Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England episode 167, the triumph of Lancaster.

Okay so this week the gloves come off.

The titles are a bit of a plot spoiler, sorry about that, oops and all.

Or is it? Could it be a clever double bluff?

But before all that I need to talk about the word donator.

Yep, that would be the perfectly acceptable and in the Oxford English Dictionary word donator.

I feel vindicated.

Also before I start I had something of a flurry of questions, a couple of which I thought

might be of general interest.

Joe asked about what happens at court and what did moving the court to the Lancaster

in Midlands actually mean.

I'm not an expert but certainly Margaret did move some of the machinery to Coventry

2, Clarkson and so on, but not all of it.

But much of what happened at court was actually just hanging around being with the Royal

Household doing a bit of hunting, hoping the King or Queen noticed you.

Peter of Bois was a rather delightfully depressive commentator at the time of Henry the Second

and he described the mind numbing boredom and hateful politics of court.

There might be judgment and consultation and all of that as well, but justice by and large

had become a separate process by the 15th century.

David McClain, he of this programme twice, asked what Henry the Sixth madness was.

Frankly no idea.

I have asked around the problem is I guess that the description of the Simpsons could

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