After his election, the new abbot immediately tried to make peace. Thus, at the beginning of May 1718, six years after the end of the Toggenburg War, negotiations in Baden began. The peace contract contained 84 points and was signed on 15 June 1718. The contract that was ratified by the abbot was brought to Zurich and Bern on 6 August 1718 in order to be ratified there as well. However, Clement XI discarded the contract, which led to riots. Abbot von Rudolphi returned from exile to Rorschach on 7 September 1718. He began receiving homage in Toggenburg. On 11 October, he moved into Saint Gall and on 15 October, lections and the silentium as well as, a day later, the orthros could be reintroduced. Only on 23 March 1719 did the abbot receive a large part of the library that had been brought to Zurich at the beginning of the war. Other items belonging to the prey of the people of Bern, for instance eight bells and seven fire engines, arrived in Saint Gall on 5 May 1721.