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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 7808775" data-attributes="member: 21169"><p>Propaganda:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">"Edward III issued writs de orando pro rege (prayers for the realm and its good government) almost annually from the late 1330s to the mid-1350s. He also called on the preaching talents of the English clergy to explain his reasons for going to war, the legitimacy of his claim to the French Crown and to emphasise the remarkable patience he had shown before he had been compelled to take up arms. The friars were particularly important in delivering these messages. The Dominicans were required to present the king’s claim in ‘public and private sermons’ and to emphasise his restraint, his desperate attempts to keep the peace in the face of the duplicity of ‘Sir Philip de Valois’ (Philippe VI), who ‘calls himself king of France’ and who ‘by force and against justice’ had usurped the French throne, seized Gascony, stirred up the Scots and conspired even to ‘subvert the English language’."</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">- The Hundred Years War: A People's History (2014) David Green</p><p></p><p>The effect of raids:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">"When the war reopened in 1346, the English turned to a new strategic approach. In 1346, 1349, 1355, 1356 and 1359 Plantagenet troops launched major chevauchées into almost every corner of France, laying waste broad bands of territory (typically some fifteen miles wide) along the lines of their passage. Once the armies reached areas away from the heavily defended frontier areas, they were able to destroy sizeable towns and even cities as well as the smaller settlements of the countryside: on the Crécy chevauchée, for example, the towns of Caen, Cherbourg, St-Lô, Lisieux, Barfleur, Carentan, Valonges, Gisors, Vernon, Poissy, St-Germain-en-Laye, St Cloud, Pontoise, Poix, Longueville, Neufchâtel, Le Crotoy, and Étaples, and the suburbs of Beauvais, Montreuil-sur-Mer, and Boulogne, were all more-or-less destroyed, along with nearly a dozen others. In one of the two major chevauchées of 1355, the Black Prince rode from Bordeaux to the Mediterranean and back, destroying some 500 castles, towns, villages, and hamlets, along with Limoux and the suburbs of Toulouse, Carcassonne, and Narbonne, some of the largest cities of France. By 1359-60, when a large English army rode from Calais to Reims to Burgundy to Paris, France was left 'overwhelmed, and trampled under foot', 'on the verge of destruction', and 'tormented and war-ravaged' from one end to the other."</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">- Medieval Warfare (1999), ed. Maurice Keen</p><p></p><p>Taxation and debasement of coinage:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">"[The King of France] taxed his people very severely, for he made them pay double the subsidy which they had to pay the year before. And the tax collectors said that this was for the arrière-ban [the call-up of the militia] which had been proclaimed at the beginning, but in truth it could not be said to have been a real arrière-ban, because the army never actually went forth. And besides this common tax, everyone was required to take part in musters of arms. Then it was put to the rich men that they were not sufficiently equipped, and that they would therefore have to pay certain fines. In this year [1338], Pope Benedict granted the tithes for two years from the churches to the King of France, on condition that he not demand any other subsidy from the clergy; but the condition was not met, for there were few clerics of whatever estate or condition who didn't have to make some other aid to the King. He even asked of his own clerks of Parlement, of the chamber of inquests, and of the chamber of accounts, and even of the knights of his household, that they lend him their silver vessels in order to make coins. This they did and so he struck a great deal of money, and then before the year was over he returned to them the silver, according to the measurements which had been taken. And he continually lessened the silver content of his coinage, and so made florins out of pennies."</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">- Medieval Warfare again, quoting a contemporary chronicle</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 7808775, member: 21169"] Propaganda: [INDENT]"Edward III issued writs de orando pro rege (prayers for the realm and its good government) almost annually from the late 1330s to the mid-1350s. He also called on the preaching talents of the English clergy to explain his reasons for going to war, the legitimacy of his claim to the French Crown and to emphasise the remarkable patience he had shown before he had been compelled to take up arms. The friars were particularly important in delivering these messages. The Dominicans were required to present the king’s claim in ‘public and private sermons’ and to emphasise his restraint, his desperate attempts to keep the peace in the face of the duplicity of ‘Sir Philip de Valois’ (Philippe VI), who ‘calls himself king of France’ and who ‘by force and against justice’ had usurped the French throne, seized Gascony, stirred up the Scots and conspired even to ‘subvert the English language’."[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]- The Hundred Years War: A People's History (2014) David Green[/INDENT] The effect of raids: [INDENT]"When the war reopened in 1346, the English turned to a new strategic approach. In 1346, 1349, 1355, 1356 and 1359 Plantagenet troops launched major chevauchées into almost every corner of France, laying waste broad bands of territory (typically some fifteen miles wide) along the lines of their passage. Once the armies reached areas away from the heavily defended frontier areas, they were able to destroy sizeable towns and even cities as well as the smaller settlements of the countryside: on the Crécy chevauchée, for example, the towns of Caen, Cherbourg, St-Lô, Lisieux, Barfleur, Carentan, Valonges, Gisors, Vernon, Poissy, St-Germain-en-Laye, St Cloud, Pontoise, Poix, Longueville, Neufchâtel, Le Crotoy, and Étaples, and the suburbs of Beauvais, Montreuil-sur-Mer, and Boulogne, were all more-or-less destroyed, along with nearly a dozen others. In one of the two major chevauchées of 1355, the Black Prince rode from Bordeaux to the Mediterranean and back, destroying some 500 castles, towns, villages, and hamlets, along with Limoux and the suburbs of Toulouse, Carcassonne, and Narbonne, some of the largest cities of France. By 1359-60, when a large English army rode from Calais to Reims to Burgundy to Paris, France was left 'overwhelmed, and trampled under foot', 'on the verge of destruction', and 'tormented and war-ravaged' from one end to the other."[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]- Medieval Warfare (1999), ed. Maurice Keen[/INDENT] Taxation and debasement of coinage: [INDENT]"[The King of France] taxed his people very severely, for he made them pay double the subsidy which they had to pay the year before. And the tax collectors said that this was for the arrière-ban [the call-up of the militia] which had been proclaimed at the beginning, but in truth it could not be said to have been a real arrière-ban, because the army never actually went forth. And besides this common tax, everyone was required to take part in musters of arms. Then it was put to the rich men that they were not sufficiently equipped, and that they would therefore have to pay certain fines. In this year [1338], Pope Benedict granted the tithes for two years from the churches to the King of France, on condition that he not demand any other subsidy from the clergy; but the condition was not met, for there were few clerics of whatever estate or condition who didn't have to make some other aid to the King. He even asked of his own clerks of Parlement, of the chamber of inquests, and of the chamber of accounts, and even of the knights of his household, that they lend him their silver vessels in order to make coins. This they did and so he struck a great deal of money, and then before the year was over he returned to them the silver, according to the measurements which had been taken. And he continually lessened the silver content of his coinage, and so made florins out of pennies."[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]- Medieval Warfare again, quoting a contemporary chronicle[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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