[1] But howsoeuer it was, on the tuesday before the Ascension day, peace was proclaimed in London,Peace pro|claimed. be|tweene the king and the barons; and wheras the king either by constreint for safegard of himselfe or his fréends, either vpon assurance of the barons promise, committed himselfe vnto the companie of the same barons, at their comming with him to London they went from this last agréement, and foorthwith deui|sed other ordinances as thus. They ordeined,A new [...] of the [...] that two earles and a bishop, which being elected out by the communaltie, should choose to them nine other persons, and of these, three of them should still re|maine about the king, and by their order and the o|ther nine, all things should be gouerned both in the court and in the realme. They constreined the king and his sonne prince Edward (menacing to depose the one, and to kéepe the other in perpetuall prison) to consent and agrée to this last ordinance: and so the earles of Leicester and Glocester, and the bishop of Chichester were ordeined there the cheefe rulers, and letters sent with all spéed vnto the cardinall Sabi|nensis the popes legat, and to the king of France, to signifie to them, that the compromise agréed vpon at Lewes was vtterlie reuoked, and that a new peace in freendlie wise was concluded.