COUNTY OF FLANDERS. LILLE, DOUAI (Nord). 2 Court Briefs from - Lot 43

COUNTY OF FLANDERS. LILLE, DOUAI (Nord). 2 Court Briefs from 1689. “Brief to resolve the doubt that might be raised, both in connection with the Capitulations of the Cities of Gallican Flanders and the intervention of the Estates of that Province, regarding the conferment of benefices. ” “The question is whether the University of Paris has the right to appoint graduates to benefices in Gallican Flanders, where the city of Lille is located; or, on the contrary, whether the reservations, appointments, and collations by the Popes must take place there and be carried out to the exclusion of the University of Paris’s right of appointment.” Memorandum and Summary Memorandum, “for Philippes de LAMET, priest, parish priest of St. Laurent and DIVY, priests, graduates appointed by the University of Paris to two prebends of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Lille, Flanders. Against Maître Martin MALBEC and Jacques HENNIARD, claiming to have been granted the same prebends by provisions from the Court of Rome, based on papal reservations… And further against the University of DOUAY (Douai, Nord) and the States of Flanders—Published by C. L. THIBOUST, Place de Cambray; 12 folio pages + 6 folio pages.