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Accounts for the Généralité of Caen


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 671

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Accounts for the Généralité of Caen

Date(s): [1775]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 36 leaves

Name of creator(s): Oursin | Pierre | fl 1773-1775 | French financial official

CONTEXT

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No information available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing accounts for the Généralité of Caen, France, for 1772-1773, headed 'Recette Généralle des Finances. Exercice 1772' and beginning 'Etat au vrai des recettes et depenses faites par Pierre Oursin, Ecuyer, Seigneur de Digoville, Conseiller du Roy, Receveur Général des Finances de la Généralité de Caen'. The accounts include financial details for the 'élections' of Caen, Bayeux, Saint Lo, Vire et Condé, Coutances, Carentan, Valognes, Avranches and Mertain. Each section of the accounts is signed by [Charles Gabriel] des Hommets [de Martainville] who was appointed 'commissaire pour verifier le present etat' on 19 Oct 1775, with the words 'Vu par nous', sometimes with further comment. The sums are listed under various headings, the individual items being entered against a place, a person, or the personnel of an office. The total expenses are given as 2,912,200 livres, 16 sols, 6 deniers; receipts as 2,948,734 livres, 9 sols, 6 deniers. The whole account was signed by Louis XVI and seven members of the Conseil Royale des Finances at Versailles on 28 Nov 1775. Each page is stamped 'Gen[eralité] de Paris Extraordinaire' in a decorative frame.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

14½" x 9¼". Bound in a modern soft-leather cover.

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Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bought from C. Maggs in 1966.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Accounting | Financial administration | Finance
Local government | Public administration | Government

Personal names
Martainville | Charles Gabriel | des Hommets de | fl 1773-1775 | French financial official x de Martainville | Charles Gabriel | des Hommets
Oursin | Pierre | fl 1773-1775 | French financial official

Corporate names

Places
Avranches | France | Western Europe | Europe
Bayeux | France | Western Europe | Europe
Caen | France | Western Europe | Europe
Carentan | France | Western Europe | Europe
Coutances | France | Western Europe | Europe
Mertain | France | Western Europe | Europe
Saint Lo | France | Western Europe | Europe
Valognes | France | Western Europe | Europe
Vire et Condé | France | Western Europe | Europe