VENISE. 4 handwritten documents, 1737; 2pages and a quarter in-fol. and 3pages in-8. "Copy of the letter from M. de Taulignan, Consul in Zante, to M. le Comte de Maurepas", September 20, 1737, concerning the proceedings ordered by Provéditeur général Vendramin against Captain Joseph de Lapier, "convicted of the crime [...] of having ordered two soldiers of his Company, to smear with garbage the arms of the Roy", and of his death sentence. Plus 3 extracts from proceedings against Lapier and his accomplices: Lapier is condemned to "have his right hand cut off in front of the consular gate under the arms of the King", to be hanged and "have his head cut off which will be planted at the end of a pike as well as his hand at the gate of the consular house", as well as Torbin "who perished in the extraordinary questions"; Manoussy is condemned to the galleys...