Jonathan Sumption's majestic three-volume history of the Hundred Years War, published over ten years from 1999, ends in 1399.

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Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls and one of the three-member panel that made the ruling, watered down his opinion at the request of the Foreign Office's counsel, Jonathan Sumption.

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