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Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 135, Blindoa Rising.

First of all, let's give a bit of general contact.

Poor old Henry IV was an unlucky man in many ways.

Throughout his reign there were endemic problems that would dock him throughout his reign.

They did not take long to appear.

Now I remember at university halls in my first year there was a very nice but ever so slightly doer cleaner in the finest Scottish tradition of the East Newk.

It would periodically remind me that money is the root of all evil.

I suspect she wasn't thinking of Henry Bollingbroke but if she had been, how right she would have been.

Because basically poor old Henry had a lack of beans and therefore no occasion to rub them together and a distressing lack of beam control.

For example, his revenue was £26,000 a year lower than the revenue Richard enjoyed in the last eight years of his rule.

And at the same time, customs revenues were falling as wool exports fell.

Wool exports fell partly for bad reasons, lots of French pirates in the channel, a lack of bullion.

And for good reasons, because the English were turning to cloth manufacture and therefore using the wool rather than exporting it.

But whatever, customs Jews were falling.

Now this was bad enough but just to make matters worse, Henry had come in on the ticket of the good old days, the days of your.

Namely, that the king would live off his own and stop telling Parliament to give him more money through taxation.

Taxation was only for years when there was a specific threat, not just to balance the books.

Plus, the Tungentch and Poundage thing.

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