nce between Englishmen of
education at that period. As a vehicle of information on the real
state of feeling in England with regard to the church of Rome, it is
very interesting. It is, moreover, impossible to read it without
inferring that, in the opinion of the writer at least, and of those in
whose behalf he wrote, Henry's earnest desire was to reform the abuses
of the church, and to render churchmen zealous servants of the Gospel.

[Footnote 50: Not 1418, as it has been supposed,
but 1417. The date is fixed by the specifying of
Wednesday the 27th January, as also by the mention
of the Genoese ships. These ships were hired, and
they fought under the French against the English,
and were beat in July 1417, after a severe
engagement.]

[Footnote 51: Cott. MSS. Cleopatra, t. vii. p.
148.]

JOHN FORESTER'S LETTER FROM CONSTANCE TO HENRY V. (p. 058)

"My sovereign liege Lord, and most redoubted Prince Christian to
me on earth. I recommend me unto your high royal and imperial
Majesty with all manner [of] honours, worships, grace, and
goodnesses. My most glorious Lord, liketh you to wit, that the
Wednesday, the third hour after noon, or near thereto, the seven
and twentieth day of January, your brother['s] gracious person
the King of Rome entered the city of Constance with your livery
of the Collar about his neck,--a glad sight for all your liege
men to see,--with a solemn procession of all estates, both of
Cardinals of all nations, and your Lords in their best array with
all your nation. He received your Lords graciously, with right
good cheer. Of all the worshipful men of your nation he touched
their hands, [and theirs] only, in all the great press. And then
went my Lord of Salisbury [Hallam] before heartily to the place
of the general Council, where that royal King should rest; and he
entered into the pulpit where the Cardinal Candacence,[52] chief
of the nation of France, and your especial enemy also, had
purposed to have made the first collation[53] before the
King,[54] in worship of the French nation. But my Lord of
Salisbury kept possession, in worship of you and your nation; and
he made there a right good collation that pleas