Edict du roy, portant creation en tiltre d'office formé de deux offices, l'vn de conseiller du roy, lieutenant particulier esleu, & l'autre de conseiller du roy esleu en chacune eslection en chef de ce royaume, à pareils gages, droicts, exemptions de tailles & autres priuileges appartenans ausdits offices tels & semblables que les anciens officiers desdites eslections : auec iouïssance de la dispense des quarante iours, & du prest pendant trois annees, sans pour ce payer aucune finance : verifié en la Chambre de comptes & Cour des aydes.
This is a 1626 royal edict printed in Paris by Claude Morel, printer to the king, creating two new offices of royal councillor in the election courts for Louis XIII's France, with pay, tax exemptions and privileges. The two pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a crowned heraldic shield of fleurs-de-lis and a second shield set in a wreath, and a block initial letter framed by leafy scrolls and a flower. A designer could take from them the compact, rule-bound vocabulary of early seventeenth-century French printers' ornaments, suited to heraldic emblems, monograms and border frames.
