The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ward IPs invasion of Scotland and defeat atBannockbnrn occurred in 1314. He was enabled to destroy Lan-caster in 1322, but his supporters, the Despcnsers. were overthrown byhis wife Isabella and Mortimer in 1326, and in 1327 Edward himselfwas deposed and murdered. In 1332 we find the Knights of theShire for the first time deliberating apart from lords and clergy, andthus forming the House of Commons. The Hnndred Years Warwith France began in 1338. Cr^cy was fought in 1346; in thesame year the English overthrew the Scots at Nevilles Cross, andth
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ward IPs invasion of Scotland and defeat atBannockbnrn occurred in 1314. He was enabled to destroy Lan-caster in 1322, but his supporters, the Despcnsers. were overthrown byhis wife Isabella and Mortimer in 1326, and in 1327 Edward himselfwas deposed and murdered. In 1332 we find the Knights of theShire for the first time deliberating apart from lords and clergy, andthus forming the House of Commons. The Hnndred Years Warwith France began in 1338. Cr^cy was fought in 1346; in thesame year the English overthrew the Scots at Nevilles Cross, andthey took Calais in 1347. Two years later, in 1349, the terribleBlack Death broke ont. After it there was especially active legis-lation: the Statute of Labourers in 134f). restricting wages; theStatute of Provisors in 1351, checking papal nominations in Eng-land ; the Statute of Treasons in 1352, defining treason ; and theStatute of Praemunire in 1353. directed against appeals to was fought in 1356, and the Peace of Bretigny came in. Geoffrey Chaucer,1340?-1400. ENGLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 199 1360. Ill 1376 the Good Parliament attacked evils in England,but the Black Prince, who encouraged its work, died in the same year,111 1377 WyclilFe was cited to appear in St. Pauls, and an unsuccess-ful attempt was made by the Church authorities to check his 1381, under the young Richard, came the Peasants Merciless Parliament of 1388 made Richard merely its pup-pet, but in 1389 he seized control of the Government. His legislationwas anticlerical. The new Statute of Provisors in 1390, of Mort-main in 131)1, and of Praemunire in 1393 made earlier andsimilar laws more stringent. John of Gaunts death in 1399 broughtthe final crisis in Richards fate. Books for Reference * Pearson, English History in the Fourteenth Century (1876);* Warburton, Edward HI (1877); * Page, The End of Villeinage inEngland (publications of the American Economic Association, 3dser
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