Only the Charters granted before the Provisions were to be observed.

The appointment and removal of all officers of state was to be wholly with the king, and he was suffered to call aliens to his councils if he would.

The Mise of Amiens was at once confirmed by the Pope, and, crushing blow as it was, the barons felt themselves bound by the award.

It was only the exclusion of aliens--a point which they had not purposed to submit to arbitration--which they refused to concede.

Luckily Henry was as inflexible on this point as on the rest, and the mutual distrust prevented any real accommodation.
[Sidenote: Battle of Lewes] But Henry had to reckon on more than the baronage.