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HENRY IV (1553–1610).
Fees include commission and taxes.
P.S. ‘Henry’, Lyon, 24 July 1600; countersigned on the margin by the Secretary of State Pierre FORGET, the Clerk of the Parliament of Bordeaux Thomas de PONTAC, and the Councillor of State MELIAND; full-size parchment; hanging Great Seal (broken) in a sewn parchment pouch.
Appointment of Joseph de FEYDEAU as President of the Parliament of Bordeaux, noting first that, by virtue of the Edict of Nantes, there must be ‘in our Court of Parliament of Bordeaux […] a Chamber of Justice composed of two presidents and twelve councillors, half of whom are Catholic and half of the so-called Reformed faith, to hear the cases of our subjects within the jurisdiction of the said Parliament who profess the said so-called Reformed faith’…
Enclosed: the receipt signed by the Treasurers of France and General Treasurers of Finance in Guyenne, Causse and Pontac, Bordeaux, 8 June 1601, for the provision paid by Feydeau (oblong folio parchment bound to the preceding document); plus two further receipts.