PREFACE, XXXlll evidently rejoices in the defeat and death of Simon de Montfort, he writes with great feeling of the early deaths of William de Mandeville and John de Beauchamp, who fell with him at Evesham (p. 174). He seems also to feel for Eleanor de Montfort, of whose grief, after all was lost, he gives a very vivid picture (p. 179). As to the details of the war, his saying (p. 153) that Details of after the battle of Lewes almost all the royalist nobles ^^'"■' were imprisoned and chained, must be set down to the exaggeration of a partisan ; though this need not be supposed of his account of the injuries done to the country by the disinherited barons after the battle of Evesham (p. 187)- His account of the slaughter of the Jews in 1263 (p. 142) is very forcibly written, and he expresses himself in terms of great indignation against their murderers. His reasoning respecting the Jews is something like that of Grosseteste (Epistol. v., p. 35). There are some curious details of the difficulties of the royal army in Surrey and Kent, and the way in which they were harassed by the Welsh archers, who, however, were beheaded when caught (pp. 147, 148). On another occasion he gives full weight to the hardiness of the Welsh in speaking of the sufferings of Simon de Montfort's army from want of food and necessai'ies in 1265 (p. 168), The progress of the war after the battle of Evesham, the stand made by the barons in the isle of Ely, and the means by which prince Edward accomplished his entry there, and reduced them to submission, are all given very fully. After mentioning the triumph of prince Edward, the peace throughout the country, and consequent plenty, he gives a lamentable picture of the war, both in the actual miseries inflicted, and in the loosing of the bonds of society tlirough the weakness of the king (p. 211), There is a great deal said of the subsequent troubles, and the arrangement between prince Edward and Gilbert de Clare as settled by Richard, king of German^', in 1270 (p. 231). The mention that Edward T. suffered from the wounds received from the assassin at Acre after
