"Nous Jehan conte de Scharsbury et de Wecfford, sire de Talbot et de Fournyvall*****, mareschal de France": confesses to having received from Jean de Simon Desplaces and Richart Bontemps servants of the Duke of York, the sum of sixteen hundred gold saluts worth two thousand four hundred livres tournois for his pension for the government of France and Normandy. 1st June 1448. Parchment document (25 x 10.5 cm), signed by Talbot, with his large red wax seal (fragmentary) on the tongue and his dry seal. In French. Magnificent document, from a person forever famous for his bravery during the Hundred Years' War. He would have deserved to be French. Expert : CABINET "HONORE D'URFE" - Mr Roch DE COLIGNY - 06 13 50 39 96