+Source.+--_The Canon of Barnwell's Continuation of Hoveden_, p. 239.
(Rolls Series.)
It was a miracle that the heir of the King of France, after having come
to England with so great a number of armed men, and having obtained
possession of so large a part of the kingdom, departed, or, I should
rather say, was expelled, so speedily with all his men, and without hope
of recovery. The reason is clear--that the hand of God was not with him,
since he came in defiance of the prohibition of the Roman Church, and
remained here under the ban of its anathema.