Note 1037 — Chapter I

The clergy and the Parliament seem to have applauded the project of an invasion of France instantly and without reservation (Sharon Turner, History of England during the Middle Ages, ii, 383). And already in the minority of Henry VI "the Parliament was fast dying down into a mere representation of the baronage and the great landowners" (Green, ch. vi, p. 265). "Never before and never again for more than two hundred years were the Commons so strong as they were under Henry IV" (Stubbs, iii, 73).