Henry VI's marriage to Margaret of Anjou & the Treaty of Mantes.- Hoo (Thomas, Baron Hoo and Hastings) Declaration concerning the negotiations between Henry VI and Charles VII for a general truce resulting in the Treaty of Mantes, Mantes, 21st...

Henry VI's marriage to Margaret of Anjou & the Treaty of Mantes.- Hoo (Thomas, Baron Hoo and Hastings, courtier, c. 1396-1455) Declaration concerning the negotiations between Henry VI and Charles VII for a general truce resulting in the Treaty of Mantes, Document signed "Hoo", manuscript in French, on vellum, 9 lines, folds, slightly creased and marked, 80 x 380mm., Mantes, 21st December 1446.

⁂ "We Thomas Hoo Knight, Chancellor of France, Baron Hastings and one of the commissioners of the King our lord accredited to the government of France... We certify to all to whom it may appertain that by our command and order Jehan Varin, overseer and receiver at Mantes for the said lord has recently had carried by Jehan Halle, Jehan Pol called 'Tabellion' and Colin Grandin several letters directed to Paris or Rouen upon the business of the king our said lord and the convention at present being held at the said city of Mantes, principally twenty letters carried by the said Halle to Paris for the Count de Dunois [Jean, "Bastard of Orleans"] and the president [of the assembly]... ."