Gabriel Le Veneur

Manuscript on parchment, Foundation Statutes of the Brotherhood of Charity of Saint-Clair-d’Arcey, near Bernay (Eure). Act of Gabriel Le Veneur, bishop of Évreux, given at the Château de Condé on 11 November 1565. Followed by the confirmation of Claude de Sainctes (1576) and the visa of François de Péricard, dated 27 May 1620 during a pastoral visit. Nominative list of the founders: the parish priest Robert Dagommer, the lord of the place, the lord and the parish priest of Carentonne, about sixty parishioners. Then 19 articles in French: thirteen brothers under a bailiff and a provost, bearing the hood, daily masses, procession and burial of the brothers, free burial of the poor, bread distributed, aid to the sick and to women in childbirth, contributions, fines, annual elections, banquets limited to two per year. Indulgence of forty days. Notebook of 2 double leaves of vellum, 7 pages written. Ornate initial, careful handwriting in brown ink. Signatures of the episcopal secretaries. Marginal numbering added later. Title on the back - Dimensions: 19.1 x 10.7 cm - Condition: Fine state of preservation, with some dampness and stains. Ink faded in places, text largely legible. Small losses at the folds. Seals absent, traces of red wax. See photos for details - Number of pages: 7 pages - Gabriel Le Veneur de Tillières was an ecclesiastic who served as bishop of Évreux from 1532 to 1574. Wikipedia - Claude de Sainctes, Sanctesius in Latin, born in 1525 in the Perche and died in captivity at Crèvecœur-en-Auge in 1591, is a prelate and Liguer (Ligueur) polemicist. Wikipedia - François Péricard was a bishop of Avranches in the late 16th and early 17th century. Wikipedia Carefully dispatched in a rigid and watertight carton.

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