SAUMUR (Maine-et-Loire). BRANDY, CIDER, and PEAR CIDER – Rul - Lot 132

SAUMUR (Maine-et-Loire). BRANDY, CIDER, and PEAR CIDER – Ruling of the King’s Council of State dated Nov. 24, 1722, overturning a ruling by the Elected Representatives of SAUMUR dated January 31, 1721. And a ruling by the Court of Aides of Paris dated July 10, 1722… Orders that wholesale merchants and brandy distillers shall be required to submit to inspections and markings by the Commissioners of Aides on the brandy they trade, on pain of confiscation and a fine of 500 livres,… ” - Printed in Paris by the Widow and Mr. J. Jouvenel, Printers for the King’s Farms, at the General Office of the Aides, 1722, 11 pp., in-4° + Attached are 2 receipts from 1726 for the duties of the COURTIERS-JAUGEURS and the AYDES on the “entries or batches” of cider and perry. 2 x 1 p., in-8°