BELL'S ENGLISH HISTORY SOURCE BOOKS
General Editors: S.E. Winbolt, M.A., and Kenneth Bell, M.A.

WAR AND MISRULE

(1307-1399)

SELECTED BY

A. AUDREY LOCKE

OXFORD HONOURS SCHOOL OF MODERN HISTORY

LONDON
G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
1920

INTRODUCTION

This series of English History Source Books is intended for use withany ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has conclusivelyshown that such apparatus is a valuable—nay, an indispensable—adjunctto the history lesson. It is capable of two main uses: either byway of lively illustration at the close of a lesson, or by way ofinference-drawing, before the textbook is read, at the beginning ofthe lesson. The kind of problems and exercises that may be based onthe documents are legion, and are admirably illustrated in a Historyof England for Schools, Part I., by Keatinge and Frazer, pp. 377-381.However, we have no wish to prescribe for the teacher the manner inwhich he shall exercise his craft, but simply to provide him and hispupils with materials hitherto not readily accessible for schoolpurposes. The very moderate price of the books in this series shouldbring them within the reach of every secondary school. Source booksenable the pupil to take a more active part than hitherto in thehistory lesson. Here is the apparatus, the raw material: its use weleave to teacher and taught.

Our belief is that the books may profitably be used by all gradesof historical students between the standards of fourth-form boysin secondary schools and undergraduates at Universities. Whatdifferentiates students at one extreme from those at the other is notso much the kind of subject-matter dealt with, as the amount they canread into or extract from it.

In regard to choice of subject-matter, while trying to satisfy thenatural demand for certain "stock" documents of vital importance, wehope to introduce much fresh and novel matter. It is our intentionthat the majority of the extracts should be lively in style—that is,personal, or descriptive, or rhetorical, or even strongly partisan—andshould not so much profess to give the truth as supply data forinference. We aim at the greatest possible variety, and lay undercontribution letters, biographies, ballads and poems, diaries, debates,and newspaper accounts. Economics, London, municipal, and social lifegenerally, and local history, are represented in these pages.

The order of the extracts is strictly chronological, each beingnumbered, titled, and dated, and its authority given. The text ismodernised, where necessary, to the extent of leaving no difficultiesin reading.

We shall be most grateful to teachers and students who may send ussuggestions for improvement.

S.E. WINBOLT.
KENNETH BELL.

NOTE TO THIS VOLUME

I have to thank Sir E. Maunde Thompson and the Council of the RoyalSociety of Literature for permission to quote from Sir E. MaundeThompson's translation of Adam of Usk's Chronicle. The sources used inthis book are for the most part contemporary.

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