"Old French" version

Ce jourd’huy vingtunieme du mois de Juin [seize cent] quatre vingts quatorze; après midy en la ville et cité de bayonne pardevant moy no[tai]re royal sous[sig]né presant les temoins bas nommés; a esté constitué en sa personne Sieur Charles Maynadier chirurgien de profession residant en cette ville [de Bayonne]; lequel de son bon gré a fait et constitué son procur[eur] exprès et irrevocable; avec pouvoir de sustituer [...] domicille sçavoir […] ; Sieur Jean Dilgres un des Sergents de quartier de la ville; pour et au nom dud[it] Sieur constituant; ce pendant son absance sur mer au service du Roy poursuivre en jus[ti]ce ou autrement le Sieur Tournal aussy chirurgien a lui restituer Tous les coffres quy ont esté dans le vaisseau de sa Majesté nommé Laigle quy estoit au port de cette ville; et que ledit S[ieu]r Tournal a pris et en a disposé; apres que le Sieur constituant fut obligé de quitter led[it] vaisseau; a raison de sa maladie; tous lesquels coffres sont mentionnés dans [...] qu['il a] remis aud[it] Sieur Delgres comme aussy a luy payé la somme de 48 livres 12 sols 6 deniers qu['il] a payée a sa descharge a un marchand portugais suivant un […] [billet] qu['il] a aussy remis aud[it] S[ieu]r Delgres et a luy restituer deux coffres; l'un de médecine; et l'autre contenant quelques habits et linge apartenant aud[it] S[ieu]r constituant; et que led[it] S[ieu]r Tournal a aussi retiré a La Rochelle; en vertu dudit pouvoir que led[it] S[ieu]r constituant luy a délivré en cette ville; et finallement donne pouvoir aud[it] S[ieu]r Dilgrese de poursuivre Sieur Pierre Lacoste bourgeois et m[aitr]e chirurgien de cette ville a luy rendre compte de la somme qu['il] a recue du pouvoir de Sieur Dominique de Behic bourgeois et marchand dicelle apartenant aud[it] Sieur constituant et justiffier par luy de [...] emploi qu'il en a fait; […] […] mentionné […] en partie […] par led[it] Sieur Delgres touttes les quittances et desharges que […] lesquelles..................

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English version

On this day, the twenty-first of June, 1694, in the afternoon, in the city of Bayonne, before me, the undersigned Notary Royal, in the presence of the witnesses named below, appeared before me in person and confirmed his identity, Sieur Charles Maynadier, surgeon by profession, resident of this city [Bayonne], who has, of his own free will, appointed and constituted Sieur Jean Delgrès, one of the sergeants of a part of the city, his proxy, and granted to him power of attorney, expressly and irrevocably, with power to substitute a proxy or attorney, …[probably to lay charges, to sign all documents both judicial and extrajudicial] …to elect a domicile…[probably to arbitrate, compromise and accommodate the case, in whatever way the said proxy (Delgrès) finds best for the benefit of the said grantor (Maynadier)] on behalf of and in the name of the said Sieur [Maynadier] during his absence at sea in the service of the King, as follows:

to pursue, in law or otherwise, Sieur François Tournal, also a surgeon, to return to him all the chests which were in the vessel of the King named L’Aigle which was in the port of this city, which the said Sieur Tournal took and disposed of, after the grantor [Maynadier] was obliged to leave the said vessel on account of illness. All the chests are mentioned in [a memorandum? a list?] which he has submitted to the said Sieur Delgrès, to whom he has also paid the sum of 48 livres, 12 sols, and  6 deniers, which was paid as discharge to a Portuguese merchant following a ….

He has also submitted to the said Sieur Delgrès [a demand?] for the return to him of two chests: one of medicines, and one containing clothing and linens, belonging to the said Sieur Maynadier, grantor, which the said Sieur Tournal also removed to La Rochelle, by virtue of the said power, which the said Sieur the grantor has delivered to him in this city. And finally, he gives power to the said Sieur Delgrès to pursue Sieur Pierre Lacoste, citizen and master surgeon of this city, to render to him an account of the sum which he has received from the power of Sieur Dominique de Béhic, citizen and merchant, ….  

 

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