Part Five/Twenty-Seven Summary

The Duke of Lancaster has been denied re-entry into his own country after signing truce agreements with Scotland. Percy of Northumberland has ordered his men to keep him from crossing the border, and he, Michael de la Pole and Sir Walter Ursewyk are confined in a tent. Percy has seized their luggage train. A hundred of the duke's men have remained with him, while rumors swirl of a devastated England and immense hatred of the duke. Percy has a hundred thousand men backing him up. The men tell John that Percy is jealous of his power. John is worried about Katherine and his family.

The Baron de la Pole offers to take a message to the king, feeling that Percy knows that the king trusts de la Pole and will let him through. John wrote a letter to the...