p.798.Chron.Dunst.

vol.i.p.

373.
** Rymer, vol.i.p.

802.
*** Fitz-Stephen, Hist.Quadrip.Hoveden, etc.
In all the general accounts given in preceding times of those assemblies, the prelates and barons only are mentioned as the constituent members.

But though that house derived its existence from so precarious and even so invidious an origin as Leicester's usurpation, it soon proved, when summoned by the legal princes, one of the most useful, and, in process of time, one of the most powerful members of the national constitution; and gradually rescued the kingdom from aristocratical as well as from regal tyranny.