CHAPTER XVI.

REIGN OF EDWARD III. AFTER THE TREATY OF BRETIGNI.

1360--1377.

1. The First Years of Peace. 1360--1364 254

2. The Spanish Troubles. 1364--1368 254

3. The Taxation of Aquitaine. 1368--1369 256

4. The Renewed War. 1369--1375 256

5. Anti-Papal Legislation. 1351--1366 257

6. Predominance of the English Language 258

7. Piers the Plowman. 1362 258

8. The Anti-Clerical Party. 1371 259

9. The Duke of Lancaster. 1374--1376 260

10. John Wycliffe. 1366--1376 261

11. Lancaster and the Black Prince. 1376 261

12. The Good Parliament. 1376 262

13. The Last Year of Edward III. 1376--1377 262

14. Ireland from the Reign of John to that of Edward II. 264

15. The Statute of Kilkenny. 1367 265

16. Weakness of the English Colony. 1367--1377 265