Edict dv Roy, svr le reglement general des tailles, à la decharge de ses subjets, portant injonction d'imposer ausdites tailles tous ceux qui se sont pretendus exempts par le passe, conformément à la declaration du dix-huictieme Ianuier dernier, mil six cents trente-quatre.
This is a 1634 royal edict printed in Lyon by I. RousSin, issued by the French crown to regulate the general taille, a direct tax on commoners, and to compel former claimants of exemption to pay. The first picture is a crowned royal arms within a laurel wreath, and the second is a decorated historiated initial letter beside large roman type. A designer could take from them a model for a formal crest or emblem framed in laurel and an ornamental capital letter set into a text block.
