LOUIS XIV (1638-1715). 5 L.S. or P.S. (secretary), Versailles and Marly 1697-1705, to Jean-Baptiste Du Casse (1646-1715); countersigned by Louis II Phélypeaux; 16pages in-fol. of which one vellum, 2 addresses. November 16, 1697, patent to bear the cross of the Order of St. Louis for S. Du Casse, ship's captain and "governor of Coste St Domingue". - May 3, 1702. "Mémoire pour servir d'instruction au Sr Ducasse chef d'escadre des armées navales", to lead the squadron of Spanish reinforcements to the West Indies to fight the English and Dutch fleets, and to ensure the "assiette ou introduction des nègres dans les Indes Espagnoles"... (notebook, 11p.). - May 8 and 11, 1703, leave of absence and orders to oversee the disarming of vessels brought back from Spanish America. - August 9, 1705, instruction to confer the Order of St. Louis on S. Daire, ship's captain. Attached is a L.A.S. from Ducasse, Amiens February 1, 1694, about payments (2p. in-4, adr.). Also enclosed: - a p.s. by La Chambre on behalf of Henri III, 1585 (vellum); - a passport signed by Louis XVI (secretary) and Vergennes, 1785; - a p.s. by Cardinal Carlo Rezzonico, 1794 (vellum); - a l.a.s. by Jean-Jacques Barre, Graveur Général des Monnaies, 1840, on the royal family's gold medal.