30 - HENRY IV. Document signed “Henry.” Fontainebleau, November 1604. One page, large oblong folio on parchment; remnants of a green wax seal preserved on green and red silk ribbons; mounted under glass.

HENRY IV. Document signed “Henry.” Fontainebleau, November 1604. One page, large oblong folio on parchment; remnants of a green wax seal preserved on green and red silk ribbons; mounted under glass. Deed in favor of Jean de Ligny, who served as General Receiver of the Woods and Forests of France until around 1585–1587, then as notary and secretary to the king, specifically charged with financial affairs, and subsequently appointed General Treasurer of Finances by Henry IV. “Our beloved and faithful counselor, notary, secretary, and Treasurer General of our extraordinary finances and incidental revenues, Master Jean de Ligny, has most humbly brought to our attention that he is the owner and possessor of the village, LAND AND SEIGNORY OF RANTILLY of the fief of Saint-Germain-Desnoiers, near the said Rantilly, situated in our viscounty of Paris [currently Rentilly in the commune of Bussy-Saint-Martin and Saint-Germain-Des-Noyers in the adjacent commune of Saint-Thibault-Des-Vignes, in the department of Seine-et-Marne], and that, by virtue of this, the lower justice over six localities belongs to him, while the high justice in the said localities belongs to us and is subject to our castellany of Torcy-en-Brie... and.... he beseeching us... to grant, cede, and transfer to him all the right of high justice that we hold in the said places,... whereupon we hereby declare that we... hold in respect to him of Ligny, his successors, heirs, and assigns, the lords, owners, and tenants of the said village, land, and seigneury of Rantilly, and of the fief of Saint-Germain-Desnoiers, hereby release, ASSIGN, AND TRANSFER, BY OUR SPECIAL GRACE, BY ROYAL AUTHORITY AND FULL POWER, we hereby release, relinquish, assign, and transfer to them, by these perpetual and everlasting deeds, all the rights, shares, and portions that we hold and may hold in the high justice of the said village, land, and seigneury of Rantilly... ” A SPECTACULAR DOCUMENT.