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PART IV.

_LANCASTER, YORK, AND TUDOR._ =1399--1509.=

CHAPTER XIX.

HENRY IV. AND HENRY V.

HENRY IV., =1399--1413=. HENRY V., =1413--1422=.

LEADING DATES

Accession of Henry IV. 1399
Statute for the burning of heretics 1401
Battle of Shrewsbury 1403
Fight at Bramham Moor 1408
Succession of Henry V. 1413
Battle of Agincourt 1415
Treaty of Troyes 1420
Death of Henry V. 1422

1. =Henry's First Difficulties. 1399--1400.=--Henry IV. fully
understood that his only chance of maintaining himself on the throne
was to rule with due consideration for the wishes of Parliament. His
main difficulty, like that of his predecessor, was that the great
lords preferred to hold their own against him individually with the
help of their armies of retainers, instead of exercising political
power in Parliament. In his first Parliament an angry brawl arose. The
lords who in the last reign had taken the side of Gloucester flung
their gloves on the floor of the House as a challenge to those who had
supported Richard when he compassed Gloucester's death; and though
Henry succeeded in keeping the peace for the time, a rebellion broke
out early in =1400= in the name of Richard. Henry, like the kings
before him, found his support against the turbulent nobles in the
townsmen and the yeomen, and he was