Complaints of the unchivalric state of Richard's court ... Influence of chivalry on the national character ... Scottish chivalry ... Chivalric kindness of Robert Bruce ... Mutual chivalry between the Scotch and English courts ... French knights' opinions of Scottish chivalry ... Courtesies between English and Scottish knights ... Chivalric battle of Otterbourn ... Hotspur and the Douglas ... A cavaleresque story ... Reign of Henry IV. ... Chivalric parley between him and the Duke of Orleans ... Henry's unchivalric conduct at Shrewsbury ... Henry V. ... Knights of the Bath ... Henry's love of chivalric books ... His chivalric bearing ... Commencement of the decline of chivalry ... The civil wars injured chivalry ... Caxton's lamentation ... He exaggerates the evil ... Many gallant English knights ... Character of Henry VIII. with reference to chivalry ... Tournaments in his reign ... Field of the cloth of gold ... Introduction of Italian literature favoured romance ... Popularity of chivalric literature ... English knights continued to break lances for ladies' love ... State of Scottish chivalry at this period ... James IV. ... Chivalric circumstances at Flodden Field 64 CHAP. III. THE LAST YEARS OF CHIVALRY IN ENGLAND. The chivalric feelings of the nation supported by Spenser ... and by Sir Philip Sidney ... Allusions to Sidney's life ... particularly his kindly consideration ... Chivalric politeness of the age of Elizabeth ... The Earl of Oxford ... Tilts in Greenwich Park ... Sir Henry Lee ... Chivalry reflected in the popular amusements ... Change of manners ... Reign of James the First ... Tournaments ceased on Prince Henry's death ... Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury ... Chivalric fame of his family ... His character ... His inferiority to the knights of yore ... Decline of chivalric education ... Important change in knighthood by the parliament of Charles the First ... Application of chivalric honours to men of civil station ... Knights made in the field ... Carpet knights ... Knights of the Bath ... Full account of the ancient ceremonies of creating knights of the Bath 125 CHAP. IV. PROGRESS OF CHIVALRY IN FRANCE.