L'ARBRESLE (Rhône). Manuscript notebook, Livre des fondations de L'Arbresle, 1611-1685; 66-leaf folio (28 x 21 cm), reused parchment cover. This book begins on May 18, 1611, with the foundation of a mass by Anthoine Ponchon, merchant of L'Arbresle, at the altar of Ste Anne; this is followed by some twenty other foundations, until October 15, 1685, with an extract from the will of Dame Jacqueme Ponchon, dame de Balmon, widow of Pierre de Guiguirin, seigneur de Beauregard, baron de Balmon, bearing several foundations. A document dated April 14, 1662, on the translation of the first mass from the altar of Ste Anne to the high altar of L'Arbresle, founded by the late Anthoine Ponchon, is inserted at the top; at the end of the notebook, a note from 1716: "Note des grandes masses qui se doivent celebrer dans le église de L'arbresle".