The Earl of Arundel, accused before the Peers under John of Gaunt as High Steward, was condemned and executed in a single day.

Warwick, who owned the truth of the charge, was condemned to perpetual imprisonment.

The Duke of Gloucester was saved from a trial by a sudden death in his prison at Calais.

A new Parliament at Shrewsbury in the opening of 1398 completed the king's work.
In three days it declared null the proceedings of the Parliament of 1388, granted to the king a subsidy on wool and leather for his life, and delegated its authority to a standing committee of eighteen members from both Houses with power to continue their sittings even after the dissolution of the Parliament and to "examine and determine all matters and subjects which had been moved in the presence of the king with all the dependencies thereof." [Sidenote: Henry of Lancaster] In a single year the whole colour of Richard's government had changed.

He had revenged himself on the men who had once held him down, and his revenge was hardly taken before he disclosed a plan of absolute government.