1515 - Contract Between Hospitallers And A Squire. Parchment

This document from 1515 is written in Latin. (It was only from 1539 that French was obligatory in the drafting of deeds. The place is difficult to read "Abregnens (?)". It is a perpetual concession of the use of a stream supplying a mill made by the House of the Hospital of Saint-Jean de Jérusalem. For the benefit of a man named Amédée de Grandmont, described as "domicellus" (squire), resident of the village of Lyaud (currently in Haute-Savoie). The rent is one pound of wax payable on the feast of Saint John the Baptist. The deed is drawn up by a certain Charrot, procurator of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. We have not identified the protagonists. Note that the mills under the old regime generated "banality" rights: a lord could force the inhabitants of his lordship to use, for a monetary fee, the technical equipment (oven, mill, press, etc.) that he had built at his own expense on his estate. A complete translation will be provided to the purchaser.