The very chroniclers of their party recall the pillage with shame.

But all thought of resistance lay hushed in a general terror.

Even the younger Simon "saw no other rede" than to release his prisoners.

His army, after finishing its meal, was again on its march to join the Earl when the news of his defeat met it, heralded by a strange darkness that, rising suddenly in the north-west and following as it were on Edward's track, served to shroud the mutilations and horrors of the battle-field.

The news was soon fatally confirmed.