late Justiciar, Lord Basset of Drayton, one of his firmest friends, and a host of minor name. With them, to all appearance, fell the cause for which they had fought." _Simon de Montfort (Quarterly Review, January, 1866)._ See PARLIAMENT, THE ENGLISH: EARLY STAGES OF ITS EVOLUTION. "Important as this assembly [the Parliament of 1264] is in the history of the constitution, it was not primarily and essentially a constitutional assembly. It was not a general convention of the tenants in chief or of the three estates, but a parliamentary assembly of the supporters of the existing government." _W. Stubbs, Constitutional History of England, chapter 14, section 177 (volume 2)._ ALSO IN: _W. Stubbs, The Early Plantagenets._ _G. W. Prothero, Life of Simon de Montfort, chapter 11-12._ _H. Blaauw, The Barons' War._ _C. H. Pearson, England, Early and Middle Ages, volume 2._ ENGLAND: A. D. 1271. Crusade of Prince Edward: See CRUSADES: A. D. 1270-1271. ENGLAND: A. D. 1272. Accession of King Edward I. ENGLAND: A. D. 1275-1295. Development of Parliamentary representation under Edward 1. "Happily, Earl Simon [de Montfort] found a successor, and more than a successor, in the king's [Henry III.'s] son. ... Edward I. stood on the vantage ground of the throne. ... He could do that easily and without effort which Simon could only do laboriously, and with the certainty of rousing opposition. Especially was this the case with the encouragement given by the two men to the growing aspirations after parliamentary representation. Earl Simon's assemblies were instruments of warfare. Edward's assemblies were invitations to peace. ... Barons and prelates, knights and townsmen, came together only to support a king who took the initiative so wisely, and who, knowing what was best for all, sought the good of his kingdom without thought of his own ease. Yet even so, Edward was too prudent at once to gather together such a body as that which Earl Simon had planned. He summoned, indeed, all the constituent parts of Simon's parliament, but he seldom summoned them to meet in one place or at one time. Sometimes the barons and prelates met apart from the townsmen or the knights, sometimes one or the other class met entirely alone. ... In this way, during the first twenty years of Edward's reign, the nation rapidly grew in that consciousness of national unity which would one day transfer the function of regulation from the crown to the representatives of the people." _S. R. Gardiner and J. B. Mullinger, Introduction to the Study of English History, chapter 4, section 17._