1393. Statute of Præmunire, prohibiting the introduction of papal

bulls.

1396. Richard married Isabella, daughter of Charles VI. of France, and concluded peace for 26 years.

1397. Imprisonment (and death) of the duke of Gloucester. Impeachment of the earls of Arundel, Warwick, Nottingham, Derby. Arundel was executed; Warwick imprisoned for life; Nottingham was made duke of Norfolk; Derby (Henry Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt), duke of Hereford.

1398. Quarrel between Hereford and Norfolk. The king forbade their combat, and banished Norfolk for life, Hereford for six years.

Richard made an expedition to Ireland, where the isolation of the English who were settled within the conquered district, the so-called English Pale (Drogheda, Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Cork) had rendered them almost independent of England. During his absence

1399. Henry Bolingbroke, since the death of his father, duke of Lancaster, landed in England. Richard returned from Ireland, only to be captured, deposed, and imprisoned in the castle of Pontefract (murdered?).

Geoffrey Chaucer (died 1400), Canterbury Tales.

1399-1461. House of Lancaster, a branch of the house of Plantagenet.

1399-1413. Henry IV.,

under which name the duke of Lancaster ascended the throne, the claims of Edmund Mortimer, earl of March, the true heir, being passed over. 1400. Conspiracy of the earls of Rutland, Huntingdon, Salisbury, Kent, and Spencer suppressed. Revolt of Wales under Owen Glendower; defeat of Sir Edmund Mortimer (1402). 1402. A Scottish inroad under the earl of Douglas defeated at Homildon Hill. Capture of Douglas.

As Henry refused to allow the ransom of Edmund Mortimer (he being the uncle of the young earl of March, the true heir to the crown), a conspiracy was formed against him by Harry Percy (Hotspur), brother-in-law of Mortimer, to whose family the king was largely indebted for his throne, who induced his father, the earl of Northumberland, and his uncle, the earl of Worcester, to join with himself, Glendower, and Douglas, and take up arms. In the 1403. Battle of Shrewsbury,

July 21. the conspirators were defeated. Harry Percy was killed and Douglas taken. Conspiracy of Mowbray and Scroop, archbishop of York; execution of the conspirators.

1405. Capture of James, heir of the Scottish throne, while on his way to the court of France (James was the second son of Robert III. of Scotland; the eldest, duke of Rothsay, had been starved to death by the king's brother, duke of Albany), and detained in England until 1423.

1408. Defeat of the earl of Northumberland and Lord Bardolph at Bramham Moor; death of the former.

1413. March 20. Death of Henry IV.

1413-1422. Henry V., Monmouth.

brave.

While prince, companion of wild rakes; as king, energetic and

Trial and condemnation for heresy of Sir John Oldcastle (Lord Cobham), a friend of the king. Oldcastle escaped from prison, and a rising of the Lollards assumed formidable proportions; it was, however, easily suppressed. (Oldcastle captured and burned, 1417). 1415. Conspiracy of the earl of Cambridge, Lord Scrope and Sir Thomas Grey detected. Execution of the conspirators. 1415-1420. War with France (p. 259).

1415. Oct. 25. Battle of Agincourt.

1417. Second invasion of France. In England, unsuccessful Scottish inroad ("The Foul Raid ").

1420. May 21. Peace of Troyes.

Henry married Catharine, daughter of Charles VII. of France, and was accepted as regent and heir of the crown.

1421. Third invasion of France.

Death of Henry at Vincennes, August 31, 1422.

Use of English in the House of Commons. Sir Richard Whitington, thrice lord mayor of London.

1422-1461. Henry VI., Windsor.

Not quite nine months old at his father's death. Parliament refused to appoint a regency, and named the king's uncle, duke of Gloucester, protector, in the absence of his brother, the duke of Bedford, who was regent in France.

1423. Liberation of James I. of Scotland, after the conclusion of an agreement with the English not to assist one another's enemies. 1422-1453. War in France. Expulsion of the English. (Joan of Arc.) See p. 260.

1437. James I. of Scotland murdered by the earl of Athol and Robert Grahame.

1445. Marriage of Henry VI. with Margaret, daughter of René, titular king of Naples and Jerusalem. Henry promised to restore to René his hereditary lands of Anjou and Maine. This marriage was the work of William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk (soon made a duke), whose influence at court surpassed that of the earlier adviser, Cardinal Beaufort (died 1447). Arrest and suspicious death of the duke of Gloucester. The loss of Normandy was followed by the impeachment of Suffolk, who was banished by Henry, but seized at sea and put to death (1450).

1450. Rebellion of Jack Cade ("Mortimer ").

The insurgents occupied London and murdered Lord Say, one of the ministers. The rebellion was soon suppressed, and Cade, while in hiding, was killed by Alexander Iden.

The government now passed into the hands of Richard, duke of York, grandson of the fin son of Edward III., son of Anna Morti

mer, heiress of the claims of the third line, who returned to England from Ireland; his power, however, was not enough to oust his rival, the duke of Somerset, grandson of John of Gaunt, and in 1452 he was induced to dismiss his army, and then forced to swear allegiance. 1452. James II. of Scotland murdered William, earl of Douglas; defection of the Douglases to England.

1453. Battle of Castillon in France. Death of Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury. Surrender of Bordeaux. Of all the English possessions in France Calais alone was left in their hands.

1453. Birth of Prince Edward, son of Henry VI. Insanity of Henry. The duke of York protector. Imprisonment of Somerset. The recovery of the king in 1454 was followed by the restoration of Somerset to power.

The duke of York, the earls of Salisbury and Warwick, now took up arms against Henry and his advisers.

1455-1485. Wars of the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York (see the genealogical table). 1455. Battle of St. Albans. York victorious. Death of SomerMay 22. set; capture of Henry. A hollow reconciliation (1458) was followed by a new resort to arms. At the battle of Bloreheath (Sept. 23, 1459), the Lancastrians were defeated. The victory was a barren one for York; defection in his army caused him to abandon the contest and retire to Ireland. Flight of Yorkist leaders. York and his party attainted of treason by the Parliament of Coventry.

1460. Landing of the earls of Salisbury, March (afterwards Edward IV.), and Warwick, in England. In the 1460. Battle of Northampton,

July 10. the Lancastrians were defeated; capture of Henry; flight of Margaret and her son to Scotland. The duke of York entered London and preferred his claim to the crown. Parliament decided that he should succeed Henry.

1460. Battle of Wakefield.

Dec. 30. Defeat of York by the queen and Prince Edward. York fell on the field, the earl of Salisbury and the earl of Rutland, son of York, were killed.

1461. Battle of Mortimer's Cross, near Hereford. Defeat of the Feb. 2. Lancastrians by the son of the duke of York, Edward, earl of March (now duke of York).

Feb. 17. Second Battle of St. Albans.

Defeat of the Yorkists under Warwick. Release of Henry. The earl of March, however, came to the rescue, joined the remnants of Warwick's army with his own, and entered London, where he was proclaimed king by acclamation, March 3, 1461.

1461-1485. House of York (branch line of the house of Plantagenet).

1461-1483. Edward IV.

The early part of his reign was disturbed by constant attempts of the Lancastrians to overthrow the new dynasty.

1461, March 27. Battle of Ferry Bridge. Defeat of the Lancastrians.

March 29. Battle of Towton. After a most obstinate fight Edward and Warwick prevailed, and the Lancastrians were totally defeated (said to have lost 28,000 men).

Edward was crowned (June 28), and his brothers, George and Richard, were created dukes (Clarence and Gloucester). In 1462 Margaret obtained assistance from France, and made two attempts to retrieve the Lancastrian cause, but both were unsuccessful. Henry retired to Wales; Margaret to Lorraine. A final uprising of the Lancastrians was crushed at Hedgeley Moor and at Hexham (1464). 1464. Secret marriage of Edward with Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Richard Woodville, baron Rivers, and widow of Sir John Grey, a Lancastrian. This marriage and the advancement conferred on the family of the new queen much exasperated the earl of Warwick and the other Yorkists. The dissatisfaction of Warwick was increased by the marriage of Edward's sister Margaret with the duke of Burgundy, and he intrigued with the duke of Clarence, giving him his daughter in marriage and promising him the crown. Revolt of William of Rydesdale in 1469. Execution of the queen's father, Earl Rivers. Edward became reconciled with Warwick, but a victory over the insurgents at Stamford ("Loose-coat Field") (1470) so strengthened the king that he proclaimed Warwick and Clarence traitors, and they fled to France. Reconciliation of Warwick and Margaret. 1470. Warwick landed in England, occupied London, and proclaimed Henry (who had been imprisoned since 1465) king. Edward fled to Burgundy, but returning with assistance was well received, and joined by Clarence. Re-imprisonment of Henry.

1471, April 4. Battle of Barnet.

The Lancastrians under Warwick (the king-maker) totally defeated.

May 4. Battle of Tewksbury.

Defeat of Margaret, who was captured; murder of her son Edward. Henry VI. died in the Tower May 22, the day when Edward IV. reëntered London.

1475. Invasion of France by Edward, who, in connivance with the duke of Burgundy, claimed the French crown. Subscriptions supposed to be voluntary (benevolences), without consent of Parliament, now first introduced to raise money for this invasion. The war was ended without a battle by the Peace of Pequigny (1475). Truce for seven years; payment of a large annual sum to England; ransom of Margaret; betrothal of the dauphin to Edward's eldest daughter, Elizabeth.

1478. Trial and condemnation of Clarence for treason. He was executed in the Tower. (Popular report that he was drowned

in a butt of malmsey.)

1480. War with Scotland, which was ended by the Treaty of Fotheringay, wherein Berwick was surrendered to the English.

As Louis XI. now refused to consent to the marriage of the dauphin