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[ARCHIVES OF THE VALENCIENNOIS AND THE SCARPE PLAIN]
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[ARCHIVES OF THE VALENCIENNOIS AND THE SCARPE PLAIN]
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
[ARCHIVES OF THE VALENCIENNOIS AND THE SCARPE PLAIN]
A significant COLLECTION comprising a body of handwritten documents from the Saint-Amand-les-Eaux region, covering a period from the early 15th century to the mid-17th century, comprising 65 handwritten documents, drawn up on parchment or vellum, sometimes bearing wax or paper seals, and featuring the names of many important local figures of the time, such as Michel des Espringalles and Jeanne d’Egmont.
-Deeds of sale for land dated 1418, 1449, 1506, 1530, 1550, 1572, 1604, 1605 or 1636.
-Deeds of donation of land, such as the one dated 1551, or the one concerning Lecelle, dated 1671.
-Exchanges of property dated 1573, 1595, or exchanges of shares in houses, such as the one from 1541 situated in St-Amand.
-Deeds of sale by heirs, including one from 1494; sales of farms (1460), pastures (1554), houses such as the one in Saint-Amand from 1488, or others dated 1490 and 1550.
-Deeds relating to hereditary annuities from 1456 and 1622, the sale of annuities in 1561 and 1570, purchases of annuities such as that of Lecelles in 1456 or those of Saint-Amand in 1413 and 1565, or repayments of annuities in 1597 and 1617.
-Receipts (1555), and certificates such as the one concerning Adrien Rasse, at Hamel in 1564.
-Deeds of succession or house purchases, such as those relating to the town of Brueil in 1530, 1545 or 1547, or the sale of Jean Godin’s house in the same town in 1560.
-Deeds of inheritance (1431 and 1458), lease deeds such as that granted to Pierre Denys, canon of Leuze, in 1590, or deeds of assignment of a lease (1625), acknowledgements of debt (1717), purchase of arable land (1526), and finally a document concerning the town’s mill dated 1596, concerning Saint-Amand Abbey from 1503, a marriage certificate from 1444, another power of attorney from 1579, sales of land in Le Celle in 1438 and 1526, in Hamel in 1558, and a report and inventory of the fief of Mastaing from 1542.
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