Aug.Renewed attack on the Scots.[289]
Oct.Edward II.'s narrow escape at Byland.[289]
Mar., 1323.Treason and execution of Andrew Harclay.[290]
Incapacity of the Despensers as administrators.[290]
Their quarrels with the old nobles.[290]
1324.Their breach with Queen Isabella.[291]
Their chief helpers: Walter Stapledon and Ralph Baldock.[292]
Reaction against the Despensers.[293]
1303-14.Relations of England and France.[294]
1314-22.Edward's dealings with Louis X. and Philip V.[294]
1322.Accession of Charles IV.[295]
1324.Affair of Saint-Sardos.[295]
Renewal of war. Sequestration of Gascony. Charles of Valois' conquest of the Agenais and La Réole.[296]
Isabella's mission to Paris.[297]
Edward of Aquitaine's homage to Charles IV.[297]
1325.Treachery of Charles IV. and second sequestration of Gascony.[297]
1326.Relations of Mortimer and Isabella.[298]
The Hainault marriage.[298]
23 Sept.Landing of Isabella and Mortimer.[299]
Riots in London: murder of Stapledon.[299]
26 Oct.Execution of the elder Despenser.[300]
16 Nov.Capture of Edward and the younger Despenser.[300]
Triumph of the revolution.[301]
7 Jan., 1327.Parliament's recognition of Edward of Aquitaine as king.[301]
20 Jan.Edward II.'s resignation of the crown.[302]
24 Jan.Proclamation of Edward III.[302]
22 Sept., 1328.Murder of Edward II.[303]
1327-30.Rule of Isabella and Mortimer.[304]
1327.Abortive Scottish campaign.[304]
April, 1328.Treaty of Northampton; "the shameful peace".[305]
Character and ambition of Mortimer.[306]
Oct.Mortimer Earl of the March of Wales.[306]
Henry of Lancaster's opposition to him.[307]
Mar., 1330.Execution of the Earl of Kent.[307]
Oct.Parliament at Nottingham.[308]
19 Oct.Arrest of Mortimer.[308]
29 Nov.His execution.[309]
1330-58.Later life of Isabella.[309]

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]

CHAPTER XVI.

THE EARLY CAMPAIGNS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR.
1339.Edward's invasion of France.[339]
Oct.Campaign of the Thiérache.[340]
23 Oct.The failure at Buironfosse.[340]
Alliance between Edward and the Flemish cities.[341]
James van Artevelde.[342]
Jan., 1340.Edward III. at Ghent.[343]
His proclamation as King of France.[344]
20 Feb.His return to England.[344]
22 June.His re-embarkation for Flanders.[344]
Parallel naval development of England and France.[344]
The Norman navy and the projected invasion of England.[345]
24 June.Battle of Sluys.[346]
Ineffective campaigns in Artois and the Tournaisis.[347]
25 Sept.Truce of Esplechin.[348]
30 Nov.Edward's return to London.[349]
The ministers displaced and a special commission appointed to try them.[349]
30 Nov.Controversy between Edward and Archbishop Stratford.[350]
23 April, 1341.Parliament at London supporting Stratford and forcing Edward to choose ministers after consulting it.[350]
1 Oct.Edward's repudiation of his concessions.[351]
April, 1343.Repeal of the statutes of 1341.[351]
John of Montfort and Charles of Blois claim the duchy of Brittany.[352]
War of the Breton succession.[353]
June, 1342.The siege of Hennebont raised.[354]
1343.Battle of Morlaix.[354]
19 Jan., 1343.Edward III. in Brittany.[354]
Truce of Malestroit.[355]
Edward's financial and political troubles.[355]
End of the Flemish alliance.[356]
June, 1345.Henry of Derby in Gascony.[357]
21 Oct.Battle of Auberoche.[358]
1346.Siege of Aiguillon and raid in Poitou.[358]
Preparations for Edward III.'s campaign.[359]
>July-Aug.The march through Normandy.[359]
26 July.Capture of Caen.[360]
Aug.The march up the Seine valley.[360]
The retreat northwards.[361]
The passage of the Somme at the Blanche taque.[361]
26 Aug.Battle of Crecy.[362]
17 Oct.Battle of Neville's Cross.[364]
4 Sept.Siege of Calais.[366]
3 Aug., 1347.Capture of Calais.[367]
20 June.Battle of La Roche Derien.[368]
28 Sept.Truce of Calais.[368]

CHAPTER XVII.

FROM THE BLACK DEATH TO THE TREATY OF CALAIS.
1347-48.Prosperity of England after the truce.[369]
1348-50.The Black Death and its results.[370]
1351.Statute of labourers.[372]
Social and economic unrest.[374]
Religious unrest.[376]
The Flagellants.[376]
The anti-clerical movement.[377]
1351.First statute of provisors.[377]
1353.First statute of præmunire.[378]
Richard Fitzralph and the attack on the mendicants.[379]
1354.Ordinance Of the Staple.[380]
1352.Statute of treasons.[380]
1349.Foundation of the Order of the Garter.[380]
Dagworth's administration of Brittany.[381]
Hugh Calveley and Robert Knowles.[382]
27 Mar., 1351.Battle of the Thirty.[382]
1352.Battle of Mauron.[383]
Fighting round Calais.[383]
1352.Capture of Guînes.[384]
29 Aug., 1350.Battle of the Spaniards-on-the-sea.[384]
6 April, 1354.Preliminaries of peace signed at Guînes.[385]
1355.Failure of the negotiations and renewal of the war.[385]
Failure of John of Gaunt in Normandy.[386]
Sept.-Nov.Black Prince's raid in Languedoc.[386]
1356.Operations of John of Gaunt in Normandy in alliance with Charles of Navarre and Geoffrey of Harcourt.[387]
9 Aug.-2 Oct.Black Prince's raid northwards to the Loire.[388]
19 Sept.Battle of Poitiers.[390]
23 Mar., 1357.Truce of Bordeaux.[392]
Oct.Treaty of Berwick.[393]
1357-71.The last years of David II.[393]
1371.Accession of Robert II. in Scotland.[393]
1358.Preliminaries of peace signed between Edward III. and John.[393]
State of France after Poitiers.[394]
24 Mar., 1359.Treaty of London.[395]
The rejection of the treaty by the French.[395]
Nov., 1359-April, 1360.Edward III.'s invasion of Northern France Champagne and Burgundy.[396]
11 Jan., 1360.Treaty of Guillon.[396]
7 April.Siege of Paris.[396]
8 May.Treaty of Brétigni.[396]
24 Oct.Treaty of Calais.[396]