PLAGUE IN PROVENCE. 1656. "Extract from the Registres du Par - Lot 20

PLAGUE IN PROVENCE. 1656. "Extract from the Registres du Parlement" of Provence, made in AIX (13) on July 7, 1656. "The Chamber ordered during the vacations to provide on the requisition verbally made by the Royal Prosecutor, for the preservation of the Public Health of the Province, forbade the Superiors of the Orders of the Convents of the Religious of this Province, to receive any religious coming from NAPLES, other cities and places afflicted with the contagious disease on the Italian side, unless they have certificates from the consuls of the bordering cities and towns by which they will have entered the Province, without having first notified the Consuls of the cities..." - Cupboard (31 x 24) Condition A.