... death, but tried to comfort his friends and servants, for theywere all very sorrowful. But the princess sat beside him weeping, and would not be comforted. Then, calling for parchment and ink, ... Simon de Montfort who ruled the country. Henry was indeed still king in name,but both he and his son, Prince Edward, were Simon de Monfort's prisoners.It was Simon de Montfort who laid ... a happy one for England, yet good came of it, for his very weakness made the peoplestrong, and out of the troubles of his reign grew our freedom of speech and our power to make for ourselvesthe...