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I Hugues Ferret v. Edward Russell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

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This suit, in which Ferret made use of the terms of the treaty of Troyes, concerned part of the revenues which came to Edward Russell, captain of Gisors, from certain confiscated lands granted to him in the bailliages of Gisors, Vernon and Senlis. Russell claimed that his grant included no obligation on his part to pay rent-charges upon the lands he had received, a point of view challenged by Ferret, a priest, who retorted that, if this were admitted, the church would be the loser, something which Henry V had never intended to happen. The court ruled in favour of Ferret, while moderating the value of the arrears which he claimed were due to him.

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References

1 The suit was referred to by Richardson, H. G., ‘Illustrations of English history in the mediaeval registers of the Parlement of Paris’, T.R.Hist.S., Fourth series, x (1927), 66.Google Scholar

2 Nothing is known of Hugues Ferret other than that he was a priest and chaplain of the chapel of St. Anne in the church of St. Yves in Paris (see p. 25).

3 For Edward Russell, see appendix II.

page 22 note a In the margin

page 22 note b Roussel, anglois, in a different hand

page 22 note c et autres interlined

4 Gisors, Eure, arr. Les Andelys. He is not indicated as captain in Gallia Regia, iii, 403–4.Google Scholar

5 Henry V, who died on 31 August 1422.

6 Candlemas, 2 February 1424.

7 It is not clear where this land was situated; possibly in the modern département of the Oise, where three communes of that name exist.

8 See part of the text of an ordinance of Henry V, issued in the form of letters patent (no date), copied into a fifteenth-century manuscript of Norman customs: ‘Item, le roy n'entent point avoir deschargié les terres que il a donnees des rentes hereditelles dont elles estoient chargiees en paravant, se sur ce n'est faicte mention es dictes lettres de don, mais ils sont quites des arrierages et obligacions et debtes mobiliaires que on prenoit avant sur iceulx qui possidoient lesdis heritages donnes.’ (B. N., MS fr. 5964, fo. 207r. See other copy in B. L., Add. MS 21411, fo. 9r).

page 23 note a Followed by est, struck out

9 See Charma, A., ‘Parties des dons faits par Henri V, roi d'Angleterre, lorsqu'il se fut rendu maître de la Normandie’, Ménoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie, xxiii (1858), 4Google Scholar; D.K.R., xli, 771Google Scholar. The grant was dated 19 April 1419.

10 Vernon, Eure, arr. Evreux—not officially a bailliage.

11 Senlis, Oise.

12 See the text of the treaty of Troyes, article 17 (Cosneau, , Grands traités, pp. 108–9).Google Scholar

page 24 note a Followed by Fer, struck out

page 24 note b In the margin

page 24 note c In the margin

13 The Norman Échiquier was the highest court in the duchy.

14 Articie 17 of the treaty of Troyes contains the words ‘… saufves les droiz de la couronne de France et de tous autres’ (Cosneau, , Grands traités, p. 109).Google Scholar

15 Jean Aguenin was second président of the Parlement.

16 Simon de Champluisant was named fourth président on 1 December 1422.

page 25 note a MS adiudicari

page 25 note b et Anglie interlined

page 25 note c MS occupens

17 The arrét involving Roland de Santueil does not appear to have been registered.

18 Hugues du Boulay had been captain of Montlhéry in 1365 and 1384 (Gallia Regia, iv, 392).Google Scholar

19 In the autumn of 1427 Jacques Bourges, chaplain at St. Anne in place of Hugues Ferret (by now deceased) brought a similar suit against Jacques de Trye, husband and heir of Marguerite du Boulay, who had died in 1419 before Henry V had made the grant to Edward Russell. By 1427 Russell was said to have abandoned the fief of Margny, described as being ‘de present … de non valoir’ (A.N., X1a 8302, fos. 202V, 2O5v). Ferret's will was produced in court on 21 May 1428 (A.N., X1a 1480, fo. 42ov) and his successor won the case, 29 July 1429 (A.N., X1a 1481, fo. 16v).