NORMANDY “Confirmation of the PRIVILEGES of the LETTERS OF N - Lot 51

NORMANDY “Confirmation of the PRIVILEGES of the LETTERS OF NOBILITY” — Receipt from the Royal Treasurer — “... acknowledges having received in cash in the City of Paris, in gold and silver louis, and legal tender, from Charles Jacques GOHIER, Sieur de JUMILLY, son of the late Jean GOHIER (his brothers being Sieur de Tortonville and Sieur d’Ingleville) purchased one of the Letters of Nobility, created by the Edict of March 1696, for the sum of twelve hundred livres... to enjoy, in hereditary right, 60 livres in actual annuities... from the Generality of CAEN... confirmed in the nobility and privileges...” Dated in Paris, April 1, 1714—1 oblong folio page, printed and filled in with ink—(Seal of the Order of Malta)