VOLVIC (Puy de Dôme) / Set of 3 documents: 1°) 1610: period copy of the ruling for the donation of 214 livres made to the inhabitants of Tourtoule because of the fire that burned the hamlet on March 31, 1610 (8 p petit in-4) - 2°) 1620: receipt signed by the community priests of the Church of Saint-Priest de Volvic, on account of a "right of lots and sale" held by them on land in the Mas district of Volvic, sold by Etienne Champleboux, carpenter, to Gaspard Astier, merchant (4 p in-4 on plain paper) - 3°) 1742: appointment of Balthazar Vayron, priest of Notre Dame de l'Arc in Volvic (chapel dependent on Château de Bosredon), document in Latin (2 p large in-8 oblong (top eaten away by rodents), drawn up at Château de Bosredon, signed by Jean-François VALETTE Seigneur de BOSREDON, Trésorier de France en la Généralité d'Auvergne, with wax seal.

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