Declaration de l'intention du seigneur Don Iean d'Austriche ... gouuerneur & capitaine general des Pays Bas, auant que de passer la Meuze & tenter la voye d'armes. Inuitant ceulx desdictz pays à se recognoistre vers Dieu & leur roy, auec vn reglement, comme les soldatz de Sa Maiesté auront à se cõduyre.
A 1578 printed proclamation issued in Paris by Simon Calvatin, setting out the intentions of Don John of Austria, governor and captain general of the Low Countries, to his subjects there and to his own soldiers' conduct. The single picture is a small printer's ornament: a symmetrical four-lobed cross of black scrolls, leaves and volutes on a cream page, a decorative device a designer could adapt for a border, cartouche or corner piece.
