HENRI IV (1553-1610). L.S. "Henry", Fontainebleau April 14, 1661, to the Provost of the merchants and to the aldermen and inhabitants of "our good city of Paris"; countersigned by Antoine POTIER; 1 page in-fol., address on the back, in ivory vellum folder, slipcase. On the Pont-Neuf and the fountains of Paris. letter accompanying the sending of letters patent "to advise on the means that could be used both for the completion of the Pont neuf begun in our city and for the re-establishment of the fountains of living water that were to come out in various places of the city, to the expedition & accomplishment of which we mandate & order you to see to in all diligence as well as with regard to the levy of ten sols on each muyd of wine entering our city & suburbs that we have particularly affected to the works of the aforementioned Bridge, as for the assembly that we order you to make to arrange & resould what is proposed to you by ourd. Letters to be used for the restoration of the said Fontaynes"... Attached is a P.S. "Henry", Nantes April 29, 1598; oblong vellum in-fol. (in a vellum folder in-4, case). Commission to S. de Roybous to "buy in our city of Bordeaux or elsewhere in our country of Guyenne the quantity of one thousand barrels of wine of the said country. And to have them carried and driven in one or more ships to the city of Calais or Duquerque"...