he found that the impetuosity of his brother's temper
was still the chief obstacle to all accommodation.[*] For this reason,
instead of pushing the victory gained at Verneuil, he found himself
obliged to take a journey into England, and to try, by his counsels and
authority, to moderate the measures of the duke of Glocester.

There had likewise broken out some differences among the English
ministry, which had proceeded to great extremities, and which required
the regent's presence to compose them.[**] The bishop of Winchester, to
whom the care of the king's person and education had been intrusted,
was a prelate of great capacity and experience, but of an intriguing and
dangerous character; and as he aspired to the government of affairs,
he had continual disputes with his nephew the protector; and he gained
frequent advantages over the vehement and impolitic temper of that
prince.

{1425.} The duke of Bedford employed the authority of parliament to
reconcile them; and these rivals were obliged to promise, before that
assembly, that they would bury all quarrels in oblivion.[***] Time also
seemed to open expedients for composing the difference with the duke of
Burgundy. The credit of that prince had procured a bull from the pope;
by which not only Jaqueline's contract with the duke of Glocester was
annulled, but it was also declared that, even in case of the duke
of Brabant's death, it should never be lawful for her to espouse the
English prince. Humphrey, despairing of success, married another lady of
inferior rank, who had lived some time with him as his mistress.[****]

* Monstrelet, vol. ii. p. 18.

** Stowe, p. 368. Holingshed, p. 530.

*** Hall, fol. 98, 99. Hollingshed, p. 593, 594. Polydore
Virgil, p. 466. Grafton, p. 512, 519.

**** Stowe, p 367.

The duke of Brabant died; and his widow, before she could recover
possession of her dominions, was obliged to declare the duke of Burgundy
her heir, in case she should die without issue, and to promise never to
marry without his consent. But though the affair was thus terminated
to the satisfaction of Philip, it left a disagreeable impression on his
mind: it excited an extreme jealousy of the English, and opened his eyes
to his true interests: and as nothing but his animosity against Charles
had engaged him in alliance with them, it counterbalanced that passion
by another of the same kind, which in the end became prevalent, and
brought hi