Obedient as each Christian might be to king or priest, he himself as a possessor of "dominion" held immediately of God.

The throne of God Himself was the tribunal of personal appeal.

What the Reformers of the sixteenth century attempted to do by their theory of Justification by Faith Wyclif attempted to do by his theory of Dominion, a theory which in establishing a direct relation between man and God swept away the whole basis of a mediating priesthood, the very foundation on which the mediaeval church was built.
[Sidenote: England and Aquitaine] As yet the full bearing of these doctrines was little seen.

But the social and religious excitement which we have described was quickened by the renewal of the war, and the general suffering and discontent gathered bitterness when the success which had flushed England with a new and warlike pride passed into a long series of disasters in which men forgot the glories of Crecy and Poitiers.

Triumph as it seemed, the treaty of Bretigny was really fatal to Edward's cause in the south of France.