the right of redemption is exercised. One fief in Berry, that
of Cormesse held by the archbishop of Bourges, comprising eighty-five
arpents, besides a portion of the tithes, and producing 2,100 livres per
annum, admitting a mutation every twenty years, annually brings to the
seignior of Blet 105 livres.

Besides the charges indicated there are the following:

1. To the curate of Blet, his fixed salary. According to royal enactment
in 1686, this should be 300 livres. According to arrangement in 1692,
the curate, desirous of assuring himself of this fixed salary, yielded
to the seignior all the dimes, novales, etc. The edict of 1768 having
fixed the curate's salary at 500 livres, the curate claimed this sum
through writs. The canons of Dun-le-Roi and the prior of Chaumont,
possessing tithes on the territory of Blet, were obliged to pay a
portion of it. At present it is at the charge of the seignior of Blet.

2. To the guard, besides his lodging, warming and the use of three
arpents, 200 livres.

3. To the steward or registrar, to preserve the archives, look after
repairs, collect lods et ventes, and fines, 432 livres, besides the use
of ten arpente.

4. To the king, the vingtiemes. Formerly the estates of Blet and Brosses
paid 810 livres for the two vingtiemes and the two sous per livre. After
the establishment of the third vingtieme they paid 1,216 livres.

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NOTES:

[Footnote 6201: Archives nationales, G. 319 ("Etat actuel de la
Direction de Bourges au point de vue des aides," 1774).]

[Footnote 6202: Blet, at the present day, contains 1,629 inhabitants.
(This was around 1884, in 1996 it remains a small commune and a village
of 800 people on the route nationale N76 between Bourges and Sancoins.
SR.)]

[Footnote 6203: The farms of Blet and Brosses really produce nothing for
the proprietor, inasmuch as the tithes and the champart (field-rents),
(articles 22 and 23), are comprehended in the rate of the leases.]

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END-NOTE 3:

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ACTUAL AND NOMINAL REVENUES OF ECCLESIASTICAL
DIGNITIES AND BENEFICES.

According to Raudot ("La France avant la Revolution," p.84), one-half
extra must be added to the official valuation; according to Boiteau
("Etat de la France en 1789," p.195), this must be tripled and even
quadrupled. I think that, for the episcopal sees, one-half extra should
be added and, for the abbeys and priories, double, and sometimes triple
and even quadruple the