In the winter of 1403, Poncius Daurelli, formerly a parish priest of Saignon, received a sealed parchment letter from the archbishop of Aix-en-Provence granting him the priorship of the church of Saint-Romain in Buoux, located in the isolated village of Buoux in the region of Provence known as the Luberon. The act confirming his possession is remarkable for its description of the ceremonial transfer of the priorship from Michael Grassi, a priest of Buoux, to the new prior. The doors of the church were opened and closed, the altar cloths were placed in possession of the incoming prior, and then the bells were tolled. The inventory itself is noteworthy because it contains no sacred objects such as those commonly found in the inventories of the churches of nearby Apt and Lioux. This inventory and other acts related to Buoux at the turn of the fifteenth century suggest that the village was in a period of precipitous demographic decline.