ABSTRACT
The political eclipse of the senior Appellants is reflected in their absence from the lists of those present at council meetings after May 1389. At Windsor on 20 August none of the former Appellants attended the council, though a strong household contingent did. John of Gaunt landed at Plymouth in December, anxious, according to Walsingham, to heal the dangerous rift between his nephew and the senior Appellants. In July 1390 John of Gaunt held a magnificent hunting-party at his town of Leicester. In the parliament which met in November 1391 the Commons showed unprecedented confidence in Richard’s government, stimulated probably by the absence of high subsidy demands and the continuing display of royal sympathy for grievances against the private governments of magnates, which had been a feature of Richard’s policy since the Cambridge parliament of 1388. The Winchester parliament, commencing in January 1393, approved the continuation of the peace negotiations.
