LOUIS XI [Bourges, 1423 - Château de Plessis-lez-Tours, 1483], King of France. Letter signed "Loys" addressed to Boffille de Juge. July 1, 1482 on parchment in poor condition. The king sends to Rome to the pope his adviser Jean Cabordelli, apostolic protonotary, archdeacon of Beauvais, for the fact of the translation out of France of the bishop of Castres, suspect, rebellious and disobedient. The king asks Boffille de Juge to provide the bishop's money "reasonably of the bishopric "reasonably to the voyaiges, fraiz, mises et despens necessary for this mission". He approves in advance what he will have done and taxed.

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