FRANÇOIS Ier (1494-1547) Roi de France Lot n° 23

P.S. "Francoys". Rouen February 13, 1531; countersigned by Jacques BOCHETEL; brown ink on oblong wove paper in-folio Order to Jehan CAGUETTE, receiver general of the Extraordinary Finances and caseual parts, to pay, on the deniers coming or which will come from the sale of the office of sergeant on horseback at the Chastelet of Paris vacant by the death of late Jehan Hubert, to Fernand Desforges, Pierre Dumolin and Jehan Estienne, "ordinary wine waiters of our eschancery of mouth, the sum of one hundred escuz gilded in the sun", in favour and consideration of their "good and pleasant services"...