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182 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.to Kouen, where he held a parliamentof theEstates ofNormandy. He left on January 19, 1421, for England,where he arrived on February 1, after an absence of threeand a half years.His stay in England was brief. He sailed again forFrance on June 10, 1421, and resumed his operationsagainst the towns in Northern France which still held outagainst him. The winter and spring were chiefly occupiedby the siege of Meaux, at which the Englishsuffered heavily through sickness. It was probablyduring this time that Henry contracted the illness ofwhich he died. In the middle of August, 1422, he wastaken to his castle in the Bois de Yincennes, outside Paris,where he died on the morning of September 1.The Anglo-Gallic coinage of Henry V and Henry YIhas been exhaustively dealt with by M. de Saulcy in hisHistoire Nitmismatique de Henri V et Henri VI, Eoisd'Angleterre, pendant qu'ils out regne en France, publishedin Paris in 1878. M. de Saulcy has collected andpublished in this work all the known ordinances andrecords relating to the coinage of this period.I haveextracted from his book sufficient information to enableme to classify the coinages of these reigns, but I wouldstrongly recommend any one who wishes to study thecoins of this period to refer to M. de Saulcy's work itself,where they will find the actual wording of the ordinancesand records fully set out.The first of the ordinances 1 is dated May 8, 1419, fourmonths after the fall of Eouen, from Yernon-sur-Seine,where Henry had gonefor Easter to await a conferencewith Queen Isabella and the Duke of Burgundy.It is1Patentes Normannie, 50.