Register of payments and annuities for the years 1779-1781.

Folio: 175-[1] ff., on paper, in Dutch (some soiling, corners of first and last quires dog-eared).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine (corners dog-eared).

Precious testimony on the economic situation of the Waasland at the end of the Austrian domination of the Low Countries. The Waasland - also called Land of Waas - was a castellany of the county of Flanders created in the middle of the 13th century and remained in force until the end of the eighteenth century, at the beginning of the French occupation in 1795.