ABSTRACT
"The unquiet time of Henry IV.," as Hall later called it, was over. No love was felt for the King, who had died miserably of a disease which was interpreted as outward sign of God's anger, and whose rule had not been a success in the eyes of many. In March, 1413, he was found to be connected with a priest suspected of heterodoxy, and after Henry V's accession he was proved in Convocation to have been the possessor of a book condemned for heretical teaching. He began to make references to the Treaty of Bretigny, and to remind his adversaries, nay more, he claimed a share of French territory larger than even Edward III. had possessed. Few can have doubted that the French war would be renewed. At one moment the Dauphin offered terms; at another the French King, under influence of Burgundy, sent a portrait of his daughter Catherine, whose name had appeared in most of the negotiations.
