MONTBRISON. 5 pieces, 1554-1879; 3 on vellum in-plano. 2 acts on parchment drawn up under the aegis of Claude d'Urfé, lord of Urfé, baron of Beauvoir, Entraigues, La Bastie, etc., bailiff of Forez, with notary's hand seals, concerning sales and exchanges by Jehan Chenevier, ploughman at Beringes, parish of Bard (1554 and 1556). Royal letters on parchment recognizing the sale of a field (1780). Dispatch of a notarized transaction of 1723 (1820). Liquidation of the Society of Penitents (1879). Attached is a large book of proceedings from the jurisdiction of Saint-Étienne and the marquisate of Saint-Priest against the merchant Desverneys with an arrest (1767), and a lifting of a protest (Saint-Pétersbourg 1859).