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When John of England procured his Roman overlord's condemnation of Magna Charta, the support of Rome was of no avail to prevent his indignant subjects combining to drive him from the throne, and did not even hinder Louis of France, the son of the papalist Philip II, from accepting their invitation to become English king in his stead.
The overlord's grievances could not be denied, and it was urged that the formal surrender of part of Gascony might be made by way of recognising them.
The seigneur's anger was known to be mighty, and to strike close at hand. Guillem, the gaoler, had been waiting for the summons. News had come to him late in the afternoon that had made him indifferent to his fate. The girl Joan, whom he loved, had come up the hill at the overlord's summons. So, instead of raising an alarm, Guillem had waited sullenly.
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