ROUSE DOC. 3
GRANT BY LOUIS XI. CHARTRES, JUNE 1467

1467 grant by Louis XI permitting the Confraternity of St. John the Evangelist to raise its annual dues

Evidently the only surviving official copy of a grant by Louis XI of France to the “scribes, illuminators, historiators, parchment sellers, binders of books and others who belong to the Confraternity of St. John the Evangelist” issued at the petition of the sworn libraires of the University, permitting the Confraternity to raise its annual dues to meet expenses because of hard times resulting from the “great wars, famines, deaths, and other pestilences in our said city of Paris.” Given at Chartres in June 1467. (The grant was copied, for the record, into the “Registre des bannières” in September 1467.) The confraternity of the Parisian book trade was founded in 1401 at the Church of St-André-des-Arts.

R.H. & M.A.Rouse Doc. 3