shameful peace”
Character and ambition of Mortimer
Oct.  Mortimer Earl of the March of Wales
Henry of Lancaster’s opposition to him
Mar., 1330.  Execution of the Earl of Kent
Oct.  Parliament at Nottingham
19 Oct.  Arrest of Mortimer
29 Nov.  His execution
1330-58.  Later life of Isabella

CHAPTER XV.

The preliminaries of the hundred years’ war.

Character and policy of Edward iii.
1330-40.  The rule of the Stratfords
1337.  The new earldoms
Scotland during the minority of David Bruce
Edward Balliol and the Disinherited
6 Aug., 1332.  The Disinherited in Scotland
Battle of Dupplin Moor
6 Aug.-16 Dec.  Edward Balliol’s brief reign and expulsion
Treaty of Roxburgh
1333.  Attempt to procure his restoration
Siege of Berwick
19 July.  Battle of Halidon Hill
Edward Balliol restored
12 June, 1334.  Treaty of Newcastle, ceding to Edward south-eastern
Scotland
Failure of Edward Balliol
1334-36.  Edward iii.’s Scottish campaigns
1341.  Return of David Bruce from France
1327-37.  Relations of England and France
31 Mar., 1327.  Treaty of Paris
Edward’s lands in Gascony after the treaty of Paris
1328.  Accession of Philip of Valois in France
Protests of the English regency
1328.  The legal and political aspects of the succession
question
Edward iii.’s claim to France
6 June, 1329.  Edward’s homage to Philip vi.
8 May, 1330.  Convention of the Wood of Vincennes
9 Mar., 1331.  Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
April.  Interview of Pont-Sainte-Maxence
Crusading projects of John XXII.
1336.  Abandonment of the crusade by Benedict xii
Strained relations between England and France
1337.  Mission of the Cardinals Peter and Bertrand
Edward and Robert of Artois
The Vow of the Heron
Preparations for war
Breach with Flanders and stoppage of export of wool
Alliance with William I. and ii. of Hainault
Edward’s other Netherlandish allies
1337.  Breach between France and England
Nov.  Sir Walter Manny at Cadzand
Fruitless negotiations and further hostilities
July, 1338.  Edward iii.’s departure for Flanders
5 Sept.  Interview of Edward and the Emperor Louis of
Bavaria at Coblenz
The Anglo-imperial alliance
Further fruitless negotiations
Renewal of Edward’s claim to the French crown
The responsibility for the war

CHAPTER XVI.

The early campaigns of the hundred years’ war.