The history of England, from the accession of Henry III. to the death of Edward…

1325. Treachery of Charles IV. and second sequestration of

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Gascony.

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1. Chapter 1 2. CHAPTER I. 3. 1217. Rising of Wilkin of the Weald 4. CHAPTER II. 5. 1219. Pandulf the real successor of William Marshal 6. 1225. Expedition of Richard of Cornwall and William 7. 1228. The Kerry campaign 8. 1231. Henry III.'s second Welsh campaign 9. 1232. Riots of Robert Twenge 10. CHAPTER III. 11. 1234. Richard Marshal in Ireland 12. 1235. Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln 13. 1243. Truce with France 14. CHAPTER IV. 15. 1254. Marriage and establishment of Edward the king's son 16. 1254. Llewelyn ap Griffith sole Prince of North Wales 17. 1257. Welsh campaign of Henry and Edward 18. 1257. Richard of Cornwall elected and crowned King of the Romans 19. 1224. Arrival of Agnellus of Pisa and the first Franciscans 20. CHAPTER V. 21. 1263. Reconstitution of parties 22. CHAPTER VI. 23. 1266. The revolt of the Disinherited 24. 1267. Statute of Marlborough 25. CHAPTER VII. 26. 1285. Deaths of Philip III., Charles of Anjou, Peter of 27. 1278. Statute of Gloucester 28. CHAPTER VIII. 29. 1277. Treaty of Aberconway 30. 1282. Edward's second Welsh campaign 31. 1283. Parliaments and financial expedients 32. CHAPTER IX. 33. 1291. Treaty of Tarascon 34. 1290. Statute of Westminster, the third (_Quia emptores_) 35. 1291. The courts at Ystradvellte and Abergavenny 36. 1290. Expulsion of the Jews 37. 1286. Death of Alexander III. of Scotland 38. 1290. Treaty of Brigham 39. 1290. Death of Eleanor of Castile 40. CHAPTER X. 41. 1294. Edmund of Lancaster's failure to procure a settlement 42. 1294. Revolts of Madog, Maelgwn, and Morgan 43. 1295. Failure of the Gascon campaign 44. 1296. Gascon expedition and death of Edmund of Lancaster 45. CHAPTER XI. 46. 1297. Edward's unsuccessful campaign in Flanders 47. 1302. Philip IV.'s troubles with the Flemings and Boniface VIII 48. 1303. Conquest of Scotland seriously undertaken 49. 1305. Disgrace of Winchelsea and Bek 50. 1305. Ordinance of Trailbaston 51. CHAPTER XII. 52. 1307. Peter Gaveston Earl of Cornwall 53. 1310. Renewal of the opposition of the barons to Gaveston 54. 1311. The ordinances 55. 1312. Fall of the Templars 56. 1314. The siege of Stirling 57. CHAPTER XIII. 58. 1318. Death of Edward Bruce at Dundalk. 59. 1319. Renewed attack on Scotland. 60. 1320. War between the husbands of the Gloucester heiresses 61. CHAPTER XIV. 62. 1324. Their breach with Queen Isabella. 63. 1324. Affair of Saint-Sardos. 64. 1325. Treachery of Charles IV. and second sequestration of 65. 1326. Relations of Mortimer and Isabella 66. 1327. Abortive Scottish campaign 67. CHAPTER XV. 68. 1337. The new earldoms 69. 1333. Attempt to procure his restoration 70. 1341. Return of David Bruce from France 71. 1328. Accession of Philip of Valois in France 72. 1328. The legal and political aspects of the succession 73. 1336. Abandonment of the crusade by Benedict XII 74. 1337. Mission of the Cardinals Peter and Bertrand 75. 1337. Breach between France and England 76. CHAPTER XVI. 77. 1339. Edward's invasion of France 78. 1343. Battle of Morlaix. 79. 1346. Siege of Aiguillon and raid in Poitou. 80. CHAPTER XVII. 81. 1351. Statute of labourers. 82. 1353. First statute of _præmunire_. 83. 1349. Foundation of the Order of the Garter. 84. 1352. Battle of Mauron 85. 1352. Capture of Guînes 86. 1355. Failure of the negotiations and renewal of the war 87. 1356. Operations of John of Gaunt in Normandy in alliance 88. 1358. Preliminaries of peace signed between Edward III. 89. CHAPTER XVIII. 90. 1365. Treaty of Guérande 91. 1366. Expulsion of Peter the Cruel from Castile by Du 92. 1371. Battle in Bourgneuf Bay. 93. 1371. The Black Prince's return to England with shattered 94. 1370. Futile expeditions of Lancaster and Knowles. 95. 1372. Edward III.'s last military expedition. 96. 1374. Ruin of the English power in France. 97. CHAPTER XIX. 98. 2. Map of Southern Scotland and Northern England in the XIIIth and 99. CHAPTER I. 100. CHAPTER II. 101. CHAPTER III. 102. CHAPTER IV. 103. introduction to his translation of _Chronicles of the Mayors 104. CHAPTER V. 105. CHAPTER VI. 106. 1263. And the dissolution of the dominant faction once more gave Edward 107. CHAPTER VII. 108. CHAPTER VIII. 109. 1265. The alarm created by this shows that Edward perceived the danger 110. CHAPTER IX. 111. CHAPTER X. 112. CHAPTER XI. 113. 1296. It was Wallace's glory that he fought his fight and paid the 114. 1306. Scotland was obedient; the French alliance was firmly cemented; 115. CHAPTER XII. 116. 1309. It was simply that popular co-operation was regarded as 117. 1313. He left behind him the reputation of a saint and a hero, and a 118. CHAPTER XIII. 119. 1318. Twice Edward himself went to the north, and on one occasion 120. CHAPTER XIV. 121. CHAPTER XV. 122. 16. There, on July 22, Edward revoked all commissions addressed to the 123. CHAPTER XVI. 124. 1312. Edward was not the sort of man to endure the thraldom that his 125. CHAPTER XVII. 126. CHAPTER XVIII. 127. CHAPTER XIX. 128. 1330. Lionel's death added to the vast inheritance of the Mortimers and 129. 1371. The old king was a mere pawn in the game. His health had been 130. 1200. Fragments of Pipe Rolls for our period can be seen in print in 131. Chapter X, Paragraph 4, for Earl of Cornwall read Earl of Lancaster.

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