LOUIS MEDIATING BETWEEN HENRY III.

AND HIS BARONS---- 136] Three years later Louis gave not only to the King of England, but to the whole English nation, a striking proof of his judicious and true-hearted equity.

An obstinate civil war was raging between Henry III.

and his barons.

Neither party, in defending its own rights, had any notion of respecting the rights of its adversaries, and England was alternating between a kingly and an aristocratic tyranny.