Magdalena - Case 1 - ADBR 3B 858

acts. He protested the expenses.

For the opposing party there appeared the said lord Bertran Gombert, procurator and in the name of the procuration for the said Magdalena, refusing to consent that the opening of the said acts be done, and in case they are opened, he requested a copy of them, or at least a viewing, and that a terminus be assigned to him so as to deliberate. He protested the expenses.

And the said lord viguier ordered that the said acts be opened and posted in the present proceedings, and that a copy or at least a viewing be granted to the said lord Bertran, representing the name above, by the present

notary, and he assigned a teminus of next Thursday for saying whatever he might want to say against them.

And immediately, following the ruling of the said lord viguier, the aforementioned acts were opened and thence posted in the present proceedings by me, the notary named below.

A transcript of the said acts is posted below.

The case of Hugonin de Cergeus, shoemaker, acting for Magdalena, his wife, against Peire Huguet, caulker.

In the year of the Lord 1406, the 13th of the month of August, at the hour of vespers, there appeared before the noble and distinguished lord Johan Raynaut, a licentiate in laws, judge of one of the less chambers of Palace Court of the city of Marseille, seated as tribunal, Hugo de Cerges, shoemaker of Marseille, as the husband and lord of the dotal goods of Magdalena his wife, and he offered and presented to the same judge two identical, appropriate pleas and with the same contents, one of which, the binding? diligently made, he asked be inserted or at least bound

into the present proceedings, and that the other be sent to Peire Huguet, caulker, his opposing party in this case, by one of the criers of the said court, and that a certain terminus be assigned to him for responding. He protested the expenses.

And the said lord judge, the two pleas having been received and a gathering made from them, ordered and commanded that one of them be inserted or at least bound into the present proceedings and the other be sent to the party to respond to same if, by law, it ought to be responded to; he assigned a period of five days for the terminus, which precept he ordered

be made by Johan de Bosco, crier of the said court, present and understanding.

The nuncius, going and soon returning, reported to me, the notary named below, that he conveyed by hand the said plea to the said Peire Hugon, who was there in person, and ordered him to respond within five days to the same plea if by law it ought to be responded to, just as was established above by the said lord judge in this orders. I wrote this etc., I, Arnaut Barran, notary of the said court etc.

The contents of the plea proferred on behalf of the said Hugon de Cergeus, cobbler, the actor in this cause, just as he asserted, as husband and lord of the dotal rights of Magdalena, his wife.