CHARLES IX (1550-1574), King of France. L.S., Paris February - Lot 318

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CHARLES IX (1550-1574), King of France. L.S., Paris February - Lot 318
CHARLES IX (1550-1574), King of France. L.S., Paris February 4, 1567, to Raymond de FOURQUEVAULX, ambassador to Spain; countersigned by Florimond ROBERTET; 2 pages in-fol., address. Partially enciphered letter to his ambassador in Spain. He has received "news from Flanders as one has sown a rumour that there were four or five cens of my subgectz in Vallenciennes", and he recalls "the deffence that I have made to all my subgectz, of whatever quality. subgectz, of whatever quality or condition they may be, not to go to Flanders and similarly the care and vigor with which my lieutenants and governors of the places on my border have used and are using daily to catch any of them. And all the same, in order to know the news, I have sent to the place and ordered to do all possible things to verify it [...and that one can apprehend some, to make them hunt so well that the others will take example and that everyone will know that it is against my will and my intention that they went there and that I do not feel less offended by the disobedience that they have shown than the King of Spain could be for the help that they have given to his subgectz. The encrypted part is relative to the doctor who accompanies Don Frances d'Alava, and whom he suspects of going to carry in Spain news of Flanders, in spite of his prohibitions...
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