The demands of the Parliament that education should be denied to the sons of villeins was refused.

Lollardry as a social danger was held firmly at bay, and in 1387 the king ordered Lollard books to be seized and brought before the Council.

But the royal officers showed little zeal in aiding the bishops to seize or punish the heretical teachers.
[Sidenote: French and English] It was in the period of peace which was won for the country by the wisdom and decision of its young king that England listened to the voice of her first great singer.

The work of Chaucer marks the final settlement of the English tongue.

The close of the great movement towards national unity which had been going on ever since the Conquest was shown in the middle of the fourteenth century by the disuse, even amongst the nobler classes, of the French tongue.