Through the last fifty it had been weakened by the insecurity of a disputed succession.

It was to obtain supplies for the strife with Scotland and the strife with France that the earlier Plantagenets had been forced to yield to the ever-growing claims which were advanced by the Parliament.

It was to win the consent of Parliament to its occupation of the throne and its support against every rival that the House of Lancaster bent yet more humbly to its demands.

But with the loss of Guienne the war with France came virtually to an end.

The war with Scotland died down into a series of border forays.