vern the same offices well towards the King and
all his liege people; forasmuch that as well by
divers petilences within the realm of England, as
by the wars without the realm, there is now not
such sufficiency; it is ordained and stablished
that the King by authority of this Parliament may
make the Sheriffs and Escheators through the realm
at his will until the end of four years."--9 Hen.
V. stat. 1, c. v.]

[Footnote 227: This vote does not appear on the
Rolls of Parliament. Walsingham asserts that a
fifteenth was voted. Holinshed distinctly says,
that the "commonaltie gladly granted a fifteenth."
But he is no authority in such a case. The
Parliament, in the following December, granted a
tenth, and a fifteenth.]

Henry, impatient to repair the dishonour of the defeat which his
forces had sustained, and to reduce his foreign dominions to peace,
issued his writ, on the 27th of May, to the sheriffs of the several
counties to publish his proclamation that all persons should (p. 299)
hasten with the utmost speed to join the King, and accompany him in
his voyage. And now possessing under his command a larger force than
he had ever yet raised; after procuring by subsidies and loans as
large a sum as the power or inclination of his people supplied; having
also appointed his brother, the Duke of Bedford, Regent; he left
London (never to return to it alive), on the last day of May, or the
1st of June. From the 1st to the 10th of that month he seems to have
passed his days alternately at Canterbury and Dover; though the cause
of this delay does not appear to have been recorded. To whatever the
postponement of his departure is attributable, though he left the
metropolis not later than the 1st, he did not finally quit the English
shores till the 10th of June. On the 12th he was at Rouen.[228]

[Footnote 228: Three days after landing his forces,
he despatched the Earl of Dorset with twelve
hundred men to relieve his uncle, the Duke of
Exeter, who was closely blockaded in Paris.]

The Dauphin himself with a large army was at this time besieging
Chartres, and Henry havi