Declaration du roy, sur la prise des armes par aucuns de ses sujets de la religion pretendue reformee : portant nouuelle confirmation des edicts & declarations cy deuant faictes en faueur de ceux de ladite religion : auec l'arrest de la Cour de Parlement.
A royal declaration issued by Louis XIII of France, printed in Paris in 1615 by Fédéric Morel and Pierre Mettayer, concerning Huguenot subjects who had taken up arms and confirming earlier edicts granted to them. The two pictures are small printer's devices: a woodcut initial L set in a dense field of stippled foliage and flowers, and a crowned oval cartouche holding the French fleur-de-lis beside a heraldic quartering with a cross-patterned emblem, hung from a Maltese-style cross. A designer could take from them the dotted-ground ornament and the framed heraldic seal as models for period-styled borders and monograms.
