¹ Caen, Calvados.

^{page 170 note a} Paris interlined over Pontoise, struck out

^{page 170 note b} Supra in the margin and a corresponding line in the margin of fo. 37v to indicate the point at which this letter of the chancery should have been transcribed into the text of the ‘arrêt’ dated 12 September 1433

^{page 170 note c} MS baillaiges

² Rouen, Seine-Maritime.

³ Caux, the region to the north of Rouen.

⁴ Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines.

⁵ Meulan, Yvelines, arr. Mantes-la-Jolie.

⁶ For Thomas Dring, see appendix II.

⁷ Probably Vaux-sur-Seine, Yvelines, arr. Mantes-la-Jolie, c. Meulan.

⁸ Senlis, Oise.

⁹ Guy le Bouteiller, captain of Rouen at the time of its capture by Henry V in January 1419, took the oath of fealty to the king.

¹⁰ La Roche-Guyon, Val d'Oise, arr. Pontoise, c. Magny-en-Vexin. The grant is recorded in Charma, ‘Parties des dons’, p. 8.

^{page 171 note a} MS di

^{page 171 note b} MS que

¹¹ Jean (Juan) de Ruiz, called Dynadam, came from an important Navarrese family. His father, of the same name, formerly chamberlain to Charles III (‘the Noble’) of Navarre, had been involved in negotiations with the king of France and the count of Foix in the closing years of the fourteenth and in the early years of the fifteenth century. His presence in Normandy (he gives every sign of having been loyal to the Lancastrian monarchy (Fauquembergue, ii, 319Google Scholar)) serves as a useful reminder of the Navarrese involvement in the duchy in the previous century.

¹² On the Le Breton, lords of La Bretonnière, see Lebeuf, J., Histoire de la ville et diocèse de Paris, ed. Bournon, F. (6 vols., Paris, 1883–1890), iv, 155–6.Google Scholar

¹³ The Châtelet was the court of the prévôt of Paris.

¹⁴ A reference, doubtless, to Dring's suit against Sir Robert Harling in 1425 and early 1426. (See appendix I.)

¹⁵ For the earl of Salisbury, see appendix II.

¹⁶ Probably Mont Aimé, Marne, arr. Châlons-sur-Marne, c. Vertus, com. Bergères-lès-Vertus. On this long siege, see Bourgeois, p. 212Google Scholar; Letters and Papers, II, i, p. 56Google Scholar; Luce, S., Jeanne d'Are à Domrémy (Paris, 1886), pp. 121, 139 etc.Google Scholar

¹⁷ La Ferté-Bernard, Sarthe, arr. Mamers.

^{page 172 note a} MS proposer

¹⁸ i.e., the prévôté of Paris.

¹⁹ Emphasis is here being placed on the legal status of the so-called pays de conquête, that area outside the boundary of the duchy of Normandy conquered by Henry V before the treaty of Troyes of May 1420. As in the suit Gaucourt v. Handford (n^o III) it suited one party to show that lands in dispute were outside the jurisdiction of the prévôté of Paris.

²⁰ See above, Carbonnel v. Tilleman [n^o VI], p. 104, and n. 8 for grants ‘a nostre voulenté’.

²¹ A similar argument had been used in the Ferret v. Russell suit [n^o I], p. 24.

²² The date is either 1 or 2 March 1427.

^{page 174 note a} The edge of the folio is torn at this point

^{page 174 note b} Followed by dont il, struck out

^{page 174 note c} Followed by condemne, struck out

^{page 174 note d} en personne interlined

^{page 174 note e} Followed by mise, struck out

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²³ Lands granted by the king came liable to debts, unless otherwise stated, but were held to be free of ‘debtes mobiliaires’. See Ferret v. Russell, p. 22, and n. 8.

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^{page 175 note e} a interlined

^{page 175 note f} MS l'avoit

^{page 176 note a} vray interlined

^{page 176 note b} au pais notoire que interlined

^{page 176 note c} fust interlined

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²⁴ The reference is probably to Colin l'Aignel, or Laignelet, sergent a cheval at the Châtelet, associated with Dring in his suit against Robert Harling, killed in 1427 in the arrest of Sauvage de Fremainville who had made an attempt on the life of the duke of Bedford on the road to Calais in December 1425 (Bourgeois, p. 223Google Scholar, n. 2).

²⁵ Situated in the ‘grand'rue Saint-Antoine’ (Longnon, , Paris, pp. 256–7).Google Scholar

^{page 177 note a} Followed by est, struck out

^{page 177 note b} lui interlined

^{page 177 note c} mais interlined

²⁶ Brie, prov. (to the east of Paris).

²⁷ ‘Le mary est seigneur des meubles et conquests immeubles par luy faits durant et constant le mariage’ (Nouveau coutumier général, III, i, 8).Google Scholar

²⁸ Bourges, Cher.

²⁹ Navarre, from where Dynadam came.

³⁰ Saintes, Charente-Maritime, of which Jean le Boursier was bishop 1415–26.

^{page 178 note a} estoit repeated and interlined

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³¹ The reference is to Philip ‘the Good’, duke of Burgundy 1419–67.

³² 22 February 1428.

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^{page 179 note b} In the margin

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^{page 179 note e} MS a de lundi

³³ Jean Aguenin was second président of the Parlement.

³⁴ Dynadam was now the plaintiff, he and Dring having reversed their roles.

³⁵ All land-holding was recorded in the Chambre des Comptes.

^{page 180 note a} Drinc interlined

^{page 180 note b} a moins iiij^xx livres interlined

^{page 180 note c} par la coustume interlined

³⁶ Robert de la Haye was an avocat in the Parlement.

³⁷ Nicole le Boursier. Her father, Alexandra, had served as ‘receveur général des aides’ before 1412 (Monstrelet, , Chronique, ii, 322, 324Google Scholar), and in the ‘comptes’ of the king in 1416. Forced to leave Paris when the city fell to the Burgundians in May 1418, he suffered confiscation of his lands and property (Longnon, , Paris, p. 62, n. 5Google Scholar), but continued to serve the Valois until his death in 1430.

^{page 181 note a} In the margin

^{page 181 note b} procureur du roy interlined

^{page 181 note c} et procureur du roy interlined

³⁸ Tanguy du Chastel, one of the leaders of the Armagnac party, had fled Paris with the Dauphin, Charles, on 28 29 May 1418, and had then assumed the leadership of the dauphinisi forces. See Dict. Biog. Fr., xi, 1179–80.Google Scholar

³⁹ Charles III, king of Navarre 1387–1425.

⁴⁰ 10 September 1419, violently, on the bridge at Montereau.

^{page 182 note a} Followed by dudit, struck out

^{page 182 note b} jours repeated in MS

⁴¹ It was customary to hear the suits from the bailliage of Vermandois at the beginning of each new sitting of the Parlement in November.

⁴² Pierre Drobille was a procureur at the Parlement by 1421 (Favier, J., Les Contribuables parisiens à la fin de la guerre de Cent Ans. Les rôles d'impôt de 1421, 1423 et 1438 (Geneva: Paris, 1970), p. 162).Google Scholar

⁴³ Jargeau, Loiret, arr. Orléans. The town was taken by ‘une pucelle’ on 12 June 1429, and the earl of Suffolk and others were captured, an event recorded in the register of the conseil of the Parlement (A. N., X^1a 1481, fo. 19r).

⁴⁴ 2 February 1430.

^{page 183 note a} In the margin

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⁴⁵ A similar argument was used in Gaucourt v. Handford [n^o III], p. 47.

^{page 184 note a} In the margin

^{page 184 note b} MS dicere

^{page 185 note a} MS processui

^{page 185 note b} MS sub

⁴⁶ Orléans, Loiret.

⁴⁷ Jargeau, Loiret, arr. Orléans.

⁴⁸ Chaillot, incorporated into Paris in the late eighteenth century.

^{page 187 note a} In the margin

^{page 187 note b} followed by p, struck out

^{page 187 note c} MS R

^{page 187 note d} In the margin

⁴⁹ 25 June 1431.

⁵⁰ 24 June 1433.

⁵¹ Jean Voton was a conseiller at the Parlement during these years.

^{page 188 note a} MS R

^{page 188 note b} In the margin

^{page 188 note c} MS appellantem

^{page 188 note d} MS una

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⁵² Robert Piedefer was appointed first president of the Parlement in February 1433.

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^{page 190 note a} MS augustii

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⁵³ It seems that Dring, like Sir John Handford, was able to keep his lands. On 23 December 1437, he was granted a delay of a year to make a declaration (prisée) of the lands belonging to the lordship of Vaux and others, and on 6 August 1439 another delay for six months to declare the lands which had once belonged to the lords of Lignières, Geoffroy Pippart and others (Coll. Lenoir, 4, pp. 399, 315). The prerogative power of the crown, exercised by the regent, appears to have annulled at least two judgments of the Parlement.