LE PÉAGE DE LANGEAIS (Indre-et-Loire) 1718. SUGAR. "Arrest d - Lot 65

LE PÉAGE DE LANGEAIS (Indre-et-Loire) 1718. SUGAR. "Arrest de la Cour de Parlement, concernant le Péage de LANGEAIS" Given in Paris on March 3, 1718. Reprinted in TOURS, by François Lambert, Imprimeur du Roy, in 1741; 8 pages in-4°. Affaire entre les Marchands fréquentants la Rivière de Loire, Marchands à Orléans, Maîtres de Raffineries de SUCRE, Plaintiffs against Dame Olympe de MAZARIN, Widow of Christophe GIGAULT, chevalier, Marquis de Bellefond, Propriétaire du Péage de LANGEAIS. "The said de MAZARIN & her Farmers are forbidden to levy greater duties than those laid down in the Declaration of May 3, 1432, and only on the goods specifically mentioned therein, without including SUGARS under the general term of groceries, on pain of restitution of the quadruple.... To this end new Pancartes will be put in which the sum by water will remain fixed at the entire charge of the boat; the charge by land at the charge of a cart or horse, & the fardel at a bale of merchandise large or small. "