Good Parliament royal accounts. Richard Lyons (Warden of the Mint) and Lord Latimer, who were believed to be robbing the treasury, were called before parliament and then imprisoned. Latimer's impeachment is the earliest recorded in Parliament. The king's mistress, Alice Perrers, was called and condemned to seclusion. John of Gaunt raised the question of the Salic law, which was the basis for the French case against Edward III's claim to the Crown of France, suggesting that the English follow the French custom, but was unable to sway the assembly to his point of view. Meanwhile, the eldest prince of the realm, Edward
The Mistress of the World audience." Carjels compares "The Mistress of the World" to a modern globe-trotting adventure story more akin to an Indiana Jones or Lara Croft film, rather than a more intellect take such as "Madame Dubarry". Although receiving mixed reviews, the public responded positively and "The Mistress of the World" was the most commercially successful German film of the 1919-1920 season, outstripping "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920) in popular appeal. "The Mistress of the World" was released in the United States in 1922 by Paramount Pictures but was shortened and re-edited into four films, spanning twenty reels, the result of which