[History of the English People, Volume II (of 8) by John Richard Green]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the English People, Volume II (of 8) BOOK IV 5/7
The popular feeling in England may be seen in "Political Songs from Edward III. to Richard III." (Rolls Series).
A poem on "The Deposition of Richard II." which has been published by the Camden Society is now ascribed to William Langland. With Henry the Fifth our historic materials become more abundant.
We have the "Gesta Henrici Quinti" by Titus Livius, a chaplain in the royal army; a life by Elmham, prior of Lenton, simpler in style but identical in arrangement and facts with the former work; a biography by Robert Redman; a metrical chronicle by Elmham (published in Rolls Series in "Memorials of Henry the Fifth"); and the meagre chronicles of Hardyng and Otterbourne. The King's Norman campaigns may be studied in M.Puiseux's "Siege de Rouen" (Caen, 1867).
The "Wars of the English in France" and Blondel's work "De Reductione Normanniae" (both in Rolls Series) give ample information on the military side of this and the next reign.
But with the accession of Henry the Sixth we again enter on a period of singular dearth in its historical authorities.
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