TABLE OF CONTENTS

BILL OF ARTICLES PRESENTED TO EDWARD II BY THE BARONS IN THE PARLIAMENT OF 1310.

THE SUCCESSES OF KING ROBERT BRUCE (1311).

PETER GAVESTON AND THE FRIARS PREACHERS (1312).

AN UNWORTHY KING (1313).

CORRUPTION IN THE PAPAL COURT (1313).

THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN (June 24, 1314).

VAGABOND FRIARS (1314).

CHARGES AGAINST THE DESPENSERS (1319).

POPULAR FEELING ABOUT THE EARL OF LANCASTER'S DEATH (1322).

THE REVOCATION OF THE ORDINANCES (1322).

THE MURDER OF THE KING (1327).

CHARACTER OF EDWARD II.

THE ACCESSION OF EDWARD III.

THE MANNER OF THE SCOTS (1327).

THE RULE OF ISABELLA (1328).

WHY MORTIMER WAS CONDEMNED UNHEARD (1330).

THE WAR OF THE DISINHERITED (1332).

FOR THE SAFE-KEEPING OF THE CITY OF LONDON (December 13, 1334).

FIRST INVASION OF FRANCE: THE CAMPAIGN OF 1339.

BEFORE SLUYS (1340).

THE BATTLE OF SLUYS (June 24, 1340).

THE KING OF FRANCE IGNORES THE KING OF ENGLAND'S CHALLENGE (July 27, 1340).

ARCHBISHOP STRATFORD INCURS THE KING'S DISPLEASURE (January 1, 1340-1).

THE "LIBELLUS FAMOSUS" (February 10, 1340-1).

TRIAL BY PEERS.

THE BATTLE OF CRECY (August 26, 1346).

DAVID BRUCE INVADES ENGLAND (October, 1346).

A FIGHTING PRIOR.

THE SURRENDER OF CALAIS (August 3, 1347).

PENITENTS AND JEWS (1349).

A STATUTE OF LABOURERS (1350).

PROSPERITY OF THE LANDLESS LABOURER.

FIRST STATUTE OF PROVISORS (1350).

THE KING OF ENGLAND REFUSES THE FRENCH KING'S CHALLENGE (1355).

THE BALLIOLS RESIGN TO THE KING OF ENGLAND THEIR PRETENDED RIGHT (1355-56)

THE BATTLE OF POITIERS (1356).

THE TREATY OF LONDON (1359).

THE SIEGE OF PARIS AND THE TREATY OF CALAIS (1360).

THE FATEFUL FOOTPRINTS OF THE ENGLISH (c. 1361).

NO SUBSIDY ON WOOL WITHOUT ASSENT OF PARLIAMENT (1362).

REGULATION OF WEARING APPAREL BY STATUTE (1363).

THE HAUGHTINESS OF THE ENGLISH (1367).

"TIME-HONOURED LANCASTER" (May-June, 1376).

LAMENT FOR THE BLACK PRINCE.

RENEWAL OF THE WAR (1376-77).

JOHN OF GAUNT ATTACKS WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM (1377).

MASTER JOHN WICLIF (1377).

A TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION (1377).

THE KING OF FRANCE EQUIPS A FLEET (1377).

CHARACTER OF EDWARD III.

THE PEASANTS' REVOLT (1381).

WONDROUS AND UNHEARD-OF PRODIGIES (1381).

HERETICAL AND ERRONEOUS CONCLUSIONS OF WICLIF (Condemned at London, 1382).

THE FOLLOWERS OF THIS MASTER JOHN (1382).

THE PARLIAMENT OF 1384 (April, 1384).

THE PLOT AGAINST LANCASTER (February, 1385).

THE FRENCH IN SCOTLAND.

THE DEATH OF WICLIF (1385).

CHARLES VI.'S FRUSTRATED INVASION OF ENGLAND (August, 1386).

THE STATE OF ENGLAND (1386).

THE WONDERFUL PARLIAMENT (October-November, 1386).

RICHARD APPEALS TO THE JUDGES (August, 1387).

DEFEAT OF THE KING'S FRIENDS (November-December, 1387).

THE MERCILESS PARLIAMENT (February, 1388).

ON THE TRUCE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE (1394).

SUPPOSED PLOTS (1397).

RICHARD'S REVENGE (July, 1397).

THE "APPEAL" OF THE APPELLANTS (1397).

THE STATE OF IRELAND (1399).

THE BETRAYAL OF THE KING (August, 1399).

ABDICATION AND DEATH (1399).

THE CHARACTER OF RICHARD II., AS DESCRIBED BY A MONK OF EVESHAM.

RICHARD THE REDELESS (1399).

ISABELLA OF FRANCE RETURNS TO HER OWN COUNTRY (1399).

APPENDIX

A NORMAL SCHOOLBOY.

BEGGAR'S BRATS ARE BOOK-LEARNED.

CAUSES OF THE IMPAIRING OF OUR LANGUAGE.