Mr Mortimer nonetheless luxuriates in what he has: grants to chantries and hospitals, rewards for service, reports from ambassadors, requests for provisioning (all those thousands of longbows, arrows, barrels of beer, sides of beef) and the ceaseless pawning of a large part of Henry's treasure to pay for hiswhim of a war.
Mr Cameron, though, is loth to sacrifice his partnership with the Lib Dems at the whim of malcontents whose recipe for electoral success is mysterious.