OISE. BEAUVAIS. TRIAL. 3 Printed Documents. “Statement on Be - Lot 116

OISE. BEAUVAIS. TRIAL. 3 Printed Documents. “Statement on Behalf of the Chapter of BEAUVAIS Against Cardinal De GESVRES, Bishop and Count of BEAUVAIS. ” “In the matter at hand, the Chapter has a twofold interest. 1. It must defend the authenticity of several measures seized at its mills on March 3, 1760; 2. It must object to the Police Ordinance of April 20, 1761, in that it would have the effect of introducing the Paris wine pint as the standard measure for grain in Beauvais, which would result in a reduction in the city’s wheat measures…” Printed by Ch. Est. Chenault, rue de la Vieille Draperie, 1761: 6 pages in-4° + “Parliamentary Ruling of September 5, 1761, ordering that the ‘mine’ of wheat in the City of Beauvais shall be, as in the past, thirty-two pints of wine by the Paris measure… ” 12 pages in-4° + “Minutes of the verification of measures for Bled (wheat) at the BEAUVAIS Market.” dated November 16, 1761. Printed in BEAUVAIS, by P. N. Desjardins, Printer and Bookseller to His Eminence. 6 pages, in-4°

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