Two 17th Century Manuscript Inventories Describing The Considerable Estate Of The Deceased

by Agnes De Het

$1,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

54; 7 leaves final blank . Folio both ca. 300 x 210 mm. , orig. stitching. Amiens : 1649. A rare survival on the market, two mid-17th-century inventories describing the estate of Agnès de Het, wife of a feudal lord, who was councillor to the king. They lived on the outskirts of Amiens. We have found a record of de Het’s husband, Lecouvreur, agreeing to rent land in 1688, but we are not able to find any record of de Het’s life. These two

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