Besides the bishops and barons, a reeve and his four men were summoned to this Council from each royal demesne, no doubt simply as witnesses of the sums due to the plundered clergy.

Their presence however was of great import.

It is the first instance which our history presents of the summons of such representatives to a national Council, and the instance took fresh weight from the great matters which came to be discussed.

In the king's name the Justiciar promised good government for the time to come, and forbade all royal officers to practise extortion as they prized life and limb.

The king's peace was pledged to those who had opposed him in the past; and observance of the laws of Henry the First was enjoined upon all within the realm.
[Sidenote: Stephen Langton] But it was not in Geoffry Fitz-Peter that English freedom was to find its champion and the baronage their leader.