re obliged to surrender. Nineteen galleys only, out of forty-eight,
were in good condition; and the crews were equally diminished in the ten
months of their occupation of Chioggia. The pride of Genoa was deemed to
be justly humbled; and even her own historian confesses that God would
not suffer so noble a city as Venice to become the spoil of a conqueror.

Though the capture of Chioggia did not terminate the war, both parties
were exhausted, and willing, next year, to accept the mediation of the
Duke of Savoy. By the peace of Turin, Venice surrendered most of her
territorial possessions to the King of Hungary. That Prince and Francis
Carrara were the only gainers. Genoa obtained the isle of Tenedos, one
of the original subjects of dispute--a poor indemnity for her losses.
Though, upon a hasty view, the result of this war appears more
unfavorable to Venice, yet in fact it is the epoch of the decline of
Genoa. From this time she never commanded the ocean with such navies as
before; her commerce gradually went into decay; and the fifteenth
century--the most splendid in the annals of Venice--is, till recent
times, the most ignominious in those of Genoa. But this was partly owing
to internal dissensions, by which her liberty, as well as glory, was for
a while suspended.

REBELLION OF WAT TYLER

A.D. 1381

JOHN LINGARD

Richard II, of England, at eleven years of age, succeeded to
a heritage of foreign complications and wars, which were a
legacy from the reign of his grandfather, Edward III.

At the request of the commons, the lords, in the King's
name, appointed nine persons to be a permanent council, and
it was resolved that during the King's minority the
appointment of all the chief officers of the crown should be
with the parliament. The administration was conducted in the
King's name, and the whole system was for some years kept
together by the secret authority of the King's uncles,
especially of the Duke of Lancaster, who was in reality the
regent.

France, Scotland, and Castile continued their hostilities
against England, and during the first two years of Richard's
reign the ministers had no difficulty in obtaining ample
grants of money to carry on the wars. In the third year the
expense of the campaign in Brittany compelled them to
solicit yet additional aid.

Various methods of taxation failing to raise the amount
required, the commons, in great discontent, d