CHARENTE-MARITIME. 1730. land and seigneury of ARCHIAC (17). - Lot 130

CHARENTE-MARITIME. 1730. land and seigneury of ARCHIAC (17). HUNTING AND POACHING. Order signed Edme BONNET DE SAINT LÉGER, Grand Maître Enquêteur réformateur des eaux forêts de France, in the department of Poitou, Aunis, Saintonge, Angoumois, Limousin, Haute et Basse Marche, Bourbonnais, Nivernais and dependencies. On the petition presented by Messire Honoré Comte de STE MAURE, Marquis d'ARCHIAC, Baron de LA TOUR BLANCHE, Premier Écuyer Commandant la Grande Écurie du Roi, exposes that he is the owner of the land and Seigneurie d'ARCHIAC in Saintonge within the jurisdiction of the maitrise de Rochefort, in the extent of which various private individuals, in defiance of Ordinances, hunt all kinds of game with impunity, even in prohibited times or seasons; that he owns another piece of land called "LA TOUR BLANCHE" in Angoumois, in which... inhabitants who are poachers also hunt game... We forbid all persons (to hunt, of all kinds): Lacs, tirasses, Tonnelles, traineaux, bricoles...on pain of whipping the first time, and for the second to be castigated, withered, and banished for five years out of the extent of the jurisdiction of the mastery of places. Donné en notre hôtel le 12 Août 1730. Wax seal with our coat of arms. 4 folio pages. Stamp of the "Collège héraldique de France-Archives de la Noblesse."