The plans for a fresh arbitration broke down.

Lewis refused to review his decision, and all schemes for setting fresh judges between the king and his people were defeated by a formal condemnation of the barons' cause issued by the Pope.

Triumphant as he was indeed Earl Simon's difficulties thickened every day.

The queen with Archbishop Boniface gathered an army in France for an invasion; Roger Mortimer with the border barons was still in arms and only held in check by Llewelyn.

It was impossible to make binding terms with an imprisoned king, yet to release Henry without terms was to renew the war.