- Lot 473

[HAINAUT - ARCHIVES] [ROEGIERS & BOURDEAU ]- "Chassereau des biens et rentes deues à Joseph Paul Roegiers et Marie Marguerite Bourdeau son espouse [...]". [Ath?], 1728-1773. In-8°, [42] ff. + blank ff., pen and brown ink on paper. Soft binding in Cordoba leather with large flap of the period. Gnawing work and tears without loss on the 1st f., passim wetness. Small but not serious damage to the binding, otherwise well preserved. Chasserau well kept, by two hands, the second being that of Paul Joseph's son, who indicates (f. 1) that his father was born in Chièvres in 1698 and died of apoplexy in Quiévrain in 1767. The properties and rents described are located mainly in Ath, Chièvres, Cambron, Irchonwelz, Tongeren-Saint-Martin, Villers-Saint-Amand. ATTACHED: - Set of +/- 20 miscellaneous documents concerning properties, rents, etc. of the Fontaine family in Lessines. XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries. In-foots for the most part, handwritten (some printed and completed by hand), on paper (except 3 doc. on parchment), in French (some in Latin), some wet stamps, red wax seal, seals under paper. Bound in 18th century parchment having belonged to a lawyer's chassereau. Mottling, tears. Letters, copies of deeds of sale, lease, inheritance, inventories of goods, requests, opinions of jurisconsults, etc. Concerns a.o. the heirs of Jacques Philippe Fontaine, steward of the princes of Steenhuyse; Jean Fontaine, lieutenant grand bailli of Lessines; Jean-Baptiste Fontaine, parish priest of Masnuy; André François Fontaine, chaplain of the parish of Bois-de-Lessines