only night-shirts and drawers. There were very few, perhaps none, who were able to get completely dressed. Many of them nevertheless carried off their garments in their arms, as God, in the forbearance of his infinite mercy, granted them their life at least, as they departed in a headlong rush. With this, Edward’s armed men entered every house, plundering the horses and arms and everything else left behind (as we have already said) after the fugitives. And when morning came, the foot soldiers, who the previous day had followed the tails of the horses of Edward’s knights, put on the armour of the fugitives, and mounted the horses of the noblemen who had now taken flight. You could have seen the Preacher’s prophecy fulfilled there and then which says, ‘I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.’¹ And when all those hired soldiers came to Edward, well armed and on the horses of noblemen, he rejoiced with great joy. Edward therefore advanced against Simon with his well-equipped army towards Evesham; and when he came within two leagues of Evesham, Simon marched out against Edward, hoping against hope when there was no hope. For he had hoped (as I mentioned above), that Simon the son—who had fled with the others—would come to his aid from the rear, behind Edward. With hope and what little army he had, Simon therefore \went forth/. And everyone who would be going forth to battle with him was first confessed, and communicated from the viaticum of the most holy Eucharist. But for every six or seven men that Edward had, Simon had barley two. The fearful and well-equipped army of Edward, and the paltry force of Simon de Montfort, therefore met each other and joined in battle, with that bold-spirited knight Guy de Balliol preceding Simon’s army with Simon’s banner. Nearby was Henry, a renowned knight and first-born son of Simon, who had been so named after King Henry. He struck the first blow in the battle; and he it was who fell first of all and died, cast back and mortally wounded with many blows at the hands of various men. Indeed, few were killed on Edward’s side, because of the great number of soldiers of superior strength; nearly all on Simon’s side, including Simon himself were killed, and they died because the small number of their supporters quickly deserted, except for the few who, surrendering themselves to Edward’s fighters, gave up their arms to them. But Guy (whom I mentioned before), a most valiant knight and a Scot by birth, although he could have been saved from the death of this world, was not willing to be. And so he perished with many of the magnates of England who had come to the battle to fight for England’s justice. The infallible sign of this justice, after a while, was the frequent display of heavenly miracles shown around Hugh the Dispenser, the chief justiciar of England—a man most just and even-handed in every judgment concerning both rich men and poor—and around Simon and several others who kept their faith to God, even unto death, on account of the justice of the English realm, which they had rightly undertaken to preserve against foreigners, and even against the king, who unjustly held them back—as it has been related in the account made about the battle of Lewes—from the hand of the holy man Robert Grosseteste, the bishop of Lincoln, for the forgiveness of their sins. And so they perished righteously, fighting for justice; and for that reason, after their death, several of them merited from God the manifestation of miracles, glory, and veneration; and therefore they are believed to reign with God in glory. Among those most courageous heroes was Roger de Rule, a companion of Guy (mentioned above), who also died along with him. Now the king, the lord