As Michael Prestwich observed, ‘it might be expected that Edward I, in whose reign so much was done to reorganise the workings of law in a great series of statutes, would have produced military regulations, but none survive’. For Henry V the situation is otherwise. Even though the king was certainly a great upholder of law and order there are no great statutes, but there are military ordinances. These were first published by Francis Grose in 1773 in the preface to his Antiquities of England and Wales. The text in English, headed ‘Ordinances for Warr etc. at the treate and council of Manuce’, was taken from a seventeenth-century manuscript in the Inner Temple Library, where it was followed by ordinances of the earl of Salisbury (d. 1428) which Grose also printed. Since the ordinances issued by Richard II in 1385 were not known at this point, Grose felt justified in his claim that ‘the most ancient code of military laws for the government of the English army, which has been handed down to us, is that of King Henry V, enacted at Mance’. He added a further observation that Nicholas Upton, A decade later, Grose published a two-volume work entitled Military Antiquities, Respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time. By this point he knew of Richard II's ordinances, ‘in old French among the Cotton Manuscripts in the British Museum marked Nero DVI’, and included their full text in an English translation.