A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . l castles were occupied,Leicester himself seizing the Tower, while the citizens of Londondeclared themselves for him. Henry, on his return, saw his king-dom practically lost, and had recourse to negotiations. Heattempted to have the whole matter settled through the arbitrationof Louis IX. of France, who, when appealed to by him, rejected theOxford Provisions, and the pope condemned them afresh. Englandonce more took to arms. The royalists, at first successful in thenorth, were, on May 24, defeated at Lewes
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . l castles were occupied,Leicester himself seizing the Tower, while the citizens of Londondeclared themselves for him. Henry, on his return, saw his king-dom practically lost, and had recourse to negotiations. Heattempted to have the whole matter settled through the arbitrationof Louis IX. of France, who, when appealed to by him, rejected theOxford Provisions, and the pope condemned them afresh. Englandonce more took to arms. The royalists, at first successful in thenorth, were, on May 24, defeated at Lewes in Sussex, the king, hisbrother Richard of Cornwall, his son Edward, and many nobles, fall-ing into the hands of the conquerors. The Oxford Provisions re-mained permanently in force. Nevertheless, the royalist party did not give up their cause aslost. They hoped for the accession of the freemen of the countiesand the middle class of the cities, the classes that had speciallysuffered through the domestic troubles without having any share in 246 FRANCE AND ENGLAND FHOit IIÖ4 TO Fig. 104. — EnalLsh l<iii«ht, iibout 1300. Tomb-stone, perhaps of Jüchard Wellysburne deMontfort. in tlie cluirch at llitclieiulon,Buckinghamshire. (From StotharU.) the advantages tliev broughtto the prelacy and order, therefore, to givethese an interest in the set-tlement arrived at in Oxford,and to induce them to unitein avertinsj the dantjer of amonarchical reaction, Leices-ter invited representatives oflioth classes to take part inthe deliberations of the es-tates in parliament assem-bled. It was not the firsttime that both he and theking had had recourse to thesame expedient. In 1261,he, in conjunction with thesovereign, had issued invita-tions to three knights fromeacli shire to be present atthe sessions of the , on January 26, 12G5,he summoned, in the kingsname, two knights from eachshire, and two deputies fromeach of a certain number ofcities, to attend, and
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