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58 up, with a confidence that peace and agreement would be had in a ſhort time.

ninth of April there came to parliament at Weſtminſter the king with the earls and barons, and the archbiſhop lately conſecrated with his ſuffragans, that they might make ſome wholeſome proviſion for the realm, which was ſtill in diſorder. The archbiſhop, taking to him the biſhops and the other prelates, went to the King, and laid before him the bad ſtate and imminent danger of the kingdom, and rehearſed all the grievances which they had mentioned in the laſt parliament; and told him plainly, that unleſs he would ſpeedily rectify his error, and make peaceable agreement with his loyal ſubjects, he and all the prelates there would forthwith excommunicate both the King himſelf, and all that ſhould contradict this peace and agreement. But the pious King hearing the advice of his prelates, lowly anſwered, “That he would be governed by their counſels in all things:” ſo that in few days after ſeeing his error, and repenting of it, he diſmiſſed of Wincheſter and ; and expelling all the Poitovins from his court and caſtles, he ſent them into their own country, charging them “never