Hello everyone, welcome to the history of England, episode 152, death of a conquering hero.

So everyone, we've surely heard enough of Henry V now in all his shenanigans, his

comings and goings, time to polish the gaff and put into bed. This week we're

going to cover a bit then about all the domestics while Henry's been off

glorying, the rule of Normandy, Henry's last visit back to Blyty and his death

in frowns. No messing. Well, except I'm going to do a bit of fundraising. It seems

like a decently long time since I've tried to touch you all for a few quid in

the style of mcthegal. And the history of England friend Robertson has again

donated. So we've got two prizes, not just one, we've got an Edward I penny and

a rather nice bronze mount. So it's the same drill as last time, everyone who

makes a donation between the 7th of June and 7th of July gets put into a draw

and there'll be two winners. I'll tell you more later. Oh and also we have

Kevin back this week at the end of this podcast. So apart from those two bits

of messing then onto the history. You might ask what the English thought about

all this dual kingdom stuff and all this war stuff. You might remember that as

often as not English king subjects didn't necessarily share their bosses

enthusiasm for all that conquest or at least they didn't appreciate the bills

that came with it. And they would have had plenty of grounds for complaint in

this case. So in the three years of 1415 to 1417 five full subsidies were

paid. Over his nine years of reign there were 11 subsidies. And all of this was

against the background of disruption of trade, shrinking crown revenues and a

shortage of bullion. At the end of his reign the crown had indeed run up a

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