There was no attempt to return to the misrule of Henry's reign, to his projects of continental aggrandizement or internal despotism.

The constitutional system of government for which the Barons had fought was finally adopted by the Crown, and the Parliament of Marlborough which assembled in November 1267 renewed the provisions by which the baronage had remedied the chief abuses of the time in their Provisions of Oxford and Westminster.

The appointment of all officers of state indeed was jealously reserved to the crown.

But the royal expenditure was brought within bounds.

Taxation was only imposed with the assent of the Great Council.