LOUIS XIV. 3 L.S. (secretary), August-December 1647, to René Le Vayer, Conseiller d'État, Intendant de la Justice, Police et Finances à Arras; countersigned by Michel Le Tellier; 6 pages folio, addresses. Dieppe August 3. Order, "par ladvis de la Royne regente madame ma mere", to pay "a monster to the English infantry company left from the regiment of Holles", out of the funds of the armies of Flanders... Paris 10 September. It is necessary to hold the hand with his order to the S. de La Tour, to make deliver to the general munitionary of the corn or flour in store of reserve in Arras: "I desire that the munition of my armies of Flandres cannot miss"... December 17. Instructions for the payment of the pay of the officers, sergeants and soldiers of infantry, and that of the review of the cavalry; and to bring "all the good possible measure to the fact of the supply of the bread of ammunition to the sergeants and effective soldiers of the Infrie, making it deliver to them on the basis of the last remittances, and from time to time you reform the distribution of it by adding or decreasing according to what save which will be effectively in each troop"...