Chapter XVII

FROM THE BLACK DEATH TO THE TREATY OF CALAIS.

1347-48. Prosperity of England after the truce.
1348-50. The Black Death and its results.
1351. Statute of labourers.
Social and economic unrest.
Religious unrest.
The Flagellants.
The anti-clerical movement.
1351. First statute of provisors.
1353. First statute of _præmunire_.
Richard Fitzralph and the attack on the mendicants.
1354. Ordinance Of the Staple.
1352. Statute of treasons.
1349. Foundation of the Order of the Garter.
Dagworth's administration of Brittany.
Hugh Calveley and Robert Knowles.
27 Mar., 1351. Battle of the Thirty.
1352. Battle of Mauron
Fighting round Calais
1352. Capture of Guînes
29 Aug., 1350. Battle of the Spaniards-on-the-sea
6 April, 1354. Preliminaries of peace signed at Guînes
1355. Failure of the negotiations and renewal of the war
Failure of John of Gaunt in Normandy
Sept.-Nov. Black Prince's raid in Languedoc
1356. Operations of John of Gaunt in Normandy in alliance
with Charles of Navarre and Geoffrey of Harcourt
9 Aug.-2 Oct. Black Prince's raid northwards to the Loire
19 Sept. Battle of Poitiers.
23 Mar., 1357. Truce of Bordeaux
Oct. Treaty of Berwick
1357-71. The last years of David II.
1371. Accession of Robert II. in Scotland
1358. Preliminaries of peace signed between Edward III.
and John
State of France after Poitiers
24 Mar., 1359. Treaty of London
The rejection of the treaty by the French
Nov., 1359-April, 1360. Edward III.'s invasion of Northern France
Champagne and Burgundy
11 Jan., 1360. Treaty of Guillon
7 April. Siege of Paris
8 May. Treaty of Brétigni
24 Oct. Treaty of Calais