[ Edme Sainson, Ecuyer Conseiller Secrétaire du Roi (Louis XV). ] Signed Autograph Document on vellum, giving certified transcriptions of two documents relating to payments by 'Mre. Charles Dorel [...] Banquier Expeditionnaire en Court de Rome'.

On one side of a 22 x 33 cm piece of vellum. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with some pin-holes to margin. Stamp in black ink at head of the 'REV. CAS DU ROY [...] GEN. DE PARIS'. Signed at end: 'Collationné aux originaux par moi Ecer. Coner. Secretaire du Roy maison Couronne de france et de Ses finances/. | Sainson'. Each transcript is eight lines long, the first having been signed by 'Orry' and the second by 'Carreler' (both signatures also transcriptions). The recorded payments were made by Dorel in connection with his office as 'Coner. du Roy Banquier Expeditionnaire en Court de Rome et de La Legation pour la Ville de Paris'. There were twelve 'banquiers expéditionnaire en Cour de Rome' at Paris. The office had begun among Guelph bankers fleeing Italy for France in the fourteenth century, but by the eighteenth century was held by French tax officers dealing with Italian revenues. The 'Mercure de France', November 1753, carries the following report of Sainson's death: 'Edme Sainson, Ecuyer Conseiller Secrétaire du Roi, Maison Couronne de France & de ses Finances, mourut le premier Septembre 1753, âgé de 27 ans. Un esprit net, une mémoire prodigieuse & un grand amour pour le travail, lui faisoient remplir les fonctions de sa Charge avec une grande distinction.'