With it began the military renown of England; with it opened her struggle for the mastery of the seas.

The pride begotten by great victories and a sudden revelation of warlike prowess roused the country not only to a new ambition, a new resolve to assert itself as a European power, but to a repudiation of the claims of the Papacy and an assertion of the ecclesiastical independence both of Church and Crown which paved the way for and gave its ultimate form to the English Reformation.

The peculiar shape which English warfare assumed, the triumph of the yeoman and archer over noble and knight, gave new force to the political advance of the Commons.

On the other hand the misery of the war produced the first great open feud between labour and capital.

The glory of Crecy or Poitiers was dearly bought by the upgrowth of English pauperism.