es and ecclesiastics, relating to seals and
inventories of movable effects, tutelages, curacies, the administration
of the property of minors, of domains, and of the customary dues and
revenues of the seigniory, etc."

2. Rights of the forests, edict of 1707. The seignior's warden decides
in all cases concerning waters, and woods, and customs, and crimes
relating to fishing and hunting.

3. Right of voirie or the police of the highways, streets, and buildings
(excepting the great main roads). The seignior appoints a bailly, warden
and road overseer, one M. Theurault (at Sagonne), a fiscal attorney,
Baujard (at Blet); he may remove them "in case they make no returns."
"The rights of the greffe were formerly secured to the seignior, but as
it is now very difficult to find intelligent persons in the country able
to fulfill its functions, the seignior abandons his rights to those whom
it may concern." (The seignior pays forty-eight livres per annum to the
bailly to hold his court once a month, and twenty-four livres per annum
to the fiscal attorney to attend them).

He receives the fines and confiscation of cattle awarded by his
officers. The profit therefrom, an average year, is eight livres.

He must maintain a jail and a jailer. (It is not stated whether there
was one). No sign of a gibbet is found in the seigniory.

He may appoint twelve notaries; only one, in fact, is appointed at
Blet "and he has nothing to do," a M. Baujard, fiscal attorney. This
commission is assigned him gratuitously, to keep up the privilege,
"otherwise it would be impossible to find any one sufficiently
intelligent to perform its functions."

He appoints a sergeant, but, for a long time, this sergeant pays no rent
or anything for his lodging.

4. Personal and real taille. In Bourbonnais the taille was formerly
serf and the serfs mainmortable. "Seigniors still possessing rights of
bordelage, well established throughout their fiefs and courts, at the
present time, enjoy rights of succession to their vassals in all cases,
even to the prejudice of their children if non-resident and no longer
dwelling under their roofs." But in 1255, Hodes de Sully, having granted
a charter, renounced this right of real and personal taille for a right
of bourgeoisie, still maintained, (see further on).

5. Right to unclaimed property, cattle, furniture, effects, stray swarms
of bees, treasure-trove; (no profits from this for twenty years past).

6. Right to