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Some Documents Regarding the Fulfilment and Interpretation of the Treaty of Bretigny 1361–1369

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page 5 note 1 Delachenal, R., Histoire de Charles V (Paris, 1909), vol. iiGoogle Scholar. Petit-Dutaillis, C. and Collier, P., ‘La diplomatie française et le traité de Brétigny’, Le Moyen Age, 2e série, i (1897), 135Google Scholar.

page 5 note 2 A detailed descriptive account of Yelverton MS. no. 5 will be printed elsewhere.

page 6 note 1 Delachenal, op. cit., pp. 242–3.

page 6 note 2 Paris, Arch. Nat. J. 638, no. 3 = Treaty Roll no. 43, m. iiij = Rymer, Foedera (Record Comm. edn.), iii (i), 524–5.

page 7 note 1 Ancient Correspondence, vol. lv, no. 87 [6 September 1360] :

‘De par le roi. Tres chers et foiaux, nostre tres cher filz le prince nous ad certifie par ses lettres de vostre venue sauvement a Caleys, dont nous sumes bien leez, et aussint de les responses faites a les trois pointz purposez par labbe de Cluygny et sire Hugh’ de Geneve et, plus outre, de la limitacion de la journee pur aler avant sur le tretee, de quele chose il nous plest bien, qe nous en sumes tout certeins qe vous avez pris la dite journee a plus tost qe vous purriez. Et vous fesons savoir qe nous pensons a demorer environ lisle de Shepeye ove noz niefs la ou nous sumes a present tanqes nous eons autres novelles de vous, sur queles nous purrons tailler nostre venue devers Caleys par cause del acomplissement du dit tretee. Si volons et vous prions qe, quant vous verrez certeinement a quel effect meisme le tretee se trera, vous nous en facez certifier et aussint quant nous y vendrons par celle cause, mes qe toutes voies vous preignez bon avys qe nous ne soions mandez de y venir, si vous ne soiez certeins qe les busoignes prendront final effect a nostre venue sanz nul delay. Et ce ne lessez pur amur de nous et si come nous nous fions entierement de vous. Donne souz nostre prive seal a Russynton en lisle de Shepeye le vj jour de Septembre.'

Delachenal, who did not see this letter, assumed that the Calais negotiations did not start before 9 October (Delachenal, op. cit., p. 241).

page 7 note 2 Below, no. 4, art. vij.

page 7 note 3 Uldale, Cumberland.

page 7 note 4 Dunclent, Worcestershire.

page 7 note 5 Thomas de Uvedale, knight, and Thomas de Donclent, persona ecclesie de Tredyngton, received their letters of protection with clause volumus to last until Easter 1362, respectively on 20 and 24 November 1361 (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1361–4, p. 126 ; Treaty Roll no. 44, m. 4). They left London on 16 November 1361 and returned on 16 March 1362 (Exch. K.R. Var. Acc. 314, nos. 18 and 19, enrolled on Pipe Roll no. 206, m. 47). Thomas de Uvedale had already taken part in a previous embassy to France from 5 July 1361 to 2 September 1361 (Exch. K.R. Var. Acc. 314, no. 15).

page 8 note 1 Below, nos. 22 and 23, passim.

page 8 note 2 Below, no. 17; Delachenal, op. cit., ii, 334 and n. 2.

page 8 note 3 Below, no. 24, art. 14.

page 8 note 4 Below, no. 25.

page 8 note 5 Rymer, iii (ii), 681.

page 10 note 1 This document is enrolled on Treaty Roll 44, m. 3, from which copy it has been printed in Rymer's Foedera (Record Commission edn.) : iii (ii), 629.

page 10 note 2 John, count of Sarrebrück.

page 10 note 3 J. le Royer, a French notary.

page 11 note 1 Guy de Châtillon, count of St. Pol.

page 11 note 2 Lord of Préaux.

page 11 note 3 Bergues-St. Winoc, dép. Nord, arr. Dunkerque.

page 11 note 4 Robert de Wavrin, lord of St. Venant.

page 11 note 5 J. d'Etampes.

page 11 note 6 Yon de Garencières.

page 11 note 7 His name appears in the form of Tybaud Beket on Patent Roll 263, m. 20 (Rymer, iii (ii), 618).

page 11 note 8 Read Badewyn. His name is also given as Baudequin Bommebrok ; see below, no. 22.

page 11 note 9 Although the name has been omitted by the scribe, it can be easily restored from other sources : see Rymer, iii (ii), 618, 645 and 682.

page 11 note 10 Bonnabes de Rougé, lord of Derval.

page 13 note 1 Guy de Luxembourg.

page 13 note 2 Poitou.

page 14 note 1 A great number of letters patent and close addressed by the king of France to keepers of castles in Bigorre are dated 20 and 25 November 1361 ; see for instance Exch. Dipl. Doc. 1277, ms. 1, 6 and 7. If they are the letters referred to here as being delivered to Master Gerald Mante, the French answers should be dated between 1 and 5 December 1361.

page 14 note 2 The two envoys received 250 l. 5 s. par. for expenses incurred on their 36-day mission to England between 22 October and 26 November 1361 (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, xlix. 372).

page 15 note 1 Sir Thomas de Holand died in Normandy on 26 or 28 December 1360 (G. E. C, Complete Peerage).

page 15 note 2 There is no art. 3.

page 15 note 3 On this duel, see R. Delachenal, Histoire de Charles V (Paris, 1909), ii. 280–3.

page 16 note 1 Cayeux-sur-Mer, Somme, arr. Abbeville, cant. St. Valéry-sur-Somme.

page 16 note 2 Airaines, Somme, arr. Amiens, cant. Molliens-Vidame.

page 16 note 3 Huppy, Somme, arr. Abbeville, cant. Hallencourt.

page 16 note 4 Vergies, Somme, arr. Amiens, cant. Oisemont.

page 16 note 5 Marck, Pas-de-Calais, arr. Boulogne, cant. Calais.

page 16 note 6 Sangatte, Pas-de-Calais, arr. Boulogne, cant. Calais.

page 16 note 7 Coulogne, Pas-de-Calais, arr. Boulogne, cant. Calais.

page 16 note 8 Hames, Pas-de-Calais, arr. Boulogne, cant. Guînes.

page 16 note 9 La Walle, Pas-de-Calais, hamlet of St. Blaise, commune of Guînes.

page 16 note 10 Oye, Pas-de-Calais, arr. St. Omer, cant. Audruicq.

page 17 note 1 Gravelines, Nord, arr. Dunkerque.

page 17 note 2 Langle or Angle, Pas-de-Calais, cant. Audruicq, between St. Omer and Gravelines.

page 17 note 3 Le Poil or Polder.

page 17 note 4 Guînes, Pas-de-Calais, arr. Boulogne.

page 17 note 5 Frethun, Pas-de-Calais, arr. Boulogne, cant. Calais.

page 17 note 6 Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, cant. Calais.

page 18 note 1 Roche-Orival: to-day Château Fouet, Seine Inférieure, arr. Rouen, cant. Elbeuf.

page 18 note 2 Le Neubourg, Eure, arr. Louviers.

page 18 note 3 Auvilliers, Seine Inférieure, arr. and cant. Neuf-Châtel.

page 18 note 4 Honfleur, Calvados, arr. Pont-l'Evêque.

page 18 note 5 La Cressonniere, Calvados, arr. Lisieux, cant. Orbec.

page 18 note 6 Maillot, Calvados, commune of Bonneville-la-Louvet.

page 18 note 7 Saint Christophe d'Anfernet, Calvados, arr. and cant. Falaise, commune of Ouilly-le-Basset.

page 18 note 8 La Ferté-Frénel, Orne, arr. Argentan.

page 18 note 9 Saint Vaast, Calvados, arr. Caen, cant. Tilly-sur-Seule.

page 18 note 10 Le Theil, Calvados, arr. Vire, cant. Vassy.

page 18 note 11 Domfront, Orne.

page 18 note 12 Bois-du-Maine, Mayenne, commune of Rennes-en-Grenouille.

page 18 note 13 Tour de Villiers, to-day Villiers-Charlemagne, Mayenne, arr. Château-Gontier, cant. Grezen-Bouère.

page 18 note 14 Condé-sur-Noireau, Calvados, arr. Vire.

page 18 note 15 Messei, Orne, arr. Domfront.

page 18 note 16 Neuvy-au-Houlme, Orne, arr. Argentan, cant. Putanges.

page 19 note 1 Joinville, Haute Marne, air. Vassy.

page 19 note 2 Possibly the German captain Albrecht.

page 19 note 3 Langeais, Indre et Loire, arr. Chinon.

page 19 note 4 A Breton captain (Denifle, H., La guerre de Cent Ans et la désolation des églises, monastères et hôpitaux en France, Paris 1899, ii. 287Google Scholar).

page 19 note 5 Véretz, Indre et Loire, cant. Tours.

page 19 note 6 Tron, near L'Hôpitau, Indre et Loire, commune of Ciran.

page 19 note 7 Le Rimbail, to-day Château-Galle, Indre et Loire, commune of Villandry.

page 19 note 8 Le Roulet, Indre et Loire, commune of St. Flovier.

page 19 note 9 Peagu or Piégu, Indre et Loire, commune of Ligueil.

page 19 note 10 L'Ile-Bouchard, Indre et Loire, arr. Chinon.

page 19 note 11 Segrie, Sarthe, arr. Mamers, cant. Beaumont-sur-Sarthe.

page 19 note 12 Vaucé, Mayenne, arr. Mayenne, cant. Ambrières.

page 19 note 13 Appears as La Plesse-Chamaillard in de Genouillac, H. Gourdon, Dictionnaire des fiefs, Paris 1862Google Scholar ; (?) La Plesse, Indre et Loire, commune of Cléré.

page 19 note 14 Le Plessis-Buret, Mayenne, commune of Sainte Gemme-le-Robert.

page 19 note 15 (?) Huillé, Maine et Loire, arr. Baugé.

page 19 note 16 Port-Joulain, Maine et Loire.

page 19 note 17 La Roche d'Iré, Maine et Loire, commune of Loiré.

page 19 note 18 (?) Read Henequin.

page 19 note 19 (?) Le Biard, Indre et Loire, commune of Céré.

page 19 note 20 Buzançais, Indre, arr. Châteauroux.

page 20 note 1 On 8 May 1361, a payment of 14l. 13s. 4d. was made to Guy de Brian for gifts to Master Jean Royer, clerk of the king of France, and to another French envoy (Issue Roll 408) ; on 1 July of the same year, the count of Sarrebrück received 30l. (Issue Roll 408).

page 21 note 1 Yon de Garencières.

page 21 note 2 Richard de Totesham (Tutsham, in West Farleigh, Kent). On these duels, see Delachenal, R., Histoire de Charles V, ii. 283Google Scholar, and Leibnitz, , Scriptores rerum Brunsvicensium illustrationi inservientes (Hanover, 1707–11), ii. 47Google Scholar.

page 21 note 3 Jean de Melun, count of Tancarville.

page 21 note 4 Simon de Roucy, count of Braisne.

page 24 note 1 Simon Langham, abbot of Westminster. This mission to Avignon was probably undertaken in order to obtain the promotion of Simon Langham to the see of Ely. See J. Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae ; Rymer, iii (ii), 634.

page 24 note 2 The expenses of Nicholas de Louthe for this mission are recorded in Exch. Treasury of Receipt Misc. Books 79, p. 476.

page 25 note 1 Similar writs were addressed on the same day to the seneschals and receivers of Saintonge, Poitou, Limousin, Quercy, Périgord, Agenais, Bigorre, and Rouergue : see Viard, J., ‘Documents français remis au gouvernement anglais à la suite du traité de Brétigny ’. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Charles, lviii (1897), 158–9Google Scholar. On 19 January 1362, Thomas de Donclent and Nicholas de Louthe acknowledged receipt from the Chambre des Comptes of the following documents : the accounts of Poitou and Limousin from St. John-the-Baptist 1290 to St. John-the-Baptist 1291, and for 1344 and 1356 ; the accounts of Saintonge from St. John-the-Baptist 1290 to St. John-the-Baptist 1291 and for 1336 and 1353 ; the accounts of Quercy for the same three years ; the accounts of Rouergue from St. John-the-Baptist 1290 to St. John-the-Baptist 1291 and for 1336 and 1358 ; the accounts of Agenais for 1300, 1337 and 1351 ; the accounts of Bigorre for 1294, 1336 and 1355 ; the accounts of Périgord for 1298, 1336 and 1353 ; a book of the domaines of Belleville ; the accounts of Angoumois from 22 October 1349 to St. John-the-Baptist 1350 ; the accounts of Ponthieu for 1294 and 1339 ; the domaines of Poitou, Limousin, Saintonge, Agenais, Quercy and Rouergue, renewed in 1315 ; the book of fees of Belleville (Paris, Arch. Nat. J. 641, no. 2, printed by J. Viard, op. cit., pp. 159–61, from a seventeenth-century copy).

These books were taken from Abbeville to England by John Norwich, clerk, whose expenses for this journey are recorded in Exch. Treasury of Receipt, Misc. Books 79, p. 476.

page 26 note 1 See Delachenal, Histoire de Charles V, ii. 334 and n. 2.

page 26 note 2 Philip IV, father of Isabella, queen of Edward II.

page 27 note 1 Isabella de Valois, eldest daughter of Charles de Valois, third son of Philip III, married John, son of Arthur de Bretagne, in 1300 and died in 1303 when still a child ; see Petit, Charles de Valois, p. 240.

page 27 note 2 For the answer of the king of France to this memorandum, see below, no. 23.

page 27 note 3 See Rymer, iii (i), 512.

page 29 note 1 For a letter on the same subject addressed to Thomas de Brantingham, treasurer of Calais, Stephen Romilowe, and John Goldbeter, governors of the king's merchants in Flanders, see Exch. Dipl. Doc. 1352 (Westminster, 13 January 1362 ; privy seal).

page 29 note 2 On 19 January 1362, Walter de la Roke, clerk, was given an imprest of 40s. for his mission to Paris : Exch. Various Acc. 327/5, m. 3.

page 29 note 3 On 21 March 1362, Walter de la Roke was given an imprest of 100s. on his wages for his mission to Calais with royal letters addressed to the cardinal of Cluny (Exch. Various Acc. 327/5, m. 4).

page 29 note 4 This entry is printed from its duplicate (Arch. Nat. J. 641, no. 5) in Chronique des règnes de Jean II et de Charles V, ed. Delachenal (Paris, 1920), iii. 81–96.

page 33 note 1 See p. 11, n. 8.

page 36 note 1 La Garnache, Vendée, arr. Les Sables d'Olonne ; the castle of Belleville is also in Vendée, cant. Le Poiré-sur-Vie.

page 36 note 2 Beauvoir, Vendée, arr. Les Sables d'Olonne.

page 37 note 1 Champtoceaux, Maine et Loire, arr. Cholet; see Morice, Dom Y., Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire ecclés. et civile de Bretagne (Paris, 1742), i. 1621Google Scholar ; Martène, and Durand, , Thesaurus nọvus anecdotorum (Paris, 1717), i. 1486Google Scholar ; Paris, Arch. Nat. K. 166, no. 6.

page 38 note 1 La Roche-Posay, Vienne, arr. Châtellerault, cant. Pleumartin.

page 39 note 1 John, king of France, was back in Paris from Burgundy on 11 February 1362 (Petit, , Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne, ix. 286Google Scholar). The proposed meeting of la journee de Saint Omer is probably what was called in the previous memoranda la journee de la xv6 de la Chandeleur ; if so, the document should be dated between 16 February 1362 and 16 March 1362, the latter date being the day on which Thomas de Uvedale and Thomas de Donclent returned to London from Paris.

page 39 note 2 Chanceaux, Indre et Loire, commune Grand-Pressigny, parish of Etableaux.

page 39 note 3 Le Châtelier or Châtellier, Indre et Loire, commune Paulmy.

page 39 note 4 Lussault, Indre et Loire, arr. Tours, commune of the canton of Amboise.

page 39 note 5 Nouans, Indre et Loire, arr. Loches, cant. Montrésor.

page 42 note 1 Autry, Ardennes, arr. Vouziers, cant. Monthois.

page 42 note 2 Bourcq, Ardennes, arr. and cant. Vouziers.

page 42 note 3 Arnaud Guillaume de Béarn, illegitimate son of Gaston II, count of Foix, and brother of Gaston Phébus, count of Foix.

page 43 note 1 Buzançais, Indre, arr. Châteauroux.

page 43 note 2 (?) Pernay, Indre et Loire, arr. Tours, cant. Neuillé-Pont-Pierre.

page 43 note 3 Bertrand de Cazelis.

page 43 note 4 Le Plessis, Indre et Loire, commune Nouans.

page 43 note 5 Châteauvieux, Loir et Cher, arr. Blois, cant. St. Aignan.

page 43 note 6 Possibly a misreading for Bertrand de Montferrand.

page 43 note 7 Châteauneuf, Eure et Loir, arr. Dreux.

page 43 note 8 Hankin de Tildesle (Tyldesley, Lanes.).

page 43 note 9 Nogent-le-Rotrou, Eure et Loir.

page 43 note 10 Beaumont-le-Chartif, Eure et Loir, cant. Authon.

page 43 note 11 Neuvy-au-Houlme, Orne, arr. Argentan, cant. Putanges.

page 43 note 12 Marcheville, Eure et Loir, cant. Illiers.

page 43 note 13 Villeray, Eure et Loir, commune Bazoches en Dunois. Authon, Eure et Loir, arr. Nogentle-Rotrou.

page 44 note 1 Creil, Oise, arr. Senlis.

page 44 note 2 John de Fotheringhay (Fotheringhay, Northants.).

page 44 note 3 Clermont, Oise ; La Neuville-en-Hez, Oise, arr. and cant. Clermont.

page 44 note 4 Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Oise, arr. Senlis. La Hérelle, Oise, arr. Clermont, cant. Breteuil. Lihus, Oise, arr. Beauvais, cant. Marseille.

page 44 note 5 Bertrand de Bénauges ; see e.g. Scalacronica (Maitland Club, 1836), p. 187.

page 44 note 6 John de Greilly, captal de Buch.

page 44 note 7 Rémy, Oise, arr. Compiègne,

page 44 note 8 Malicorne, Yonne, arr. Joigny, cant. Charny. Ligny-le-Châtel, Yonne, arr. Auxerre. Bragelogne, Aube, cant. Les Riceys.

page 44 note 9 Chablis, Yonne, arr. Auxerre.

page 44 note 10 Vézelay, Yonne, arr. Avallon.

page 44 note 11 Pierre-Pertuis, Yonne, arr. Avallon, cant. Vézelay.

page 45 note 1 Clamecy, Nièvre.

page 45 note 2 Ieuan Wyn or ‘Poursuivant d'amours ’, a Welsh captain, see D. L. Evans, ‘Some notes on the history of the principality of Wales in the time of the Black Prince ’, The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Session 1925–6, p. 72.

page 45 note 3 Arch. Nat. J. 641, no. 9, already printed in Chronique des règnes de Jean II et de Charles V, ed. Delachenal, iii. 96–101.

page 47 note 1 La Gravelle, Marne, commune Vert-la-Gravelle.

page 48 note 1 From Brit. Mus., Add. MS. 24, 062, fos. 190v–191v. This letter has been tentatively dated June 1362, since on 2 June 1362 Alphonse Chevrier and James le Riche, mentioned here, received letters of safe-conduct for their return to France ; on the same day, the cardinal of Cluny, also mentioned, received letters of protection and safe-conduct for his return to France (Rymer, iii (ii), 651, and Cal, Pat. Rolls, 1361–4, p. 221). In a letter dated 10 June 1362, Edward III referred to Bouciquaut's mission : Treaty Roll 45, m. 9 (= Rymer, iii (ii), 654). Besides, internal evidence shows that the document was written after Easter (17 April) and before Michaelmas.

page 51 note 1 Sovereignty can be broadly denned as the medieval equivalent of the Roman maxim “Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem ” (Dig. I. iv. 1) ; and “ressort” (ultimum ressortum) as the right to give judicial decisions which could not be challenged before a higher court.

page 51 note 2 Rymer, iii (i), 524–5.

page 52 note 1 Rymer, iii (ii), 667.

page 52 note 2 Exch. Treasury of Receipt, Misc. Books, no. 189, p. 4 : “A quel homage et serement de ioialte nostre dit seignur le prince come lieutenant de soun dit progenitour ad resceuz le dit vassal en li baizaunt en sa bouche, sauve lez droitz de nostre dit seignur le roi et lez autruys.”

page 52 note 3 Exch. Treasury of Receipt, Dipl. Doc. 211 = Rymer, iii (ii), 766 (23 May 1365).

page 52 note 4 Rymer, iii (i), 512–13.

page 52 note 5 Rymer, iii (i), 548.

page 53 note 1 Exch. K.R. Various Ace. 175/2 (Account of Peter Bernard, receiver of Saintonge, from 6 December 1360 to 6 December 1361), m. 4 : “Autre despense extraordinaire pour quatre grans seels et deux contreseels dargent pour la ville de la Rochelle ordennez, dont lun des diz seels est pour la soverainete avec son contreseel; …ensembleement avec deux chesnes dargent dont lune est au dit seel de soverainete… xlv royalx et demi.” Two fragments of the small or counterseal of the sovereignty and ressort of La Rochelle are still extant in Exch. K.R. Various Ace. 176/20, mm. 8–9. For the profits of the seal, see Exch. K.R. Various Ace. 176/2, fo. 14v.

page 53 note 2 Exch. L.T.R. Memor. Roll no. 139, Trinity 41 Edw. III, Recorda, m. j : “Aquitania. De exonerando Willelmum de Sires, militem, de resorto infra villam de Rupella : Memorandum quod, pace reformata inter regem Anglie et adversarium suum regem Francie, idem rex Anglie constituit quemdam Willelmum de Sires, militem, principalem iudicem ad resortum infra villam de Rupella in Aquitania, nomine et loco regis Anglie, audiendum, adiudicandum et terminandum, et duo sigilla argentea invicem alligata cum una catena argentea de armis regis Anglie pro officio suo excercendo, unum videlicet magnum sigillum et alterum parvum composuit et ordinavit et sigilla ilia cum catena prefato Willelmo liberavit; predictus Willelmus de Sires venit coram baronibus huius Scaccarii vicesimo die Iunii hoc termino in propria persona sua et exhibuit curie predicta sigilla cum catena predicta, et dicit quod ipse pretextu constitucionis predicte aliqualiter se in premissis non intromisit nee sigillis predictis utebatur neque resortum aliquod coram eo propositum seu attamiatum fuit; et restituit sigilla predicta que liberantur thesaurario et camerariis predicto vicesimo die Iunii.' Cf. Palgrave, Antient Kalendars, I. 213. A few years later, William de Sériz rejoined the service of the king of France and was made first president of the Parliament of Paris on 6 June 1371 (G. Ducoudray, Les origines du Parlement de Paris, Paris, 1902, p. 155).

page 53 note 3 Rymer, iii (ii), 681.

page 53 note 4 Rymer, iii (ii), 682.

page 53 note 5 Archives Historiques de la Gironde, xxxiv. 180–3Google Scholar.

page 53 note 6 Moisant, J., Le Prince Noir en Aquitaine (Paris, 1894), p. 198Google Scholar.

page 57 note 1 Rymer, iii (ii), 884.

page 57 note 2 See, for instance, Gascon Rolls 76, m. 2 ; 78, mm. 4, 11 ; 79, m. 5, etc.

page 57 note 3 Gascon Rolls, passim. These matters will be discussed at length in a forthcoming work on The bearing of “superioritas and ultimum ressortum ” on Angló-French relations (1259–1453).

page 54 note 4 Paris, Arch. Nat. J. 642, no. 15 (a bundle of 30 docs.). See also Palgrave, , Antient Kalendars, i. 193Google Scholar ; iii. 266.

page 54 note 5 “Chronique des règnes de Jean II et de Charles V ” (Les Grandes Chroniques de France), ed. Delachenal, R., ii (Paris, 1916), pp. 94–7Google Scholar ; iii (Paris, 1920), pp. 136–7.

page 54 note 6 Delachenal, , Histoire de Charles V, ii (Paris, 1909), pp. 280–3Google Scholar.

page 55 note 1 Delachenal, op. cit., iv (Paris, 1928), pp. 53–109.

page 55 note 2 Delachenal, op. cit., iv. 93, n. 1.

page 55 note 3 Delachenal, loc. cit., and Perroy, E., “Edouard III d'Angleterre et les seigneurs gascons en 1368 ”, Annales du Midi, lxi (1948), pp. 91–6CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

page 55 note 4 Rouquette, J., Le Rouergue sous les Anglais (1887), pp. 176ff.Google Scholar ; “Documents surlavillede Millau ”, ed. Artières, J.. Archives historiques du Rouergue, VII (Millau, 1930), pp. 157–8Google Scholar.

page 55 note 5 J. Rouquette, op. cit., pp. 192 ff. The text of the deliberations of the assembly of 11 November is still extant in Archives de Millau, AA. 18, and printed in Mémoires de la société des Lettres, Sciences et Arts de L'Aveyron, xv. (1894–99), pp. 344–57Google Scholar, which mentions (p. 349) that six doctors of Bologna gave their opinions to the consuls of Millau, whereas the number is given as fourteen in the accounts of the consuls (“Docs, sur la ville de Millau ”, p. 167, no. 344).

page 56 note 1 Bibliothèque Nationale, Doat MS. 145, fo. 202v.

page 56 note 2 The copy, dated at Rodez 28 June 1667, was extracted from the archives of the town-hall of Millau by Gratian Capot, acting on behalf of Jean de Doat.

page 56 note 3 On John de Legnano, see for instance the introduction to Tractatus de Bello, de Represaliis et de Duello by Giovanni da Legnano, ed. Holland, T. E. (Oxford, 1917)Google Scholar; Coopland, G. W., “An unpublished work of John de Legnano. The Somnium of 1372 ”, Nuovi Studi Medievali, ii (Bologna, 1925–6), pp. 6588Google Scholar.

page 56 note 4 On Richard de Saliceto, see von Savigny, F. C., Geschichte des Romischen Rechts im Mittelalter (Heidelberg, 1831), vi 228, 230Google Scholar ; Sorbelli, Albano, La signoria di Giovanni Visconti a Bologna (Bologna 1901), pp. 293–6Google Scholar.

page 56 note 5 Traitez des droits et libertez de l'Eglise Gallicane (3rd ed. by J. L. Brunet, Paris 1731), ii, 165–80 (chapters 145 and 146).

page 57 note 1 Delachenal, , Histoire de Charles V, iv (Paris, 1928), pp. 566–7Google Scholar.

page 57 note 2 The editor acknowledges with gratitude the help he has received from his friend J. P. Trabut-Cussac, who has made it possible to consult printed works otherwise unavailable in this country, from the Archiviste-en-Chef of the Archives departementales de l'Aveyron, who has supplied information about the physical condition of the manuscript in his custody, and from Mr. H. C. Johnson and Mr. L. C. Hector, of the Public Record Office, who have discussed points of reading.

page 58 note 1 These articles are printed from a seventeenth-century copy in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris : Doat MS. 145, fos. 170–5 (abbreviated in the following notes as D). Another copy of the same period, formerly belonging to the Tauriac family and now in the possession of Mr. Jules Artières of Millau, has been used for corrections (abbreviated as T).

page 59 note 1 The text of this oath :is printed from T in Artières, J., Millau à travers les siècles (Millau, 1943). PP. 7980Google Scholar.

page 61 note 1 Printed mainly from the original document, sealed with the seals of the doctors : Archives departementales de l'Aveyron, C. 1520, no. 12 (abbreviated as O). As, however, the parchment is badly damaged, the missing portions have been restored from Doat MS. 145, fos. 175–201 (abbreviated as D), and indicated throughout only by round brackets. Bodley MS. 885, fos. 59–64, has also been occasionally used for corrections (abbreviated as B).

page 61 note 2 Inst. III. xv. §4.

page 61 note 3 Dig. XXXV. i.

page 61 note 4 Dig. IV. viii. 31.

page 61 note 5 Dig. XVIII. ii. 1 and 2.

page 61 note 6 Dig. XVIII. iii.

page 61 note 7 Dig. II. xiv. 7. § 5.

page 61 note 8 Dig. XXXIX. v. 1. § 1.

page 61 note 9 Cod. II. iii. 20.

page 61 note 10 Cod. VI. liii. 5.

page 61 note 11 Dig. XXXVI. ii. 26.

page 61 note 12 Dig. XXXVI. i. 48.

page 61 note 13 Cod. II. iii. 20.

page 61 note 14 Cod. III. xxxii. 27.

page 61 note 15 Dig. VI. i. 50.

page 61 note 16 Dig. VI. i. 77.

page 61 note 17 Dig. XLI. ii. 18.

page 61 note 18 Cod. I. iii. 22.

page 62 note 1 Dig. XIX. i. 8.

page 62 note 2 Cod. III. xxxiii. 12.

page 62 note 3 Dig. XXXII. [iii]. 29.

page 62 note 4 Dig. XXXII. [iii]. 30. §5.

page 62 note 5 Dig. XXXIII. i. 17.

page 62 note 6 Cod. VI. xl. 3.

page 62 note 7 Dig. XXII. iii. 19.

page 62 note 8 Cod. IV. xix. 1 and 16.

page 62 note 9 Cod. VIII. xxxvii. 14.

page 62 note 10 Cod. X. iii. 1.

page 62 note 11 Cod. I. iii. 22.

page 62 note 12 Cod. II. iii. 12.

page 62 note 13 Dig. XIII. vi. 16.

page 62 note 14 Dig. XVI. iii. 1. §39.

page 62 note 15 Cod. IV. xxiv. 10.

page 63 note 1 Cod. IV. xxx. 13.

page 63 note 2 Cod. IV. i. 12.

page 63 note 3 Sext. Decret. V. xii, reg. 21 and 33.

page 63 note 4 Dig. I. xviii. 20.

page 63 note 5 Dig. I. ii. 2. § 24.

page 63 note 6 Decret. Grat. II. xvii, 2.

page 63 note 7 Decret. Grat. II. vi. 3. 3.

page 63 note 8 Dig. XIV. vi. 16.

page 63 note 9 Cod. II. iv. 13.

page 63 note 10 Dig. L. xvi. 94.

page 64 note 1 Cod. IX. xxxi.

page 64 note 2 Cod. IV. xxxviii. 4.

page 64 note 3 Inst. IV. vi. § 14.

page 64 note 4 Cod. I. xix. 8.

page 64 note 5 Cod. VII. lxii. 39, § 1.

page 64 note 6 Cod. VIII. liii. 37.

page 64 note 7 Cod. VIII. xlviii. 6.

page 64 note 8 Dig. XXXIII. iv. 1.

page 64 note 9 Dig. XIX. i. 1.

page 64 note 10 Dig. XVI. i. 7.

page 65 note 1 Dig. L. xvii. 174.

page 65 note 2 Dig. L. xvii. 54.

page 65 note 3 Dig. XVII. ii. 51.

page 65 note 4 Cod. IX. xxvii. 6.

page 65 note 5 Dig. II. xiv. 7. §7.

page 65 note 6 Dig. XVI. iii. 1. §6.

page 65 note 7 Cod. I. iii. 22.

page 65 note 8 Dig. XIV. vi. 14.

page 65 note 9 Cod. II. xxviii. 1.

page 65 note 10 Lib. feud. II. liii. §3.

page 65 note ll Decret. Greg. II. xxiv. 28.

page 65 note 12 Sext. Decret. I. xviii. 2.

page 65 note 13 Cod. II. iv. 41.

page 65 note 14 Lib. feud. II. liii.

page 66 note 1 Cod. II. iv. 41.

page 66 note 2 Cod. IV. x. 5.

page 66 note 3 Cod. IV. xxiv. 11.

page 66 note 4 Cod. VII. xxxii. 2.

page 66 note 5 Cod. VIII. xiii. 3.

page 66 note 6 Sext. Decret. V. xii, reg. 33.

page 66 note 7 Sext. Decret. V. xii, reg. 21.

page 66 note 8 Dig. VIII. i. 14.

page 66 note 9 Dig. VIII. i. 20 and 19.

page 66 note 10 Dig. XLI. i. 43. § 1.

page 66 note 11 Dig. XLI. iii. 4. § 26.

page 66 note 12 Dig. V. iii. 9.

page 67 note 1 Dig. XXXIII. ix. 4.

page 67 note 2 Dig. I. iii. 15.

page 67 note 3 Dig. XLI. ii. 25.

page 67 note 4 Dig. XLI. ii. 6. § 1.

page 67 note 5 Cod. II. iv. 32.

page 67 note 6 Dig. IV. vi. 23. §2.

page 67 note 7 Dig. VIII. v. 2. §1.

page 67 note 8 Cod. VIII. vi.

page 67 note 9 Cod. VIII. iv. 7.

page 67 note 10 Dig. XLI. iii. 37. §1.

page 67 note 11 Dig. XLI. ii. 44.

page 67 note 12 Dig. VIII. ii. 6.

page 67 note 13 Inst. IV. vi §34.

page 67 note 14 Dig. VIII. ii. 6.

page 67 note 15 Dig. I. i. 4.

page 67 note 16 Dig. XXXV. i. 100.

page 67 note 17 Dig. L. xvi. 124.

page 67 note 18 Cod. III. xxxiii. 16.

page 67 note 19 Dig. XIII. vi. 5 . § 15.

page 68 note 1 Cod. VII. xxxii. 1 and 4.

page 68 note 2 Dig. XLI. ii. 1.

page 68 note 3 Dig. XLI. ii. 44.

page 68 note 4 Dig. VII. viii. 19.

page 68 note 5 Dig. XIII. vi. 5. §15.

page 68 note 6 Dig. XLI. ii. 6. § 1.

page 68 note 7 Dig. XLIII. xvi. 12.

page 68 note 8 Dig. XLIII. xvi. 18.

page 68 note 9 Cod. VII. lx.

page 68 note 10 Dig. II. xiv. 27. §4.

page 68 note 11 Dig. VIII. ii. 6.

page 68 note 12 Cod. III. xxxiv.

page 68 note 13 Dig. XXII. iii. 21.

page 68 note 14 Cod. XII. xxxiii. 6.

page 68 note 15 Dig. XLIII. xvi. 3. §9.

page 68 note 16 Cod. VIII. iv. 1.

page 68 note 17 Cod. IV. xix. 15.

page 68 note 18 Dig. XLIII. xvii. 1.

page 69 note 1 Dig. XLI. x. 5.

page 69 note 2 Dig. XVII. i. 5.

page 69 note 3 Dig. L. i. 24.

page 69 note 4 Cod. X. i. 5.

page 69 note 5 Cod. X. i. 4.

page 69 note 6 Cod. VII. lxii. 21.

page 69 note 7 Dig. XXIX. ii. 20. §4.

page 69 note 8 Cod. IV. xix. 10.

page 69 note 9 Cod. IV. xix. 21.

page 69 note 10 Dig. XVII. ii. 51.

page 69 note 11 Novell, 5.

page 69 note 12 Cod. III. xxviii.

page 69 note 13 Cod. IX. li.

page 69 note 14 Cod. IX. xli; Dig. XLVIII. xviii.

page 69 note 15 Dig. VIII. i. 15.

page 69 note 16 Dig. VIII. i. 20.

page 69 note 17 Cod. II. xxxviii.

page 69 note 18 Inst. II. xix. § 5.

page 70 note 1 Dig. XLI. iii. 4. §26.

page 70 note 2 Dig. VIII. ii. 32. §1.

page 70 note 3 Decret. Greg. II. ii. 16.

page 70 note 4 Dig. XLI. ii. 1, 3 and 8.

page 70 note 5 Cod. VII. xxxii. 4.

page 70 note 6 Decret. Greg. III. v. 25 and 34.

page 70 note 7 Decret. Greg. II. xiii. 17.

page 70 note 8 Decret. Greg. II. xiii. 5.

page 71 note 1 Dig. XLI. ii. 6.

page 71 note 2 Dig. XLI. ii. 25. § 2.

page 71 note 3 Dig. XVII. ii. 3.

page 71 note 4 Dig. XV. i. 16.

page 71 note 5 Decret. Greg. II. xiii. 17.

page 71 note 6 Dig. VIII. v. 6.

page 71 note 7 Cod. VII. xxxii. 12.

page 71 note 8 Dig. XLIX. i. 21.

page 71 note 9 Cod. VII. lxii. 32.

page 71 note 10 Decret. Greg. II. vii. 1. 41.

page 71 note 11 Dig. XIV. ii. 9.

page 71 note 12 Decret. Greg. II. xix. 9.

page 71 note 13 Decret. Greg. II. xxvi. 15.

page 71 note 14 Decret. Greg. III. xxxvii. 2.

page 71 note 15 Dig. XXIV. iii. 22.

page 71 note 16 Dig. XXVIII. ii. 10.

page 71 note 17 Dig. V. 12.

page 71 note 18 Cod. II. xii. 21.

page 72 note 1 Decrei. Greg. III. xlii. 3.

page 72 note 2 Dig. XLVI. iii. 69.

page 72 note 3 Dig. XII. vi. 32

page 72 note 4 Dig. XX. vi. 7.

page 72 note 5 Dig. IV. ii. 1.

page 72 note 6 Dig. XXXV. i. 101. §4.

page 72 note 7 Dig. XXXIV. i. 13. § 1.

page 72 note 8 Dig. VIII. i. 4.

page 72 note 9 Cod. VI. xxxvii. 1.

page 72 note 10 Dig. XXVII. i. 45.

page 72 note 11 Dig. L. xvi. 213.

page 72 note 12 Inst. III. xv. § 4.

page 72 note 13 Dig. VIII. ii. 2.

page 72 note 14 Dig. VIII. v. 10.

page 72 note 15 Dig. XLIII. xix. 2. §2.

page 73 note 1 Dig. VIII. v. 10.

page 73 note 2 Dig. L. xvii.

page 73 note 3 Cod. VII. xxxix. 8.

page 73 note 4 Dig. VIII. v. 10.

page 73 note 5 Cod. III. xxxiv. 1.

page 73 note 6 Cod. III. xxxii. 17.

page 73 note 7 Cod. VIII. iv. 7.

page 73 note 8 Sext. Decret. III. iv. 18.

page 73 note 9 Cod. VIII. iv. 1.

page 73 note 10 Dig. IX. ii. 45. §4.

page 73 note 11 Decret. Greg. II. xiii. 17.

page 73 note 12 Cod. VII. xxxii. 1.

page 74 note 1 Cod. VIII. v. 2.

page 74 note 2 Decret. Greg. II. xiii. 5.

page 74 note 3 Decret. Greg. II. xxvi. 15.

page 74 note 4 Dig. VII. vi. 1.

page 74 note 5 Dig. VIII. v. 8. §3.

page 74 note 6 Dig. VIII. v. 10.

page 74 note 7 Cod. II. liiii.

page 74 note 8 Dig. VI. i. 80 and 9.

page 74 note 9 Dig. XLII. i. 63.

page 74 note 10 Cod. VII. lii. 5.

page 74 note 11 Decret. Greg. II. xxvi. 15.

page 75 note 1 Dig. XLII. i. 63.

page 75 note 2 Cod. VII. lii. 5.

page 75 note 3 Decret. Greg. II. xxvi. 15.

page 75 note 4 Dig. VIII. v. 6. § 1.

page 74 note 5 Dig. VI. ii. 11. § 1.

page 74 note 6 Decret. Greg. II. xiii. 17.

page 76 note 1 Cod. VIII. iv. 7.

page 76 note 2 Cod. VIII. iv. 6.

page 76 note 3 Cod. X. i. 5.

page 76 note 4 Cod. IV. liv. 4

page 76 note 5 Dig. XVIII. iii. 1.

page 76 note 6 Dig. XVIII. ii. 1

page 76 note 7 Decret. Greg. V. xxxix. 21.

page 76 note 8 Decret. Grat. II. xxiv. 3. 38.

page 76 note 9 Decret. Grat. III. ii. 64.

page 76 note 10 Decret. Grat. II. i. 1. 58

page 77 note 1 Dig. VIII. v. 1 and 2.

page 77 note 2 Decret. Greg. II. i. 13.

page 77 note 3 Dig. XLIX. xv. 24.

page 77 note 4 Cod. I. ix. 14.

page 77 note 5 Decret. Grat. II. xxiii. 2. 2.

page 77 note 6 Decret. Greg. IV. xvii. 13. § 1.

page 77 note 7 Decret. Greg. V. xli. 4.

page 77 note 8 Decret. Greg. II. xiii. 12.

page 77 note 9 Decret. Grat. II. xv. 6. 2 and 4.

page 77 note 10 Decret. Grat. II. xxiii. 8. 7 and 11.

page 77 note 11 Dig. VI. i. 68.

page 77 note 12 Dig. XLIII. iv. 3.

page 77 note 13 Dig. IV. ii. 2.

page 77 note 14 Dig. XLVII. x. 13.

page 77 note 15 Dig. XLIX. xv. 7.

page 77 note 16 Dig. XLIX. xv. 24.