Prince of Wales, and fince his decease, that of King of Great Britain, is lately gone, of his own accord, out of the Kingdom of France, to refide in fome other place, he the aforefaid most Christian King, his heirs and fucceffors, will take all poffible care, that he fhall not at any time hereafter, or under any pretence whatsoever, return into the kingodm of France, or any the dominions thereof.

Moreover, the most Christian King promises, as well in his own name, as in that of his heirs and fucceffors, that they will at no time whatever disturb, or give any molestation to the Queen of Great Britain, her heirs and fucceffors, defcended from the aforefaid Proteftant line, who poffefs the crown of Great Britain, and the dominions belonging thereunto. Neither will the aforefaid most Christian King, or any one of his heirs, give at any time any aid, fuccour, favour, or council, directly or indirectly, by land or by sea, in money, arms, ammunition, warlike provifion, fhips, foldiers, feamen, or any other way, to any perfon or perfons, whofoever they be, who for any caufe, or under any pretext whatfoever, fhould hereafter endeavour to oppose the said fucceffion, either by open war, or by fomenting feditions, and forming confpiracies against fuch Prince or Princes who are in poffeffion of the throne of Great Britain, by virtue of the act of parliament aforementioned, or against the Prince or Princess, to whom the fucceffion of the crown of Great Britain fhall be open, according to the faid acts of parliament.

VI. Whereas the most deftructive flame of war, which is to be extinguished by this peace, arose chiefly from thence, that the security and liberties of Europe could by no means bear the union of the kingdoms of France and Spain under one and the fame king; and whereas it has at lenghth been brought to pass, by the affistance of the divine power, upon the most earnest instances of her facred royal Majefty of Great Britain, and with the confent both of the most Christian, and of the Catholic King, that this evil fhould in all times to come be obviated, by means of renunciations drawn in the moft

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Letters Patents by the King, which admit the renunciation of the King of Spain to the crown of France, and those of M. the Duke of Berry, and of M. the Duke of Orleans, to the crown of Spain.

EWIS, by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre, to all people prefent, and to come, greeting. During the various revolutions of a war, wherein we have fought only to maintain the juftice of the rights of the King, our most dear and most beloved grandfon, to the monarchy of Spain, we have never ceafed to defire peace. The greatest fucceffes did not at all dazzle us, and the contrary events, which the hand of God made ufe of to try us, rather than to deftroy us, did not give birth to that defire in us, but found it there. But the time marked out by divine Providence for the repofe of Europe was not yet come; the distant fear of feeing one day our crown, and that of Spain, upon the head of one and the fame prince, did always make an equal impreffion on the powers, which were united against us; and this fear, which had been the principal caufe of the war, feemed also to lay an infuperable obftacle in the way to peace. At last, after many fruitlefs negociations, God being moved with the fufferings and groans of fo many people, was pleased to open a furer way to come at fo difficult a peace. But the fame alarms ftill fubfifting, the first and principal condition, which was proposed to us by our moft dear and moft beloved fifter the Queen of Great Britain, as the effential and neceffary foundation of treating, was, that the King of Spain, our faid brother and grandfon, keeping the monarchy of Spain and of the Indies, fhould renounce for himself, and his defcendants for ever, the rights which his birth might at any time give him and them to our crown; that on the other hand, our most dear and moft beloved grandfon the Duke of Berry, and our moft dear and most beloved nephew the Duke of Orleans, fhould likewise renounce for themfelves, and for their defcendants male and female for ever, their rights to the monarchy of