aduancement with the ladie Isabell, daughter to Robert earle of
Glocester, which earle had appointed the said John to be his heire as
before is mentioned, although Baldwine the archbishop of Canturburie
forbad the mariage, [Sidenote: She is named by diuerse authors Hauisia.
_Matth. Paris._ _R. Houed._] bicause they were coosens in the third
degree of consanguinitie. To Robert earle of Leicester also he restored
all his lands which had béene taken from him, and such persons as his
father had disherited, he restored likewise to their former rights and
possessions, howbeit those had forsaken his father, and taken part with
him against his said father, he séemed now so much to mislike, that he
remooued them vtterlie from his presence, and contrariwise preferred
such as had continued faithfull vnto his father in time of the troubles.

[Sidenote: _Matt. Paris._] At length, king Richard remembring himselfe
of his mother quéene Elianor, who had béene separated from the bed of
hir husband for the space of sixtéene yeares, and was as yet deteined in
prison in England, wrote his letters vnto the rulers of the realme,
[Sidenote: The kings mother set at libertie.] commanding them to set hir
againe at libertie, and withall appointed hir by his letters patents, to
take vpon hir the whole gouernment of the kingdome in his absence. The
quéene being thus deliuered, and hauing now the cheefe authoritie & rule
in hir hands, rode in progresse about the realme, to sée the estate
thereof; and as she passed from place to place, she shewed gladsome
countenance to the people wheresoeuer she came, dooing also what she
could to pleasure them, that she might thereby win their good willes to
hir, and to hir sonne: but speciallie remembring by hir late experience
and tast thereof, what an irksome & most gréeuous thing imprisonment
was, she caused the gailes to be opened, and foorthwith set no small
number of prisoners at libertie by the way as she passed through the
countries, according to the verse of Virgil,