. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . e much the stronger position. Yet fromthis date the revival of a national spirit in France, and theconsequent expulsion of the invaders, was only a question of time. For the firstsix yeais, indeed, thestatesmanship, thetireless energy, andthe high UKjral quali-ties of Bedford availedto suspend 142o he made theLeague of AmiensAvith the two Dukesof Burgundy andlirittany, himself11 larrying the Duke
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . e much the stronger position. Yet fromthis date the revival of a national spirit in France, and theconsequent expulsion of the invaders, was only a question of time. For the firstsix yeais, indeed, thestatesmanship, thetireless energy, andthe high UKjral quali-ties of Bedford availedto suspend 142o he made theLeague of AmiensAvith the two Dukesof Burgundy andlirittany, himself11 larrying the Duke<if Burgund3-s sister,and sealing the al-liance by the victoryof Crevant, which re-pelled the Frenchfrom ISurguudianterritory. In 1424the politic release ofJames of Scotlamlfrom his eighteen years of English captivity was followed byliis marriage with Joan Beaufort, whom he has celebratedin his poem as— The and tlic f yomijjp flowerTliat ever I .saw metliouiflit l)oforB tliat hour. The king now tried to recall his Scots subjects from servi(-ein France. Their im])etuosity and nncontnillable detestationof the English had sometimes led to disaster. Thus the Earls. HEXRY YI. {Xalifuml Portrait (tallcrii.) 14851 THE REIGX OF JIEyiiV VI. 407 ot l^uehan and I)oui;las insisted on attacking the English atVerneuil (1424), and butli fell in this great hattle, which demon-strated once more that the long-bow still counterbalancedalmost any inferiority in numbers. At Agincourt were manymore princes and j^eople; Crevant was a pretty affair; but
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