"M.

de Boullongne, seignior of Montereau, here possesses a toll-right consisting of 2 deniers (farthings) per ox, cow, calf or pig; 1 per sheep; 2 for a laden animal; 1 sou and 8 deniers for each four-wheeled vehicle; 5 deniers for a two-wheeled vehicle, and 10 deniers for a vehicle drawn by three, four, or five horses; besides a tax of 10 deniers for each barge, boat or skiff ascending the river; the same tax for each team of horses dragging the boats up; 1 denier for each empty cask going up." Analogous taxes are enforced at Varennes for the benefit of the Duc de Chatelet, seignior of Varennes.] [Footnote 1226: National archives, K, 1453, No.1448: A letter by M.de Meulan, dated June 12, 1789.

This tax on grain belonged at that time to the Comte d'Artois .-- Chateaubriand, "Memoires," I.73.] [Footnote 1227: Renauldon, ibid..

249, 258.

"There are few seignioral towns which have a communal slaughter-house.