| 1347–48. | Prosperity of England after the truce. | 369 |
| 1348–50. | The Black Death and its results. | 370 |
| 1351. | Statute of labourers. | 372 |
| | Social and economic unrest. | 374 |
| | Religious unrest. | 376 |
| | The Flagellants. | 376 |
| | The anti-clerical movement. | 377 |
| 1351. | First statute of provisors. | 377 |
| 1353. | First statute of præmunire. | 378 |
| | Richard Fitzralph and the attack on the mendicants. | 379 |
| 1354. | Ordinance Of the Staple. | 380 |
| 1352. | Statute of treasons. | 380 |
| 1349. | Foundation of the Order of the Garter. | 380 |
| | Dagworth's administration of Brittany. | 381 |
| | Hugh Calveley and Robert Knowles. | 382 |
| 27 Mar., 1351. | Battle of the Thirty. | 382 |
| 1352. | Battle of Mauron. | 383 |
| | Fighting round Calais. | 383 |
| 1352. | Capture of Guînes. | 384 |
| 29 Aug., 1350. | Battle of the Spaniards-on-the-sea. | 384 |
| 6 April, 1354. | Preliminaries of peace signed at Guînes. | 385 |
| 1355. | Failure of the negotiations and renewal of the war. | 385 |
| | Failure of John of Gaunt in Normandy. | 386 |
| Sept.-Nov. | Black Prince's raid in Languedoc. | 386 |
| 1356. | Operations of John of Gaunt in Normandy in alliance with Charles of Navarre and Geoffrey of Harcourt. | 387 |
| 9 Aug.-2 Oct. | Black Prince's raid northwards to the Loire. | 388 |
| 19 Sept. | Battle of Poitiers. | 390 |
| 23 Mar., 1357. | Truce of Bordeaux. | 392 |
| Oct. | Treaty of Berwick. | 393 |
| 1357–71. | The last years of David II. | 393 |
| 1371. | Accession of Robert II. in Scotland. | 393 |
| 1358. | Preliminaries of peace signed between Edward III. and John. | 393 |
| | State of France after Poitiers. | 394 |
| 24 Mar., 1359. | Treaty of London. | 395 |
| | The rejection of the treaty by the French. | 395 |
| Nov., 1359-April, 1360. | Edward III.'s invasion of Northern France Champagne and Burgundy. | 396 |
| 11 Jan., 1360. | Treaty of Guillon. | 396 |
| 7 April. | Siege of Paris. | 396 |
| 8 May. | Treaty of Brétigni. | 396 |
| 24 Oct. | Treaty of Calais. | 396 |
