[ARCHIVE du DOUAISIS] - Lot 60

[ARCHIVE du DOUAISIS] Set of 62 handwritten documents covering a period from the 15th century to the beginning of the Empire. These documents are accompanied by a larger notebook and some sixty letters from the period. Some of the documents, all on vellum or parchment, have wax or paper seals. These include a large document on Fontaine-Notre-Dame from June 1613, land sales in Hennin in 1526, in Lambres-lez-Douay in 1528, or in Douai, such as that of 1558, as well as a receipt for the bequest of a house in 1664, numerous deeds of annuity such as that of 1619 accompanied by its beautiful wax seal, deeds of annuity and obligation dated 1642, 1643, 1663, 1670, 1695 or 1753, sales of annuities dated 1537, 1543 or 1608, or the one made by the Baudelet family in 1640, the redemption of an heir annuity dated 1544, a receipt for annuity arrears dated 1693, the conveyance of an annuity dated January 20, 1609, two heir annuity contracts dated 1783, a land debt dated 1598, with a fine seal, or a last one dated 1501 with a mortgage, an acknowledgement of debt dated 1442. Receipts are often attached to these rents, such as those of 1515, 1688 or the one concerning the town of Arleux, signed De Cormont, of 1623, the one signed Delebarre of 1649 with its fine wax seal or the one signed A. Bocquet, dated June 6, 1682, also with seal, leases (1537), petitions (1671), powers of attorney (1486, 1553 and 1719), discharges (1759), marriage treaties (1480), a will from 1506, divisions (1541), acts of guardianship (1587), donations (1533) and seizures, such as the Lambres seizure of 1718 or the Esquerchin seizure of 1574, certificates of inheritance division of 1717, 1748, 1751 and 1564, or the one signed by the royal notary Beaussart for the appearance of the inhabitants of Bailleulval and Bailleulmont on May 21, 1690, acts relating to the trial of Jean de Saint-Amand of 1567. Finally, a whole series of letters addressed to Mr. Marescaille de Courcelles, of Douai, during the Empire (1806-1807), concerning sales or transactions, including letters from notary Picart.