made. The[1] bargain was, Earl John ſhould reſtore all men their rights; upon this they were ſworn: but Earl John did not nor would not reſtore all men their rights; and therefore it was Earl John himſelf that releaſed them from that oath, and gave it them again. For I never heard of a covenant on one ſide. The morrow after his coronation, he received their homages and fealties over again, but that was the counterpart of his coronation-oath. And that again he bitterly broke; though when he was adjured not to preſume to receive the crown, unleſs he meant to fulfil his oath, he then promiſed, “That by the help of God, he would keep all that he had ſworn bona fide.” How he kept that part which concerned the church, no way concerns this diſcourſe, becauſe he was at this time the pope’s white boy, having before given him his kingdoms of England and Ireland, and had then ſent him money to confound the barons and charter. But the other two thirds of that oath which concerned the people, I will here ſet down, that
- ↑ Et fecerunt illis fidem, quod comes Johannes jura ſua redderet univerſis; ſub tali igitur conventione comites & barones comiti memorato fidelitatem contra omnes homines juraverunt.
