HUNDRED YEARS' WAR. 2 handwritten charters, Paris May 14, 1426; parchment 6 x 33 cm and 9 x 32 cm; both bound with a cord, two red wax seals on the 2nd. The Treasury pays 30 livres tournois to Gilles Raveyne, "chevaucheur de lescuerie du Roy", for bringing "hastement devers monseigneur le Regent le Royaume de France, duc de Bedfort, certaines lettres de par messrs du conseil du Roy". [The King referred to here was the Englishman Henry VI, who had been granted kingship over France by the Treaty of Troyes in 1420. As he was still a child, it was his uncle, the Duke of Bedford, who then governed the kingdom].