WHY LOUIS WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN ENGLAND.
Source.—The Canon of Barnwell's Continuation of Hoveden, p. 239. (Rolls Series.)
It was a miracle that the heir of the King of France, after having come to England with so great a number of armed men, and having obtained possession of so large a part of the kingdom, departed, or, I should rather say, was expelled, so speedily with all his men, and without hope of recovery. The reason is clear—that the hand of God was not with him, since he came in defiance of the prohibition of the Roman Church, and remained here under the ban of its anathema.