HUGONET, Guillaume (? -1477), chancellor of Burgundy under Charles the Bold. P.S. addressed to the burgomasters of the city of Malines. Brussels, "the seventh day of September", s.d. 1 p. small in-4 oblong. Very beautiful and rare watermark ox head with horns (close to Briquet 14.169). Address on the back. Rare document. About a dispute with Pierre du Hom, who had undertaken to keep a hotel leased by Hugonet, in the city of Middelbourg. "I beg you, as much as I can, for love of me, you please to hold him free of the aforementioned Pierre" so that the latter runs the hotel until the following Christmas in order to allow Hugonet to find other hoteliers. Complete transcript attached.

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