Both acts were distinct breaches of the Provisions of Oxford, but Henry trusted to the divisions of the Twenty-four.

Gloucester was in open feud with Leicester; the Justiciar, Hugh Bigod, resigned his office in the spring; and both of these leaders drew cautiously to the king.

Roger Mortimer and the Earls of Hereford and Norfolk more openly espoused the royal cause, and in February 1260 Henry had gained confidence enough to announce that as the barons had failed to keep their part of the Provisions he should not keep his.
[Sidenote: The Counter Revolution] Earl Simon almost alone remained unshaken.

But his growing influence was seen in the appointment of his supporter, Hugh Despenser, as Justiciar in Bigod's place, while his strength was doubled by the accession of the King's son Edward to his side.

In the moment of the revolution Edward had vehemently supported the party of the foreigners.