ying
that he himself was a physician and surgeon; from which poison the said
Sieur de Lamotte the younger died on the fifteenth day of February last,
at nine o'clock in the evening, in the arms of the aforesaid Derues, who,
affecting the deepest grief, and shedding tears, actually exhorted the
aforesaid Sieur de Lamotte to confession, and repeated the prayers for
the dying; after which he himself laid out the body for burial, saying
that the deceased had begged him to do so, and telling the people of the
house that he had died of venereal disease; also of having caused him to
be buried the next day in the churchyard of the parish church of Saint
Louis at the aforesaid Versailles, and of having entered the deceased in
the register of the said parish under a false birthplace, and the false
name of Beaupre, which name the said Derues had himself assumed on
arriving at the said lodging, and had given to the said Sieur de Lamotte
the younger, whom he declared to be his nephew. Also, to cover these
atrocities, and in order to appropriate to himself the aforesaid estate
of Buisson-Souef, he is convicted of having calumniated the aforesaid
Dame de Lamotte, and of having used various manoeuvres and practised
several deceptions, to wit--

"First, in signing, or causing to be signed, the names of the above Dame
de Lamotte to a deed of private contract between the said Derues and his
wife on one side and the aforesaid Dame de Lamotte by right of a power of
attorney given by her husband on the other (the which deed is dated the
twelfth day of February, and was therefore written after the decease of
the said Dame de Lamotte); by which deed the said Dame de Lamotte appears
to change the previous conventions agreed on in the first deed of the
twenty-second of December in the year 1775, and acknowledges receipt from
the said Derues of a sum of one hundred thousand livres, as being the
price of the estate of Buisson;

"Secondly, in signing before a notary, the ninth day of February last, a
feigned acknowledgment for a third part of a hundred thousand livres, in
order to give credence to the pretended payment made by him;

"Thirdly, in announcing and publishing, and attesting even by oath at the
time of an examination before the commissioner Mutel, that he had really
paid in cash to the aforesaid Dame de Lamotte the aforesaid hundred
thousand livres, and that she, being provided with this money, had fled
with her son and a certain pers