the kingdom would expell him and his evil counſellors out of the realm, and pees to the creation of a new King.
The king was ſtruck with this meſſage, and the court were very much concerned at it, fearing leſt the error of the ſon ſhould be worſe than his father’s, who was very near being driven out of his kingdom, and making good the name which was given him, by a kind of preſage of John the Exile. But biſhop Peter gave the King advice to make war upon theſe rebellious ſubjects, and to beſtow their caſtles and lands upon the poitovins, who might defend the realm of England from his traitors; bragging that he both could and would give deep, and not ſcoundrel council; for time was when he had governed the emperor’s council in the eaſt, and that his wiſdom was formidable both to the Saracens and to other nations. So the king, returning again to the wrong, firſt wreaked his anger upon Gilbert Basset, whom, having ſeized a manor of his and he coming to claim his right, he called traitor, and threatened if he did not get out of his court to have him hanged. And he likewiſe commanded Richard Seward a warlike
