HENRY VI (1421-1471), king of England. Letters patent addressed to the treasurers and general governors of the royal finances in France and Normandy, Rouen, 15 October 1443, noting that 'by the advice and deliberation of our very dear and most beloved cousin Richard, Duke of York, our lieutenant general and governor on our behalf of our kingdom of France and duchy of Normandy', a certain Mondot de Lansac has been appointed guard and captain of the castle of Neufchatel de Lunonet; the same is therefore to be paid 3,500 livres tournois for the year, of which one thousand is payable immediately, 'given under our ordinary seal in the absence of the great seal', countersigned by Jehan de Drosay, in French, on vellum, 22 lines on one membrane, 175 x 330mm, two later annotations, lacking seal and tag; [with] a fragmentary letter of EDWARD IV, king of England, n.d. [after 14 April 1471], apparently a draft, appointing a new Council of Calais after the death of Warwick the Kingmaker, a probably spurious sign manual at the head (severe rodent damage and soiling), and a 19th-century transcription of the same. As hinted by the preamble and the absence of the Great Seal, the Henry VI document is in fact issed on the king's behalf by Richard, Duke of York, who had succeeded John, Duke of Bedford as Lieutenant in France: Richard's three eldest children, Edward (later Edward IV), Edmund and Elizabeth were all born in Rouen during this period. (2)