¹ The background of this suit was discussed by Bossuat, A., ‘Le Parlcment de Paris pendant l'occupation anglaise’, Revue Historique 229 (1963), 1940Google Scholar, and particularly 27 seq.

² For Sir John Handford, sec appendix II.

³ Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, arr. Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

⁴ Raoul de Gaucourt had played an important part in trying to resist the English. He was bailli of Rouen, where he was assassinated on 23 July 1417.

⁵ For Nicole Pitement, M.A., M.Th., of the diocese of Rouen, see Denifle, H. S. and Chatelain, E., Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis, iv (1394–1452) (Paris, 1897)Google Scholar, nos 763, 1786 etc. Curiously, a man of this name was appointed to a prebend in a church at Mantes by Henry V in February 1421 (D.K.R., xlii, 396).Google Scholar

⁶ Rouen, Seine-Maritime.

⁷ Chartres, Eure-et-Loir.

⁸ Meaux, Seine-et-Marne.

⁹ Poissy, Yvelines, arr. Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

¹⁰ The value of land was frequently estimated by the value of the year 1410.

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¹¹ Jean de Rinel, an anglophile who served as the leading royal secretary for many years.

¹² Jean was the brother of the late Raoul de Gaucourt; he died in 1435. 13 Joinville, Haute-Marne, arr. Saint-Dizier.

¹⁴ Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne.

¹⁵ The community of St. Maurice de Senlis (Oise).

¹⁶ Louis IX, king of France 1226–70.

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¹⁷ Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, of which Handford was captain.

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¹⁸ Philippe de Morvilliers was first président of the Parlement 1418–33.

¹⁹ Henry V.

²⁰ That Handford had a grant earlier than that of 26 September 1424 (the one printed at the beginning of this record and referred to in the re-grant of 31 October 1429 (below, pp. 71–2) is likely. On 23 March 1423, the lieutenant of the bailli of Rouen ordered the vicomtes of that bailliage to allow Sir John Handford all the profits of the crossing at Maisons-sur-Seine to the value of 500 livres parisis, half the value allowed in the grant of 26 September 1424 (Arch. Seine-Mme, Fonds Danquin, doss. ‘Capitaines’, H).

²¹ Handford was doubtless basing his demand upon an ordinance of Henry V, probably the one copied into a fifteenth-century Norman coutumier: ‘Item, en consel a Rouen le chancellier de Normendie presidera et fera court souveraine, et congnoistra de tous les dons fais ou a faire par le roy tant en regalles que heritages et autres dons, et en sera defendue la cognoissance a tous baillis et aultres quelxconques, et seront leurs proces nulz se il[s] les font’ (B.N., MS fr. 5964, fos. 207v–208r: B.L., Add. MS 21411, fo. 9v. See above, p. 22, n. 8).

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²² See the treaty of Troyes (Cosneau, , Grands traités, pp. 105, 106Google Scholar), articles 7 and 10.

²³ Ibid., p. 105 (articles).

²⁴ Ibid., pp. 108–9 (articles 15, 16 and particularly 19).

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²⁵ Cosneau, Grands traités, pp. 105–6, 108–9 (articles 9 and 17).

²⁶ For the fifteenth-century application of the much older maxim ‘Rex est imperator regni sui’, see Bossuat, A., ‘La formule “Le roi est empereur en son royaume”’ Revue historique de droit français et étranger, 4^e sér., 39 (1961), 371–81.Google Scholar

²⁷ A number of references to commissioners for confiscations are to be found in these texts, e.g., Rose v. R. Handford (X^1a 4795, fo. 237r); Sens v. Suffolk (X^1a 4794, fo. 35r). In 1423 Pierre Baille was appointed ‘receveur des confiscations dans la prévôté de Paris’ (Gallia Regia, iv, 372).

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²⁸ Pontoise, Val d'Oise.

²⁹ Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines.

³⁰ Gisors, Eure, arr. Les Andelys.

³¹ See the treaty of Troyes (Cosneau, , Grands traités, p. 105Google Scholar (article 8)).

³² A similar argument was used in Dring v. Dynadam; see below, pp. 183–4.

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³³ Jean Aguenin was second président of the Parlement.

³⁴ 16 April 1425.

³⁵ Louis de Luxembourg, bishop of Thérouanne, appointed chancellor ot France for Henry VI on 7 February 1425.

³⁶ Pierre Cauchon, bishop of Beauvais since August 1420.

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³⁷ Philippe de Ruilly (or Rueil), conseiller clerc at the Parlement.

³⁸ Pierre de Marigny, avocat du roi in 1418, prévôt of Paris, royal councillor and master of requests in 1421 (See Delachenal, R., Histoire des avocats au Parlement de Paris, 1300–1600 (Paris, 1885), pp. 364–5).Google Scholar

³⁹ Jean, sire de Courcelles, member of the court of requests, had been present at the duke of Bedford's marriage at Troyes in May 1423.

⁴⁰ Quentin Massue, conseiller in the Parlement in 1410, master of requests in 1422.

⁴¹ Hugues Rapiout, formerly lieutenant to the prévôt of Paris; avocat du roi at the Châtelet in 1421; commissioner for confiscations and forfeitures; master of requests (See Bourgeois, p. 284Google Scholar, n. 1).

⁴² Bois de Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, arr. Nogent-sur-Marne. It was here that Henry V had died on 31 August 1422.

⁴³ A wavy line in the margin draws attention to the importance of this text, which is printed in Fauquembergue, ii, 178–80.Google Scholar

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⁴⁴ An ordinance of Henry V stated that all grants made by him were ‘chargees’ by debts, unless otherwise stated. They were, however, quit of ‘debtes mobiliaires’ (B.L., Add. MS 21411, fo. 9r; B.N., MS fr. 5964, fo. 207r. See Ferret v. Russell (no I), n. 8).

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⁴⁵ This is likely to be the earliest grant referred to in n. 20, above.

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⁴⁶ A reference to the siege of Senlis by Charles VI in February 1418.

⁴⁷ The siege of Rouen by Henry V began at the end of July 1418 and ended on 13 January 1419.

⁴⁸ See above, pp. 25–7.

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⁴⁹ This text is printed in Fauquembergue, ii, 193–4.Google Scholar

⁵⁰ ‘Actore nihil probante … reus tamen absolvitur’ (Libri Feudorum, lib. II, tit. xxxiii). Also cited no XVIII, n. 20.

⁵¹ Probably John Grey of Heton, count of Tancarville, killed at Baugé in March 1421.

^51a He was dead by 19 August 1427 (A.N., X^1a 8302, fo. 195v). See appendix I.

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⁵² Jean de Paris was one of the leading procureurs to serve in the Parlement in these years. He also represented Sir John Fastolf against Denis Sauvage.

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⁵³ This was ihe formal manner of publication of a summons.

⁵⁴ Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, arr. Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

⁵⁵ Mid-Lent.

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⁵⁶ Eight days after Christmas.

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⁵⁷ The Sainte Chapelle, or Chapel Royal, in Paris.

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⁵⁸ Sartrouville, Yvelines, arr. Saint-Germain-en-Laye. It is opposite Maisons, on the right bank of the Seine.

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⁵⁹ 1 October 1427.

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⁶⁰ The siege of Orléans was begun in October 1428.

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⁶¹ Charles VI died on 21 October 1422.

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⁶² A reference to the Charte aux Normands of 1315 which limited appeals outside the duchy of Normandy. The procureur du roi was emphasizing that the lands in question were outside the duchy.

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⁶³ This text is printed in Fauquembergue, ii, 314–15.Google Scholar

⁶⁴ On this collection, see Allmand, C. T., ‘The Collection of Dom Lenoir and the English Occupation of Normandy in the Fifteenth Century’, Archives, vi (1963–1964), 202–10.Google Scholar

⁶⁵ See Gallia Regia, v, 108–10Google Scholar; iii, 366–7.

⁶⁶ See Gallia Regia, v. 125–7.Google Scholar

⁶⁷ He held this office from 1427 to 1442 (Gallia Regia, v, 187–8Google Scholar). This letter constitutes an exercise of the crown's prerogative power. See also p. 196, n. 53.

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