GIRONDE. 1725. TAKES OF SAINTE FOY. Parliament of BORDEAUX. - Lot 29

GIRONDE. 1725. TAKES OF SAINTE FOY. Parliament of BORDEAUX. "Order of the Court of Parliament forbidding all Judges within its jurisdiction to release any Prisoners sentenced to banishment for time or for life, &... to have them translated into the Prisons of the Court's caretaker's quarters". of 5 July 1725. "«... Germaine Gourd, widow of Guillaume Lafargue, Prisoner, appellant of a sentence handed down by the Royal Judge of Sainte Foy, of August 19, 1723, which condemns her to Banishment for three years, for the crime of concealment & Magdelaine Mathieu also convicted for the crime of theft.... condemned the said Germaine Gourd to be beaten and castigated by the Executioner of High Justice with twelve strokes of yards, banished her for 10 years from the Seneschaussées of Guyenne, Libourne & Bergerac & fined her 10 pounds to the King ... For Magdelaine Mathieu, the proceedings concerning her escape from the Prisons of Sainte-Foy will be instructed..." LEBERTHON president. Royal Vignette. Closet (50 x 40) State A.