Reasons for delaying a Second Campaign. -- Sigismund undertakes to mediate. -- Reception of Sigismund. -- French Ships scour the seas, and lay siege to Harfleur. -- Henry's vigorous measures thereupon. -- The Emperor declares for "Henry and his Just Rights." -- Joins with him in Canterbury Cathedral on a Day of Thanksgiving for Victory over the French. -- With him meets the Duke of Burgundy at Calais. (p. vi) -- The Duke also declares for Henry. -- Second Invasion of France. -- Siege of Caen. -- Henry's Bulletin to the Mayor of London. -- Hostile Movement of the Scots. Page 203 CHAPTER XXV. 1418-1419. Henry's progress in his Second Campaign. -- Siege of Rouen. -- Cardinal des Ursins. -- Supplies from London. -- Correspondence between Henry and the Citizens. -- Negociation with the Dauphin and with the French King. -- Henry's Irish Auxiliaries. -- Reflections on Ireland. -- Its miserable condition. -- Wise and strong measures adopted by Henry for its Tranquillity. -- Divisions and struggles, not between Romanists and Protestants, but between English and Irish. -- Henry and the See of Rome. -- Thraldom of Christendom. -- The Duke of Brittany declares for Henry. -- Spaniards join the Dauphin. -- Exhausted State of England. Page 221 CHAPTER XXVI. 1419-1420. Bad faith of the Dauphin. -- The Duke of Burgundy brings about an Interview between Henry and the French Authorities. -- Henry's first Interview with the Princess Katharine of Valois. -- Her Conquest. -- The Queen's over-anxiety and indiscretion. -- Double-dealing of the Duke of Burgundy; he joins the Dauphin; is murdered on the Bridge of Montereau. -- The Dauphin disinherited. -- Henry's anxiety to prevent the Escape of his Prisoners. Page 249 CHAPTER XXVII. (p. vii) 1419-1420. Henry's extraordinary attention to the Civil and Private duties of his station, in the midst of his career of Conquest, instanced in various cases. -- Provost and Fellows of Oriel College. -- The Queen Dowager is accused of Treason. -- Treaty between Henry, the French King, and the young Duke of Burgundy. -- Henry affianced to Katharine. -- The Dauphin is reinforced from Scotland. -- Henry, accompanied by his Queen, returns through Normandy to England. Page 262 CHAPTER XXVIII. 1421-1422.