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 1921 AND THE DUKE OF BEDFORD 183 the previous Easter and Michaelmas terms, 1 during which probably little had been collected because of the war. At the same time the ' baillis ' of both Upper and Lower Normandy were directed to proclaim by the sound of the trumpet that all lands and possessions of nobles and clergy who had failed to swear fealty to Henry would be taken into royal hands and the income collected ' comme nostre propre demaine '. 2 Consequently in the following June all the ' baillis ' were ordered to seize all lands whose owners could not show letters patent from the king. 3 Already in the previous August, for the ' bailliage ' of Evreux at least (and probably for the other 'bailliages '), orders had been issued to lease the royal lands and to send in the names of the lessees. 4 Other estates, as at Neuilly-l'Eveque, might be left to be administered by the English captain of the local castle, the returns being utilized to support the garrison and any surplus paid over to the treasury. 5 To the income from domain can be added that derived from the exercise of regalian rights over the church. Of the six bishops of Lower Normandy, only the bishop of Seez made prompt submission, 6 The possessions of the other five came into royal hands and remained there for several years awaiting the owner's profession of obedience to the new regime, or the election of less obstinate prelates. 7 In similar fashion property belonging to abbeys, collegiate churches, and other foundations was, in many cases, taken into the king's hands. Restoration, however, was not so long delayed as with the episcopal temporalities, because submission to the conqueror appears to have been more prompt. Frequently churchmen were granted the custody of, or licence to enjoy, their property before receiving complete restitution. A preliminary to restoration was a presentation to the treasury of an account (' aveu ') of the temporal possessions. 8 But 1 6 February 1419 (Norman Rolls, 10, 6 Henry V, pt. ii, m. 37 d ). 2 Boles de Brequigny, 297. For the Eetouteville estates see Col. of Norm. Rolls, 41. 724. 3 Roles de Brequigny, 599 ; Lepingard, Les Effets a St. L6 de la Domination Anglaise (Notices, etc., de la Soc. d' Agriculture et Archeologie de la Manche, ix. 167). 4 Cat. of Norm. Rolls, 41. 715-16 ; Etat des Fiefs de la Vicomte de Conches et de Breteuilaffermes an Norn de Henri V {1421), in Mem. de la Soc. des Antiq. de Norm., xxiii. 5 Roles de Brequigny, 174. 6 Hardy, p. 183 ; Col. of Norm. Rolls, 41. 683 ; Gallia Christiana, xi. 698. The temporalities of Seez were seized again in 1420. See below, p. 184, n. 2. 7 For the temporalities of Bayeux see Col. of Norm. Rolls, 41. 681 ; 42. 431, 437 ; for the restitutions : Avranches (ibid. 42. 351), Coutances (ibid. 368), Evreux (ibid. 389), Lisieux (ibid. 379). The last three followed the election of foreigners (Gallia Christ, xi. 890, 601, 792). For receipts from Evreux, Bayeux, and Coutances, see Exchequer Accts. 187/14, ff. 3 r, 3 6 r . See also Bonnin, Analectes Historiques, Recueil de Documents inedits sur VHistoire de la Ville de Evreux, p. 48. 8 Cal. of Norm. Rolls, 41. 748, 42. 319 ; Dutilleux and Despoin, V Abbaye de Man- buisson, p. 273 ; ibid. (Cartulaire), p. 47. For Notre-Dame-du-Val see Cal. of Norm,