First quarter of 16th century, cursive "Humanist" hand. This may be paper? (your call--see the ductus required for certain letter forms)
Treat this as a florid and messy Bastarda and all will be well.
Your assignments:
To read: first leaf--start wherever you like, but try to knock out the first block of text (eg the first 8 lines). It may be helpful to know that "froment" is a kind of flour.
To forge: second leaf (likely the same scribe, but a different day and pen), ninth line from the top, "Et quatre chastellennies dessus d[ictes] pour en faire sur son estat au vray et en rendre le compte ou il appertiendra [sic]. Fait à Rodre" etc--to the end of the date.
"Rodre" is a problem. Simple searches beginning with "ville de Ro-" returned the town of Rodez, near Cahors. This is a bit of a stretch, so I wanted to verify. Thankfully there are some names that come up here: Guillaume Caissyals (juge) and Antoine Buscaylet (avocat du Roi), and I looked them up. I was pointed to names of notable folk from the department of Aveyron, and guess what: the town of Rodez is in Aveyron. There was also a note that Rodez is an Occitan transliteration, and so my guess (purely a guess) is that Rodre is a latinate or early-Modern French spelling of Rodez.
For "chastellennie", see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2tellenie
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