PIRACY - PASSPORTS REQUIRED!

[Piracy] [France. Louis XV:] Ordonnance du Roy, qui deffend à ses Sujets de s'Embarquer dans aucun Bâtiment Estranger pour revenir en France, sans Certificat du Consul de la Nation, portant qu'ils sont François. Du 29. Mars 1718. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale. 1718.

Following reports of "difficulties" arising over pirates in the Mediterranean finding French subjects in foreign ships travelling without papers, the present injunction is issued against French subjects travelling to France on foreign ships without a consular certificate, "showing that they are French, and followers of the King".

Details

4to., pp. 4. Disbound. Woodcut vignette to title-page, woodcut head-piece to third page. Light browning, good. Pages numbered 778-781 in contemp. or early MS.

Actes Royaux 27284. OCLC Firstsearch (01/18) shows copies at NYPL and Bibliothèque Nationale.