Bail general faict par le roy et nosseigneurs de son Conseil à maistre Mathieu Brabant de toutes les aydes de France, pour sept années, commençans au premier iour d'auril mil six cens trente-deux. Verifié és Chambres des comptes & Cours des aydes.
This 1632 Paris printing by P. Mettayer is a royal tax lease (bail) issued in the name of Louis XIII and his Council to Mathieu Brabant, granting him the general aids of France for seven years from April 1632. The pictures are black woodcut ornaments: a heraldic band of birds, foliage and a crowned fleur-de-lis shield, and a historiated initial letter with a figure in a leafy frame, suited to designers seeking French Renaissance decorative borders and capital letters.
