[History of the English People, Volume II (of 8) by John Richard Green]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the English People, Volume II (of 8) CHAPTER III 84/96
The house of De Montfort was banished from the realm.
The charter of London was annulled. The adherents of Earl Simon were disinherited and seizin of their lands was given to the king. [Sidenote: Simon's Miracles] Henry at once appointed commissioners to survey and take possession of his spoil while he moved to Windsor to triumph in the humiliation of London. Its mayor and forty of its chief citizens waited in the castle yard only to be thrown into prison in spite of a safe-conduct, and Henry entered his capital in triumph as into an enemy's city.
The surrender of Dover came to fill his cup of joy, for Richard and Amaury of Montfort had sailed with the Earl's treasure to enlist foreign mercenaries, and it was by this port that their force was destined to land.
But a rising of the prisoners detained there compelled its surrender in October, and the success of the royalists seemed complete.
In reality their difficulties were but beginning.
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