[1] [2] The people much blamed king Iohn, for this ex|treame dealing, bicause that the heremit was suppo|sed to be a man of great vertue, and his sonne no|thing guiltie of the offense committed by his father (if any were) against the king. Moreouer, some thought, that he had much wrong to die, bicause the matter fell out euen as he had prophesied: for the day before the Ascension day, king Iohn had resig|ned the superioritie of his kingdome (as they tooke the matter) vnto the pope, and had doone to him ho|mage, so that he was no absolute king indeed, as au|thors affirme. One cause, and that not the least which mooued king Iohn the sooner to agree with the pope, rose through the words of the said heremit, that did put such a feare of some great mishap in his hart, which should grow through the disloialtie of his peo|ple, that it made him yéeld the sooner. But to the mat|ter againe.