HIGH LOIRE. SAINT ILPIZE. Piece on free paper, established at the Castle of LA ROCHETTE (Parish of ST ILPIZE) on March 23, 1658, 3 pages in-4°. Lease of rent by Jacques de la Rochette, squire, lord of Loubarenc and Salsac, authorized by his mother, Charlotte de Rochemontex, to Antoine Carmantraud, Postmaster of the Pont de Lerig and to Jean Amadeuf, notary in Chausse, parish of Saint Perrier, of the Lordships of Loubarenc and Salsac. The people quoted signed. Jacques de la Roquette signed 8 times the receipts in the margin. Piece crossed out on its totality.

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