This king levied more money on his subjects than any of his predecessors; and the parliament frequently complain of the poverty of the people, and the oppressions under which they labored.

But it is to be remarked, that a third of the French king's ransom was yet unpaid when war broke out anew between the two crowns.

His son chose rather to employ his money in combating the English, than in enriching them.

See Rymer, vol.viii.p.

315.] [Footnote 11: NOTE K, p.281.In the fifth year of the king, the commons complained of the government about the king's person, his court, the excessive number of his servants, of the abuses in the chancery, king's bench, common pleas, exchequer, and of grievous oppressions in the country, by the great multitudes of maintainers of quarrels, (men linked in confederacies together,) who behaved themselves like kings in the country, so as there was very little law or right, and of other things which they said were the cause of the late commotions under Wat Tyler.
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