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VOYAGES DV SIEVR DE CHAMPLAIN APPENDIX
ADDITION FOUND ON THE ORIGINAL oF CHAMPLAIN's MARRIAGE CoNTRACT RECENTLY DISCOVERED.
SDITS Samuel de Champlain et damoiselle Helayne Boulle sa femme de luy autorisee en ceste partie 路 confessent avoyr eu et receu desdits Maitre Nicolas Boulle et Marguerite Alix sa femme a ce presens la somme de quinze cens livres tournois faisant le reste et parfaict payement des six mil livres tournois mentionnes au present contract de mariage et que lesdits Boulle et sa femme avoyent promiz donner en faveur de mariage ausdits de Champlain et sa femme de laquelle somme de quinze cens livres tournois qui leur a este baillee et payee par lesdits Boulle et sa femme presentement et en la presence des notaires soubssignez en pieces de seise sols de monnoye le tout bon, ilz se sont tenus et tiennent pour contans et bien
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HE said Samuel de Champlain and Helayne Boulle his wife empowered by him in this behalf admit to having had and received from the said Master Nicolas Boulle and Marguerite Alix his wife here present the sum of fifteen hundred livres tournois forming the balance and full payment of the six thousand livres tournois mentioned in the present contract of marriage and which the said Boulle and his \vife had promised to give in view of the marriage to the said de Champlain and his wife, of which sum of fifteen hundred livres tournois which has been handed and paid to them by the said Boulle and his wife now and in the presence of the undersigned notaries in pieces of 16 sous each, all good, they have held and hold themselves for satis-
VOYAGES DV SIEVR DE CHAMPLAIN 878 payes et en quittent lesdits Boulle sa femme et tous autres. Promectant, obligeant, etc. Faict et passe a Paris ez estudes des notaires soubcignez apres midy l'an mil six cens di:x:neuf, le lundy quatorziesme jour de Janvier et ont signe CHAMPLAIN H. BouLLE N. BouLLt M. ALIX R. CoNTES ARRAGON The signatures are original : published from the original by M. E. de Cathelineau in N()'{)a Francia, Vol. v, No. 3, PP路 I I 51, 1930. See Champlain's Works, Vol. II, pp. 315-324.
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fied and duly paid and discharge therefrom the said Boulle and his wife and all others. Promising, binding, etc. Executed and delivered at Paris in the chambers of the undersigned notaries after noon in the year 1619, Monday the 14th day of January and signed. CHAMPLAIN H. BouLLE M. ALIX N. BouLLE ARRAGON R. CoNTEs