PROTESTANTISM. Manuscript register, Papier de Recepte des deniers de la suvention des pasteurs, Vitré 1631-1648; small folio (29.5 x 19 cm), 84 ff. paper notebook, reused parchment cover from a missal with painted initials (worn binding; corner of one leaf corroded). Very rare register on the treatment of pastors in the Protestant community of Vitré in Brittany. The book records the donations made each year by the faithful at the January, Easter, July and October cenacles. At the top is a "Rolle particullier tiré sur le general pour la suvention des pasteurs pour les quetons du Chasteau et Grand Rue pour lannee 1631". At the end of the register, on 3 pages, an "Estat de largent que moy Guy Degennes ay receu pour le bois et merain qui estoit en la court du temple et de ce que jay receu pour faire les reparacions de la muraille du simetyere"... Among the main donors are "la Duchesse", Mme de La Maisonneuve, Mlle de Lapillardière, MM. de Montmartin, de Gaillardin, du Fail, de La Paillardière, du Chastaigner, Grimaude, de Poustinière, du Cartier, du Chalonge, etc. The register is signed several times. The register is signed several times, by J. De Gennes, P. Jortin, J. Guesdon, J. van de Pestore "Pasteur", and the "elders" Jean Godard, Rondel J. Hardy, Sauvaige, Engel....