Chapter 17

FROM THE BLACK DEATH TO THE TREATY OF CALAIS.

1347-48. Prosperity of England after the truce. 1348-50. The Black Death and its results. 1351. Statute of labourers. Social and economic unrest. Religious unrest. The Flagellants. The anti-clerical movement. 1351. First statute of provisors. 1353. First statute of _præmunire_. Richard Fitzralph and the attack on the mendicants. 1354. Ordinance Of the Staple. 1352. Statute of treasons. 1349. Foundation of the Order of the Garter. Dagworth's administration of Brittany. Hugh Calveley and Robert Knowles. 27 Mar., 1351. Battle of the Thirty. 1352. Battle of Mauron Fighting round Calais 1352. Capture of Guînes 29 Aug., 1350. Battle of the Spaniards-on-the-sea 6 April, 1354. Preliminaries of peace signed at Guînes 1355. Failure of the negotiations and renewal of the war Failure of John of Gaunt in Normandy Sept.-Nov. Black Prince's raid in Languedoc 1356. Operations of John of Gaunt in Normandy in alliance with Charles of Navarre and Geoffrey of Harcourt 9 Aug.-2 Oct. Black Prince's raid northwards to the Loire 19 Sept. Battle of Poitiers. 23 Mar., 1357. Truce of Bordeaux Oct. Treaty of Berwick 1357-71. The last years of David II. 1371. Accession of Robert II. in Scotland 1358. Preliminaries of peace signed between Edward III. and John State of France after Poitiers 24 Mar., 1359. Treaty of London The rejection of the treaty by the French Nov., 1359-April, 1360. Edward III.'s invasion of Northern France Champagne and Burgundy 11 Jan., 1360. Treaty of Guillon 7 April. Siege of Paris 8 May. Treaty of Brétigni 24 Oct. Treaty of Calais