ARCHIVE du VALENCIENNOIS et de la PLAINE de la SCARPE] [ARCH - Lot 61

ARCHIVE du VALENCIENNOIS et de la PLAINE de la SCARPE] [ARCHIVE of VALENCIENNOIS and the SCARPE PLAIN] An important archive covering the Saint-Amand-les-Eaux region from the early 15th to the mid-17th century, featuring 65 handwritten documents on parchment or vellum, sometimes accompanied by 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. The archive contains land sales dated 1418, 1449, 1506, 1530, 1550, 1572, 1604, 1605 and 1636, land donations such as the one dated 1551, or the one concerning Lecelle, dated 1671, property exchanges dated 1573, 1595, or house share exchanges such as the one dated 1541 in St-Amand, as well as heir sales, including one dated 1494, farm sales (1460), pasture sales (1554), house sales such as the one in Saint-Amand, dated 1488, or others dated 1490 and 1550, heir annuity deeds dated 1456 and 1622, annuity sales in 1561 and 1570, annuity purchases such as the one in Lecelles dated 1456 or those in St-Amand dated 1413 and 1565, or annuity repayments dated 1597 and 1617. We also find receipts (1555), attestations such as the one concerning Adrien Rasse, in Hamel in 1564, deeds of inheritance or house purchases such as those concerning 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), leases such as the one attributed to Pierre Denys, canon of Leuze, in 1590 or of lease assignment (1625), acknowledgements of debts (1717), purchase of ploughing land (1526), finally a document on the town mill dated 1596, on the abbey of Saint-Amand, from 1503, a marriage deed from 1444, another of power of attorney from 1579, land sales to Le Celle from 1438 and 1526, to Hamel in 1558, or a report and enumeration of the Mastaing fiefdom from 1542.