- Lot 183

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- Lot 183
[LIMBURG - AUTOGRAPHES 17TH-18TH CENTURIES ]- Lot of 16 handwritten ordinances and official letters addressed to or concerning the states of the duchy of Limburg and the Outre-Meuse countries, with autograph signatures. Mostly in-foils, 1 to 4 pp. on paper, in French unless mentioned, stamps and seals under paper. Fading, small tears, some soiling, otherwise good condition. Concerns mainly military matters: passage of troops, maintenance of garrisons, guarantee of protection of populations "against insults and violence of the French" (19/02/1684), war contributions against "enemies of Christendom", during the war between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans in 1663-1664, etc. SIGNED BY: - Governors General of the Spanish Netherlands: Archduke Albert (2 doc, 22/03/1617, 18/03/1625); Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena (3 letters, 8/03/1659, 21/07/1659, 7/04/1664 + 1 unsigned letter in Spanish); Ottone Enrico del Carretto, Marquis of Grana (19/02/1684); Francisco Antonio de Agurto, Marquis of Gastañaga (27/06/1686, 27/05/1689, 5/02/1690); Maximilian-Emmanuel of Bavaria (30/09/1693) - Governors General of the Austrian Netherlands: Archduchess Maria Christina and Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen (4/05/1789; 18/10/1792, with printed header and signed only by Maria) only by Marie) - Others: "Ordonnance itérative pour donner des relations spécifiques des attentats de la France et contraventions au Traité de Trève" (3/02/1687); lieutenant of Grand Ry, of the Württemberg regiment (list of deserters, 6/11/1788); letter of thanks from count von Wartensleben (3/12/1789, envel. with cons. wax seal). JOINTS: - 4 printed documents: "Manifesto and demonstrative reasons of the nullitez and injustices of the judgments and reprisals ordered by the court of the province of Limbourg against the subjects of the country of Liege. Liège, J.F. de Milst, 1710. Pet. in-4°, 38-[1] pp. - "En l'assemblée des maîtres & commissaires de la noble cité de Liège, tenue spécialement le 25 d'avril 1787". [Liege], s.n., [1787]. Pet. in-4°, 3 pp. - Notice of the government to the deputies of the states of the province of Limbourg. Brussels, 17/08/1789. S.l.n.d. Pet. in-f°, 1 p. (suscription ms. of the ep.). Imperial coat of arms and woodcut lettering. - Passport delivered by the municipal administration of Limbourg (department of Ourthe) to the citizen Matthieu Thimus, trader. Limbourg, 16/02/1799. In-8° square, 1 p., signed and completed by hand, stamps. SET OF 20 DOCUMENTS.
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