CHAPTER XII.
HENRY III.
Settlement of the Government.—General Pacification.—Death of the
Protector.—Some Commotions.—Hubert de Burgh displaced.—The Bishop
of Winchester Minister.—King's Partiality to Foreigners.—
Grievances.—Ecclesiastical Grievances.—Earl of Cornwall elected King
of the Romans.—Discontent of the Barons—Simon de Mountfort, Earl of
Leicester.—Provisions of Oxford.—Usurpation of the Barons.—Prince
Edward.—Civil Wars of the Barons.—Reference to the King of France.—
Renewal of the Civil Wars.—Battle of Lewes.—House of Commons.—
Battle of Evesham and death of Leicester.—Settlement of the
Government.—Death and Character of the King.—Miscellaneous
Transactions of this Reign