Null HENRI IV. 2 P.S., Paris 1606-1610; countersigned by De Neufville and Brular…

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HENRI IV. 2 P.S., Paris 1606-1610; countersigned by De Neufville and Brulart; oblong in-fol. parchments, the 2nd with remnant brown wax seal and faded signature. February 14, 1606. Commission given to Captain de La Roche Allard, "commandant une compagnie de gens de guerre a pied francois au Regiment de Navarre", to complete his company "de deux cens hommes [...] des meilleurs plus vaillans & aguerriz soldatz"... February 13, 1610. New commission to complete his company and make the "leve de huict vingts ung hommes en nostre pays de Vandosmois la Beausse & Perche"... Enclosed: - a P.S. by Queen Marie de Medicis, January 1, 1621, giving La Roche-Allard a pension of 1,500 livres (oblong parchment in-4); - a P.S. from Louis XIII (secretary), July 21, 1615, commissioning the same to increase his company from 50 to 150 men (oblong parchment in-fol.). Plus a deed on parchment (1654).

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HENRI IV. 2 P.S., Paris 1606-1610; countersigned by De Neufville and Brulart; oblong in-fol. parchments, the 2nd with remnant brown wax seal and faded signature. February 14, 1606. Commission given to Captain de La Roche Allard, "commandant une compagnie de gens de guerre a pied francois au Regiment de Navarre", to complete his company "de deux cens hommes [...] des meilleurs plus vaillans & aguerriz soldatz"... February 13, 1610. New commission to complete his company and make the "leve de huict vingts ung hommes en nostre pays de Vandosmois la Beausse & Perche"... Enclosed: - a P.S. by Queen Marie de Medicis, January 1, 1621, giving La Roche-Allard a pension of 1,500 livres (oblong parchment in-4); - a P.S. from Louis XIII (secretary), July 21, 1615, commissioning the same to increase his company from 50 to 150 men (oblong parchment in-fol.). Plus a deed on parchment (1654).

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