The wives of the captive loyalists and the widows of the slain were summoned to give fresh impulse to the reaction.

Their place of meeting added fuel to the fiery passions of the throng, for Winchester was fresh from its pillage by the younger Simon on his way to Kenilworth, and its stubborn loyalty must have been fanned into a flame by the losses it had endured.

In such an assembly no voice of moderation could find a hearing.

The four bishops who favoured the national cause, the bishops of London and Lincoln, of Worcester and Chichester, were excluded from it, and the heads of the religious houses were summoned for the mere purpose of extortion.

Its measures were but a confirmation of the violence which had been wrought.
All grants made during the king's "captivity" were revoked.