King's title should be added, "Regent
and heir-apparent of France;" and a corresponding order was given to
the officers of his mint at Rouen for a change of the inscription on
the coinage there."[206]
[Footnote 205: The heartfelt satisfaction and joy
with which this peace between the two countries was
generally hailed as a new and unexpected blessing,
is conveyed to us in a most lively manner by the
letter which Sir Hugh Luttrell wrote to the King on
the occasion, and which bears at the same time
incidental testimony to Henry's condescending and
kind attention to his old comrade in arms. Sir Hugh
was the Lieutenant of Harfleur, and Henry had
himself sent him an account of the happy issue of
his struggle.... He ascribes it to the providence
of the Creator that Henry had concluded a perpetual
peace between two realms which ever, out of mind of
any chroniclers, had been at dissension; and had
brought to an end what no man had hitherto wrought;
"thanking God," he continues, "with meek heart,
that he hath sent me that grace to abide the time
for to see it, as for the greatest gladness and
consolation that ever came into my heart; not
dreading in myself that He who hath sent you that
grace in so short a time, shall send you much more
in time coming."--Ellis's Original Letters,
xxviii.]
[Footnote 206: On this subject, T.D. Hardy, Esq. in
his Introduction to the Charter Rolls, just
published by the Record Commission, gives the
following clear and satisfactory
information:--Until the 9th of April 1420, Henry V.
styled himself in his charters and on his great
seal, "Henricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae et Franciae et
Dominus Hiberniae" And on the Norman Roll of the
fifth year of his reign he is sometimes styled Duke
of Normandy, in conjunction with his other titles,
as "Henry par le grace de Dieu
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