But great as was Edward's position after the victory of Evesham, his moderate counsels were as yet of little avail.

His efforts in fact were met by those of Henry's second son, Edmund, who had received the lands and earldom of Earl Simon, and whom the dread of any restoration of the house of De Montfort set at the head of the ultra-royalists.

Nor was any hope of moderation to be found in the Parliament which met in September 1265.

It met in the usual temper of a restoration-Parliament to legalize the outrages of the previous month.

The prisoners who had been released from the dungeons of the barons poured into Winchester to add fresh violence to the demands of the Marchers.