CHAPTER XV.

THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR.
Character and policy of Edward III.[310]
1330-40.The rule of the Stratfords.[314]
1337.The new earldoms.[314]
Scotland during the minority of David Bruce.[315]
Edward Balliol and the Disinherited.[315]
6 Aug., 1332.The Disinherited in Scotland.[317]
Battle of Dupplin Moor.[318]
6 Aug.-16 Dec.Edward Balliol's brief reign and expulsion.[319]
Treaty of Roxburgh.[319]
1333.Attempt to procure his restoration.[319]
Siege of Berwick.[319]
19 July.Battle of Halidon Hill.[320]
Edward Balliol restored.[320]
12 June, 1334.Treaty of Newcastle, ceding to Edward south-eastern Scotland.[321]
Failure of Edward Balliol.[300]
1334-36.Edward III.'s Scottish campaigns.[322]
1341.Return of David Bruce from France.[323]
1327-37.Relations of England and France.[323]
31 Mar., 1327.Treaty of Paris.[324]
Edward's lands in Gascony after the treaty of Paris.[324]
1328.Accession of Philip of Valois in France.[325]
Protests of the English regency.[325]
1328.The legal and political aspects of the succession question.[326]
Edward III.'s claim to France.[327]
6 June, 1329.Edward's homage to Philip VI.[327]
8 May, 1330.Convention of the Wood of Vincennes.[328]
9 Mar., 1331.Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.[300]
April.Interview of Pont-Sainte-Maxence.[328]
Crusading projects of John XXII..[329]
1336.Abandonment of the crusade by Benedict XII.[329]
Strained relations between England and France.[330]
1337.Mission of the Cardinals Peter and Bertrand.[330]
Edward and Robert of Artois.[330]
The Vow of the Heron.[331]
Preparations for war.[331]
Breach with Flanders and stoppage of export of wool.[332]
Alliance with William I. and II. of Hainault.[332]
Edward's other Netherlandish allies.[332]
1337.Breach between France and England.[333]
Nov.Sir Walter Manny at Cadzand.[334]
Fruitless negotiations and further hostilities.[334]
July, 1338.Edward III.'s departure for Flanders.[335]
5 Sept.Interview of Edward and the Emperor Louis of Bavaria at Coblenz.[335]
The Anglo-imperial alliance.[335]
Further fruitless negotiations.[336]
Renewal of Edward's claim to the French crown.[337]
The responsibility for the war.[337]