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34 an anſwer, and broke up the ſiege. Afterwards he took ſome few places; but the young King’s party fill increaſing, and many of the barons, by degrees, falling from him, and the forces he had ſent for out of France being utterly defeated at ſea, and all ſunk or taken, and he and the barons that were with him being cloſely beſieged in the city of London, he was forced to come to this compoſition: “That and all his foreigners ſhould depart the kingdom, and that he ſhould never lay claim to it hereafter, but reſtore what belonged to the King in France, and to have fifteen thouſand marks for his voyage.” And on the other hand, the King, the legate, and the great marſhal, being protector, ſwore, “That they would reſtore to the barons, and all others of the realm, all their rights and inheritances, with all thoſe liberties which they had before demanded, for which the war had begun betwixt K.  and the barons.” This compoſition was made by both parties in an iſland in the Thames, near the town of Stains, September 11, A. D. 1217.

So that within two years and three months Magna Charta had been granted, and deſtroyed and damned by the pope; and revived, and