313

11. The Duke of York in France. 1436-1437 313

12. The English Lose Ground. 1437-1443 313

13. Continued Rivalry of Beaufort and Gloucester.
1439-1441 314

14. Beaufort and Somerset. 1442-1443 317

15. The Angevin Marriage Treaty. 1444-1445 317

16. Deaths of Gloucester and Beaufort. 1447 318

17. The Loss of the French Provinces. 1448-1449 318

CHAPTER XXI.

THE LATER YEARS OF HENRY VI. 1450-1461.

1. The Growth of Inclosures 320

2. Increasing Power of the Nobility 321

3. Case of Lord Molynes and John Paston 321

4. Suffolk's Impeachment and Murder. 1450 322

5. Jack Cade's Rebellion. 1450 322

6. Rivalry of York and Somerset. 1450-1453 323

7. The First Protectorate of the Duke of York.
1453-1454 323

8. The First Battle of St. Albans and the Duke
of York's Second Protectorate 324

9. Discomfiture of the Yorkists. 1456-1459 325

10. The Battle of Northampton and the Duke of
York's Claim to the Throne. 1460 326

11. The Battle of Wakefield. 1460 327

12. The Battle of Mortimer's Cross and the Second
Battle of St. Albans. 1461 328

13. The Battle of Towton and the Coronation of
Edward IV. 1461 328

CHAPTER XXII.

THE YORKIST KINGS.

1461--1485.

1. Edward IV. and the House of Commons. 1461 329

2. Loss of the Mediaeval Ideals 330

3. Fresh Efforts of the Lancastrians. 1462--1465 331

4. Edward's Marriage. 1464 331

5. Estrangement of Warwick. 1465--1468 332

6. Warwick's Alliance with Clarence. 1469--1470 332

7. The Restoration of Henry VI. 1470 333

8. Edward IV. recovers the Throne. 1471 334

9. Edward IV. prepares for War with France.
1471--1474 334

10. The Inv