To whom did Henry V turn to help establish his rule in the early years of his reign? This, in essence, is the question which I shall address in the following discussion. It centres on the dynamics of the transition of power and the relative balance between continuity and change that can be observed by considering who the ‘winners’ and who the ‘losers’ were in 1413. The subject of who Henry retained in his company once he became king holds special interest in light of his reputation as a play-boy Prince who kept bad company and lived a life of excess. There is the well-known account in the Brut which suggested that Henry had a lot of growing up to do in 1413. Fully aware of his shortcomings, Henry is said to have purged himself of those who had led him astray during his more carefree days as Prince – men who had addressed him with the sort of inappropriate familiarity for which Richard II had been criticized at the end of his reign – before surrounding himself with only those individuals who he could count on to give him sound advice and counsel.