[Gironde] [Anonymous] - Royalties due to the noble house of - Lot 62

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[Gironde] [Anonymous] - Royalties due to the noble house of - Lot 62
[Gironde] [Anonymous] - Royalties due to the noble house of Piis in Puybarban. S.l., 1790. Register in-folio bound in marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, edges marbled - corners pierced, large leather gap on the second cover and small gaps on the spine, numerous leather scratches on the covers, leather raised on the head flap of the second cover, body of the work partly unstuck - [8] ff. n. ch., 272 ff. ch. including 10 blanks at the end. Title page bears: "Liève *des rentes de la maison noble de Piis en Puybarban". "The National Assembly having destroyed feudalism in France on August 4, 1789, and having ordered the redemption of fiefs by various regulations dated April 23, 24 and the following days, it follows that censal royalties such as rents in money, grain and poultry cannot be amortized without at the same time amortizing lods and sales. So begins this large register listing all the seigneurial royalties owed by the various farmers to the House of Piis on the land of Puybarban. These farmers and sharecroppers numbered 246, most of them living in villages close to Puybarban, all in what is now the Gironde department: Bassanne, Floudès, Castillon, Saint Pardon de Conques, Blaignac, Loupiac, Savignac, Auros, Caudrot, Barie, Fontet, Saint-Martin de Monphélix (today Pondaurat), but there were also a few bourgeois from La Réole and even Bordeaux, all of whom paid royalties in money, but more often in kind: hens, geldings and capons, wheat and rye, more rarely walnut oil, but above all "huitain", "neuvain" or "dix-huitain", i.e. the eighth, ninth and eighteenth of the fruit produced on the plot. The redemption of all these royalties, including the redemption of lods et ventes, i.e. the redemption of transfer duties, by those who paid them, produced the comfortable sum of 158,411 livres tournois, 2 sols, 6 deniers. An exceptional and fascinating document that provides a snapshot of the French peasantry in a small corner of France at the start of the French Revolution, and shows how this peasantry was crushed by royalties of all kinds for the sole benefit of the nobility, in this case the de Piis family. A rare and very legible document. * Liève: "Extract of a terrier paper containing the designation of each inheritance, the name of the tenant, the quality and the quota of the royalty to which he was subjected". (Grand dictionnaire Larousse) Provenance: Château de Marcellus
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