 The parties generally agreed to preserve the peace, aid in military endeavours and arbitrate disputes.Slowly, the members began to see the confederation as a unifying entity.In the "Pfaffenbrief", a treaty of 1370 among six of the eight members (Glarus and Berne did not participate) forbidding feuds and denying clerical courts jurisdiction over the confederacy, the cantons for the first time used the term "Eidgenossenschaft".