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Ordonnance de m. du Plessis Mornay, gouverneur de Saumur, & des esleus dudit lieu. Pour courir sus aux rebelles qui veulent prendre les tailles & deniers du Roy. Avec inionction a tous gentils-hommes d'y resister, à peine d'estre rendus contribuables aux tailles [29 oct. 1615]

Mornay, Philippe de,seigneur du Plessis-Marly,1549-1623., Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623 · 1615 · Paris : A. Saugrain, 1615 · 3 pictures

A 1615 printed ordinance issued in Paris by Philippe de Mornay, governor of Saumur, addressed to the local officials and nobles of that town, ordering resistance to rebels who sought to seize royal taxes. The three pictures are small woodcut ornaments from its opening pages: a decorated initial C with a lion's head and foliage, a heraldic oval with fleur-de-lis and a lattice-patterned shield inside a knotted wreath, and a horizontal border strip with a central face flanked by scrolling foliage and putti. A designer could take from them the dense, carved scrollwork and the compact, symmetrical structure of early seventeenth-century French print ornament.

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