Achille II de HARLAY (1606-1671) comte de Beaumont, conseill - Lot 411

Achille II de HARLAY (1606-1671) comte de Beaumont, conseiller au Parlement de Paris (1628-1635), maître des requêtes (1635-1661), procureur général au parlement de Paris (1661-1671), conseiller d'État. L.A.S., Paris June 18, 1666, [to Jean-Baptiste Colbert?]; 1 1/2 pages in-4 (slight wetness). On the plague epidemic in Picardy. ... "the contagious disease has passed through a village called Belloy St Lienard, near the village of Ste Larme, six to seven leagues from Amiens towards Abbeville. I have just written to Amiens so that the board of health can send there with all speed, and give orders according to the instruction I have sent in case there is any harm". He recalls that the king's prosecutor in Abbeville "has made voiages with surgeons that he paiez towards the coast of the sea and elsewhere and wiped out all the tournees of these districts since the beginning of the disease". He will examine the case of the "owners of the houses on the Pont aux Changes"...