Deel f. 17 - Copy of a letter from — Fluard (‘commandant au 2e Battaillon des chouans’) to Louis Cordier and Jacques Le Lievre

1 single sheet

(Place of writing not indicated.)—Instructs them to send 1200 livres each by the hands of someone of their choice, who is to go to the main door of the church at Guêprei on 18 Feb., whence they will be conducted by six hussars to the place where the money is to be left. If the ransom is not paid Fluard will send two hundred armed men and sixty horsemen to raid their properties (i.e. those of Cordier and Le Lievre) on the 20th.

(Undated. Copied from a copy certified by Le Roy and sent to Lévêque with the original of f. 16. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

• Frans

Pasted to a guard in Crewe MS 31 (f. 17).

Copied from a copy sent to Lévêque with the original of f. 16. Sent to Dugua with f. 15.