The bull of deposition gave fresh energy to every enemy.

The Scotch king was in correspondence with Innocent.

The Welsh princes who had just been forced to submission broke out again in war.

John hanged their hostages, and called his host to muster for a fresh inroad into Wales, but the army met only to become a fresh source of danger.

Powerless to oppose the king openly, the baronage had plunged almost to a man into secret conspiracies.