1.  The estate of Blet, according to the custom of the country for noble estates, is valued at rate twenty-five, namely, 373,000 livres, from which must be deducted a capital of 65,056 livres, representing the annual charges (the fixed salary of the curate, repairs, etc.), not including personal charges like the vingtièmes.  Its net revenue per annum is 12,300 livres, and is worth, net, 308,003 livres.

2.  The estate of Brosses is estimated at rate twenty-two, ceasing to be noble through the transfer of judicial and fief rights to that of Blet.  Thus rated it is worth 73,583 livres, from which must be deducted a capital of 12,359 livres for actual charges, the estate bringing in 3,140 livres per annum and worth, net, 61,224 livres.  These revenues are derived from the following sources: 

1.  Rights of the high, low and middle courts of justice over the entire territory of Blet and other villages, Brosses and Jalay.  The upper courts, according to an act passed at the Chatelet, April 29, 1702, “take cognizance of all actions, real and personal, civil and criminal, even actions between nobles and ecclesiastics, relating to seals and inventories of movable effects, tutelages, curacies, the administration of the property of minors, of domains, and of the customary dues and revenues of the seigniory, etc.”

2.  Rights of the forests, edict of 1707.  The seignior’s warden decides in all cases concerning waters, and woods, and customs, and crimes relating to fishing and hunting.

3.  Right of voirie or the police of the highways, streets, and buildings (excepting the great main roads).  The seignior appoints a bailly, warden and road overseer, one M. Theurault (at Sagonne), a fiscal attorney, Baujard (at Blet); he may remove them “in case they make no returns.”  “The rights of the greffe were formerly secured to the seignior, but as it is now very difficult to find intelligent persons in the country able to fulfill its functions, the seignior abandons his rights to those whom it may concern.” (The seignior pays forty-eight livres per annum to the bailly to hold his court once a month, and twenty-four livres per annum to the fiscal attorney to attend them).

He receives the fines and confiscation of cattle awarded by his officers.  The profit therefrom, an average year, is eight livres.

He must maintain a jail and a jailer. (It is not stated whether there was one).  No sign of a gibbet is found in the seigniory.

He may appoint twelve notaries; only one, in fact, is appointed at Blet “and he has nothing to do,” a M. Baujard, fiscal attorney.  This commission is assigned him gratuitously, to keep up the privilege, “otherwise it would be impossible to find any one sufficiently intelligent to perform its functions.”

He appoints a sergeant, but, for a long time, this sergeant pays no rent or anything for his lodging.