nîmes Nîmes protestant terre 1588 parchment olive grove

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Sale by Jehan de Boetier to Anthoine André of an olive grove located in Nîmes, for the price of 100 écus, before Antoine Sabatier, notary of Nîmes, on 30 June 1588.

1 piece of parchment composed of four parts glued together, 0.29 x 2.13 m, 223 lines, very good overall condition. ‘Achapt et rémission for sieur Anthoine André, merchant residing in Nîmes […].’ [16th c.]; ‘De Colvede de Saint-Bausile’ [17th–18th c.].

On 30 June 1588, under Henri III, ‘king of France and Poland’, Jehan de Boetier, resident of Nîmes, clerk of the seneschal of Beaucaire and Nîmes, sells to Anthoine André dit Le Redon, merchant, resident of Nîmes, an ‘olivete belonging to the heirs of the late Jacques Patin, late bourgeois of Nîmes, situated in the territory of the said Nîmes, called Les Arques de Sainct-Bauzille, containing one saulmée, bordered on one side by sieur Jacques Boys, on another by the olive grove of the aforementioned [Jehan] Du Camp, and on another by the olive grove of sieur de Thavaulx and the public road leading from the said Nîmes to Sainct-Bauzille.’

The deed is executed ‘in the house of master Jehan Nicole where master Anthoine Gally, doctor and advocate, resides. Present were the said Gally, master Pierre Mazel, practitioner, and Jehan Tourel, dyer, residents of the said Nîmes, and myself Antoine Sabatier, royal notary of the said Nîmes.’

The sum of 100 écus is handed to Jacques Cassaignes, treasurer of the King: Jehan de Boetier is in fact compelled by judicial decision to pay the arrears of a debt of 110 écus owed to Jehan Du Camp, captain of Nîmes (2 March 1587).

Other mentions: master Pierre Requete, husband of Anne Combes, residents of Sommières; Anthoine Tesser, tailor, husband of Jehanne Combes, sister of the preceding; master Pierre Thomas, practitioner, resident of Sommières; Jehan Robin, passementier, resident of Sommières.

1 Measure of land area, from 6,000 to 8,000 m².

2 Antoine Sabatier is a member of the consistory of Nîmes in 1596 (Albert Puech, Une Ville au temps jadis, ou Nîmes à la fin du XVIe siècle, d’après le compois de 1592 et des documents inédits, Nîmes, Grimaud, 1884, p. 194; and Jacques Boulenger, Les Protestants à Nîmes au temps de l’Edit de Nantes, Paris, Fischbacher, 1903, P. J. Arch. du consistoire de Nîmes, B 90, t. VII, fol. 25). The notarial minutes of Antoine Sabatier are deposited in the Archives départementales du Gard, 2E 37, 1557–1595 (notably register 2E 37/74 for the years 1587–1588).

3 The seneschal is a royal administrative officer whose functions are primarily judicial. The seneschal of the Beaucaire jurisdiction had his residence in Nîmes. In 1588, this was Jacques de Baches de Beaux (Nouvelles Recherches pour servir à l’histoire de la ville de Beaucaire, Avignon, Imprimerie de Seguin aîné, 1836). Jacques Cassaignes is treasurer and ordinary receiver of the King’s domain in the seneschalship of Beaucaire and Nîmes (François Dumont, Inventaire des arrêts du Conseil privé, règnes de Henri III et Henri IV, Paris, Editions du CNRS, 1971–1978, vol. 1, Règne de Henri III).

4 Gard, arr. Nîmes, intercom. Pays de Sommières.