Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 | Page 2

fully purposed to
make for Calais, notwithstanding the threatened resistance of the
French. -- Passes the Field of Cressy. -- French resolved to engage. --
Night before the Conflict. -- FIELD of AGINCOURT. -- Slaughter of
Prisoners. -- Henry, his enemies themselves being Judges, fully
exculpated from every suspicion of cruelty or unchivalrous bearing. --
He proceeds to Calais. -- Thence to London. -- Reception by his
Subjects. -- His modest and pious Demeanour. -- Superstitious
proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Authorities. -- Reflections. -- Songs of
Agincourt. Page 156
CHAPTER XXIV.
1415-1417.
Reasons for delaying a Second Campaign. -- Sigismund undertakes to
mediate. -- Reception of Sigismund. -- French Ships scour the seas, and

lay siege to Harfleur. -- Henry's vigorous measures thereupon. -- The
Emperor declares for "Henry and his Just Rights." -- Joins with him in
Canterbury Cathedral on a Day of Thanksgiving for Victory over the
French. -- With him meets the Duke of Burgundy at Calais. (p. vi) --
The Duke also declares for Henry. -- Second Invasion of France. --
Siege of Caen. -- Henry's Bulletin to the Mayor of London. -- Hostile
Movement of the Scots. Page 203
CHAPTER XXV.
1418-1419.
Henry's progress in his Second Campaign. -- Siege of Rouen. --
Cardinal des Ursins. -- Supplies from London. -- Correspondence
between Henry and the Citizens. -- Negociation with the Dauphin and
with the French King. -- Henry's Irish Auxiliaries. -- Reflections on
Ireland. -- Its miserable condition. -- Wise and strong measures adopted
by Henry for its Tranquillity. -- Divisions and struggles, not between
Romanists and Protestants, but between English and Irish. -- Henry and
the See of Rome. -- Thraldom of Christendom. -- The Duke of Brittany
declares for Henry. -- Spaniards join the Dauphin. -- Exhausted State of
England. Page 221
CHAPTER XXVI.
1419-1420.
Bad faith of the Dauphin. -- The Duke of Burgundy brings about an
Interview between Henry and the French Authorities. -- Henry's first
Interview with the Princess Katharine of Valois. -- Her Conquest. --
The Queen's over-anxiety and indiscretion. -- Double-dealing of the
Duke of Burgundy; he joins the Dauphin; is murdered on the Bridge of
Montereau. -- The Dauphin disinherited. -- Henry's anxiety to prevent
the Escape of his Prisoners. Page 249
CHAPTER XXVII.

(p. vii)
1419-1420.
Henry's extraordinary attention to the Civil and Private duties of his
station, in the midst of his career of Conquest, instanced in various
cases. -- Provost and Fellows of Oriel College. -- The Queen Dowager
is accused of Treason. -- Treaty between Henry, the French King, and
the young Duke of Burgundy. -- Henry affianced to Katharine. -- The
Dauphin is reinforced from Scotland. -- Henry, accompanied by his
Queen, returns through Normandy to England. Page 262
CHAPTER XXVIII.
1421-1422.
Katharine crowned. -- Henry and his Queen make a progress through a
great part of his Dominions. -- Arrival of the disastrous news of his
Brother's Death (the Duke of Clarence). -- Henry meets his Parliament.
-- Hastens to the Seat of War. -- Birth of his Son, Henry of Windsor. --
Joins his Queen at Bois de Vincennes. -- Their magnificent Reception
at Paris. -- Henry hastens in person to succour the Duke of Burgundy. --
Is seized by a fatal Malady. -- Returns to Vincennes. -- His Last Hour.
-- HIS DEATH. Page 286
CHAPTER XXIX.
Was Henry of Monmouth a Persecutor? -- Just principles of conducting
the Inquiry, and forming the Judgment. -- Modern charge against Henry.
-- Review of the prevalent opinions on Religious Liberty. -- True
principles of Christian Freedom. -- Duty of the State and of Individuals
to promote the prevalence of True Religion. -- Charge against Henry, as
Prince of Wales, for presenting a Petition against the Lollards. -- The
merciful intention of that Petition. -- His Conduct at the Death of
Badby. Page 319
CHAPTER XXX.

(p. viii)
1413.
The Case of Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham. -- Reference to his
former Life and Character. -- Fox's Book of Martyrs. -- The
Archbishop's Statement. -- Milner. -- Hall. -- Lingard. Cobham offers
the Wager of Battle. -- Appeals peremptorily to the Pope. -- Henry's
anxiety to save him. -- He is condemned, but no Writ of Execution is
issued by the King. -- Cobham escapes from the Tower. Page 348
CHAPTER XXXI.
Change in Henry's behaviour towards the Lollards after the affair of St.
Giles' Field. -- Examination of that affair often conducted with great
Partiality and Prejudice. -- Hume and the Old Chroniclers. -- Fox,
Milner, Le Bas. -- Public Documents. -- Lord Cobham, taken in Wales,
is brought to London in a Whirlicole; condemned to be hanged as a
Traitor, and burned as a Heretic. -- Henry, then in France, ignorant,
probably, of Cobham's Capture till after his Execution. -- Concluding
Reflections.