The British nation a history / by George MWrong . dy of Eichard IIfrom a lowly tomb at KingsLangley to Westminster [Abbey, already the greatnational mausoleum. Nodetail was too, insignificantfor his industry, and hisprivate life was pure. Hewas a scholar, and had, be-sides, the gifts of a greatsoldier and the capacity towin the devoted love ofthose who followed Henry, soldier,statesman, devotee, andscholar, was fortunate in an early death, before his plans were balked by adversefortune, or his character was stained in the pursuit ofpolitical aims. Henry IV, urged by Arundel, Archbi
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . dy of Eichard IIfrom a lowly tomb at KingsLangley to Westminster [Abbey, already the greatnational mausoleum. Nodetail was too, insignificantfor his industry, and hisprivate life was pure. Hewas a scholar, and had, be-sides, the gifts of a greatsoldier and the capacity towin the devoted love ofthose who followed Henry, soldier,statesman, devotee, andscholar, was fortunate in an early death, before his plans were balked by adversefortune, or his character was stained in the pursuit ofpolitical aims. Henry IV, urged by Arundel, Archbishop of Canter-bury, had favored the passing by the Lords and clergy ofthe act De heretico comburendo (on the burning ofheretics), which, for the first time, made it legal in Eng-land to send men to the stake for their religious law was no dead-letter. In Henry IVs reign Eng-lish crowds witnessed the burning of Lollard signs were not wanting that, at any rate, the middleclasses, who were represented by the House of Com-. IIexry V, 206 THE BRITISH NATION mons, had no love for the clergy. In 1404 the Commonsseriously proposed that Henry IV should take the landsof the Church for a year to meet war expenses, and afew years later the proposal grew into a scheme for thepermanent confiscation of the lands of the bishops and ofthe religious orders. Under Henry V the Lollards beganto think themselves strong enough to over-fheToiIrTs^ throw a hostile government. Sir John Old-castle, who married the heiress and took thetitle of Lord Cobham, encouraged the Lollard preachersupon his great estates in Kent and Herefordshire. Hewas well known and liked by the young king, but hisviews invited the persecution Avhich was in the air. Twoyears after Henry came to the throne John Huss, con-demned for heresy by a solemn council of the wholeChurch, was burned at Constance, and the Emperor Sigis-mund, who was responsible for Husss death, visitedHenry V in England, and fortifie
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