14. Corvees of teams and manual labor, through seigniorial right,
on ninety-seven persons at Blet (twenty-two carvees of teams and
seventy-five of manual labor), twenty-six persons at Brosses (five teams
and twenty-one hands). The seignior pays six sous for food, each corvee,
on men, and twelve sous on each corvee of four oxen. "Among those
subject to this corvee the larger number are reduced almost to beggary
and have large families, which often induces the seignior not to exact
this right rigorously." The reduced value of the corvees is forty-nine
livres fifteen sols.

15. Benalite (socome), of the mill, (a sentence of 1736 condemning Roy,
a laborer, to have his grain ground in the mill of Blet, and to pay a
fine for having ceased to have grain ground there during three years).
The miller reserves a sixteenth of the flour ground. The district-mill,
as well as the windmill, with six arpents adjoining, are leased at 600
livres per annum.

16. Banalite of the oven. Agreement of 1537 between the seignior and his
vassals: he allows them the privilege of a small oven in their domicile
of three squares, six inches each, to bake pies, biscuits and cakes;
in other respects subject to the district oven. He is entitled to
one-sixteenth of the dough; this right might produce 150 livres
annually, but, for several years, the oven has been dilapidated.

17. Right of the colombier, dove-cot. The chateau park contains one.

18. Right of bordelage. (The seignior is heir-at-law, except when the
children of the deceased live with their parents at the time of his
death. This right covers an area of forty-eight arpentss. For twenty
years, through neglect or from other causes, he has derived nothing from
this.

19. Right over waste and abandoned ground and to alluvial accumulations.

20. Right, purely honorary, of seat and burial in the choir, of incense
and of special prayer, of funeral hangings outside and inside the
church.

21. Rights of lods et ventes on copyholders, due by the purchaser of
property liable to this lien, in forty days. "In Bourbonnais, the lods
et ventes are collected at a third, a quarter, at the sixth, eighth and
twelfth rate." The seignior of Blet and Brosses collects at rate six. It
is estimated that sales are made once in eighty years; these rights bear
on 1,356 arpents which are worth, the best, 192 livres per arpent the
second best, 110 livres, the poorest, 75 livres. At this rate the 1,350
arpents are