dangerous consequences
with which that event must necessarily be attended. It was fortunate for
Henry that he had other resources, besides pecuniary supplies from his
native subjects. The provinces which he had already conquered maintained
his troops; and the hopes of further advantages allured to his standard
all men of ambitious spirits in England, who desired to signalize
themselves by arms. He levied a new army of twenty-four thousand archers
and four thousand horsemen,[**] and marched them to Dover, the place of
rendezvous.

* Holingshed, p. 577.

** Monstrelet, chap. 242.

Every thing had remained in tranquillity at Paris under the duke of
Exeter but there had happened, in another quarter of the kingdom, a
misfortune which hastened the king's embarkation.

The detention of the young king of Scots in England had hitherto proved
advantageous to Henry; and by keeping the regent in awe, had preserved,
during the whole course of the French war, the northern frontier in
tranquillity. But when intelligence arrived in Scotland of the progress
made by Henry, and the near prospect of his succession to the crown of
France, the nation was alarmed, and foresaw their own inevitable ruin,
if the subjection of their ally left them to combat alone a victorious
enemy, who was already so much superior in power and riches. The regent
entered into the same views; and though he declined an open rupture with
England, he permitted a body of seven thousand Scots, under the command
of the earl of Buchan, his second son, to be transported into France for
the service of the dauphin. To render this aid ineffectual, Henry
had, in his former expedition, carried over the king of Scots, whom he
obliged to send orders to his countrymen to leave the French service;
but the Scottish general replied, that he would obey no commands which
came from a king in captivity, and that a prince, while in the hands of
his enemy, was nowise entitled to authority. These troops, therefore,
continued still to act under the earl of Buchan: and were employed by
the dauphin to oppose the progress of the duke of Clarence in Anjou.
The two armies encountered at Bauge: the English were defeated: the duke
himself was slain by Sir Allan Swinton, a Scotch knight, who commanded
a company of men at arms: and the earls of Somerset,[*] Dorset, and
Huntingdon were taken prisoners.[**] This was the first action that
turned the tide of success against the English; a