Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 29: Abstract of the Kings Licence.

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By the Favour and Licence of the King, dated the 25th April 1670, given at Paris and signed Masclaray : The Sieur Bernier is permitted to print, sell and dispose of a book entitled Memoirs by the Sieur Bernier on the Empire of the Great Mogol, and this during the time and space of ten years ; all persons of whatever rank and occupation they may be, are hereby forbidden to print, sell or otherwise dispose of any other editions than those of the said Sieur Bernier, or others which he may authorise, under a penalty of a fine of three thousand livres, and other punishments which are set forth at length in the Letters of the said Licence.
The said Sieur Bernier has disposed of his Licence to Claude Barbin for his benefit, in terms of an agreement entered into between them.
Registered in the Book of the Society of Booksellers & Printers of Paris, the 13th August 1670. Signed, Louis Sevestre, Syndic.