Note 124 — Chapter VII · Demons and Goblins.

Editor’s Notes.—There is documentary evidence proving that in the early part of the fifteenth century the “Ville au Roi” estate belonged to John Thiault, Jurat of the Royal Court. He died, leaving three daughters, of whom the eldest married Perrin Careye, and thus brought these lands into the Carey family, where they remained until the year 1570, when Collette Careye, great, great grand-daughter of Perrin Careye, married Guillaume De Beauvoir, and received the Ville au Roi estate as her share of her father’s property. The property did not remain long in the possession of the De Beauvoir family, as we find, September 24, 1636, “Monsieur Jean de la Marche, ministre,” its owner, “à cause d’Ester De Beauvoir, sa femme, fille de Collette Careye.”