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FRANÇOIS I. Letter signed "Françoys", countersigned "Robertet", addressed to Charles Chabot, baron de Jarnac, his lieutenant at La Rochelle. Houdan, "the second day of April". 1 p. in-folio, address on the back, small old manuscript leaf mounted on tab in the upper margin, wetness with small paper losses affecting 3 words. "I escript presentement a ceulx de La Rochelle les lettres que je vous envoiee, leur mandant et enjoignant très estroictement qu'ilz ont a lever et oster toutes les difficultez et differends qu'ilz ont mis en avant, obeissant vous entièrement comme a ma propre personne, and FOR THAT IT IS REQUIRED THAT AINSI FACE ACTENDRE THE EMYNENT PERIL THAT MAY ADVERSE TO THIS CITY, which is threatened by my enemies more than a thousand other [s] of my kingdom [the king evokes here a possible English raid], I ASK YOU AND ORDER......as one of whom I have full & perfect confidence, THAT YOU WILL KEEP AND ADVISER TO DO ALL THINGS REQUIRED AND NECESSARY FOR THE WELL-BEING, SECURITY AND CONSERVATION OF THIS CITY, SETTING UP GENTILZHOMMES WHO WILL BE RAISED FOR THE BENCH AND BACK BENCH UP TO THE NUMBER OF THIRTY OR FORTY AT A TIME, OR OTHERWISE SUCH A NUMBER AS YOU WILL SEE REQUIRED AND NECESSARY, to avoid the despence that it would be appropriate to make for the maintenance of the people of the city, who would otherwise be required to be in charge of the city, as you understand, commanding and ordering the governor, mayor, staff, archbishops and inhabitants of the city to do whatever they need to do without any exception. I hope that these people, in view of the danger and for the loyalty and obedience they owe me, will obey you and do everything you tell them to do for my service, asking you that if they do not do so, please advise me with all due diligence as is required, so that I may give them such orders and provisions as I see fit. Having long enjoyed important privileges for itself and for its territory of Aunis, the city of La Rochelle proved resistant to efforts to regain control of the city by the royal power. François I entrusted this task to his representative, the Baron de Jarnac, who put an end to the elective system in force until then by declaring himself mayor in perpetuity: this provoked a revolt, which was harshly repressed. In 1541, again, the king ordered to put an end to the exemption of the gabelle which Aunis enjoyed until then, which raised a new revolt: the baron of Jarnac did not manage, in spite of the call to the ban and the back
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FRANÇOIS I. Letter signed "Françoys", countersigned "Robertet", addressed to Charles Chabot, baron de Jarnac, his lieutenant at La Rochelle. Houdan, "the second day of April". 1 p. in-folio, address on the back, small old manuscript leaf mounted on tab in the upper margin, wetness with small paper losses affecting 3 words. "I escript presentement a ceulx de La Rochelle les lettres que je vous envoiee, leur mandant et enjoignant très estroictement qu'ilz ont a lever et oster toutes les difficultez et differends qu'ilz ont mis en avant, obeissant vous entièrement comme a ma propre personne, and FOR THAT IT IS REQUIRED THAT AINSI FACE ACTENDRE THE EMYNENT PERIL THAT MAY ADVERSE TO THIS CITY, which is threatened by my enemies more than a thousand other [s] of my kingdom [the king evokes here a possible English raid], I ASK YOU AND ORDER......as one of whom I have full & perfect confidence, THAT YOU WILL KEEP AND ADVISER TO DO ALL THINGS REQUIRED AND NECESSARY FOR THE WELL-BEING, SECURITY AND CONSERVATION OF THIS CITY, SETTING UP GENTILZHOMMES WHO WILL BE RAISED FOR THE BENCH AND BACK BENCH UP TO THE NUMBER OF THIRTY OR FORTY AT A TIME, OR OTHERWISE SUCH A NUMBER AS YOU WILL SEE REQUIRED AND NECESSARY, to avoid the despence that it would be appropriate to make for the maintenance of the people of the city, who would otherwise be required to be in charge of the city, as you understand, commanding and ordering the governor, mayor, staff, archbishops and inhabitants of the city to do whatever they need to do without any exception. I hope that these people, in view of the danger and for the loyalty and obedience they owe me, will obey you and do everything you tell them to do for my service, asking you that if they do not do so, please advise me with all due diligence as is required, so that I may give them such orders and provisions as I see fit. Having long enjoyed important privileges for itself and for its territory of Aunis, the city of La Rochelle proved resistant to efforts to regain control of the city by the royal power. François I entrusted this task to his representative, the Baron de Jarnac, who put an end to the elective system in force until then by declaring himself mayor in perpetuity: this provoked a revolt, which was harshly repressed. In 1541, again, the king ordered to put an end to the exemption of the gabelle which Aunis enjoyed until then, which raised a new revolt: the baron of Jarnac did not manage, in spite of the call to the ban and the back
