[1] The king, when he saw what they demanded (which in effect was a new order in things touching the whole state of the common wealth) sware in a great furie,The king re|fuseth to gri [...] their petitions Matt. Paris. that he would neuer condescend vnto those pe|titions. Whereof when the barons had knowledge, they gat them strait vnto armour, making their as|semblie at Stamford in the Easter weeke, whither they had drawne vnto them almost the whole Nobi|litie, and gathered an excéeding great armie. For the [page 185] commons flocked vnto them from euerie part, bi|cause the king was generallie hated of the more part of his subiects.