DUVAL

to the Seneschal of Maine or to the Lieutenant General in the Seneschalcy and President's Seat of Justice of Le Mans, signed also by his barrister Louis Brizbare, saying that the land depends on the Abbaye de la Couture, and that he had been appointed commissary of Maître Pierre Menaut, Steward Sequestrator of... the temporals of the said Abbey vacant by the decease of Monsieur de Chamilly, to the extent of half the fruit and grain planted on the said land by the late Paul Foullard and Catherine Adam his wife, but that the local poll-tax collectors for 1705 had laid claim on it for the part planted by Foullard, the Petitioner has harvested, threshed and winnowed the said grain, but as he still has to face the loss of half, to be discharged from his commission, and to recover all his expenses including travel, attendance and threshing, he petitions to be allowed to auction the grain on a feast day or Sunday in the Cemetery at the end of Vespers at the parish church... before the senior royal notary, the appropriate signed orders follow, stamp at head with the arms of Le Mans, 4 sides 4to., Le Mans, no date. and 16th-24th July