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XIII John Chepstowe v. Raoul le Houdin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
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John Chepstowe was not the only member of the English clergy to be taken up by litigation before the Parlement. Indeed, he himself had been involved earlier in a suit over the cure of Hérouville, near Caen, and other clergy disputed cures and prebends in Norman cathedrals, in Paris and elsewhere.
This suit was unusual in that, although it concerned a priest, it centred around the possession of secular property. John Chepstowe, who had been given houses in Caen by Henry V when he had come to work there in the Norman ‘Chambre des Comptes’, had earlier found himself opposed by Raoul le Houdin who took him before the council at Rouen which condemned Chepstowe. Forced to pay heavy expenses, Chepstowe was obliged to dispose of part of his newly-acquired property, some of which was sold to a Frenchman.
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- Camden Fourth Series , Volume 26: English Suits Before the Parlement of Paris 1420–1436 , July 1982 , pp. 154 - 168
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References
1 See the suit Key v. Brasses (no VII) and the references in appendix I.
2 The suit was referred to by Richardson, ‘Illustrations of English history’, 66.
3 For John Chepstowe, see appendix Il.
4 The only information which we have on Raoul le Houdin is his description of himself as a ‘viel homme ancian’. He appears to have been a cutler who had machinery and other instruments for grinding knives in his house.
5 An ordinance of Henry V slated that ‘au conseil a Rouen le chancelier de Normandie presidera, et sera four souveraine, et cognoistront de tous les dons faictz et a faire par le roy, tant regales que heritages et autres dons, et en sera defendue la cognoissance a tous baillys et autres quelzconques, et seront leurs proces nulz se ilz les font’. See the texts in B.N., MS fr. 5964, fos. 207v 208r; n. a. fr. 7627, fo. 266r; B.L., Add. MS 21411, fo. 9v.
6 See Allmand, C. T., ‘The Lancastrian Land Settlement in Normandy, 1417 50’ Econ H. R., 2nd ser., xxi (1968), 467 and n. 9.Google Scholar
7 The bailli of Caen (Calvados) was William Breton.
8 The Norman Échiquier met in 1423, 1424 and 1426.
9 Members of the university of Paris actually studying there enjoyed the privilege of having litigation concerning them heard in Paris, as, in this case, in the court of the Châtelct. On this matter, see no XVIII.
10 Simon Morhier, prévôt of Paris 1422 36.
11 The officer responsible for the defence of academic privileges.
page 156 note a In the margin
12 Philippe de Morvilliers was first président of the Parlement 1418 33.
page 157 note a Followed by a de
page 157 note b Interlined over point, struck out
page 157 note c MS quil, the l struck out
page 157 note d Followed by pare, struck out
page 157 note e Followed by sa, struck out
13 Caen surrendered to Henry V in early September 1417.
page 158 note a In the margin
page 158 note b MS perrochialis
page 158 note c MS ohminibus
14 28 April 1427.
18 Jean Aguenin was the second président of the Parlement.
16 Hérouville-Saint-Clair, Calvados, arr. Caen, c. Caen is just to the east of the town.
17 Bayeux, Calvados. Chepstowe was the addressee of this letter.
page 159 note a Followed by par deva, struck out
page 159 note b et moderer les despens interlined
page 159 note c le interlined
page 159 note d Followed by dagelt, struck out
page 160 note a Followed by qui, struck out
page 160 note b la interlined
page 160 note c Followed by ne sont le, struck out
page 160 note d In the margin
18 i.e., the court of the official principal of Notre-Dame, Paris. See Emmeroy, L., L'Officialité archidiaconale de Paris aux XVe et XVIe siècles (Paris, 1933), pp. 10–35.Google Scholar
page 161 note a on interlined
page 161 note b Followed by mie, struck out
page 161 note c In the margin
19 The reference is to William Alington, treasurer-general of Normandy.
20 25 June 1427.
page 162 note a In the margin
page 162 note b MS sommam
page 162 note c MS sommam
21 For his suit against Jean Tiphaine, see appendix I, and Allmand, C. T., ‘Wales and the Hundred Years War: a French Provost of Holyhead’, Trans. Anglesey Antiquarian Soc., (1964), 2–3.Google Scholar
22 Martin Reginald, priest of the diocese of Rouen, was M.A. by 1403 (Denifle and Châtelain, Chartularium, iv, p. 103).Google Scholar
23 William Breton, bailli, and Guillaume Biote, vicomte.
page 164 note a In the margin
page 165 note a Ms predictori
page 165 note b Ms executoric
24 William Alington.
25 Today still the rue Froide.
26 The information is confirmed by a notarial act of May 1432 (Arch. Calvados, 7E (5)(i), fo. 24; B.N., MS lat. 10066, fo. 200v) which testifies that in that year the Hospice des Bachins was owned by John Milcent, an Englishman, who had as his neighbours John Chepstowe, James Dryland and Walter Cotford, all Englishmen.
page 166 note a MS declerentur
page 166 note b MS obtemptarum
page 167 note a MS nostris
page 168 note a MS utitilibus
27 Jacques Branlart, conseiller in the Parlement, was président of the chambre des Enquêtes by 1418.
28 Richard de Chancey, a Burgundian councillor, bailli of Dijon, had become fourth président of the Parlement in November 1428. Sec introduction, p. 7.
29 J. Coquillain was a conseiller in the Parlement.