=Source.=--Ingulph's _Chronicles_, p. 419. (Bohn Edition.)
In the meantime, you might plainly perceive public and intestine broils
fermenting among the princes and nobles of the realm, so much so,
that in the words of the Gospel, "Brother was divided against brother
and father against father"; one party adhering to the King, while the
other, being attached to the said duke by blood or by ties of duty,
sided with him. And not only among princes and people had such a spirit
of contention arisen, but even in every society, whether chapter,
college, or convent, had this unhappy plague of division effected
an entrance; so much so, that brother could hardly with any degree
of security admit brother into his confidence, or friend a friend,
nor could any one reveal the secret of his conscience without giving
offence. The consequence was that, from and after this period of time,
the combatants on both sides, uniting their respective forces together,
attacked each other whenever they happened to meet, and quite in
accordance with the doubtful issue of warfare, now the one and now the
other for the moment gained the victory, while fortune was continually
shifting her position. In the meantime, however, the slaughter of men
was immense; for besides the dukes, earls, barons, and distinguished
warriors who were cruelly slain, multitudes almost innumerable of the
common people died of their wounds. Such was the state of the kingdom
for nearly ten years.