From the words of the clerical chroniclers it is plain that Henry had no mind as yet for any open strife with either party, and that he quietly put the matter aside.

He was in fact busy with foreign affairs.

The Duke of Clarence was recalled from Bordeaux, and a new truce concluded with France.

The policy of Henry was clearly to look on for a while at the shifting politics of the distracted kingdom.

Soon after his accession another revolution in Paris gave the charge of the mad King Charles, and with it the nominal government of the realm, to the Duke of Orleans; and his cause derived fresh strength from the support of the young Dauphin, who was afterwards to play so great a part in the history of France as Charles the Seventh.