Political Poems and Songs Relating to English History, Composed during the Period from the Accession of Edward III to that of Richard III

Introduction; 1. The vows of the heron; 2. Epigram on the assumption of the arms of France; 3. An invective against France; 4. On the Battle of Nevile's Cross; 5. On the Battle of Nevile's Cross; 6. On Crécy and Nevile's Cross; 7. On the truce of 1347; 8. 'Songs on King Edward's Wars' by Laurence Minot; 9. The dispute between the Englishman and the Frenchman; 10. On Prince Edward's expedition into Spain; 11. Prince Edward's expedition into Spain, and the 'Battle of Najara' by Walter of Peterborough; 12. John of Bridlington; 13. On the death of Edward III (English); 14. On the death of Edward III (Latin); 15. On the rebellion of Jack Straw; 16. On the slaughter of Archbishop Sudbury; 17. Against the Lollards; 18. On the earthquake of 1382; 19. On the Council of London; 20. Song against the friars; 21. On the Minorite Friars; 22. On the times, 1388; 23. Distich on the year 1391; 24. On the pestilene (1391); 25. The reconciliation of Richard II with the City of London by Richard de Maidstone; 26. On the truce between England and France, 1394 by Eustache Deschamps; 27. The complaint of the ploughman; 28. On the corruptions of the Age, 1396–7 by John Gower; 29. On the vices of the different orders of society by John Gower; 30. On King Richard II by John Gower; 31. On King Richard's ministers; 32. On the expected arrival of the Duke of Lancaster; 33. On the deposition of Richard II; 34. Gower's Tripartite Chronicle; 35. Memorial verses on the reigns of Edward III and Richard II.