Duchess of Burgundy, Archduchess of Austria, Infanta of Spain. ISABELLE receives Flanders as a personal dowry. She becomes Sovereign and Governor of the Netherlands
Spanish - Letter signed, of Brussels on January 26, 1626, with its Governor of HESDIN (City closed, of the Spanish Netherlands until 1639, then will become French, City of the Pas-de-Calais) "Dear well beloved, As we found to agree to make lodge with Don Juan d' Avalos, with his Company of Knights, which is of ten Officers and 54 soldiers to the Bailiwick of Hesdin, we make us the present, We order you to make receive it and lodge in the usual way. And if those of the aforementioned Bailiwick advise us to want to maintain it in Ville Close until the end of the month of April next, at the rate of 25 florins per month for each knight, and for the Officers with the rider, and of with good account of this, advanced a half month as we wrote to you by our preceding. We will give incontinent order to the said Captains to enter the enclosed city. Being dear and well loved, our Lord, has you in his holy custody." 1p in-folio.
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