THE WARS OF THE ROSES 1422-1461 [Sidenote: Plans of Henry V] At the moment when death so suddenly stayed his course the greatness of Henry the Fifth had reached its highest point.

In England his victories had hushed the last murmurs of disaffection.

The death of the Earl of Cambridge, the childhood of his son, removed all danger from the claims of the house of York.

The ruin of Lord Cobham, the formal condemnation of Wyclif's doctrines in the Council of Constance, broke the political and the religious strength of Lollardry.

Henry had won the Church by his orthodoxy, the nobles by his warlike prowess, the whole people by his revival of the glories of Crecy and Poitiers.